the newest apartment complexes... ridiculously expensive, even by North American standards.
What's that supposed to mean? For the same price as my western European 2 bedroom apartment, I could have bought a massive ranch in Texas, complete with cows, or a single family home with a garden and some trees in upstate New York. Housing is cheap in North America.
Teenagers with broadband and unearthly reflexes ruined it for me, hehe. Log on, spawn, look around, dead. Respawn, run for cover, where am I? dead and respawning!
I havn't RTFA, but has he accounted for that climate change is predicted to destroy the gulf stream? If that stops flowing Scandinavia is predicted to become/colder/ even with global warming.
That idea never made sense to me...
The gulf stream is powered by the forming of ice in the north Atlantic during winter: water crystallizes to ice while salt is expelled, increasing salinity and thus density of the water, which causes a downward flow. An increase in temperature would lead to less ice formation, a slower downward flow and thus a slower gulf stream. Ok, this still makes sense. A slower gulf stream would lead to a lower temperature, ok this still makes sense, right? A drop in temperature causes more ice to form, a faster downward flow of salty water, and a faster gulf stream, which causes the temperature to go up again.
So an increase in temperature causes a drop in temperature, and a drop in temperature causes an increase in temperature? Hey, it looks like this system is buffered to keep the temperature more or less the same just with different amounts of winter ice. Don't say there's a lag of thousands of years without explaining how. Water flows from the equator to the north Atlantic in a matter of weeks.
Anchor babies are an urban legend. Having a child who is a citizen doesn't give the parents any right to stay in the US. Only when the child is 21 years of age and if he meets certain income criteria to show he can financially support them, he may apply for family reunification, which also isn't a right; it can be refused on a number of grounds.
Expats are likely to be in the age range of mid 20's to mid 30's. Younger than that you probably won't have enough experience for a company to bother sponsoring you, and older than that and you're less likely to go because you're already too expensive, have family obligations etc.This 10 year interval between mid 20's and mid 30's is also the time people are likely to have children, somewhere between finishing college and getting too old. You assume that the people you are mocking have children just to have a US citizen in the family. Try opening up to the possibility, however unlikely, that someone, somewhere, makes an important life decision without it having anything to do with you personally.
On any tech forum, including slashdot, you have wannabe haxx0rz who ask "how to write teh virus???" They never get a serious answer, obviously.
The OP (ed1023) thinks he can trick slashdot readers with some social engineering into thinking they're really helping someone this time by telling him "how to write teh virus???". Who knows, maybe he will succeed. Maybe he will write teh virus.
For some reason the forum in the idle section seems to be broken in any browser I've tried. When I click to view a post, all the other posts in the topic disappear. Is there a way to turn this off?
Wow, I've been programming longer than you've been alive... surely my experience is worth something, isn't it?
Experience is worth something, to a point. Anything over about five years is pretty much the same. At some point you have simply learned enough. This doesn't mean you know everything, but at that point you've learned that you can't know everything - no one can. The total amount of information grows more rapidly than a person can learn. You do know how to find out what you need for a project and where to get that information.
Employers have very little reason for paying you more than someone with only 5 years of experience. In fact, unless you exclusively work on legacy systems, much more experience than that starts to hold you back. Knowledge how you solved a problem 20 or even 10 years ago rapidly starts losing relevance, because there are now better ways to solve the same problems, or the problem itself isn't relevant anymore. When I was younger, time and time again, I saw the techs higher up the chain reject new things because they gave something like it a try in 1995, and didn't see a point then. I've done some work at a shop where everyone still coded in green screen terminals because the chief technology officer had given an IDE a try a decade and a half before, and found he wasn't as productive with it as with the command line tools he had been using for 25 years.
If you work with people, experience counts for something, because on the scale of a human life span, people basically kind of stay the same. With technology, this is simply not the case. Now I'm getting to the age myself that I start not seeing the point of a lot of hot, new tech ideas. Unlike my old CTO, I realize that this is not a problem with hot, new tech ideas these days, but with my getting older. I know I won't be able to do this until I retire, because in general, companies have good reasons for ageism (they may be wrong to judge certain individual cases, you may be one of those for all I know).
To be on the safe side, I'm back in school learning more ageless skills.
I think it has more to do with the role the bible plays in the reformation.
The catholic and orthodox churches see the bible as a compendium they compiled. Written by people who witnessed certain events, not by God. It plays a part in their faith, but it is not the only part.
The entire point of the reformation was the view that the books of the Bible were written under divine inspiration and that (Roman) church tradition had no value where it had no basis in the bible. Making a selection which bible verses are to be taken literally and which ones are not amounts to creating a church tradition of your own, which takes away the whole point of the reformation. Of course protestants take the Bible literally; it's the whole point of their religion.
In another article, not available in English, the numbers were broken down by denomination. Catholics were less likely to take the bible literally, which brings the percentage of creationists down in Germany and the Netherlands, which are both about half catholic, half protestant/none/other
The energy levels of an atom are in the electron orbitals, not the nucleus.
Extremely simplified: the 'decay' refers to an electron falling back to a lower-energy orbital. In doing so, it emits energy in the form of a photon that represents a precisely known frequency. It is completely reversible, unlike radioactive decay.
The principle of operation of an atomic clock is not based on nuclear physics, but rather on the microwave signal that electrons in atoms emit when they change energy levels.
You didn't even read the link you copied. Does this mean you are stupid? It just might.
Atomic clocks have nothing to do with radioactive decay.
Also remember that they are largely restricted to the US and the Middle East.
Bullpoopie. Such ideas have similar prevalence here in protestant parts of Western Europe. Evangelicals are just not as organized politically, and civilians don't have a way of influencing the curriculum of schools, so it's not a high profile issue.
In Catholic tradition, it's not as common to think of the bible as the literal word of God, so it's less of an issue.
This is important because the rate of decay is very important not just for antique dating, but also for cancer treatment, time keeping, and the generation of random numbers.
While people who suffer at the extreme ends of the autistic spectrum would have difficulty maintaining a society, some of the more moderate autistic individuals are leaders in engineering, technology, and science.
You could say the same about cancer. Some leaders in engineering, technology, and science have cancer. That doesn't mean cancer may not really be a disease or that a neoplasm may simply be the next step in our evolution.
It has become fashionable among nerds to identify with Dustin Hoffman's portrayal of Rainman to the point anyone who is even remotely socially awkward or left brain oriented to be called autistic, followed by the implication that autism fills an important role in society. The reality is somewhat different. With a few famous exceptions, patients tend to have trouble taking care of themselves - many are profoundly disabled - while actual leaders in engineering, technology, and science tend to have normal mental health. (though many of them may be assholes, but that's another story)
This is off topic, but the n900 is too little, too late. Deserved or not, Nokia allowed itself to get the reputation of peddler of cheap European crap. If a product isn't actually cheap or actually crap, with the Nokia name on it, it will not sell any more than a $100,000 sports car with the name Fiat will.
The second group are those who pirate the games because they have no money. They are a large part of the games audience.
I call bull poopie on that. Someone who built a $2500 overclocked gaming monster has the money, and someone with a $300 PC from Walmart probably doesn't know where to get pirated games. The average gamer is over 18 and has a job. Even a school kid without a job could buy a few games a year by cutting down on candy.
I can make a list like that for the Netherlands. We also have a very good aducation/university system, but our government is working hard to change that.
Yes, there was a conspiracy of a few dozen muslim fanatics to hijack passenger planes and fly them into landmark buildings in the USA. Why do so many people want to make this conspiracy bigger and more convoluted than it already was? Really, is it so far fetched to accept that muslim fanatics were able to plan and execute something like this without the help of the CIA, the Bilderberg group or space aliens?
but when on vacation in the US, very few people could identify that as a city in the Netherlands. (Let alone realized that "Holland" and "the Netherlands" are - incorrectly - synonymous.)
Who'd have known I'd defend stereotypical US ignorance, but as a German, I didn't know the distinction between Holland and Netherlands, either. Both names are pretty much used as synonyms around here.
Anyway, a few Wikipedia articles later I now know the distinction. I'm a bit surprised that Holland isn't actually the name of the country. Then again, I knew what Benelux stands for, so that should have been a clue.
There is no distinction. The poster is trying to elevate a very minor, petty, internal cultural grievance between the south and the north of their country to an issue of international importance.
The tiresome OP's cliche about the 'stereotypical American ignorance' is the only reason I even replied. How many Europeans can point out Columbus, Ford Worth or Jacksonville, you think? Why would you expect Americans to know much about a city of similar size in on another continent?
Pffff, somebody pissed in your cheerios this morning, jeez. It is the same when we say America and then you counter that with The United States of America since America is more than North America alone. And we technical people like to be technically correct, so the AC is 100% correct. Calling the Netherlands Holland only shows ignorance and arrogance, deal with it.
Well no, the Dutch name is Nederland, not 'The Netherlands'. To be absolutely 100% pedantic, 'The Netherlands' refers to a region, not to a country. There is no basis whatsoever for pouncing on every single mention of the word 'Holland' on the internet and telling English speakers to prefer one word over another in their own language!
Do English speakers tell you to say 'Wat zeg je?' instead of 'wablief'? The whole concept is ridiculous.
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the newest apartment complexes ... ridiculously expensive, even by North American standards.
What's that supposed to mean? For the same price as my western European 2 bedroom apartment, I could have bought a massive ranch in Texas, complete with cows, or a single family home with a garden and some trees in upstate New York. Housing is cheap in North America.
Teenagers with broadband and unearthly reflexes ruined it for me, hehe. Log on, spawn, look around, dead. Respawn, run for cover, where am I? dead and respawning!
Maybe it crashed into a limestone formation? Limestone (and other carbonate rock like marble and karst) are basically giant lumps of CO2.
I havn't RTFA, but has he accounted for that climate change is predicted to destroy the gulf stream? If that stops flowing Scandinavia is predicted to become /colder/ even with global warming.
That idea never made sense to me...
The gulf stream is powered by the forming of ice in the north Atlantic during winter: water crystallizes to ice while salt is expelled, increasing salinity and thus density of the water, which causes a downward flow. An increase in temperature would lead to less ice formation, a slower downward flow and thus a slower gulf stream. Ok, this still makes sense. A slower gulf stream would lead to a lower temperature, ok this still makes sense, right? A drop in temperature causes more ice to form, a faster downward flow of salty water, and a faster gulf stream, which causes the temperature to go up again.
So an increase in temperature causes a drop in temperature, and a drop in temperature causes an increase in temperature? Hey, it looks like this system is buffered to keep the temperature more or less the same just with different amounts of winter ice. Don't say there's a lag of thousands of years without explaining how. Water flows from the equator to the north Atlantic in a matter of weeks.
Anchor babies are an urban legend. Having a child who is a citizen doesn't give the parents any right to stay in the US.
Only when the child is 21 years of age and if he meets certain income criteria to show he can financially support them, he may apply for family reunification, which also isn't a right; it can be refused on a number of grounds.
Expats are likely to be in the age range of mid 20's to mid 30's. Younger than that you probably won't have enough experience for a company to bother sponsoring you, and older than that and you're less likely to go because you're already too expensive, have family obligations etc.This 10 year interval between mid 20's and mid 30's is also the time people are likely to have children, somewhere between finishing college and getting too old. You assume that the people you are mocking have children just to have a US citizen in the family. Try opening up to the possibility, however unlikely, that someone, somewhere, makes an important life decision without it having anything to do with you personally.
On any tech forum, including slashdot, you have wannabe haxx0rz who ask "how to write teh virus???" They never get a serious answer, obviously.
The OP (ed1023) thinks he can trick slashdot readers with some social engineering into thinking they're really helping someone this time by telling him "how to write teh virus???". Who knows, maybe he will succeed. Maybe he will write teh virus.
You're an idiot. Stop posting.
For some reason the forum in the idle section seems to be broken in any browser I've tried. When I click to view a post, all the other posts in the topic disappear. Is there a way to turn this off?
Ryanair has been coming up with more revolutionary ways to save money:
Let stewardesses land planes:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/7981643/Ryanair-boss-says-air-stewardesses-should-be-allowed-to-land-planes-in-an-emergency.html
Let passengers stand:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/5753477/Ryanair-to-make-passengers-stand.html
Wow, I've been programming longer than you've been alive ... surely my experience is worth something, isn't it?
Experience is worth something, to a point. Anything over about five years is pretty much the same. At some point you have simply learned enough. This doesn't mean you know everything, but at that point you've learned that you can't know everything - no one can. The total amount of information grows more rapidly than a person can learn. You do know how to find out what you need for a project and where to get that information.
Employers have very little reason for paying you more than someone with only 5 years of experience. In fact, unless you exclusively work on legacy systems, much more experience than that starts to hold you back. Knowledge how you solved a problem 20 or even 10 years ago rapidly starts losing relevance, because there are now better ways to solve the same problems, or the problem itself isn't relevant anymore. When I was younger, time and time again, I saw the techs higher up the chain reject new things because they gave something like it a try in 1995, and didn't see a point then. I've done some work at a shop where everyone still coded in green screen terminals because the chief technology officer had given an IDE a try a decade and a half before, and found he wasn't as productive with it as with the command line tools he had been using for 25 years.
If you work with people, experience counts for something, because on the scale of a human life span, people basically kind of stay the same. With technology, this is simply not the case. Now I'm getting to the age myself that I start not seeing the point of a lot of hot, new tech ideas. Unlike my old CTO, I realize that this is not a problem with hot, new tech ideas these days, but with my getting older. I know I won't be able to do this until I retire, because in general, companies have good reasons for ageism (they may be wrong to judge certain individual cases, you may be one of those for all I know).
To be on the safe side, I'm back in school learning more ageless skills.
I think it has more to do with the role the bible plays in the reformation.
The catholic and orthodox churches see the bible as a compendium they compiled. Written by people who witnessed certain events, not by God. It plays a part in their faith, but it is not the only part.
The entire point of the reformation was the view that the books of the Bible were written under divine inspiration and that (Roman) church tradition had no value where it had no basis in the bible. Making a selection which bible verses are to be taken literally and which ones are not amounts to creating a church tradition of your own, which takes away the whole point of the reformation. Of course protestants take the Bible literally; it's the whole point of their religion.
Anecdotal evidence can be deceptive, I was somewhat surprised to read about it too:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/313/5788/765/DC1/1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/01/evolution-darwin-survey-creationism
In another article, not available in English, the numbers were broken down by denomination. Catholics were less likely to take the bible literally, which brings the percentage of creationists down in Germany and the Netherlands, which are both about half catholic, half protestant/none/other
The energy levels of an atom are in the electron orbitals, not the nucleus.
Extremely simplified: the 'decay' refers to an electron falling back to a lower-energy orbital. In doing so, it emits energy in the form of a photon that represents a precisely known frequency. It is completely reversible, unlike radioactive decay.
The principle of operation of an atomic clock is not based on nuclear physics, but rather on the microwave signal that electrons in atoms emit when they change energy levels.
You didn't even read the link you copied. Does this mean you are stupid? It just might.
Atomic clocks have nothing to do with radioactive decay.
Atomic clocks don't use radioactive decay.
Also remember that they are largely restricted to the US and the Middle East.
Bullpoopie. Such ideas have similar prevalence here in protestant parts of Western Europe. Evangelicals are just not as organized politically, and civilians don't have a way of influencing the curriculum of schools, so it's not a high profile issue.
In Catholic tradition, it's not as common to think of the bible as the literal word of God, so it's less of an issue.
This is important because the rate of decay is very important not just for antique dating, but also for cancer treatment, time keeping, and the generation of random numbers.
How is radioactive decay used for time keeping?
While people who suffer at the extreme ends of the autistic spectrum would have difficulty maintaining a society, some of the more moderate autistic individuals are leaders in engineering, technology, and science.
You could say the same about cancer. Some leaders in engineering, technology, and science have cancer. That doesn't mean cancer may not really be a disease or that a neoplasm may simply be the next step in our evolution.
It has become fashionable among nerds to identify with Dustin Hoffman's portrayal of Rainman to the point anyone who is even remotely socially awkward or left brain oriented to be called autistic, followed by the implication that autism fills an important role in society. The reality is somewhat different. With a few famous exceptions, patients tend to have trouble taking care of themselves - many are profoundly disabled - while actual leaders in engineering, technology, and science tend to have normal mental health. (though many of them may be assholes, but that's another story)
And where is your "run anywhere" going to go if Oracle decides not to renew Java licenses to Apple or IBM anymore?
Apple uses Java? For what product?
This is off topic, but the n900 is too little, too late. Deserved or not, Nokia allowed itself to get the reputation of peddler of cheap European crap. If a product isn't actually cheap or actually crap, with the Nokia name on it, it will not sell any more than a $100,000 sports car with the name Fiat will.
The second group are those who pirate the games because they have no money. They are a large part of the games audience.
I call bull poopie on that. Someone who built a $2500 overclocked gaming monster has the money, and someone with a $300 PC from Walmart probably doesn't know where to get pirated games. The average gamer is over 18 and has a job. Even a school kid without a job could buy a few games a year by cutting down on candy.
I can make a list like that for the Netherlands. We also have a very good aducation/university system, but our government is working hard to change that.
I speak English goode. I learn it from booke.
Yes, there was a conspiracy of a few dozen muslim fanatics to hijack passenger planes and fly them into landmark buildings in the USA. Why do so many people want to make this conspiracy bigger and more convoluted than it already was? Really, is it so far fetched to accept that muslim fanatics were able to plan and execute something like this without the help of the CIA, the Bilderberg group or space aliens?
but when on vacation in the US, very few people could identify that as a city in the Netherlands. (Let alone realized that "Holland" and "the Netherlands" are - incorrectly - synonymous.)
Who'd have known I'd defend stereotypical US ignorance, but as a German, I didn't know the distinction between Holland and Netherlands, either. Both names are pretty much used as synonyms around here.
Anyway, a few Wikipedia articles later I now know the distinction. I'm a bit surprised that Holland isn't actually the name of the country. Then again, I knew what Benelux stands for, so that should have been a clue.
There is no distinction. The poster is trying to elevate a very minor, petty, internal cultural grievance between the south and the north of their country to an issue of international importance.
The tiresome OP's cliche about the 'stereotypical American ignorance' is the only reason I even replied. How many Europeans can point out Columbus, Ford Worth or Jacksonville, you think? Why would you expect Americans to know much about a city of similar size in on another continent?
Pffff, somebody pissed in your cheerios this morning, jeez.
It is the same when we say America and then you counter that with The United States of America since America is more than North America alone.
And we technical people like to be technically correct, so the AC is 100% correct.
Calling the Netherlands Holland only shows ignorance and arrogance, deal with it.
Well no, the Dutch name is Nederland, not 'The Netherlands'. To be absolutely 100% pedantic, 'The Netherlands' refers to a region, not to a country. There is no basis whatsoever for pouncing on every single mention of the word 'Holland' on the internet and telling English speakers to prefer one word over another in their own language!
Do English speakers tell you to say 'Wat zeg je?' instead of 'wablief'? The whole concept is ridiculous.