Actually it is the last two digits of your birth year, birth month and birth date followed by a minus sign if your'e under 100 years of age or a plus sign if your'e older, then follows three control digits unique to you.
Thus mine is 830223-xxx
But it seems to be a common mistake to write the minus sign as a zero instead.
I am writing my own catalog with MySQL/Perl for several reasons.
1) I don't have enough space in my tiny room to fit all my books into bookcases, but with the db I can put some books in boxes in the closet and easily find out in which box a certain book is. 2) I want my books sorted according to a standard classification system but still be able to have them in my own way in the bookcase. Currently I use a heavily outdated (1987) Swedish classification system that the kind folks at my school library lent me. So I'll definitely take look at the Dewey Decimal system mentioned earlier. 3) I have books in several languages and with a db I can have the same kind of information on different books in different languages in the same place. Thus I don't have to look up the romanization for the Kanji (Chinese charachters in Japanese) more than once. But of course it will store the original Kanji-titles as well. 4) I can easily create lists of books that I want to buy and, that friends have borrowed from me or books that I have borrowed.
When it's finished I want it to handle 2-bit languages in a nice way, be compliant with existing standards for book classification, both Swedish and international, allow for easy list creation and have a nice interface.
Actually English could do the same thing as your German example a long time ago. But it has since been so influenced by romance languages that it has lost it's ability to hook words to each other without prepositions or spaces. Swedish (my mother tounge) works just as German in that we can frely hook words together and form new words, this is done practically all the time. But when the same is done in English you have to add spaces or "of", and this is now influencing Swedish to the extent that many Swedes don't know how to properly write their own language! But we'll just have to live with it, languages have to evolve.
If I remember my German correctly your word would be translated like this: Loneliness in the woods in the middle of a summer night. In Swedish this would be: Sommarmidnattsskogsensamhet.
In Sweden, as far as I know, journalists are bound to silence by law. They may not reveal their sources if the sources have requested to be anonymous. That is to make sure that the truth can be told without the sources having to worry that their identity is revealed.
I.e. A person working for the government can go to a journalist and tell about how bad the situation at work is, without having to worry about the government knowing who it was that complained. And not risking complications.
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No. Check with RSV for yourself.
Actually it is the last two digits of your birth year, birth month and birth date followed by a minus sign if your'e under 100 years of age or a plus sign if your'e older, then follows three control digits unique to you.
Thus mine is 830223-xxx
But it seems to be a common mistake to write the minus sign as a zero instead.
I am writing my own catalog with MySQL/Perl for several reasons.
1) I don't have enough space in my tiny room to fit all my books into bookcases, but with the db I can put some books in boxes in the closet and easily find out in which box a certain book is.
2) I want my books sorted according to a standard classification system but still be able to have them in my own way in the bookcase. Currently I use a heavily outdated (1987) Swedish classification system that the kind folks at my school library lent me. So I'll definitely take look at the Dewey Decimal system mentioned earlier.
3) I have books in several languages and with a db I can have the same kind of information on different books in different languages in the same place. Thus I don't have to look up the romanization for the Kanji (Chinese charachters in Japanese) more than once. But of course it will store the original Kanji-titles as well.
4) I can easily create lists of books that I want to buy and, that friends have borrowed from me or books that I have borrowed.
When it's finished I want it to handle 2-bit languages in a nice way, be compliant with existing standards for book classification, both Swedish and international, allow for easy list creation and have a nice interface.
Actually, if you add shou (shoumusenki) you would get small wireless device :)
Actually English could do the same thing as your German example a long time ago. But it has since been so influenced by romance languages that it has lost it's ability to hook words to each other without prepositions or spaces.
Swedish (my mother tounge) works just as German in that we can frely hook words together and form new words, this is done practically all the time. But when the same is done in English you have to add spaces or "of", and this is now influencing Swedish to the extent that many Swedes don't know how to properly write their own language! But we'll just have to live with it, languages have to evolve.
If I remember my German correctly your word would be translated like this: Loneliness in the woods in the middle of a summer night.
In Swedish this would be: Sommarmidnattsskogsensamhet.
In Sweden, as far as I know, journalists are bound to silence by law. They may not reveal their sources if the sources have requested to be anonymous.
That is to make sure that the truth can be told without the sources having to worry that their identity is revealed.
I.e. A person working for the government can go to a journalist and tell about how bad the situation at work is, without having to worry about the government knowing who it was that complained. And not risking complications.