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Tieng Anh Vui
"Facts are stupid things."...
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Word Families
In English ,words that are made from the same root by adding different suffixes or negative prefixes called "world families". (Adding other prefixes to roots makes bigger changes in meaning. The words are still related, but not as closely.) Below is an example-- the word family 'act.'
A Word Family: Act
Verbs : act ,activate ,actuate,deactivateNouns :act,action,activation,activity,actor, actress,deactivation,inaction,inactivity Adjectives:actionable,activated,active,deactivated,inactive Adverbs:activelyRelated families with the same root and suffi...
Friedrich Nietzsche
"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."...
Jean-Paul Sartre
"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Research | Copyrighted software promotes growth
Việt Nam có thói quen sử dùng phần mềm không bản quyền ( phần mềm chùa ) , nhiều người vẫn tranh luận với lý do “ tiết kiệm “ . Bỏ qua các tranh cãi về đạo đức, trách nhiệm,. nghiên cứu dưới đây chỉ ra rằng việc sử dụng phần mềm có bản quyền là 1 lợi ích kinh tế cho đất nước. Each 1% increase in the number of copyrighted software will generate an extra US$50 million for Vietnam, says a research project conducted by the Software Alliance (BSA) in collaboration with the U.S.-based business school INSEAD. The research, whose results were published on Tuesday, is to prove that the extensive use of copyrighted software is meaningful to the economy of a nation. It is based on the data on software production and consumption collected from 95 countries, including...
Tallulah Bankhead
"They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum."...
Monday, February 11, 2013
James Thurber
"I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm."...
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