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There's also violently smashing the mouse onto the desk when testing the third fix that still doesn't work.
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Where are coffee, bacon, chips and pizza?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It 'abused its dominant position' by tying Marketplace to the main Facebook site. I bet 'Big Bulletin board down by the community centre' is behind this!
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Meanwhile, on this side of the pond: Politicians: "Monopoly? Don't know what you're talking about. Where's my campaign contributions?"
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As if anyone with a brain would buy anything from Facebook Marketplace unless they already know the seller.
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obermd wrote: As if anyone with a brain would buy anything from Facebook Marketplace unless they already know the seller. Sadly, this implies that there will at least be a couple of 100,000's that will do it.
Scammers always find morons that are willing to get separated from their money
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Kohler showed off the Numi 2.0 Smart Toilet way back in 2019, but it’s finally available to be installed inside homes starting today. Hey, Alexa: how can I tell people I have way too much money?
And put some bog paper on my wish list (although I guess you don't really need it with this toilet - think of the cost savings!)
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I think that the bog is absolutely the right place for Alexa, and Siri, and Cortana, and...
Let the data harvesters analyze the sound of my farts!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I think that the bog is absolutely the right place for Alexa, and Siri, and Cortana, and... pity is, that you can't flush it along with the rest...
M.D.V.
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As every company evolves into a software company, those adept at software will guide their businesses into this new state of existence -- a software culture. Principal Data Hooker-upper. Senior Form Painter. Junior Control Clicker.
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I can't help thinking, if I'm hired as a software developer for a low/no code company, I would expect to see janitorial services as a job requirement.
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Researchers recently discovered a Windows code-execution vulnerability that has the potential to rival EternalBlue, the name of a different Windows security flaw used to detonate WannaCry, the ransomware that shut down computer networks across the world in 2017. Merry Christmas one and all!
Fortunately, it's already been patched (back in September), assuming you didn't ignore that patch.
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No, it didn't. Microsoft patched it in September. The only thing that's changed is this vulnerability has gone from an information leak to remote execution.
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Google wants more and more people to embrace digital technology. Their latest venture involves developing a technology that can translate the prescriptions of doctors into readable texts. Handwriting?
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this sets my mind on fire ! is 27 year-old Rishi the next Ramanujan [^] ?Quote: A grammatical problem that has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th century BC has finally been solved by an Indian Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge. Rishi Rajpopat made the breakthrough by decoding a rule taught by "the father of linguistics," Pāṇini.
The discovery makes it possible to "derive" any Sanskrit word—to construct millions of grammatically correct words including "mantra" and "guru"—using Pāṇini's revered "language machine," which is widely considered to be one of the great intellectual achievements in history. [^] ,,, Quote: A major implication of Dr. Rajpopat's discovery is that now that we have the algorithm that runs Pāṇini's grammar, we could potentially teach this grammar to computers.
Rajpopat said, "Computer scientists working on natural language processing gave up on rule-based approaches over 50 years ago... So teaching computers how to combine the speaker's intention with Pāṇini's rule-based grammar to produce human speech would be a major milestone in the history of human interaction with machines, as well as in India's intellectual history."
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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I find that last quote a bit terrifying.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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All the people working the call centers in India are scared by that too.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Reading the article, the rules only apply to Sanskrit, not languages in general. It is remarkable that a language used over 2,500 years ago would have such well-defined grammatical rules.
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Latin and, to a lesser extent, Hebrew are also languages with well-defined grammatical rules and relatively few exceptions. Furthermore, both languages have changed so little that contemporary readers can easily read texts from 2,500 years ago, and, with care, a contemporary speaker of the languages could make themselves understood to a speaker from 2,500 years ago (if one could be found ).
I am not a linguist, but I suspect that English, with its large variability over the short term, is very much the exception among languages. for proof, compare the English of the first Elizabethan period to that of the second Elizabethan period. There are major changes in grammar and usage over a period of less than 400 years.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The main Nordic languages have evolved a lot from Old Norse, though Icelandic has remained largely unchanged. It is emigrants tend to preserve their language even as it evolves back at home. This is true of the French spoken in Quebec (words that are now archaic in France) and the Swedish that was spoken by my grandparents (born in Russia, and whose ancestors left Sweden somewhere between 500 and 1200). Perhaps Latin and Hebrew remained stable because they were important in religious contexts, which is also true of Sanskrit and Avestan.
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Need to be objective here, and not just go by what the University claims.
There is a very critical discussion running in Sanskrit mailing lists, and in Indology groups about this. One such is shown here, by a person well versed both in software and in advanced Sanskrit grammar - Balanced Critique on "In Panini We Trust" by Neelesh Bodas - YouTube[^]. More such discussions are available.
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fascinating ! as an outsider to Sanskrit's complex identity as "sacred tradition" (shastra), as the refinement of syntax and grammar over thousands of years by a priestly elite (Brahmins), the great Puranic explicators that Milton Singer refers to as "orthogenic literati" ...
i can only listen in ignorance and awe, and fall back on weak certainties that hagiography is always ... ultimately ... involved in the maintenance of secular power structures
cheers, bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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BillWoodruff wrote: priestly elite (Brahmins)
One correction, if you may please allow me ...
The greatest authors of Sanskrit, Maharshi Valmiki, Sage Vedavyasa, and the later ones including Kalidasa, Bhartruhari - none of them are Brahmins. No mention gets made about many other authors - even if they were Brahmins, they choose not to mention so. Also, the greatest of Indian Gods - Lord Rama, Lord Krishna, and the great warrior Arjuna to whom Bhagavad Geeta was told, are not Brahmins. When we look at the Sanskrit literature, the plays, poems, prose and other works of more than a 1000 years ago, it is evident that Sanskrit was the language of the common man, spoken, understood and written just as we do today with our languages.
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Sri Amarnath,
I appreciate your enlightening comments: my reference to "priestly elite" is limited to the later period long after Indo-Aryan Sanskrit was no longer commonly spoken in its classical (Vedic as formalized by Panini) form, where the Brahmins, as institution, with "pure" Sanskrit as a currency for intellectual exchange, formed what Milton Singer called an "orthogenetic literati [1].
I should keep mu mouth shut, and go back and study more
[1] Milton Singer, "When a Great Tradition Modernizes" 1972 ... I no longer access to this book,
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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