I think part of the problem is the culture that has arisen out of branding. Once you create a culture where a company's public image isn't the product but an ideal you have to jump through hoops to maintain that ideal. Take Nike for instance, if they admitted that their shoes cause cuticle cancer then their "Just Do It" brand identity would get re-branded "Just don't it" or some counter brand that's actually clever.
Inter-dialectal differences probably pale in comparison to interpersonal differences.
If we are looking at the phones themselves then this can't be the case. The phones are where dialectical differences are at their greatest. With the exception of people who have had damage done to their brains, the "neurogeography" of the brain is pretty uniform.
In this context I believe there are two ways we can speak of phonemes. There is the linguistic unit in whatever metaphysical incarnation whatever the dominant theory gives it, and there is the conscious knowledge of the sounds of speech--without which we would not be able to learn to read and write. It is the knowledge of speech sounds that arises after metalinguistic awareness is reached. I guess a better name for this unit would be "metaphone". Where this knowledge is stored would be directly or indirectly linked to all the neurological aspects of the phoneme that correlates with the metaphone. I believe this would be the route to go if we want to go the phoneme route because it too would reduce variation as the result of the way we are currently , but it would still be as slow as thinking out A - B - C - D- E, etc. So here we are again at phonemes being not the way to go.
I never completely bought OT, though that might be the result of who taught it to me, and the text she chose to teach from. I'm hard pressed to say that realized forms are the product of garbage going down the chute and getting sieved into grammatical constructions. If this is an unfair generalization please feel free to make a better generalization and make me a better informed individual on this matter.
I would love to keep going but now I have to put my children to bed.
I think you're giving the software too much credit. All-in-all going the phoneme route requires too much work when we already have a system that minimizes regional language variation.
I don't know how many times I refreshed this page waiting for comments, so I decided to be the first to comment on how there weren't any comments. BTW, it's "overloards", forget what your spell checker thinks it is.
If we knew where each phoneme was stored in the brain and we could stimulate the computer via activity in this area all we would have to do is think about speaking the word. But things like allophones and the ranges of phonemes in different dialects would throw this off. No matter how dumb people may think southern speech is, it is actually hardwired into their nervous system via language acquisition and would have to be accounted for physiologically. It would probably be easier to have the nodes hooked up to the part of our brains that's responsible for controlling our fingers when we type, the amount of variability found in dialects gets reduced quite a bit just by removing the vocal element of language, even if you're Cletus.
I think one of the things that Star Trek based it's vision of the future was teh idea that the more educated people are the more they will be willing to cooperate. I'm not sure if that's the case, I mean look at the resistance the social sciences are putting up to actually using real honest-to-god biological theory to explain human behavior. These are highly educated people who have some sort of agenda that gets in the way of real breakthroughs being made in understanding human beings. And I think when it comes down to it, an increase in cooperation is the general trend throughout history, but we still have some major hurdles to get over before can reach the eudaimonic state portrayed in Star Trek.
I don't know much about the Canadian healthcare system, or any other socialized healthcare system, but from what I do understand, this shouldn't be a problem for them. I think in the long run this will lead to a collapse in the health insurance business and the USA will be forced to either go the nationalized or the individualized route. I hope to God that we don't go the individualized route.
No, the way it is written is the way it is meant. And it's quite profound when you think about it. What it's saying is that the more we know, the more we know we don't know. It's on par with Rummy's "There are things we know we don't know, and there are things we don't know we don't know". Let that one sink in for a sec......WOW!
Man this is some good weed! What is this?......labrador? I never heard of no labrador.
I have had problems with Dapper Drake and Edgy because I am using a laptop and every bug I have reported has been taken seriously.
I have been reporting bugs whenever I run across them in every distro I've used, and only Ubuntu consistently follows up on the bugs. I used RHEL for many years and never got the kind of attention paid to the bug issues that I had the way Ubuntu does.
You have no clue how bad NPR can get. I live Mississippi where anything with the prefix "public" gets accused of being a part of a leftist conspiracy. The funding here for NPR is SO bad (how bad is it?) they once had a drive time that lasted a month and a half! I would LOVE for the NPR stations here to switch to an all talk format, it sure beats the hell out of the crappy public domain classical that they play here. This is incredibly sad since it was Mississippi Public Broadcasting(MPB) that aired non-stop vital information when Katrina hit--even when their own headquarters was being hit! American Family Radio didn't even do that and they're based way in the north of the state that got a little wind for Katrina. I've talked face-to-face with the director of MPB as she is my neighbor, and she is not an idiot. She's a very capable and dedicated person, but Mississippians are clueless.
Your machines have already been accounted for, and then some (as it seems to me)FTA:
Accuracy of metrics
We believe it is reasonable to equate a "new IP address checking in" with "a new installation of FC6", with the following caveats:
1. Users who have dynamic IP addresses will likely be counted multiple times, which inflates the number by some amount.
2. Users who are behind NAT, corporate proxies, or who rsync updates to a local mirror before updating will not be counted at all.
The anecdotal evidence that we receive from different groups, companies, and organizations suggests that group (2) is significantly larger than group (1). As such, we believe that the true numbers in the field are higher than the numbers on this page.
Why am I not a volunteer at my current job then? I'm not challenging your definition, I think it's an interesting point. I just think it needs to be refined a little.
I think what you meant to say was "I for one welcome our new carbon transistor overloards". I don't know what makes you dumber, the fact that you tried recycling that tired joke or that you couldn't even get the simple equation for the joke right.
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They didn't use enough monkeys and they didn't give them enough time.
I think part of the problem is the culture that has arisen out of branding. Once you create a culture where a company's public image isn't the product but an ideal you have to jump through hoops to maintain that ideal. Take Nike for instance, if they admitted that their shoes cause cuticle cancer then their "Just Do It" brand identity would get re-branded "Just don't it" or some counter brand that's actually clever.
In this context I believe there are two ways we can speak of phonemes. There is the linguistic unit in whatever metaphysical incarnation whatever the dominant theory gives it, and there is the conscious knowledge of the sounds of speech--without which we would not be able to learn to read and write. It is the knowledge of speech sounds that arises after metalinguistic awareness is reached. I guess a better name for this unit would be "metaphone". Where this knowledge is stored would be directly or indirectly linked to all the neurological aspects of the phoneme that correlates with the metaphone. I believe this would be the route to go if we want to go the phoneme route because it too would reduce variation as the result of the way we are currently , but it would still be as slow as thinking out A - B - C - D- E, etc. So here we are again at phonemes being not the way to go.
I never completely bought OT, though that might be the result of who taught it to me, and the text she chose to teach from. I'm hard pressed to say that realized forms are the product of garbage going down the chute and getting sieved into grammatical constructions. If this is an unfair generalization please feel free to make a better generalization and make me a better informed individual on this matter.
I would love to keep going but now I have to put my children to bed.
I think you're giving the software too much credit. All-in-all going the phoneme route requires too much work when we already have a system that minimizes regional language variation.
I don't know how many times I refreshed this page waiting for comments, so I decided to be the first to comment on how there weren't any comments. BTW, it's "overloards", forget what your spell checker thinks it is.
No one seems to care about this enough to even be the first troll.
And you're using firefox.
If we knew where each phoneme was stored in the brain and we could stimulate the computer via activity in this area all we would have to do is think about speaking the word. But things like allophones and the ranges of phonemes in different dialects would throw this off. No matter how dumb people may think southern speech is, it is actually hardwired into their nervous system via language acquisition and would have to be accounted for physiologically. It would probably be easier to have the nodes hooked up to the part of our brains that's responsible for controlling our fingers when we type, the amount of variability found in dialects gets reduced quite a bit just by removing the vocal element of language, even if you're Cletus.
I think one of the things that Star Trek based it's vision of the future was teh idea that the more educated people are the more they will be willing to cooperate. I'm not sure if that's the case, I mean look at the resistance the social sciences are putting up to actually using real honest-to-god biological theory to explain human behavior. These are highly educated people who have some sort of agenda that gets in the way of real breakthroughs being made in understanding human beings. And I think when it comes down to it, an increase in cooperation is the general trend throughout history, but we still have some major hurdles to get over before can reach the eudaimonic state portrayed in Star Trek.
So you know whether or not to bother with a 401k.
I don't know much about the Canadian healthcare system, or any other socialized healthcare system, but from what I do understand, this shouldn't be a problem for them. I think in the long run this will lead to a collapse in the health insurance business and the USA will be forced to either go the nationalized or the individualized route. I hope to God that we don't go the individualized route.
No, the way it is written is the way it is meant. And it's quite profound when you think about it. What it's saying is that the more we know, the more we know we don't know. It's on par with Rummy's "There are things we know we don't know, and there are things we don't know we don't know". Let that one sink in for a sec... ...WOW!
...labrador? I never heard of no labrador.
Man this is some good weed! What is this?...
I have been reporting bugs whenever I run across them in every distro I've used, and only Ubuntu consistently follows up on the bugs. I used RHEL for many years and never got the kind of attention paid to the bug issues that I had the way Ubuntu does.
You have no clue how bad NPR can get. I live Mississippi where anything with the prefix "public" gets accused of being a part of a leftist conspiracy. The funding here for NPR is SO bad (how bad is it?) they once had a drive time that lasted a month and a half! I would LOVE for the NPR stations here to switch to an all talk format, it sure beats the hell out of the crappy public domain classical that they play here. This is incredibly sad since it was Mississippi Public Broadcasting(MPB) that aired non-stop vital information when Katrina hit--even when their own headquarters was being hit! American Family Radio didn't even do that and they're based way in the north of the state that got a little wind for Katrina. I've talked face-to-face with the director of MPB as she is my neighbor, and she is not an idiot. She's a very capable and dedicated person, but Mississippians are clueless.
I'm betting that Apple is making significant inroads. The idea of running XP for 7 more years drove me to buy a macbook.
BEST MOVIE EVER!!!
What's interesting though is that the FAA seems to think that the costs associated with training will in the end be cheaper than an upgrade to Vista.
Could someone mod parent up? I've been noticing WAY too many things being modded troll that shouldn't be lately.
I hear there are still a couple of Marxists too.
Why am I not a volunteer at my current job then? I'm not challenging your definition, I think it's an interesting point. I just think it needs to be refined a little.
I think what you meant to say was "I for one welcome our new carbon transistor overloards". I don't know what makes you dumber, the fact that you tried recycling that tired joke or that you couldn't even get the simple equation for the joke right.
It gets modded 'insightful' because people are either not reading or choosing to ignore the moderator guidelines and because parent chimed in second.
I'm personally more interested in seeing how far I can spit in low grav.
Can't forget NASA's role in providing subsidies to the defense industry.