Tom
In Argentina and Uruguay Y is pronounced almost like your sh in shopping.
In general in Colombia there isn´t difference in the pronunciation of LL an
Y.
2014-02-23 23:40 GMT-05:00 Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com:
Well, since we've gone this far...
I have yet to land on a singular
Nick,
Don't apologize--take the tack that Wayne O'Neil took in his lexicographic
introduction to (at least the first edition of) the American Heritage
dictionary:
English spelling includes a *lot* of useful information about the history and
otherwise-hidden relationships of our words. (I'd
Alfredo,
Unfortunately, most documents in the U.S., including newspapers, social
security cards, etc., omit the accents and tildes. I suspect that the New
Mexico drivers license of my friend Iván Ordóñez says Ivan Ordonez. I
wonder whether the New York Times follows this tradition. Do
Nick needs to switch to Lojban - http://www.lojban.org/ - then his written
language will perfectly match his spoken language and he will be unintelligible
to all but a small fraction of the human race. The pronunciation vs. spelling
problem is like the QWERTY vs Dvorak problem is like the
Perhaps I'm naive, but what is the other industry?
Ray Parks
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On Feb
Drugs
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Parks, Raymond rcpa...@sandia.gov wrote:
Perhaps I'm naive, but what is the other industry?
Ray Parks
Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager
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SIPR:
Hmmm… that's true for both legal and illegal drugs. And computers have an
addictive aspect, both for individual humans as well as corporate persons.
Ray Parks
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Because I end up providing tech support, I suggest that they use what I use. I
use the cheapest technology, with the best future, that supports my existing
activity (i.e. legacy/backwards compatibility). By best future, I mean both
future-proofing (i.e. it won't transition to the backwards
Ray,
And Russia under the Bolshevik's, right?
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
From: Parks, Raymond
Mike Hightower and others at Sandia have been predicting that water will be
(perhaps already is) the critical resource at the root of social unrest and
change in our era. Water is needed for life sustainment, it's needed for food
production, and it's heavily intertwined with energy production.
Yes, and you always use the accent in the first syllable.
2014-02-24 11:30 GMT-05:00 Frank Wimberly wimber...@gmail.com:
Alfredo,
Unfortunately, most documents in the U.S., including newspapers, social
security cards, etc., omit the accents and tildes. I suspect that the New
Mexico
On 02/22/2014 04:32 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
On 2/21/14 8:50 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
But what? They really want to know.
If they don't know what they want, why do they want it?
Marcus' question is critical. Any answer I give will depend on their
answer to that.
On 02/21/2014 07:50
The IEEE noticed that peak copper is coming this century, too. 1 years
we've been mining all the copper we wanted, no trouble, but sometime before
2100 the tide turns. If you think there's been a lot of copper theft
lately, just wait till the prices double a few more times.
But the real
If you want real MEGO, try keeping track of buzzword-intensive, copycat,
security theatre, snake oil products.
Actually, I should describe them as hydra products - when we assess one and
point out the problems, it gets sold to someone higher up the corporate food
chain, rebranded, and a new
Is this really news? I think we already know that humans are rapidly
diminishing the resources of Mother Earth, the community on which our own
existence and well-being depends. Enough with predictions about the coming
catastrophe. Enough with the blah, blah. We're running out of time, guys.
On 02/24/2014 10:12 AM, glen wrote:
Email? Buy your own domain name and a virtual private server from a
local hosting company ... again, have them install Debian on it for
you. Pay them to set it up, if you have to. Use that for your e-mail.
Unfortunately, water is not a renewable resource - there is a limit on the
amount of water on the Earth (barring minor variances). There is a lot of
water on the Earth that is not potable (i.e. the oceans) and it is possible to
convert that water to potable, but that conversion requires
I was just reading an
articlehttp://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail_pr.html from
2004 in WIRED magazine about the Long Tail - the idea that most of a
market is not the most popular items, but the mass of niche items that
specific people will buy. In conventional brick-and-mortar stores, it
Well, it's less about grudges or even disagreements about business
practices or technology, and more about what you _learn_ from using a
service/tool. If the objective is to learn, which I argue it should be,
at least to some satisficing extent, then you want translucent
tools/services. If
Credited on the InterWeb to Mark Twain:
A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling:
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter c would be dropped to be
replased either by k or s, and likewise x would no longer be part of the
alphabet. The only kase in which c would be retained would be
On 2/24/14, 12:03 PM, glen wrote:
Well, it's less about grudges or even disagreements about business
practices or technology, and more about what you _learn_ from using a
service/tool. If the objective is to learn, which I argue it should
be, at least to some satisficing extent, then you
.aspx, so you can see the disdain before clicking ;)
I liked that post, it seemed sincere - but the (extensive) comments provide
more depth. You have people commenting that never use MS, always use MS, or
use a mix. In each of those categories, there are various levels of
animosity or lack
On 02/24/2014 11:27 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
Well, I want to know about compilers, because I depend on compilers for
my work. For me, a satisfactory understanding there is a higher bar
than understanding, say, how a car works. For that I can understand
enough to type the 1-800 number for
While I certainly would not try making the US (or any Anglophone country)
convert, I kinda like how post-year-20 English looks. A friend of mine made
a conlang called v0tgil http://reddit.com/r/v0tgil#LookInTheSidebar,
which uses some of the same alterations.
-Arlo James Barnes
On 02/24/2014 01:00 PM, Arlo Barnes wrote:
but current things like UEFI deals (which gave me an annoying several
nights a few months back) and the all-or-nothing manner in which their
programs interact; because the community college here bought
institutional Office licenses, their
Nick:
Nyaaah! Nyaaah! As we used to say when we were six.
In 1968, my then-girlfriend (long since become a Mad Bomber at Los Alamos--her
graduate degree was in astrophysics) provided what is has just now become fresh
evidence of something-or-other relevant to this thread: having learned
Lee,
Subject Line changed to unbend Frank's thread.
Your last post is such a wonderful example of itself, I will leave it as the
last word on the subject of language education and orthography. (which,
come to think of it, has not very much to do with the spelling of Spanish
surnames.
By
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 01:47:48PM -0700, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
On 02/24/2014 01:00 PM, Arlo Barnes wrote:
but current things like UEFI deals (which gave me an annoying
several nights a few months back) and the all-or-nothing manner in
which their programs interact; because the community
On 02/24/2014 04:01 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
If and when it becomes important, I'll try to pick up a cheap
license from Microsoft, and install it in a Virtual Machine.
Isn't that the sane thing to do anyway? Secure booting into Linux?
Marcus
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 03:59:41PM -0700, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
On 02/24/2014 04:01 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
If and when it becomes important, I'll try to pick up a cheap
license from Microsoft, and install it in a Virtual Machine.
Isn't that the sane thing to do anyway? Secure
On 02/24/2014 04:27 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
Not necessarily. Sometimes Linux on Windows is better, which I have
done occasionally.
Anyway, Apple hardware uses UEFI too, so it's a non-argument to blame
Microsoft for advocating that firmware standards should progress.
And the SteamOS game
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 04:36:46PM -0700, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
On 02/24/2014 04:27 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
Not necessarily. Sometimes Linux on Windows is better, which I
have done occasionally.
Anyway, Apple hardware uses UEFI too, so it's a non-argument to
blame Microsoft for
What flame wars did the Bolsheviks settle?
Ray Parks
Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager
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On Feb 24, 2014,
Knowing the limits of one’s own knowledge is an admirable trait, i.e. the more
you know, the more you realize how much you don’t know. What really gripes me
are people who seem to get some kind of perverse pleasure in their own
ignorance. “Oh, that’s way too complex for me to understand” is not
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