Even though Scientology isn't a recognized entity in Germany, would having someone present the "facts" about it to the court imply that Scientology is recognized entity? After all, who makes the decision that the facts must be presented? Who else would make the proposition to the government except the "unrecognized" entity in this case?
Is this a contradiction of its "non-recognition"?
Article 5
[Freedom of expression, arts and sciences]
(1) Every person shall have the right freely to express and disseminate his
opinions in speech, writing and pictures, and to inform himself without hindrance
from generally accessible sources. Freedom of the press and freedom
of reporting by means of broadcasts and films shall be guaranteed.
There shall be no censorship.
(2) These rights shall find their limits in the provisions of general laws, in
provisions for the protection of young persons, and in the right to personal
honour.
(3) Arts and sciences, research and teaching shall be free. The freedom of
teaching shall not release any person from allegiance to the constitution.
Should a smoker dying of lung cancer get a second pair of lungs before a person that is not a smoker and did not choose to be an organ donor, but instead has lung cancer due to second hand smoke? That's a nice gray area for you.
Or would you like it a bit more simple:
A child whose parents are not organ donors, and can't choose because the child is not old enough, is dying of a disease that has destroyed her lungs. Should the smoking lung cancer patient that selected "organ donor" get the lungs before the child?
Not being an organ donor does not make you a douche bag. People may have valid reasons for choosing not to be a donor. Some of those are religious or ethical, others might be medical.
Would you want to accept an organ from a person that has a communicable disease and that disease would come to you from a donated organ?
Would you want to accept an organ from a person that has not taken good care of that organ in their body?
The organ you receive could actually kill you if your body outright rejects it without appropriate post operative medical care. Should we give organs to people that mark themselves donors, but are unlikely to obtain reasonable post operative medical care?
Some people may be better donors than others! Would they re-prioritize organs to people that are more likely to be better organ donors than people that are not as good organ donors? For example, lets say that I'm fairly healthy except for this kidney I have that won't work. Would I get the kidney before a person that is less healthy than myself? Which types of organs are more desirable? Age matched? Younger? Older? Larger? Smaller? Is there a grading scale for organ donor-ability?
If you're writing cross-platform code, which may even use different APIs, there will still be more high level code than low level code (in quantity). A lot of this depends on the design of the abstraction that helps adapt between the platforms. With this in mind, I can easily see 90% being obtainable on ANY complex system where there is a lot of high level code.
What Microsoft is likely referring to is that they don't have to change 90% of their low-level code too. This means they have pushed the abstraction further down into the low-level code using directx et al.
Honestly, where is the editor that has at least as much functionality aimed at a developer as a word processor? I'm not saying the SAME functionality, but an equal amount of functionality.
As for the same functionality, starting with a spell checker for comments (in the very least) would be kinda nice.
"Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke
of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower."
"InfraGard is an information sharing and analysis effort serving the interests and combining the knowledge base of a wide range of members. At its most basic level, InfraGard is a partnership between the FBI and the private sector. InfraGard is an association of businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants dedicated to sharing information and intelligence to prevent hostile acts against the United States. InfraGard Chapters are geographically linked with FBI Field Office territories. Each InfraGard Chapter has an FBI Special Agent Coordinator assigned to it, and the FBI Coordinator works closely with Supervisory Special Agent Program Managers in the Cyber Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
While under the direction of NIPC, the focus of InfraGard was cyber infrastructure protection. After September 11, 2001 NIPC expanded its efforts to include physical as well as cyber threats to critical infrastructures. InfraGard’s mission expanded accordingly."
I find it just as problematic that applications software on Windows Mobile and other similar mobile OSes do not handle large network delays gracefully.
There is often very little feedback to the user of the software that actual progress is being made in attempt to communicate over the network. Sure, we can use the fuzzy "bars" indicator on the device to help diagnose what may be the cause of our trouble, but that doesn't indicate actual network conditions due to capacity. We also have animated indicators that web browsers and other applications use, but these still don't indicate any kind of actual success to communicate. In web browsers we get text alluding the DNS lookup, and connection attempt, but when you combine 'Connecting to...' with a simple spinning indicator or progress bar, that often doesn't convey that the message reached any destination or how long until you can expect any response from your local network based on its operating conditions.
The writers of the software may not fully understand the implications of being on a network with high packet loss or long round trip times. So they timeout or have errors that could be resolved by more delay or retry. In a mobile OS we should probably take this into account at the OS level, and opt out of this behavior only when the programmer or user specifies (if that's exposed).
"If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life Never make a pretty women your wife Go for my personal point of view Get an ugly girl to marry you." - Jimmy Soul
1. RTFM http://msdn.microsoft.com/ , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y23kc048.aspx. 2. Microsoft provides a guide for migrating from POSIX to Windows. See comment 1. 3. If your clients internal or external demand it and you need it to maintain profitability, you will do it and stop bitching because it makes you money. 4. Hire someone else to do it if you're not comfortable doing it yourself, don't have the resources, or are intolerant and wealthy enough to do so. 5. If most of your clients are on Windows and it is your primary means of profitability, what percent of your sales are the other platforms? If those sales are insignificant, only develop windows and get rid of the rest. Or visa-versa... 6. All your bitching about Visual Studio is simply that, bitching. You can build MS programs with other build tools. You can use makefiles (ms or gnu flavored), your own build tools, SCONS, choose the right tool for the job. 7. assert works on windows, and you can get core dump files just like in the posix world. Read comment 1 and learn to configure your machine appropriately. 8. You had to RTFM to program in the posix world. Why should Windows be any different? See comment 1.
Some phones already have the HSDPA 7.2Mbps capability. AT&T has just neutered their firmware through various settings. Luckily, for some phones, you can just revert these settings, and in some places, receive 7.2Mbps today.
For example, the HTC Fuze/Touch Pro can do 7.2Mbps after some registry tweaks.
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VGChartz is completely inaccurate. I would trust NPD and publisher data more. Beware that online sales may not be accounted for correctly from NPD.
Even though Scientology isn't a recognized entity in Germany, would having someone present the "facts" about it to the court imply that Scientology is recognized entity? After all, who makes the decision that the facts must be presented? Who else would make the proposition to the government except the "unrecognized" entity in this case? Is this a contradiction of its "non-recognition"?
Are there any laws protecting this type of "speech" in Germany?
Should a smoker dying of lung cancer get a second pair of lungs before a person that is not a smoker and did not choose to be an organ donor, but instead has lung cancer due to second hand smoke? That's a nice gray area for you.
Or would you like it a bit more simple:
A child whose parents are not organ donors, and can't choose because the child is not old enough, is dying of a disease that has destroyed her lungs. Should the smoking lung cancer patient that selected "organ donor" get the lungs before the child?
These are hard choices.
Do you find it interesting that many hospitals have a religious spin on their names?
Not being an organ donor does not make you a douche bag. People may have valid reasons for choosing not to be a donor. Some of those are religious or ethical, others might be medical.
Would you want to accept an organ from a person that has a communicable disease and that disease would come to you from a donated organ?
Would you want to accept an organ from a person that has not taken good care of that organ in their body?
The organ you receive could actually kill you if your body outright rejects it without appropriate post operative medical care. Should we give organs to people that mark themselves donors, but are unlikely to obtain reasonable post operative medical care?
Some people may be better donors than others! Would they re-prioritize organs to people that are more likely to be better organ donors than people that are not as good organ donors? For example, lets say that I'm fairly healthy except for this kidney I have that won't work. Would I get the kidney before a person that is less healthy than myself? Which types of organs are more desirable? Age matched? Younger? Older? Larger? Smaller? Is there a grading scale for organ donor-ability?
I seriously doubt these lead processors are ROHS compliant.
cross-platform doesn't mean all platforms. it means some other platform.
Hardware is also part of the platform, is it not?
If you're writing cross-platform code, which may even use different APIs, there will still be more high level code than low level code (in quantity). A lot of this depends on the design of the abstraction that helps adapt between the platforms. With this in mind, I can easily see 90% being obtainable on ANY complex system where there is a lot of high level code.
What Microsoft is likely referring to is that they don't have to change 90% of their low-level code too. This means they have pushed the abstraction further down into the low-level code using directx et al.
How about removing the people from office that are for enforcing this law? Or installing people into office that will repeal the law?
Honestly, where is the editor that has at least as much functionality aimed at a developer as a word processor? I'm not saying the SAME functionality, but an equal amount of functionality.
As for the same functionality, starting with a spell checker for comments (in the very least) would be kinda nice.
FIGHT!
"Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers
grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the
fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own
image as promised by the
sacred words, and spoke
of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was
naught but a follower."
from The Book of Mozilla, 11:9
(10th Edition)
http://www.infragard.net/
"InfraGard is an information sharing and analysis effort serving the interests and combining the knowledge base of a wide range of members. At its most basic level, InfraGard is a partnership between the FBI and the private sector. InfraGard is an association of businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants dedicated to sharing information and intelligence to prevent hostile acts against the United States. InfraGard Chapters are geographically linked with FBI Field Office territories. Each InfraGard Chapter has an FBI Special Agent Coordinator assigned to it, and the FBI Coordinator works closely with Supervisory Special Agent Program Managers in the Cyber Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
While under the direction of NIPC, the focus of InfraGard was cyber infrastructure protection. After September 11, 2001 NIPC expanded its efforts to include physical as well as cyber threats to critical infrastructures. InfraGard’s mission expanded accordingly."
I don't believe AT&T is the cheapest provider.
I find it just as problematic that applications software on Windows Mobile and other similar mobile OSes do not handle large network delays gracefully.
There is often very little feedback to the user of the software that actual progress is being made in attempt to communicate over the network. Sure, we can use the fuzzy "bars" indicator on the device to help diagnose what may be the cause of our trouble, but that doesn't indicate actual network conditions due to capacity. We also have animated indicators that web browsers and other applications use, but these still don't indicate any kind of actual success to communicate. In web browsers we get text alluding the DNS lookup, and connection attempt, but when you combine 'Connecting to...' with a simple spinning indicator or progress bar, that often doesn't convey that the message reached any destination or how long until you can expect any response from your local network based on its operating conditions.
The writers of the software may not fully understand the implications of being on a network with high packet loss or long round trip times. So they timeout or have errors that could be resolved by more delay or retry. In a mobile OS we should probably take this into account at the OS level, and opt out of this behavior only when the programmer or user specifies (if that's exposed).
Distribute torrent trackers and web hosting. That way, as long as there are enough people hosting torrents from the tracker, it remains alive.
"If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life
Never make a pretty women your wife
Go for my personal point of view
Get an ugly girl to marry you." - Jimmy Soul
Have you tried walking over to his/her apartment?
1. RTFM http://msdn.microsoft.com/ , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y23kc048.aspx.
2. Microsoft provides a guide for migrating from POSIX to Windows. See comment 1.
3. If your clients internal or external demand it and you need it to maintain profitability, you will do it and stop bitching because it makes you money.
4. Hire someone else to do it if you're not comfortable doing it yourself, don't have the resources, or are intolerant and wealthy enough to do so.
5. If most of your clients are on Windows and it is your primary means of profitability, what percent of your sales are the other platforms? If those sales are insignificant, only develop windows and get rid of the rest. Or visa-versa...
6. All your bitching about Visual Studio is simply that, bitching. You can build MS programs with other build tools. You can use makefiles (ms or gnu flavored), your own build tools, SCONS, choose the right tool for the job.
7. assert works on windows, and you can get core dump files just like in the posix world. Read comment 1 and learn to configure your machine appropriately.
8. You had to RTFM to program in the posix world. Why should Windows be any different? See comment 1.
Some phones already have the HSDPA 7.2Mbps capability. AT&T has just neutered their firmware through various settings. Luckily, for some phones, you can just revert these settings, and in some places, receive 7.2Mbps today.
For example, the HTC Fuze/Touch Pro can do 7.2Mbps after some registry tweaks.
*DONK* *DONK*
I think I saw a Law and Order episode where a person was using this to make their patients feel "better". I believe everything I see on TV.