I always thought about having abstraction and redundancy introduced in a way that critical resources like the DTD get a real URN like urn:netscape.com:rss:0.91 and then parsers fetch the resource by looking up the URL in a special service that translates a URN to one or multiple URLs. With multiple ones, if the first one doesn't work another one can be tried.
Basicly this system would do to URNs and URLs what DNS does to domain names and IP numbers.
We're in a sad state of affairs. Germany here is no longer protecting its own citizens, it's preventing it's citizens from viewing things online elsewhere. Who are they protecting?
They are protecting the basic principle of Article 1 of the German constitution AKA Basic Law AKA Grundgesetz.
The children are likely not German, so they're not protecting the german children.
What is your point? That foreign children are less to be protected from abuse? The first sentence of Article 1 of the Grundgesetz reads "Human dignity shall be inviolable.", not "German dignity shall be inviolable."
The servers are not in Germany, so they are not policing they're own internet.
Again, what is your point? That Germans shall be able to behave in illegal activities as long as these are taking place on foreign servers?
They are telling people what they cannot do.
Which is basicly encouraging child abuse by exerting demand for child pornography.
What is the reason for banning viewing these things? The usual reason is protecting children from being exploited, but one, these are not German children, and two, there is no proof they were even exploited.
Regarding the children not being German read what I wrote above. Regarding point two: It is common sense that children can not give informed consent to pornography, so child pornography is in its nature exploiting children, wether they are being forced or by other pressure.
They are literally telling people what they cannot do in their own homes even when it doesn't hurt anyone.
If you think that children are not hurt by degrading appearances of themselves in pictures or films, or even worse, by being photographed or filmed while being subjected to degrading or painful or injuring acts by others you seriously need to take a reality check.
I know, i know, thinkofthechildren.
Yeah, little people with extra need of protection. Think about it.
It's only a matter of time before children are carted away and a young age to be protected from the evils of the world.
There is no need to that. Instead, there are laws and law enforcement doing that job.
And crap like this is getting modded "interesting", now even the mods are trolling.
I am the only one who thinks that building is ugly as hell?
This apparently is one trait of arab (and other) cultures. Buildings are not designed to express their owner's taste or sense of aesthetics or efficiency, they are designed to express their owner's power, financial or political.
Exercise can indeed help with depression, but not in the way you were describing. Leave the serotonin manipulation to the drugs, that is what they are there for.
Exercise, like many other activities, provides the depressed with certain tasks that can be acomplished without the danger of falling into typical behaviors of depressed, like excessive ruminating or procrastination. Furthermore, the patient has a feedback from his activity, when he realises how his stamina and strength improves, especially in the first months.
Think of it this way, if shooting the bullet does not knock the shooter down, it isn't going to knock the person he shot at down either.
Are you sure? I always thought that the shooter can direct the impulse into the ground by standing firm while the person hit would have to be lucky to time that correctly. Maybe we should test this by throwing bowling balls against each other.
The charger for my Samsung A670 cell phone is the best, it doesn't use any power when plugged in without the phone. It's so light and small, it doesn't have your typical AC/DC converter in there, not sure how they convert wall power to DC to charge it.
Which would automatically gather all of the RSS feeds into a single location we could then just subscribe to that one server and pick all the feeds we like...
Mmmm ASCII salad. Goes great with chicken and a glass of red wine so I'm told.
Actualy 'something salad' is a figurative speach in German for gibberish
That might only in talking moon for the Windows the Media Player responsible person
Ummm... moon wha?
LOL! Redmond breaks up into Red whichs is a form of 'reden' - to talk and 'mond' - moon, which Google translated pretty well, wouldn't it be a proper name.
It's true! German Yoda does exist! And he's working for a PC magazine. I knew it!
Didn't you know? Here is a picture of him in his better days.
What you obviously missed is that he argued "de lege ferenda", i.e. as the law should be. The hypocricy lies in the fact that one drug is illegal and the other, more harmful, not.
The legwork you are recommending begins with asking that question on slashdot, to determine who might be more liberal on that subject. Although it seems like asking who might meet you 10 feet sooner on a 10 mile walk.
However I absolutely hate spam in every way, I think this ruling is rediculous. It's even restricting freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to lie without consequences.
Can the german government tell you how to answer to a http request?
Yet again someone who can't distinguish between government and courts.
Also: With regular email spam, the unwanted message is PUSHED to the victim, eating the victims bandwidth. Here, the victim (search engine spider) is pulling data from the server. If they don't want spam, don't use the meta tags.
The 'victim' is not the search engine but the internet surfer looking for something on a webpage that isn't there, wasting his time and bandwith, and the competitor to the webpages owner. And that's why they sued.
These rules of egoless programming have been circulating on various sites:
These rules can be easily abstracted to apply to any profession:
1. Understand and accept that you will make mistakes. The point is to find them early, before they are hardly correctable.
2. You are not your work. Remember that the entire point of quality assurance is to find problems, and problems will be found. Don't take it personally when one is uncovered.
3. No matter how much "karate" you know, someone else will always know more. Such an individual can teach you some new moves if you ask. Seek and accept input from others, especially when you think it's not needed.
4. Don't make crucial changes to workflow, working environment, etc. without consultation.
5. Treat people who know less than you with respect, deference, and patience.
6. The only constant in the world is change. Be open to it and accept it with a smile.
7. The only true authority stems from knowledge, not from position.
8. Fight for what you believe, but gracefully accept defeat.
9. Don't be "the guy in the room." Don't be the guy working in the dark office emerging only to buy cola. The guy in the room is out of touch, out of sight, and out of control and has no place in an open, collaborative environment.
10. Critique work instead of people -- be kind to the coder, not to the code.
Although Netgear reacted quickly to reports about a backdoor in the WLAN-Access-Point WG602 Version1 with a firmware-update the backdoor still remains, only with a new user name and password. When changing the name Netgear showed not much creatitity since the original string "super" was simply enlarged to "superman". Regarding the password Netgear apparently took seriously some comments of the heise board and changed the number to 21241036. Asked about whose telephone number this is Netgear Germany was not able to make any comment, as it was unaware of the new problem and going to investigate it first.
A newly updated firmware-version is not available yet. Anyhow the question is whether the users are willing to replace the software after the second error. In the opinion of lawyers this is a valid reason for users to be entitled to return the devices in exchange for their money. Although dealers could hypotheticaly fix the inadequacy, chances to do this successfully apparently are not the best.
There is still no general speed limit, but 130km/h is considered as "suggested speed". If you are going on a much higher speed and get involved in an accident the burden of proof is on you to show the accident would have happened even if you were going at that suggested speed. Otherwise you are considered to be guilty to a certain extend (e.g. 30%). This only applies to civil damages. Any manslaughter charges etc. require a genuine error made by you.
You're constructing a false dichotomy. Nobody wants the command line to be the only way to control the computer. But also nobody wants the command line to be replaced by fancy drag'n'drop shemes that require you to do mouse-moving orgies and keep you from automating and getting the job done quickly.
Your command is a nice example of what can be done perfectly by a little scripting. Put it in a shell script and insert the files to be burned as paramter. Voila you have a simple yet powerful command to burn files. You could put that command in numerous shell scripts, cron jobs etc. You can't do that easily with shemes that require user-interaction.
Unfortunately the Linux desktop tends to move toward that dichotomy, with KDE being nice to the eyes and to the beginners and excluding methods of automating. I prefer shemes of small and powerful tools that can be invoked by command line if you like to and GUI frontends that can be used by beginners to control these commands. This is the way to do it. Nobody gets hurt. Everyone is happy. Sure it means more work to encapsulate the different jobs. But this is what the article is about.
Uhh sorry but an aspiring engineer is not afraid of RTFM! This guy undoubtedly was. You don't learn enough in classes to never having to read manuals again.
Instead of trying to aggregate millions of users like friendster, orkut, etc. this could be used by companies, universities and other institutions to build a network of their own, where one's individual profile consists of abilities, skills etc. to make it more easy to build a team for a certain project.
Imagine you need someone to implement a special algorithm. Normaly either you or a project member could learn it, you ask random colleagues, or you post a message on a company/university board waiting for someone to hopefuly respond.
With a network like this you could quickly find someone who is able to do it easily and because it is a FOAF / colleague o.a. colleague it is easier to get together since there is a basic level of trust.
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I always thought about having abstraction and redundancy introduced in a way that critical resources like the DTD get a real URN like urn:netscape.com:rss:0.91 and then parsers fetch the resource by looking up the URL in a special service that translates a URN to one or multiple URLs. With multiple ones, if the first one doesn't work another one can be tried.
Basicly this system would do to URNs and URLs what DNS does to domain names and IP numbers.
We're in a sad state of affairs. Germany here is no longer protecting its own citizens, it's preventing it's citizens from viewing things online elsewhere. Who are they protecting?
They are protecting the basic principle of Article 1 of the German constitution AKA Basic Law AKA Grundgesetz.
The children are likely not German, so they're not protecting the german children.
What is your point? That foreign children are less to be protected from abuse? The first sentence of Article 1 of the Grundgesetz reads "Human dignity shall be inviolable.", not "German dignity shall be inviolable."
The servers are not in Germany, so they are not policing they're own internet.
Again, what is your point? That Germans shall be able to behave in illegal activities as long as these are taking place on foreign servers?
They are telling people what they cannot do.
Which is basicly encouraging child abuse by exerting demand for child pornography.
What is the reason for banning viewing these things? The usual reason is protecting children from being exploited, but one, these are not German children, and two, there is no proof they were even exploited.
Regarding the children not being German read what I wrote above. Regarding point two: It is common sense that children can not give informed consent to pornography, so child pornography is in its nature exploiting children, wether they are being forced or by other pressure.
They are literally telling people what they cannot do in their own homes even when it doesn't hurt anyone.
If you think that children are not hurt by degrading appearances of themselves in pictures or films, or even worse, by being photographed or filmed while being subjected to degrading or painful or injuring acts by others you seriously need to take a reality check.
I know, i know, thinkofthechildren.
Yeah, little people with extra need of protection. Think about it.
It's only a matter of time before children are carted away and a young age to be protected from the evils of the world.
There is no need to that. Instead, there are laws and law enforcement doing that job.
And crap like this is getting modded "interesting", now even the mods are trolling.
This apparently is one trait of arab (and other) cultures. Buildings are not designed to express their owner's taste or sense of aesthetics or efficiency, they are designed to express their owner's power, financial or political.
Exercise can indeed help with depression, but not in the way you were describing. Leave the serotonin manipulation to the drugs, that is what they are there for.
Exercise, like many other activities, provides the depressed with certain tasks that can be acomplished without the danger of falling into typical behaviors of depressed, like excessive ruminating or procrastination. Furthermore, the patient has a feedback from his activity, when he realises how his stamina and strength improves, especially in the first months.
Think of it this way, if shooting the bullet does not knock the shooter down, it isn't going to knock the person he shot at down either.
Are you sure? I always thought that the shooter can direct the impulse into the ground by standing firm while the person hit would have to be lucky to time that correctly. Maybe we should test this by throwing bowling balls against each other.
The charger for my Samsung A670 cell phone is the best, it doesn't use any power when plugged in without the phone. It's so light and small, it doesn't have your typical AC/DC converter in there, not sure how they convert wall power to DC to charge it.
It is that light because it is a switched-mode power supply.
Which would automatically gather all of the RSS feeds into a single location we could then just subscribe to that one server and pick all the feeds we like...
Hang on, where have I heard of this before?
I know what you are up to, but anyway: RSS aggregator web service
This really saves me some time and is comfortable like I wouldn't believe.
It denotes the business structure, which is similar to that of an american LLC or Ltd.
Get him a slashdot account, he will fit right in.
He wrote that he can't read, not that he can't score.
..when you read the above as "more pleasant to use than vi."
...and think that would be revolutionary.
Mmmm ASCII salad. Goes great with chicken and a glass of red wine so I'm told.
Actualy 'something salad' is a figurative speach in German for gibberish
That might only in talking moon for the Windows the Media Player responsible person
Ummm... moon wha?
LOL! Redmond breaks up into Red whichs is a form of 'reden' - to talk and 'mond' - moon, which Google translated pretty well, wouldn't it be a proper name.
It's true! German Yoda does exist! And he's working for a PC magazine. I knew it!
Didn't you know? Here is a picture of him in his better days.
What you obviously missed is that he argued "de lege ferenda", i.e. as the law should be. The hypocricy lies in the fact that one drug is illegal and the other, more harmful, not.
The legwork you are recommending begins with asking that question on slashdot, to determine who might be more liberal on that subject. Although it seems like asking who might meet you 10 feet sooner on a 10 mile walk.
It's socialist capitalization
The word you're looking for is fascism.
Yes, it's very effective until you run out of people to enslave.
However I absolutely hate spam in every way, I think this ruling is rediculous. It's even restricting freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to lie without consequences.
Can the german government tell you how to answer to a http request?
Yet again someone who can't distinguish between government and courts.
Also: With regular email spam, the unwanted message is PUSHED to the victim, eating the victims bandwidth. Here, the victim (search engine spider) is pulling data from the server. If they don't want spam, don't use the meta tags.
The 'victim' is not the search engine but the internet surfer looking for something on a webpage that isn't there, wasting his time and bandwith, and the competitor to the webpages owner. And that's why they sued.
It is. It is a subcategory of psychology.
These rules of egoless programming have been circulating on various sites:
These rules can be easily abstracted to apply to any profession:
1. Understand and accept that you will make mistakes. The point is to find them early, before they are hardly correctable.
2. You are not your work. Remember that the entire point of quality assurance is to find problems, and problems will be found. Don't take it personally when one is uncovered.
3. No matter how much "karate" you know, someone else will always know more. Such an individual can teach you some new moves if you ask. Seek and accept input from others, especially when you think it's not needed.
4. Don't make crucial changes to workflow, working environment, etc. without consultation.
5. Treat people who know less than you with respect, deference, and patience.
6. The only constant in the world is change. Be open to it and accept it with a smile.
7. The only true authority stems from knowledge, not from position.
8. Fight for what you believe, but gracefully accept defeat.
9. Don't be "the guy in the room." Don't be the guy working in the dark office emerging only to buy cola. The guy in the room is out of touch, out of sight, and out of control and has no place in an open, collaborative environment.
10. Critique work instead of people -- be kind to the coder, not to the code.
Last I heard the average human had a vocab of around 2500 words or less.
That must be the active vocabulary, words somebody uses in day-to-day speach.
As well as Joseph von Fraunhofer did not research in audio compression but lenses for telescopes.
Ahh, yes, the classic 'guilty until proven innocent' clause guaranteed by the constitution..
You instantly know that total laymen are discussing law when the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" is brought up in the field of civil law.
Repeat after me: "'Innocent until proven guilty' is a concept of penal law!"
Although Netgear reacted quickly to reports about a backdoor in the WLAN-Access-Point WG602 Version1 with a firmware-update the backdoor still remains, only with a new user name and password. When changing the name Netgear showed not much creatitity since the original string "super" was simply enlarged to "superman". Regarding the password Netgear apparently took seriously some comments of the heise board and changed the number to 21241036. Asked about whose telephone number this is Netgear Germany was not able to make any comment, as it was unaware of the new problem and going to investigate it first.
A newly updated firmware-version is not available yet. Anyhow the question is whether the users are willing to replace the software after the second error. In the opinion of lawyers this is a valid reason for users to be entitled to return the devices in exchange for their money. Although dealers could hypotheticaly fix the inadequacy, chances to do this successfully apparently are not the best.
So instead of scuba divers found dead of falling injuries, we get legends about people drowned in the middle of deserts?
It doesn't rain often in the desert, but when it rains it can be pretty tough. Actualy more people die of drowning in the desert than of thirst.
There is still no general speed limit, but 130km/h is considered as "suggested speed". If you are going on a much higher speed and get involved in an accident the burden of proof is on you to show the accident would have happened even if you were going at that suggested speed. Otherwise you are considered to be guilty to a certain extend (e.g. 30%). This only applies to civil damages. Any manslaughter charges etc. require a genuine error made by you.
You're constructing a false dichotomy. Nobody wants the command line to be the only way to control the computer. But also nobody wants the command line to be replaced by fancy drag'n'drop shemes that require you to do mouse-moving orgies and keep you from automating and getting the job done quickly.
Your command is a nice example of what can be done perfectly by a little scripting. Put it in a shell script and insert the files to be burned as paramter. Voila you have a simple yet powerful command to burn files. You could put that command in numerous shell scripts, cron jobs etc. You can't do that easily with shemes that require user-interaction.
Unfortunately the Linux desktop tends to move toward that dichotomy, with KDE being nice to the eyes and to the beginners and excluding methods of automating. I prefer shemes of small and powerful tools that can be invoked by command line if you like to and GUI frontends that can be used by beginners to control these commands. This is the way to do it. Nobody gets hurt. Everyone is happy. Sure it means more work to encapsulate the different jobs. But this is what the article is about.
Uhh sorry but an aspiring engineer is not afraid of RTFM! This guy undoubtedly was. You don't learn enough in classes to never having to read manuals again.
Instead of trying to aggregate millions of users like friendster, orkut, etc. this could be used by companies, universities and other institutions to build a network of their own, where one's individual profile consists of abilities, skills etc. to make it more easy to build a team for a certain project.
Imagine you need someone to implement a special algorithm. Normaly either you or a project member could learn it, you ask random colleagues, or you post a message on a company/university board waiting for someone to hopefuly respond.
With a network like this you could quickly find someone who is able to do it easily and because it is a FOAF / colleague o.a. colleague it is easier to get together since there is a basic level of trust.