Indian languages derived from Sanskrit are built phonetically. Once one learns to read and write the language, there is no concept of mispronunciation while reading or misspellings while writing. A writer using an Indic script is converting the sound syllables into a phonetic description on paper. This is reversibly true, in that, a reader encountering a new word will be able to instantly and completely construct the sounds just by parsing.
Consider the following about English: each consonant has a different number of vowel sounds. The problem arises that there is no suitable method of representing these variations in the script.
A writer of Hindi (for example) has 30 consonants and 12 vowel sounds which can be applied to every consonant. Of course this is not unique to Indian languages. In conversations with native speakers of East-African languages, i've gathered that most of their languages are similar in these respects though with only 9 vowel sounds. But the universal theme is that in all (or perhaps almost all) cases of phonetic languages, one is able to derive a uniform matrix of sounds where each sound is well-represented by the script of the language.
So powerful are phonetic languages that Gmail's initial support for transliteration had support for five Indian languages--and no others. The service has since been expanded to support even more phonetic languages.
It is my opinion that many of the NLP problems which remain problematic for western languages will be first solved for phonetic languages due to the relatively low complexity and the richness of the scripts.
Cheers.
Disclaimer: I am not a linguist. Though i have worked on some language translation problems and have, over the years, gained accidental exposure to many languages, though to unequal extents.
You've been trolled. The SUN writes all kinds of gossip to stir up shit and sell a few rags. Specific to Doctor Who, they ran the exact story in 2006 and 2007 iirc.
Tennant set to quit as Dr Who | The Sun
Dec 28, 2006... DR Who star David Tennant is to quit the show ? leaving BBC bosses looking for their 11th Timelord, The Sun can reveal....
www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article77137.ece
'The trouble is it's [debris] in orbit and travelling at orbital speeds, which means that it is travelling at about 30,000 kilometres an hour," said the CEO of the Australian company. 'If even a tiny little piece runs into a satellite it'll destroy it or punch a hole through a person if they're out there space walking.'
Umm, maybe I'm not recalling middleschool science classes correctly - but when you're "space walking" you're ALSO moving at "orbital speeds"
So - how would the space debris punch a hole through a person if they were space walking? Sure, if it's traveling in a different direction it *might* - but still: the astronaut is moving at the same speed as the shuttle as the satellite they're deploying/fixing
Debris can be moving in any random orbit. Consider the failed deployments, broken-off or detached bits and the initial force which set the debris into motion.
Both pieces of information in the parent are irrelevant to the problems highlighted by grand parent poster.
Compression is great for high-latency networks but that isn't even close to the problem expressed above.
Further, Opera's "cleaned up" default UI is in a version which is yet to be released. It's 2010 and Opera is just getting around to sorting out the default UI. I relent that the previous versions have all been greatly customisable, but then what excuse does Opera have for not starting simple and allowing the users to expose features to meet their needs?
Perhaps you're too used to seeing words from romance languages only.
To me, Dijk seems like a vocalisation of the word 'dyke'. Af- appears to contain the sound of 'Of' or perhaps 'Ouf'. Sluit- is pronounced closer to 'slew-et'.
In total i'd guess it sounds like... Ouf-slew't-dyke.
One thing I couldn't help but notice though, is that Microsoft always pops IE in the number one spot for a moment *before* shuffling the browsers and showing them in randomized order... Very visible if you visit the ballot manually in IE and hit F5 a few times: http://www.browserchoice.eu/
Yes, that's the initial ordering and very visible if one turns off Javascript (NoScript).
Internet Explorer 8 Mozilla Firefox Opera Browser Google Chrome Safari Maxthon K-Meleon Flock Avant Browser Sleipnir FlashPeak SlimBrowser GreenBrowser
" In remote central Siberia, there was a time when the Tungus people told strange tales of a giant fireball that split the sky and shook the Earth. They told of a blast of searing wind that knocked down people and whole forests. It happened, they said, on a summer's morning in the year 1908. "
About 20 years later the legend of the fireball led to the search and discovery of what has become known as the 'Tunguska Event'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
Engineers have long (since at least the 1950s[2]) used the term unobtainium when referring to unusual or costly materials, or when theoretically considering a material perfect for their needs in all respects save that it doesn't exist. By the 1990s the term was in wide use, even in formal engineering papers such as "Towards unobtainium [new composite materials for space applications]".[3] The word unobtainium may well have been coined within the aerospace industry to refer to materials capable of withstanding the extreme temperatures expected in reentry. Aerospace engineers are frequently tempted to design aircraft which require parts with strength or resilience beyond that of currently available materials.
I actually like WoW's way of doing things: want to backup/restore WoW, or put it on antoher PC ? just copy WoW's dir. No dependencies. No DLL Hell. No registry hacks. Want to wipe it ? Delete the directory.
I wish all programs worked that way and were that easy to manage.
BTW, Data and program files are segregated in separate subdirs. User data, too.
By the same token, one only has to launch the WoW executable to run it in Linux using WINE.
... or they could have just filled each 1u server with 8-16 GB of ram and run 1-8 memcached daemons on each cheaper than ssd, same result.
How does your suggested setup using memcache get around the problem of storing/fetching objects greater than 1MB? That is, without implementing custom interfaces for handling multiple chunks.
"Wolf and Whittlinger trained a bunch of ants to walk across a patch of desert to some food. When the ants began eating, the scientists trapped them and divided them into three groups. They left the first group alone. With the second group, they used superglue to attach pre-cut pig bristles to each of their six legs, essentially putting them on stilts. The third group had their legs cut off just below the "knees," making each of their six legs shorter.
After the meal and the makeover, the ants were released and all of them headed home to the nest while the scientists watched to see what would happen.
The regular ants walked right to the nest and went inside. The ants on stilts walked right past the nest, stopped and looked around for their home. The ants on stumps fell short of the nest, stopped and seemed to be searching for their home.
It turns out that all the ants had walked the same number of steps"
A timing mechanism would not exhibit this property.
We've got nothing left to do but look at the solid green status lights adorning our racks and consoles, and post brilliant witticisms and cogent analysis to Slashdot.
Must have lights... must! Otherwise...
"It is pitch dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."
While the sharks seem to mind their own business most of the time, the few exceptions are killers.
"Since 1580, when records began, the total number of attacks on humans by sharks has been logged at about 2,200 only. This is equivalent to just 5% of the number of Americans injured by toilets in the year 1996." --Stephen Fry on QI
Validate the number yourself by looking though the records of the The International Shark Attack File (ISAF). The ISAF is a global database of shark attacks.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Shark_Attack_File]
October 23 Linux Foundation Microsoft Operating systems Soft Yesterday, 22 October, around the world started selling the new operating system Windows 7. Also on this day in Japan, held an event called Japan Linux Symposium. Whether by coincidence, or because of someone's clever idea, but just in front of the building, which brought together developers Linux, Microsoft has established a great promotional booth with Windows 7. It is clear that gathered at the Japan Linux Symposium guys could not get over it, so during the break they took Linus Torvalds (Linus Torvalds) and went to a promotional booth to learn a new operating system, Microsoft.
(Photo)
Photo made on that day will surely go down in history, and more than once will be used to illustrate the various events related to Windows and Linux. The photo shows Linus thumb up Windows 7, which is a characteristic gesture of approval and support. This subtle humor, all participants appreciated the Japan Linux Symposium, the only one who did so and did not understand, it sells at the stand. According to the eyewitnesses, he actively participated in the photoshoot with Linus, but very much surprised when he went and not buying a box of Windows 7.
For the benefit of those not familiar with this... the old behaviour of displaying updates was to display an icon next to the clock.
The new behaviour is:
When there are security updates, Update Manager will open and show
them (plus any other available updates) within a day.
When there are non-security updates, Update Manager will open and
show them *one week* after it was last opened (whether it was last
opened manually or automatically, and regardless of whether updates
were actually installed then).
When there are no available updates, Update Manager will not open
automatically at all.
Friends' Ubuntu installations were rarely updated due to the limited attention received by the little icon. With the new [minimised] update window, the machines updated weekly.
Good idea! Let's implement a per-mile tax-- makes perfect sense. And, to make it even better, let's make the rate per mile inversely proportional to the fuel efficiency, so that the fewer miles per gallon your car gets, the higher the tax is, so the gas-guzzlers pay a penalty. It could be a simple formula:
Tax = (miles)/(miles per gallon)
That way cars with higher fuel efficiency get a better tax break.
And this way, we don't even need the GPS in the car! We can put the tax at the fuel pump!
Think about it a bit more, this proposed tax makes no sense whatsoever. Let's revisit your formula after one algebraic operation...
Tax = 1 / per gallon
Low efficiency vehicles are already paying more at the gas-station and higher-efficiency vehicles get breaks every fill up. So, what exactly is the point of this new tax?
Slashdot Mirror
Indian languages derived from Sanskrit are built phonetically. Once one learns to read and write the language, there is no concept of mispronunciation while reading or misspellings while writing. A writer using an Indic script is converting the sound syllables into a phonetic description on paper. This is reversibly true, in that, a reader encountering a new word will be able to instantly and completely construct the sounds just by parsing.
Consider the following about English: each consonant has a different number of vowel sounds. The problem arises that there is no suitable method of representing these variations in the script.
A writer of Hindi (for example) has 30 consonants and 12 vowel sounds which can be applied to every consonant. Of course this is not unique to Indian languages. In conversations with native speakers of East-African languages, i've gathered that most of their languages are similar in these respects though with only 9 vowel sounds. But the universal theme is that in all (or perhaps almost all) cases of phonetic languages, one is able to derive a uniform matrix of sounds where each sound is well-represented by the script of the language.
So powerful are phonetic languages that Gmail's initial support for transliteration had support for five Indian languages--and no others. The service has since been expanded to support even more phonetic languages.
It is my opinion that many of the NLP problems which remain problematic for western languages will be first solved for phonetic languages due to the relatively low complexity and the richness of the scripts.
Cheers.
Disclaimer: I am not a linguist. Though i have worked on some language translation problems and have, over the years, gained accidental exposure to many languages, though to unequal extents.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/iosswrel/ps8802/ps10587/ps10591/ps10621/qa_c67_561940.html
Parent is referring to items:
Note: AppleTalk Phase I and II, and Service Selection Gateway (SSG) feature are not supported in Release 15M&T. Refer to the following bulletins for more information:
AppleTalk Support Discontinuation: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/iosswrel/ps8802/ps5460/product_bulletin_c25-520459.html
SSG Support Discontinuation: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/routers/ps341/end_of_life_notice_c51-501483.html
Don't touch the DVD! [16 TONS]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDnE-5lD7w8
Because no generation should be denied the fun of inhaling helium to speak with a goofy high-pitch voice.
The pitch does not change; it's the timbre.
Cheers.
It's a Monty Python reference, and quite funny.
Cheers.
You've been trolled. The SUN writes all kinds of gossip to stir up shit and sell a few rags. Specific to Doctor Who, they ran the exact story in 2006 and 2007 iirc.
... DR Who star David Tennant is to quit the show ? leaving BBC bosses looking for their 11th Timelord, The Sun can reveal. ...
www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article77137.ece
Tennant set to quit as Dr Who | The Sun
Dec 28, 2006
Someone might be able to find the other articles.
Cheers.
I can't watch the video because it's in quicktime and I'm on a linux machine...
Perhaps a case of PEBKAC? Install gecko-mediaplayer.
Cheers.
'The trouble is it's [debris] in orbit and travelling at orbital speeds, which means that it is travelling at about 30,000 kilometres an hour," said the CEO of the Australian company. 'If even a tiny little piece runs into a satellite it'll destroy it or punch a hole through a person if they're out there space walking.'
Umm, maybe I'm not recalling middleschool science classes correctly - but when you're "space walking" you're ALSO moving at "orbital speeds"
So - how would the space debris punch a hole through a person if they were space walking? Sure, if it's traveling in a different direction it *might* - but still: the astronaut is moving at the same speed as the shuttle as the satellite they're deploying/fixing
Debris can be moving in any random orbit. Consider the failed deployments, broken-off or detached bits and the initial force which set the debris into motion.
Both pieces of information in the parent are irrelevant to the problems highlighted by grand parent poster.
Compression is great for high-latency networks but that isn't even close to the problem expressed above.
Further, Opera's "cleaned up" default UI is in a version which is yet to be released. It's 2010 and Opera is just getting around to sorting out the default UI. I relent that the previous versions have all been greatly customisable, but then what excuse does Opera have for not starting simple and allowing the users to expose features to meet their needs?
Perhaps you're too used to seeing words from romance languages only.
To me, Dijk seems like a vocalisation of the word 'dyke'. Af- appears to contain the sound of 'Of' or perhaps 'Ouf'. Sluit- is pronounced closer to 'slew-et'.
In total i'd guess it sounds like... Ouf-slew't-dyke.
BetterPrivacy by NettiCat
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623
But that's after NoScript has allowed the Flash content to run.
Cheers.
One thing I couldn't help but notice though, is that Microsoft always pops IE in the number one spot for a moment *before* shuffling the browsers and showing them in randomized order... Very visible if you visit the ballot manually in IE and hit F5 a few times: http://www.browserchoice.eu/
Yes, that's the initial ordering and very visible if one turns off Javascript (NoScript).
Internet Explorer 8
Mozilla Firefox
Opera Browser
Google Chrome
Safari
Maxthon
K-Meleon
Flock
Avant Browser
Sleipnir
FlashPeak SlimBrowser
GreenBrowser
" In remote central Siberia, there was a time when the Tungus people told strange tales of a giant fireball that split the sky and shook the Earth. They told of a blast of searing wind that knocked down people and whole forests. It happened, they said, on a summer's morning in the year 1908. "
About 20 years later the legend of the fireball led to the search and discovery of what has become known as the 'Tunguska Event'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
As seen in Carl Sagan's Cosmos, episode 4, Heaven and Hell.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/63316/cosmos-heaven-and-hell
Cheers.
The word unobtainium is still utterly ridiculous (seriously guys?), but it wasn't featured too prominently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium#Aerospace_and_electronics
Engineers have long (since at least the 1950s[2]) used the term unobtainium when referring to unusual or costly materials, or when theoretically considering a material perfect for their needs in all respects save that it doesn't exist. By the 1990s the term was in wide use, even in formal engineering papers such as "Towards unobtainium [new composite materials for space applications]".[3] The word unobtainium may well have been coined within the aerospace industry to refer to materials capable of withstanding the extreme temperatures expected in reentry. Aerospace engineers are frequently tempted to design aircraft which require parts with strength or resilience beyond that of currently available materials.
I actually like WoW's way of doing things: want to backup/restore WoW, or put it on antoher PC ? just copy WoW's dir. No dependencies. No DLL Hell. No registry hacks. Want to wipe it ? Delete the directory.
I wish all programs worked that way and were that easy to manage.
BTW, Data and program files are segregated in separate subdirs. User data, too.
By the same token, one only has to launch the WoW executable to run it in Linux using WINE.
... or they could have just filled each 1u server with 8-16 GB of ram and run 1-8 memcached daemons on each cheaper than ssd, same result.
How does your suggested setup using memcache get around the problem of storing/fetching objects greater than 1MB? That is, without implementing custom interfaces for handling multiple chunks.
From the memcache wiki page:
http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/WhyNotMemcached
"Memcached is terrific! But not for every situation...
You have objects larger than 1MB.
Memcached is not for large media and streaming huge blobs.
"
Cheers.
"Wolf and Whittlinger trained a bunch of ants to walk across a patch of desert to some food. When the ants began eating, the scientists trapped them and divided them into three groups. They left the first group alone. With the second group, they used superglue to attach pre-cut pig bristles to each of their six legs, essentially putting them on stilts. The third group had their legs cut off just below the "knees," making each of their six legs shorter.
After the meal and the makeover, the ants were released and all of them headed home to the nest while the scientists watched to see what would happen.
The regular ants walked right to the nest and went inside. The ants on stilts walked right past the nest, stopped and looked around for their home.
The ants on stumps fell short of the nest, stopped and seemed to be searching for their home.
It turns out that all the ants had walked the same number of steps"
A timing mechanism would not exhibit this property.
We've got nothing left to do but look at the solid green status lights adorning our racks and consoles, and post brilliant witticisms and cogent analysis to Slashdot.
Must have lights... must! Otherwise...
"It is pitch dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."
While the sharks seem to mind their own business most of the time, the few exceptions are killers.
"Since 1580, when records began, the total number of attacks on humans by sharks has been logged at about 2,200 only. This is equivalent to just 5% of the number of Americans injured by toilets in the year 1996." --Stephen Fry on QI
Validate the number yourself by looking though the records of the The International Shark Attack File (ISAF). The ISAF is a global database of shark attacks.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Shark_Attack_File]
http://torrent.ubuntu.com/
Standard ubuntu is under 'releases'.
Cheers.
Google Translation
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://itc.ua/node/41680
Linus Torvalds decided to support Windows 7
October 23 Linux Foundation Microsoft Operating systems Soft
Yesterday, 22 October, around the world started selling the new operating system Windows 7. Also on this day in Japan, held an event called Japan Linux Symposium. Whether by coincidence, or because of someone's clever idea, but just in front of the building, which brought together developers Linux, Microsoft has established a great promotional booth with Windows 7. It is clear that gathered at the Japan Linux Symposium guys could not get over it, so during the break they took Linus Torvalds (Linus Torvalds) and went to a promotional booth to learn a new operating system, Microsoft.
(Photo)
Photo made on that day will surely go down in history, and more than once will be used to illustrate the various events related to Windows and Linux. The photo shows Linus thumb up Windows 7, which is a characteristic gesture of approval and support. This subtle humor, all participants appreciated the Japan Linux Symposium, the only one who did so and did not understand, it sells at the stand. According to the eyewitnesses, he actively participated in the photoshoot with Linus, but very much surprised when he went and not buying a box of Windows 7.
For the benefit of those not familiar with this... the old behaviour of displaying updates was to display an icon next to the clock. The new behaviour is:
Friends' Ubuntu installations were rarely updated due to the limited attention received by the little icon. With the new [minimised] update window, the machines updated weekly.
It all comes down to visibility.
Cheers.
Good idea! Let's implement a per-mile tax-- makes perfect sense. And, to make it even better, let's make the rate per mile inversely proportional to the fuel efficiency, so that the fewer miles per gallon your car gets, the higher the tax is, so the gas-guzzlers pay a penalty. It could be a simple formula:
Tax = (miles)/(miles per gallon)
That way cars with higher fuel efficiency get a better tax break.
And this way, we don't even need the GPS in the car! We can put the tax at the fuel pump!
Think about it a bit more, this proposed tax makes no sense whatsoever. Let's revisit your formula after one algebraic operation ...
Tax = 1 / per gallon
Low efficiency vehicles are already paying more at the gas-station and higher-efficiency vehicles get breaks every fill up. So, what exactly is the point of this new tax?
According to the Federation Internationale D'espace, space begins at 62 miles, about 100 kilometers. Often referred to as the 62 mile club.
Cheers.
32th?
Yes, Thirty-tooth.
Influenced by the dental profession.