Sorry for the late response. Nicholas Wade quotes a linguist who classifies the world languages into two groups, Andamanese and everything else. The traditional view has always been these click languages were completely unrelated and the commonality is explained only as coincidence. But that was before the mutation tree in the Y chromosome and the mitochondria are built up. It is very clear now the bantu and the koi-san languages were spoken in a much wider area. The hunter-gatherer societies were isolated by the expansion of the farming/herding cultures and were isolated.
I speak Tamil and I know enough of Sanskrit. Your statement that Sanskrit has smaller number of phonemes is clearly wrong. In vowels, Tamil counts 12 but it has really 10 (ai and aw are not really vowels). Sanskrit counts 14 including kru and one more, but it too has basically 10 distinct vowel sounds. In consonants, tamil has 18, Sanskrit has 4 versions of ka (ka, kha, ga, gha), 4 versions of cha (sa,sha, cha, ja), 4 versions of da (ta, tha, dha, da) and 4 versions of pa (pa, fa, ba, bha). Tamil has just one of each.
The genetic diversity in human DNA shows there was a bottle neck 75000 years ago and the H sapien population was reduced to as little as 2000 individuals. It is very likely they all spoke the same language, they probably escaped because of some global catastrophe spared a small area where they happened to be living. Even if their language was the primordial original language that would be our last common ancestor language.
The click sound is an isolate, very difficult to articulate easily, difficult to train the children. These are invariably lost, not gained. The connection between clicks and Anadamanese, Koi-san and the other Bantu isolates I read in a book or something. By Nicholas Wade, "Before the Dawn".
Are you sure there are no hidden clauses in the contract that prohibit Mozilla from creating an app-store? I am glad Mozilla got funding. I am glad Apache is picking up Open Office. I am very disappointed in the walled gardens in Android and iOS app-store markets. Don't even mention the fragmentation and lack of standards in the TV/Boxee/AppleTV/Roku/ segments.
I really wish Mozilla/Firefox would create a standard open-standard API for apps and allow app developers to use a develop once and run anywhere model.
why the thought of paying even $1 for an app turns into an agonizing decision for those perfectly willing to spend $4 on coffee,
The answer is simple, isn't it? The seller is not making just one mug of coffee and keep selling clones of it at 4$ a mug. Would you really pay 4$ for a copy
of a mug of coffee? Though we all know apps are created by labor and capital investment, though we know that app is as much a product as a mug of coffee is a product, though many of us actually make a living writing code, we still balk because we also know the cost of replication is zero. We should not think that way, but we do.
I had been a registered user long ago, stopped going there ever since they put up a paywall. I got a spam from them today. I thought it was odd. Anyway, they have been keeping all email addresses, have not deleted any. So subscribers, beware, they probably save the URL of every article you read.
There was one single common language that could be understood by all the human beings. All the present day languages are off shoots of that language. That much is true, and scientifically proven. And that seems to agree with the Tower of Babel myth.
But that common language existed between 75K and 100K years ago, at that time there were probably 2500 human beings in the world, and the place was eastern Africa. The language had lots of click sounds, and its closest extant remnants are the Andamanese spoken in the islands of Bay of Bengal and by the Koi-san people of the Kalahari desert in Africa. The click sounds were the first ones to be lost as languages evolved. More evolved languages (like Tamil) have fewer phonemes than less evolved more primordial languages (like Sanskrit). The languages latest on the scene, the languages of pacific islands and micronesia have as few as 12 consonants.
You forgot, "... And I have so much free time left over I brag about it in slashdot".
It is all fine and good that you are learning to live frugally. You see, when you are 45 years old, and you have not managed to get into management cadre, you are going to rely on your frugal living skills for rest of your life.
Copilot is probably one of the best apps in android. But still the android based GPS does not have the same level of quality as the stand alone GPS devices like Garmin.
A simple android phone without a data plan is a very nice compromise.
At home using WiFi it synchs with gmail contacts and calender. Thus even on the road all the contact info is available. Reminders and alarm clocks with multiple alarms work. Cheap 5$ apps like Co-Pilot gives you some GPS functionality, directions etc. (Co-Pilot takes a while to get find the satellite and calculate current position, after that it is not too bad). Some simple games, good storage for lots of music and photos etc.
But the best feature is the Wi-fi calling. Most cell companies charge you air-time minutes even if you use the Wi-Fi calling. But that is home base minutes. Not roaming, not interntional. So if you are on a cruise ship or a foreign country with cyber cafe, you can save a bundle on international calls. Cruise ships typically charge 50$ for internet vs $3.95 a minute for cell phone call. International roaming is outrageous. Most foreign cyber cafes give you internet access at about 1$ per hour.
The Karl Rove strategy was to put together a group of single issue voters, energize the heck out of them, and shoot for narrow margin victories. Problem with that strategy is two fold.
The first is, these single issue voters would make it impossible to govern, if they win. The second is the demographic trends are against them.
Since 2000, 45 million Americans have attained voting age. About 15 million older Americans have passed away. Remember how they used anti-gay voter initiatives to increase their voter turn out in 2000 and 2004 elections. Notice they are largely absent from today's Republican moves. Forget the rhetoric and talk. Look at what they do and choose not to do. Republicans don't have the anti-gay vote block. Their margin of victory is too small to sustain too many of such vote-block losses.
The Democrats have surrendered on the gun issue. (Abjectly or strategically depending on your personal view point). Pro-gun initiatives and legislative action does not energize the base as much, does not produce as much donations and campaign contributions as it used to in 2000/2004 cycles.
The seeds of fracturing and long term collapse of the Republican party were sown by Karl Rove in 2000. Add to the mix the totally self serving media players, Limbaugh, Fox News etc whose interests do not coincide with the interests of the Republicans they are heading for serious trouble.
Imagine a 3D printer that can print itself! Wouldn't that be great?
But, why stop there? Let us say the 3D printer that can mine raw materials to be used as "ink"! But the source material could be different in different planets. So it would just carry the logic and print itself the proper attachment suitable for each environment. But the 3D printer itself is made up of the ink. So one 3D printer can "eat" another 3D printer and recycle the material. May be the printer can just print many different attachments to mine the raw materials. Some works, some wont. The successful printers will eat the dead end printers and make more printers. May the best printer win!
What if the 3D printer can be printed by a slightly less advance printer, recursively going down to something simple like self-replicating molecules or auto-catalysts? From there they will assemble themselves into larger and larger accretions of self replicating modules, eventually reaching really complex self replicating 3D printers. It will have generic tool handling appendages, sensing appendages, processing modules, recycling modules, etc. All the software needed to do it call can be packaged in any convenient molecule, like DNA or RNA.
OMG! We are the self replicating 3D printers launched from the planet Xudu in sector 8 in Delta Quadrant.
The time mag editors are a bunch of wozzies. Instead of selecting the most deserving Superstar Rajnikant as the person of the year, they have gone for some faceless masked angry young man.
I am going to protest. Big time. Occupy Time Mag. yeah, yeah.
Now where do I collect the brownie points for being the person of the year?
It is not just to make Detroit happy. There are people who own large tracts of land outside the city, and they know they can make that land 10 to 20 times more valuable if they could divvy it up into housing development. With that big a pot, they plough so much of money into local politics and lobby to get these highway projects funded. They are the one who are virulently against any form of public transport. They trawl through internet fora, write letters to the editor, circulate jokes about public transport. While reaping the profits generated when the highway project comes through, they repeat the mantra, "government has never created any value. All taxation is theft" with straight face.
Instead of blocking all ads or deferring to the judgement of others, I would like to make my browser send an ad-acceptance policy.
I would like say, "no sound", "no video/animated gifs", "no flash", etc etc.
Also I would like to specify what I am currently in the market for, "digital SLR", "Carib Cruise" etc
Also I would like to say what I would not click at "singles" "sexual stuff", "gambling" etc
I would like some site like Mozilla to offer me list of these choices in some web site. I go there and I check mark on or off of these items. That site hashes all these choices into a simple hash and gives it to me. I send that hash to all sites I visit. That site can use the hash fetch my ad acceptance policy and displays ads accordingly.
I would like the site that hashing my preferences into hash to make it available for others. So when I first visit the site, I get a choice of most popular policies number of people using that set of options. I clone one of the popular ones, make a few adjustments and get a new hash for myself.
Eventually the web sites would know what kind of ads would be accepted by majority of the users and what would not be. With this feedback we can give good guys some decent break. That is the only way to make the annoying irritants go away.
It is simple theft, indistinguishable from so many other thefts. Just because the stealee is Verizon and the stolen is techie parts, it does not make it is any more interesting than other forms of embezzlement.
I have been using Windows Classic scheme, with "optimize for speed not appearance" for ever. It removes drop shadows and animated windows opening and closing etc.
But despite this, the theme does not extend into the application user interface. If the user has selected windows classic, why cant the applications also decide to dispense with all the bells and whistles and provide a clean UI? I would actually like to set one knob that says, "I know what I am doing, treat me like an adult" all the way down to "I can't find my own nose in fog" and all parts of the computer, from OS user interface all the way down to application user interfaces and dialogs inherit the setting and behave appropriately?
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Sorry for the late response. Nicholas Wade quotes a linguist who classifies the world languages into two groups, Andamanese and everything else. The traditional view has always been these click languages were completely unrelated and the commonality is explained only as coincidence. But that was before the mutation tree in the Y chromosome and the mitochondria are built up. It is very clear now the bantu and the koi-san languages were spoken in a much wider area. The hunter-gatherer societies were isolated by the expansion of the farming/herding cultures and were isolated.
Thanks for the info. Great to know. Wish you all the best, and hope Mozilla API becomes the defacto standard in the app store model.
Jeesh. Read a fucking book or something.
I speak Tamil and I know enough of Sanskrit. Your statement that Sanskrit has smaller number of phonemes is clearly wrong. In vowels, Tamil counts 12 but it has really 10 (ai and aw are not really vowels). Sanskrit counts 14 including kru and one more, but it too has basically 10 distinct vowel sounds. In consonants, tamil has 18, Sanskrit has 4 versions of ka (ka, kha, ga, gha), 4 versions of cha (sa,sha, cha, ja), 4 versions of da (ta, tha, dha, da) and 4 versions of pa (pa, fa, ba, bha). Tamil has just one of each.
The genetic diversity in human DNA shows there was a bottle neck 75000 years ago and the H sapien population was reduced to as little as 2000 individuals. It is very likely they all spoke the same language, they probably escaped because of some global catastrophe spared a small area where they happened to be living. Even if their language was the primordial original language that would be our last common ancestor language.
The click sound is an isolate, very difficult to articulate easily, difficult to train the children. These are invariably lost, not gained. The connection between clicks and Anadamanese, Koi-san and the other Bantu isolates I read in a book or something. By Nicholas Wade, "Before the Dawn".
I really wish Mozilla/Firefox would create a standard open-standard API for apps and allow app developers to use a develop once and run anywhere model.
why the thought of paying even $1 for an app turns into an agonizing decision for those perfectly willing to spend $4 on coffee,
The answer is simple, isn't it? The seller is not making just one mug of coffee and keep selling clones of it at 4$ a mug. Would you really pay 4$ for a copy of a mug of coffee? Though we all know apps are created by labor and capital investment, though we know that app is as much a product as a mug of coffee is a product, though many of us actually make a living writing code, we still balk because we also know the cost of replication is zero. We should not think that way, but we do.
I had been a registered user long ago, stopped going there ever since they put up a paywall. I got a spam from them today. I thought it was odd. Anyway, they have been keeping all email addresses, have not deleted any. So subscribers, beware, they probably save the URL of every article you read.
But that common language existed between 75K and 100K years ago, at that time there were probably 2500 human beings in the world, and the place was eastern Africa. The language had lots of click sounds, and its closest extant remnants are the Andamanese spoken in the islands of Bay of Bengal and by the Koi-san people of the Kalahari desert in Africa. The click sounds were the first ones to be lost as languages evolved. More evolved languages (like Tamil) have fewer phonemes than less evolved more primordial languages (like Sanskrit). The languages latest on the scene, the languages of pacific islands and micronesia have as few as 12 consonants.
It is all fine and good that you are learning to live frugally. You see, when you are 45 years old, and you have not managed to get into management cadre, you are going to rely on your frugal living skills for rest of your life.
The free sample in alpha centauri is in a filing cabinet in a dark basement guarded by leopards.
Your time dilation assumes c towards Alpha Centauri, instant deceleration to 0, collect pdf and instant acceleration to c towards earth. Wont work.
Copilot is probably one of the best apps in android. But still the android based GPS does not have the same level of quality as the stand alone GPS devices like Garmin.
At home using WiFi it synchs with gmail contacts and calender. Thus even on the road all the contact info is available. Reminders and alarm clocks with multiple alarms work. Cheap 5$ apps like Co-Pilot gives you some GPS functionality, directions etc. (Co-Pilot takes a while to get find the satellite and calculate current position, after that it is not too bad). Some simple games, good storage for lots of music and photos etc.
But the best feature is the Wi-fi calling. Most cell companies charge you air-time minutes even if you use the Wi-Fi calling. But that is home base minutes. Not roaming, not interntional. So if you are on a cruise ship or a foreign country with cyber cafe, you can save a bundle on international calls. Cruise ships typically charge 50$ for internet vs $3.95 a minute for cell phone call. International roaming is outrageous. Most foreign cyber cafes give you internet access at about 1$ per hour.
But please come up with a free market solution that does not increase my taxes.
If we can fuel them without depending on Saudi Arabia, then we can breath a sigh of relief.
The first is, these single issue voters would make it impossible to govern, if they win. The second is the demographic trends are against them.
Since 2000, 45 million Americans have attained voting age. About 15 million older Americans have passed away. Remember how they used anti-gay voter initiatives to increase their voter turn out in 2000 and 2004 elections. Notice they are largely absent from today's Republican moves. Forget the rhetoric and talk. Look at what they do and choose not to do. Republicans don't have the anti-gay vote block. Their margin of victory is too small to sustain too many of such vote-block losses.
The Democrats have surrendered on the gun issue. (Abjectly or strategically depending on your personal view point). Pro-gun initiatives and legislative action does not energize the base as much, does not produce as much donations and campaign contributions as it used to in 2000/2004 cycles.
The seeds of fracturing and long term collapse of the Republican party were sown by Karl Rove in 2000. Add to the mix the totally self serving media players, Limbaugh, Fox News etc whose interests do not coincide with the interests of the Republicans they are heading for serious trouble.
Imagine a 3D printer that can print itself! Wouldn't that be great?
But, why stop there? Let us say the 3D printer that can mine raw materials to be used as "ink"! But the source material could be different in different planets. So it would just carry the logic and print itself the proper attachment suitable for each environment. But the 3D printer itself is made up of the ink. So one 3D printer can "eat" another 3D printer and recycle the material. May be the printer can just print many different attachments to mine the raw materials. Some works, some wont. The successful printers will eat the dead end printers and make more printers. May the best printer win!
What if the 3D printer can be printed by a slightly less advance printer, recursively going down to something simple like self-replicating molecules or auto-catalysts? From there they will assemble themselves into larger and larger accretions of self replicating modules, eventually reaching really complex self replicating 3D printers. It will have generic tool handling appendages, sensing appendages, processing modules, recycling modules, etc. All the software needed to do it call can be packaged in any convenient molecule, like DNA or RNA.
OMG! We are the self replicating 3D printers launched from the planet Xudu in sector 8 in Delta Quadrant.
I am going to protest. Big time. Occupy Time Mag. yeah, yeah.
Now where do I collect the brownie points for being the person of the year?
Looks like Google is really serious about emancipating people who are enslaved by facebook and twitter.
It is not just to make Detroit happy. There are people who own large tracts of land outside the city, and they know they can make that land 10 to 20 times more valuable if they could divvy it up into housing development. With that big a pot, they plough so much of money into local politics and lobby to get these highway projects funded. They are the one who are virulently against any form of public transport. They trawl through internet fora, write letters to the editor, circulate jokes about public transport. While reaping the profits generated when the highway project comes through, they repeat the mantra, "government has never created any value. All taxation is theft" with straight face.
The summary suggests that people on facebook have a life. Really? If they do, why are they on facebook?
I would like say, "no sound", "no video/animated gifs", "no flash", etc etc.
Also I would like to specify what I am currently in the market for, "digital SLR", "Carib Cruise" etc
Also I would like to say what I would not click at "singles" "sexual stuff", "gambling" etc
I would like some site like Mozilla to offer me list of these choices in some web site. I go there and I check mark on or off of these items. That site hashes all these choices into a simple hash and gives it to me. I send that hash to all sites I visit. That site can use the hash fetch my ad acceptance policy and displays ads accordingly.
I would like the site that hashing my preferences into hash to make it available for others. So when I first visit the site, I get a choice of most popular policies number of people using that set of options. I clone one of the popular ones, make a few adjustments and get a new hash for myself.
Eventually the web sites would know what kind of ads would be accepted by majority of the users and what would not be. With this feedback we can give good guys some decent break. That is the only way to make the annoying irritants go away.
Microsoft has just seen that open source really cannot compete with quality products.
Mod parent funny.
I'll bet 10,000$ that someone will say "Embrace, Extend and Extinguish" within the next 100 posts.
The engine is little, alright. But is it a little engine that could?
It is simple theft, indistinguishable from so many other thefts. Just because the stealee is Verizon and the stolen is techie parts, it does not make it is any more interesting than other forms of embezzlement.
But despite this, the theme does not extend into the application user interface. If the user has selected windows classic, why cant the applications also decide to dispense with all the bells and whistles and provide a clean UI? I would actually like to set one knob that says, "I know what I am doing, treat me like an adult" all the way down to "I can't find my own nose in fog" and all parts of the computer, from OS user interface all the way down to application user interfaces and dialogs inherit the setting and behave appropriately?