Registration is a very poor method of quality control. Registering a nickname provides far more anonymity and less accountability than posting your IP address. Unlike on Slashdot, the IP addresses of edits made while not logged in are public on Wikipedia. Mandatory registration would make corporations completely safe from WikiScanner and similar tools.
Over in Germany, movies in theaters ALWAYS have 20 minutes of advertising before they start. The good thing, though, is that you often have numbered seats, and can just show up later to skip the ads.
The only way to speed things up would be to have a single card that has all this data stored on it. this could be read directly by a computer, and processed in considerably less time.
The University law of the state of Baden-Wurttemberg (German) (where Schoen's university, that of Konstanz, lies) states the PhD (and any degree) can be revoked "if the later behavior of the holder shows he is unworthy to hold that degree". (This is only rarely used these days, but it was common in the Nazi time that degrees (especially honorary PhD's) were revoked).
And yes, to be a 'real' research scientist (i.e. to have a 'full' researcher's position at a university or similar state-funded institution) you usually need to have a PhD. On all lower positions it will be assumed that you are studying for your PhD.
I think in an optimal world you would have companies that offer "Windows distributions" and giving you exactly that service -- Windows bundled with a couple of other apps that do not need to be Microsoft products (this is the difference to Microsoft doing the bundling). Say, Windows + Mozilla + StarOffice. Or even offer several different alternatives (like offer both IE and Mozilla). Then you would have choice AND convenience, like when you buy a Linux distribution.
You have a short memory... I used to dual-boot Chinese and German Win98, and these aren't just "different language versions", but different OSes. For example, the set of legal filenames is different -- scandisk for German Win would always complain about the Chinese names on the Chinese partition.
In hand-writing, many people in Taiwan use (partially) simplified characters and other abbreviations, especially for common complicated characters and radicals. Most of these abbreviations are actually older than the writing reform, and were chosen to replace the full forms by Mao's reform commission.
All you need to make Wikipedia quotable is then to have a direct link to a specific version of the article, and quote that link. But this is a standard problem: all things you quote in any serious article should be static and linked in a permanent way (like scientific articles are referenced by DOI sometimes).
I am one of those people who don't understand American elections. I could understand if the Democrats organized a trial election but why do other state authorities buy voting machines/organize this election which basically seems (to me) to be an internal problem of the political parties?
In Germany, every person that owns a working radio has to pay around 5 Euro per month, and it's around 16 for television. The money is used to fund our public stations that tend to have excellent news coverage and buy the rights for all important sports events (that is, Olympics and Soccer World Championship) but suck in most other ways.
The main problem is how they find out if you have a TV or not -- basically they send someone to spy on you and annoy you until you give in and start paying.
It was an Ident-i-Eeze, and was a very naughty and silly thing for Harl to have lying around in his wallet, though it was perfectly understandable. There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life could easily become extremely tiresome just from that factor alone, never mind the deeper existential problems of trying to function as a coherent consciousness in an epistemologically ambiguous physical universe. Just look at cash point machines, for instance. Queues of people standing around waiting to have their fingerprints read, their retinas scanned, bits of skin scraped from the nape of the neck and undergoing instant (or nearly instant - a good six or seven seconds in tedious reality) genetic analysis, then having to answer trick questions about members of their family they didn't even remember they had, and about their recorded preferences for tablecloth colours. And that was just to get a bit of spare cash for the weekend. If you were trying to raise a loan for a jetcar, sign a missile treaty or pay an entire restaurant bill things could get really trying.
Hence the Ident-i-Eeze. This encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all-purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and therefore represented technology's greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.
You're right that free speech is less absolute in Germany than in the US.
But in this case, this has nothing to do with free speech. It is legal to sell/buy this game, just not to people under 18. Just as it is legal to sell pornography, just not to people under 18.
So it will be H T T P SLASH SLASH SLASH DOT DOT DOT Really easy to tell people over the telephone:-)
Who needs domain names when you've got Google?
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They should have opened a lot of new TLDs years ago, when good domain names were much more important than now.
Nowadays, I google for websites much more often than using their domain name anyway, and I hope people will rather spend the $50k mentioned in the BBC article on a good website that will be first hit on Google than on a domain name.
A really remarkable book, but more a "history of the future" than your classic science-fiction story. The ideas in it are enough for 20 sci-fi novels at least.
This is something that really deserves serious thought by the GUI developers. But having the filename specify the filetype is so obviously stupid (the common readme.1st is a "file of type 1ST" in windows machines...) that even though Windows uses this by default, (and even gives out my favorite warning that changing the filename (the part of the name after the last "." which used to be an extension in some stone-age OS) that I sincerely hope some Linux GUI developers think of this problem and I also hope that there can be agreement on ONE standard for the necessary meta-data...
The problem with magic numbers for filetypes is that they only really work "right" with a central agency that gives out magic numbers.
Do you remember the IFF (Interchange File Format) on the Amiga? It was a wonderful standard.
A typical file was looking
FORM____ILBM____
FORM being the standard start for IFF, ILBM saying it's an "InterLevedBitMap" file (standard Amiga compressed graphics format, used for example by Deluxe Paint). The filename had nothing to do with the format, and every program could write info to it's document's metainfo saying with which program the file was supposed to be opened. (And that was easily editable in the file's info, file for file, if you wished to do so).
America is not spending a lot of money on poor nations. In absolute numbers yes (but less than Japan which is a smaller economy), but this is what the chart relative to GDP looks like.
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Registration is a very poor method of quality control. Registering a nickname provides far more anonymity and less accountability than posting your IP address. Unlike on Slashdot, the IP addresses of edits made while not logged in are public on Wikipedia. Mandatory registration would make corporations completely safe from WikiScanner and similar tools.
Over in Germany, movies in theaters ALWAYS have 20 minutes of advertising before they start. The good thing, though, is that you often have numbered seats, and can just show up later to skip the ads.
The University law of the state of Baden-Wurttemberg (German) (where Schoen's university, that of Konstanz, lies) states the PhD (and any degree) can be revoked "if the later behavior of the holder shows he is unworthy to hold that degree". (This is only rarely used these days, but it was common in the Nazi time that degrees (especially honorary PhD's) were revoked).
And yes, to be a 'real' research scientist (i.e. to have a 'full' researcher's position at a university or similar state-funded institution) you usually need to have a PhD. On all lower positions it will be assumed that you are studying for your PhD.
I think in an optimal world you would have companies that offer "Windows distributions" and giving you exactly that service -- Windows bundled with a couple of other apps that do not need to be Microsoft products (this is the difference to Microsoft doing the bundling). Say, Windows + Mozilla + StarOffice. Or even offer several different alternatives (like offer both IE and Mozilla). Then you would have choice AND convenience, like when you buy a Linux distribution.
It is quite different: If there is a vote on paper you can always have the original paper recounted by humans. Touchscreens can't be recounted.
You have a short memory... I used to dual-boot Chinese and German Win98, and these aren't just "different language versions", but different OSes. For example, the set of legal filenames is different -- scandisk for German Win would always complain about the Chinese names on the Chinese partition.
In hand-writing, many people in Taiwan use (partially) simplified characters and other abbreviations, especially for common complicated characters and radicals. Most of these abbreviations are actually older than the writing reform, and were chosen to replace the full forms by Mao's reform commission.
"All web pages", "Web pages in Chinese" and "Web pages in Simplified Chinese".
All you need to make Wikipedia quotable is then to have a direct link to a specific version of the article, and quote that link. But this is a standard problem: all things you quote in any serious article should be static and linked in a permanent way (like scientific articles are referenced by DOI sometimes).
I am one of those people who don't understand American elections. I could understand if the Democrats organized a trial election but why do other state authorities buy voting machines/organize this election which basically seems (to me) to be an internal problem of the political parties?
I will only watch this when it gets re-released as an ASCIImation - the special effects are so much better in ASCII.
In Germany, every person that owns a working radio has to pay around 5 Euro per month, and it's around 16 for television. The money is used to fund our public stations that tend to have excellent news coverage and buy the rights for all important sports events (that is, Olympics and Soccer World Championship) but suck in most other ways.
The main problem is how they find out if you have a TV or not -- basically they send someone to spy on you and annoy you until you give in and start paying.
The Gutenberg museum in Mainz has a list of the surviving copies, showing where they are kept.
You're right that free speech is less absolute in Germany than in the US.
But in this case, this has nothing to do with free speech. It is legal to sell/buy this game, just not to people under 18. Just as it is legal to sell pornography, just not to people under 18.
Germany is not on the list because it does not sell arms to crisis regions.
It is a huge commercial success, which should be enough to explain why it is on this list concerned mostly with inventions with big business effects.
Calculating will be a pain. You'll have to memorize all the simple products up to 120x120 or you can't do arithmetics on a piece of paper.
Not to mention having to teach 120 symbols to the schoolchildren before you can even start to teach them how to calculate.
So it will be H T T P SLASH SLASH SLASH DOT DOT DOT :-)
Really easy to tell people over the telephone
They should have opened a lot of new TLDs years ago, when good domain names were much more important than now.
Nowadays, I google for websites much more often than using their domain name anyway, and I hope people will rather spend the $50k mentioned in the BBC article on a good website that will be first hit on Google than on a domain name.
A really remarkable book, but more a "history of the future" than your classic science-fiction story. The ideas in it are enough for 20 sci-fi novels at least.
This is something that really deserves serious thought by the GUI developers. But having the filename specify the filetype is so obviously stupid (the common readme.1st is a "file of type 1ST" in windows machines...) that even though Windows uses this by default, (and even gives out my favorite warning that changing the filename (the part of the name after the last "." which used to be an extension in some stone-age OS) that I sincerely hope some Linux GUI developers think of this problem and I also hope that there can be agreement on ONE standard for the necessary meta-data ...
The problem with magic numbers for filetypes is that they only really work "right" with a central agency that gives out magic numbers.
Do you remember the IFF (Interchange File Format) on the Amiga? It was a wonderful standard.
A typical file was looking
FORM____ILBM____
FORM being the standard start for IFF, ILBM saying it's an "InterLevedBitMap" file (standard Amiga compressed graphics format, used for example by Deluxe Paint). The filename had nothing to do with the format, and every program could write info to it's document's metainfo saying with which program the file was supposed to be opened. (And that was easily editable in the file's info, file for file, if you wished to do so).
America is not spending a lot of money on poor nations. In absolute numbers yes (but less than Japan which is a smaller economy), but this is what the chart relative to GDP looks like.