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We have an official winner!
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"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Professional = Pro
rough loses point= Cras(s)
bronze component= Tin
positive hydrogen nucleus= Ion
procrastination = deferral
cheers,
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I have been wondering about all the obsessive smartphone users on the train, in restaurants and elsewhere. How do they know there is a human communicating with them?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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As long as it full of crap - it's human
When you stop to understand it - it's AI
when you stop receiving - it's OFF
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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pwasser wrote: How do they know there is a human communicating with them?
Because no AI would waste its time. The only place you'll find "smart" is in the "smartphone", certainly not the user.
Marc
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Indeed. Stephen Hawking has already stated the same: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/stephen-hawking-on-artificial-intelligence-2015-5[^]
With the normal distribution of intelligence it is possible that many smart devices are already way smarter than their human hosts. I am serious. When you look at the decision making capabilities of many devices and the fact that many seem to rely on this capability it is clear that the human is almost redundant. The devices are simply colonising their human hosts.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Says this guy[^] at least
I love this story 
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YES. We have for all and everything an own word. it's much much more precise than english. i don't need to build sentence with 10 words to explain something, in germany we say 3 words and all is clear.
And thats the reason why my english is not the best.
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Yes, but each of those German words is 37 syllables long! 
(a very, very long time ago I had three years of German language classes in high school)
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: a very, very long time ago I had three years of German language classes
in high school
ja, ich auch, aber das ist nicht so gut
(ok, I 'survived' (*1) for a week in the wilds of Germany last year where not everyone spoke English)
(*1) didn't get locked up or lynched
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Ten years ago I was sent to Germany on short notice to help out at a trade show. I was amazed at how much of my German vocabulary came back.
Of course, my accent was atrocious... 
Software Zen: delete this;
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yeah - accent  but I was there when the germans were playing off in the final of the world cup soccer, so they were very forgiving 
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Not long back from a week in Berlin and was also amazed at how much and how quickly my German came back. Apparently my accent wasn't so bad 
Most bizarre moment - managing to communicate with one chap in a mixture of Italian, French and German - he had very little German and even less English; I speak English, can just get by in German, have a little French, even less Italian.
Most embarrassing moment - staring blankly at someone totally unable to understand a word they were saying ... then realising they were speaking English (quite well too) ... erm ... my native language 
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But that is just a made up name made deliberately long for promotional purposes.
A Victorian ad man was paid to come up with that name.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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that's the point
that's right
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Taulie wrote: i don't need to build sentence with 10 words to explain something, in germany we say 3 words and all is clear.
In English you can use the four letters "RTFM" to communicate very clearly when it comes to IT issues.
Unfortunately some people find this offensive and at times it's more important to not hurt people's sensibilities than to communicate clearly.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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yes you are right.
but we use "RTFM" too. in IT everybody can speak english.
i mean, e.g.: the green is green
WTF
abouth what we talk here, about the weed or two times about the color.
There many many more samples, were english is not precise.
With combining some words to one you can give the context for the dialog, that is how we use the combination of words.
I only want to explain that sentences like my example doesn't exist in german.
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The American author Mark Twain had a slightly different perspective on the language...
Mark Twain: The Awful German Language[^]
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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i've never seen this article
for sure, for an english speaking it's very difficult.
it's like if you compare german with chinese
and i am sure Mark Twain never seen such a language, because he was never in china or japan.
you got me?
i am sure Albert Einstein or Werner Braun has another opinion about this. And all the stolen scientists, after the second world war, too. I want to say Mark Twain can write good stories and thats it. i read some too, he was a very good writer.
but, at the end it doesn't matter wich language we speak. Important is that we can talk with hands ands feets
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Taulie wrote: but, at the end it doesn't matter wich language we speak.
Agreed. But debating the subject is harmless, and lots of fun.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Taulie wrote: for sure, for an english speaking it's very difficult.
Another paradox since English is a Germanic language first and foremost.
There is of course the story of the simultaneous translator (into English) at an EU conference with the long-winded German speaker at the podium. The English listeners were a little surprised to find that at one point the voice in their ears simply stopped and there ensued a silence which was stretching into minutes before an exasperated cry of 'The verb, man, what's the **** verb?'
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