I went mountain climbing in Ecuador a few years ago and it was the same story there too. We had to go almost 1k higher in order to find the glacier than we should have. The mountains we climbed have always been permanent snow covered peaks according to local custom but are looking like they will be bear rock within a decade if the current temperatures continue.
Here are a couple of past-present pictures of European glaciers taken from the same viewpoint.
Besides the influence on climate from the glaciers (reflecting sunlight) we're also losing a huge historical climate archive, if glaciers, thousands of years old, melt.
Take a look at this article about Germany's electricity situation. This is a country where greens have had good success with getting rid of nuclear power, and riding the Fukushima wave. They are starting 25 new coal power plants that are even hyped as "clean" (because they have "high" electrical energy efficiency of 43%).
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/08/31/germany-insane-or-just-plain-stupid/
Oh dear, that article is so full of obvious bias... just one small fact, that article happens to happily ignore: you don't apply for, plan and build a (coal) power plant within a couple of month, as the article implies by stating "Germany is building about 25 clean coal-fired power plants to offset the loss of nuclear". All those coal plants were scheduled to be build a long time ago and have nothing to do with Germany trying to utilized 100% renewable energy.
Forbes as a reliable source for ecological... you tell me.
Right. That's my take on it, too. I was (and still am) interested in Anno 2070, but refused to buy it to this date, although it has been on holiday sale on Steam this season.
Let's see if a) it's true at all and b) they will patch their earlier games (say from the last 2-3 years) accordingly.
"Synergy" is a perfect example. The problem isn't so much MBA-types using it wrong, but using it (and other buzzwords) in an euphemistic way. Usually the term "synergy" translates to "lay off half of the stuff".
Facts serve the process of coming up with an opinion. Same facts can be weighted differently by different people. Given fact A and B, you value A > B, while for me B > A. That doesn't make A or B invalid or "untrue". It's our life experience that leads to different conclusions based on the same facts.
From a UI perspective there is nothing really wrong with the ribbon, it's just unfamiliar when you first use it.
I've been forced to use Office 2010 for a year know and I still can't find the simplest actions.
Overall I don't think it is any better or worse than a traditional menu system.
It is worse, because it feels like MS made keyboard navigation willingly more complex and uncomfortable than before. And which UI genius thought that the all-over-the-place-popping-up-letters when you press ALT was "good design"? It confuses more than it helps.
Juries have their place in a legal system; they're there to decide on simple questions of fact, and whether a reasonable person might do something. But there is a reason why there are very few jurisdictions have 'traditional' juries involved in anything but serious criminal cases (iirc Germany doesn't use them at all).
You're right that there's no jury in Germany (any longer). But we had them until 1924. We now have what is called "Schwurgericht" (trivia: the name stems from the fact that there once were juries in Germany. "Schwur" (=oath) relates to "Geschworene" (= jury member)).
A Schwurgericht consists of three official judges and two Schöffen, the later basically being "layman judges". They have all rights and duties of the official judges. The idea behind them is to introduce "common sense" into trials.
For a national service like the BBC where everyone in the UK has to pay for, this means that they should program shows that as many people in their audience as possible like, and with it get the highest overall ratings (in both viewership and quality rating). This way the people that pay for the service get the most value for their money.
This is basically what commercial broadcasters do already: they program primarily popular content, as they want as many people as possible to watch their channel, so they have more viewers for their advertisements.
The difference is that commercial stations need the revenue NOW, whereas public broadcasting like BBC has a certain income-stream. That let's them develop and air formats, which need time to develop. They're less likely to cancel a show after just a few episodes aired, because the rating dropped (or wasn't high enough from the start), if they know the show will pick up "speed" later on and the first season(s) are there to build up the setting.
Commercial stations OTOH cancel shows mid-season, shuffle their broadcast time around as they see fit. They're also less likely to air critical documentaries, because ad-buying companies might be pissed off and cancel their advertising.
This story is about the German government, right? That's in Europe, isn't it? I thought everything in Europe was peaches and cream and enlightenment, and stuff we defined as "bad" only happened in the backwards old United States.
Yeah, but don't you remember that France and Germany are part of Old Europe? In terms of badness, that's right besides Sweden (remember? home of those ebil file-sharing pirates) and only slightly above North Korea and Cuba, I guess.
Everytime you read the equivalent of "self-regulating" in a law, you know that lobbyists have again won a battle against citizens and democracy and that this regulation isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
Usually, no trademark issues are raised when the two companies' activities are so different.
IANAL, but I did a quick WIPO search for "Metro" and Metro AG turned up there with "computers and computer software".
Normally (German here) I'd not relate "Metro" and "software", but as we've all learned the hard way, trademarks > reality. And MS perhaps thought better be safe than sorry, taking into account that Metro AG isn't a 'lil Mom & Pop shop, but Germany's WalMart so they have the means to fight it out in court, if they feel so.
Don't have a credit card, so I can neither obtain Books for Kindle, nor Apps from Google Play Store.
easy solution (if you want one for those purchases): Get yourself a virtual one, i.e. WireCardBank.com. Bonus benefit: it's a prepaid credit card. A scammer therefore can't rip off more from you than you keep on that card.
VB6 compiler produces mainly interpretive code, not native code.
Wrong. VB5 introduced native code compilation and VB6 continued to do so. The default option for a new project was P-Code, but one click in the project's properties changed that. But a lot of programmers did not understand when to pick P-Code over native compile. The later would only make a noticable difference if your code did heavy computation (aka "number crunching"). People expecting performance gains from native code for their DB queries failed to realize their their borked SQL statement or underpowered DB server can't be solved by a VB native code executable.
Which shows again: it's not the paintbrush - it's the artist! I can't tell you ho many VB sample code I've seen over the years, both on MDSN and from commercial components, where you had something like this in it...
Dim a, b, c As Long
... without an accompanying...
DefLng A-Z
... and expecting a and b to be of Long data type, too. Or using Variant string functions (Mid, Left, Right) instead of String string functions (Mid$, Left$, Right$) and then lament on how "slow and inefficent" VB is.
This shows that a lot of people who were complaining about VB didn't know how to use it properly.
Same here. And everything that VB6 can't do or "needs a 'lil help with", I'm adding with PowerBASIC (PB). My programs are typical inhouse programs: Retrieve data from A, convert/calculate/transform it, store it back to A or pass it over to B.
If my time would permit (programming is only part of my job's duty), I'd replace every VB application with a complete PB counterpart. Unfortunately that's still not the case, but I'm working on it. I just wish PB would hire someone to write a decent IDE. The compiler is a masterpiece (and doesn't need to fear the comparison with any other language), the IDE... not so.
because a criminal would have been more likely just to wipe the whole drive just to be pricks.
I don't think so. That would be the reaction of a wanna-be-real-hax0rs script kiddie. But a professional criminal would leave the system up and running, because with a crash like that, even the most stupid user would recognize it and perhaps ask someone more knowledgeable to "have a look at it", which in turn could reveal the real reason for the crash. No, leave as silent as you came in is a criminal's best bet to go by unnoticed.
To people like us, the contributions of Tim and Vint are more widely-recognized as the contributions which directly led to the internet existing today.
Ummm.. dude. She's, at least, the most famous female aviator of that era.
Well, famous, maybe. But that's due to political correctness, I guess. Hanna Reitsch for example has some similar achievements listed, but I guess due to her being a test pilot for Nazi planes and therefore a darling of them, that makes her not one to brag out.
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Here are a couple of past-present pictures of European glaciers taken from the same viewpoint.
Besides the influence on climate from the glaciers (reflecting sunlight) we're also losing a huge historical climate archive, if glaciers, thousands of years old, melt.
Oh dear, that article is so full of obvious bias ... just one small fact, that article happens to happily ignore: you don't apply for, plan and build a (coal) power plant within a couple of month, as the article implies by stating "Germany is building about 25 clean coal-fired power plants to offset the loss of nuclear". All those coal plants were scheduled to be build a long time ago and have nothing to do with Germany trying to utilized 100% renewable energy.
Forbes as a reliable source for ecological ... you tell me.
Right. That's my take on it, too. I was (and still am) interested in Anno 2070, but refused to buy it to this date, although it has been on holiday sale on Steam this season.
Let's see if a) it's true at all and b) they will patch their earlier games (say from the last 2-3 years) accordingly.
"Synergy" is a perfect example. The problem isn't so much MBA-types using it wrong, but using it (and other buzzwords) in an euphemistic way. Usually the term "synergy" translates to "lay off half of the stuff".
Facts serve the process of coming up with an opinion. Same facts can be weighted differently by different people. Given fact A and B, you value A > B, while for me B > A. That doesn't make A or B invalid or "untrue". It's our life experience that leads to different conclusions based on the same facts.
I've been forced to use Office 2010 for a year know and I still can't find the simplest actions.
It is worse, because it feels like MS made keyboard navigation willingly more complex and uncomfortable than before. And which UI genius thought that the all-over-the-place-popping-up-letters when you press ALT was "good design"? It confuses more than it helps.
You're right that there's no jury in Germany (any longer). But we had them until 1924. We now have what is called "Schwurgericht" (trivia: the name stems from the fact that there once were juries in Germany. "Schwur" (=oath) relates to "Geschworene" (= jury member)).
A Schwurgericht consists of three official judges and two Schöffen, the later basically being "layman judges". They have all rights and duties of the official judges. The idea behind them is to introduce "common sense" into trials.
I agree. "Transforming the world" is clearly the realm of Fantasy, like LotR, Holy Bible, Koran etc.
The difference is that commercial stations need the revenue NOW, whereas public broadcasting like BBC has a certain income-stream. That let's them develop and air formats, which need time to develop. They're less likely to cancel a show after just a few episodes aired, because the rating dropped (or wasn't high enough from the start), if they know the show will pick up "speed" later on and the first season(s) are there to build up the setting.
Commercial stations OTOH cancel shows mid-season, shuffle their broadcast time around as they see fit. They're also less likely to air critical documentaries, because ad-buying companies might be pissed off and cancel their advertising.
Yeah, but don't you remember that France and Germany are part of Old Europe? In terms of badness, that's right besides Sweden (remember? home of those ebil file-sharing pirates) and only slightly above North Korea and Cuba, I guess.
We don't know their contracts, but it can very well be the case that there's a clause in there like "Not allowed to sell shares while employed here".
Just look what a perverted meaning "liberal" now has and you know that dropping Latin and Greek perhaps wasn't such a good idea after all. ;-)
Advertising is a problem, because advertising is just en euphemism for lying.
Everytime you read the equivalent of "self-regulating" in a law, you know that lobbyists have again won a battle against citizens and democracy and that this regulation isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
IANAL, but I did a quick WIPO search for "Metro" and Metro AG turned up there with "computers and computer software".
Normally (German here) I'd not relate "Metro" and "software", but as we've all learned the hard way, trademarks > reality. And MS perhaps thought better be safe than sorry, taking into account that Metro AG isn't a 'lil Mom & Pop shop, but Germany's WalMart so they have the means to fight it out in court, if they feel so.
You might want to rethink that statement:
Source
You're obviously confusing the SA (Sturmabteilung) with the SS (Schutzstaffel) ... ;-)
easy solution (if you want one for those purchases): Get yourself a virtual one, i.e. WireCardBank.com. Bonus benefit: it's a prepaid credit card. A scammer therefore can't rip off more from you than you keep on that card.
Agreed. Obligatory email reference.
Flame got its name from itself, as it referenced itself in module and constant names as FLAME_
See for example screenshots of its source here and here. Or do a Google picture search for Flame yourself.
Wrong. VB5 introduced native code compilation and VB6 continued to do so. The default option for a new project was P-Code, but one click in the project's properties changed that. But a lot of programmers did not understand when to pick P-Code over native compile. The later would only make a noticable difference if your code did heavy computation (aka "number crunching"). People expecting performance gains from native code for their DB queries failed to realize their their borked SQL statement or underpowered DB server can't be solved by a VB native code executable.
Which shows again: it's not the paintbrush - it's the artist! I can't tell you ho many VB sample code I've seen over the years, both on MDSN and from commercial components, where you had something like this in it ...
... without an accompanying ...
... and expecting a and b to be of Long data type, too. Or using Variant string functions (Mid, Left, Right) instead of String string functions (Mid$, Left$, Right$) and then lament on how "slow and inefficent" VB is.
This shows that a lot of people who were complaining about VB didn't know how to use it properly.
Same here. And everything that VB6 can't do or "needs a 'lil help with", I'm adding with PowerBASIC (PB). My programs are typical inhouse programs: Retrieve data from A, convert/calculate/transform it, store it back to A or pass it over to B.
If my time would permit (programming is only part of my job's duty), I'd replace every VB application with a complete PB counterpart. Unfortunately that's still not the case, but I'm working on it. I just wish PB would hire someone to write a decent IDE. The compiler is a masterpiece (and doesn't need to fear the comparison with any other language), the IDE ... not so.
I don't think so. That would be the reaction of a wanna-be-real-hax0rs script kiddie. But a professional criminal would leave the system up and running, because with a crash like that, even the most stupid user would recognize it and perhaps ask someone more knowledgeable to "have a look at it", which in turn could reveal the real reason for the crash. No, leave as silent as you came in is a criminal's best bet to go by unnoticed.
I'd say let Vint and Bob and others speak for themselves about how they think about this matter.
Well, famous, maybe. But that's due to political correctness, I guess. Hanna Reitsch for example has some similar achievements listed, but I guess due to her being a test pilot for Nazi planes and therefore a darling of them, that makes her not one to brag out.