Now, we're fairly sure that concerning syntax, early human's language surely followed some sort of predicative model - that can be seen when analyzing more isolated and primitive languages (which are mostly dead by now) - especially aboriginal languages of America and Oceania/Australia. Sentences there usually are of the form "This is an Apple. This is red." - instead of "This is a red apple". Basically they were speaking in "features", chaining them together, which resulted in either isolating languages (words have no inflection and are immutable, syntactic structure gives a sentence meaning "This apple is. This red is." Chinese works this way) or agglutinating languages (like early Nahuatl, they would incorporate subjects and objects into their words: "Thisapple and Thisred".) in the end. More sophisticated stuff, like polysynthetic languages (Inuktitut) and inflectional languages (Germanic) are thought to have evolved thereafter. But of course, this is one hypothesis and there is no way of proving any of this. You can only use fairly circumstantial evidence.
Gee, I thought this kind of notion about "primitiveness" of certain language had long been abandoned.
Apparently, I was wrong.
There is, in fact, a hypothesis that isolative languages develop into agglutinative ones; agglutinative languages develop into inflectional (flective) languages; flective languages develop into polysythetic ones, and then the circle starts anew.
However, English started its development as an isolative language directly from a flective one, so it doesn't seem it's much more than a hypothesis.
I fell in love with Transmission when I bought a Mac and started searching for a good torrent client.
I haven't tested it on Linux yet, but on OS X it is probably the best client available: visually perfectly integrated, intuitive and simple to use... granted, I am not a power-user, so it may lack some options I don't use or need, but I have tried several clients and Transmission is the first one I really liked.
A movie so bad that not even Kate Winslett's tits can save it.
Ah, one of the two highlights of the movie.
The other, of course, was Leonardo Di Caprio freezing to death.
Back to the topic at hand, though: I remember a documentary I saw right about the time Titanic came out, which listed faulty screws as a possible cause of the disaster. So what's exactly new here?
MacOS has made great strides in woo'ing the "stylish elite", and the "wealthy cool kids"....but they still lack a wide selection of applications, and the price-point that would convert the "average web surfer".
The Mac is not so successful on the desktop, but is making great strides in the laptop market.
Apple isn't offering anything in the low price range, though; that would probably help them even more, though lately I've met quite a few people willing to save up to buy a Mac. Besides, in the upper middle class of laptops, Macs are quite comparable in price to equivalent PC laptops. They're just prettier, more polished, and come with a better OS and less crapware installed.
In theory, OOOXML could be turned into a reasonable standard so that is the other option. In theory.
In theory, evolutionary pressures could drive pigs to develop wings. In theory.
Please, don't go there.
People nowadays get fat from vast amounts of chicken wings. Can you even begin to fathom how fat people would get from pig wings?
Some things were not meant to be. Or even meant to be thought of.
Now if you would excuse me, I have to go and blind my mind's eye.
Anyway, Macs also have matte screens, and for the love of FSM, I cannot see the reasoning behind glossy screens. They look like fscking mirrors.
If I wanted to see myself or what's behind me, I'd have invested in a mirror. I want to see what's on the screen, thank you so very much.
It appears only the high-end stuff still gets matte screens; I hope they don't go out of style.
Who would want to provide any cleanup services for such a idiot nest?
Uh... anyone with an experience at the very same job, able to charge more for it and do less just because he's no longer an employee, but an expensive consultant?
I don't understand this hatred of 'leeching' amongst file sharers. You know that you are ALL leeching right? You are leeching off the honest people who actually BUY the music, BUY the movies and BUY the software.
... and who then post the music, the movies, the shows and the software freely on torrents.
No longer quite so honest in your book, huh?
Anyway, ethics is relative and subject to change, and so are business models.
As far as I'm concerned, it is better to let everyone adapt to new conditions in the world than to try to reverse them.
Besides, it has been proved that torrents don't hurt music sales in the least; quite the contrary, in fact. Software companies have also profited from the increased mindshare (private users may pirate the software, but when they use it for business, they buy the software they are familiar with instead of something else).
Aside from all that, the ratio requirement is there so that information would continue to flow — it only happens when everyone gives at least as much as they get. And that's why it is called sharing.
the only ones that quiver in fear are the incompetent ones who are easy to replace with a $5/hr from banglore Or those who bosses believe they can be. Or have companies that bring in consultants who can be. Or who get bought out by a cost-saving firm who replace the executives with someone who believes they can be.
Well, then you just leave, and return from time to time to offer your services as an expert consultant. Because you know they'll need them.
Well, I think this comes down to a matter of friend/foe recognition. Humans aren't supposed to kill each other, but this rule is modified in times of war as it is OK to kill "the others". In the same way, cynically, the first law would still apply if enemies were tagged "non-human".
Actually, in all warfare the enemy is first made to look inhuman. Not only soldiers, but whole nations are bombarded with propaganda (i.e. brainwashed) about the horrible enemy and the necessity to protect their homes, families and way of life.
America is nowadays bombarded with anti-terrorist propaganda in much the same manner, and the way you treat your prisoners of war^W^W^Wcaptured enemy combatants suggests that you don't think of them as human either.
Therefore, in order to weasel out of these laws, robots would merely have to do the very same thing humans do.
Seriously though, there's something else that bothers me about gmail (not the only one to do it): that apparently anyone can get your contact list if they have your address.
Ever happened to you?
Not without me giving them my e-mail password first, no.
I think I did that once, saw a whole bunch of contacts and gave up on that.
I think it was some kind of a social networking site; anyway, everything was explained nicely and I knew exactly what I was getting into.
I don't blame you for not making it through TFA - I'm surprised I did. But his response to that is that it's just "too hard" to update his status ("tell the computer what I'm doing") and he forgets to. Yeah...whatever.
Huh.
In that case, I guess at least a Pidgin/AdiumX plugin would be in order: check your Google calendar; if there is an activity in it that lists you as "busy", update GTalk status to "Busy". Have an option to automatically set all statuses to "Busy" and/or activity description.
Similar plugins could be done for other calendar services.
Anyway, you are not telling the computer you are busy. You are telling everyone you know that you are not to be disturbed lest they wish to feel your wrath.
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Gee, I thought this kind of notion about "primitiveness" of certain language had long been abandoned.
Apparently, I was wrong.
There is, in fact, a hypothesis that isolative languages develop into agglutinative ones; agglutinative languages develop into inflectional (flective) languages; flective languages develop into polysythetic ones, and then the circle starts anew.
However, English started its development as an isolative language directly from a flective one, so it doesn't seem it's much more than a hypothesis.
I fell in love with Transmission when I bought a Mac and started searching for a good torrent client.
I haven't tested it on Linux yet, but on OS X it is probably the best client available: visually perfectly integrated, intuitive and simple to use... granted, I am not a power-user, so it may lack some options I don't use or need, but I have tried several clients and Transmission is the first one I really liked.
You are late: I have already corrected myself.
Ah, one of the two highlights of the movie.
The other, of course, was Leonardo Di Caprio freezing to death.
I hate correcting myself.
In fact, Kate Winslet's tits were two of the — of course — three highlights of the movie.
Carry on, nothing to see here...
Nope, it was about the fasteners.
It was synchronized to Croatian anyway, so there was no homonymy.
Ah, one of the two highlights of the movie.
The other, of course, was Leonardo Di Caprio freezing to death.
Back to the topic at hand, though: I remember a documentary I saw right about the time Titanic came out, which listed faulty screws as a possible cause of the disaster. So what's exactly new here?
1. In Croatia
2. In the little black box with the OS install disks, IIRC.
I got the stickers with my MacBook Pro as well.
... and since we all have those Apple stickers, the hardware would become Apple branded in no time whatsoever.
The Mac is not so successful on the desktop, but is making great strides in the laptop market.
Apple isn't offering anything in the low price range, though; that would probably help them even more, though lately I've met quite a few people willing to save up to buy a Mac. Besides, in the upper middle class of laptops, Macs are quite comparable in price to equivalent PC laptops. They're just prettier, more polished, and come with a better OS and less crapware installed.
Please, don't go there.
People nowadays get fat from vast amounts of chicken wings. Can you even begin to fathom how fat people would get from pig wings?
Some things were not meant to be. Or even meant to be thought of.
Now if you would excuse me, I have to go and blind my mind's eye.
I couldn't get a T61, so I got a MacBook Pro.
Anyway, Macs also have matte screens, and for the love of FSM, I cannot see the reasoning behind glossy screens. They look like fscking mirrors.
If I wanted to see myself or what's behind me, I'd have invested in a mirror. I want to see what's on the screen, thank you so very much.
It appears only the high-end stuff still gets matte screens; I hope they don't go out of style.
Uh... anyone with an experience at the very same job, able to charge more for it and do less just because he's no longer an employee, but an expensive consultant?
You lose literacy cred points. I wanted to erase three words, not three letters.
I was not thinking of "prisoners of captured enemy combatants".
Thanks for playing. Insert a coin to continue.
No, the m in meek is just a mistranslation from Ancient Mre^H^H^HGreek.
See? It's an easy mistake to make.
... and who then post the music, the movies, the shows and the software freely on torrents.
No longer quite so honest in your book, huh?
Anyway, ethics is relative and subject to change, and so are business models.
As far as I'm concerned, it is better to let everyone adapt to new conditions in the world than to try to reverse them.
Besides, it has been proved that torrents don't hurt music sales in the least; quite the contrary, in fact. Software companies have also profited from the increased mindshare (private users may pirate the software, but when they use it for business, they buy the software they are familiar with instead of something else).
Aside from all that, the ratio requirement is there so that information would continue to flow — it only happens when everyone gives at least as much as they get. And that's why it is called sharing.
In that case, I'd like one as well.
Both my name and my e-mail are public, as you can see; my posting history, if nothing else, can help prove I am not a MAFIAA agent.
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Well, then you just leave, and return from time to time to offer your services as an expert consultant. Because you know they'll need them.
Actually, in all warfare the enemy is first made to look inhuman. Not only soldiers, but whole nations are bombarded with propaganda (i.e. brainwashed) about the horrible enemy and the necessity to protect their homes, families and way of life.
America is nowadays bombarded with anti-terrorist propaganda in much the same manner, and the way you treat your prisoners of war^W^W^Wcaptured enemy combatants suggests that you don't think of them as human either.
Therefore, in order to weasel out of these laws, robots would merely have to do the very same thing humans do.
Camouflage for urban areas?
Don't mind me, just thinking out loud...
Whatever.
It's not like MS Office in its most recent incarnation supports OOXML either.
Ever happened to you?
Not without me giving them my e-mail password first, no.
I think I did that once, saw a whole bunch of contacts and gave up on that.
I think it was some kind of a social networking site; anyway, everything was explained nicely and I knew exactly what I was getting into.
I want that poster.
Huh.
In that case, I guess at least a Pidgin/AdiumX plugin would be in order: check your Google calendar; if there is an activity in it that lists you as "busy", update GTalk status to "Busy". Have an option to automatically set all statuses to "Busy" and/or activity description.
Similar plugins could be done for other calendar services.
Anyway, you are not telling the computer you are busy. You are telling everyone you know that you are not to be disturbed lest they wish to feel your wrath.