I've found many people to be somewhat afraid of cooking. Trying a recipe on their own, or helping me (how do I have to cut it? can I put it in now? how long should I stir it?...). I can only recommend to just do it. Maybe it won't be perfect, but as long as you have some endurance it'll work out in the long run. Note that some recipes out there just suck, so it might not be your lack of expertise all the time. If you can, find someone to cook with, preferably with more experience. Cooking is also good for socializing, in case you're interested in that kind of thing;-).
No, actually, I don't. I was refuting a blanket statement in the post I was replying to, which was that all we have to do is emulate Europe, and everything will be "twice as good".
That obviously was a provocation, and you can't refute it by merely saying "it ain't so". That's simply disagreeing. But your anecdotal claim of a supposedly hellish school system which seems to prevail in Germany does nothing but raise questions. If you don't want to answer them, fine. I just don't like the German school system being badmouthed. At least not for the wrong reasons...;-)
That's not a good point to try to argue. The schools themselves are already segregated, in the German system. You can get a minimum education, learn a trade, or prepare for university. There's no in-between, though you can improve your degree later on.
There is the Gesamtschule, which is the in-between you're looking for. However, I think that teaching children according to their skills is a good idea. If the breadth of capabilities is too large, some students will get bored while others are totally swamped with the demands. Or everyone sinks to the smallest common denominator. In the end, nobody gets what they need, an education that matches their intellect and challenges them the right amount.
Sorry, that's a load of complete crap. The model of training kids to be good little apparatchiks started in europe, and I can tell you from the hellish year that I spent in a German school, that shools over there are, if anything, more regimented than in the USA.
And obviously all German schools are the same.
You have to be a bit more specific on what made that school hellish and what works better in every single comparable US school.
Otherwise it's "a complete load of crap" right back at ya.
My somewhat techy, somewhat non-techy site (mixed content, a combined 100K hits/month) has an MSIE share which dropped from 80% in January to 75% in August. Mozilla more or less got the additional 5% and is now at 23%. Opera and Konqueror stay at about.8% each.
And deflate is already very old. We now have newer 7-Zip format that compress better and decompress the same fast.
Even back then "we" had better methods than Deflate plus filters. But they may be patent-encumbered, or very CPU-intensive, or a lot of work to implement. The picked solution was a good mix at the time (1995).
But I afraid it will be rejected like MNGs
It probably will. Some of the people designing PNG (Tom Lane?) have said that they should be very conservative about adding new compression types to PNG. And I agree. It's not worth destroying PNG's fragile status as an image file format by making incompatible PNG files official.
Animation should be an extension to PNG specs, not some inofficial hack. If it's not possible to get this into official PNG, make your own file format, don't screw with the old one. PNG file checkers will report "additional data after the end of IEND chunk" instead of "OK". That's no good when batch-checking files.
Apparently at least one of the most senior newsmen also believe that the RIAA is doing the right thing.
The problem is that Aaron Brown is just a mediocre journalist at best. At some point, CNN decided to introduce all kinds of people to the major anchoring jobs that look good and are great at giving some more human touch to stories, throw in a small non-offensive joke once in a while. People like Aaron Brown or Paula Zahn. But they don't excel at their jobs, which is a pity, given CNN's status.
CNN still does have people like Jeff Greenfield, though. They just seem to appear rarely on screen.
Cameron's Aliens is a great action movie, the sci-fi part just seems to be of secondary importance. So I wouldn't include it on a best sci-fi movies list.
In the country where you live, if I had a shotgun with a disclaimer on it saying that I'm not responsible for the bullets because they are provided by someone else, could I get away with murder?
Probably not. Here "hub owners" equals "bullet salesmen" and "uploaders" equals "killers". So, the hub owner is not comparable to the killer.
I agree, though, that disclaimers can't help you get away with everything. It is very unlikely that the owner of a hub with several TB of shared data is totally unaware of the kind of data being offered.
That's too high by a factor of 1,000, which means that our attorney general is confused about the difference between peta- and tera-
Must be. Each hub having 40 petabytes with users sharing up to 100 GB means that there are at least 400,000 users in each hub. I don't think that works with DirectConnect. 400 users is more likely, though. I haven't seen hubs with more than 1,000 users.
Original site is slashdotted, so I only comment on your quote.
I read that Custer book years ago. IIRC, its major problem is the simple fact that it's very superficial for a book entirely devoted to a file system. There is no way anyone could program a file system driver using that book. Which is no coincidence, given Microsofts usual lack of proper documentation of their data formats. But: There also is little practical information on using NTFS as an end user or a developer. Which, back then, left me wondering for whom that book was written in the first place.
I think the state of OSS GUIs is better than he claims. A lot of work with regard to usability has gone into the major (!) projects like Gnome or KDE. That still does leave us with quite a few crappy OSS GUIs, but it doesn't really make sense to try to come up with some average value in this case.
Yes, geolocation isn't perfect. But it gets a user's position right in most cases, to a certain degree. And as I said, a mismatch shouldn't result in a denial of service.
Can't they use geolocation services like Maxmind, Quova etc. to verify entered information in most cases? If someone enters country=USA / ZIP=90210 and comes from Italy judging from his IP address, the server knows it got screwed and can at least drop the entered information. It doesn't have to deny access, but that way less crap would find its way into the database.
I'd also like to see Google start parsing publications and indexing them by author, year, and citations.
Google could start by making use of "author" and "date" meta elements of all web pages and providing a search field for them on the "Advanced search" page.
As I wrote, they do not make use of hardware acceleration. That's why.mov files play incredibly slowly at a zooming level of more than 100% on quite a few modern Windows systems.
It's stupid of Apple to 'cripple' the format under Windows. Nobody will buy a Mac to watch.mov videos, but everybody will remember the 'Mac format' as kinda sucky. I guess it comes from the Windows Quicktime player not making use of certain 2D acceleration features.
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I've found many people to be somewhat afraid of cooking. Trying a recipe on their own, or helping me (how do I have to cut it? can I put it in now? how long should I stir it?...). I can only recommend to just do it. Maybe it won't be perfect, but as long as you have some endurance it'll work out in the long run. Note that some recipes out there just suck, so it might not be your lack of expertise all the time. If you can, find someone to cook with, preferably with more experience. Cooking is also good for socializing, in case you're interested in that kind of thing ;-).
No, actually, I don't. I was refuting a blanket statement in the post I was replying to, which was that all we have to do is emulate Europe, and everything will be "twice as good".
;-)
That obviously was a provocation, and you can't refute it by merely saying "it ain't so". That's simply disagreeing. But your anecdotal claim of a supposedly hellish school system which seems to prevail in Germany does nothing but raise questions. If you don't want to answer them, fine. I just don't like the German school system being badmouthed. At least not for the wrong reasons...
That's not a good point to try to argue. The schools themselves are already segregated, in the German system. You can get a minimum education, learn a trade, or prepare for university. There's no in-between, though you can improve your degree later on.
There is the Gesamtschule, which is the in-between you're looking for. However, I think that teaching children according to their skills is a good idea. If the breadth of capabilities is too large, some students will get bored while others are totally swamped with the demands. Or everyone sinks to the smallest common denominator. In the end, nobody gets what they need, an education that matches their intellect and challenges them the right amount.
Sorry, that's a load of complete crap. The model of training kids to be good little apparatchiks started in europe, and I can tell you from the hellish year that I spent in a German school, that shools over there are, if anything, more regimented than in the USA.
And obviously all German schools are the same.
You have to be a bit more specific on what made that school hellish and what works better in every single comparable US school.
Otherwise it's "a complete load of crap" right back at ya.
My somewhat techy, somewhat non-techy site (mixed content, a combined 100K hits/month) has an MSIE share which dropped from 80% in January to 75% in August. Mozilla more or less got the additional 5% and is now at 23%. Opera and Konqueror stay at about .8% each.
They're growing in stages. For perhaps the last 2 months almost NOBODY I knew with a gmail account had invites to give away.
About a month ago I got five invites to give out, about two weeks ago another six.
Do you know of any traffic limits once you start sharing those 10 GB of data with a lot of "good friends"?
Is there a banning of books in Germany nowadays? Can somebody name some titles of books which have been recently banned?
As has been pointed out, Mein Kampf is not banned, it's simply not being reprinted: Rechtslage Mein Kampf.
And deflate is already very old. We now have newer 7-Zip format that compress better and decompress the same fast.
Even back then "we" had better methods than Deflate plus filters. But they may be patent-encumbered, or very CPU-intensive, or a lot of work to implement. The picked solution was a good mix at the time (1995).
But I afraid it will be rejected like MNGs
It probably will. Some of the people designing PNG (Tom Lane?) have said that they should be very conservative about adding new compression types to PNG. And I agree. It's not worth destroying PNG's fragile status as an image file format by making incompatible PNG files official.
Animation should be an extension to PNG specs, not some inofficial hack. If it's not possible to get this into official PNG, make your own file format, don't screw with the old one. PNG file checkers will report "additional data after the end of IEND chunk" instead of "OK". That's no good when batch-checking files.
PNG uses Deflate which beats LZW most of the time. Getting better compression than GIF/LZW was one of the original design goals.
Apparently at least one of the most senior newsmen also believe that the RIAA is doing the right thing.
The problem is that Aaron Brown is just a mediocre journalist at best. At some point, CNN decided to introduce all kinds of people to the major anchoring jobs that look good and are great at giving some more human touch to stories, throw in a small non-offensive joke once in a while. People like Aaron Brown or Paula Zahn. But they don't excel at their jobs, which is a pity, given CNN's status.
CNN still does have people like Jeff Greenfield, though. They just seem to appear rarely on screen.
Cameron's Aliens is a great action movie, the sci-fi part just seems to be of secondary importance. So I wouldn't include it on a best sci-fi movies list.
...provided by search engine Fireball. Even shows you if web or image search was used. Well, in some cases that's rather obvious. ;-)
In the country where you live, if I had a shotgun with a disclaimer on it saying that I'm not responsible for the bullets because they are provided by someone else, could I get away with murder?
Probably not. Here "hub owners" equals "bullet salesmen" and "uploaders" equals "killers". So, the hub owner is not comparable to the killer.
I agree, though, that disclaimers can't help you get away with everything. It is very unlikely that the owner of a hub with several TB of shared data is totally unaware of the kind of data being offered.
That's too high by a factor of 1,000, which means that our attorney general is confused about the difference between peta- and tera-
Must be. Each hub having 40 petabytes with users sharing up to 100 GB means that there are at least 400,000 users in each hub. I don't think that works with DirectConnect. 400 users is more likely, though. I haven't seen hubs with more than 1,000 users.
What do you call a frenchman advancing on Bagdahd? A uranium salesman. Jacques Chirac was the salesman who sold Hussein a reactor.
Donald Rumsfeld gave Hussein all kinds of weaponry back in the '80s when Iran was the bad guy and Iraq an ally.
For every thing the French screwed up you can find one the Americans screwed up. And the British. And...
That sort of argumentation doesn't lead anywhere.
Original site is slashdotted, so I only comment on your quote.
I read that Custer book years ago. IIRC, its major problem is the simple fact that it's very superficial for a book entirely devoted to a file system. There is no way anyone could program a file system driver using that book. Which is no coincidence, given Microsofts usual lack of proper documentation of their data formats. But: There also is little practical information on using NTFS as an end user or a developer. Which, back then, left me wondering for whom that book was written in the first place.
I think the state of OSS GUIs is better than he claims. A lot of work with regard to usability has gone into the major (!) projects like Gnome or KDE. That still does leave us with quite a few crappy OSS GUIs, but it doesn't really make sense to try to come up with some average value in this case.
A study on this could be interesting.
Do they know that Peurto Rico belongs to the US, but is it's own nation?
Given that Puerto Rico's basketball team kicked the US's team's ass a few days ago at the Olympics - I'd say yes!
Yes, geolocation isn't perfect. But it gets a user's position right in most cases, to a certain degree. And as I said, a mismatch shouldn't result in a denial of service.
Can't they use geolocation services like Maxmind, Quova etc. to verify entered information in most cases? If someone enters country=USA / ZIP=90210 and comes from Italy judging from his IP address, the server knows it got screwed and can at least drop the entered information. It doesn't have to deny access, but that way less crap would find its way into the database.
I'd also like to see Google start parsing publications and indexing them by author, year, and citations.
Google could start by making use of "author" and "date" meta elements of all web pages and providing a search field for them on the "Advanced search" page.
As I wrote, they do not make use of hardware acceleration. That's why .mov files play incredibly slowly at a zooming level of more than 100% on quite a few modern Windows systems.
I second that.
.mov videos, but everybody will remember the 'Mac format' as kinda sucky. I guess it comes from the Windows Quicktime player not making use of certain 2D acceleration features.
It's stupid of Apple to 'cripple' the format under Windows. Nobody will buy a Mac to watch