@Cerberus: I would hesitate to call music a "craft"; it was one of the fine arts (and the quadrivium, to medieval scholars). Now, English grammar—there's a craft. Part of the trivium, from which we get trivia (as well as this bit of trivia, as well you know). — Robusto55 secs ago
A term describing a person who sneaks into the gym without paying, or someone who uses another's gym pass in order to work out. Brad always worked out three times a week, but, being an illegal gymigrant, he never actually paid to use the gym facilities - he just snuck past the front desk.
I'm glad I have started to understand Gameboy advance CPU structure and I feel like I can start to do some coding
But the problem is I need to read http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0210c/DDI0210B.pdf
Guys, I need some elaboration of following statements.
Thumb implements a 16-bit instruction set on a 32-bit architecture to provide: • higher performance than a 16-bit architecture • higher code density than a 32-bit architecture.
Does "high code density" mean 16 bit architecture has more code than 32 bit?
I am (95%) sure it means it has less code than the other but I just want to be sure
@AnujKaithwas In 8 of the 9 examples on the dictionary page that you've linked to, "on the part of" could NOT be correctly replaced with "on behalf of". The meaning is quite different.
And the other example seems like an error to me.
@MattЭллен Yes, a fixed phrase that must be followed by a noun or a gerund, not by a bare infinitive.
> She said: `What is now happening is a reflection of unimaginably outrageous behaviour on the part of the Serbian forces.
That doens't mean "on behalf of" to me. Someone else is not doing the "outrageous behaviour" in place of and for the Serbian forces. The Serbian forces are doing it and "She" is ascribing responsiblility to them.
You understand that in this sentence, it's the British that are perpetrating the ruse, or at least attempting to? It's not someone else doing it on their behalf. So this example doesn't fit the Collins definition at all.
Imperial ambition from Claudius was an undoubted factor.
This example is similar to the first. It is Claudius who has the ambition. It's not somebody else having ambition on Claudius's behalf. So this example also fails to fit the Collins definition.
The context might have been something like this. "The troops invaded the shores of Britain, and proceeded to slaughter everyone they encountered. Imperial ambition on the part of Claudius was an undoubted factor".
In other words, Claudius's ambition to have an empire was an undoubted factor in the Roman invasion of Britain.
I'm kind of inventing history here, but the point is to show you how "undoubted factor" relates to whatever the context of the sentence was.
So, think about the other examples, and see if you can work out which preposition is the best replacement for "on the part of". The only one where "on behalf of" would make any sense at all is "People are more health-conscious on the part of their pets;" which I consider ungrammatical anyway.
I have to go and do something else now anyway. Bye.
The trial court also sentenced the defendant to five life sentences (with parole) and five 15-year sentences for the non-homicide crimes, all of which were to be served consecutive(ly?) to each other and to the sentence for first degree murder.
Finally, the trial court sentenced the defendant...
I like the definition of Samsung on Urban dictionary
samsung
I'm korean. I'm sorry that talk about irrelative 'samsung'. I don't speak English well, but I want to tell you true. Most of korean never eat dog. And most of korean hate them who eat dog. They who eat dog are senior, and will pass away soon. Eating dog will be illegal by law. So, don't biased about Korean. p.s. I have two dogs, and they are our family. I love them. Most koreans never eat dog without few people.(Samsung is company)
2. Samsung
A racially motivated slang term for men of the Asia region. "Hey, Samsung, may I have some more sweet tea?"
@MattЭллен No, that's Crepe Fear. The most horrific birthday party decorations ever.
@Cerberus Yes, if you're starving on a desert island somewhere, I'm sure they could tide you over until you can eat something less disgusting, like a person.
No, I shouldn't be here because I feel like crap. I just found out that the little girl who used to live across the street, one of my daughter's friends, drowned.
@MattЭллен Stunted? We have the biggest and best cookies in the world. We have so many cookies that despite how wonderfully good they are, we destroy millions of them a day so as not to upset the balance of world cookie goodness. In fact the cookie I am eating right nwommmbffmmm I'm ogonmmfffghhhhhmmm to spit out. Because I can. And I can get just get as good a one from all the corner cookie stands.
Maybe it sounds harsh, but it may be harder for you than for your daughter. She's had many new impressions since. Or does she still talk a lot about this girl?
@Mitch I didn't mean stunted, hence the change. I don't deny that they're nice, but you don't get the range with American cookies that you do with British biscuits. Sure, your cookies are sweet, but I can't imagine dipping them in tea, or having one for a snack. They're just too filling and rich. We have all that in the various biscuits, but we also have other, more subtle treats
@ΠαρθΚοχλι Short answer: he's choosing to be a poet, not a drudge.
> The NSA claims it can “discover the users” of VPNs, suggesting, again, that people using encryption or anonymizing tools may find themselves targeted as suspicious merely for attempting to protect the privacy of their communications
@Robusto one solution to that could be to create an online lorem ipsum generator of suspicious text that people could use to spam each other with. Drown the db wth in noise.
@Robusto lol. That's exactly what I read. "Neither did Frost ever mention in the poem that he became a successful dude through the road he chose, nor did he ever say that the road he took was travelled by a lot lesser."
@ΠαρθΚοχλι "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference." Meaning he has had a happy life being a successful poet. In other words, he lucked up.
@Cerberus have you seen the EFF's project to measure browser fingerprinting? Their conclusion: typical destkop browsers can be uniquely identified using a variety of criteria.
Hmm, he does say that he chose the one less traveled by, but... what about... "Though as for that the passing there, Had worn them really about the same"
@Cerberus you assume there is such a thing as commercially available encryption that the NSA can't compromise. Also they wouldn't need to store all the data. only the parts they care about. If they can achieve real-time decryption, that's easy.
Consider for example what we know about Stuxnet and Flame. I believe they didn't use any fraudulent keys that they had taken from the key issuers by force.
@Robusto I don't know...it's still a bureaucratic organisation, and they like to brag when they're not speaking in public. They're probably a whole lot less effective than they would like people to think.
In fact, they were able to tap into all of Soviet military communications just by positioning a submarine next to an underwater relay point and hooking in. (Actual details may vary, but it was something that low-concept.)
It's not the super-amazing whiz-bang stuff that gets you. It's the low-level vulnerability you didn't know existed.
@Cerberus Even if you do encrypt your communications. Look at Germany's "uncrackable" Enigma machine, and how that was broken almost from the beginning. Look at the U.S. routinely breaking the various encrypted communications of the Japanese during WWII.
> Every Japanese code was eventually broken, and the intelligence gathered made possible such operations as the victorious American ambush of the Japanese Navy at Midway and the shooting down of Isoroku Yamamoto in Operation Vengeance.
@Cerberus They did use good encryption. But the stuff was cracked anyway because of low-level hints that gave the cryptologists clues about what to look for.
@Alraxite "I'm just curious as to what it's about . . ." or "I'm just curious what it's about . . ." or any of a number of constructions would work. What you have sounds awkward.
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