No, but dictionaries on the other hand do have some authority. Also, I think someone in the industry is as likely to use 'virii' as they are to use 'M$' or 'filez', or some other lame thing like that.
Not to mention, the
"language is evolving" argument doesn't mean that just any invented word is ok to use. Language evolves over time by itself, not because we're telling it to evolve.
I can't even click, I have to press F8 to accept it. It's also printed in white on blue, which get's on my eyes. Moreover, it also needs a driver disk for the storage closet. The walls in the place can be placed arbitrarily though, but I need to move all the stuff out of a room before partitioning, and I can only use two kinds of floor material (one of which sucks), which is a PITA. Finally, after getting through the thing I can start living in my home, but then I start getting these notes in the mail that say my place used to be owned by pirates. WTF?
No no. We only need to create an AI superior to human intelligence. That can then create a superior being, etc. etc.
Failing that, we can very handily use a travelling AI to overcome the limitations of human bodies and needs. We don't need to send (living) humans specifically out there, we just need to send portable intelligence.
I've never even seen a multiple choice test in university here (Finland). They got left behind when I graduated high school. I think the only way they should be used is for very large amounts of test-takers (like national high-school graduation exams), or poll choices, it just doesn't match up to a Real test. That said, in a large test, having one or two questions to be simple multiple-choice should be ok.
It doesn't seem shocking at all that China is taking up cyber warfare. Just look at all the nefarious western surveillance systems that have been discussed over the last decades. What's with this "uncomfortable news" anyway, how much cyber warfare are western governments doing then, and against whom exactly? Some conveniently redefinable "enemy" (all of us)?
Chinese propaganda you say... But the reality is not that the Chinese have propaganda, it's that they have more propaganda than the west, presumably. It's a matter of degrees, and it hasn't been all that rosy over here lately, either.
Besides, looking at TFA:
China regarded computer network operations -- attacks, defense and exploitation -- as critical to achieving "electromagnetic dominance" early in a conflict.
..we can see that China's aim for dominance is obviously a three-step plan:
No way. Disuse of those characters might encourage lazy programmers to become complacent and forget charset and localization issues completely. There's already enough stupid problems as it is.
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Not to mention, the "language is evolving" argument doesn't mean that just any invented word is ok to use. Language evolves over time by itself, not because we're telling it to evolve.
I can't even click, I have to press F8 to accept it. It's also printed in white on blue, which get's on my eyes. Moreover, it also needs a driver disk for the storage closet. The walls in the place can be placed arbitrarily though, but I need to move all the stuff out of a room before partitioning, and I can only use two kinds of floor material (one of which sucks), which is a PITA. Finally, after getting through the thing I can start living in my home, but then I start getting these notes in the mail that say my place used to be owned by pirates. WTF?
The continental shelf.
Why would that be clueless? Sounds pretty rational to me...
How would privatizing health care make the situation better, on the whole?
You forgot to look in that dark hole.
Failing that, we can very handily use a travelling AI to overcome the limitations of human bodies and needs. We don't need to send (living) humans specifically out there, we just need to send portable intelligence.
I've never even seen a multiple choice test in university here (Finland). They got left behind when I graduated high school. I think the only way they should be used is for very large amounts of test-takers (like national high-school graduation exams), or poll choices, it just doesn't match up to a Real test. That said, in a large test, having one or two questions to be simple multiple-choice should be ok.
Chinese propaganda you say... But the reality is not that the Chinese have propaganda, it's that they have more propaganda than the west, presumably. It's a matter of degrees, and it hasn't been all that rosy over here lately, either.
Besides, looking at TFA:
Actually QAMQADM, the 'M' is for Modulation. It looks vaguely arabic... Qam q'adm.
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For starters, 100 km is quite a bit better view than a meager 10 km in a 7x7.
You mean 200.000€. It's 33% more.
But why? Compiling with gcc doesn't impose any restrictions on the product. Distributing gcc and libraries isn't a problem either.
Aren't submarine patents illegal anyway?
It's a very good thing, it's just that slashdotters are generally experts on attacks ad hominem.
I don't know what you have, but I keep my "album art" hidden there. Much better than c:\windows\system32.
No way. Disuse of those characters might encourage lazy programmers to become complacent and forget charset and localization issues completely. There's already enough stupid problems as it is.
..And here you are, on slashdot.
I find that avoiding to wash my underwear gives them a nice, crusted, rigid shape so they can be stacked inside each other when not in use.
It's very simple: the ultimate theory of the universe is so elegant that it explains everything, including itself. That's better than god.