Is it any surprise that computers can't "understand" what we mean, given the minefield of language?
The problem isn't entirely linguistic. Humans can communicate because we have an awareness of a common reality. Until/Unless computers are also aware, they will have problems understanding us.
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I suspect Ayn Rand became who she was before she came to the US.
They're all hypocrites since they all went to public schools growing up and ended up where they did.
Not entirely. Bill Gates attended Lakeside School and President Obama attended Punahou.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Early_life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama#Early_life_and_career
but if everyone did it would help a lot.
But is everyone (or even enough) going to do it?
Aren't English public schools private (not government run)?
Superior, by what standard? Are they easier to lock down than TIs so that students can't use "unauthorized" features on their SATs?
Hmm. . . I suspect that the auditors would not consider an embezzlement of $21,000,000 to be a rounding error.
Well, is Hurd really a prime-time player?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurd
Linus was never a Windows® developer; he simply didn't like the stuff on his 386.
What those offerings could be? A stable, decent enough platform
And once they have that platform? XP and 7 were stable and decent enough, but how does Microsoft continue to make money from them?
a better browser
Better, in what way? More standards compliant? Faster? Smaller footprint? Ties people even more to Microsoft?
some more quality software
Software that does what?
Linux and free alternatives were born due to their shady policies.
No, Linus didn't like Windows, but it wasn't the politics.
Plus, had they diverted all this energy to actually produce new offerings, it could be they weren't between a rock and a hard place now.
and what would these new offerings be?
Microsoft should have called Windows and Office done years ago
Which would have made life much easier for the WINE and OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice developers.
As far as I know, SuSE is still in Germany. Hence, its officers are subject to arrest in Germany.
The Attachmate Group acquired Novell, but I assumed that SuSE still had a presence in Nuremberg.
http://www.attachmategroup.com/
Wouldn't the Germans prefer SuSE?
Yeah, too bad there isn't a German Linux distro
Oops
https://www.suse.com/
As if the states were opposing the NSA.
But is says to the states respectively, or to the people. Also, the Fourteenth disallows the states to violate Constitutional protections.
Plain and simple the federal government is suposed to be small, the states are suposed to be the ones with the power.
And who is supposing this? Also, people might have had more sympathy for States' Rights if states didn't use them to oppress people.
how do you spend $100,000 on an undergrad degree?
After scholarship, MIT undergrads average $24,000 a year.
http://mitadmissions.org/afford/basics
Carnegie Mellon $46,000 annual tuition.
http://admission.enrollment.cmu.edu/pages/tuition-fees
Stanford $14,000 per quarter
http://exploredegrees.stanford.edu/tuitionfeesandhousing/#tuitiontext
Strictly speaking, it's the argument forms that are valid.
It's not just the boiling point. One should run the heat source for a Carnot engine hot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_efficiency#Efficiency
Is it any surprise that computers can't "understand" what we mean, given the minefield of language?
The problem isn't entirely linguistic. Humans can communicate because we have an awareness of a common reality. Until/Unless computers are also aware, they will have problems understanding us.
How do we deal with multiple quantification by syllogism?
What we need is a Fox News for science, where only *real* science gets published to weed out all the biased liberal bullshit.
Fox News wouldn't know facts if they bit Fox News in the ass.
If you believe that evolution is a hoax, people will not take your view of science seriously.
100 percentage points more likely (1005 vs. 0%).