Well,
here in germany you can start working after having finished school. For the lower education levels this can be as low as 14.
Ideally that would be an apprenticeship, but in these times a lot of people arent picky.
Ok, i didnt RTFA, but this sounds more like propaganda or maybe even a way for apple to get out of contracts on moral grounds.
15 year old "kids" working is child labour?
I also worked in the school holidays at that age.
Anyone even considered that they may already have finished school?
Depending on the school-system (entering at age 5 and having 8-9 years of school) they may well be lucky to get a job straight after school.
I dont like the idea of patenting ideas.
Software just implements ideas, algorythms and methods.
Everything that can be done via software can be done by a human, pen and paper, given a sufficient amount of time.
And yes, i like "others work to be free", just as i like "my work beeing free". I have spent more time on my personal open source projects than on commercial projects.
You mean Apples multi-touch patent?
Lets see, multi touch was used before that on touchpads.
Capactitive touchscreens existed prior to the patent.
But for some reason Apple get a patent to use multi touch on a touchscreen, thereby forcing other vendors to filter and ignore data delivered by the touch screen.
Not enforcable in Europe, beeing a pure software patent and i cant see how such a patent can be granted since its it actually places restrictions on the interpretation of data provided by a hardware device.
Bullshit.
There is only 1 way to verify the key. Check it against the database of released keys (and only Blizzard has that database, obviously).
The key checking algorhythm can easily be reversed via a debugger and a couple of well placed break points.
USD rose, while GBP and EUR dropped. what was your point again?
Lets try to recall this. 30 years ago the dollar was worth 2 german marks. The ratio mark to euro is fixed 2:1. The euro is worth 1,5 dollars.
Thats a factor of 6 (or 6% annuall loss for the dollar, average over 30 years).
The dollar has been on a constant decline, with just short periods behaving differently.
If you want to see the definition of paper 'money', look no further than the Euro. Gold reserves? nope.
Gold reserves Euro-zone 10,856.9, USA 8,133.5 tonnes. Source
Natural resources? nope.
You mean, like recently discovered indium deposits in germany, totaling nearly 5% of the worlds reserves? Well, not economicly feasible to mine that yet, but i guess you prefer genocide instead of paying more for electronics.
Expanding economy? nope - contracting.
Germany is nearly out of the global recession. And the rest of europe isnt doing worth than the states.
Global superpower? nope.
You mean europeans dont run around the globe guns blazings making dicks of themselves (anymore)?
Oil - nope, all of Europe's oil-rich countries were too smart to get bogged down in the Euro.
I have a modest proposal. Give me a hundred billion dollars. I'll make sure there are spinoffs, science every day, and people living in the harsh reaches of space. Then I'll squander the other 90% of the funds. We both win. You get your science and I get 90 billion dollars.
Ill come back to you as soon as i find someone willing to pay a trillion dollars for that science stuff.
Really all you said about the Nokia 9000 is that it can run Linux. Who wants to do that on their cell phone?
Well, cant speak for everyone, but this is the first i thinking about getting a mobile phone again.
Havent had a mobile phone for like 3 years now, and i really enjoy not being reachable all the time.
But this isnt just a Linux kernel. Its a fully blown version with GTK and QT. So you can easily adapt pretty much every program you use on you normal linux box.
Oh, and next thing youre gonna tell me is that Windows has a higher market share than Linux?
Actually i dont know if theres any way to get real, hard numbers.
But im sure that a LOT more machines run Windows NT (or even 3.1) than Win7. Quite a lot of vending machines run those OSes. Ive also seen quite a few dart machines running good ol DOS.
Linux seems to have the upper hand in quite a few areas though, pretty much everything thats network-enabled, not just DSL-routers.
Seriously,
im surprised no one mentioned that yet. Quake Live is the good old quake 3 arena on the web. In runs just fine on Linux and isnt a strain on the gfx card.
Yeah, just think what those guys thought when they saw the code.
"Wow, assembler code."
"It must be highly optimized."
"Told you it was a good idea to buy it."
I think you have a point.
Aside from getting some real advantages from building a moon colony it does reduce effects Murphy could have. Something goes terribly bad on the moon base? Well, should be possible to get help there in a matter of days.
Something goes wrong on mars? Here take some shovels and dig your graves.
Personally I don't think it should matter how exactly it communicates with your code - what makes launching a process any different from a function call here?
It makes a big difference. If you wrote a webserver licensed under GPL you couldnt require that every browser has to be licensed under the GPL since they effectivly make GPL covered system calls on your side.
If you devide your application into a core that uses GPL libraries and a client that communicates e.g. via sockets you wouldnt have a problem with the proprietary code. Likewise i can see the possibility of adding open plugins into a proprietary application and vice versa.
Every mistake we uncover brings us closer to the truth, so that the next mistake we uncover is unlikely to be as big as the one we just did.
Its more like every new major discovery destroys the upheld fundamental picture of the universe.
The article is saying that even if those limits are not broken, we probably would have content with alien species, if there were at least 10 of them in the galaxy. If those limits could be broken, then the number must be even lower.
Absolute bullshit. How about i pull some random numbers out of my ass.
There are about 5000 civilisations in our galaxy.
Most of them struggled in some large war over resources and fell back into an aggrarian society, never to touch advanced technology again.
The few dozen spezies that actually developed renewable energy sources colonised their own solar system and never ventured further, was too much of a hassle to leave it. And btw, what are the chances of asteroids striking every inhabited world simultanously.
And well, members of the three civilisations that decided to break these limits are watching this discussion in cloaked ships in orbit and laughing their asses off.
Slashdot Mirror
looking for Doom-players, who want to maximise their impact on society.
Well,
here in germany you can start working after having finished school. For the lower education levels this can be as low as 14.
Ideally that would be an apprenticeship, but in these times a lot of people arent picky.
Ok, i didnt RTFA, but this sounds more like propaganda or maybe even a way for apple to get out of contracts on moral grounds.
15 year old "kids" working is child labour?
I also worked in the school holidays at that age.
Anyone even considered that they may already have finished school?
Depending on the school-system (entering at age 5 and having 8-9 years of school) they may well be lucky to get a job straight after school.
unique so far?
I dont like the idea of patenting ideas.
Software just implements ideas, algorythms and methods.
Everything that can be done via software can be done by a human, pen and paper, given a sufficient amount of time.
And yes, i like "others work to be free", just as i like "my work beeing free". I have spent more time on my personal open source projects than on commercial projects.
-1 Fanboi can not has truth
i guess
You mean Apples multi-touch patent?
Lets see, multi touch was used before that on touchpads.
Capactitive touchscreens existed prior to the patent.
But for some reason Apple get a patent to use multi touch on a touchscreen, thereby forcing other vendors to filter and ignore data delivered by the touch screen.
Not enforcable in Europe, beeing a pure software patent and i cant see how such a patent can be granted since its it actually places restrictions on the interpretation of data provided by a hardware device.
Bullshit.
There is only 1 way to verify the key. Check it against the database of released keys (and only Blizzard has that database, obviously).
The key checking algorhythm can easily be reversed via a debugger and a couple of well placed break points.
Everybody outside of the tech world knows what an iPhone is.
Actually not everyone outside the tech world knows what Apple is.
Everything is illegal in Germany.
Bullshit. Only if its usefull for anything.
Otherwise the chances of it being illegal are merely high.
USD rose, while GBP and EUR dropped. what was your point again?
Lets try to recall this. 30 years ago the dollar was worth 2 german marks. The ratio mark to euro is fixed 2:1. The euro is worth 1,5 dollars. Thats a factor of 6 (or 6% annuall loss for the dollar, average over 30 years). The dollar has been on a constant decline, with just short periods behaving differently.
If you want to see the definition of paper 'money', look no further than the Euro. Gold reserves? nope.
Gold reserves Euro-zone 10,856.9, USA 8,133.5 tonnes. Source
Natural resources? nope.
You mean, like recently discovered indium deposits in germany, totaling nearly 5% of the worlds reserves? Well, not economicly feasible to mine that yet, but i guess you prefer genocide instead of paying more for electronics.
Expanding economy? nope - contracting.
Germany is nearly out of the global recession. And the rest of europe isnt doing worth than the states.
Global superpower? nope.
You mean europeans dont run around the globe guns blazings making dicks of themselves (anymore)?
Oil - nope, all of Europe's oil-rich countries were too smart to get bogged down in the Euro.
Damn you Switzerland, why didnt you join...
Well,
i must say i was most impressed with the idea of keeping 90% and delegating the work...
I have a modest proposal. Give me a hundred billion dollars. I'll make sure there are spinoffs, science every day, and people living in the harsh reaches of space. Then I'll squander the other 90% of the funds. We both win. You get your science and I get 90 billion dollars.
Ill come back to you as soon as i find someone willing to pay a trillion dollars for that science stuff.
But Carpal Tunnel is his primary god!
Really all you said about the Nokia 9000 is that it can run Linux. Who wants to do that on their cell phone?
Well, cant speak for everyone, but this is the first i thinking about getting a mobile phone again.
Havent had a mobile phone for like 3 years now, and i really enjoy not being reachable all the time.
But this isnt just a Linux kernel. Its a fully blown version with GTK and QT. So you can easily adapt pretty much every program you use on you normal linux box.
.. of nine.
Oh, and next thing youre gonna tell me is that Windows has a higher market share than Linux?
Actually i dont know if theres any way to get real, hard numbers.
But im sure that a LOT more machines run Windows NT (or even 3.1) than Win7. Quite a lot of vending machines run those OSes. Ive also seen quite a few dart machines running good ol DOS.
Linux seems to have the upper hand in quite a few areas though, pretty much everything thats network-enabled, not just DSL-routers.
Whats the problem?
The x in C++0x isnt decimal, its hexadecimal.
Ill second that. One of the best strategy games of all times.
Seriously, im surprised no one mentioned that yet. Quake Live is the good old quake 3 arena on the web. In runs just fine on Linux and isnt a strain on the gfx card.
Yeah, just think what those guys thought when they saw the code.
"Wow, assembler code."
"It must be highly optimized."
"Told you it was a good idea to buy it."
I think you have a point.
Aside from getting some real advantages from building a moon colony it does reduce effects Murphy could have. Something goes terribly bad on the moon base? Well, should be possible to get help there in a matter of days.
Something goes wrong on mars? Here take some shovels and dig your graves.
Yeah, sure sucks, doesnt it. /dev/random.
Got 5 years for not providing the the encryption key for
Personally I don't think it should matter how exactly it communicates with your code - what makes launching a process any different from a function call here?
It makes a big difference. If you wrote a webserver licensed under GPL you couldnt require that every browser has to be licensed under the GPL since they effectivly make GPL covered system calls on your side.
If you devide your application into a core that uses GPL libraries and a client that communicates e.g. via sockets you wouldnt have a problem with the proprietary code. Likewise i can see the possibility of adding open plugins into a proprietary application and vice versa.
Every mistake we uncover brings us closer to the truth, so that the next mistake we uncover is unlikely to be as big as the one we just did.
Its more like every new major discovery destroys the upheld fundamental picture of the universe.
The article is saying that even if those limits are not broken, we probably would have content with alien species, if there were at least 10 of them in the galaxy. If those limits could be broken, then the number must be even lower.
Absolute bullshit. How about i pull some random numbers out of my ass.
There are about 5000 civilisations in our galaxy.
Most of them struggled in some large war over resources and fell back into an aggrarian society, never to touch advanced technology again.
The few dozen spezies that actually developed renewable energy sources colonised their own solar system and never ventured further, was too much of a hassle to leave it. And btw, what are the chances of asteroids striking every inhabited world simultanously.
And well, members of the three civilisations that decided to break these limits are watching this discussion in cloaked ships in orbit and laughing their asses off.