that while you where waiting in front of the gate for your unknown terrorist friend, which we cant locate, you notified him that you suspect you have been discovered by not calling him, and then consequently you acted completely like a normal traveler. Our checkpoint software says that your intentions are very clear, and now we have figure out how you managed to hide things from us besides the DHS searching your house for five times. The absence of any hints for explosives or communications proves that you are not only a terrorist, but also extremely dangerous."
Hello? I am on my behalf am always getting a little bit suspicious if people invite me to visit wonderland.
I find noscript from the viewpoint of usability far beyond anything else. It gives me full control over the most annoying abuse of javascript, in a convenient and non-obstrusive way. I dont block ads beyond that. If somebody must plaster his webpage with ads too much, i feel free not to go there. I am fine if ads ae pictures on the side of the screen - that is how the newpaper finances the online version, so its ok. And noscript prevents these fucking hovering layers etc., and that not only for ads, but in general. If a website is not worth to turn JS partially on, i dont do it.
If your post is for real and not a joke, you may spefic a few things, but just some comments to point in the right direction in general:
1) Holidays are Script-Kiddie time 2) Script kiddies have the potential to fill your logs 3) A/var/ which runs full may have the chance to do you server harm (you did not specify if i panicked or just was very unresponsive) 4) You may have a cron job gone wild 5) Certificates ran out -> VPNs etc? 6) you tried to change sth like logrotate and screwed (this could have a 2 year delay) heavily 7) Something else failed (Power?) 8) Something esoteric happened (e.g. do you have a watchdog which has a bad driver?)
If you are using an standard out-of-the-box linux with out-of-the-box software, i would think you are alone.
Usually such things are handled in a way which makes it impossible to establish a direct link between corporate policy and delivering some product somewhere. If such bussiness happens it happens usually because some distributor, for whom the market may be not small at all, decides to make a little extra money. There several stages of "corruption" may be involved in this
a) The distributor acts on his own, not telling anybody at the big company where he sells products, maybe even lying.
b) The salesperson responsible at the company knows that jumps of 50% in sales are strange, but why spoil a good business by asking stupid questions?
c) His boss looks only at the sales total and gives him a rise for good sales
d) The official company policy and what the headquarters know may state that a) any departments are responsible for themself, and that b) no department may ship to an embargoed country
Look at the Siemens scandal for an example of a lack of corporate governance. (I know a lot of people at the company. Most of them are happy the scandal happened, because now it's better there.). To make a literal cite on somebody in an accounting deparment "Oh in the numbers reported to the central accounting, you can barely notice such sums" (we where discussing news about inofficial accounts containing on the order of 100million euros).
So yes, i firmly believe that HPs headquarters definitely may have missed a small transfer of 50Mio$ from somewhere via a unofficial account, being reintegrated into the balance by and wrong bill for consulting services somewhere (or by other means. Look at the Siemens scandal to learn what you can do. If Siemens creativity in consumer products would be as good at the accountants ability to hide money, they mobile phone would still rock).
-the consumer forced it; reality: if i manufacture a netbook containing Ubuntu and everything on it is open source my software distribution and update infractructure/legal costs are: 0. In a time when hardware gets cheaper and cheaper, and support get more expensive in comparison it is a good thing to collaborate on that.
-The hard core gamers define the market. No. It's about netbooks, mobile phones and other devices. Given the exponential rise in computational power/dollar in a few years real time raytracing will take over. Bringing your own hardware interfaces/distribution infrastructure to the component market now give companies a better starting point to deliver a reliable platform. In the best case you promis the HW developer that he never has to touch the software (ok, may submit the pci id to the generic linux driver).
-Linux wins; maybe, but its more general: In the market of set-top boxes, GPS devices, mobile phones, media players etc. Widowns lost. If its linux or something else has to be seen (although the best news for linux in the recent reas was that Windriver is interested in it). Microsoft has no power to punish anybody any more.
I agree, and in building the infrastructure there are several problems -project planning (long-term). -providing money (there are not many companies on which bank you can rely in financing a billion dollar project reliably) -experience in overcoming political troubles
But i think you can easily convert the engineering departments -they have similar standards in quality control -similar problems (vibrations, heat, lack of space) -similar focus on safety
but if you take away the engineer from building cars, then you can also shut down the companies directly.
Buried below stone plates with the engraved pictures, we can place punch-cards (made from platimum coeated tungsten) for binary formats and engraved text for text formats.
I suggest the following set to understand todays state of the internet: -a messed up word document containing an non-logical formated cruelly layouted document -frames from a porn movie -a spam mail, ehich demonstrates how to encode mail in multiple character sets (i imagine this would give them a headache....) -a crazy frog mobile ringtone -a flash game
let's see what makes medical equipment expensive
-using defined processes for everything.
-using quality control everywhere
-getting the approvals/certifications/etc.
Cut all this and your incubator is nothing else than an temperatur and humidity controlled box supplied by clean (=filtered) air. You can get that for less than 1000 dollar if you manufacture it in China (and it will still be an order of magnitude more safe than any solution involving used part or parts not designed for the purpose).
Besides, contrary to what appears to be popular belief here, the UI is not secondary. Without users, you'd have no need for an app. Therefore, focus on the user's needs and build from there. Building a UI is just as hard, maybe harder, than building the back end data structures.
Building a well-designed UI is infinitely hard if you dont have clearly defined semantics. I was unhappy enough (i am a physicist, so i am not active any mor in web programming) to participate in a project, where i should create the user help function. During that course i discovered that they had three different "ok" buttons (in different windows): put data into parent window, put data into database, and do both at the same time. This made writing the help big fun.
The point is that there are incredibly good websites and incredibly bad websites, as there are incredibly good programs and incredibly bad ones. For programs, people nowadays already got used to judge them. For Websites they seem to be more lenient - and since everybody uses a webbrowser on a daily base, everybody seems to believe he can supervise the creation of a website. This enables a market for completely incompetent idiots who believe that everything has to be done in PHP on their own.
Completely separate from that you have real programmers who *happen* to program web applications using the principles they learned in programming.
In my opinion the easiest way to distinct the two classes is the following: A good programmer will always talk about the underlying datastructures first and try to figure out *what* he should process, how it is structured and what ressources are available for maintaining it. *Then* he decides to distribute it ofe client/server and after that he uses a suitable set of tools. A bad programmer will start to talk about something else (e.g. how the interface should look like). Sadly the latter one seems to be easier understood, which leads to absurd situations.
It depends on how many instances of the code will be run. In the innermost loop of an PDE integrator, which will be run in a monte-carlo simulation on 1000 cores, even a small time saving can be valuable and pay off immediatly.
If you are running on a system which has intrinsic limitations (e.g. embedded systems battery) you also may find it useful *NOT* to run into the platforma limitation without need (changing the platform may be expensive).
However, if its about aggregating the database in the evening, the it maybe does not matter.
Copying in science classes existed well before wikipedia. I nearly killed a co-student who "evaluated" the data from a lab course we did together. Sadly she (studying to be a teacher) was too stupid to even replace the numbers in the evaluation she copied from five years ago. Sadly the lab course involved an radioactive source which decayed, so the supervisor immediately knew something was wrong when he saw her "evaluation". It was also funny that on the day before she did not mention this to me. This thought me a lesson about checking the work of my coworkers not only for correctness but also for plagiarism (Which, if i would be still idealistic etc. would make me very sad).
The funny thing is that the people believe they are not get cought with it. My former girlfriend did a group work. She showed me a two page text from somebody else. After ten seconds i pointed to the paragraph which had a severe deviation in writing style from the rest (e.g. meaningful, well structured sentences), and on copy and paste into google later i found the original source.
Already the development of QM can not be attrubute to a single person any more, but to a group of incredibly hard working and strongly connected group of mathematicians and physicists. The last theory which was kind of a *lonly genius* thing in physics was the theory of relativity, which boils down to a small number of involved persons.
a) English is not my native language, and English punctuation is hard.
b) this was not a critical of anything specific, just my view on the wikipedia discussion, which sadly boils down to ideological wars sometimes (and does so here in other threads).
c) for sure typing a 5 minutes comment in slashdot has lower standards on capitalization and punctuation than a submitted comment on a paper.
A disclaimer: i hold a phd degree in physics and am working in research. When i studied, libraries were still the most common way to acquire knowledge, so i am biased.
However, i observe the following thing: AFAIR Wikipedia itself says it is not meant to be a "first source". Wikipedia can give you hints where to search in detail, and for sure that *is* great. However, a citation in a paper or your report serves two purposes:
a) make your work understandable for the reader (being nice to the reader) b) give credit to the original author (being nice to the original author) c) make clear what you have done/not done (being nice to yourself by specifically avoiding to be accused of scientific misconduct)
The traditional approach is that general text books should seldom be cited, and if so, very specifically. To me, if a student cites a specific wikipedia page the latter condition is fulfilled. So if a reasearch group somewhere on the world used FPGAS in a certain way, it is fair to cite their works and not an wikipedia article which was written from an enthousiast about an article which cooked the results of that group down in an popular science journal. However i suggest, if the wikipedia version is well written, to insert a sentence in the introductory part of the report like "Technique x using y is now widely researched and review reports and intodudory materials are commonly available [a,c,b]", which [a,b,c] beeing wikipedia, a textbook or something (not that you may put several references in a single citation). If it helped you, it can be mentioned. Dont however mention textbook knowledge which is expected from you and your peers.
The following things should be kepti in mind:
a) anything referring to a standard should carry the standards official publisher in the reference Bad example: cite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11 for the standard instead of the standard itself. *However* iff the article on wikipedia contains additional information like ABOUT the standard and you want to mention this informally in a meta-sentence (e.g. "IEEE 801.11 is seen by the broad public as the only WLAN standard [quote to wikipedia]"), then it is for sure allowed.
b) dont fall for the illusion that wikipedia is faster than the scientic journals. i assure you its not. In the subjet i work, wikipedia is at least 4 years behind the *published* knowledge and understanding.
c) Wikipedia tends to be good for general knowledge and bad for specific in depth-knowledge. The theory behind the subject i am researching in mentioned only on the surface, but even the context with some papers from the beginning of the *last* century is missing (i'll add it when i find time).
So all in all: Saying to a student: "start at wikipedia" might be ok. One should also say "but follow the threads".
I wonder how many friend Hitler would have had on myspace.
What i want to say: Hitler was not stupid. Goebbels was neither. To think about what somebody on Goebbels level of peruasiveness would have done on myspace - that *IS* scary.
I see, America has no other things to care about..
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Yes, very fitting. Half a million people lost their Job recently, Americas biggest car companies only survive iv every family gives them apptox. 300 Dollars immediatly, the bank sector is in shambles, one ally in the war against terror loses control over his country, california is bancrupt, the fed has no control over the situation, and millions of houseowners are in debts for the rest of their life.
It seems to me quite cynical to discuss wheter Obama uses one monopolists or the others (in certain sectors Apple still has a monopoly, which they nurturrd with similar techniques as Microsoft, if you dont believe that try to get your preprint file with a non-apple color calibration to a medium sized print store.... good luck) product.
I am not a programmer for my job, but a physicist. In the last 8 Years sice i started researching, i have writen tons of programs, and none was restricted to a single platform. For me structuring your toolset in a way that it is easy to change between Windows and UNIX-like OSes gives you the the biggest freedom to change something you dont like.
The cross-platform scripting languages which i used sucessfully: Jython, tcl, matlab/octave
Windowing Toolkits: Java AWT/Swing, tk, matlab (i dont recoommend to use matlab for guis, but it *is* cross platform)
Medium/low layer Java, C (that is ANSI-C)
The stacks i used most successful are: -Jython-Java-C (most elegant solution) -Matlab-(C) (C was not necessary to use often, just to fix their DAQ driver) -tcl-c (quick solution, but calling to octave as external program to do some mathematical tasks)
I think it should be "why we will get netbooks after paying 100Euro immediatly". Please avoid the word "cost". It implies somehow that you do not pay something later. At the current subsidiation rates for mobile devices by cross financing, for many devices the original "price" is not more than a token of goodwill.
If could make a single law regarding that it would be that the contract financing the mobile device should be something which is made separately from the contract for the mobile sata transfer. Somehting like: when you make the mobile phone contract, a clause is included which states that a certain fraction of the montly rate goes to an bank, which borrows you money for the purpose of buying a mobile device, which you may buy where you want and how you want. In that way everybody would *realize* that "getting a mobile phone for free" may exceed his financial capabilities.
Slashdot Mirror
Everybody knopws Tunguska was an emergency landing of an alien spaceship.
that while you where waiting in front of the gate for your unknown terrorist friend, which we cant locate, you notified him that you suspect you have been discovered by not calling him, and then consequently you acted completely like a normal traveler. Our checkpoint software says that your intentions are very clear, and now we have figure out how you managed to hide things from us besides the DHS searching your house for five times. The absence of any hints for explosives or communications proves that you are not only a terrorist, but also extremely dangerous."
Hello? I am on my behalf am always getting a little bit suspicious if people invite me to visit wonderland.
Yes.
I find noscript from the viewpoint of usability far beyond anything else. It gives me full control over the most annoying abuse of javascript, in a convenient and non-obstrusive way. I dont block ads beyond that. If somebody must plaster his webpage with ads too much, i feel free not to go there. I am fine if ads ae pictures on the side of the screen - that is how the newpaper finances the online version, so its ok. And noscript prevents these fucking hovering layers etc., and that not only for ads, but in general. If a website is not worth to turn JS partially on, i dont do it.
I'd suggest to forbid photos of pregnant women, too.
The best is if we keep kids unknowing what happens in the life of a child before two years of age, the point when they start to remember things.
Until they run into a teenage pregnancy. Then we explain them they should marry and give them the book about how to be a good mother.
If your post is for real and not a joke, you may spefic a few things, but just some comments to point in the right direction in general:
1) Holidays are Script-Kiddie time /var/ which runs full may have the chance to do you server harm (you did not specify if i panicked or just was very unresponsive)
2) Script kiddies have the potential to fill your logs
3) A
4) You may have a cron job gone wild
5) Certificates ran out -> VPNs etc?
6) you tried to change sth like logrotate and screwed (this could have a 2 year delay) heavily
7) Something else failed (Power?)
8) Something esoteric happened (e.g. do you have a watchdog which has a bad driver?)
If you are using an standard out-of-the-box linux with out-of-the-box software, i would think you are alone.
Some of the followin extension even got a few hardcore MS fans i know to admit it may be time for a change
1) Scrapbook
2) Noscript
3) Flashblock
Usually such things are handled in a way which makes it impossible to establish a direct link between corporate policy and delivering some product somewhere. If such bussiness happens it happens usually because some distributor, for whom the market may be not small at all, decides to make a little extra money. There several stages of "corruption" may be involved in this
a) The distributor acts on his own, not telling anybody at the big company where he sells products, maybe even lying.
b) The salesperson responsible at the company knows that jumps of 50% in sales are strange, but why spoil a good business by asking stupid questions?
c) His boss looks only at the sales total and gives him a rise for good sales
d) The official company policy and what the headquarters know may state that a) any departments are responsible for themself, and that b) no department may ship to an embargoed country
Look at the Siemens scandal for an example of a lack of corporate governance. (I know a lot of people at the company. Most of them are happy the scandal happened, because now it's better there.). To make a literal cite on somebody in an accounting deparment "Oh in the numbers reported to the central accounting, you can barely notice such sums" (we where discussing news about inofficial accounts containing on the order of 100million euros).
So yes, i firmly believe that HPs headquarters definitely may have missed a small transfer of 50Mio$ from somewhere via a unofficial account, being reintegrated into the balance by and wrong bill for consulting services somewhere (or by other means. Look at the Siemens scandal to learn what you can do. If Siemens creativity in consumer products would be as good at the accountants ability to hide money, they mobile phone would still rock).
Brrr. I thought this is a Japanese trend. Dont tell me that this sick Idean makes it over the globe....
-the consumer forced it; reality: if i manufacture a netbook containing Ubuntu and everything on it is open source my software distribution and update infractructure/legal costs are: 0. In a time when hardware gets cheaper and cheaper, and support get more expensive in comparison it is a good thing to collaborate on that.
-The hard core gamers define the market. No. It's about netbooks, mobile phones and other devices. Given the exponential rise in computational power/dollar in a few years real time raytracing will take over. Bringing your own hardware interfaces/distribution infrastructure to the component market now give companies a better starting point to deliver a reliable platform. In the best case you promis the HW developer that he never has to touch the software (ok, may submit the pci id to the generic linux driver).
-Linux wins; maybe, but its more general: In the market of set-top boxes, GPS devices, mobile phones, media players etc. Widowns lost. If its linux or something else has to be seen (although the best news for linux in the recent reas was that Windriver is interested in it). Microsoft has no power to punish anybody any more.
> This is the kind of code that you could roll out and live with.
Yes, that is the definition of a beta. A beta should find bugs of minor importance which only appear in real use cases.
The final version does not have the "you could live with" phrase in the end.
I agree, and in building the infrastructure there are several problems
-project planning (long-term).
-providing money (there are not many companies on which bank you can rely in financing a billion dollar project reliably)
-experience in overcoming political troubles
But i think you can easily convert the engineering departments
-they have similar standards in quality control
-similar problems (vibrations, heat, lack of space)
-similar focus on safety
but if you take away the engineer from building cars, then you can also shut down the companies directly.
Buried below stone plates with the engraved pictures, we can place punch-cards (made from platimum coeated tungsten) for binary formats and engraved text for text formats.
I suggest the following set to understand todays state of the internet:
-a messed up word document containing an non-logical formated cruelly layouted document
-frames from a porn movie
-a spam mail, ehich demonstrates how to encode mail in multiple character sets (i imagine this would give them a headache....)
-a crazy frog mobile ringtone
-a flash game
use samba. crank the loglevel high to see who accessed it, use ACLs on the server to disriminate access to specific users.
let's see what makes medical equipment expensive -using defined processes for everything. -using quality control everywhere -getting the approvals/certifications/etc. Cut all this and your incubator is nothing else than an temperatur and humidity controlled box supplied by clean (=filtered) air. You can get that for less than 1000 dollar if you manufacture it in China (and it will still be an order of magnitude more safe than any solution involving used part or parts not designed for the purpose).
Besides, contrary to what appears to be popular belief here, the UI is not secondary. Without users, you'd have no need for an app. Therefore, focus on the user's needs and build from there. Building a UI is just as hard, maybe harder, than building the back end data structures.
Building a well-designed UI is infinitely hard if you dont have clearly defined semantics. I was unhappy enough (i am a physicist, so i am not active any mor in web programming) to participate in a project, where i should create the user help function. During that course i discovered that they had three different "ok" buttons (in different windows): put data into parent window, put data into database, and do both at the same time. This made writing the help big fun.
The point is that there are incredibly good websites and incredibly bad websites, as there are incredibly good programs and incredibly bad ones. For programs, people nowadays already got used to judge them. For Websites they seem to be more lenient - and since everybody uses a webbrowser on a daily base, everybody seems to believe he can supervise the creation of a website. This enables a market for completely incompetent idiots who believe that everything has to be done in PHP on their own.
Completely separate from that you have real programmers who *happen* to program web applications using the principles they learned in programming.
In my opinion the easiest way to distinct the two classes is the following: A good programmer will always talk about the underlying datastructures first and try to figure out *what* he should process, how it is structured and what ressources are available for maintaining it. *Then* he decides to distribute it ofe client/server and after that he uses a suitable set of tools. A bad programmer will start to talk about something else (e.g. how the interface should look like). Sadly the latter one seems to be easier understood, which leads to absurd situations.
It depends on how many instances of the code will be run. In the innermost loop of an PDE integrator, which will be run in a monte-carlo simulation on 1000 cores, even a small time saving can be valuable and pay off immediatly.
If you are running on a system which has intrinsic limitations (e.g. embedded systems battery) you also may find it useful *NOT* to run into the platforma limitation without need (changing the platform may be expensive).
However, if its about aggregating the database in the evening, the it maybe does not matter.
Copying in science classes existed well before wikipedia. I nearly killed a co-student who "evaluated" the data from a lab course we did together. Sadly she (studying to be a teacher) was too stupid to even replace the numbers in the evaluation she copied from five years ago. Sadly the lab course involved an radioactive source which decayed, so the supervisor immediately knew something was wrong when he saw her "evaluation". It was also funny that on the day before she did not mention this to me. This thought me a lesson about checking the work of my coworkers not only for correctness but also for plagiarism (Which, if i would be still idealistic etc. would make me very sad).
The funny thing is that the people believe they are not get cought with it. My former girlfriend did a group work. She showed me a two page text from somebody else. After ten seconds i pointed to the paragraph which had a severe deviation in writing style from the rest (e.g. meaningful, well structured sentences), and on copy and paste into google later i found the original source.
Ans yes you are right, such people should fail.
Already the development of QM can not be attrubute to a single person any more, but to a group of incredibly hard working and strongly connected group of mathematicians and physicists. The last theory which was kind of a *lonly genius* thing in physics was the theory of relativity, which boils down to a small number of involved persons.
a) English is not my native language, and English punctuation is hard.
b) this was not a critical of anything specific, just my view on the wikipedia discussion, which sadly boils down to ideological wars sometimes (and does so here in other threads).
c) for sure typing a 5 minutes comment in slashdot has lower standards on capitalization and punctuation than a submitted comment on a paper.
A disclaimer: i hold a phd degree in physics and am working in research. When i studied, libraries were still the most common way to acquire knowledge, so i am biased.
However, i observe the following thing: AFAIR Wikipedia itself says it is not meant to be a "first source". Wikipedia can give you hints where to search in detail, and for sure that *is* great. However, a citation in a paper or your report serves two purposes:
a) make your work understandable for the reader (being nice to the reader)
b) give credit to the original author (being nice to the original author)
c) make clear what you have done/not done (being nice to yourself by specifically avoiding to be accused of scientific misconduct)
The traditional approach is that general text books should seldom be cited, and if so, very specifically. To me, if a student cites a specific wikipedia page the latter condition is fulfilled. So if a reasearch group somewhere on the world used FPGAS in a certain way, it is fair to cite their works and not an wikipedia article which was written from an enthousiast about an article which cooked the results of that group down in an popular science journal. However i suggest, if the wikipedia version is well written, to insert a sentence in the introductory part of the report like "Technique x using y is now widely researched and review reports and intodudory materials are commonly available [a,c,b]", which [a,b,c] beeing wikipedia, a textbook or something (not that you may put several references in a single citation). If it helped you, it can be mentioned. Dont however mention textbook knowledge which is expected from you and your peers.
The following things should be kepti in mind:
a) anything referring to a standard should carry the standards official publisher in the reference
Bad example: cite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11 for the standard instead of the standard itself. *However* iff the article on wikipedia contains additional information like ABOUT the standard and you want to mention this informally in a meta-sentence (e.g. "IEEE 801.11 is seen by the broad public as the only WLAN standard [quote to wikipedia]"), then it is for sure allowed.
b) dont fall for the illusion that wikipedia is faster than the scientic journals. i assure you its not. In the subjet i work, wikipedia is at least 4 years behind the *published* knowledge and understanding.
c) Wikipedia tends to be good for general knowledge and bad for specific in depth-knowledge. The theory behind the subject i am researching in mentioned only on the surface, but even the context with some papers from the beginning of the *last* century is missing (i'll add it when i find time).
So all in all: Saying to a student: "start at wikipedia" might be ok. One should also say "but follow the threads".
I wonder how many friend Hitler would have had on myspace.
What i want to say: Hitler was not stupid. Goebbels was neither. To think about what somebody on Goebbels level of peruasiveness would have done on myspace - that *IS* scary.
Yes, very fitting. Half a million people lost their Job recently, Americas biggest car companies only survive iv every family gives them apptox. 300 Dollars immediatly, the bank sector is in shambles, one ally in the war against terror loses control over his country, california is bancrupt, the fed has no control over the situation, and millions of houseowners are in debts for the rest of their life.
It seems to me quite cynical to discuss wheter Obama uses one monopolists or the others (in certain sectors Apple still has a monopoly, which they nurturrd with similar techniques as Microsoft, if you dont believe that try to get your preprint file with a non-apple color calibration to a medium sized print store.... good luck) product.
I am not a programmer for my job, but a physicist. In the last 8 Years sice i started researching, i have writen tons of programs, and none was restricted to a single platform. For me structuring your toolset in a way that it is easy to change between Windows and UNIX-like OSes gives you the the biggest freedom to change something you dont like.
The cross-platform scripting languages which i used sucessfully:
Jython, tcl, matlab/octave
Windowing Toolkits:
Java AWT/Swing, tk, matlab (i dont recoommend to use matlab for guis, but it *is* cross platform)
Medium/low layer
Java, C (that is ANSI-C)
The stacks i used most successful are:
-Jython-Java-C (most elegant solution)
-Matlab-(C) (C was not necessary to use often, just to fix their DAQ driver)
-tcl-c (quick solution, but calling to octave as external program to do some mathematical tasks)
What i deprecated:
-Perl-Java-C
I think it should be "why we will get netbooks after paying 100Euro immediatly". Please avoid the word "cost". It implies somehow that you do not pay something later. At the current subsidiation rates for mobile devices by cross financing, for many devices the original "price" is not more than a token of goodwill.
If could make a single law regarding that it would be that the contract financing the mobile device should be something which is made separately from the contract for the mobile sata transfer. Somehting like: when you make the mobile phone contract, a clause is included which states that a certain fraction of the montly rate goes to an bank, which borrows you money for the purpose of buying a mobile device, which you may buy where you want and how you want. In that way everybody would *realize* that "getting a mobile phone for free" may exceed his financial capabilities.