If you look at the languages sorted by native speakers, I guess you can say that it will be a pretty close race between those that use the latin alphabet and extensions thereof and those that don't. Here you have a list of all the different writing systems.
Since most people in the world don't use the latin alphabet, it would be interesting to find out how word recognition works for them. And how they read words in our alphabet.
The decision to freeze the project is more of a political statement to force the federal government to take a clear stand on the EU patent directive. The green party wants to point out what harm a law that allows software patents can have for small and mid sized companies.
only designs CPUs. Do they really manufacturethem? The article only talks about CPUs shipped, but not that ARM ships them. AFAIK ARM cores are use by many chipmaker from Intel to TI, but arm don't sell CPUs.
There were and are several projects in Germany that develope traffic models in conjunction with models simulating the route choices of people depending on their lifestyles. The problem is that there are people that do not believe that people can be simulated by cellular automata and reject those simulation. But there are also city planers who use those models when planning new structures like stadiums, airports and others that need road connections.
There is a sourceforge project thatsimulates multimodal traffic with cellular automata. Also have a look at this link for more information about traffic simulation.
if a reporter tapes a part of a movie shown by some criminal (or even terrorist) organization, or maybe just as part of investigating a sekt? Now, the reporter can be thrown in jail for that. You would probably not even be able to film audience reaction to a movie. Of course, people will say that those are exceptions and the main purpose of a camera in a movie theater is to commit a copyright violation, which the mere filming would not be, because copyright is about distribution.
like the U1, U3 or U101. Right now I would rather get a PC-CV50F which has a great screen resolution and the directHD feature which is very nice for synching or installing Linux. Maybe if Sharp would turn the screen into a touchscreen, that would be the best of both worlds, the resolution of the Sony is just too low.
Thank you for making this point. I guess I am not that familiar with the requirements for PhDs in other countries. But reading your comment I see why Americans and others don't understand why a PhD can be revoked. Getting a PhD in Germany is much different than getting any other degree (like a diploma, masters or such), because it is a totally different concept. Getting a PhD is more than taking and passing classes. You have to show that you are capable of scientific research, i.e. capable of finding something new using scientific methods. And you are not done when you have passed your classes. You are done when your professor thinks that you are done.
It is not a law. Those are the rules made by the university (according to guidelines by the cultural ministry of the respective federal state) which gives you the degree. If you don't abide by their rules you don't get the degree or your degree gets revoked. Falsifying measurement is unscientific and unethical in regard to his profession and to the requirements to hold the degree. Since the PhD states that you are capable of conducting independent scientific research, Schoen has proven that he is not worthy of it.
I guess for some research positions a PhD will be required (especially when they financed by the goverment), but I guess it won't be necessary in the private sector, if you have the required skills. As to the prove, their is a commitee that will decide if they can and will revoke the PhD, this has nothing to do with the jurisdiction, it has something to do with ethics. I guess they would also revoke a second PhD if he had one. And I guess he won't be able to get a second PhD in the same field after the revocation, the main reason would probably be that he won't find a supervisor.
The reason for the revocation is not embarrasment, it is his unethical behavior. And the rules for getting and keeping your doctoral degree ( in German Promotionsordnung) clearly state that your PhD will be revoked if it is used for unethical or criminal purposes. So in this case the university really has no choice.
I don't know how it is in the US, but in Germany you can get your PHD revoked when you misuse it for unethical purposes. You know that when you get it, it is in all the documents you get and sign. Since the PHD is a certificate that you are able to conduct scientific research, falsifying your data would certainly contradict this ability.
The people in the CREDITS file are not all the people that work on the kernel. You should look at the Copyright notices in the source code. E.g. I am not in the CREDITS file (not that I need to be), but I have Copyright notices in over 30 files. I guess there are many more people working on parts of the linux kernel than are noticed in the CREDITS file.
A patent does not prohibit private or academic use, just comercial use. You can even argue that if you only provide source code and no binaries you are not violating a patent, since a patent has to be documented and providing more documents (source code) about the patented matter (without violating copyrights) is not prohibited. Patents are supposed to encourage such discussions and further research. In any case, software patents are not yet allowed in the EU.
The most that is legally possible is to offer the songs without any kind of DRM. Trust your customers. If they feel they paid a fair price for something they will be much less inclined to give it to some stranger for free. In that sense $1 is still a little much for just one song. How about a quarter?
Sure if they have been studying English for a long time and lived in an English speaking country, most people (especially if they were still relatively young when they learned the language) will adapt to the accent they hear every day. I have even met some Americans that lived in England for a long time who have a British accent. When I talked about recognizing the native language accent, I was talking about people who learned English in high school and haven't spent much time in an English speaking country. I also realize that (since I am not a native speaker) my accents adapts to the local English accent when I spent a certain amount of time there. I guess it depends on the amount of sounds your native language uses on how fast you are adapting to a foreign language. That's why Japanese have trouble with r and l, Germans with th and French with h. They either don't have those sounds in their own language at all or they are more limited. The worst obstacle for people using the alphabet, is that they can read the language without pronouncing it. I once attended a physics lecture in France and thought the people were speaking French (which I only speak a little), but they were actually speaking English, pronouncing the words as they would if they were read French.
They don't reverse them, they only have one sound for l and r which lies between the two sounds. Naturally it is difficult for them to even distinguish the sounds and even more difficult to speak them. It is like the French U which English speakers never get right because they don't even realize the difference (rue is not pronounced like roo, it is like the German u (that should be \"u, but no Umlaut in/.).
I don't know about local Dutch accents, but I can recognize various German accents even when the people are speaking English. I can also recognize most other European language speakers when they are speaking English, although it gets a little harder when the languages are similar and I don't speak them myself. But I guess as soon as you speak a language yourself and can recognize diffenernt dialects in that language, you will also be able to recognize them when the people speak a foreign language. If you ever listend to Gaelic or Welsh you can also see where the English accent of those people come from even if they don't speak the original language anymore.
if not other customs payments. So it is a little more than the $2000, but probably still less than $2999. Or you could smuggle it in, but a large notebook may be hard to hide.
I very much doubt your Pentium M numbers. Why else would e.g. Samsung need to permanently activate the cooling fan on its Pentium M notebooks when running without battery, whereas the Efficeon doesn't even need a fan. And saying just because the TM5600 (oldest Crusoe) was slow the Efficeon is also slow, is like saying just because the K-6 was slow the Athlon64 is also slow.
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If you look at the languages sorted by native speakers, I guess you can say that it will be a pretty close race between those that use the latin alphabet and extensions thereof and those that don't. Here you have a list of all the different writing systems.
Since most people in the world don't use the latin alphabet, it would be interesting to find out how word recognition works for them. And how they read words in our alphabet.
The decision to freeze the project is more of a political statement to force the federal government to take a clear stand on the EU patent directive.
The green party wants to point out what harm a law that allows software patents can have for small and mid sized companies.
only designs CPUs. Do they really manufacturethem?
The article only talks about CPUs shipped, but not that ARM ships them.
AFAIK ARM cores are use by many chipmaker from Intel to TI, but arm don't sell CPUs.
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There were and are several projects in Germany that develope traffic models in conjunction with models simulating the route choices of people depending on their lifestyles. The problem is that there are people that do not believe that people can be simulated by cellular automata and reject those simulation. But there are also city planers who use those models when planning new structures like stadiums, airports and others that need road connections.
There is a sourceforge project thatsimulates multimodal traffic with cellular automata. Also have a look at this link for more information about traffic simulation.
if a reporter tapes a part of a movie shown by some criminal (or even terrorist) organization, or maybe just as part of investigating a sekt?
Now, the reporter can be thrown in jail for that.
You would probably not even be able to film audience reaction to a movie. Of course, people will say that those are exceptions and the main purpose of a camera in a movie theater is to commit a copyright violation, which the mere filming would not be, because copyright is about distribution.
like the U1, U3 or U101. Right now I would rather get a PC-CV50F which has a great screen resolution and
the directHD feature which is very nice for synching or installing Linux.
Maybe if Sharp would turn the screen into a touchscreen, that would be the best of both worlds, the resolution of the Sony is just too low.
Thank you for making this point. I guess I am not that familiar with the requirements for PhDs in other countries.
But reading your comment I see why Americans and others don't understand why a PhD can be revoked.
Getting a PhD in Germany is much different than getting any other degree (like a diploma, masters or such), because it is a totally different concept.
Getting a PhD is more than taking and passing classes. You have to show that you are capable of scientific research, i.e. capable of finding something new using scientific methods. And you are not done when you have passed your classes. You are done when your professor thinks that you are done.
It is not a law. Those are the rules made by the university (according to guidelines by the cultural ministry of the respective federal state) which gives you the degree. If you don't abide by their rules you don't get the degree or your degree gets revoked.
Falsifying measurement is unscientific and unethical in regard to his profession and to the requirements to hold the degree.
Since the PhD states that you are capable of conducting independent scientific research, Schoen has proven that he is not worthy of it.
I guess for some research positions a PhD will be required (especially when they financed by the goverment), but I guess it won't be necessary in the private sector, if you have the required skills.
As to the prove, their is a commitee that will decide if they can and will revoke the PhD, this has nothing to do with the jurisdiction, it has something to do with ethics. I guess they would also revoke a second PhD if he had one. And I guess he won't be able to get a second PhD in the same field after the revocation, the main reason would probably be that he won't find a supervisor.
The reason for the revocation is not embarrasment, it is his unethical behavior. And the rules for getting and keeping your doctoral degree ( in German Promotionsordnung) clearly state that your PhD will be revoked if it is used for unethical or criminal purposes. So in this case the university really has no choice.
I don't know how it is in the US, but in Germany you can get your PHD revoked when you misuse it for unethical purposes. You know that when you get it, it is in all the documents you get and sign.
Since the PHD is a certificate that you are able to conduct scientific research, falsifying your data would certainly contradict this ability.
The people in the CREDITS file are not all the people that work on the kernel. You should look at the Copyright notices in the source code.
E.g. I am not in the CREDITS file (not that I need to be), but I have Copyright notices in over 30 files. I guess there are many more people working on parts of the linux kernel than are noticed in the CREDITS file.
Ever since Berlusconi is prime minister.
Copyright, for a single word that is even spelled differently and a mathematical definition?
Trademark?
Certainly not a patent.
if not transparent.
A patent does not prohibit private or academic use, just comercial use. You can even argue that if you only provide source code and no binaries you are not violating a patent, since a patent has to be documented and providing more documents (source code) about the patented matter (without violating copyrights) is not prohibited. Patents are supposed to encourage such discussions and further research.
In any case, software patents are not yet allowed in the EU.
"wichsen" (sounds like vixen) means to polish, but is usually assotiated with polishing a certain body part. Wichs (or Wix) would be the noun.
The most that is legally possible is to offer the songs without any kind of DRM. Trust your customers.
If they feel they paid a fair price for something they will be much less inclined to give it to some stranger for free. In that sense $1 is still a little much for just one song. How about a quarter?
Sure if they have been studying English for a long time and lived in an English speaking country, most people (especially if they were still relatively young when they learned the language) will adapt to the accent they hear every day. I have even met some Americans that lived in England for a long time who have a British accent.
When I talked about recognizing the native language accent, I was talking about people who learned English in high school and haven't spent much time in an English speaking country.
I also realize that (since I am not a native speaker) my accents adapts to the local English accent when I spent a certain amount of time there.
I guess it depends on the amount of sounds your native language uses on how fast you are adapting to a foreign language. That's why Japanese have trouble with r and l, Germans with th and French with h. They either don't have those sounds in their own language at all or they are more limited.
The worst obstacle for people using the alphabet, is that they can read the language without pronouncing it. I once attended a physics lecture in France and thought the people were speaking French (which I only speak a little), but they were actually speaking English, pronouncing the words as they would if they were read French.
They don't reverse them, they only have one sound for l and r which lies between the two sounds. Naturally it is difficult for them to even distinguish the sounds and even more difficult to speak them. /.).
It is like the French U which English speakers never get right because they don't even realize the difference (rue is not pronounced like roo, it is like the German u (that should be \"u, but no Umlaut in
I don't know about local Dutch accents, but I can recognize various German accents even when the people are speaking English. I can also recognize most other European language speakers when they are speaking English, although it gets a little harder when the languages are similar and I don't speak them myself. But I guess as soon as you speak a language yourself and can recognize diffenernt dialects in that language, you will also be able to recognize them when the people speak a foreign language.
If you ever listend to Gaelic or Welsh you can also see where the English accent of those people come from even if they don't speak the original language anymore.
if not other customs payments. So it is a little more than the $2000, but probably still less than $2999. Or you could smuggle it in, but a large notebook may be hard to hide.
I very much doubt your Pentium M numbers. Why else would e.g. Samsung need to permanently activate the cooling fan on its Pentium M notebooks when running without battery, whereas the Efficeon doesn't even need a fan.
And saying just because the TM5600 (oldest Crusoe) was slow the Efficeon is also slow, is like saying just because the K-6 was slow the Athlon64 is also slow.