I skimmed TFA and saw images of the bike lanes. it's good to see that they are segregated bike lanes, separate from car traffic. Even better that there's a cushion and a parking lane between the two types of transportation.
It amazes me why some cities think it's a good idea to have bike lanes BETWEEN car lanes. So much can go wrong in those lanes: cars changing lanes, car doors opening, etc. That will never promote or stimulate biking.
Where possible, I'd like to see bike routes to schools, especially in the USA. Children will get healthier and more independent if they bike to school instead of just sitting in their parent's car.
I've read many paper books and have owned an e-ink e-reader for 1,5 years now. E-ink has a lot of advantages: no bookshelves full of books, the books always weigh the same no matter how many pages it has, they're generally cheaper than paper, no shipping costs, etc. I can also tell you that since it also uses indirect light, there is NO (extra) strain on the eyes whatsoever. You can also adjust the font or font size to your liking, which makes it ideal for elderly people too.
By the way, I recently got a tablet and tried to read a book on it. That was much less pleasant, even with white letters on black background. Because of the bigger screen and colors, it is suitable for comics though. Until full color e-ink readers with screens bigger than 5" come along.
This little joke actually raises an interesting topic, as sign language usually does not follow the same grammar as spoken/written language. Sign languages can differ from country to country or from region to region, similar to dialects. The hands aren't the only things used to convey meanings either: facial expressions or body movements are used too.
An example of sign language using the line above could be to represent the words "breasts", "you" and "like", in that order, with expressing the meaning "very much" by widening the eyes or exaggerating the sign for "like". If a software program can only recognize signs and nothing else, the "really" gets lost in translation. And then you have to put the words in the right order as well.
They don't have to enable dislikes by default... make it optional. Sometimes a "dislike" option is much more appropriate than a "like" button, like when you post bad news. That at least makes it more social.
Yeah, and the Dutch "cookies law" is much more rigorous as a result.
BTW, it's not really a cookies law, it's a law that requires websites to ask permission to track their visitors through whatever method, even IP addresses (as those can be tied to a specific person in most cases.)
(Oh, and for some algorithm fun, try getting walking directions from Hull, England to Esbjerg, Denmark. It seems to be trying to minimise the walking distance, with rather amusing results.)
Amusing indeed. I tried the bike directions. You have to bike all the way to Norwich and take the ferry to Esbjerg. The alternative is the same as for the walking route.
Anyway, I'm from The Netherlands and I just tried to get the bike route from my home to work. Well, I know a much shorter route than what it gave me! Obviously it's very much in beta.
No matter what you may find of endangered languages, it's always worth preserving it. Because what if we had not, and in the future we'd encounter a civilization (doesn't have to be from other worlds) and have no way to decipher their language relatively fast?
Sure, American football sure can cause brain damage. But so do boxing, ice hockey and a bunch other violent sports. Yet, the number of suicides seem low to me. Some of those suicides could be just the player having difficulties with life after the game whilst blaming it on your head gone wrong?
I believe Netherland also lost a bid for the Olympics a few years ago (or do we still need to lose that one?) In a way I think it would have been interesting if we did host the Olympics again. I suspect the year would be filled with parliamentary questions about it, and there'd be lots of civil disobedience concerning the IOC's draconic rules. It could become a fun disaster.
Nope. There's a movement going on to get the 2028 Olympics, because then it'll be 100 years ago that The Netherlands hosted its first and last Olympiad in Amsterdam 1928. According to Wikipedia, bidding will start in 2019 and the host city will be chosen in 2021. So there's still time to see how London and other host cities deal with this.
I'm from The Netherlands and as some people here may know, my country wanted to host the World Cup 2018 or 2012 together with Belgium. There was some outrage that the FIFA demanded exclusion from taxes from the Dutch and Belgian government. I'm actually glad that "we" did not get the World Cup, although "we" probably would have been the sanest choice (never hosted a World Cup before, played two [now three] World Cup finals, etc.)
I find it not surprising that Russia and Qatar (of all places!) won the bid. Especially Qatar does not make sense. Hold a professional football tournament in the Middle East in the summer?! Even if they succeed to bring down the temperature on the pitch through airconditioning or whatever, the country does not have much of a football culture and it's a very tiny country to boot, much smaller than Belgium or The Netherlands. I hope the FIFA gets in all kinds of trouble over this.
Ziggo and XS4ALL have as of today blocked access to the Pirate Bay. The thing is: the court ordered Ziggo and XS4ALL to block certain IP addresses associated with the Pirate Bay, based on a list given by non-governmental organisation BREIN, which purports to protect the rights of intellectual property. The court also ruled that BREIN can add IP-addresses to this list for Ziggo and XS4ALL to block, without further court rulings! Basically the've given BREIN free play to censor the internet.
I have to add that BREIN cannot add IP addresses or domain names that have nothing to do with The Pirate Bay. If they do, Ziggo and/or XS4ALL can go to court to have them removed.
I have always found Tolkien's books hard to read. (Not enjoyable reading)
The only one I have actually finished was The Hobbit, as it was a relatively short one and seemed a bit lighter than the others. Others I have started but never completed.
That's when I was younger though, maybe I should try those books again now that I'm a middle aged geezer.
I've completed all four books. Yeah, The Hobbit was short and more adventurous. Lord of the Rings was harder to read because of the seemingly endless descriptions of every rock, grass plain or whatnot. I don't know how I did get through it. And it was just in time for the movies too, which I enjoyed, by the way.
Though I think these blackouts are set in contracts with the TV networks? This does not apply to blacking out foreign TV networks of course, like Canadian networks showing the same game.
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Slightly off-topic, but...
I skimmed TFA and saw images of the bike lanes. it's good to see that they are segregated bike lanes, separate from car traffic. Even better that there's a cushion and a parking lane between the two types of transportation.
It amazes me why some cities think it's a good idea to have bike lanes BETWEEN car lanes. So much can go wrong in those lanes: cars changing lanes, car doors opening, etc. That will never promote or stimulate biking.
Where possible, I'd like to see bike routes to schools, especially in the USA. Children will get healthier and more independent if they bike to school instead of just sitting in their parent's car.
'book' can be removed remotely
On that note -- that's why I refused to consider Amazon's Kindle e-readers after that debacle with the George Orwell e-books.
I've read many paper books and have owned an e-ink e-reader for 1,5 years now. E-ink has a lot of advantages: no bookshelves full of books, the books always weigh the same no matter how many pages it has, they're generally cheaper than paper, no shipping costs, etc. I can also tell you that since it also uses indirect light, there is NO (extra) strain on the eyes whatsoever. You can also adjust the font or font size to your liking, which makes it ideal for elderly people too.
By the way, I recently got a tablet and tried to read a book on it. That was much less pleasant, even with white letters on black background. Because of the bigger screen and colors, it is suitable for comics though. Until full color e-ink readers with screens bigger than 5" come along.
This little joke actually raises an interesting topic, as sign language usually does not follow the same grammar as spoken/written language. Sign languages can differ from country to country or from region to region, similar to dialects. The hands aren't the only things used to convey meanings either: facial expressions or body movements are used too.
An example of sign language using the line above could be to represent the words "breasts", "you" and "like", in that order, with expressing the meaning "very much" by widening the eyes or exaggerating the sign for "like". If a software program can only recognize signs and nothing else, the "really" gets lost in translation. And then you have to put the words in the right order as well.
Yep. Please. In the meantime, I'll re-watch Firefly and Serenity.
(T:TSCC would've been better, but it's not the best series of the bunch she has played in.)
Whereas midichlorians have pretty high UIDs, right?
(No, not me.)
Yeah, and just last month, Dutch minister Verhagen and Secretary Teeven declared they would reject any ACTA clones. (Dutch).
However, these are politicians promising things, so they should be reminded of their own words.
Isn't this basically a dupe of the story I submitted back in July?
Not that the public shouldn't be reminded again. CETA and other ACTA clones need to die.
They don't have to enable dislikes by default... make it optional. Sometimes a "dislike" option is much more appropriate than a "like" button, like when you post bad news. That at least makes it more social.
Yeah, and the Dutch "cookies law" is much more rigorous as a result. BTW, it's not really a cookies law, it's a law that requires websites to ask permission to track their visitors through whatever method, even IP addresses (as those can be tied to a specific person in most cases.)
A terribly unfunny web comic.
Really? You must not like cynicism. Either that or the topics he usually posts about.
(Oh, and for some algorithm fun, try getting walking directions from Hull, England to Esbjerg, Denmark. It seems to be trying to minimise the walking distance, with rather amusing results.)
Amusing indeed. I tried the bike directions. You have to bike all the way to Norwich and take the ferry to Esbjerg. The alternative is the same as for the walking route.
Anyway, I'm from The Netherlands and I just tried to get the bike route from my home to work. Well, I know a much shorter route than what it gave me! Obviously it's very much in beta.
Politicians always tell the truth, especially when it's about secretly negotiated treaties, right?
No matter what you may find of endangered languages, it's always worth preserving it. Because what if we had not, and in the future we'd encounter a civilization (doesn't have to be from other worlds) and have no way to decipher their language relatively fast?
This.
Sure, American football sure can cause brain damage. But so do boxing, ice hockey and a bunch other violent sports. Yet, the number of suicides seem low to me. Some of those suicides could be just the player having difficulties with life after the game whilst blaming it on your head gone wrong?
I believe Netherland also lost a bid for the Olympics a few years ago (or do we still need to lose that one?) In a way I think it would have been interesting if we did host the Olympics again. I suspect the year would be filled with parliamentary questions about it, and there'd be lots of civil disobedience concerning the IOC's draconic rules. It could become a fun disaster.
Nope. There's a movement going on to get the 2028 Olympics, because then it'll be 100 years ago that The Netherlands hosted its first and last Olympiad in Amsterdam 1928. According to Wikipedia, bidding will start in 2019 and the host city will be chosen in 2021. So there's still time to see how London and other host cities deal with this.
I'm from The Netherlands and as some people here may know, my country wanted to host the World Cup 2018 or 2012 together with Belgium. There was some outrage that the FIFA demanded exclusion from taxes from the Dutch and Belgian government. I'm actually glad that "we" did not get the World Cup, although "we" probably would have been the sanest choice (never hosted a World Cup before, played two [now three] World Cup finals, etc.)
I find it not surprising that Russia and Qatar (of all places!) won the bid. Especially Qatar does not make sense. Hold a professional football tournament in the Middle East in the summer?! Even if they succeed to bring down the temperature on the pitch through airconditioning or whatever, the country does not have much of a football culture and it's a very tiny country to boot, much smaller than Belgium or The Netherlands. I hope the FIFA gets in all kinds of trouble over this.
Ziggo and XS4ALL have as of today blocked access to the Pirate Bay. The thing is: the court ordered Ziggo and XS4ALL to block certain IP addresses associated with the Pirate Bay, based on a list given by non-governmental organisation BREIN, which purports to protect the rights of intellectual property. The court also ruled that BREIN can add IP-addresses to this list for Ziggo and XS4ALL to block, without further court rulings! Basically the've given BREIN free play to censor the internet.
I have to add that BREIN cannot add IP addresses or domain names that have nothing to do with The Pirate Bay. If they do, Ziggo and/or XS4ALL can go to court to have them removed.
Legalese of the verdict (Dutch only): http://zoeken.rechtspraak.nl/detailpage.aspx?ljn=BV0549&u_ljn=BV0549. Paragraph 5.3 mentions which IP addresses and domain names should be blocked. These are (copied & pasted from aforementioned URL):
Note that some of the domain names have been removed since the verdict by BREIN: suprnova.com, piratebay.no and variants.
Does that matter in this case?
ZDNet article about Apple's iBook Author EULA: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/apples-mind-bogglingly-greedy-and-evil-license-agreement/4360
I have always found Tolkien's books hard to read. (Not enjoyable reading)
The only one I have actually finished was The Hobbit, as it was a relatively short one and seemed a bit lighter than the others. Others I have started but never completed.
That's when I was younger though, maybe I should try those books again now that I'm a middle aged geezer.
I've completed all four books. Yeah, The Hobbit was short and more adventurous. Lord of the Rings was harder to read because of the seemingly endless descriptions of every rock, grass plain or whatnot. I don't know how I did get through it. And it was just in time for the movies too, which I enjoyed, by the way.
More like: why isn't there an iPhone/iOS-related tag? Android is mentioned because this spyware was installed on (some) Android phones.
Because every possible alternative is worse.
This. IMO there is nothing wrong with the placement of close/minimize/maximize in Windows. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Besides, transition from Windows or other DE's with the same placement is easier that way. That goes for keyboard shortcuts too.
I'm from Europe. :)
I assumed parent is from the US because I've never heard of local blackouts in soccer.
Europe != USA
Though I think these blackouts are set in contracts with the TV networks? This does not apply to blacking out foreign TV networks of course, like Canadian networks showing the same game.