Yes, language is complicated (note, I'm not using the term complex), but it evolved as we have, so it is tightly coupled with human cognitive capacity. The fact that language is nearly universal among humans supports this.
Most everybody takes a dump, too, but that doesn't mean it's tightly coupled with human cognitive capacity.
Switch the words Linux and Windows in this post, and it would have modded up to 5 in a heartbeat, and yet it goes untouched. Come on, moderators, this post is certainly either interesting or informative.
Did anyone notice they said the speed would be about 180,000 miles per hour in 3 months? The speed of light is about 186,000 miles per second, so traveling to the sun would only take about 21 days from earth's orbit.
Yeah? What about the three months to get to that speed?
Speaking of which, for some in-office entertainment, ask people how long it takes for the Earth to go all the way around the sun. You'd think everybody capable of holding a job would know this, but answers I've received include:
"Oh, a long time!"
"24 Hours" (very common. Explaining the question again usually doesn't help)
"Two minutes?" (He wasn't joking)
I did a little bit of math, and came up with 392 days to pass Pluto's orbit, at which time the probe would be travelling at a speed of almost 350 km/s.
And keep a sharp eye out for space-bergs.
"This ship can't sink - it's invincible."
If you could shield a magnetic field like that you could have a magnet pulling on a wheel, and shield half the wheel from the field. Voila, perpetual motion.
True, it'll be gradual. But consider the riots in Europe this summer over high energy prices.
Yeah, but it's like the deal with putting a frog in boiling water. If you just dump him in he gets really mad and hops out. But if you put him in cold water and gradually heat it to boiling he'll just sit there.
People would become accustomed to the higher prices.
With 24 million non-voting shares, M$ can still tell Corel to "drop Linux and go.NET or else we shall *sell* the shares at a *very* low price", thus causing Corel to totally crash.
Then they wouldn't really be non-voting shares. It may seem like it, but you can't just do whatever you want with stocks 'n stuff.
Not many of the Linux developers have never take theory classes and the most have no training in software design. Do you seriously think that the new language will be designed in a correct fashion?
Not many have never take? Your language certainly wasn't well designed.
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Perhaps you'd care to brush up on your reading comprehension, then try the thread again.
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Most everybody takes a dump, too, but that doesn't mean it's tightly coupled with human cognitive capacity.
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Yeah, I know. Sorry.
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Where is the Grammar Nazi?
You wouldn't say "regaling I," so why say "regaling my friend and I" ?
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Yeah? What about the three months to get to that speed?
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The latest study shows that worrying about magnetic fields causing cancer causes cancer.
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Speaking of which, for some in-office entertainment, ask people how long it takes for the Earth to go all the way around the sun. You'd think everybody capable of holding a job would know this, but answers I've received include:
"Oh, a long time!"
"24 Hours" (very common. Explaining the question again usually doesn't help)
"Two minutes?" (He wasn't joking)
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And keep a sharp eye out for space-bergs.
"This ship can't sink - it's invincible."
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If you could shield a magnetic field like that you could have a magnet pulling on a wheel, and shield half the wheel from the field. Voila, perpetual motion.
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You could create almost anything else, too, since you'd have a perpetual motion machine.
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Maybe not fun, but I had a cousin named Gus who was mildly amusing at times.
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It wasn't Mark Twain. Napolean said it, and he may not have been the first.
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It's a little after two. Start reading.
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Yeah, but it's like the deal with putting a frog in boiling water. If you just dump him in he gets really mad and hops out. But if you put him in cold water and gradually heat it to boiling he'll just sit there.
People would become accustomed to the higher prices.
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There's a missing from your sentence.
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This might have been marginally clever the first time anybody said it,
but now it just makes people want to smack the guy.
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Then they wouldn't really be non-voting shares. It may seem like it, but you can't just do whatever you want with stocks 'n stuff.
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Not many have never take? Your language certainly wasn't well designed.
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Well, my car needs new brakes.
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I think he meant it in a more condecending way, as in "Jeez you sure are ingnorant..."
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