With respect, pornography isn't taboo in the UK. We have had pornographic magazines available in most newsagents for generations. We have had national newspapers who sell 10s of millions of copies each day and feature a topless women on the 3rd page. Softcore pornography is available in every single magazine and is used to advertise everything from cars to cucumbers.
Of course, the study used only native English speakers, and Kita says it’s crucial to test speakers of other languages to see if the findings hold. Perlman is already taking that advice to heart. Recently, he ran a similar study among deaf children at a boarding school in rural China. He found that the deaf children and their hearing counterparts, all native Mandarin speakers, consistently used longer and louder sounds to make up words for big objects and shorter and softer to make up words for small objects. There was one difference from the English-language speakers: They used higher pitches for bigger objects and lower pitches for smaller objects. Perlman suspects the tendency may have something to do with Chinese folk performances, which use high pitch to express strength and power.
So, no, it's not necessarily something that deserves to be trumpeted as a "Universal Code", but it is nonetheless an interesting result which probably does merit further investigation.
I'm sorry, it appears that someone clicked "Overrated" by mistake. Surely no-one would use that moderation on a perfectly sensible (and previously unmoderated) post on purpose. I'm sure they meant to rate it "Insightful" or "Interesting".
Gods, I hate the phrase "content consumption". I don't "consume" anything. I *read* or *view*, and--as you point out--the text or video is still there when I'm done with it.
It's a buzz-phrase made up by media marketers envious of industries with actual products that can be *used* (and *used up*), and who want us to go along with their "let's pretend our products are consumables, too" fantasy (and give them money for nothing).
True enough. Fortunately they didn't do that with my employer when they were acquired. (They did give the founder enough money to Go Away, which was actually probably a good thing. But that's another story. Maybe I'll write a book about it after I retire and don't have to worry about getting fired/blacklisted.)
It also didn't help that Sun were encouraging (and *paying*) their salespeople to make deals that they thought made for good PR, whether or not they actually brought in any revenue. As a result, salespeople quit actually selling anything--quelle surprise!
(BTW, I'm a writer, editor, and sometime coder, and not management in any sense of the word. But I shared office space with a VP for a while during those times, so I got to be a bit of a fly on the wall when lots of very interesting things were happening.)
To be fair, I was unaware of much of the internal considerations going on at Sun, so their reluctance to engage may have also been a result of other forces, such as external management groups or constrained engineering resources.
I can't help but wonder how this guy managed to miss the thousands of layoffs from Sun that were happening at that time--one week, it was 6,000, the next it was 8,000. The company was losing money hand over fist, and projects were being shut down right and left. This was all in the press, too. So you'd think this guy could have figured out that we had slightly greater concerns right then than a freebie that was costing us rather than making us money to develop.
(Yes, I got to watch Sun implode, from the inside. Not pretty.)
I didn't forget, I just figured I'd already made the obvious connection and didn't see any need to beat it into the ground.
And you're right about it having been done before, but Machiavelli doesn't strike a chord with folks in the 21st Century the way the Nazis still do, as there are still plenty of folks around who remember them first-hand.
russian propaganda is basically alex jones herp derp conspiracy theorizing. it's same kind of content. being a paranoid schizophrenic in today's world means you are going to have a miserable institutionalized life, or you might just get to be President-for-Life of a former Soviet Federated Socialist Republic.
china might grow "concerned" about the treatment of their han ethnic minorities in russian lands at the hands of corrupt local russians. and send "humanitarian aid". no need for direct war, "local" freedom fighters can do the fighting
the playbook is all there, written by moscow
Those of us who remember what happenedin the 1930sand 40s know that the playbook was written by none other than Adolf Hitler, and has been merely translated and updated by Uncle Vlad.
Linux user here, eagerly awaiting the breaking of the UI, extensions, and suchlike by this update, having experienced this numerous times with Firefox the last couple of years.
Editing configs? Pffffft--I don't know how many times I've had to unzip extensions or themes, edit the files inside, and then zip them up again so they'd keep working.
These are not Windows issues, they're issues affecting users and developers on all platforms, caused by Mozilla's years-long policy of bait-and-switch.
Who needs an onboard wifi adapter any more? I don't even bother with it, since whenever I'm out with my laptop, I've always got a phone and a USB cable handy. So I just tether.
FIbre to the door here. I don't even *need* a router to connect. Of course, I have multiple devices and desire wireless connectivity, so I do need a router or similar for those things. But my provider doesn't care what I plug in on my end--any off-the-shelf device will do, as far as they're concerned. Of course, the flip side of that is that, if they see that something that affects their network adversely is coming from my connection, they reserve the right to cut it off and make me ring them up to find out why. But I suppose that's fair enough.
(I sometimes forget how stupid and controlling American telecoms can be.)
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You were not terribly resourceful as a kid, were you?
With respect, pornography isn't taboo in the UK. We have had pornographic magazines available in most newsagents for generations. We have had national newspapers who sell 10s of millions of copies each day and feature a topless women on the 3rd page. Softcore pornography is available in every single magazine and is used to advertise everything from cars to cucumbers.
Yes, but this is pornography on the Internet!
I guess you did not read the entire article:
Of course, the study used only native English speakers, and Kita says it’s crucial to test speakers of other languages to see if the findings hold. Perlman is already taking that advice to heart. Recently, he ran a similar study among deaf children at a boarding school in rural China. He found that the deaf children and their hearing counterparts, all native Mandarin speakers, consistently used longer and louder sounds to make up words for big objects and shorter and softer to make up words for small objects. There was one difference from the English-language speakers: They used higher pitches for bigger objects and lower pitches for smaller objects. Perlman suspects the tendency may have something to do with Chinese folk performances, which use high pitch to express strength and power.
So, no, it's not necessarily something that deserves to be trumpeted as a "Universal Code", but it is nonetheless an interesting result which probably does merit further investigation.
That's a hell of a read. Thanks for the link.
I'm sorry, it appears that someone clicked "Overrated" by mistake. Surely no-one would use that moderation on a perfectly sensible (and previously unmoderated) post on purpose. I'm sure they meant to rate it "Insightful" or "Interesting".
Gods, I hate the phrase "content consumption". I don't "consume" anything. I *read* or *view*, and--as you point out--the text or video is still there when I'm done with it.
It's a buzz-phrase made up by media marketers envious of industries with actual products that can be *used* (and *used up*), and who want us to go along with their "let's pretend our products are consumables, too" fantasy (and give them money for nothing).
I have used the Composer component to create HTML that I have put on my web site.
Takes a lot to be able to admit to something like that.
I think it's the Russians themselves who say something like, "Study your enemy and learn him well; eventually, you will come to be like him."
True enough. Fortunately they didn't do that with my employer when they were acquired. (They did give the founder enough money to Go Away, which was actually probably a good thing. But that's another story. Maybe I'll write a book about it after I retire and don't have to worry about getting fired/blacklisted.)
It also didn't help that Sun were encouraging (and *paying*) their salespeople to make deals that they thought made for good PR, whether or not they actually brought in any revenue. As a result, salespeople quit actually selling anything--quelle surprise!
(BTW, I'm a writer, editor, and sometime coder, and not management in any sense of the word. But I shared office space with a VP for a while during those times, so I got to be a bit of a fly on the wall when lots of very interesting things were happening.)
To be fair, I was unaware of much of the internal considerations going on at Sun, so their reluctance to engage may have also been a result of other forces, such as external management groups or constrained engineering resources.
I can't help but wonder how this guy managed to miss the thousands of layoffs from Sun that were happening at that time--one week, it was 6,000, the next it was 8,000. The company was losing money hand over fist, and projects were being shut down right and left. This was all in the press, too. So you'd think this guy could have figured out that we had slightly greater concerns right then than a freebie that was costing us rather than making us money to develop.
(Yes, I got to watch Sun implode, from the inside. Not pretty.)
I didn't forget, I just figured I'd already made the obvious connection and didn't see any need to beat it into the ground.
And you're right about it having been done before, but Machiavelli doesn't strike a chord with folks in the 21st Century the way the Nazis still do, as there are still plenty of folks around who remember them first-hand.
As I've been saying for the past 6 or 7 years: Sensible folks don't use Ubuntu.
(I never have, and never will.)
There are only about 50 other "major" distros out there to choose from. And hundreds of lesser ones.
I prefer the more concise version, courtesy of none other than super-spy James Bond:
Governments change... The lies don't.
russian propaganda is basically alex jones herp derp conspiracy theorizing. it's same kind of content. being a paranoid schizophrenic in today's world means you are going to have a miserable institutionalized life, or you might just get to be President-for-Life of a former Soviet Federated Socialist Republic.
TFTFY. :D
That is very likely the single most intelligent comment I've ever see you make. Keep up the good work--you might soon have one less Freak that way.
china might grow "concerned" about the treatment of their han ethnic minorities in russian lands at the hands of corrupt local russians. and send "humanitarian aid". no need for direct war, "local" freedom fighters can do the fighting
the playbook is all there, written by moscow
Those of us who remember what happened in the 1930s and 40s know that the playbook was written by none other than Adolf Hitler, and has been merely translated and updated by Uncle Vlad.
Those of us who actually perform *work* with our browsers beg to differ.
This would be why God gave us text editors. Until they started putting stuff like cookies.txt in sqlite files, that is... WTF??
Linux user here, eagerly awaiting the breaking of the UI, extensions, and suchlike by this update, having experienced this numerous times with Firefox the last couple of years.
Editing configs? Pffffft--I don't know how many times I've had to unzip extensions or themes, edit the files inside, and then zip them up again so they'd keep working.
These are not Windows issues, they're issues affecting users and developers on all platforms, caused by Mozilla's years-long policy of bait-and-switch.
He didn't say "live CD"--he said "install CD".
Although, now that you mention it, many Linux "live" CDs also can act as installers as well.
And it only took them 20 years to figure that out. Impressive.
Who needs an onboard wifi adapter any more? I don't even bother with it, since whenever I'm out with my laptop, I've always got a phone and a USB cable handy. So I just tether.
Seems to me that, in this case, it actually bolsters his argument. But you just keep jerking your knee, if it makes you happy.
FIbre to the door here. I don't even *need* a router to connect. Of course, I have multiple devices and desire wireless connectivity, so I do need a router or similar for those things. But my provider doesn't care what I plug in on my end--any off-the-shelf device will do, as far as they're concerned. Of course, the flip side of that is that, if they see that something that affects their network adversely is coming from my connection, they reserve the right to cut it off and make me ring them up to find out why. But I suppose that's fair enough.
(I sometimes forget how stupid and controlling American telecoms can be.)
Except that McDonalds coffee is heaps better than Starbucks. :)