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Living Room / Re: for the past 50 years, American students were taught bullshit

« Last post by kartal on April 19, 2009, 12:27 PM »

There is no difference between you and uneducated person. Statistical differences are artificial. An educated person might know 10.000 words meanwhile so called uneducated person might know only 2000. It makes no difference and should not be used to create "division" among societies.

So are you saying that a myth or story written or told by an african tribe that only uses 500 words cannot be called art of man? I think you might be surprised to know how much knowledge and wisdom can be fit in couple words or sentences. By making such claims you are blocking those people`s chance to create something.

I know it is very hard to convince some educated people about these issues because whole point of education is to season and structure people. I am not against education or something but sometimes I feel like people who call themslves educated became more strict and less free thinkers during their education when it comes to issues like that. Unfortunately critical thinking is not part of our perfect education systems and classes.

There is a right way to talk any language called the natural way which is learned and practiced by human cognition unconsciously. I support any attempt to understand such process, I am just against social, political and humanistic implications of those results. I hope it makes sense


 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: "%cliptext%" fails sometimes

« Last post by kartal on April 19, 2009, 12:13 PM »

mouser I reinstalled my system so far it seems to work better. In my previous installation it was not picking up the selected text at all times. Sometimes it would copy sometimes it would have used the source from the clipboard(so no copy %cliptext%)

I will let you know if I see the anomaly gain.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: CZB pack

« Last post by kartal on April 19, 2009, 12:11 PM »

Mouser, I have no isea either this is a fresh new system really.

Czb I will let you know if I have more clear situation. I know it is really hard to make a judgement when the user comes up with vague untestable situations like mine. I was hoping that someone else migh have had it and found a solution.

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Living Room / Re: for the past 50 years, American students were taught bullshit

« Last post by kartal on April 19, 2009, 12:07 PM »

Again, you are using someone else`s authority to prove a point meanwhile my whole point was opposite of that. Grammar is a reverse engineering process and it will never be a perfect copy of the original language.

Most of the literature mankind admire were written in times when grammar was not imposed on man like this. I hope it makes sense.

Having lived in the States for a while I see that especially here the English grammar is imposed on people and used as a tool to create unintentional class divisions and social lines. Because it ends up like those who can speak the language well(means those who follows the grammar) and those who can`t.

In last 200 years the mankind learned alot more about languages, sounds, grammar etc and but are we speaking better than those who did 2000-1000 years ago?  The more you try to talk a perfect language the more robotic it would be. And compared to the words of past I am sure many will recognize  how infertile our language structures has become, in our native tongues or others.


No child in the world learn a language through grammar and elitist rules. There is really no grammar there are only organic vague patterns in languages and those patterns should not be imposed on people. And those are the patterns picked up by children naturally. Do you think that Mr Pinker learned the universal grammar before the English language when he was 2 years old?




 

i'm out of touch, but having read things like Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct some years back i don't think it's right to say grammar is an artificial construct. Seems quite innate, with an underlying "universal" grammar that all languages grow from.

(i'm sure there will be DCer's around here that know far more about it. i bet Mr. Pinker isn't even the champion of that movement anymore.)

edit:
Erm, is "universal grammar" Chomsky's thing? i know i've heard it somewhere.

-nudone (April 19, 2009, 06:09 AM)

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Living Room / Re: for the past 50 years, American students were taught bullshit

« Last post by kartal on April 19, 2009, 01:16 AM »

Actually grammar is a relative construct by human beings, it is unnatural. I would  say that do not rely on grammar much. Grammar kills the language and puts it in a box. Grammar is elitist and creates class division.  Let languages flourish as they want to be. I hope it makes sense. I am an anti-grammar guy, really  

Forced grammar rules makes sense only for artificial languages like computer languages(since you want to make sure that machines understand them ). Grammar should be studied as scientific study no question about it. But the learned facts from such studies should not be imposed on people. It is dictatorial in some sense to me. Some guys claim to be an expert on language start dictating what is right what is wrong. In fact anyone who can speak a language could be called an expert on that language since you cannot use a tool unless you know how to use it.

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Living Room / Re: Scratch - A Game Programming Language For Children

« Last post by kartal on April 18, 2009, 11:18 PM »

I was playing around with this, quite neat actually.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Microsoft releases SmallBasic for Newbie Programmers

« Last post by kartal on April 18, 2009, 10:37 PM »

Because of .net versions uninstalling mess I needed to reinstall my entire system today. I am not sure if I have any love left for .net. I know what that "." stands for now.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: CZB pack

« Last post by kartal on April 18, 2009, 05:00 PM »

None of these plugins load on my system here. I can run the fssc command but the plugin list is empty under farr plugin menu (this is a fresh winx64 system install btw)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Help, 2 of my favorite plugins are crashing FARR (alttab, calendar)

« Last post by kartal on April 17, 2009, 08:08 PM »

What is your OS?

-sgtevmckay (April 17, 2009, 07:51 PM)

Can`t you tell? It is windows xp 64bit sp1

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Help, 2 of my favorite plugins are crashing FARR (alttab, calendar)

« Last post by kartal on April 17, 2009, 07:50 PM »

"C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis.exe -i' complaints that I do not have IIS installed having a real MS nightmare here today, catch22 all the way

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Help, 2 of my favorite plugins are crashing FARR (alttab, calendar)

« Last post by kartal on April 17, 2009, 07:47 PM »

sgtevmckay

I have already tried all those methods, none has seemed to success so far

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Help, 2 of my favorite plugins are crashing FARR (alttab, calendar)

« Last post by kartal on April 17, 2009, 05:33 PM »

skajfes I was trying to say that non c# plugins work fine and obviously it has to do with C# plugins because FARREnvironmentVariables  crashes Farr as well.

I cannot uninstall .net2 damn WIndows does not let me uninstall or reinstall

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Help, 2 of my favorite plugins are crashing FARR (alttab, calendar)

« Last post by kartal on April 17, 2009, 04:24 PM »

skajfes

the .js plugins work fine. But not the ones reference c# I think. How can I check the integrity of c# libraries on my system?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Help, 2 of my favorite plugins are crashing FARR (alttab, calendar)

« Last post by kartal on April 17, 2009, 11:41 AM »

Same thing, Farr crashes. I am %100 sure that some of the libraries used by those plugins might be corrupted because I have couple other programs that crash. The situation isolated to couple others but it is hard for me to figure out. Can you tell me which libraries you might have used under Windows? I wonder if it is possible to debug Farr and these plugins?


The thing is that Farr crashes when I try to invoke it not when I run it first time. So probably that is when Farr checks for existence of plugins then boom it crashes without much error detail.  Here is the useless error message.

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Find And Run Robot / Help, 2 of my favorite plugins are crashing FARR (alttab, calendar)

« Last post by kartal on April 17, 2009, 03:11 AM »

I know this has nothing to do with the plugins themselves because they were working fine. I just restarted and Farr does not want to work as long as I have the calendar and the alttab plugins are installed. I guess something is corrupted in the  windows installation that it is creating this mess here. I tried reinstalling microsoft c++ distributions but that did not resolve anything for me. Is there anything else I can do to make Farr working again with these plugins? These are the 2 I was using mainly really as far as plugin use goes.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Python newbie question

« Last post by kartal on April 15, 2009, 06:41 PM »

Thanks for assistance guys, I am giving up at this point. I think I will use some kind of 2d image library to print results on a canvas.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Python newbie question

« Last post by kartal on April 15, 2009, 06:05 PM »

Well this was from Python`s native console. I am not sure if it supports or not really. I am using Pythong Ide Idle for this example.

Which console software would support control codes? Any free ones out there?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Python newbie question

« Last post by kartal on April 15, 2009, 04:06 PM »

ok this is getting weird. Here is a screenshot from idle running with ',' and without it. First one is with a comma, second(vertical) is without

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Developer's Corner / Re: Python newbie question

« Last post by kartal on April 15, 2009, 12:45 PM »

Hi

here is the kind of code i have implemented to test it, and it is not working for me. It just prints all in a new line. I have tried it under Idle as well.

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a=0
while (1):
    a=a+1
    if a>20:
        break
    print str(a)+'\r'

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Developer's Corner / Windows help file argument passing

« Last post by kartal on April 15, 2009, 12:05 PM »

Hi

I am trying to figure out a way to pass arguments(for example keywords) to hh.exe so that I can start the helps file in index, search or certain topic mode. I cannot find any real solution. Does anyone know of any solution or suggestions?


thanks

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Developer's Corner / Re: Python newbie question

« Last post by kartal on April 15, 2009, 02:09 AM »

well the code works but it does not do anything useful regarding what I was asking for. It prints the output on the same line rather than replacing the line(the line keeps getting bigger) content, at least here under my python 2.5 (32bit)

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Developer's Corner / Re: Python newbie question

« Last post by kartal on April 15, 2009, 12:50 AM »

Ehtyar 
that code did not work here and it looks lke it was quite old. SO far I could not find any solution.

The reason I want to use the console is that it makes me keep things single. I am trying to make sure that my code works nice and easy for now A gui is definetely needed but it looks like too much coding and complication for me. Althout I have found the oa Constructor to be as a nice easy gui-python developement environment. I have not tried it fully but its gui construction kit looks sufficient.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Python IDE

« Last post by kartal on April 14, 2009, 10:36 AM »

After trying many different Ides , I ended up liking Pyscripter and Komodo edit. I actually would like to give up Komodo edit and just use Pyscripter but the problem is that Pyscripter seems to have issues with importing modules. Once in a while a code that works on another would not work in Pyscripter or it would frequently crash. Does anyone else have these kinds of issues with Pyscripter?

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Find And Run Robot / Farr fails to launch html files

« Last post by kartal on April 13, 2009, 11:48 PM »

Hi

Whenever I browse a folder with a html file in and I try to  launch the html file , it never opens the file not even outside of Farr. I can open the file fine inside explorer but not from Farr.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug report] about html view

« Last post by kartal on April 13, 2009, 11:34 PM »

This one does not work for me. Actually none seems to work

i think your original line was a mistake.  you should have used (and this still works for me):
showfilehtml C:\_common\test\index.htm

can you try that and see if it works?

-mouser (March 12, 2009, 08:16 AM)