In Sweden it's the exact opposite. I almost got fired when I mentioned starting my own company on my free time, in an area quite far from what the company I was working from was doing.
Consequently, the no of new companies in Sweden is at an all time low, and dropping.
In a small area in the western part of Stockholm they've just finished getting optical fiber to all apartments. One company owns the cables, and four operators compete for customers. Now the lowest price is $35 (SEK 240) per month for 10 MBit both upstream and downstream. Downloading the newest Linux kernel in 30 seconds flat or a DivX movie in 15 minutes feels pretty good!
The beer-free morning newspaper Metro in Sweden had an article (pdf, on page 16) yesterday about Denmark introducing EUCD, the EU version of DMCA.
It was described as a law that makes it illegal to make mp3s of your own CDs. Since it is an EU directive, I doubt any of the member countries have much choice but to add some law of this kind.
At my university (Umeå, Sweden) we had exactly this as an assignment in the AI course, using genes that were interpreted into a sorting net, then split, paired and mutated a little bit at a time. It was great fun seeing it start with a giant random network, and then seeing it get shorter and shorter.
Even though one of my first versions only used half of the genes due to a bug, it still managed to create a network that was just one step larger than the theoretical minimum.
After Ctrl-C'ing it I implemented a way to actually print and save the network, after which it never got better than three steps worse than the minimum. Damn.
It's a pity they still use Bind instead of
djbdns,
which is a lot safer.
I'm also surprised about KDE 2.2, since KDE 2.2.1 has been out for quite a while now. The same goes for the kernel version (2.4.7), and a few other things. Didn't RedHat used to have more recent things in their earlier distributions?
A week ago version 6 of the Epoc SDK was released, so I guess now would be a good time to port Qt/Palmtop to that OS as well. The size of Palm machines are nice, but I'm addicted to the keyboard.
Scott Ambler at AmbySoft has written quite a lot about this, especially when it comes to using relational databases in an object oriented system. Check out http://www.ambysoft.com/onlineWritings. html
Despite the fact that many old SQL folks get very upset when they see things like the complete absence of stored procedures and triggers, I know from personal experience that (many of) his recommendations work just fine.
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In Sweden it's the exact opposite. I almost got fired when I mentioned starting my own company on my free time, in an area quite far from what the company I was working from was doing.
Consequently, the no of new companies in Sweden is at an all time low, and dropping.
According to my Intel PC, the cost is 1.24999999984 per word.
Let he who has never used Linux throw the first chair.
Two words: sign language.
Being able to communicate in your own language makes a big difference.
Suing the ISPs is exactly what the swedish organisation is about to do. Not that it will lead anywhere, of course.
Please, let me moderate moderations!
Score Insightful? For that link? Did you check the pictures?
You're a developer, and you understood the word "releases"? Liar, liar.
In a small area in the western part of Stockholm they've just finished getting optical fiber to all apartments. One company owns the cables, and four operators compete for customers. Now the lowest price is $35 (SEK 240) per month for 10 MBit both upstream and downstream. Downloading the newest Linux kernel in 30 seconds flat or a DivX movie in 15 minutes feels pretty good!
What's more cool though, is that it also works for swedish sign language, when signing names and such.
In Soviet Russia, YOU watch the ROBOT.
No, chess can't be solved. There are more positions in chess than atoms in our universe, so that method is out.
Building an organism from genes includes a lot of randomness and interpretation errors. It's biologi after all, not computer science.
It was described as a law that makes it illegal to make mp3s of your own CDs. Since it is an EU directive, I doubt any of the member countries have much choice but to add some law of this kind.
At my university (Umeå, Sweden) we had exactly this as an assignment in the AI course, using genes that were interpreted into a sorting net, then split, paired and mutated a little bit at a time. It was great fun seeing it start with a giant random network, and then seeing it get shorter and shorter.
Even though one of my first versions only used half of the genes due to a bug, it still managed to create a network that was just one step larger than the theoretical minimum.
After Ctrl-C'ing it I implemented a way to actually print and save the network, after which it never got better than three steps worse than the minimum. Damn.
Not to be picky or anything, but Sweden (home of Ericsson) and Finland (home of Nokia) have been separate countries for a couple of years now.
No problem, just tell her she's not allowed to use it, then she'll figure it out in no time.
Why would you do a thing like that? An OLD PC with
Windows? Don't you like your brother?
Pros:
- Completely database independent, including using an internal dictionary.
- Can update database tables automatically.
- Provides a nice entity/relation-view of the database.
- XML import/export support.
Cons:I agree, there is no way one would be able to teach Joe Sixpack to use Emacs to do all these things.
I'm also surprised about KDE 2.2, since KDE 2.2.1 has been out for quite a while now. The same goes for the kernel version (2.4.7), and a few other things. Didn't RedHat used to have more recent things in their earlier distributions?
Together with a chrooted install of Apache, the security level is becoming rather comfortable.
We need a Wav file.
"Hi, My name is Mr. Tomlinson, and I pronounce email, email.".
/Basic
A week ago version 6 of the Epoc SDK was released, so I guess now would be a good time to port Qt/Palmtop to that OS as well. The size of Palm machines are nice, but I'm addicted to the keyboard.
Despite the fact that many old SQL folks get very upset when they see things like the complete absence of stored procedures and triggers, I know from personal experience that (many of) his recommendations work just fine.