I believe that Google's search mechanism came about as a direct response to the way AltaVista users tended to put + before every word. "No really, damn you, this is important."
Google's use of +, though, is a bit screwy. If you put it before a non-stop word, it ignores all your +'s. So in order to search for a phrase including stop words, you have to search once for the phrase, let it tell you which words it didn't search, and then put a + before those and search again. Luckily, I don't have to search for "+to +be +or not +to +be" very often.
A language which has often been suggested for AI interaction is Lojban. It derives from Loglan, which was created to test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (if, as the SWH states, language constrains the way people think, will people think more logically in a logical language?) but since then its possibilities for AI have been considered, because of its position as an unambiguous, computer-parseable language which was nevertheless designed for humans to use.
However, I think that any language which would be successful as an inter-language between natural languages would have to be decidedly illogical.
They don't have all that much to do with it. You might find yourself sending a follow-up letter saying "Sorry, that was meant for the other evil bastards."
There's a program which does exactly that. It's called Cymbaline. I'm too lazy to find the link, but you can find it on Google.
It's console-based. It keeps a playlist with a score for every song (which starts out at 35). It adds points to a song's score if you listen to it all the way through, and subtracts them if you skip it. There's also a key which sends the score up to 75.
Arrgghh! And whilst I'm ranting, IMHO, when people register names, they should have a funtional website up within 3 months or lose their registration so we can cut back on the domain squatting.
This proposal is often made by people who either don't know or refuse to think about how the Internet works.
Say I register a (non-contested) personal domain name in order to have a neat e-mail address, and maybe run an FTP server and stuff like that, and I have no intention of putting up any website, much less a functional one. Would that make me a domain squatter?
A democracy would be no better than what we have, and has the potential to be far worse.
If the Sept. 11 attacks had happened to a direct democracy, the majority would probably have voted to go bomb every village in Afghanistan or Palestine they can find, require mandatory searches of Arabs and/or Muslims upon entering a public place, ban flight simulators with accurate depictions of cities, regulate the sale of box cutters, etc.
Arthur C. Clarke suggests this in "Imperial Earth". 500 years from now, the President of the USA is chosen randomly from everyone who doesn't have a criminal record.
i join my hippy union. you pin holly on johnny; i jump on you only. in my opinion, you look plump - kill my unholy puppy.
We agree!
Federated rats vacate West Texas! Steve evades scattered egg beaters! Red cabbages are savage weeds! Cassette #5 reverberates! Dweeb gadgets waste $$$! Caesar was a great deceased badass! Retarded Bart eats wet sewage! Ferrets wear sweaters! Etcetera!
(I wish there was more useful punctuation on that half of the keyboard.)
It would be a bit dubious if I used that to defend that I had said "beg the question", yes.
Unfortunately, you haven't looked at the poster names, and I'm not the one who said that.
However, "beg the question" is changing meaning from "makes a circular argument" to mean "raises the question" because lots of people use it that way, and if that weren't the case there wouldn't need to be people on slashdot who complain whenever they read "beg the question". I personally don't use it for either meaning, because I think the phrase sounds dumb, but I'm sick of all these comments along the lines of "Stop it! You're using my pet phrase wrong!"
If you put your ear 1 meter away from a car engine or a lawnmower, you're going to hear a lot more than 72 dba. Their noise levels are usually measured at 20 meters.
A language which doesn't change is called a "dead language". Latin is an example of such a language. English is not, and as such words change their meanings.
Consider this a (-1, Misinformative), although I hope most people are intelligent enough to realize that sound gets quieter as you move away from the source.
I went from ftp to ncftp when ftp's lack of features became apparent. And then I went from ncftp to yafc when I decided I had had it with the way quitting ncftp works.
The way it pauses for a second and shows the promotional message for NcFTP Server made it feel like I was using shareware. And god help you if you want to exit ncftp quickly from a site to which you've lost the connection.
The Romans had a limited sort of fractions. They were not widely used, but they did exist. The roman numeral "S" meant 1/2, and after that they could stick a symbol with one to five dots (arranged like on a die, generally) to indicate a number of twelfths. For example: X divided by III would equal III: :
So the roman version number might be "OS X." except with the dot centered.
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You mean 2.4.6, He means 2.5.
and that will probably be out in several months. Or maybe it's already out, considering this article is about 2.4.10.
2.4.5 already exists, Wow! I spotted the single true fact in your comment! Do I get a prize?
when it becomes suitably non-crashy, they wil release it as 2.4.6. How interesting... you're applying the odd/even devel/release idea to the micro version number and not the minor one... and pulling the rest of the numbers out of your ass. Incidentally, 2.4.6 has been out for a while. And so have 2.4.7 through 2.4.9.
Didn't you notice that a 2.3 kernel was never officially released? 2.3 was the devel series which became 2.4. An odd minor number is always a development kernel.
They went straight from 2.2 to 2.4. I congratulate you on your consistency in being wrong.
If you look at his web page, you will see that Chuck is always very terse. I think this is a side effect of working with Forth so much; he carries his style over into English.
In the documentation for ColorForth, for example, he often describes a feature with a single sentence and moves on.
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That was random.
I've read this three times and I fail to see how your response has anything to do with the quoted comment.
I believe that Google's search mechanism came about as a direct response to the way AltaVista users tended to put + before every word. "No really, damn you, this is important."
Google's use of +, though, is a bit screwy. If you put it before a non-stop word, it ignores all your +'s. So in order to search for a phrase including stop words, you have to search once for the phrase, let it tell you which words it didn't search, and then put a + before those and search again. Luckily, I don't have to search for "+to +be +or not +to +be" very often.
For those who haven't figured it out, adequacy.org is a troll site.
A language which has often been suggested for AI interaction is Lojban. It derives from Loglan, which was created to test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (if, as the SWH states, language constrains the way people think, will people think more logically in a logical language?) but since then its possibilities for AI have been considered, because of its position as an unambiguous, computer-parseable language which was nevertheless designed for humans to use.
However, I think that any language which would be successful as an inter-language between natural languages would have to be decidedly illogical.
Did you seriously send it to the MPAA?
They don't have all that much to do with it. You might find yourself sending a follow-up letter saying "Sorry, that was meant for the other evil bastards."
Congratulations, everyone had managed not to turn this into a KDE/GNOME penis size competition until you came along.
I use GNOME but I'm still happy for KDE's accomplishments.
There's a program which does exactly that. It's called Cymbaline. I'm too lazy to find the link, but you can find it on Google.
It's console-based. It keeps a playlist with a score for every song (which starts out at 35). It adds points to a song's score if you listen to it all the way through, and subtracts them if you skip it. There's also a key which sends the score up to 75.
I haven't touched XMMS since I downloaded it.
I seem to recall that originally, the creator of Malbolge attempted to make a Hello World program, and got as far as "Hell" and gave up.
:)
Why'd they have to take the fun out of it by making one that works?
Arrgghh! And whilst I'm ranting, IMHO, when people register names, they should have a funtional website up within 3 months or lose their registration so we can cut back on the domain squatting.
This proposal is often made by people who either don't know or refuse to think about how the Internet works.
Say I register a (non-contested) personal domain name in order to have a neat e-mail address, and maybe run an FTP server and stuff like that, and I have no intention of putting up any website, much less a functional one. Would that make me a domain squatter?
Before you make a judgement on who is moronic, I suggest you look up "satire" in a dictionary.
A democracy would be no better than what we have, and has the potential to be far worse.
If the Sept. 11 attacks had happened to a direct democracy, the majority would probably have voted to go bomb every village in Afghanistan or Palestine they can find, require mandatory searches of Arabs and/or Muslims upon entering a public place, ban flight simulators with accurate depictions of cities, regulate the sale of box cutters, etc.
Arthur C. Clarke suggests this in "Imperial Earth". 500 years from now, the President of the USA is chosen randomly from everyone who doesn't have a criminal record.
i join my hippy union. you pin holly on johnny; i jump on you only. in my opinion, you look plump - kill my unholy puppy.
We agree!
Federated rats vacate West Texas! Steve evades scattered egg beaters! Red cabbages are savage weeds! Cassette #5 reverberates! Dweeb gadgets waste $$$! Caesar was a great deceased badass! Retarded Bart eats wet sewage! Ferrets wear sweaters! Etcetera!
(I wish there was more useful punctuation on that half of the keyboard.)
I heard they wanted to change it to cUPS.
It would be a bit dubious if I used that to defend that I had said "beg the question", yes.
Unfortunately, you haven't looked at the poster names, and I'm not the one who said that.
However, "beg the question" is changing meaning from "makes a circular argument" to mean "raises the question" because lots of people use it that way, and if that weren't the case there wouldn't need to be people on slashdot who complain whenever they read "beg the question". I personally don't use it for either meaning, because I think the phrase sounds dumb, but I'm sick of all these comments along the lines of "Stop it! You're using my pet phrase wrong!"
"All this noise"?
If you put your ear 1 meter away from a car engine or a lawnmower, you're going to hear a lot more than 72 dba. Their noise levels are usually measured at 20 meters.
A language which doesn't change is called a "dead language". Latin is an example of such a language. English is not, and as such words change their meanings.
Deal with it.
... right.
Consider this a (-1, Misinformative), although I hope most people are intelligent enough to realize that sound gets quieter as you move away from the source.
I went from ftp to ncftp when ftp's lack of features became apparent. And then I went from ncftp to yafc when I decided I had had it with the way quitting ncftp works.
The way it pauses for a second and shows the promotional message for NcFTP Server made it feel like I was using shareware. And god help you if you want to exit ncftp quickly from a site to which you've lost the connection.
The Church of Bob wouldn't have ads that say "be nice to everybody"... their ads would look more like this.
The Romans had a limited sort of fractions. They were not widely used, but they did exist. The roman numeral "S" meant 1/2, and after that they could stick a symbol with one to five dots (arranged like on a die, generally) to indicate a number of twelfths. For example: X divided by III would equal III: :
So the roman version number might be "OS X." except with the dot centered.
He means 2.5.
and that will probably be out in several months.
Or maybe it's already out, considering this article is about 2.4.10.
2.4.5 already exists,
Wow! I spotted the single true fact in your comment! Do I get a prize?
when it becomes suitably non-crashy, they wil release it as 2.4.6.
How interesting... you're applying the odd/even devel/release idea to the micro version number and not the minor one... and pulling the rest of the numbers out of your ass. Incidentally, 2.4.6 has been out for a while. And so have 2.4.7 through 2.4.9.
Didn't you notice that a 2.3 kernel was never officially released?
2.3 was the devel series which became 2.4. An odd minor number is always a development kernel.
They went straight from 2.2 to 2.4.
I congratulate you on your consistency in being wrong.
If you look at his web page, you will see that Chuck is always very terse. I think this is a side effect of working with Forth so much; he carries his style over into English.
In the documentation for ColorForth, for example, he often describes a feature with a single sentence and moves on.
Hmm. Have you by chance read Neal Stephenson's _The Diamond Age_? That idea is a big part of the plot.
I'm sorry, but very little of that grammar is correct, and it's still very difficult to understand what you're saying.
And "cutting-edge flames" is a rather amusing description. (Cutting-edge means new and unique; perhaps you meant 'incisive' or 'biting'.)