serve it up in english svp

25.V.MCDXXX

Summary: In conclusion, I think search engines like google and other web services / portals should always be served in an international language by default until the language setting is later changed and saved using cookies or whatever.

i hate when software makers start to make guesses for the user that they should not be making.

Most annoying, eg, is how google and other WWW public(?)/free(?) services make guesses about the language I want to read their service in based on the geo location of my IP. (although this is withOUt saved cookies i should disclaim.)

So if i'm a business traveler in myanmar, and tap a query into the search engine from the hotel bar or biz ctr, or try to access other services without saved cookies , i get served in malayo , which i've never learnt or read in my life.

and so even though the entire malayo nation itself has gone thru the trouble of making all its public information available to foreigners in one or moreinternational languages like english or french or chinese. Not so with service providers like google - noooo, they gotta play "smaaart" and guess for you what language You speak ! ... Read more

indepsim disco: three examples

12.II.1430

Independent simultaneous discoveries dept: 3 examples. the 3rd one cuts the deepest.
1. independent and almost simltaneous development of infinitesimal analysis by Mrrs. Newton and Leibniz.

2. Early in the 19th century, Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) and William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) independently and almost simultaneously proposed the idea of defining complex numbers as ordered pairs (a, b) of real numbers endowed with certain special properties. Apostol, Calculus volume I (1967) ch. 9, p. 358.

3. The third ring of Saturn "was first detected by Mr Bond at Cambridge U.S. on November 15, 1850; Mr Dawes, not aware of Mr Bond's discovery, observed it on November 29th, and Mr Lassel a few days -later." Maxwell, Scientific papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Niven ed., Cambridge UP (1890) ch. XIX p. 291.

cf.:
telepathé communication

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information waves - two further notes

- As pulses, sequences of local (one-to-one) information transfer among autonomous agents are better conceived as solitons rather than continuous waves.

- the medium of information transfer which is comprised of constituent agents has a further property of latency (as well as a delay effect in the case of messages incoming from different sources). The latency is not only caused by processing but also by routing decisions - whether and when to pass a message on.

earlier notes on information waves:

informatic notions applied to us macroscopically ... Read more