Who would've known the rover is a whitesnake fan...
A little image magic gets Curiosity's wheels turning again
The Curiosity Rover is not about to become a nuclear waste dump on Mars as the trundling science lab has become mobile again after a glitch put it in safe mode last week. The root cause of the bug is a little mysterious, but NASA reckons an image transfer mode brought about the glitch, so the agency will avoid using that mode …
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Tuesday 12th July 2016 21:12 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: As the (no doubt made up) Chinese apothegm has it:
Data are plural - or are they?
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Wednesday 13th July 2016 00:09 GMT P. Lee
Re: As the (no doubt made up) Chinese apothegm has it:
>And if a million people use 'data' as if the word were a singular noun, they are still wrong.
I would usually agree with you, but I think it is used as a collective noun rather than a singular noun. Even if not, it is so difficult to determine what is singular in IT.
Take, 65 (decimal) for example. Is it a single byte or is it a collection of 8 bits or is it two nibbles or is it the letter "A"? Perhaps its just part of a word or two digits. In the real world, it may be an abstract concept, whereas in IT, it may be many different things.
So is it a datum or a particular set of data (a collective noun)?
I'm not sure its all that important. What we should really be doing is hating those who use "of" when they mean "from" and those who use "was like" instead of "said" and those who use "like" instead of "um" or "er."
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