I don't think so. There's no conclusive evidence that our brain thinks in terms of words/phonemes. This is ground for a lot of discussions, in what is called "Sapir-Worph Hypothesis". Can mother-language restrict/influence thought process? We're not really sure about this yet (but my bets are on yes, it does have influence).
Traffic lights prediction would be a kick-ass feature: I imagine a system that could advise the driver the speed range he should remain in to be able to get green light in the next traffic light. This would improve fuel economy (stop & go is bad), reduce brakes and clutch usage, and would also help the traffic flow, mostly because there would be fewer people taking 2 or 3 seconds to realize the light has turned green and they should be moving.
As for the interface, it could be a vertical bar with the speeds range indicated in either green or red (meaning what you will get by going at that speed when you arrive the traffic light) and a pointer saying your current speed. It could even warn if you're approaching too fast a red light.
Why? I'd rather let it grow "organically" than getting everyone online at once. Nevertheless, I think the burden would be interfacing legacy stuff (the tubes we are using now) with the shiny new stuff consistently.
But they are not the ones who created the word-meaning association itself! We were already using those names BEFORE FDA came into existence. All they are doing is standardizing the use of already existing and sometimes dubious words in contexts like this, where a bad use of words may imply health problems. They will not prosecute if you misuse food/health names outside the food-packaging, medicine, and other sensitive related contexts.
One could arguing that demoting Pluto from planet status may affect astral charts but, seriously, who gives a flyin' fuck about this crap? A Government stating Pluto is still is completely useless and brings nothing better for society.
Unfortunately, there are some Representative jackasses in my country (Brazil) trying to push this etymology-purity agenda, forbidding any use of foreign expressions where a translation is available. Before anyone says that would violate freedom of speech, I should inform that this agenda is mainly lead by a Communist Party of Brazil representative. 'Nuff said.
I remember once a crappy CHI teacher I had, who said foreign/loan-words should be written in italics or quoted (this is right) and gave "deletar" as an example. "Deletar" is how "to delete" was adapted into Brazilian Portuguese computer-related lexicon, and its use is widely accepted and understood. I argued with him that this word was already officially accepted, and was even listed in Brazilian Literary Academy latests dictionary updates, to which he replied the Academy is not defending the purity of Portuguese well enough. He then mentioned that there at least seven good translations for "to delete" in Portuguese but, as it turns out, all translations he suggested fail to capture the computer-semantic of deletion. I proceeded to show how successfully loaned words from other languages like French and no one seems to bother: "capô" (vehicle hood/bonnet) is derived from "capeaux", just like most car parts in Brazilian Portuguese (maybe because the first cars were brought here by French people). He just shut up.
Completely OT: This same teacher also was against CSS because it made impossible to the user to enlarge fonts, against PDF for text because it is an image format. He also said that human adaptability to absence of light increases with time (this is right) and that if you remained 60 minutes in a dark room, you'd be adapted enough to be able to read a text on a paper. WTF??
In my opinion, people should be incentive and taught to write and spell properly, but if rule-of-law is necessary to achieve it, something is really wrong deep down.
Oh, we were talking about Pluto here? Almost forgot. I'm still amazed there is still no NGO named "Friends of Pluto" (portuguese text warning. babelfish is your friend) using vast incentives from government and big companies (which in turn get nice tax-reductions) to defend this unjust arbitrarity.
(Don't believe me? Go look at a street sign. And then pick up any package in the grocery store. The words on those things have meaning, essentially, only because the Government says so.)
Bzzt, wrong. The street sign thing may be right, but the package in the grocery store just isn't. The things written there are words of the English language, which is reasonably free from government intervention or definition (language is an evolutionary process). You call potato "potato" because some ancient Anglo-Saxonic tribes (influenced by French and Germanic tribes) converged to this name, not because your government said so.
Bottom line is: they may have this prerogative, but it's completely pointless and a waste of time (and time is money, and money is always tax-payer in govt case).
By 2004 its per capita GDP was 37 percent lower than half a century before that.
Chavez' push of his socialistic agenda is only possible because he is sitting on a huge swath of oil. If, for some reason, international prices decline (say, if some revolutionary energy form is discovered), he is screwed big time.
But screwing Venezuela was not enough: he backed Evo Moralez' move of taking over Brazilan Petrobras' installations in Bolivia, supposedly a "move to end foreign exploitation of resources". Venezuela promptly sent PDVSA (Venezuela's State Oil Company) technicians to run the place.
As an anedoct: one year ago, a friend of mine hosted a family of Venezuelan tourists in his house (in Brazil). They told that, despite their compatible and constant income, they were denied credit lines from Venezuela's State-Run Bank; not surprisingly, they had voted against Chavez in the past elections. You might be wondering how that could be linked, but then you should know that Venezuela uses the same e-voting system Brazil uses (which is absurdly flawed IMO).
Seriously, there are countries with more freedom than that. And broadband access.
That pretty much happens all the time. It's difficult to precisely calculate big-company profits in such schemes. The plaintiff may have asked for the correct value, but court analysis and stuff changed the value or something like that.
Most profit in cases like this are almost impossible to calculate, not even the evil company knows how much they made on this technique alone.
But yeah, I believe the made much more with payola bussiness (although I don't for how many years of payola they are getting fined, for I haven't RTFA).
I stand corrected. It didn't sounded natural for me, a Portuguese-speaker, that "ci" could sound like "kee", for this is impossible in my language. That's clearly one of the "bastardizations" of Portuguese compared to the original Latin. In Portuguese, the only way to make this sound ("kee") is "qui" (where "u" is not pronounced).
In any case, people should still pronounce "et setera" when they speak English, because this is the way the word was anglicized. They should only pronounce "et ketera" when they are speaking Latin.
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According do wikitionary, it's pronounced "et setera" (of course, this is the anglicized pronunciation). Anyway, I believe the Latin pronunciation was the same, for it is the same in my language too (Portuguese - one of the Vulgar Latin descendants). I'm not sure about French, Spanish and Italian, but they should provide a good clue for the original pronunciation.
As for your "Greek-to-Latin" method, I guess this is a bad example. We know "Caesar" sounded like current-German "Kaiser", but this doesn't mean all Latin "C" sounds like "K". I think it depended on the next vowel, as it does in most current romance languages: "ca", "co" and "cu" sound like "kah", "kow" and "koo", respectively; "ce" and "ci" sound like "se" and "see". Therefore, "et cetera" (it wasn't spelled "et cætera" as you propose), would sound like "et setera", not "et ketera".
Of course, IANAALS (I am not an ancient latin speaker), but I googled a bit and http://www.utexas.edu/courses/cc303/sounds/">found this. I didn't read, so it may disprove my point, but anyway
I don't get it... People get charged for receiving text messages in the US? That doesn't make sense to me. In my country, only the sender is charged and I rarely get spam.
The bottom line is: you should not be charged for something you can't choose not to receive. For instance, you can refuse to answer a phone call when you are in roaming mode if you don't want to pay, but you can't refuse to receive an undesired text message.
The U.S. alone has conducted 1,054 nuclear tests according to this wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_tests
We're not grotesque super-mutants, [Yet.;P] so I'd find it difficult to believe that any kind of nuclear attack performed by Iran would actually cause some kind of global catastrophe
Wrong. Those 1,054 nuclear tests you mention were only tests. They happened in controlled environment, several months/years apart from each other and, most importantly, they weren't made against another nation's sovereignty. Any war-esque nuclear weapon use would trigger a world-wide mess rapidly. Maybe it would not escalate immediately into a full-scale nuclear war, but it will surely destabilize the world enough to cause one in the near future.
If Iran decides to attack Israel, they (Iran) will be wiped off in a day's time by the US (or Israel). This would surely fuel "revenge" feeling between Iran-aligned nations and terrorist groups. This would potentially fuel a lot ethnic hatred around the world. Expanding this scenario is left as an exercise to the reader.
Even a massive full scale nuclear war between superpowers would have a hard time wiping all of us humans off the planet.
Maybe it wouldn't kill all humans immediately, but in some 10 years disease (cancer, infertility), famine (wasted crops), poverty (economic chaos) would have screwed survivor's life badly.
Another question I have now: how would three adjacent nuclear-countries (India, Iran, Pakistan) be distinguishable as attackers in the case of a ballistic nuclear strike? Of course, the targets attacked help a lot, but what if some crazy leader decides to flush the game by attacking more than one country?
maybe he meant they found the security hole that allowed him to post whatever he was posting and fixed. This is perfectly possible, albeit unlikely given eBay's complexity and possibly WTF-ish codebase.
If this humming is omnipresent, it means that every music is "sampling" it without authorization. We then sue RIAA out of existence for unlicensed sampling.
PROFIT!
Yet, acording to rms, debian is not free enough. I don't know his reasons, but he seems to regard just a few distros as "pure free software". Ututo is one, among others.
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You had ones? Bloody lucky kids. In my time, we only had zeroes!
I don't think so. There's no conclusive evidence that our brain thinks in terms of words/phonemes. This is ground for a lot of discussions, in what is called "Sapir-Worph Hypothesis". Can mother-language restrict/influence thought process? We're not really sure about this yet (but my bets are on yes, it does have influence).
Traffic lights prediction would be a kick-ass feature: I imagine a system that could advise the driver the speed range he should remain in to be able to get green light in the next traffic light. This would improve fuel economy (stop & go is bad), reduce brakes and clutch usage, and would also help the traffic flow, mostly because there would be fewer people taking 2 or 3 seconds to realize the light has turned green and they should be moving.
As for the interface, it could be a vertical bar with the speeds range indicated in either green or red (meaning what you will get by going at that speed when you arrive the traffic light) and a pointer saying your current speed. It could even warn if you're approaching too fast a red light.
and get pounded by *AA for violating DMCA? I think I'd rather be arrested for murder, thanks.
Why? I'd rather let it grow "organically" than getting everyone online at once. Nevertheless, I think the burden would be interfacing legacy stuff (the tubes we are using now) with the shiny new stuff consistently.
You just have to watch Dubia's addresses *ducks*
But they are not the ones who created the word-meaning association itself! We were already using those names BEFORE FDA came into existence. All they are doing is standardizing the use of already existing and sometimes dubious words in contexts like this, where a bad use of words may imply health problems. They will not prosecute if you misuse food/health names outside the food-packaging, medicine, and other sensitive related contexts.
One could arguing that demoting Pluto from planet status may affect astral charts but, seriously, who gives a flyin' fuck about this crap? A Government stating Pluto is still is completely useless and brings nothing better for society.
Would you like to buy a hamburger?
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Whatever, you got the idea. In this case, I guess the name came from the late native American population.
Unfortunately, there are some Representative jackasses in my country (Brazil) trying to push this etymology-purity agenda, forbidding any use of foreign expressions where a translation is available. Before anyone says that would violate freedom of speech, I should inform that this agenda is mainly lead by a Communist Party of Brazil representative. 'Nuff said.
I remember once a crappy CHI teacher I had, who said foreign/loan-words should be written in italics or quoted (this is right) and gave "deletar" as an example. "Deletar" is how "to delete" was adapted into Brazilian Portuguese computer-related lexicon, and its use is widely accepted and understood. I argued with him that this word was already officially accepted, and was even listed in Brazilian Literary Academy latests dictionary updates, to which he replied the Academy is not defending the purity of Portuguese well enough. He then mentioned that there at least seven good translations for "to delete" in Portuguese but, as it turns out, all translations he suggested fail to capture the computer-semantic of deletion. I proceeded to show how successfully loaned words from other languages like French and no one seems to bother: "capô" (vehicle hood/bonnet) is derived from "capeaux", just like most car parts in Brazilian Portuguese (maybe because the first cars were brought here by French people). He just shut up.
Completely OT: This same teacher also was against CSS because it made impossible to the user to enlarge fonts, against PDF for text because it is an image format. He also said that human adaptability to absence of light increases with time (this is right) and that if you remained 60 minutes in a dark room, you'd be adapted enough to be able to read a text on a paper. WTF??
In my opinion, people should be incentive and taught to write and spell properly, but if rule-of-law is necessary to achieve it, something is really wrong deep down.
Oh, we were talking about Pluto here? Almost forgot. I'm still amazed there is still no NGO named "Friends of Pluto" (portuguese text warning. babelfish is your friend) using vast incentives from government and big companies (which in turn get nice tax-reductions) to defend this unjust arbitrarity.
Bzzt, wrong. The street sign thing may be right, but the package in the grocery store just isn't. The things written there are words of the English language, which is reasonably free from government intervention or definition (language is an evolutionary process). You call potato "potato" because some ancient Anglo-Saxonic tribes (influenced by French and Germanic tribes) converged to this name, not because your government said so.
Bottom line is: they may have this prerogative, but it's completely pointless and a waste of time (and time is money, and money is always tax-payer in govt case).
Yeah, right. The very same country whose president is constantly seeking to increase his powers. That gotta be the so-called "bolivarian democracy".
And V. is now rich because, like Norway, they kicked the oil companies out of the country.Wikipedia says otherwise:
By 2004 its per capita GDP was 37 percent lower than half a century before that.
Chavez' push of his socialistic agenda is only possible because he is sitting on a huge swath of oil. If, for some reason, international prices decline (say, if some revolutionary energy form is discovered), he is screwed big time.
But screwing Venezuela was not enough: he backed Evo Moralez' move of taking over Brazilan Petrobras' installations in Bolivia, supposedly a "move to end foreign exploitation of resources". Venezuela promptly sent PDVSA (Venezuela's State Oil Company) technicians to run the place.
As an anedoct: one year ago, a friend of mine hosted a family of Venezuelan tourists in his house (in Brazil). They told that, despite their compatible and constant income, they were denied credit lines from Venezuela's State-Run Bank; not surprisingly, they had voted against Chavez in the past elections. You might be wondering how that could be linked, but then you should know that Venezuela uses the same e-voting system Brazil uses (which is absurdly flawed IMO).
Seriously, there are countries with more freedom than that. And broadband access.
That pretty much happens all the time. It's difficult to precisely calculate big-company profits in such schemes. The plaintiff may have asked for the correct value, but court analysis and stuff changed the value or something like that.
Most profit in cases like this are almost impossible to calculate, not even the evil company knows how much they made on this technique alone.
But yeah, I believe the made much more with payola bussiness (although I don't for how many years of payola they are getting fined, for I haven't RTFA).
only in Soviet Russia!
I'm one eyed, your insensitive clod.
I stand corrected. It didn't sounded natural for me, a Portuguese-speaker, that "ci" could sound like "kee", for this is impossible in my language. That's clearly one of the "bastardizations" of Portuguese compared to the original Latin. In Portuguese, the only way to make this sound ("kee") is "qui" (where "u" is not pronounced).
In any case, people should still pronounce "et setera" when they speak English, because this is the way the word was anglicized. They should only pronounce "et ketera" when they are speaking Latin.
According do wikitionary, it's pronounced "et setera" (of course, this is the anglicized pronunciation). Anyway, I believe the Latin pronunciation was the same, for it is the same in my language too (Portuguese - one of the Vulgar Latin descendants). I'm not sure about French, Spanish and Italian, but they should provide a good clue for the original pronunciation.
As for your "Greek-to-Latin" method, I guess this is a bad example. We know "Caesar" sounded like current-German "Kaiser", but this doesn't mean all Latin "C" sounds like "K". I think it depended on the next vowel, as it does in most current romance languages: "ca", "co" and "cu" sound like "kah", "kow" and "koo", respectively; "ce" and "ci" sound like "se" and "see". Therefore, "et cetera" (it wasn't spelled "et cætera" as you propose), would sound like "et setera", not "et ketera".
Of course, IANAALS (I am not an ancient latin speaker), but I googled a bit and http://www.utexas.edu/courses/cc303/sounds/">found this. I didn't read, so it may disprove my point, but anyway
I'm sure he can help then...
I don't get it... People get charged for receiving text messages in the US? That doesn't make sense to me. In my country, only the sender is charged and I rarely get spam.
The bottom line is: you should not be charged for something you can't choose not to receive. For instance, you can refuse to answer a phone call when you are in roaming mode if you don't want to pay, but you can't refuse to receive an undesired text message.
Wrong. Those 1,054 nuclear tests you mention were only tests. They happened in controlled environment, several months/years apart from each other and, most importantly, they weren't made against another nation's sovereignty. Any war-esque nuclear weapon use would trigger a world-wide mess rapidly. Maybe it would not escalate immediately into a full-scale nuclear war, but it will surely destabilize the world enough to cause one in the near future.
If Iran decides to attack Israel, they (Iran) will be wiped off in a day's time by the US (or Israel). This would surely fuel "revenge" feeling between Iran-aligned nations and terrorist groups. This would potentially fuel a lot ethnic hatred around the world. Expanding this scenario is left as an exercise to the reader.
Maybe it wouldn't kill all humans immediately, but in some 10 years disease (cancer, infertility), famine (wasted crops), poverty (economic chaos) would have screwed survivor's life badly.
Another question I have now: how would three adjacent nuclear-countries (India, Iran, Pakistan) be distinguishable as attackers in the case of a ballistic nuclear strike? Of course, the targets attacked help a lot, but what if some crazy leader decides to flush the game by attacking more than one country?
maybe he meant they found the security hole that allowed him to post whatever he was posting and fixed. This is perfectly possible, albeit unlikely given eBay's complexity and possibly WTF-ish codebase.
If this humming is omnipresent, it means that every music is "sampling" it without authorization. We then sue RIAA out of existence for unlicensed sampling.
PROFIT!
it differs in the fact that OpenDNS is clearly an opt-in service.
Yet, acording to rms, debian is not free enough. I don't know his reasons, but he seems to regard just a few distros as "pure free software". Ututo is one, among others.