Gee, thanks for helping the world out. Did you know you're allowed to quit your job if it's morally reprehensible? I know it's not easy finding work, but aren't standards worth a damn anymore?
Actually, jobs are quite scarce in some sectors. ...and damns are, like, waaaaaaay overvalued.
Using a two-tier or three-tier approach to client/server architecture, with something like a full-duplex GigE connection to fat, diskless clients and you have some real potential.
Maybe it's late, but am I the only one who thought he was saying that IBM had "fat, dickless, clients"?
Is this the same Bruce Tonkin from Round Lake, Illinois (U.S.A) who was president of T.N.T. Software, and wrote My Word!, or is this just a coincidence? Not that there couldn't be more than one. I was just wondering.
Does the brain develop separate neural nets for each language? Is there a composite neural net? Does it matter how similar sounding or similar in grammar these two languages are?
I'll take a guess at it: I had some Spanish classes in jr. high and high school. I never caught on to the vocabulary very well, or got deep into the technicalities of the grammer, but I did pick up on the accent and the "flavor" of the language. When I was growing up my dad was always mimicking other languages, so I developed an ear for many of the sounds. He spoke some German, so I got a good ear for those sounds as well as some sense of the grammer.
Now I'm doing an experiment in trying to bombard my brain with introductory words and phrases from Topics Instant Immersion 33 languages and TII 102 languages. What I'm finding is that each language has a unique "flavor". I do not get them confused. What I expect to do is to learn the general sounds, then some specific words, then a general sense of fundamental grammer, and then and only then, the writing. Of course, I should probably get some coaching on the subtleties of the sounds early on, and it will probably involve understanding the writing at that point, but I won't dwell on it too much. After all, children learn the language quite well long before they even know about writing.
I tend to suspect that multilingual children grow up with a super-set of language understanding, whereas the typical American who learns only English is stuck for life with a trivial subset.
On a more practical note, the primary means that such people employ when constructing their deceptive texts is to make up non-sensical nouns or noun phrases and then treat them as if they had meaning. For instance, this satire contains the following sentence fragment: "These three things, Vulnerability Detection, Exploit Development, and Attack Execution, were used by Immunity to determine the costs to 0wn the different operating systems." As technical people, we read sentences like this all the time. Generally, such sentences mean absolutely nothing. We repeat phrases like "Attack Execution," too embarrassed and too confused to admit even to ourselves that we have no idea of what they mean, or even if they are capable of meaning. These are entirely exploitative sentences and phrases, and have no substance whatsoever beyond what we endow them with by virtue of our blindness and fear.
I admit that I get confused by a lot of technobabble, psychobabble, and PHB-speak. But, this makes clear sense to me. Take the Morris Worm as an example. He found all kinds of vulnerabilities. He developed a worm to exploit them. His "Attack Execution" sucked because he hosed the timer.
What's there to not understand? I don't understand. Is there yet another level of sarcasm here which just went whooshing over my head, or something?
At the risk of sounding like a troll, or worse, I recommend the Urantia Book. It addresses many of these quandries.
The universe, it would seem, is just teeming with life. There is a God. One God, but logically a vast administration. We as humans are at the lowest end of the spiritual spectrum and there is great value in going from the lowest end to achieving spiritual perfection. There was an Adam and an Eve. They are probably not the "last" so much as the latest or most recent. Jesus was the material incarnation of one of the orders of divine sonship.
Take it on face value. Take it with a grain of salt, if you want. As I understand it, this is expected of those who would study the Quran, too.
Dragon: Outta season!? You'll never pin that rap on me! Da ya hear me!? Cop!?
St. George: Yeah, I hear ya. I also got you on a 412.
Dragon: Four-Twelve?!! What's a four-twelve?!!!
St. George: Overacting. Let's go.
Law Triumphant music under.
Announcer: The dragon was tried and convicted. His fire was put out and his maiden-devouring license revoked. Devouring maidens out of season is punishable by a term of not less than fifty or more than three hundred years.
So, every time some one poses the question "What's a 419?", I just naturally think of this. Sorry if I wandered a bit.
Oh, yeah. It's from St. George and the Dragon-net by Stan Freberg.
and furthermore, we stopped trying to cater to the machine when we stopping flipping switches on the front of the box.. we should *not* be going backwards and catering to it by reorganizing logic so it's easier for the *machine* to process.
A good language and a good programmer are expected to know the hardware, both specifically and in general. If you don't care about all that technical mumbo-jumbo, you will be at a marketing disadvantage in capability and efficiency. I agree that it is good for software architects to speak plainly, and at a humanly-understandable level, but please don't write the machine off as irrelevant.
Yes, national stereotypes suck. And I enjoyed all the food I ate when I last visited Britain -- every bite of it.
I did not mean to suggest that Bush and Ashcroft are Italian. I meant to suggest that they are fascists, and that if we don't vote them out,...they might keep the trains on schedule. (Topic, right?)
As I recall, right after 9/11 suddenly D.C. politicians were talking about how maybe neglecting our national rail system was maybe not such a good idea after all. I was heartened by the possibility that we could be at the dawn of a new rail era.
IIRC, one of the good things about fascist leaders is that they can make the trains run on time.
So, I'm hoping that our rail system doesn't get that good.
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If Microsoft wants to play fair, all they have to do is compete on all the platforms that Opera and Firefox do. :-)
And from that, it becomes obvious that the Hyperintelligent Pandimensional Beings (aka white mice) have 13 fingers in their natural form.
6x9 = 54 (base 10) = 42 (base 13).
So, what you're saying is: the Answer is really 33?
Actually, jobs are quite scarce in some sectors.
...and damns are, like, waaaaaaay overvalued.
Maybe it's late, but am I the only one who thought he was saying that IBM had "fat, dickless, clients"?
Well... it seems to work better that way.
Not that I'm using MS Windows, mind you. Hehehe.
Try a USB-A M-F extension cord. Run it around to the front of the machine. Works for me.
Well, how about the Dresden Nuclear Power Station?
Wait! No! That's in Illinois! Sorry. Never mind.
Quicksort shoots first.
Perhaps you meant the University of Woolamaloo.
Is this the same Bruce Tonkin from Round Lake, Illinois (U.S.A) who was president of T.N.T. Software, and wrote My Word!, or is this just a coincidence? Not that there couldn't be more than one. I was just wondering.
insensitiveway
if a word begins with a vowel, just stick a 'way' on the end.
(uhday)
Class: Ha ha ha ha ha!
Teacher: En France!
Class: Hon hon hon hon hon!
I'll take a guess at it: I had some Spanish classes in jr. high and high school. I never caught on to the vocabulary very well, or got deep into the technicalities of the grammer, but I did pick up on the accent and the "flavor" of the language. When I was growing up my dad was always mimicking other languages, so I developed an ear for many of the sounds. He spoke some German, so I got a good ear for those sounds as well as some sense of the grammer.
Now I'm doing an experiment in trying to bombard my brain with introductory words and phrases from Topics Instant Immersion 33 languages and TII 102 languages. What I'm finding is that each language has a unique "flavor". I do not get them confused. What I expect to do is to learn the general sounds, then some specific words, then a general sense of fundamental grammer, and then and only then, the writing. Of course, I should probably get some coaching on the subtleties of the sounds early on, and it will probably involve understanding the writing at that point, but I won't dwell on it too much. After all, children learn the language quite well long before they even know about writing.
I tend to suspect that multilingual children grow up with a super-set of language understanding, whereas the typical American who learns only English is stuck for life with a trivial subset.
What about the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy as documented at tldp.org?
Have we got dueling standards going on here?
I admit that I get confused by a lot of technobabble, psychobabble, and PHB-speak. But, this makes clear sense to me. Take the Morris Worm as an example. He found all kinds of vulnerabilities. He developed a worm to exploit them. His "Attack Execution" sucked because he hosed the timer.
What's there to not understand? I don't understand. Is there yet another level of sarcasm here which just went whooshing over my head, or something?
The universe, it would seem, is just teeming with life. There is a God. One God, but logically a vast administration. We as humans are at the lowest end of the spiritual spectrum and there is great value in going from the lowest end to achieving spiritual perfection. There was an Adam and an Eve. They are probably not the "last" so much as the latest or most recent. Jesus was the material incarnation of one of the orders of divine sonship.
Take it on face value. Take it with a grain of salt, if you want. As I understand it, this is expected of those who would study the Quran, too.
I thought that Eugene Cernan had the distinction of being "the last man on the moon".
Um... no, that would be Kudzu. Watch for Intel's new Kudzu line of "fast but braindead" processors in 1Q '06.
St. George: Yeah, I hear ya. I also got you on a 412.
Dragon: Four-Twelve?!! What's a four-twelve?!!!
St. George: Overacting. Let's go.
Law Triumphant music under.
Announcer: The dragon was tried and convicted. His fire was put out and his maiden-devouring license revoked. Devouring maidens out of season is punishable by a term of not less than fifty or more than three hundred years.
So, every time some one poses the question "What's a 419?", I just naturally think of this. Sorry if I wandered a bit.
Oh, yeah. It's from St. George and the Dragon-net by Stan Freberg.
Riiiight.
I've got javascript disabled and it's gonna stay that way.
If your concern is your bank balance, then where the money actually is is neither here nor there. :-)
Of course, if you want to avert disaster, we could reverse the polarity of the boson flow, but that might be dangerous!
A good language and a good programmer are expected to know the hardware, both specifically and in general. If you don't care about all that technical mumbo-jumbo, you will be at a marketing disadvantage in capability and efficiency. I agree that it is good for software architects to speak plainly, and at a humanly-understandable level, but please don't write the machine off as irrelevant.
I did not mean to suggest that Bush and Ashcroft are Italian. I meant to suggest that they are fascists, and that if we don't vote them out, ...they might keep the trains on schedule. (Topic, right?)
Did you try the Spotted Dick?
IIRC, one of the good things about fascist leaders is that they can make the trains run on time.
So, I'm hoping that our rail system doesn't get that good.