NO !! the new constitution will grant more power to the parliamant. The European parliamant for now can only vote Yes or No for the commission composition not the directives per se, for which it has only a consultancy role, this is the reason why the commission ignord it's amendements and went ahead with the patent directive !
It's basically a modern get-rich-quick scheme for CEOs and shareholders etc. Get in, cut out any costs that only pay off in the long-term (i.e. R&D), report increased profits, pay out huge bonuses, get out. Company may collapse or suffer badly afterwards, possibly putting thousands out of work
In fact, most of the time this is pension funds fault which owns much of the corporations today; they are asking companies unreasonable return on investment, about 10%, or even 15% or 20% sometimes, this is completly crazy ! trees don't grow to to the sky as they say. To make such huge profits, CEO are obliged to offshore all what can be offshored, cut their workforce and especially their R&D.
Well ! I am happy to see that the "don't be evil" mantra initiated by google is more and more seen as a sound business practice. IBM is not completly "evil free":) but they are slowly changing thanks in great part to Lou GERSTNER who as has completly changed the company's soul and business.
I hope to see more and more corporations being "less evil" AND succeeding so they will be imitated by other ones.
Maybe even one day we will see a "lesser evil" Microsoft although I am afaid we will have to wait a bit more for this one.
However, it looks like he's mostly not criticising Google but calling for a parallel effort from non-English sources. This, of course, is laudable.
Yes and this his point, thanks for reporting it. I am not French, but I am sick and tired of this biaised, tabloid reporting, Slashdot style, I am equally sick of this American ethnocentrism, or worse chauvinism (a French word by the way)
What the guy is merley saying is that French people should start the same effort to avoid French being further marginalised in modern world, so what !? French people are allowed to defend their culture no ! which is by the way a marvelous one, and has given the humanity among it's best Writers, philosophers and books.
This interview is very informative, it explains the whole process in a very clear and didactic way. MR talks also about "the incredible pressions" the EU parliamant have had to face from the European Commission and the lobbiest. An absolute "Must read" !
I wanted to submit it to Slashdot, but feared it's rejection as it' in French. But hey Babelfish is yoy friend.
Have a look at Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org if you haven't already done. It's a WIki that actually DOES work !. I have set up a mediawiki where I work, and have borrowed quite a few ideas from tha way Wikipedia works, and people love it, and are contributing more and more.
According to them, an American who has acquired permanent residency status (through marriage, birth etc.) in Germany and who has been issued a permanent work permit unrestricted by employer or type of work, can be additionally issued a similar work permit in other EU member states, except for the newly admitted EU members such as Poland or the Baltic states.
Yes absolutly, the spirit of the law in all EU countries is the only advantage a citizen has over a permanent resident is beeing elligible to be a civil servant and the right to vote; although in many EU countries now, RP can vote in local elections.
I just talked to a lady at the Dutch General Consulate in Dusseldorf and she told me that they do not automatically issue Dutch residency or work permits on the basis of German residency or work permits. She says, it seems to work kind of like the US-H1B deal, I would have to find a dutch employer and they would apply for the permits.
Since the Maastricht treaty the EU is a Single markethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU. Which means among other things : Freedom for citizens of its member states to live and work anywhere within the EU, provided they can support themselves (also extended to the other EEA states). in fact this has been extended to for PR too later by a specific EU directive, have a look in the EU site, it's in a.int or.eu TLD.
In practice, when you are a EU national or PR settling in a new EU country, the law gives you three months to find a job, and then you are automatically elligible to get a work permit.
The hole world is aware of that, and aware of what America has brought to the world. Even in Islamic and Arabic countries (I leave in Morocco), people here still have a lot of admiration, for it's technological power, it's economy, the American immigration lotery is eagrily sought after every year. The only grief is towards the American policy abroad. People have the impression that American politicians have near to zero sensitivity towards other people's feeling and way of viewing the word as they think the only valid point is the American point of view. I have leaved in France for 22 years and it was exactly the same feeling. Well that might be a lot to ask, as America is so big and American people are only interested by American things, but they need to open up a little to the rest of the world and try to understand it as the rest of the world is trying to do.
I believe that you need no immigration Visa in the Netherlands if your salary is above 45 000 Euros a year. in Gemany they have the same thing but the barrier is I believe 85 000 Euros, although they are now thinking about lowering it. In France you can be sponsored quite easily now if you get a high tech job (it used to be very hard at one time), but you need to speak french, as 99% of business is done in french and people there are quite monolingual.
Err !! until you show him what you think he has asked for. The main problem in software development is understanding software requirement, when this task has been correctly done, programming is most of the time trivial, or at least use tools and methods that have been used over and over and over.
XP is about understanding cutomer requirements, not about programming per se. I have found that one of the most interesting tools of XP is TDD (Test Driven development), your test cases are the begining of your requirements, because the way best to learn something new is 1) by using examples, 2) to be immersed in it 3) to practice it. Building software requirements without intimately practising the problem you want to solve is like creating a new theory without using observation. This is why the best way to learn a new human language is to leave in a country where people speak it.
This problem is central to the formalisation of knowledge, and has been studied fo a long time now.
The sad fact is that 95% of people are used to MS Windows and programs running under MS Windows GUI. I have tried many times to use GIMP but have quickly given up, I am too used to the Photoshop way of doing things. Same thing for OpenOffice ! I now prefer to use OSS on the server and Windows on the desktop.
If we want to convert people to OSS we MUST offer them GUI they are used to otherwse they will screem and ask for they Windows applications back.
Well I see a lot of people posting a lot of jokes here here, but it doesn't really make laugh. As someone who works in front of a computer at least 10 hours a day and who has a genetic predisposition for that desease.
At least three persons in my familiy are blind because of glaucome and my father is gradually losing sight too and he used to have an excellent vision. There is no real cure for glaucoma and many drugs are ineffective for a lot of people and cause a lot of secondary effects. So if you have it prepare yourself to become blind at one time or another.
My worst nightmare has always been when it will be my turn.
I have checked out the frozen topics in Wikipedia and there not that much see : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%3AProtected if you count the hundreds ou thousands of subjects in Wikipedia, this is marginal problem and I hope this will not change
Edit Wars that could ensue over a page on a wiki, enterprise or otherwise, are a new form of combat, where quite literally, the wars are won with words, not guns
Yes you are right, this a new Wiki frontier we will have to deal with, and I don't know if there is a simple solution or a solution at all.
Another big challenge public Wikis will have to deal with as they become more and more ubiquitous, is links spam to improve their google ranking. Some Wikis have started to implemented some solutions.
Anyway we should not throw out the baby with the bath water, Wikis are really valuable tools and we sould learn to leave with their inherent limitations.
Why are you so negative ? I beg to differ. I have been an avid Slashdot reader since 1996 (I think), time goes by ! and I have learned an incredible amount of things here. I have been exposed to a lot of new technologies a lot of new ideas, I have read here an incredible number of intelligent and original comments. Well to be fair there have been a lot of stupidity too, but I prefer to focus on the best things.
A very intersting point of view. But I think this not specific to Wiki, it's common to all mass media. The mass media convey the opinion of the majority of people, this one the reasons why the society is very slow to change it's opinion and beliefs.
This can be somehow be related to what Thomas Kuhn has called the paradigm shift http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift (thanks Wikipedia after all:) ). Wikis need a way to promote new and subversive ideas:). Every might agree about some basic beliefs, but people need sometime their "Copernician revolution".
Slashdot Mirror
You need to add site:wikipedia.org to your google search to get results directly form Wikipedia.
Boyer and moore is much much more elegant and effective for the same purpose and is considered as one of the most elegant algorithms ever invented.
Anyway, Knuth has achieved lots and lots of things and may be considered as one of the biggest computer scientists ever.
NO !! the new constitution will grant more power to the parliamant. The European parliamant for now can only vote Yes or No for the commission composition not the directives per se, for which it has only a consultancy role, this is the reason why the commission ignord it's amendements and went ahead with the patent directive !
It's basically a modern get-rich-quick scheme for CEOs and shareholders etc. Get in, cut out any costs that only pay off in the long-term (i.e. R&D), report increased profits, pay out huge bonuses, get out. Company may collapse or suffer badly afterwards, possibly putting thousands out of work
In fact, most of the time this is pension funds fault which owns much of the corporations today; they are asking companies unreasonable return on investment, about 10%, or even 15% or 20% sometimes, this is completly crazy ! trees don't grow to to the sky as they say. To make such huge profits, CEO are obliged to offshore all what can be offshored, cut their workforce and especially their R&D.
Imagine if suddenly people start seeing a link for firefox (or google branded firefox) ? thay would the start for something really big for firefox !
Well ! I am happy to see that the "don't be evil" mantra initiated by google is more and more seen as a sound business practice. IBM is not completly "evil free" :) but they are slowly changing thanks in great part to Lou GERSTNER who as has completly changed the company's soul and business.
I hope to see more and more corporations being "less evil" AND succeeding so they will be imitated by other ones.
Maybe even one day we will see a "lesser evil" Microsoft although I am afaid we will have to wait a bit more for this one.
However, it looks like he's mostly not criticising Google but calling for a parallel effort from non-English sources. This, of course, is laudable.
Yes and this his point, thanks for reporting it. I am not French, but I am sick and tired of this biaised, tabloid reporting, Slashdot style, I am equally sick of this American ethnocentrism, or worse chauvinism (a French word by the way)
What the guy is merley saying is that French people should start the same effort to avoid French being further marginalised in modern world, so what !? French people are allowed to defend their culture no ! which is by the way a marvelous one, and has given the humanity among it's best Writers, philosophers and books.
This interview is very informative, it explains the whole process in a very clear and didactic way. MR talks also about "the incredible pressions" the EU parliamant have had to face from the European Commission and the lobbiest. An absolute "Must read" !
I wanted to submit it to Slashdot, but feared it's rejection as it' in French. But hey Babelfish is yoy friend.
Just make the perturbators invisible, everybody will ignore them, if you ban them, they will find another alias and start again.
Have a look at Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org if you haven't already done. It's a WIki that actually DOES work !. I have set up a mediawiki where I work, and have borrowed quite a few ideas from tha way Wikipedia works, and people love it, and are contributing more and more.
According to them, an American who has acquired permanent residency status (through marriage, birth etc.) in Germany and who has been issued a permanent work permit unrestricted by employer or type of work, can be additionally issued a similar work permit in other EU member states, except for the newly admitted EU members such as Poland or the Baltic states.
.int or .eu TLD.
Yes absolutly, the spirit of the law in all EU countries is the only advantage a citizen has over a permanent resident is beeing elligible to be a civil servant and the right to vote; although in many EU countries now, RP can vote in local elections.
I just talked to a lady at the Dutch General Consulate in Dusseldorf and she told me that they do not automatically issue Dutch residency or work permits on the basis of German residency or work permits. She says, it seems to work kind of like the US-H1B deal, I would have to find a dutch employer and they would apply for the permits.
Since the Maastricht treaty the EU is a Single market http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU. Which means among other things : Freedom for citizens of its member states to live and work anywhere within the EU, provided they can support themselves (also extended to the other EEA states). in fact this has been extended to for PR too later by a specific EU directive, have a look in the EU site, it's in a
In practice, when you are a EU national or PR settling in a new EU country, the law gives you three months to find a job, and then you are automatically elligible to get a work permit.
Tell you what !!
The hole world is aware of that, and aware of what America has brought to the world. Even in Islamic and Arabic countries (I leave in Morocco), people here still have a lot of admiration, for it's technological power, it's economy, the American immigration lotery is eagrily sought after every year. The only grief is towards the American policy abroad. People have the impression that American politicians have near to zero sensitivity towards other people's feeling and way of viewing the word as they think the only valid point is the American point of view. I have leaved in France for 22 years and it was exactly the same feeling. Well that might be a lot to ask, as America is so big and American people are only interested by American things, but they need to open up a little to the rest of the world and try to understand it as the rest of the world is trying to do.
Work permits are are transportable in the EU if you have a permanent residency card which is the same thing as the US green card.
I believe that you need no immigration Visa in the Netherlands if your salary is above 45 000 Euros a year. in Gemany they have the same thing but the barrier is I believe 85 000 Euros, although they are now thinking about lowering it. In France you can be sponsored quite easily now if you get a high tech job (it used to be very hard at one time), but you need to speak french, as 99% of business is done in french and people there are quite monolingual.
Good luck
until you show him what he asked for
h ism
Err !! until you show him what you think he has asked for. The main problem in software development is understanding software requirement, when this task has been correctly done, programming is most of the time trivial, or at least use tools and methods that have been used over and over and over.
XP is about understanding cutomer requirements, not about programming per se. I have found that one of the most interesting tools of XP is TDD (Test Driven development), your test cases are the begining of your requirements, because the way best to learn something new is 1) by using examples, 2) to be immersed in it 3) to practice it. Building software requirements without intimately practising the problem you want to solve is like creating a new theory without using observation. This is why the best way to learn a new human language is to leave in a country where people speak it.
This problem is central to the formalisation of knowledge, and has been studied fo a long time now.
Programming in a sens is like creating a new theory for this you may read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry-Howard_isomorp
See also these links for the relationship between observation and the creation of scientific theories
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Bachelard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget
The sad fact is that 95% of people are used to MS Windows and programs running under MS Windows GUI. I have tried many times to use GIMP but have quickly given up, I am too used to the Photoshop way of doing things. Same thing for OpenOffice ! I now prefer to use OSS on the server and Windows on the desktop.
If we want to convert people to OSS we MUST offer them GUI they are used to otherwse they will screem and ask for they Windows applications back.
And yes I am an OSS biggot !!
Well I see a lot of people posting a lot of jokes here here, but it doesn't really make laugh. As someone who works in front of a computer at least 10 hours a day and who has a genetic predisposition for that desease.
At least three persons in my familiy are blind because of glaucome and my father is gradually losing sight too and he used to have an excellent vision. There is no real cure for glaucoma and many drugs are ineffective for a lot of people and cause a lot of secondary effects. So if you have it prepare yourself to become blind at one time or another.
My worst nightmare has always been when it will be my turn.
Really depressing.
I have checked out the frozen topics in Wikipedia and there not that much see : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%3AProtected if you count the hundreds ou thousands of subjects in Wikipedia, this is marginal problem and I hope this will not change
Thanks for the information I was not aware of this new editor, by the way I apreciate your work on TWiki Colas ;)
Edit Wars that could ensue over a page on a wiki, enterprise or otherwise, are a new form of combat, where quite literally, the wars are won with words, not guns
Yes you are right, this a new Wiki frontier we will have to deal with, and I don't know if there is a simple solution or a solution at all.
Another big challenge public Wikis will have to deal with as they become more and more ubiquitous, is links spam to improve their google ranking. Some Wikis have started to implemented some solutions.
Anyway we should not throw out the baby with the bath water, Wikis are really valuable tools and we sould learn to leave with their inherent limitations.
categories in MediaWiki are very sclik, and this is the mainreason why I am considering migration from Twiki
look here http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/JavaScriptEd itorPluginDev but it doesn't seem very active
Valid points !! and don't forget that the Wiki mantra is KISS Keep It Simple and Stupid, well tha't not exactly Notes advantage
Why are you so negative ? I beg to differ. I have been an avid Slashdot reader since 1996 (I think), time goes by ! and I have learned an incredible amount of things here. I have been exposed to a lot of new technologies a lot of new ideas, I have read here an incredible number of intelligent and original comments. Well to be fair there have been a lot of stupidity too, but I prefer to focus on the best things.
A very intersting point of view. But I think this not specific to Wiki, it's common to all mass media. The mass media convey the opinion of the majority of people, this one the reasons why the society is very slow to change it's opinion and beliefs.
:) ). Wikis need a way to promote new and subversive ideas :). Every might agree about some basic beliefs, but people need sometime their "Copernician revolution".
This can be somehow be related to what Thomas Kuhn has called the paradigm shift http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift (thanks Wikipedia after all