Wow, what an ignorant statement. Slashdot frequently posts articles from countries where they don't speak English. Zensursula, HADOPI, Piratpartiet are just three examples at the top of my head.
People post stuff in their native tongue all the time on Slashdot, and have complained about the broken Unicode support for ages.
Slashdot sees itself as a major internet publication, but still lives in a 7-bit world. What is this, 1985?
The word you're looking for is (relational) database management system or RDBMS. You know, software that let's you manage and run queries against databases. Which could be Excel tables, if you're into that kind of stuff.
Leopard let's you search the menu from the (wait for it) help menu. If it finds a match, it will open the menu and display a big, honking pointer next to it.
IHMO, a killer feature for usability. That's real innovation.
In Germany, this could be prosecuted as coercion. However, the organizers figure that if you're gullible enough to go to such a trip in the first place, it's not very likely that you'll press charges.
If you don't wear a backpack or should bag and your shirt can flow freely, you won't arrive smelly. Somebody else already suggested a poncho for rainy days. WRT podcasts, I used to listen to them with only one earbud, so I could still hear the sounds of the road. (I don't anymore, because my ipod is broken and getting them onto my cheap-ass mobile is too much of a hassle.)
Cyclists ignore traffic laws, because the law ignores them. The safety of cars and pedestrians are the priorities, cyclists are not given much thought. I live in Berlin, which is argueably a very bike-friendly city, and I know a few places where cylists are forced to expose themselves unnecessarily if they follow all directions on the road.
Meanwhile, statistics on traffic accidents show that cyclists are not the assholes of the road. For example, in Konstanz, bikes are used as much as cars (the rest take public transportation), yet cyclists are only involved in about 10% of all accidents and the cause for even less.
FYI, from the perspective of the cyclists it makes sense to ignore a red light and enter the intersection when it's clear. That's because studies have shown that cyclists are safer when they enter the intersection before cars going in the same direction.
Personally, I can't think of a reason why I need to come to a complete halt at a stop sign on a bike.
A far cheaper solution for the I-don't-want-to-turn-up-to-work-smelling-of-sweat crowd is to buy a basket or special bike bags that attach to the luggage rack and put their stuff in there.
If you ride with no backpack or shoulder bag the headwind will dissipate your sweat immediately if you only wear a shirt in the summer. Depending on how fast you went, you may develop a strong sweat after you arrive, but that only lasts a minute or so and is mainly on the head, so you can just wipe it away.
In the winter, the many layers of clothes should take care of the problem. If not, all it takes to get rid of the smell is to bring a spare shirt to swap out the lowest layer.
But I guess the smell issue is just a canard. For the distances were the bike is an alternative (let's say 30 minute rides) you have to go really, really fast to arrive smelly.
Tell that to the citizen of Berlin, where 2/3 of the S-Bahn trains had to be pulled for safety concerns, because the company saved money on safety procedures in an effort to make the mother corporation ready for the stock market.
Von der Leyen is CDU (along with SchÃuble), Zypries is SPD.
And the way things are going, with the SPD doing everything they can to lose the election*, von der Leyen will most certainly be part of the next cabinet. She's way to popular to be dropped.
(*) Just yesterday, Steinmeyer, the leading SPD candidate, announced has plan for full employment in 2020. Seriously?! SchrÃder tried to pull this stunt 10 years ago and we all know how that turned out.
The law is also unconstitutional, simply because it touches criminal prosecution and media infrastructure which are responsibilities of the German member states, while the blacklist will be supervised by the federal German police.
In short: The federal government had no legislative competency to pass such a law.
I assume that eventually it will be struck down by the constitutional court. Which shows an alarming tendency of German lawmakers: Passing laws that they themselves not always agree with because of party discipline, while assuming that Karlsruhe (nickname for the court) will fix the mess they make. Pathetic! They also violated EU procedure, by conveniently forgetting to notify the EU commission before the law was passed. (The commission can comment on laws which touch the internet and has the power to change them.) Really shoddy law making. The petition against the law, which broke all records in 4 days was completely ignored and the petitioners demonized by the politicians. Disgusting!
Of course, there's an election coming up in less than 2 month and the whole affair is such a blatant attempt of vote-grabbing, it's really, really sad.
The ballot screen would make it obvious to Windows users that they have a variety of choices when it comes to Web browsing software.
This statement assumes that users actually know what a web browser is or that they care. Of course, users who know and care will install their browser of choice in any case.
The ballot screen would therefore achieve exactly nothing, except perhaps confusing users who aren't as internet-savvy as we would like them to be.
Yeah, unless, of course, it's the blogs that break a story.
Like Monica Lewinsky, Dan Rather's Memogate, the doctored Reuters pictures of bombings in Lebanon, the firing of U.S. prosecutors, "Macaca", etc. etc.
Face it, the relationship between bloggers and the mainstream media is not parasitic anymore, it's symbiotic.
It's true, most blogs (including my twitter feed) contain only marginally useful information, if at all. But so do most newspaper articles or TV shows, that merely recite the stuff fed to them by corporations and governments.
Good investigative journalists are a rare kind. Some of them blog.
Point of fact: Our advanced society would be IMPOSSIBLE if not for the technological advances on food growing,...
That's a myth. The truth is that the organic farming methods can feed the world and then some. The University of Michigan did a meta study and found that while in developed countries organic farming produces a slightly lower yield than conventional methods, it produces almost twice as much in developing countries. (The reason for this disparity escapes me for the moment.)
From the abstract: "With the average yield ratios, we modeled the global food supply that could be grown organically on the current agricultural land base. Model estimates indicate that organic methods could produce enough food on a global per capita basis to sustain the current human population, and potentially an even larger population, without increasing the agricultural land base."
Your point that industrializing space means relying more and more on robots is true.
But.
I want to go to space. I want to see the blue marble. I want to walk on the moon and on mars. If I had 20 mil lying around I'd be on the ISS right now. Screw the non-existing scientific value, the excitement of being in space is worth the cost, IHMO.
I heard that Virgin Galactic plans to offer ballistic trips for 20 grand in the next decade. Sign me up.
Tried it just now, recreating the last tour I took. Unfortunately, most dedicated bike tracks are incomplete and some (non-dedicated) tracks that are printed on my map (ie. normal roads with little traffic) are not there at all.
I've found that a dedicated bike map and Google Earth for towns is the easiest way to plan a bike tour.
At midnight in an unknown town after fighting 3 hours with a bike tire from hell I want to be knocking on stranger's doors and ask for directions instead of firing up Google Maps on my cell and find my way myself. (Wait, that's GSM-nav. Does that count?)
Incidentally, I planned my route with a good old fashioned map, because online resources for bike routes in Germany suck ass.
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You have a kernel panic every 6 weeks on average? Sounds like some of your hardware is buggy.
Complete conjecture based on a very cynical outlook on people is marked Insightful.
Go slashdot!
Wow, what an ignorant statement. Slashdot frequently posts articles from countries where they don't speak English. Zensursula, HADOPI, Piratpartiet are just three examples at the top of my head.
People post stuff in their native tongue all the time on Slashdot, and have complained about the broken Unicode support for ages.
Slashdot sees itself as a major internet publication, but still lives in a 7-bit world. What is this, 1985?
The word you're looking for is (relational) database management system or RDBMS. You know, software that let's you manage and run queries against databases. Which could be Excel tables, if you're into that kind of stuff.
That's good news for Windows users.
Leopard let's you search the menu from the (wait for it) help menu. If it finds a match, it will open the menu and display a big, honking pointer next to it.
IHMO, a killer feature for usability. That's real innovation.
Not really. In her eyes, she was the new-coming upshot replacing his old wife. The other girlfriends were therefore her direct competition.
She might also have, rather suddenly, realized how meaningless all his love-assurances were. That can really hurt.
In Germany, this could be prosecuted as coercion. However, the organizers figure that if you're gullible enough to go to such a trip in the first place, it's not very likely that you'll press charges.
Wo kein KlÃger, da kein Richter.
If you don't wear a backpack or should bag and your shirt can flow freely, you won't arrive smelly. Somebody else already suggested a poncho for rainy days. WRT podcasts, I used to listen to them with only one earbud, so I could still hear the sounds of the road. (I don't anymore, because my ipod is broken and getting them onto my cheap-ass mobile is too much of a hassle.)
Cyclists ignore traffic laws, because the law ignores them. The safety of cars and pedestrians are the priorities, cyclists are not given much thought. I live in Berlin, which is argueably a very bike-friendly city, and I know a few places where cylists are forced to expose themselves unnecessarily if they follow all directions on the road.
Meanwhile, statistics on traffic accidents show that cyclists are not the assholes of the road. For example, in Konstanz, bikes are used as much as cars (the rest take public transportation), yet cyclists are only involved in about 10% of all accidents and the cause for even less.
FYI, from the perspective of the cyclists it makes sense to ignore a red light and enter the intersection when it's clear. That's because studies have shown that cyclists are safer when they enter the intersection before cars going in the same direction.
Personally, I can't think of a reason why I need to come to a complete halt at a stop sign on a bike.
A far cheaper solution for the I-don't-want-to-turn-up-to-work-smelling-of-sweat crowd is to buy a basket or special bike bags that attach to the luggage rack and put their stuff in there.
If you ride with no backpack or shoulder bag the headwind will dissipate your sweat immediately if you only wear a shirt in the summer. Depending on how fast you went, you may develop a strong sweat after you arrive, but that only lasts a minute or so and is mainly on the head, so you can just wipe it away.
In the winter, the many layers of clothes should take care of the problem. If not, all it takes to get rid of the smell is to bring a spare shirt to swap out the lowest layer.
But I guess the smell issue is just a canard. For the distances were the bike is an alternative (let's say 30 minute rides) you have to go really, really fast to arrive smelly.
Hahaha, trains running on time. So funny!
Tell that to the citizen of Berlin, where 2/3 of the S-Bahn trains had to be pulled for safety concerns, because the company saved money on safety procedures in an effort to make the mother corporation ready for the stock market.
You should question your stereotypes.
Von der Leyen is CDU (along with SchÃuble), Zypries is SPD.
And the way things are going, with the SPD doing everything they can to lose the election*, von der Leyen will most certainly be part of the next cabinet. She's way to popular to be dropped.
(*) Just yesterday, Steinmeyer, the leading SPD candidate, announced has plan for full employment in 2020. Seriously?! SchrÃder tried to pull this stunt 10 years ago and we all know how that turned out.
She's probably one of those Internetausdrucker. People who use the web by means of printouts handed to them by their staff.
The law is also unconstitutional, simply because it touches criminal prosecution and media infrastructure which are responsibilities of the German member states, while the blacklist will be supervised by the federal German police.
In short: The federal government had no legislative competency to pass such a law.
I assume that eventually it will be struck down by the constitutional court. Which shows an alarming tendency of German lawmakers: Passing laws that they themselves not always agree with because of party discipline, while assuming that Karlsruhe (nickname for the court) will fix the mess they make. Pathetic! They also violated EU procedure, by conveniently forgetting to notify the EU commission before the law was passed. (The commission can comment on laws which touch the internet and has the power to change them.) Really shoddy law making. The petition against the law, which broke all records in 4 days was completely ignored and the petitioners demonized by the politicians. Disgusting!
Of course, there's an election coming up in less than 2 month and the whole affair is such a blatant attempt of vote-grabbing, it's really, really sad.
From the article:
This statement assumes that users actually know what a web browser is or that they care. Of course, users who know and care will install their browser of choice in any case.
The ballot screen would therefore achieve exactly nothing, except perhaps confusing users who aren't as internet-savvy as we would like them to be.
Yeah, unless, of course, it's the blogs that break a story.
Like Monica Lewinsky, Dan Rather's Memogate, the doctored Reuters pictures of bombings in Lebanon, the firing of U.S. prosecutors, "Macaca", etc. etc.
Face it, the relationship between bloggers and the mainstream media is not parasitic anymore, it's symbiotic.
It's true, most blogs (including my twitter feed) contain only marginally useful information, if at all. But so do most newspaper articles or TV shows, that merely recite the stuff fed to them by corporations and governments.
Good investigative journalists are a rare kind. Some of them blog.
The BIOS and the keyboard are part of the system. You just have to be thorough. ;)
You should be able to spot external hardware keyloggers easily.
The perp won't be able to read the data, unless he installs this rootkit, returns your PC and then steals it again to read the keylogger info.
Easy solution: Wipe the system and restore it from a backup if you suspect your machine has been physically compromised.
That's a myth. The truth is that the organic farming methods can feed the world and then some. The University of Michigan did a meta study and found that while in developed countries organic farming produces a slightly lower yield than conventional methods, it produces almost twice as much in developing countries. (The reason for this disparity escapes me for the moment.)
From the abstract: "With the average yield ratios, we modeled the global food supply that could be grown organically on the current agricultural land base. Model estimates indicate that organic methods could produce enough food on a global per capita basis to sustain the current human population, and potentially an even larger population, without increasing the agricultural land base."
Link: http://www.seedquest.com/News/releases/2007/july/19783.htm
Actually...
According to 2004 report to Congress (linked by Wiki) the new Jericho III missile can reach most of North America.
They also have subs. German made, no less.
Your point that industrializing space means relying more and more on robots is true.
But.
I want to go to space. I want to see the blue marble. I want to walk on the moon and on mars. If I had 20 mil lying around I'd be on the ISS right now. Screw the non-existing scientific value, the excitement of being in space is worth the cost, IHMO.
I heard that Virgin Galactic plans to offer ballistic trips for 20 grand in the next decade. Sign me up.
Tried it just now, recreating the last tour I took. Unfortunately, most dedicated bike tracks are incomplete and some (non-dedicated) tracks that are printed on my map (ie. normal roads with little traffic) are not there at all.
I've found that a dedicated bike map and Google Earth for towns is the easiest way to plan a bike tour.
At midnight in an unknown town after fighting 3 hours with a bike tire from hell I want to be knocking on stranger's doors and ask for directions instead of firing up Google Maps on my cell and find my way myself. (Wait, that's GSM-nav. Does that count?)
Incidentally, I planned my route with a good old fashioned map, because online resources for bike routes in Germany suck ass.
All you need is a witness testifying he spoke to the suspect on the phone.