I am European. I have been to United States tens of times, both on company budget and on my own. I won't come back, unless pressed really hard by my employer. Why should I? The world is full of wonderful places. Why should I choose a country which is openly hostile to visitors?
My language of choice would be Python. Dead easy, powerful, interactive, fun.
1) Get some kids' coding books (on paper) and read through them to get the basics. 2) Get python - the plain IDLE from python.org will do, no need for pycharm or other fancy environments. 3) Code some simple stuff to get the basics. Try out graphics (tkinter if in python) - you will get immediate rewards by nice visuals. Bounce balls around the screen, draw gradients or simple animations. 4) Connect coding with your hobby or work and figure out a more serious project to go deeper into the language with a real goal.
Go to a forum dealing with, say, gardening or pets or childcare and you'll very rarely see this sort of thing, the standard response there is sympathy and advice.
I disagree.
I frequent a large parenting forum.
The bitterness and disdain for others I see there is unseen in the "techie" world. Newbie questions get not only mocked, but attacked on personal level and with psychological finesse that only comes with practice. The responders know that new parents are uncertain in their parenting skills and they attack this condition with precision. "What kind of parent could ask a question like this?" "MY child does ALWAYS obey the rules we have set. What mistakes must you have done for your kids to not obey yours?" etc etc.
The people on the parenting forum seem like Putin's trolls in training for me. They practice psychological forum-warfare, trying to identify the weak spots in other participants. People who come for advice in parenting MUST have the weak spots (otherwise they would not seek help in the first place) and thus provide a good training ground.
Thus this behaviour is universal to the 'net, not limited to "techie forums".
Non-citizens of WHAT exactly?
ThomsonReuters is a Canadian company.
Quoting their 2015 regulatory report from http://ir.thomsonreuters.com/p...: "We are a Canadian company with shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange (symbol:
TRI)."
The real question is this: How many American citizens are on the list?
Why is this relevant?
Are American citizens somehow more or less entitled to be on the list than, say, Germans or Japanese?
Due process should apply to everyone regardless of their citizenship.
Imagine you learn that there are no Americans on the list.
Would it make the list and related contoversy a) better b) worse?
That's easier in the sky than on the ground: Is that a person about to cross the road or a picture of a person on a billboard?
With autonomous cars dominating the road:
Billboards and other sources of ambiguous sensory input will be banned from roads.
Cars will have no windows. Why, if you could watch Netflix instead? Roadside nature does not count your clicks or impressions.
Future roadside will be very different from the current one, dotted with radio beacons or other non-visual navigational aids, but offering nothing for a human to see.
Andrus is a very frequent Estonian first name.
The strange umlaut in "Nomm" / "Nõmm" is this letter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No Estonian would be named "Andrew" nor "Nomm".
Plus, a lot of civilian guns were taken by the Nazis. You can't beat German efficiency.
Soviet Union also tried to confiscate all guns.
For a good reason - there was real armed opposition to Soviet rule in many member states, and the central government needed to prevent or destroy this. Nothing to do with home or civil violence.
Dear Microsoft.
Please give us an example where a home user would benefit from the capability of Office documents to load anything from the web.
Does this benefit outweight the risk it creates?
How?
In other words -
DROP THIS BLOAT from your software, for all and for good.
With the exception of corporate users who, in a strictly controlled environment, might use it - GPO allowing.
A 25 mph speed limit is unrealistic on any public road I've ever seen. .. It means that the street should not be a public street at all.
Then you have not seen much.
Most of the world was populated BEFORE motorised vehicles arrived, and the cities are not designed around car traffic.
Visit any city outside US and you will see. Hell, even San Francisco or Boston would do.
I live on a street with 30 kph (19 mph) speed limit. The street is narrow, winding and currently completely covered in snow. It is nothing exceptional - all European cities older than 100 years have plenty of areas like this. Hilly towns add another layer of complexity to this. Get a car and drive some in Mediterranean, or Norway, or Switzerland and you will see.
Please note that those "toy" languages are based on English.
Most kids in the world DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH at the age of 7-8-9 years.
Half of the world does not even use Latin alphabet - see the map at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Adult programmers are expected to read & comprehend basic English no matter what their native language is. You can speak in Hindi or Amharic with your colleagues, but your if/else statements will still be in English. With kids this assumption will not hold.
Thus, some other coding languages or paradigms must be used.
Maybe I am wrong and English will dominate the future world so heavily that all 5 year olds WILL comprehend it enough to use it for basic coding?
1) Greenland is not a country.
2) Yenisei is the largest river in Siberia. Yenisey bay/gulf is where the river meets the ocean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The place is reallt not hospitable at all - permafrost, no vegetation. However climate must have been milder at the times, otherwise it could not have had mammoths.
... since she uses 80% or more of her vacation time that she won't be able to handle the job.
In normal societies, using your vacation is more or less an OBLIGATION.
I'd guess that in Europe, even the intelligence agencies ensure that their employees do take out their vacation.
It is also used as a measure against internal fraud. It is difficult to break rules and hide the consequences if you MUST be away from work (and hand over your duties) every year.
Asia considers Europe as a bunch of dinosaurs, soon to be extinct.
I must agree.
Seriously.
Imagine that this WILL come true and our kids will be banned from the 'net till 16.
What will be the effects of competitiveness and innovation - not to the kids but for the Europe itself?
We will deprive our next generation from the ability to learn and develop, whereas other continents encourage their youth to go forth and change the world.
The authors misunderstand the point of autonomous cars.
They won't be here for efficiency, safety or speed.
They will free up the time for the driver.
Instead of keeping my hands on the wheel, I can work, shave or have sex.
THIS will be the benefit.
It also means that the decision to drive or not to drive will be much cheaper. Today, a 30 minute drive will take 30 minutes off from my life. Tomorrow, it won't. I can still do what I want while being driven - which means that I will "drive" much more. The ones who can allow to own / rent robot cars will suddenly start moving around a lot more. This will create more traffic, maybe exponentially so. The green, eco-friendly vision of reduced traffic via autonomous vehicles is all wrong.
It will also affect urban planning in ways that nobody can yet comprehend nor predict.
I am from Estonia. We have 20 + 62 weeks (1.5 years) of paternal leave, fully paid by the state to the equivalent of your income before the birth of the child. There are some discussions about the fairness of this systems - why should parents with higher income be paid more for getting a child? However, nobody questions the system itself - long parental leaves are good for the society, period.
I run.
Marathons, half-marathons, long (8 hours) orienteering competitions, whatnot.
I won't tell you what to buy, but I can suggest some more "must have" features.
1) If she is serious about her training, she will need a heart rate monitor. At least as a beginner. Experience will help her understand her body without a HR belt later, but first, she will need this experience!
2) She will do intervals, right? Some watches are better at that than others. Good, clear display is a must. Audible signals (beeps) will also help. Some people preplan their trainings ("1 km with HR 150, 1 km with HR 160,..") but most watches won't have this capability.
3) GPS accuracy differs. A bad watch can lose GPS signal on open field - and never get it back. Want to run in a park? Forest? Even worse. Go read up on your device of choice before becoming a field tester.
4) As mentioned earlier, night mode (backlight on) may be needed.
5) Check the training display options. She (probably) needs a combo of pace, HR, distance & time, lap distance & time. Does Sony have it?
If you can, let her do a test run and go a full cycle - from planning to training to analysis.
I have Garmin Forerunner 405 and Polar M400 GPS watches. Both are horrible. Garmin has worst UI one could imagine, it will literally drive you nuts. Polar has the worst software support that money can buy.
Of course people have been doing fartleks and intervals without any GPS, so none of the requirements is really a MUST. But if she is really into running, get her a runners' watch, not a glorified media player.
I am 45. My first connection to American pop culture come from the need to pass the test in (pirated) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . Talk shows? Nike commercials? Those happened on some other planet called America, while I was safely planted in USSR.
So, no, not everybody used to know who M Jordan was.
Slashdot Mirror
Seconded.
This story should not be here.
I can read this from CNN, Fox or my local newspaper.
Travel / tourism to US is plummeting.
The size of the effect varies by source:
6.5% - http://www.reuters.com/article...
17% - http://time.com/money/4662727/...
25% - https://www.theguardian.com/tr...
50% - http://ttgnordic.com/interest-...
I am European.
I have been to United States tens of times, both on company budget and on my own.
I won't come back, unless pressed really hard by my employer.
Why should I?
The world is full of wonderful places.
Why should I choose a country which is openly hostile to visitors?
Snowden == Ultra Ball.
My language of choice would be Python.
Dead easy, powerful, interactive, fun.
1) Get some kids' coding books (on paper) and read through them to get the basics.
2) Get python - the plain IDLE from python.org will do, no need for pycharm or other fancy environments.
3) Code some simple stuff to get the basics. Try out graphics (tkinter if in python) - you will get immediate rewards by nice visuals. Bounce balls around the screen, draw gradients or simple animations.
4) Connect coding with your hobby or work and figure out a more serious project to go deeper into the language with a real goal.
Go to a forum dealing with, say, gardening or pets or childcare and you'll very rarely see this sort of thing, the standard response there is sympathy and advice.
I disagree.
I frequent a large parenting forum.
The bitterness and disdain for others I see there is unseen in the "techie" world. Newbie questions get not only mocked, but attacked on personal level and with psychological finesse that only comes with practice. The responders know that new parents are uncertain in their parenting skills and they attack this condition with precision. "What kind of parent could ask a question like this?" "MY child does ALWAYS obey the rules we have set. What mistakes must you have done for your kids to not obey yours?" etc etc.
The people on the parenting forum seem like Putin's trolls in training for me. They practice psychological forum-warfare, trying to identify the weak spots in other participants. People who come for advice in parenting MUST have the weak spots (otherwise they would not seek help in the first place) and thus provide a good training ground.
Thus this behaviour is universal to the 'net, not limited to "techie forums".
1) my boss
2) my mother-in-law
I see this as win-win-win situation.
Non-citizens of WHAT exactly?
ThomsonReuters is a Canadian company.
Quoting their 2015 regulatory report from http://ir.thomsonreuters.com/p...:
"We are a Canadian company with shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange (symbol: TRI)."
The real question is this:
How many American citizens are on the list?
Why is this relevant?
Are American citizens somehow more or less entitled to be on the list than, say, Germans or Japanese?
Due process should apply to everyone regardless of their citizenship.
Imagine you learn that there are no Americans on the list.
Would it make the list and related contoversy a) better b) worse?
That's easier in the sky than on the ground: Is that a person about to cross the road or a picture of a person on a billboard?
With autonomous cars dominating the road:
Billboards and other sources of ambiguous sensory input will be banned from roads.
Cars will have no windows. Why, if you could watch Netflix instead? Roadside nature does not count your clicks or impressions.
Future roadside will be very different from the current one, dotted with radio beacons or other non-visual navigational aids, but offering nothing for a human to see.
Who gives a shit about some third-worlder's hilarious alphabet?
You are correct.
Slashdot, please keep ignoring UTF.
Must be an important part of the Murican world domination plan.
His real name is Andrus Nõmm.
Andrus is a very frequent Estonian first name.
The strange umlaut in "Nomm" / "Nõmm" is this letter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No Estonian would be named "Andrew" nor "Nomm".
Plus, a lot of civilian guns were taken by the Nazis. You can't beat German efficiency.
Soviet Union also tried to confiscate all guns.
For a good reason - there was real armed opposition to Soviet rule in many member states, and the central government needed to prevent or destroy this. Nothing to do with home or civil violence.
http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-...
Dear Microsoft.
Please give us an example where a home user would benefit from the capability of Office documents to load anything from the web.
Does this benefit outweight the risk it creates?
How?
In other words -
DROP THIS BLOAT from your software, for all and for good.
With the exception of corporate users who, in a strictly controlled environment, might use it - GPO allowing.
Doesn't everyone's SSN and mother's maiden name change every year or so?
SSN and your genealogy are immutable, public data.
Why should Home Depot or anyone else be paying if those will be available from yet another source?
Seriously, Americans, stop obsessing about public data being public.
This one also applies:
https://xkcd.com/937/
A 25 mph speed limit is unrealistic on any public road I've ever seen.
.. It means that the street should not be a public street at all.
Then you have not seen much.
Most of the world was populated BEFORE motorised vehicles arrived, and the cities are not designed around car traffic.
Visit any city outside US and you will see. Hell, even San Francisco or Boston would do.
I live on a street with 30 kph (19 mph) speed limit. The street is narrow, winding and currently completely covered in snow. It is nothing exceptional - all European cities older than 100 years have plenty of areas like this. Hilly towns add another layer of complexity to this. Get a car and drive some in Mediterranean, or Norway, or Switzerland and you will see.
Please note that those "toy" languages are based on English.
Most kids in the world DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH at the age of 7-8-9 years.
Half of the world does not even use Latin alphabet - see the map at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Adult programmers are expected to read & comprehend basic English no matter what their native language is. You can speak in Hindi or Amharic with your colleagues, but your if/else statements will still be in English. With kids this assumption will not hold.
Thus, some other coding languages or paradigms must be used.
Maybe I am wrong and English will dominate the future world so heavily that all 5 year olds WILL comprehend it enough to use it for basic coding?
1) Greenland is not a country.
2) Yenisei is the largest river in Siberia. Yenisey bay/gulf is where the river meets the ocean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The place is reallt not hospitable at all - permafrost, no vegetation. However climate must have been milder at the times, otherwise it could not have had mammoths.
... since she uses 80% or more of her vacation time that she won't be able to handle the job.
In normal societies, using your vacation is more or less an OBLIGATION.
I'd guess that in Europe, even the intelligence agencies ensure that their employees do take out their vacation.
It is also used as a measure against internal fraud. It is difficult to break rules and hide the consequences if you MUST be away from work (and hand over your duties) every year.
Asia considers Europe as a bunch of dinosaurs, soon to be extinct.
I must agree.
Seriously.
Imagine that this WILL come true and our kids will be banned from the 'net till 16.
What will be the effects of competitiveness and innovation - not to the kids but for the Europe itself?
We will deprive our next generation from the ability to learn and develop, whereas other continents encourage their youth to go forth and change the world.
The authors misunderstand the point of autonomous cars.
They won't be here for efficiency, safety or speed.
They will free up the time for the driver.
Instead of keeping my hands on the wheel, I can work, shave or have sex.
THIS will be the benefit.
It also means that the decision to drive or not to drive will be much cheaper. Today, a 30 minute drive will take 30 minutes off from my life. Tomorrow, it won't. I can still do what I want while being driven - which means that I will "drive" much more. The ones who can allow to own / rent robot cars will suddenly start moving around a lot more. This will create more traffic, maybe exponentially so. The green, eco-friendly vision of reduced traffic via autonomous vehicles is all wrong.
It will also affect urban planning in ways that nobody can yet comprehend nor predict.
Parental leave at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Table of European countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I am from Estonia. We have 20 + 62 weeks (1.5 years) of paternal leave, fully paid by the state to the equivalent of your income before the birth of the child. There are some discussions about the fairness of this systems - why should parents with higher income be paid more for getting a child? However, nobody questions the system itself - long parental leaves are good for the society, period.
I run.
..") but most watches won't have this capability.
Marathons, half-marathons, long (8 hours) orienteering competitions, whatnot.
I won't tell you what to buy, but I can suggest some more "must have" features.
1) If she is serious about her training, she will need a heart rate monitor. At least as a beginner. Experience will help her understand her body without a HR belt later, but first, she will need this experience!
2) She will do intervals, right? Some watches are better at that than others. Good, clear display is a must. Audible signals (beeps) will also help. Some people preplan their trainings ("1 km with HR 150, 1 km with HR 160,
3) GPS accuracy differs. A bad watch can lose GPS signal on open field - and never get it back. Want to run in a park? Forest? Even worse. Go read up on your device of choice before becoming a field tester.
4) As mentioned earlier, night mode (backlight on) may be needed.
5) Check the training display options. She (probably) needs a combo of pace, HR, distance & time, lap distance & time. Does Sony have it?
If you can, let her do a test run and go a full cycle - from planning to training to analysis.
For reviews, http://www.dcrainmaker.com/ is your friend. Nobody else is as thorough as this guy.
I have Garmin Forerunner 405 and Polar M400 GPS watches. Both are horrible. Garmin has worst UI one could imagine, it will literally drive you nuts. Polar has the worst software support that money can buy.
Of course people have been doing fartleks and intervals without any GPS, so none of the requirements is really a MUST. But if she is really into running, get her a runners' watch, not a glorified media player.
So, no, not everybody used to know who M Jordan was.