what would you consider to be the best country for a techie that desires freedom
Good question, besides the idiotic politics going on as well in European countries, although we do not have a gestapo-like force enacting it like in the US, I cannot answer this question.
I can say that here in Europe we happily embrace people coming from all over the world to work on very high tech projects, my co-workers come from Bulgaria, France, Germany, Switserland, Croatia and many many more countries (I myself am Dutch).
Any of the EU-countries is IMO no longer really a nation, we are now Europeans, borders have faded and people interact and combine different points of view in everyday life. This makes reseach incredibly exciting, especially for techies because we can work and play in many parts of Europe.
I must add that Great Britian IMHO has always had a more US-kind of way of looking into this. It is not a coincedence they cloned a sheep without consulting with their neighbours, and didn't introduce the Euro currency. As far as I concern it, Great Britian is just a dwarf US close to Europe. I hope that GB will turn around and join the Euro-zone soon, as for all of the eastern european cultures.
What is the best country will be different for every techie, I myself am extremely happy on this side of the pond. I hope you are on the other side too. Maybe we should change places onetime!
Well, if you shout "every military personel will get a raise" in front of 10.000 military personel you're bound to attract some press.
Mind you, every European is throwing up with this disgusting performance. I am *definately* not against the US, but this inland focussed politics makes the rest of the world think you have one upshot monkey with a gold ring sitting office. I've seen this monkey in a disney movie once, wasn't it called Jungle Book?
The US president is persistently abusing all the bad things that happened to the US in the last few years. Have you ever considered a guy who can also at least *talk* to the neighbours, instead of calling out a few names and playing the bad cop?
The US needs an intelligent policy maker, one that also realizes that whatever Bush will say in public will also be read and heard all over the world. Scraping in the budget to feed the rich and cut back in science/welfare/health/etc is not going to improve the US's image, and will hardly create any sympathy or compassion.
Europe forces people to contribute to the 'social good' through ridiculously high taxes.
Otherwise we'll be left with a bunch of zombies saying "The gov't will take care of it....".
Well I'll be...
First of all in europe we feel socially connected way more than in the US. Too bad you still think we are communists, but
As a matter of fact, we believe in Europe we still have some sort of saying in Europe as "people". For instance voting incidents like a certain state in the south of the US allowed to happen will certainly be very painfull to the politicians concerned at least.
The introduction and presence of rights of referendum in Europe means we can revoke decisions of the government and direclty oppose or approve of citizens, not look at the puppets in a big building perform and feel good because we aren't involved anyway.
Fact is that Europeans do have a sense of responsability towards their fellow citizens. We will not let them die unattended and say we already do so much volunteer work. We institute ourselves into a bigger organisation and arrange for them. And so for healthcare, and so for pensions, and so on. This is what ultimately makes and authorizes the existence of a real government. (no flame intended)
Down the road, he argues, this new kind of work society may actually be good for the world, creating a new kind of civil transnationalism, and enhancing our freedom and our civic lives.
Well, this looks very promising, but statistics and experience in Europe show people actually do less back to society in the form of volunteer work, societies and non profit organisations. My guess is the free work base we have laid out actually means we like our work better, but have less time and enthousiasm to do something back.
More and more people need day care for their children, health care jobs (the typical jobs-for-life) are very unattractive at the moment in the netherlands and shortages of personell are high, and costs for non-profit organisations are rising with prices so they cannot keep up with it anymore.
My point is there is also a down-side. We haven't explored the effects of this since we are in the middle of it (at least, in Europe and the US). The good thing is the typical work-80h-a-week-til-death stereotype in the US is fading, just as it has done in Europe, although it was less present there IMO. The down side of all this future will certainly surprise us.
Dear professor Andrew S. Tanenbaum of the free university of amsterdam and his colleagues already used this kind of program to check the hand-in programs we students wrote in modula-2 back 8 years ago or so, and actually it was kinda a big thing in dutch news back then. Guess these guess just reinvented the wheel.
This will really give development a big boost, as custom circuitry will be available for lower costs. Imagine developing your own processor and having it printed too!
maybe not, as stated, the system picks out 75% of the liars, and 90% or the truth tellers. So, the rest get a non-positive reading.
This means that depending on the group you get, the amount of people not identifyable will have proportional deviations.
So, if there are the same amount of liars as truth speaking people, (say 100+100) then there will be 35 unidentifyably truthtelling persons in that group, or 17.5%. Of this group, only 10 will speak the truth, roughly 30%, but over 70% of this group will lie!
Although, if you think of yourself as a positive person, and you think 90% of all people don't lie, then take 900 out of 1000, of which 90 will not be identified, but also 75 out of the remaining 100, so then less then 40% will be liars of the unidentified people.
oh well, as long as we have no scientific description of the method, it's just statistics I guess, and those are all lies anyways.
Here's another good example of how the US entertainment industry has a monopolistic grip on the industry.
Why would they only allow US and Canada residents to participate? Just for ease? Well Europe is a well developed area nowadays! We play games! And what about Japan? or Australia? Come on!
Seems like another company developes games for US citizens and not for anyone outside of it. Hold on, let me guess, It's gonna be released 6 months later in Europe anyway!!! gee guys!
Any idea's why Europeans have their dvd players cr4ck3d and playstations modified?
All you US residents have no idea how much the US entertainment industry is terrorizing the rest of the world when it comes to games and movies!
I can only wish I can get the legal version of this game like anyone else, not having to wait for it to become obsolete and without my opponents (mostly US) to be at the same level of experience with the game as me. But lemme guess: they got it months before I did and already know all there is to it and I'm just starting at it...
See! You guys DO cheat on gaming!!!
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Well, seems like you guys are pretty bad in checking references, come on people!
Fact: The introduction of the euro was effectuated in 1991 in Maastricht, The Netherlands, by signing the treaty of Maastricht by all participating countries.
The Netherlands is also the one nation which has the largest support under it's citizens for the euro, and in which introduction has been the fastest and smoothest of all 12 participating countries so far.
Now please let the Europeans post the data before you guys blooper again!
The most important notice IMHO is that a service should be the same price for end-users and companies, because they are offered the same services. Does your computer has a different price if you buy it for the office? It's probably even cheaper for companies!
ISP's should provide their services to anyone for the same rate. The fact that a business is using it and it has more dough does not matter in that.
All comes down to a more honest solution, where ISP's offer many different types of accounts, suiting peoples needs, and for reasonable pricing.
Imagine a freelance working person getting an expensive business account but only checks e-mail once a day!!! That is structurally wrong IMHO.
So, ISP's please don't differ, provide more and different accounts!
Seriously, this has been accepted widely already in geology. I as a geology student was pleasantly surprised about 4 years ago when my teacher Dr. Jan Smit from the Free University of Amsterdam (a sedimentologist) gave us an introduction in the extinction of the dinosaurs. And even then this was already not *the latest*.
For the non-geologists: J. Smit discovered after some fieldwork and years of research all around the world measuring the K-T boundary (the boundary of strata of where the creteaucious rocks and the tertiary rocks have contact, which is, of course at 65 million years age), that at the Yucatan peninsula there has been an impact crater with a huge diameter (~240km). From this crater ejecta had travelled as far as the great plains...
The story posted here is just one of *many* researches going on right now to verify this theory.
The major point being discussed now is not why did the dinosaurs die, but how did they die when the asteroid hit. The most discussion goes about nuclear winters and climate changes, or even thermal heating due to infall of debris (think 'big eruption'), because it has not really been identified how long the period of extinction was. (at least, as far as I know, comment, anyone?)
I guess the world has some time to accept this story as true, funny how a sometimes dusty science area as geology can already be ahead of the media by far.
The most famous example was the El al boing 747 that crashed almost 10 years ago into a 12 story or so. Notably both the FDR and the CVR were recovered (Flight data recorder and Cockpit voice recorder for non-spotters)
This aircraft collided nearly vertically on the building and leveled it to a 6ft pile of rubble.
I believe there is a definate possibility that ONE of the recorders in all 2 flights hitting the WTC can be recovered.
Being a geologist, there is only one thing I can say:
"As scientists, the only thing we can say is that there needs to be done a lot more research on this subject."
Don't take this as flamebait:
Any premature belief or conclusion is bound to become proven unjust:
- The enormous amount of relevant data has only been studied for a relative short time
- We cannot yet estimate the real changes in temperature like tomorrows weather
- A lot of seemingly small events can have large effects on the climate, and we know there are such events daily on earth
- Global climate has changed over time much more rapid and extreme than we can imagine
- The indicators that human life effects global climate are much less significant than autonomous global changes
to mention a few.
In short: believe in global warming is like trusting the newspapers!
I totally agree, in education there are a lot of people developing their own software, choosing an expensive platform because it's *easy* means you have to pay for it as well, no excuses!
Considering the support for writing open source software vs. e.g. visual basic software, open source educational software should have been promoted more and earlier, which means *we* (developers of open source) should have reacted earlier and embrace the educational sector!
You do have a prompt, go to your start thingy, and then click the 'run' thingy above it somewhere, now, in the box type 'cmd' and then click the 'ok' thingy, Voila, a prompt!!!
Some of the prompts posted in these threads will severely harm your system, a couple have already been spotted actually performing 'rm -rf/' or something else pretty bad.
For the experts here: OK, some people need to find out the hard way
For the newbies: read this:
I've you're really lazy, open a shell, change to root and type 'su nobody', this way, you cannot harm you own system as bad as root or a normal user (although you might lose some unimportant stuff)...
DSL is a very new technology, although it has been around, it requires a lot of infrastructural improvements and therefore will be less quickly integrated into the telecom system. This is especially the case where I live (NL). In most places, cable is already available everywhere, whereas DSL is only available in most urban areas.
But alas, that's just where cable already has taken the largest market share, since all you techies are already online 24/7. DSL doesn't improve your bandwith or speed, so why switch?
It will probably take quite a while before DSL can compete with cable, say two/three years or so, but I guess in the end DSL will become a much better way of connecting to the net, and once the infrastructure is open to DSL for everyone, it has the possibility to outgrow cable. Let's just wait for that.
OK, here's how it works: a small chip analyzes incoming vibrations and sends out a sound signal which is a negative mirror image of the original sound, just at the right phase.
Unfortunataly they only sell small consumer electronic devices, so I guess you'd have to count
the number of disks you have, buy 1 antinoise headset for every disk, put the headsets on the disks, and off you go!!!
Couldn't be more simple than that (and from only $39, its a steal!!!)
Concerning power consumption, it is easy to figure out for yourself that this will dramatically lower the required wattage, since the period over which power is needed will dramatically be lower for each switched packet.
Less obvious, but potentially smaller footprints are needed in such a system, since smaller switch times require smaller curcuits (or whatever...)
Guess the recyclable material will not be an issue here, since this type of equipment will likely be high-end industrial, not for your $20,- ethercard.
... Meanwhile, the organic viewscreen has grown it's need for energy immensely, pulling energy from all dilithium crystals and now also life support... Spock frowns...
Scotty: "Captain, we've been trying to revert the power from the deflector shields to the viewscreens, but they need more power, I suggest we feed the power cells of the viewscreens with squished twinkies and donuts to feed their power needs, after all they are organic!"
Kirk: "make it so,, Scotty, and check our license from MicroRomulan for those screens again eh?"
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My laptop PS is nice and warm and will warm my feet when it's cold in the house. Plug in and enjoy!
what would you consider to be the best country for a techie that desires freedom
Good question, besides the idiotic politics going on as well in European countries, although we do not have a gestapo-like force enacting it like in the US, I cannot answer this question.
I can say that here in Europe we happily embrace people coming from all over the world to work on very high tech projects, my co-workers come from Bulgaria, France, Germany, Switserland, Croatia and many many more countries (I myself am Dutch).
Any of the EU-countries is IMO no longer really a nation, we are now Europeans, borders have faded and people interact and combine different points of view in everyday life. This makes reseach incredibly exciting, especially for techies because we can work and play in many parts of Europe.
I must add that Great Britian IMHO has always had a more US-kind of way of looking into this. It is not a coincedence they cloned a sheep without consulting with their neighbours, and didn't introduce the Euro currency. As far as I concern it, Great Britian is just a dwarf US close to Europe. I hope that GB will turn around and join the Euro-zone soon, as for all of the eastern european cultures.
What is the best country will be different for every techie, I myself am extremely happy on this side of the pond. I hope you are on the other side too. Maybe we should change places onetime!
Well, if you shout "every military personel will get a raise" in front of 10.000 military personel you're bound to attract some press.
Mind you, every European is throwing up with this disgusting performance. I am *definately* not against the US, but this inland focussed politics makes the rest of the world think you have one upshot monkey with a gold ring sitting office. I've seen this monkey in a disney movie once, wasn't it called Jungle Book?
The US president is persistently abusing all the bad things that happened to the US in the last few years. Have you ever considered a guy who can also at least *talk* to the neighbours, instead of calling out a few names and playing the bad cop?
The US needs an intelligent policy maker, one that also realizes that whatever Bush will say in public will also be read and heard all over the world. Scraping in the budget to feed the rich and cut back in science/welfare/health/etc is not going to improve the US's image, and will hardly create any sympathy or compassion.
Now how do I apply for a green card...
Europe forces people to contribute to the 'social good' through ridiculously high taxes.
Otherwise we'll be left with a bunch of zombies saying "The gov't will take care of it....".
Well I'll be...
First of all in europe we feel socially connected way more than in the US. Too bad you still think we are communists, but
As a matter of fact, we believe in Europe we still have some sort of saying in Europe as "people". For instance voting incidents like a certain state in the south of the US allowed to happen will certainly be very painfull to the politicians concerned at least.
The introduction and presence of rights of referendum in Europe means we can revoke decisions of the government and direclty oppose or approve of citizens, not look at the puppets in a big building perform and feel good because we aren't involved anyway.
Fact is that Europeans do have a sense of responsability towards their fellow citizens. We will not let them die unattended and say we already do so much volunteer work. We institute ourselves into a bigger organisation and arrange for them. And so for healthcare, and so for pensions, and so on. This is what ultimately makes and authorizes the existence of a real government. (no flame intended)
Down the road, he argues, this new kind of work society may actually be good for the world, creating a new kind of civil transnationalism, and enhancing our freedom and our civic lives.
Well, this looks very promising, but statistics and experience in Europe show people actually do less back to society in the form of volunteer work, societies and non profit organisations. My guess is the free work base we have laid out actually means we like our work better, but have less time and enthousiasm to do something back.
More and more people need day care for their children, health care jobs (the typical jobs-for-life) are very unattractive at the moment in the netherlands and shortages of personell are high, and costs for non-profit organisations are rising with prices so they cannot keep up with it anymore.
My point is there is also a down-side. We haven't explored the effects of this since we are in the middle of it (at least, in Europe and the US). The good thing is the typical work-80h-a-week-til-death stereotype in the US is fading, just as it has done in Europe, although it was less present there IMO. The down side of all this future will certainly surprise us.
Dear professor Andrew S. Tanenbaum of the free university of amsterdam and his colleagues already used this kind of program to check the hand-in programs we students wrote in modula-2 back 8 years ago or so, and actually it was kinda a big thing in dutch news back then. Guess these guess just reinvented the wheel.
so
This will really give development a big boost, as custom circuitry will be available for lower costs. Imagine developing your own processor and having it printed too!
oh shoot, it has a paper jam error...
Check out today's (well januari 7th) DrFun cartoon, seems like Dave knows what is going on here...
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http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200201/df200
maybe not, as stated, the system picks out 75% of the liars, and 90% or the truth tellers. So, the rest get a non-positive reading.
This means that depending on the group you get, the amount of people not identifyable will have proportional deviations.
So, if there are the same amount of liars as truth speaking people, (say 100+100) then there will be 35 unidentifyably truthtelling persons in that group, or 17.5%. Of this group, only 10 will speak the truth, roughly 30%, but over 70% of this group will lie!
Although, if you think of yourself as a positive person, and you think 90% of all people don't lie, then take 900 out of 1000, of which 90 will not be identified, but also 75 out of the remaining 100, so then less then 40% will be liars of the unidentified people.
oh well, as long as we have no scientific description of the method, it's just statistics I guess, and those are all lies anyways.
This really pisses me off. Why?
Here's another good example of how the US entertainment industry has a monopolistic grip on the industry.
Why would they only allow US and Canada residents to participate? Just for ease? Well Europe is a well developed area nowadays! We play games! And what about Japan? or Australia? Come on!
Seems like another company developes games for US citizens and not for anyone outside of it. Hold on, let me guess, It's gonna be released 6 months later in Europe anyway!!! gee guys!
Any idea's why Europeans have their dvd players cr4ck3d and playstations modified?
All you US residents have no idea how much the US entertainment industry is terrorizing the rest of the world when it comes to games and movies!
I can only wish I can get the legal version of this game like anyone else, not having to wait for it to become obsolete and without my opponents (mostly US) to be at the same level of experience with the game as me. But lemme guess: they got it months before I did and already know all there is to it and I'm just starting at it...
See! You guys DO cheat on gaming!!!
Well, seems like you guys are pretty bad in checking references, come on people!
:-P
Fact: The introduction of the euro was effectuated in 1991 in Maastricht, The Netherlands, by signing the treaty of Maastricht by all participating countries.
The Netherlands is also the one nation which has the largest support under it's citizens for the euro, and in which introduction has been the fastest and smoothest of all 12 participating countries so far.
Now please let the Europeans post the data before you guys blooper again!
My wallet contains 3.88 EUR currently
The most important notice IMHO is that a service should be the same price for end-users and companies, because they are offered the same services. Does your computer has a different price if you buy it for the office? It's probably even cheaper for companies!
ISP's should provide their services to anyone for the same rate. The fact that a business is using it and it has more dough does not matter in that.
All comes down to a more honest solution, where ISP's offer many different types of accounts, suiting peoples needs, and for reasonable pricing.
Imagine a freelance working person getting an expensive business account but only checks e-mail once a day!!! That is structurally wrong IMHO.
So, ISP's please don't differ, provide more and different accounts!
Well, it was 65 million years ago people!
Seriously, this has been accepted widely already in geology. I as a geology student was pleasantly surprised about 4 years ago when my teacher Dr. Jan Smit from the Free University of Amsterdam (a sedimentologist) gave us an introduction in the extinction of the dinosaurs. And even then this was already not *the latest*.
For the non-geologists: J. Smit discovered after some fieldwork and years of research all around the world measuring the K-T boundary (the boundary of strata of where the creteaucious rocks and the tertiary rocks have contact, which is, of course at 65 million years age), that at the Yucatan peninsula there has been an impact crater with a huge diameter (~240km). From this crater ejecta had travelled as far as the great plains...
The story posted here is just one of *many* researches going on right now to verify this theory.
The major point being discussed now is not why did the dinosaurs die, but how did they die when the asteroid hit. The most discussion goes about nuclear winters and climate changes, or even thermal heating due to infall of debris (think 'big eruption'), because it has not really been identified how long the period of extinction was. (at least, as far as I know, comment, anyone?)
I guess the world has some time to accept this story as true, funny how a sometimes dusty science area as geology can already be ahead of the media by far.
The most famous example was the El al boing 747 that crashed almost 10 years ago into a 12 story or so. Notably both the FDR and the CVR were recovered (Flight data recorder and Cockpit voice recorder for non-spotters)
This aircraft collided nearly vertically on the building and leveled it to a 6ft pile of rubble.
I believe there is a definate possibility that ONE of the recorders in all 2 flights hitting the WTC can be recovered.
Sierra's SWAT games are out of the question?
Being a geologist, there is only one thing I can say:
"As scientists, the only thing we can say is that there needs to be done a lot more research on this subject."
Don't take this as flamebait:
Any premature belief or conclusion is bound to become proven unjust:
- The enormous amount of relevant data has only been studied for a relative short time
- We cannot yet estimate the real changes in temperature like tomorrows weather
- A lot of seemingly small events can have large effects on the climate, and we know there are such events daily on earth
- Global climate has changed over time much more rapid and extreme than we can imagine
- The indicators that human life effects global climate are much less significant than autonomous global changes
to mention a few.
In short: believe in global warming is like trusting the newspapers!
I totally agree, in education there are a lot of people developing their own software, choosing an expensive platform because it's *easy* means you have to pay for it as well, no excuses!
Considering the support for writing open source software vs. e.g. visual basic software, open source educational software should have been promoted more and earlier, which means *we* (developers of open source) should have reacted earlier and embrace the educational sector!
Well,
6. Yomama#
You are in desperate need of help, think about professional guidance.
(after SuSE rescue images...
You do have a prompt, go to your start thingy, and then click the 'run' thingy above it somewhere, now, in the box type 'cmd' and then click the 'ok' thingy, Voila, a prompt!!!
mind you, I won't tell you how to get rid of it!
Some of the prompts posted in these threads will severely harm your system, a couple have already been spotted actually performing 'rm -rf
For the experts here: OK, some people need to find out the hard way
For the newbies: read this:
I've you're really lazy, open a shell, change to root and type 'su nobody', this way, you cannot harm you own system as bad as root or a normal user (although you might lose some unimportant stuff)...
bit me!
It all seems very typical for me:
DSL is a very new technology, although it has been around, it requires a lot of infrastructural improvements and therefore will be less quickly integrated into the telecom system. This is especially the case where I live (NL). In most places, cable is already available everywhere, whereas DSL is only available in most urban areas.
But alas, that's just where cable already has taken the largest market share, since all you techies are already online 24/7. DSL doesn't improve your bandwith or speed, so why switch?
It will probably take quite a while before DSL can compete with cable, say two/three years or so, but I guess in the end DSL will become a much better way of connecting to the net, and once the infrastructure is open to DSL for everyone, it has the possibility to outgrow cable. Let's just wait for that.
OK, here's how it works: a small chip analyzes incoming vibrations and sends out a sound signal which is a negative mirror image of the original sound, just at the right phase.
Here's where you can get it: NCTI
Unfortunataly they only sell small consumer electronic devices, so I guess you'd have to count
the number of disks you have, buy 1 antinoise headset for every disk, put the headsets on the disks, and off you go!!!
Couldn't be more simple than that (and from only $39, its a steal!!!)
Concerning power consumption, it is easy to figure out for yourself that this will dramatically lower the required wattage, since the period over which power is needed will dramatically be lower for each switched packet.
Less obvious, but potentially smaller footprints are needed in such a system, since smaller switch times require smaller curcuits (or whatever...)
Guess the recyclable material will not be an issue here, since this type of equipment will likely be high-end industrial, not for your $20,- ethercard.
Well, something smells terrible here, anybody forgotten that April 1 is approaching? I wouldn't be surprised if this was some nicely-worked out prank!
BTW, a very nicely worked out prank!!!
... Meanwhile, the organic viewscreen has grown it's need for energy immensely, pulling energy from all dilithium crystals and now also life support
Scotty: "Captain, we've been trying to revert the power from the deflector shields to the viewscreens, but they need more power, I suggest we feed the power cells of the viewscreens with squished twinkies and donuts to feed their power needs, after all they are organic!"
Kirk: "make it so,, Scotty, and check our license from MicroRomulan for those screens again eh?"