All i can say about this is that in Steven Pinker's book, 'The Language Instinct' he reckons:
some (behavioural) linguists said they got a bunch of chimps to communicate using sign language. the chimps were using sentences, combining words to build more abstract concepts etc. they were doing this to try and disprove the ideas of Chomsky and Pinker and people that language is a builtin ability unique and essential to the human brain.
like what you seem to be suggesting above, that chimps lack the ability to make the requisite sounds for speech, but nothing else in the way of thought or language skills.
but: Pinker and his cohorts reckoned the chimps were not really using language, they imitated some key words, but didn't originate their own, the researchers were very lax about what they accepted as a sign, etc. they of course had their own agenda to push
but if anyone did do some proper communicating with chimps, i don't know about it.
Why don't you and your 'film buff' friends go to the theatre or read a book or something, if you're all so cultured? Then pretty soon mainstream cinemas will stop flogging the dead 'plot' horse and just show straight porn / porn with fight scenes / straight fighting all the time.
Because, it shouldn't be 'proceed'. It's 'precede'. Now ask yourself what the ancestor thread was about. Better still, ask yourself why you bothered to throw your $0.02 in.
You don't need to understand computers to use the Internet.
You need to be able to use a mouse, maybe a keyboard, know how to click on the blue 'e' (or the fox, yes), work a 'Back' button, use a search engine.. that's about it. Oh yes, and being able to read and write is helpful.
Being computer 'savvy' is different skillset altogether.
Binge drinking describes an extended period of time (typically at least two days) during which a time a person repeatedly becomes intoxicated and gives up his or her usual activities and obligations in order to become intoxicated. It is the combination of prolonged use and the giving up of usual activities that forms the core of the clinical definition of binge drinking.
Like Debian, Gnome is completely free. While the licensing of KDE / Qt tools of course doesn't stop you from building KDE into your own distro, with Gnome it's simply not something you ever have to worry about.
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..is that the hotels are automated
..only click on ads they think are placed there by reliable, trustable search providers like google.
after all, would you want some cowboy flybynight popup-advertising malware-spreading criminals enlarging YOUR penis?
a stampede at the patent office.
it's only the Legos people who care.
The Lego people know they're right.
for asking the sysadmins to do stuff for you.
it's called email.
That's just a book.
>The Wright brothers probably never envisioned people flying massive airplanes into buildings as weapons.
But some one asked one of the Wright brothers what aeroplanes would be useful for.
And he said "War."
No I don't have a reference.
a British billion is an American trillion.
they're kind of obsolete now though.
All i can say about this is that in Steven Pinker's book, 'The Language Instinct' he reckons:
some (behavioural) linguists said they got a bunch of chimps to communicate using sign language. the chimps were using sentences, combining words to build more abstract concepts etc.
they were doing this to try and disprove the ideas of Chomsky and Pinker and people that language is a builtin ability unique and essential to the human brain.
like what you seem to be suggesting above, that chimps lack the ability to make the requisite sounds for speech, but nothing else in the way of thought or language skills.
but:
Pinker and his cohorts reckoned the chimps were not really using language, they imitated some key words, but didn't originate their own, the researchers were very lax about what they accepted as a sign, etc.
they of course had their own agenda to push
but if anyone did do some proper communicating with chimps, i don't know about it.
I bet you got it bad for calling the police on him.
the 'preview' button is only a redundant step if you're not a chimp..
Has it occurred to you that it's not the lack of vocal cords that prevents chimps from communicationg with us?
Why don't you and your 'film buff' friends go to the theatre or read a book or something, if you're all so cultured? Then pretty soon mainstream cinemas will stop flogging the dead 'plot' horse and just show straight porn / porn with fight scenes / straight fighting all the time.
You are in the minority, after all.
Because, it shouldn't be 'proceed'. It's 'precede'.
Now ask yourself what the ancestor thread was about.
Better still, ask yourself why you bothered to throw your $0.02 in.
Hey, I'm left handed and I like linux too!
You must be rich, tech savvy, good-looking...
I'm using Firefox right now (on Windows XP), and I can tell you, it's a piece of shit.
Or explain to me why a web browser with 4 pages open needs to eat up 90~100MB of memory? Out of 256.
Don't say "if you were using Linux Firefox would blah blah blah".
You don't need to understand computers to use the Internet.
You need to be able to use a mouse, maybe a keyboard, know how to click on the blue 'e' (or the fox, yes), work a 'Back' button, use a search engine.. that's about it. Oh yes, and being able to read and write is helpful.
Being computer 'savvy' is different skillset altogether.
a stupid serious question.
From the Journal of Studies on Alcohol (1998):
d ental-student-suspended.html, the first blog linked above.
Binge drinking describes an extended period of time (typically at least two days) during which a time a person repeatedly becomes intoxicated and gives up his or her usual activities and obligations in order to become intoxicated. It is the combination of prolonged use and the giving up of usual activities that forms the core of the clinical definition of binge drinking.
cited in http://mu-warrior.blogspot.com/2005/12/marquette-
The question doesn't refer exclusively to regular polygons, but to any shape of wheel.
Idiot.
Like Debian, Gnome is completely free.
While the licensing of KDE / Qt tools of course doesn't stop you from building KDE into your own distro, with Gnome it's simply not something you ever have to worry about.
>I don't want them to be able to middle-click, bring up a terminal and 'rm -Rf *'.
Your five yr old has root access?
You proved me wrong :)
RTFA'ed, and got FP.