339727
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Ep0xi writes:
What is the real penetration of the Unix market into the conventional 8086 market?
Does anyone who do not use Unix actually believe in root?
How will those 'users' get admin privileges if their system has no 'superuser' account?
Do we need a supercomputer (aka firesun) in our office?
When will a house be named as office to work in?.
330673
submission
Ep0xi writes:
Is the Watt measure going obsolete when talking about same energy consumption in Joules, Newtons and Volt Ampere Watts?
I think so, because we are dealing with measures so small that any change inyected by a flaw in the universal Power Law could lead to billions of miscalculations.
Has anyone a research on how could we improve our universal laws, for more precise ones?
329517
submission
Ep0xi writes:
Why do hard drives suck so much?.. damn cheap slow devices wasting our lifetime
326659
submission
Ep0xi writes:
From The daily Mail.
How the irregular verb is being 'drived' to extinction
By DAVID DERBYSHIRE — More by this author Last updated at 01:25am on 11th October 2007
The process beginned hundreds of years ago and bringed a huge change in our use of the language.
Now researchers believe more of the irregular verbs that make English such a rich and varied experience are heading for extinction.
In future, 'stank' will evolve into 'stinked', 'drove' will become 'drived' and 'slew' will turn into 'slayed', a team of linguists and mathematicians say. And if the simplification becomes really serious, 'begun' could change to 'beginned', 'brought' to 'bringed' and 'fell' to 'falled'.
The prediction comes from the first study of its kind into how irregular verbs have evolved in literature over the last 1,200 years.
Around 97 per cent of verbs in English are regular. That means in the past tense they simply take an '-ed' ending — so 'talk' becomes 'talked', and 'jump' becomes 'jumped'.
Irregular verbs, however, do their own thing. Some like 'wed' stay the same in the past tense while others like 'begin' take a different ending to become 'begun'.
The study, carried out at Harvard University, found that irregular verbs are under intense pressure to change into regular verbs as language develops.
The team identified 177 irregular verbs used in Old English and tracked their use over the centuries from the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf to the latest Harry Potter novel.
By the 14th century, only 145 were still irregular and by modern times, just 98 remained.
The less commonly used they are, the more they are likely to change, the team reports today in the journal Nature. The scientists predict that 15 of the 98 irregular verbs in the study will have evolved into regular verbs within the next 500 years. Verbs that they say are very likely to change are: bade to bidded; shed — shedded; slew — slayed; slit — slitted; stung — stinged; wed — wedded.
Verbs that are less likely to change are: broke — breaked; bought — buyed; chose — choosed; drew — drawed; drunk — drinked; ate — eated.
317429
submission
Ep0xi writes:
You guess. They tried to cover up a disease, and that`s where they are.
The disease is power, and the cure is equality, and the responsibility is on human justice.
317315
submission
Ep0xi writes:
John Lydon: "You know, I've been a music fan all my life and nothing ever compares to vinyl. CDs have burnt us all out and MP3 is just unlistenable. You know tinbox radio. There is something good about owning a record."
I AGREE:
298771
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Ep0xi writes:
So you tell me that Vitamin C is good for photosyntesis, Nice.. in some near future we as human race will take Vietnam C# pills and we will mutate our genetic code to use our skin for photosyntesis of cathodic rays even in night or, maybe, we will be at least radiation resistant, as some plants are, so "we will prevail" to the levels of sun radiation that the earth will receive in a few years from now.
My previous tought was, "When will C# be ported to linux development" and "I want my C# console editor".
Another question of my interest is: "Which finance companies (Banks) still use Windows without any C Sharp? developments"
Another important issue in this country is: "You want software development? SHOW ME THE MONEY"
