You're right, Farsi is not an Arabic language. It's not even in the same language group as Arabic - Farsi is an Indo-European language, whereas Arabic is a Semitic language (and so has more in common with Hebrew and Amharic). It just so happens that Farsi uses a similar character set as is used in Arabic (and I believe there are some modern cognates between the two).
I haven't studied German, but I wouldn't be surprised if English speakers found French to be easier. English is a "Germanic" language at the foundation, but so many of our words have Latin roots (especially more technical words), or came through Old and Middle French, that French becomes fairly straightforward for someone with a good English vocabulary.
Parent isn't really a troll. Myspace isn't suing anybody - it's the state bringing up the argument that she violated Myspace's TOS, and using that against her.
While a good bit depends on the person and the teaching methods, the fact remains that English has a lot more in common with French than, say, Arabic. Your English vocabulary will get you quite far in French because of the number of cognates - this simply isn't the case with Arabic.
Why is this modded insightful? Granted, if the GP could buy a "couple" of LCDs, they probably didn't need to sell the old ones to their parents, but the idea of relatives selling things to each other in general isn't 'materialistic.' For all you know, GP could have sold them for chump change.
I sold my labor to my parents when I worked for my dad over summers. Parents sell their cars and such to their children all the time. Not everyone is in a financial situation where they can afford to simply give things away, and some people believe that paying money for valuable things actually teaches you an important lesson, or some nonsense like that.
The test the article discusses seems rather arbitrary -- letters streaming across a screen, and you decide when to press a button. Perhaps what they detected was the buildup of boredom?
Well, the article also states that they could predict with some accuracy which button the subjects would press:
Studying the brain behavior leading up to the moment of conscious decision, the researchers identified signals that let them know when the students had decided to move 10 seconds or so before the students knew it themselves. About 70% of the time, the researchers could also predict which button the students would push.
It only tells when people make a random decision - not what the choice is
Not quite. From the article:
Studying the brain behavior leading up to the moment of conscious decision, the researchers identified signals that let them know when the students had decided to move 10 seconds or so before the students knew it themselves. About 70% of the time, the researchers could also predict which button the students would push.
As several others have pointed out, the number 38 is probably the maximum he'd face if he were convicted on all charges, got the maximum sentences, and served the sequentially, which will not happen. Also, he has not even been sentenced yet.
Agreed. I'm running KnoppMyth on a 700 MHz Celeron. Encoding is fine - the Hauppauge PVR-150 handles it without a hitch. The machine can just barely handle playback, but my MacBook makes a nice, fast frontend.
I'll have to try your suggestion of video driver to see if it improves playback performance.
He called the whole thing a "reseau," which might be translated as "network"
Indeed, "reseau" (but with an accent, which didn't show up when I pasted it) is the word used in French for "network", in both computer and other senses.
For all of those who fell in love with Google's Browser Sync, our only hope now is to resort to poorly maintained 3rd party extensions without Google's blessing.
Um, wasn't Google browser sync also a third party extension?
I sympathize with your sentiment, but think about your proposal for a minute. You'd be asking the 535 people who legislate for a nation of 300 million to have a basic knowledge of computers (according to WP, "equivalent [to] 500 hours of hands-on experience") before they vote on any law dealing with computers.
What about laws dealing with cars? Or pollution? Or international trade? Or education? Ideally, of course, a lawmaker would have a basic knowledge of every topic on which they'd legislate, but when you're dealing with a state of more than a few thousand people, that's unrealistic.
The simple fact is that in a country this size, our lawmakers are going to end up voting on issues they know nothing about. In that case, they need people underneath of them who DO know about the issues who can advise them. And ideally those people would not be lobbyists or special-interest groups.
I have an old copy of SimCity that used the same method. There were a bunch of cities along with populations, and on startup, the game would ask you to provide the population for one of the cities from the four-page or so black-on-red list.
My copy of Super Tetris, on the other hand, had a bunch of trivia questions in the manual. You were asked a question, and told to flip to a specific page for the answer, which you would type in.
Not to mention that no one would just use the USB block device driver -- they would all require that you install slightly different, conflicting drivers to read their USB dongles.
We have two of those dongles for our CAD software packages, in addition to multiple authorization codes, the first set of which only lasts for 30 days (when we upgraded from parallel to USB dongles, they wanted to make sure we returned the old ones).
I noticed that the summary referred to him as "Dr." Kurzweil. According to Wikipedia:
Ray Kurzweil has also been given 15 honorary degrees from different universities, which are all in addition to his original 1970 Bachelor of the Sciences in Literature and Computer Science from MIT.
Kurzweil's definitely intelligent, but I don't think it's standard practice to call someone "Dr." when all they have is honorary degrees. I'm not going to call Paul McCartney "Dr." even though Yale did just give him an honorary doctorate.
This was Fall 2006. Sure, back in 1996, I was using Windows 95 on a 486 too. My point was that Windows 95 on today's internet is pretty much useless. There wouldn't have even been drivers for the WiFi dongle I had. Installing DSL not only saved me some space on the tiny 4 GB HDD, it also allowed me to connect to a wireless network with a modern dongle.
I agree with his statement that DSL can be pretty ugly, but it's very lightweight. I studied abroad for a semester and didn't bring a computer with me, but found an ancient Pentium-1 era machine that was being thrown out. It had Windows 95 on it, which would have been utterly useless; with DSL, I was able to plug a USB wifi dongle in it and get it working with ndiswrapper. Plus, if I remember correctly, DSL is based on Debian, so you can easily install the stuff it doesn't have (movie player, etc) with apt-get.
we should make those who point out the gaping holes in our society
Except that he explicitly says he was doing no such thing in TFA:
"I really wasn't making any point at all," Nematbakhsh admits, debunking news reports to the contrary. "It was a senior prank, a silly thing."
If he had really been interested in fixing the flaw, he could have brought it to the administration's attention in a much better way that would have avoided him having to do community service, and not screwed up the election.
Your point is still valid, though. When I was an undergrad, a friend of mine discovered that the primary key to the LDAP student/faculty directory was the same number that was encoded on our ID cards, the result being that we could create fake ID cards for anyone in the directory (and thus gain their building privileges, have access to the accounts linked to the card, etc.). He went to the administration with the information, and they reissued cards to the entire student body. Then, they proceeded to start a judicial investigation against him. Thankfully, nothing ever came of it, but it does show the tendency of institutions to punish those who are actually trying to help them.
Um, are you aware that the "open" provisions that were stipulated were only the "open devices" and "open applications" provisions, not the "open services" and "open access" that would have really created some competition?
Those provisions hardly give Google a free ride. To look at it another way, Verizon knew the restrictions on the auction, and it bid anyway. If the spectrum wasn't worth that amount of money with the restrictions, they shouldn't have bid for it.
Yeah, I remember that game very well. In fact, I was just about to play an online version for kicks at http://www.muncherz.com, but the site's down. I wonder if an influx of nostalgic/.ers is responsible.
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Yeah. Raising the retirement age to 975 is going to prematurely age a lot of people by itself!
You're right, Farsi is not an Arabic language. It's not even in the same language group as Arabic - Farsi is an Indo-European language, whereas Arabic is a Semitic language (and so has more in common with Hebrew and Amharic). It just so happens that Farsi uses a similar character set as is used in Arabic (and I believe there are some modern cognates between the two).
I haven't studied German, but I wouldn't be surprised if English speakers found French to be easier. English is a "Germanic" language at the foundation, but so many of our words have Latin roots (especially more technical words), or came through Old and Middle French, that French becomes fairly straightforward for someone with a good English vocabulary.
Parent isn't really a troll. Myspace isn't suing anybody - it's the state bringing up the argument that she violated Myspace's TOS, and using that against her.
While a good bit depends on the person and the teaching methods, the fact remains that English has a lot more in common with French than, say, Arabic. Your English vocabulary will get you quite far in French because of the number of cognates - this simply isn't the case with Arabic.
In other news, 81% of Americans on Dial-up would like to switch to high speed internet if the price was right...
Or, you know, if there were actually any high-speed internet services available in the area.
Why is this modded insightful? Granted, if the GP could buy a "couple" of LCDs, they probably didn't need to sell the old ones to their parents, but the idea of relatives selling things to each other in general isn't 'materialistic.' For all you know, GP could have sold them for chump change.
I sold my labor to my parents when I worked for my dad over summers. Parents sell their cars and such to their children all the time. Not everyone is in a financial situation where they can afford to simply give things away, and some people believe that paying money for valuable things actually teaches you an important lesson, or some nonsense like that.
The test the article discusses seems rather arbitrary -- letters streaming across a screen, and you decide when to press a button. Perhaps what they detected was the buildup of boredom?
Well, the article also states that they could predict with some accuracy which button the subjects would press:
Studying the brain behavior leading up to the moment of conscious decision, the researchers identified signals that let them know when the students had decided to move 10 seconds or so before the students knew it themselves. About 70% of the time, the researchers could also predict which button the students would push.
It only tells when people make a random decision - not what the choice is
Not quite. From the article:
Studying the brain behavior leading up to the moment of conscious decision, the researchers identified signals that let them know when the students had decided to move 10 seconds or so before the students knew it themselves. About 70% of the time, the researchers could also predict which button the students would push.
Not to impugn your comment, but I googled for "Chyselr Z-Frame", and I didn't get any results.
I also googled for "Chrysler Z-Frame", and didn't find a slew of links decrying it...
As several others have pointed out, the number 38 is probably the maximum he'd face if he were convicted on all charges, got the maximum sentences, and served the sequentially, which will not happen. Also, he has not even been sentenced yet.
Agreed. I'm running KnoppMyth on a 700 MHz Celeron. Encoding is fine - the Hauppauge PVR-150 handles it without a hitch. The machine can just barely handle playback, but my MacBook makes a nice, fast frontend.
I'll have to try your suggestion of video driver to see if it improves playback performance.
Indeed, "reseau" (but with an accent, which didn't show up when I pasted it) is the word used in French for "network", in both computer and other senses.
Um, wasn't Google browser sync also a third party extension?
In theory, theory and practice are the same.
In practice...
I sympathize with your sentiment, but think about your proposal for a minute. You'd be asking the 535 people who legislate for a nation of 300 million to have a basic knowledge of computers (according to WP, "equivalent [to] 500 hours of hands-on experience") before they vote on any law dealing with computers. What about laws dealing with cars? Or pollution? Or international trade? Or education? Ideally, of course, a lawmaker would have a basic knowledge of every topic on which they'd legislate, but when you're dealing with a state of more than a few thousand people, that's unrealistic. The simple fact is that in a country this size, our lawmakers are going to end up voting on issues they know nothing about. In that case, they need people underneath of them who DO know about the issues who can advise them. And ideally those people would not be lobbyists or special-interest groups.
I have an old copy of SimCity that used the same method. There were a bunch of cities along with populations, and on startup, the game would ask you to provide the population for one of the cities from the four-page or so black-on-red list.
My copy of Super Tetris, on the other hand, had a bunch of trivia questions in the manual. You were asked a question, and told to flip to a specific page for the answer, which you would type in.
You act like this is hypothetical. It's not.
We have two of those dongles for our CAD software packages, in addition to multiple authorization codes, the first set of which only lasts for 30 days (when we upgraded from parallel to USB dongles, they wanted to make sure we returned the old ones).
I noticed that the summary referred to him as "Dr." Kurzweil. According to Wikipedia:
Kurzweil's definitely intelligent, but I don't think it's standard practice to call someone "Dr." when all they have is honorary degrees. I'm not going to call Paul McCartney "Dr." even though Yale did just give him an honorary doctorate.
This was Fall 2006. Sure, back in 1996, I was using Windows 95 on a 486 too. My point was that Windows 95 on today's internet is pretty much useless. There wouldn't have even been drivers for the WiFi dongle I had. Installing DSL not only saved me some space on the tiny 4 GB HDD, it also allowed me to connect to a wireless network with a modern dongle.
I agree with his statement that DSL can be pretty ugly, but it's very lightweight. I studied abroad for a semester and didn't bring a computer with me, but found an ancient Pentium-1 era machine that was being thrown out. It had Windows 95 on it, which would have been utterly useless; with DSL, I was able to plug a USB wifi dongle in it and get it working with ndiswrapper. Plus, if I remember correctly, DSL is based on Debian, so you can easily install the stuff it doesn't have (movie player, etc) with apt-get.
For a moment there, I shook my head at the idea of the courts getting involved in webpage layout.
Except that he explicitly says he was doing no such thing in TFA:
"I really wasn't making any point at all," Nematbakhsh admits, debunking news reports to the contrary. "It was a senior prank, a silly thing."If he had really been interested in fixing the flaw, he could have brought it to the administration's attention in a much better way that would have avoided him having to do community service, and not screwed up the election.
Your point is still valid, though. When I was an undergrad, a friend of mine discovered that the primary key to the LDAP student/faculty directory was the same number that was encoded on our ID cards, the result being that we could create fake ID cards for anyone in the directory (and thus gain their building privileges, have access to the accounts linked to the card, etc.). He went to the administration with the information, and they reissued cards to the entire student body. Then, they proceeded to start a judicial investigation against him. Thankfully, nothing ever came of it, but it does show the tendency of institutions to punish those who are actually trying to help them.
Um, are you aware that the "open" provisions that were stipulated were only the "open devices" and "open applications" provisions, not the "open services" and "open access" that would have really created some competition?
Those provisions hardly give Google a free ride. To look at it another way, Verizon knew the restrictions on the auction, and it bid anyway. If the spectrum wasn't worth that amount of money with the restrictions, they shouldn't have bid for it.
Um... http://www.pocketputty.net/ ?
I believe you should do more research before postingMaybe you should take your own advice?
Yeah, I remember that game very well. In fact, I was just about to play an online version for kicks at http://www.muncherz.com, but the site's down. I wonder if an influx of nostalgic /.ers is responsible.