Hitler was not democraticaly elected. His party held about 30% of the German parliament when president Hindenburg appointed him chancellor after other chancellors failed to build a coalition. The actual takeover of power took place when the parliament, under influence of terror and repression, made the fatal decision to empower Hitler as de-facto dictator.
Less of a problem? The first time I read about so-called 'identity theft' in America I was wondering what the heck they were talking about. There simply is no identity theft, 'no' as in 'no people killed by sleeping in heavy rain and accidentaly drowned'. Maybe this is the result of a system of evil communist child-eating ID cards. Getting a credit-card itself is about as easy as in the US I would guess, although I can't say for sure since I never needed to apply for one thanks to handy bank-account cards and easy bank transfers.
What is the point of owning a street legal racing car when you aren't allowed to actualy race it on the street beyond the first gear?
Dear Bill, here is my suggestion: take some time off! Visit lovely Germany with its elaborated system of unlimited highways famously known as Autobahn. Experience the genuine feeling of passing by pathetic, unworthy Volkswagen Passats, leaving them behind on the right lane like they are standing still while zooming over the tarmac on the left lane at unimaginable 215mph, and all this without any fears of the highway police who gratefuly welcomes anyone who obeys the speed limit of at least 40mph. Or choose the inter-city roads traveling the landscapes. Although limited to 60mph, the beautiful picturesque design and lay-out of the road provide an unporecedented experience.
But maybe you will find this too expensive, for there is one thing that even you can not buy and no one has too much of, you do not have the time.
I heard it was because the signal from the phone from altitude can be picked up strongly by more than one tower which can cause a problem for the cell provider.
This occurs normaly during everday-use of cellphones. The signal stations and the phone negotiate automaticaly which station to use.
You could pump alot more power into a plane from a land based transmitter with a focused beam.
The aluminium body of the plane easily qualifies as a Faraday cage which shields the systems against all electrical influence from the outside. Even lightnings can't harm it, so how should a mobile transmitter?
Or perhaps someone could give an opinion on how much power the uplinks broadcast? Would it be enough to cause some of the weird effects that pilots are currently attributing to passenger electronics?
Airplanes are Faraday cages and thus unharmed by outside electric fields. Even direct hitting lightnings can not harm then.
People will never learn that much of the sound a PC emits origins from the case itself per structure-borne sound. So you have to absorb the structure-borne sound by using a heavy, unelastic material. Foam is not heavy and thus it is not suitable.
I choose bitumen, which I bought from the local car parts dealer at 20 for 0.75m. It is self-adhesive and can be cut by a scissor, so I fitted my whole case with it in about one hour, making noticeably heavier. Subjectively measured I think the PC is now half as loud as it was before, so I got a whole -10 dB.
So everyone speak after me: "Bitumen, bitumen, bitumen!"
My idea is that Ford and Spielberg can't stand each other and don't want to show it. Instead they warm up rumours of a new Indy film, released in 1995..98..2000..2004. They say they have scheduling problems while Ford makes one pointless movie after another starting with "Sabrina" 1995 and Spielberg not having THAT good projects either.
So what holds them back for all this time? It's not that hard to make a decent script when you have a universe of ancient artifacts and myths to rely to and not having to do compromises cause you are Spielberg. So just go for it, Steven, Harrison, and make the people happy.
This is ridiculous. Do you always do everything by yourself, do you refuse to buy a readymade table but instead go out to the woods, chop the trees yourself and carpet everything on your own?
Who told you the only way to get pride is to make everyting for yourself? Only a fool does think so. Since the bronce age or even earlier mankind makes use of division of labour.
Instead of inventing the wheel for the millionth time real pride comes from making something new.
2) GPL'd code can't be used in commercial apps (blah blah, technicalities, yeah yeah, just try to get it past your boss)
GPL'd code is not the only source of prior art, and furthermore even GPL'd code can be reused in the way of implementing an algorithm in your own code instead of just copying it.
3) If you're paid by the hour, what's the rush?
To make it short: If you can't find yourself other work than reinventing the wheel you should adjust you attitude. Unlike most other things there is never too few work. There is always something to do, and if it is "only" QA. Tidy up your code, comment it, document your work, test the new function. Come on! Is your boss so dumb that he only accepts sweatshop-like hacking without any research? I have to tell you, if I was him, and your attitude is like that I would condider you as one of the first to go in a case of a layoff.
There are reasons to ignore other's work, but these certainly belong to them.
Phoo. Why not just use one of the GPS systems. The problem with oversimplifying like this (as idealists tend to do) is they rarely reflect the reality of actual routing, like, "Gee, it's only 12 miles 'as the crow flies'", yet the route in question winds all over the place.
Exactly. Zip-codes identify parts of the delivery system, not the location of the addressee.
If the sender demands a simplification of adressing someone or something I would propose a database-backed system where every participating entity gets a unique nationwide I.D. which is the only information the sender needs. It is then the delivery service or postal service that looks up the address to the I.D. from their database and completes the information at their needs. The I.D. could be of any form, e.g. similar to domain names, etc.
Of course this would need electronic handling of the shipments from the beginning. So... there you go, ideas.
If consumers see a web site that says, "Sorry, you need Windows 2005 to view this site," then they have a much higher chance of opening their pocketbooks than if the web site says, "Sorry, you need IE8 to view this site."
IMHO this would backfire either with more users pirating the newest windows version or with the website designers either cutting back improvements or writing for mozilla or opera etc.
Over in Germany, we use some of the least advanced voting machinery imagineable. Paper and pencil. Votes are counted by hand, with peer review, faxed in and published in detail in the newspapers.
The only reason this is still done in most parts of the country is the inability of Germans to go with the time and finaly get a decent voting machine do the work. No, as long as one can get voluntary helpers who have nothing to do than to count thousands of ballots in the night to the next monday everything is just fine.
Meanwhile in more and more cities voting machines are used. The vote is printed on paper as a backup which every voter can verify. Sehr gut, I say. Enough with the middle-ages, here comes the third millenium. Now the problem is to bring grandma Frieda to push the button instead of marking it with the pencil but this will work out soon.
You don't 'own' any of the cash in your pocket, the government does. So you have no legal right to deactivate the money.
In the EU you own the money which means it becomes your property.
Burning cash or defacing it it anyway is a violation of federal law in most countries.
Not in the EU. You can do whatever you want with it, if it makes you happy. Of course, if you destroy it you might have other problems than with the law.
You know all this unused webspace you have lying around? (Raise your hand if you still have a geocities account... yeah, I thought so.) Well, now there's something useful you can do with it (besides my personal favorite, fake nudities of Brittney): publish a lame crackpot scientific article with many images on it and have it mentioned in a slashdot blurb. Inevitably the server will attract evil forces that cause it to melt in a fulminant struggle between access requests and bandwith into a hot-steaming blob of liquid metal. Now isn't that something?
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Hitler was not democraticaly elected. His party held about 30% of the German parliament when president Hindenburg appointed him chancellor after other chancellors failed to build a coalition. The actual takeover of power took place when the parliament, under influence of terror and repression, made the fatal decision to empower Hitler as de-facto dictator.
Less of a problem? The first time I read about so-called 'identity theft' in America I was wondering what the heck they were talking about. There simply is no identity theft, 'no' as in 'no people killed by sleeping in heavy rain and accidentaly drowned'. Maybe this is the result of a system of evil communist child-eating ID cards. Getting a credit-card itself is about as easy as in the US I would guess, although I can't say for sure since I never needed to apply for one thanks to handy bank-account cards and easy bank transfers.
That's easy: Change the value to 20,000 and you shouldn't hear the noise any longer. Not recommended if you have a pet.
A better example would be the following one where interest rates are proportional to the investment:
Anna invests $1000. Bob invests $200. Charlie invests $3000.
Anna's interest rate is 1%
Bob's interest rate is 0.5%
Charlie's interest rate is 3%
Anna receives 1% of $1000 = $10.
Bob receives 0.5% of $200 = $1.
Charlie receives 3% of $3000 = $90.
If the three work the open source way and invest their money together, making it $4200 the interest rate is 4%:
Anna receives 4% of $1000 = $40.
Bob receives 4% of $200 = $8.
Charlie receives 4% of $3000 = $120.
Of course this is only a quick'n'dirty example.
What is the point of owning a street legal racing car when you aren't allowed to actualy race it on the street beyond the first gear?
Dear Bill,
here is my suggestion: take some time off! Visit lovely Germany with its elaborated system of unlimited highways famously known as Autobahn. Experience the genuine feeling of passing by pathetic, unworthy Volkswagen Passats, leaving them behind on the right lane like they are standing still while zooming over the tarmac on the left lane at unimaginable 215mph, and all this without any fears of the highway police who gratefuly welcomes anyone who obeys the speed limit of at least 40mph. Or choose the inter-city roads traveling the landscapes. Although limited to 60mph, the beautiful picturesque design and lay-out of the road provide an unporecedented experience.
But maybe you will find this too expensive, for there is one thing that even you can not buy and no one has too much of, you do not have the time.
Then how could you hear her?
Noise cancelling headphones are able to mute noises frequency-selective.
I heard it was because the signal from the phone from altitude can be picked up strongly by more than one tower which can cause a problem for the cell provider.
This occurs normaly during everday-use of cellphones. The signal stations and the phone negotiate automaticaly which station to use.
I have an easier solution.... faraday cage the damn cabin and call it done. or better yet quit taking the cheap route in cable shielding, avionics.
Maybe it wouldn't be neccessary if fiber optics get more used. AFAIK this will be the case with the airbus a380 and boeing 7E7.
You could pump alot more power into a plane from a land based transmitter with a focused beam.
The aluminium body of the plane easily qualifies as a Faraday cage which shields the systems against all electrical influence from the outside. Even lightnings can't harm it, so how should a mobile transmitter?
do airplanes get routed around satellite uplinks?
Or perhaps someone could give an opinion on how much power the uplinks broadcast? Would it be enough to cause some of the weird effects that pilots are currently attributing to passenger electronics?
Airplanes are Faraday cages and thus unharmed by outside electric fields. Even direct hitting lightnings can not harm then.
"Buy my product - it is healthy!" Who do they think they can fool with this crap?
People will never learn that much of the sound a PC emits origins from the case itself per structure-borne sound. So you have to absorb the structure-borne sound by using a heavy, unelastic material. Foam is not heavy and thus it is not suitable.
I choose bitumen, which I bought from the local car parts dealer at 20 for 0.75m. It is self-adhesive and can be cut by a scissor, so I fitted my whole case with it in about one hour, making noticeably heavier. Subjectively measured I think the PC is now half as loud as it was before, so I got a whole -10 dB.
So everyone speak after me: "Bitumen, bitumen, bitumen!"
I believe it when I watch it, point.
My idea is that Ford and Spielberg can't stand each other and don't want to show it. Instead they warm up rumours of a new Indy film, released in 1995..98..2000..2004. They say they have scheduling problems while Ford makes one pointless movie after another starting with "Sabrina" 1995 and Spielberg not having THAT good projects either.
So what holds them back for all this time? It's not that hard to make a decent script when you have a universe of ancient artifacts and myths to rely to and not having to do compromises cause you are Spielberg. So just go for it, Steven, Harrison, and make the people happy.
As long as they don't bring back that little annoying kid in the Yankee cap in Temple Of Doom.
I want short-round in the next movie. Played by Yun-Fat Chow. Wouldn't that be something?
To his defense I just assume he needs it to clean his monitor now and then.
Clean it from what you ask? Uhm, nevermind...
This guys posting translates into real german to: "Ich bin ein SchaumschlÃger." which translates into: "I am a boaster."
No function name, no line number, no nothing. Very gut. Gut done.
1) There's no pride in using someone else's code.
This is ridiculous. Do you always do everything by yourself, do you refuse to buy a readymade table but instead go out to the woods, chop the trees yourself and carpet everything on your own?
Who told you the only way to get pride is to make everyting for yourself? Only a fool does think so. Since the bronce age or even earlier mankind makes use of division of labour.
Instead of inventing the wheel for the millionth time real pride comes from making something new.
2) GPL'd code can't be used in commercial apps (blah blah, technicalities, yeah yeah, just try to get it past your boss)
GPL'd code is not the only source of prior art, and furthermore even GPL'd code can be reused in the way of implementing an algorithm in your own code instead of just copying it.
3) If you're paid by the hour, what's the rush?
To make it short: If you can't find yourself other work than reinventing the wheel you should adjust you attitude. Unlike most other things there is never too few work. There is always something to do, and if it is "only" QA. Tidy up your code, comment it, document your work, test the new function. Come on! Is your boss so dumb that he only accepts sweatshop-like hacking without any research? I have to tell you, if I was him, and your attitude is like that I would condider you as one of the first to go in a case of a layoff.
There are reasons to ignore other's work, but these certainly belong to them.
I'm not sure that will help them undercut on price. Doesn't the EU have minimum wage/minimum cost regulations?
No, there is no such thing in the EU. That's what there are unions for.
I seem to recall that this was one of the concerns over Turkey's candidacy for membership.
Regarding Turkey there is basicaly one concern over their human rights record.
Phoo. Why not just use one of the GPS systems. The problem with oversimplifying like this (as idealists tend to do) is they rarely reflect the reality of actual routing, like, "Gee, it's only 12 miles 'as the crow flies'", yet the route in question winds all over the place.
Exactly. Zip-codes identify parts of the delivery system, not the location of the addressee.
If the sender demands a simplification of adressing someone or something I would propose a database-backed system where every participating entity gets a unique nationwide I.D. which is the only information the sender needs. It is then the delivery service or postal service that looks up the address to the I.D. from their database and completes the information at their needs. The I.D. could be of any form, e.g. similar to domain names, etc.
Of course this would need electronic handling of the shipments from the beginning. So... there you go, ideas.
Look it up in the U.S. code, TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, CHAPTER 41--EXTORTION AND THREATS, Sec. 873
Short: No.
If consumers see a web site that says, "Sorry, you need Windows 2005 to view this site," then they have a much higher chance of opening their pocketbooks than if the web site says, "Sorry, you need IE8 to view this site."
IMHO this would backfire either with more users pirating the newest windows version or with the website designers either cutting back improvements or writing for mozilla or opera etc.
Over in Germany, we use some of the least advanced voting machinery
imagineable. Paper and pencil. Votes are counted by hand, with peer
review, faxed in and published in detail in the newspapers.
The only reason this is still done in most parts of the country is the inability of Germans to go with the time and finaly get a decent voting machine do the work. No, as long as one can get voluntary helpers who have nothing to do than to count thousands of ballots in the night to the next monday everything is just fine.
Meanwhile in more and more cities voting machines are used. The vote is printed on paper as a backup which every voter can verify. Sehr gut, I say. Enough with the middle-ages, here comes the third millenium. Now the problem is to bring grandma Frieda to push the button instead of marking it with the pencil but this will work out soon.
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Informative yes. But also incorrect.
But they keyword is fraudulent. I wouldn't go trying to make a US penny into a US dime or a Euro 20 into a Euro 100.
I quietly assumed Surak excluded this special case of mutilating money in his statement, for it is utterly obvious and no point of dispute.
You don't 'own' any of the cash in your pocket, the government does. So you have no legal right to deactivate the money.
In the EU you own the money which means it becomes your property.
Burning cash or defacing it it anyway is a violation of federal law in most countries.
Not in the EU. You can do whatever you want with it, if it makes you happy. Of course, if you destroy it you might have other problems than with the law.
You know all this unused webspace you have lying around? (Raise your hand if you still have a geocities account... yeah, I thought so.) Well, now there's something useful you can do with it (besides my personal favorite, fake nudities of Brittney): publish a lame crackpot scientific article with many images on it and have it mentioned in a slashdot blurb. Inevitably the server will attract evil forces that cause it to melt in a fulminant struggle between access requests and bandwith into a hot-steaming blob of liquid metal. Now isn't that something?