Don't worry, the "delay" they pick up speaking is at maximum 2-3 months. When they hit the age of three everything is peachy. I brought up my daughter in Germany and I speak with her only in English and my wife in German. The only oddity is that we have some terms that stick to one language, for example she will always ask us for "cookie", not a "Kecks". She knows it's Kecks in German and any other Person she will ask that...
Oh yea... and there are historic reasons... There used to be a time where you did not like to associate with the Germans. I wonder what they did wrong to deserve this...;-)
Totally agree (trilingual here). Multilingualism gives you a total different handling of languages. I speak German, French and English, at least in the Latin (eg. Italian, Spanish) and Germanic (eg. Dutch) language realm I can pick up languages very easily. But I must also admit the GGP says, it makes no sense to try to teach 6 yo in a different language.
+1 Writing this from a Windows XP computer. I am "working" for a Fortune 500 company and they just recently introduced Win7 machines. My upgrade is not due for the next 2-3 years. Windows XP works just fine; oh and we write our industrial automation software still for Win XP (min spec) and will thus support it for the next decade...
I could not stress this even more. 90% of the things you need is a quite shallow CMS. You only need some coding talent when you need something that breaks out of the norm. You need some HTML and CSS talent though for a custom theme and that is normally written by hand.
The BIG issue here is maintainability, you want the owner / operator to be able to edit content whenever you want or else you need to be in the loop all the time. (Unless that is your business model, but even then you can use a CMS and make it easy on you.)
What software to use? The two big ones are WordPress for simple bloggy website and Drupal for more complex sites. You can make significantly more with Drupal, without geting into code, but it can be a complicated and daunting task and definitely not worth it if it is just yet an other simple company page. With WordPress simple site just fly, but the moment that does not work for you, you either get into extension hell or need to hit the code. I also like to point out WebsiteBaker, nice tool that sits in the middle of the two, for sites that are simple but not structured like a blog.
For my personal page I use jekyll. Its hacky and I write my posts with a text editor,
but in markdown, not html, thus way more comfortable. But then I have not trouble with changing my own content.
Yea but the runaway population growth is a total different problem. Even if you ignore (or deny for that case) just the population numbers will soon put us in a every uncomfortable spot. I see that as a way higher challenge than, say a 4 degree rise in temperatures in 100 years time.
But lugging around a ton of batteries is not a clever idea either. My bet is on the long run for hydrogen fuel cell and electric motor. Generate the hydrogen through hydrolysis where you have power and water, like offshore wind parks or coastal deserts. The great thing about this is that it decouples the flaky production of solar and wind from the consumption. This works great for "normal" electricity too, it would not be so hard to convert coal or gas plants to hydrogen, just burn the hydrogen instead. (Yes you need to replace or alter the burning apparatus but not the gas turbines.) Oh yea and for everybody who is afraid of hydrogen blowing up, a gasoline air mixture is not much less flammable than hydrogen air mixture, both bake a big boom.
If I would do such a project I would use an ITX board with an Atom on top and only off the shelf components with a "cutom" case. Basically build a low spec PC in a box. But you can forget the 99$ price point...
You are comparing oranges and apples. Your average iPad game is 2D and that can easily cope with the resolution. Most console games are varying degrees of high definition of 3D. Yes there are 3D games for the iPad but these games are vary carefully pruned, so that they run on the small hardware.
I don't know where I read it, but I once read a great quote going something along the lines of:
Process is not for great developers. Great developers can create great software no matter what the process is. Process is there to get mediocre results from mediocre to bad developers.
Agile projects fail with the same reasons why waterfall projects failed. Bad developers, bad management and bad clients. We are seeing the same arguments like we saw with waterfall, they are all skirting the real issue: quality developers, quality management and helpful clients.
But isn't "the cloud" exactly that? As I understand it, "the cloud" translates to "I don't care how it is done, let the techs sort the technical details out". This applies to web based groupware (google apps), web based file storage (bitbucket, S3, iCloud) or VPS servers with hourly rates (AWS EC2).
Look, this is for one dude running his services. At best he will have a load of 0.25. The reason why other "cloud" services use auto balancing server farms is because the handle thousands of users concurrently. But even Google, for examples, their cloud does not "auto-upgrade" they have to add servers as demand rises and the server idle when demand drops. The only difference is that Google has all thousands of applications running with thousands of users and so statistical effects take hold and even out. Remember he is basically asking for a Google apps replacement, not a AWS cluster. http://owncloud.org/ looks interesting...
And that is why I use the RIGHT terms for everything. I use a webmail service, but I can also read my mail via IMAP an my phone. I occasionally use a web calendar, which is synced (I don't know the protocol) to my phone, including tasks. Although I don use it, some of my friends use webstorage for a bunch of stuff, including backups. When I need extra computational power I get some VPS servers, at an hourly rate from Amazon Web Services. What is this cloud stuff you talk about?
Actually no. Under US copyright law you have the right to personal copy for delayed view. That or each and every TiVo would be illegal. If that applies to digital TV, it applies to non encrypted streaming in the internet. The service is just an auxilary, like your TiVo. The big difference here is that Google is claiming TOS violation, which in the US would have occurred, but in Germany TOS must be explicitly agreed to. In the US TOS is basically a contract, in Germany they are only general guidelines; you need a contract to make them relevant. So without a contract general law twats any TOS anytime. (Pro tip: any EULA that you did agree to before paying money is invalid in Germany...)
You should come by and visit Germany. Nice place, fast cars, nice girls and sane courts. You can take as many lawyers as you like, what counts are your arguments and the law as printed. Germany has strong bias towards written law, instead of case law. Case law is only relevant where written law is not explicitly defined something. Under German law, you can only sue at the place of the crime or where the defendant is situated. In this case this would be where the servers are hosted or the guy lives. Google can try to mount a case in the US, but that is futile, since Germany will not extradite a German citizen and not extradite at all in civil matters.
Come by, we can rent a A4 and take a spin down the A5 at 180 km/h at 3 am.
Would you object to a desktop app that has adds embedded? So the moment someone takes the effort to build an application that makes the process painless it's ok, but the moment he makes money off it, it is immoral?
The fun thing here is that if youtube-mp3 makes money or not is totally irrelevant to the case at hand. youtube-mp3 is an auxillery and it really does not matter if you use a "cloud" or desktop app.
Actually a German citizen can not be extradited from Germany. It actually even works the other way around. If you happen to commit a crime in a foreign country, the German government will try "everything" (at different degrees of everything) to get you back to Germany and then try you under German law. This is done since German law is seen as fair and others as barbaric. There where a few high profile cases of drug possession in Tailand (which will get you executed), where the German government intervened.
No it does not... directly. The copyright treaties are either ratified into German law or they are invalid. Natural persons are not bound by international treaties. Countries are bound by international treaties to ratify them into law.
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Don't worry, the "delay" they pick up speaking is at maximum 2-3 months. When they hit the age of three everything is peachy. I brought up my daughter in Germany and I speak with her only in English and my wife in German. The only oddity is that we have some terms that stick to one language, for example she will always ask us for "cookie", not a "Kecks". She knows it's Kecks in German and any other Person she will ask that...
Oh yea... and there are historic reasons... There used to be a time where you did not like to associate with the Germans. I wonder what they did wrong to deserve this... ;-)
Totally agree (trilingual here). Multilingualism gives you a total different handling of languages. I speak German, French and English, at least in the Latin (eg. Italian, Spanish) and Germanic (eg. Dutch) language realm I can pick up languages very easily. But I must also admit the GGP says, it makes no sense to try to teach 6 yo in a different language.
I always asked myself what the ???? where; now I know. Thanks bro!
+1 Writing this from a Windows XP computer. I am "working" for a Fortune 500 company and they just recently introduced Win7 machines. My upgrade is not due for the next 2-3 years. Windows XP works just fine; oh and we write our industrial automation software still for Win XP (min spec) and will thus support it for the next decade...
I could not stress this even more. 90% of the things you need is a quite shallow CMS. You only need some coding talent when you need something that breaks out of the norm. You need some HTML and CSS talent though for a custom theme and that is normally written by hand.
The BIG issue here is maintainability, you want the owner / operator to be able to edit content whenever you want or else you need to be in the loop all the time. (Unless that is your business model, but even then you can use a CMS and make it easy on you.)
What software to use? The two big ones are WordPress for simple bloggy website and Drupal for more complex sites. You can make significantly more with Drupal, without geting into code, but it can be a complicated and daunting task and definitely not worth it if it is just yet an other simple company page. With WordPress simple site just fly, but the moment that does not work for you, you either get into extension hell or need to hit the code. I also like to point out WebsiteBaker, nice tool that sits in the middle of the two, for sites that are simple but not structured like a blog.
For my personal page I use jekyll. Its hacky and I write my posts with a text editor, but in markdown, not html, thus way more comfortable. But then I have not trouble with changing my own content.
Yea but the runaway population growth is a total different problem. Even if you ignore (or deny for that case) just the population numbers will soon put us in a every uncomfortable spot. I see that as a way higher challenge than, say a 4 degree rise in temperatures in 100 years time.
But lugging around a ton of batteries is not a clever idea either. My bet is on the long run for hydrogen fuel cell and electric motor. Generate the hydrogen through hydrolysis where you have power and water, like offshore wind parks or coastal deserts. The great thing about this is that it decouples the flaky production of solar and wind from the consumption. This works great for "normal" electricity too, it would not be so hard to convert coal or gas plants to hydrogen, just burn the hydrogen instead. (Yes you need to replace or alter the burning apparatus but not the gas turbines.) Oh yea and for everybody who is afraid of hydrogen blowing up, a gasoline air mixture is not much less flammable than hydrogen air mixture, both bake a big boom.
Yea... G+ is kinda like twitter without the size restriction...
If I would do such a project I would use an ITX board with an Atom on top and only off the shelf components with a "cutom" case. Basically build a low spec PC in a box. But you can forget the 99$ price point...
You are comparing oranges and apples. Your average iPad game is 2D and that can easily cope with the resolution. Most console games are varying degrees of high definition of 3D. Yes there are 3D games for the iPad but these games are vary carefully pruned, so that they run on the small hardware.
I don't know where I read it, but I once read a great quote going something along the lines of:
Process is not for great developers. Great developers can create great software no matter what the process is. Process is there to get mediocre results from mediocre to bad developers.
Agile projects fail with the same reasons why waterfall projects failed. Bad developers, bad management and bad clients. We are seeing the same arguments like we saw with waterfall, they are all skirting the real issue: quality developers, quality management and helpful clients.
But isn't "the cloud" exactly that? As I understand it, "the cloud" translates to "I don't care how it is done, let the techs sort the technical details out". This applies to web based groupware (google apps), web based file storage (bitbucket, S3, iCloud) or VPS servers with hourly rates (AWS EC2).
Look, this is for one dude running his services. At best he will have a load of 0.25. The reason why other "cloud" services use auto balancing server farms is because the handle thousands of users concurrently. But even Google, for examples, their cloud does not "auto-upgrade" they have to add servers as demand rises and the server idle when demand drops. The only difference is that Google has all thousands of applications running with thousands of users and so statistical effects take hold and even out. Remember he is basically asking for a Google apps replacement, not a AWS cluster. http://owncloud.org/ looks interesting...
And that is why I use the RIGHT terms for everything. I use a webmail service, but I can also read my mail via IMAP an my phone. I occasionally use a web calendar, which is synced (I don't know the protocol) to my phone, including tasks. Although I don use it, some of my friends use webstorage for a bunch of stuff, including backups. When I need extra computational power I get some VPS servers, at an hourly rate from Amazon Web Services. What is this cloud stuff you talk about?
Actually no. Under US copyright law you have the right to personal copy for delayed view. That or each and every TiVo would be illegal. If that applies to digital TV, it applies to non encrypted streaming in the internet. The service is just an auxilary, like your TiVo. The big difference here is that Google is claiming TOS violation, which in the US would have occurred, but in Germany TOS must be explicitly agreed to. In the US TOS is basically a contract, in Germany they are only general guidelines; you need a contract to make them relevant. So without a contract general law twats any TOS anytime. (Pro tip: any EULA that you did agree to before paying money is invalid in Germany...)
You should come by and visit Germany. Nice place, fast cars, nice girls and sane courts. You can take as many lawyers as you like, what counts are your arguments and the law as printed. Germany has strong bias towards written law, instead of case law. Case law is only relevant where written law is not explicitly defined something. Under German law, you can only sue at the place of the crime or where the defendant is situated. In this case this would be where the servers are hosted or the guy lives. Google can try to mount a case in the US, but that is futile, since Germany will not extradite a German citizen and not extradite at all in civil matters.
Come by, we can rent a A4 and take a spin down the A5 at 180 km/h at 3 am.
Would you object to a desktop app that has adds embedded? So the moment someone takes the effort to build an application that makes the process painless it's ok, but the moment he makes money off it, it is immoral?
The fun thing here is that if youtube-mp3 makes money or not is totally irrelevant to the case at hand. youtube-mp3 is an auxillery and it really does not matter if you use a "cloud" or desktop app.
Germany doesn't extradite German citizens.
FTFY They won't have problems extraditing US citizens to the US...
Actually a German citizen can not be extradited from Germany. It actually even works the other way around. If you happen to commit a crime in a foreign country, the German government will try "everything" (at different degrees of everything) to get you back to Germany and then try you under German law. This is done since German law is seen as fair and others as barbaric. There where a few high profile cases of drug possession in Tailand (which will get you executed), where the German government intervened.
Following the description the service does not save the mp3s, since that would be breach of copyright law. But the comment on proxies remains valid...
And he can sue Google for anti competitive behavior...
No it does not ... directly. The copyright treaties are either ratified into German law or they are invalid. Natural persons are not bound by international treaties. Countries are bound by international treaties to ratify them into law.
Build a spaceship that can outrun the satellites AND get back.
We are at the brink of one of humanities greatest achievement and /. runs a story about copyright...