They're also *vital* for things like questions, where eyebrow position are the indicator that the statement is a question. translated to English, it might be more akin to tone: "Going to the store." vs "Going to the store?"
Which is exactly what I'd said. That is para-linguistic.
Thing is, hearing people who learn signing later in life more often than not do not learn the expressions, body tilt etc. properly, and even use them rather incorrectly when they try to. It does not make them unintelligible, but - I guess - rather like hearing communication with a speaker with an accent different from yours.
Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying para-linguistic meaning is any less important; it carries an awful lot of meaning. It's just that I'm nitpicking.
And, as the research page shows, facial expressions and even facial movements can be part of a sign.
Actually, AFAIK facial expressions, body tilt etc. have a para-linguistic meaning, much like the tone of voice and facial expressions in hearing communication.
Therefore, they are not - strictly linguistically (structuralistically) speaking, part of the sign itself, but rather a part of the co-text and context.
Anyway, that's what I remember from that one lecture a year and a half ago...
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The driver installation is done only once per machine.
I understand it is a great loss of portability - at least on Windows machines - but it may be also considered an improvement of security.
For one, some machines, although they have USB ports, are not connected to networks that are intended for large downloads. But hey... you download something, put it on your USB stick and no-one's the wiser.
On the other hand, any machines that are intended to accept USB sticks will already have had those 'drivers' installed - note that we're not really talking about drivers in the classical sense, but rather FS support. Anyone who needs to use it will have it installed then.
Nevertheless, I've seen USB sticks that came with drivers... although it was a few years ago, when computers without appropriate USB drivers (think Win9x) were more common.
Besides, the driver installation is only done once. I know it's not so convenient, but it beats raising the price... $0.25 becomes much more to the end-user.
FAT really is a dreadful file system... My father recently asked me what was wrong with his 128 MB USB stick/MP3 player/FM radio. It had some 11 MB of data - including those dreadful elevatorish.mp3s that come with the player - and 5 MB of free space.
11+5==16. 16!=128.
Nothing I did changed the fact that only 16 MB of space was usable - until I formatted the damned thing.
As for the FS drivers... I really fail to see the complexity of it.
Windows users have always been given CDs with drivers along with most of their hardware; just include some free filesystem and install support for it along with the device drivers.
I know it is a far less than perfect solution, but any way for FAT to die is a good one.
Well, without reading TFA, my experience has been that it is indeed the shape that makes the difference.
The reason is rather simple: people only account for the height of the glass when determining how much they want to pour. Tall glasses are easy: it's not difficult to determine 1/2, 1/3 or 1/4 of a tall glass. A tall glass allows you to start stopping pouring in time because it gives simple visual feedback; a short glass doesn't.
The deceptiveness of short glasses is therefore just a bug^H^H^Hfeature of the human brain, which doesn't bother to solve integrals while pouring a drink.
Well, after digitally reducing Lindsay Lohan's breasts in Herbie, it's really only fair...
When I heard about that one, I simply didn't even bother to go and see it... And now, Superman without a Superdick... Probably won't bother either...
a default Windows install can be connected to the net with no firewall, NAT or proxy, or any AV software for like 8 seconds before becoming infected with Skynet and its kin.
... as I found out the other day when trying to install WinXP SP1 to my new AMD64 machine.
In addition to the installation crashing excessively due to my SATA drive and my lack of floppy drives, when I finally installed it, I connected to the Internet for about 5 minutes to download a firewall. Big mistake.
Now I have to re-install the whole bloody thing again... all that just for Guild Wars... *sigh*
There are three flavors of a security pass:
1. Something you have, like badge or actual key.
2. Something you know, like a password or pass phrase.
3. Something you are, like a General, Doctor, or American citizen.
It seems that gzip and bzip2 work just fine, thank you so very much...
Thank all the gods in the Greek bloody Pantheon that Windows users use them rarely-to-never, while both WinZip, WinRAR and all the others are more than capable of extracting both.
so he got drunk and fell off a bar stool. big deal.
Yes, it is a big deal. You just don't know the whole story.
Apparently, Steve Ballmer grabbed his stool and beat him with it repeatedly, shouting "I'll fucking kill him!"
(He added the "I've done it before..." later.)
The one and only OS on my stepmother's laptop is Ubuntu Linux.
Although she may not do much more than play some sort of solitaire, the other people who use it - namely, her two sons and my father, and neither of the four of them is exactly technical - find it rather simple to use it.
Of course, it was I that had to install it (the installation procedure - and everything else, really - is translated into Croatian quite horribly, and not all people speak English), but aside from that and a few FAQs for newbies (show the kids how to rip their CDs etc.), I have very little to do support-wise.
She didn't like the trackpad - OK, so she bought a USB mouse. She plugged it in and it worked.
Then she wanted to test the flash MP3 player that came with the laptop (it was either laptop+WinXP or laptop+MP3+some_crappy_Linux_distro_which_I_replac ed_with_Ubuntu) - she plugged it in and it worked.
Then my father wanted to download pictures from his digital camera - he plugged it in and it worked.
Again, they are not power users, but even for them, Linux is quite simple.
I just removed SuSE from my father's desktop machine and replaced it with Ubuntu; he seems to like it better.
I hear that Scribus can do most things Acrobat Pro can, including fillable PDF forms. And is available on both Windows and Linux (not sure about Mac, but probably that, too).
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... overlords?
Where are the overlords?
Your sarcasm detector's broken. Go get a new one.
Was the immaculate conception a misconception too?
Get a humour detector.
Hm. Seems I had concluded some things from our guest speaker's lecture that are less than correct.
One thing that should excuse me is the fact i know rather less about ASL than about its Croatian counterpart.
Fair enough.
Which is exactly what I'd said. That is para-linguistic.
Thing is, hearing people who learn signing later in life more often than not do not learn the expressions, body tilt etc. properly, and even use them rather incorrectly when they try to. It does not make them unintelligible, but - I guess - rather like hearing communication with a speaker with an accent different from yours.
Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying para-linguistic meaning is any less important; it carries an awful lot of meaning. It's just that I'm nitpicking.
Actually, AFAIK facial expressions, body tilt etc. have a para-linguistic meaning, much like the tone of voice and facial expressions in hearing communication.
Therefore, they are not - strictly linguistically (structuralistically) speaking, part of the sign itself, but rather a part of the co-text and context.
Anyway, that's what I remember from that one lecture a year and a half ago...
Yeah, but did Netcraft confirm it?
Didn't think so.
/ducks
Nope... It had worked fine just a few days before the event.
The driver installation is done only once per machine.
I understand it is a great loss of portability - at least on Windows machines - but it may be also considered an improvement of security.
For one, some machines, although they have USB ports, are not connected to networks that are intended for large downloads. But hey... you download something, put it on your USB stick and no-one's the wiser.
On the other hand, any machines that are intended to accept USB sticks will already have had those 'drivers' installed - note that we're not really talking about drivers in the classical sense, but rather FS support. Anyone who needs to use it will have it installed then.
Inconvenience, not a problem... most of the time.
mkdosfs IIRC
Nevertheless, I've seen USB sticks that came with drivers... although it was a few years ago, when computers without appropriate USB drivers (think Win9x) were more common.
Besides, the driver installation is only done once. I know it's not so convenient, but it beats raising the price... $0.25 becomes much more to the end-user.
FAT really is a dreadful file system... My father recently asked me what was wrong with his 128 MB USB stick/MP3 player/FM radio. It had some 11 MB of data - including those dreadful elevatorish .mp3s that come with the player - and 5 MB of free space.
11+5==16. 16!=128.
Nothing I did changed the fact that only 16 MB of space was usable - until I formatted the damned thing.
As for the FS drivers... I really fail to see the complexity of it.
Windows users have always been given CDs with drivers along with most of their hardware; just include some free filesystem and install support for it along with the device drivers.
I know it is a far less than perfect solution, but any way for FAT to die is a good one.
I just imagined Clippy saying that.
It explained rather a lot.
Someone, please mod parent up as Cruelly Funny.
Well, without reading TFA, my experience has been that it is indeed the shape that makes the difference.
The reason is rather simple: people only account for the height of the glass when determining how much they want to pour. Tall glasses are easy: it's not difficult to determine 1/2, 1/3 or 1/4 of a tall glass. A tall glass allows you to start stopping pouring in time because it gives simple visual feedback; a short glass doesn't.
The deceptiveness of short glasses is therefore just a bug^H^H^Hfeature of the human brain, which doesn't bother to solve integrals while pouring a drink.
Well, after digitally reducing Lindsay Lohan's breasts in Herbie, it's really only fair...
When I heard about that one, I simply didn't even bother to go and see it... And now, Superman without a Superdick... Probably won't bother either...
... as I found out the other day when trying to install WinXP SP1 to my new AMD64 machine.
In addition to the installation crashing excessively due to my SATA drive and my lack of floppy drives, when I finally installed it, I connected to the Internet for about 5 minutes to download a firewall.
Big mistake.
Now I have to re-install the whole bloody thing again... all that just for Guild Wars... *sigh*
You forgot:
4. Gummi-bears. All flavors.
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It seems that gzip and bzip2 work just fine, thank you so very much...
Thank all the gods in the Greek bloody Pantheon that Windows users use them rarely-to-never, while both WinZip, WinRAR and all the others are more than capable of extracting both.
And about the title of the article...
At night, it's colder than outside.
(a rough translation of a graffiti I originally found in Croatian
Yes, it is a big deal. You just don't know the whole story.
Apparently, Steve Ballmer grabbed his stool and beat him with it repeatedly, shouting "I'll fucking kill him!"
(He added the "I've done it before..." later.)
Of course, it was all hushed up...
The one and only OS on my stepmother's laptop is Ubuntu Linux.
Although she may not do much more than play some sort of solitaire, the other people who use it - namely, her two sons and my father, and neither of the four of them is exactly technical - find it rather simple to use it.
Of course, it was I that had to install it (the installation procedure - and everything else, really - is translated into Croatian quite horribly, and not all people speak English), but aside from that and a few FAQs for newbies (show the kids how to rip their CDs etc.), I have very little to do support-wise.
She didn't like the trackpad - OK, so she bought a USB mouse. She plugged it in and it worked.c ed_with_Ubuntu) - she plugged it in and it worked.
Then she wanted to test the flash MP3 player that came with the laptop (it was either laptop+WinXP or laptop+MP3+some_crappy_Linux_distro_which_I_repla
Then my father wanted to download pictures from his digital camera - he plugged it in and it worked.
Again, they are not power users, but even for them, Linux is quite simple.
I just removed SuSE from my father's desktop machine and replaced it with Ubuntu; he seems to like it better.
... and the only person that modded me did so with an 'Underrated' mod.
I no longer think; it just seems too much trouble.
Wow. Didn't know bears had asses.
I do, however, recall Jesus riding on one... is that where the Easter Bunny comes from?
I hear that Scribus can do most things Acrobat Pro can, including fillable PDF forms. And is available on both Windows and Linux (not sure about Mac, but probably that, too).
Didn't have time to test it, though, so...