> The larger screen also means that you can see slightly more of the Web when using Safari and a bit more text when reading an e-book; you can also watch widescreen movies at full size (well, "full size" for a 4-inch screen) without black bars on the top or bottom. In my testing, this proved surprisingly useful. I hadn't expected the ability to read a few more words or see just a bit more of a list (see above screenshots) to matter much, but I liked it quite a bit.
So stupid.
I hadn't expected the ability to read a few more words or see just a bit more of a list (see above screenshots) to matter much, ...
Why do you think Android users want 4.5-inch screens?
I just listened to about half of the Scottish girl's video. I understood every word except one - one of the words off the word list. I suspect that the reason why I didn't understand it was the lack of context. I didn't bother to listen to the girl from Mississippi. Of course, maybe having a Scottish grandfather makes me ineligible for this contest.
Well, colour me surprised. In her defence, she seems a little less whiny to me after the first few seconds. Maybe I didn't give her enough of a chance the first time around.
FWIW, I would not be the slightest bit offended if she made similar comments about my accent.
And I didn't understand what she was saying about vampires. Not a word of it.
In computer science, a problem that is obviously decomposable into many identical but separate subtasks is called embarrassingly parallel.
An example is a cryptographic brute force attack, in which the algorithm is to independently try billions of random inputs until one works.
But why are they...
Well, I think you're supposed to be embarrassed if you have a problem that seems very difficult to you, and somebody shows you that it's really very easy.
If it's the parallel nature of the solution that transforms the problem from the seemingly intractably difficult to the surprisingly easy, then it's the parallelism that has caused you embarrassment. Hence embarrassing parallelism.
OK, I got 100% of the Irish woman. But it was kind of cheating that she put the words from the word list up when she was saying it. The word that I didn't understand from the Scottish woman was "theatre".
My native-speaker's grammatical intuition tells me that:
There is a sleeping man under the tree.
is fine but
There is a fishing man by the river bank.
is wrong. Why?
I've thought about this a little, and I've come up with some grammatical hypotheses, but I'd be very grateful if some...
In computer science, a problem that is obviously decomposable into many identical but separate subtasks is called embarrassingly parallel.
An example is a cryptographic brute force attack, in which the algorithm is to independently try billions of random inputs until one works.
But why are they...
My native-speaker's grammatical intuition tells me that:
There is a sleeping man under the tree.
is fine but
There is a fishing man by the river bank.
is wrong. Why?
I've thought about this a little, and I've come up with some grammatical hypotheses, but I'd be very grateful if some...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…