Posts Tagged ‘future’
Future present perfect
The present excellent tense enables us to say items like “She has been division chair for two months”, or “I’ve recognized him for 10 a long time.”
We frequently see such statements in resumés and biographies. And each and every time the present excellent is used, the predicament it describes is poised to go out of date by the subsequent year or month or day or hour or minute.
Considering that so a lot present day text is digital, designed to be witnessed on-line or in other electronic kind, why don’t we have a way of dealing with this?
For illustration, on-line documents could have a considering that tag, enabling statements like “She has been department chair for XXX months” to remain up to date:
“She has been department chair for <since begin=”november 2012″ unit=”month”>.”
“I’ve acknowledged him for <since begin=�″ unit=”year”>.”
Visit to the future
I was a bit nervous just before my latest talk in Hong Kong, mainly due to the fact my pre-talk preparation time — to calibrate the demo and get almost everything tracking appropriately — was cancelled at the final second, due to a conference scheduling SNAFU. But the show should go on, especially when there are a number of hundred folks in the audience.
Also, they couldn’t get a camera set up until finally about fifteen minutes into the speak, so you miss the components wherever I speak about Will Wright, Gordon Moore, Lance Williams, my dad, C.P. Snow, Myron Krueger, Hiroshi Ishii, Marco Tempest, Arthur C. Clarke, J.K. Rowling, Babak Parviz, Verner Vinge, George Lucas, and the parietal lobe. BTW, the fact that there even is a recording reflects wonderful function by some very challenging-operating tech-support men and women.
All element of the thrill of a reside display! SIGGRAPH Asia has kindly place the video up on YouTube, so you can see, for yourself, my tiny go to to the long term.