www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA8vQegAgmc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtjAB__yaa0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbWq_UYkfBs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBx3fnqeiVI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTbGiLv4D3k
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dhlskojwhM
Если кто-нибудь знает музыку, похожую на один из этих треков - я был бы очень благодарен) Особенно за первую и предпоследнюю.
Время летит как стрела.
Измеряйте скорость мух так, как вы измеряете скорость стрелы.
Измеряйте скорость мух так, как её измеряет стрела.
Измеряйте скорость мух, похожих на стрелу.
Временные мухи любят стрелу.
Из книги "Язык как инстинкт" Стивена Пинкера - из отрывка о разнице восприятия языка машиной и человеком.
This anonymous poem illustrating
many of the problem words for English spelling is believed to have first
appeared in The Times 1936. (???)
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, lough and through?
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird,
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead --
For goodness sake don't call it 'deed'!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear;
And then there's dose and rose and lose --
Just look them up -- and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart --
Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I'd mastered it when I was five!
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They care about you, constantly ask you for your opinion, gently confirm if you are sure...
By the way, that question - "Are you sure you want to...?" I've got a couple of problems with it. Am I sure? What if I'm not? What if I'm an indecisive person? Then what? I am not allowed to use the computer?
The first time some polite program asks me if I am sure - I'm stuck! Because I am a truthful person. Cause I'm not sure, perhaps I forgot to... I don't know, reply someone's email! And you try to remember, what have you forgotten to do!
Are you sure... I am a nervous person, I just try to do what i think is right, but I don't know what's right! I just assume that's the correct thing to do in these circumstances and hope for the best! Of course I am not sure, I am a thinking human being! And you can't be sure of anything these days! Or any days, for this matter... I don't know why I picked on the modern world, I must be getting old and bitter...
So, when I finally have gathered my courage, analysed the situation, weighted all the options and decided to try and close the program - it asks me if I'm sure! What should you do? Should you recite to it the arguments, that you used to make that decision? When someone asks you very calmly, yet with some pressure, if you are sure - they always look like they know something you don't, but they are not allowed to tell you. But they are still trying to help you, so they're gently trying to get you away from the wrong choice you just made! Does my computer know something i don't? What is it? Is something terrible about to happen if I close the program? So I'm sitting in cold sweat, afraid to move, hoping that the computer, maybe, will give me another hint on what to do! Swearing to god, that if I get out of this situation, I'm never going to get close to the damned machine again! It cares about me, yes, it obviously wants to protect me from something, but if not for it - I wouldn't be in this situation in the first place! But you can't do that! Everyone must have a computer now, cause otherwise you are weird old man, who is afraid of technology!
So yes...it is a very stressful thing, so if people now ask me why do I drink or smoke - I just tell them that I have a computer! I have to deal with the stress!
-Я оптимист.
-Почему ты тогда ходишь с такой грустной рожей?
-Потому что реальность не оправдывает моих оптимистичных ожиданий.
Любопытные (важные) вещи в науке. Со Стивеном Хокингом, произносящем вступительную речь)
Серия программ по различным тематикам - машины, медицина...
Первые чудовища - это рык или дыхание, которые вы слышите в тенях. Вы его не видите, только силуэт, мелькающий в темноте. Пока вы в круге - вы в безопасности.
Вторые - вы видите в углу комнаты кого-то, напоминающего человека. В темноте не разобрать. Он медленно идет к вам, и чем ближе он подходит - тем более тускло светит лампочка. Когда он совсем близко - лампочка гаснет"
И вот второй тип меня интересует куда больше. А конкретно - что же такое "Glorious Horror."