My own kind is consists primarily of my family, then my extended family followed by the fellow citizens.
So when I compare an ambitious go-getter in a 3rd world country who is trying to rise above the poverty line to provide for their younger brothers and sisters to a 1st world kid who complacantly thought (they saw the tech boom and wanted some of it) studying computing would land them a well paying job, following your logic I have to perfer the 1st world kid?
You would side with Billy-Bob-Redneck in the Alabama Militia who works at Walmart and likes to go down to the border and shoot Mexicans (if they are a US citizen), rather than an intelligent thoughtful hardworking individual trying to do the best for their family (if they are not a US citizen?
Fine, it is clear where your thoughts are. Pity you were logged in as a Coward when you expressed them.
From experience observing (but never taking part) I beleive they barter, if the Ferengi want something they usually give something up in exchange.
Though I never understood the bar in DS9, the Ferengi needs payment but the Federation do not have currency. Perhaps it is more akin to an external barter/currency (gold-pressed latinum based?) but nothing needed inside the Federation. I am not sure. Guidance from a Trekker/Treckie needed.
...someone had to be paid to mine the dilithium that powered the warp core that drove the the communications array. And someone else had to be paid to build the communications array...
Don't forget that the Federation eliminated money some time around the 23rd century.
If a company such as Yahoo (and NTT in competition soon?) can make a go of it in Japan they should hopefully be able to implement a similar business model in other countries too.
Human languages are surprisingly similar. There are subjects, objects, verbs and nouns. Different languages arrange these differently, some languages contain grammatical particles, in some verbs change according to tence, some words inflex, etc.
But when we have 100s of pages of internal consistency it is possible to seperate nouns and verbs, subjects and objects, and the grammar that links these up. We are able to understand the grammar, all that is then needed is, as you say, to link some of these references with external objects to understand what it means (even some higher animals are thought to use subject/object clauses).
Human languages are not dissimilar and can be deconstructed grammatically, as as TFA states, the text has an abundance of pictures so reconstruction with meaning is possible for at least some of the words, others could be inferred. If grammatical deconstruction and consistent reconstruction were not possible it is, IMHO, valid to deduce this was gibberish or conclude the language had evolved completely independently from all other known languages (Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, etc).
It was seriously almost as distracting as hand entering the number.
Are you being sarcastic? I can type a number on a numeric keypad much faster than I can say it. The 5-6 times much more than compensates for the time of getting the phone out of my pocket.
Voice recognition is great, but tactile recognition is also great, as is body movement.
Until the machines can be 100% accurate without frustration they are next to useless.
I know I have trouble understanding someone with a heavy Southern-USA accent, like someone else may have trouble with a heavy Scottish accent (as firends have) or heavy London accent (as I can revert to), people are not perfect at understanding people, let alone machines understanding people.
Voice regognition is not a great saviour and IMHO is years away, in the meantime I'm happy with a numeric keypad.
"...device for translation of spoken languages in real-time communication. It operates by scanning brain-wave frequencies and using the results to create a basis for translation". A la the portable universal translator." More here.
But maybe 22000 birds over 20 years (that's a little more than 3 birds a day) are not worth the expense...
Exactly, and there are 7000 turbines, so that makes little over 3 birds killed per turbine in 20 years, or 0.157... birds/year/turbine! Compare this to other mechanical devices killing animals, like cars running over hedgehogs, boats knocking fish on the head, animals killed after Chernobyl, or insects on your wind-shield and I'm impressed, 22000 is pretty low.
From a purely Australian perspective I agree, but there is the risk this is not purely AUstralian. What if 'infected' Carp were released in Europe/Asia? Then gradually the species would be eliminated from the entire world. A habitat has been saved for a few species but a other habitats have been irrecovably damaged.
The local solution has to be balanced against the global risk. Australia has already had one massive failure regarding immigrant species 'control' which resulted in the deaths of 100s of millions of rabbits outside Australia yet failured to tackle the problem at home. I only hope the Carp 'solution' is a little better thought through. The best solution to population control is that old method of predation... we just need to find an effective way to predate predators.
It is what happened, and is still happening with Cod in the North Sea, however as Carp are fresh water fish they don't swin in large shoals and are harder to catch en masse unless you net the river, but then you get everything else too.
I do fear GM in this regard though, as you say introducing a risk of extinction is worrying, eliminating one species to save another is not a good enough reason.
Are you mad?! Carp are one of the finest fresh water fish there are! Not only are they one of the fish most desired by anglers they are one of the finest fish to cook and eat. Now I'm talking proper Carp, not Goldfish, as TFA states on the first line "Carp may be a delicacy on European and Asian tables...". Yes they are wiping out native species, but they are very fine to eat indeed.
So are the four tones in Mandarin the same as four in Thai or Lao? I ask because Cantonese has 9 tones (or 6 if you are colloquial) but the four Mandarin tones are not a subset of those 6/9 tones in Cantonese in such a straight-forward way. Also, do Thai and Lao have 'toneless' words (like the modal particle 'le' in Mandarin)?
'er' is 2, 'shi' is 10 and 'si' is 4, i.e. two tens and a four, twenty-four.
To be ultra correct, 'er' should be said with a falling tone, 'shi' with a rising tone and 'si' with a falling tone. Getting tones wrong could be embarrassing, for example 'si' with a falling then rising tone means death.
And a memory is not independent... it leads to behavious and interpretation. If the memory were changed would the interpretation be? If I had my memory changed would all of my corresponding memories and behaviours?
Solar powered planes zig-zag their vector, gaining altitude and some distance in daylight hours but at sundown going directly to where sunrise will be, maximum warp (hey, the guy is called Picard!) but losing altitude. Repeat, repeat until destinaion.
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The way spam works is to have a unique ID in the email correspondiing to a unique remote image and link target should you decide to click.
The remote image lets the company know you have read the email (unless you turn off remote image loading, but IIRC this is not available in OE and I'd wager spam respondants are not 'power users' who would know how to do this).
The unique link allows a commission to be paid if a product is bought.
The two together allow a pretty accurate measure of the direct effectiveness of spam, though it still doesn't take account of side effects (i.e., saturation affecting demand for a product)
In an election it is not possibly to vote against a candidate (simply for the opposition), so please tell tell for whom you will be voting, and why they are any different from others standing?
In what way will they improve the state of governance?
The majority of the voting population of the USA abstain from elections, are you engaging them in your described "discussin of incompetance", would you like to explain how and why the government are incompetant (personally I believe they are but see too many blaming others, e.g., steel imports, rather than justifying this position)?
I have a lower range Hauppage product which I had trouble finding Linux drivers for (and Hauppauge were very uncooperative)... make sure your system will work with anything Hauppauge or make sure you have a very reliably backup option.
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My own kind is consists primarily of my family, then my extended family followed by the fellow citizens.
So when I compare an ambitious go-getter in a 3rd world country who is trying to rise above the poverty line to provide for their younger brothers and sisters to a 1st world kid who complacantly thought (they saw the tech boom and wanted some of it) studying computing would land them a well paying job, following your logic I have to perfer the 1st world kid?
You would side with Billy-Bob-Redneck in the Alabama Militia who works at Walmart and likes to go down to the border and shoot Mexicans (if they are a US citizen), rather than an intelligent thoughtful hardworking individual trying to do the best for their family (if they are not a US citizen?
Fine, it is clear where your thoughts are. Pity you were logged in as a Coward when you expressed them.
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;-)... I'm 21 years old, even though most people think I'm younger...
Hi, I'm Melissa, as you've probably already guessed
Funny, I would date her more around 27/28 years old. Guess I'm not most people. Besides, she looks like a slut.
From experience observing (but never taking part) I beleive they barter, if the Ferengi want something they usually give something up in exchange.
Though I never understood the bar in DS9, the Ferengi needs payment but the Federation do not have currency. Perhaps it is more akin to an external barter/currency (gold-pressed latinum based?) but nothing needed inside the Federation. I am not sure. Guidance from a Trekker/Treckie needed.
...someone had to be paid to mine the dilithium that powered the warp core that drove the the communications array. And someone else had to be paid to build the communications array...
Don't forget that the Federation eliminated money some time around the 23rd century.
It could be. The Softbank venture is in partnership with Yahoo Japan Softbank holds >40% of Yahoo Japan and is deploying VOIP through Yahoo broadband (100% owned by Softbank)
If a company such as Yahoo (and NTT in competition soon?) can make a go of it in Japan they should hopefully be able to implement a similar business model in other countries too.
Human languages are surprisingly similar. There are subjects, objects, verbs and nouns. Different languages arrange these differently, some languages contain grammatical particles, in some verbs change according to tence, some words inflex, etc.
But when we have 100s of pages of internal consistency it is possible to seperate nouns and verbs, subjects and objects, and the grammar that links these up. We are able to understand the grammar, all that is then needed is, as you say, to link some of these references with external objects to understand what it means (even some higher animals are thought to use subject/object clauses).
Human languages are not dissimilar and can be deconstructed grammatically, as as TFA states, the text has an abundance of pictures so reconstruction with meaning is possible for at least some of the words, others could be inferred. If grammatical deconstruction and consistent reconstruction were not possible it is, IMHO, valid to deduce this was gibberish or conclude the language had evolved completely independently from all other known languages (Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, etc).
As a quick comparison, in the past year, three birds have died after running into the living-room window...
OK, I would have believed you if you said they flew into the window, but I know birds can't run that fast!
It was seriously almost as distracting as hand entering the number.
Are you being sarcastic? I can type a number on a numeric keypad much faster than I can say it. The 5-6 times much more than compensates for the time of getting the phone out of my pocket.
Voice recognition is great, but tactile recognition is also great, as is body movement.
Until the machines can be 100% accurate without frustration they are next to useless.
I know I have trouble understanding someone with a heavy Southern-USA accent, like someone else may have trouble with a heavy Scottish accent (as firends have) or heavy London accent (as I can revert to), people are not perfect at understanding people, let alone machines understanding people.
Voice regognition is not a great saviour and IMHO is years away, in the meantime I'm happy with a numeric keypad.
I believe the solution may be:
"...device for translation of spoken languages in real-time communication. It operates by scanning brain-wave frequencies and using the results to create a basis for translation". A la the portable universal translator." More here.
Personally I'd prefer my own Ensign Hoshi.
The fact of the matter is that it doesn't belong in Australia
Yeah, that's right, and remove the European immigrants while you're at it, let Australia be the way it should be.
Pot. Kettle. Black
But maybe 22000 birds over 20 years (that's a little more than 3 birds a day) are not worth the expense...
Exactly, and there are 7000 turbines, so that makes little over 3 birds killed per turbine in 20 years, or 0.157... birds/year/turbine! Compare this to other mechanical devices killing animals, like cars running over hedgehogs, boats knocking fish on the head, animals killed after Chernobyl, or insects on your wind-shield and I'm impressed, 22000 is pretty low.
From a purely Australian perspective I agree, but there is the risk this is not purely AUstralian. What if 'infected' Carp were released in Europe/Asia? Then gradually the species would be eliminated from the entire world. A habitat has been saved for a few species but a other habitats have been irrecovably damaged.
The local solution has to be balanced against the global risk. Australia has already had one massive failure regarding immigrant species 'control' which resulted in the deaths of 100s of millions of rabbits outside Australia yet failured to tackle the problem at home. I only hope the Carp 'solution' is a little better thought through. The best solution to population control is that old method of predation... we just need to find an effective way to predate predators.
It is what happened, and is still happening with Cod in the North Sea, however as Carp are fresh water fish they don't swin in large shoals and are harder to catch en masse unless you net the river, but then you get everything else too.
I do fear GM in this regard though, as you say introducing a risk of extinction is worrying, eliminating one species to save another is not a good enough reason.
Are you mad?! Carp are one of the finest fresh water fish there are! Not only are they one of the fish most desired by anglers they are one of the finest fish to cook and eat. Now I'm talking proper Carp, not Goldfish, as TFA states on the first line "Carp may be a delicacy on European and Asian tables...". Yes they are wiping out native species, but they are very fine to eat indeed.
So are the four tones in Mandarin the same as four in Thai or Lao? I ask because Cantonese has 9 tones (or 6 if you are colloquial) but the four Mandarin tones are not a subset of those 6/9 tones in Cantonese in such a straight-forward way. Also, do Thai and Lao have 'toneless' words (like the modal particle 'le' in Mandarin)?
haha! when i was young we glued shards of glass onto the strings of our kites, then flew our kites under the paths of others cutting their strings!
oh, back in the day!
'er' is 2, 'shi' is 10 and 'si' is 4, i.e. two tens and a four, twenty-four.
To be ultra correct, 'er' should be said with a falling tone, 'shi' with a rising tone and 'si' with a falling tone. Getting tones wrong could be embarrassing, for example 'si' with a falling then rising tone means death.
And a memory is not independent... it leads to behavious and interpretation. If the memory were changed would the interpretation be? If I had my memory changed would all of my corresponding memories and behaviours?
Would we be any more than living ghosts?
Despite light through most of the 24 hours, the light is weak (i.e., not Saharan sun beams) so wouldn't be as much use as sunlight nearer the equator.
Solar powered planes zig-zag their vector, gaining altitude and some distance in daylight hours but at sundown going directly to where sunrise will be, maximum warp (hey, the guy is called Picard!) but losing altitude. Repeat, repeat until destinaion.
Switzerland, but your clock must be broken.
The way spam works is to have a unique ID in the email correspondiing to a unique remote image and link target should you decide to click.
The remote image lets the company know you have read the email (unless you turn off remote image loading, but IIRC this is not available in OE and I'd wager spam respondants are not 'power users' who would know how to do this).
The unique link allows a commission to be paid if a product is bought.
The two together allow a pretty accurate measure of the direct effectiveness of spam, though it still doesn't take account of side effects (i.e., saturation affecting demand for a product)
In an election it is not possibly to vote against a candidate (simply for the opposition), so please tell tell for whom you will be voting, and why they are any different from others standing?
In what way will they improve the state of governance?
The majority of the voting population of the USA abstain from elections, are you engaging them in your described "discussin of incompetance", would you like to explain how and why the government are incompetant (personally I believe they are but see too many blaming others, e.g., steel imports, rather than justifying this position)?
And how do you propose reforming this amateurism of which you speak, or are you all complaint and no action?
/. knee-jerk reaction?
Perhaps this is the typical
Perhaps you would now, in turn, like to blame India and China for stealing American jobs?
Or complain about NASA, or the lack of funding of NASA, or the inefficiency of NASA despite its generous funding?
Or is your real axe to grind about CEOs of tech companies, or Wall Street analysts not having a clue?
Is there another pigeon hole in which to place you?
Click me!
I have a lower range Hauppage product which I had trouble finding Linux drivers for (and Hauppauge were very uncooperative)... make sure your system will work with anything Hauppauge or make sure you have a very reliably backup option.