That would be bad enough, but they actually formed out of various clearly neo-nazi, white pride organizations that decided to get serious about getting into the parliament. Yes, they have officially condemned the more extreme views but a huge amount of the members is made up of people who were swastica waving skinheads in the 90s and their hangarounds.
They stopped waving swasticas in public in the late 90s when they decided to get serious about getting seats in the parliament. The party is made up of a mixture of former members of various neo-nazi, white pride organizations such as BSS (Bevara Sverige Svenskt - Keep Sweden Swedish), Nordiska Rikspartiet (The nordic state party), Framstegspartiet (The progression party) and Sverigepartiet (The Sweden party) though.
I'm running the latest build right now (on OSX) and the pure JavaScript C64 emulator is still quite a bit slower than in Chrome but it's still a LOT faster than previous Firefox versions.
Stallman has approved the Pirate Party's proposal of a 5 year commercial copyright and no copyright restrictions for non-commercial/private use (and no patents what so ever). Personally, I also think that's a fair compromise. If you haven't broke even after 5 years you probably never will.
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and significant challenges making it play nice with Apache in a manner comparable to mod_php. (has mod_ruby come of age, yet?;3)
...unless one installs the official plugin with support for the "old style" query interface that they will supply, as noted in the article you linked to.
Yes, it's true that historically, Ruby has been slow. Ruby 1.9.x is a LOT faster than Ruby 1.8.x though, and Rails 3.0 is fully compatible with the latest Ruby 1.9.2.
There are also other Ruby implementations under way, most notably Rubinius which is often even faster already and has potential to become REALLY fast once they start optimizing it.
Speaking of brain activity, I saw a documentary on TV a few years ago that showed that people who can speak two or more languages use a larger part of their brain when speaking than those who only know one language, even when speaking their native/primary language. Their brain take more things into consideration when forming sentences.
Yes, I have, about five weeks ago. Yes, the infrastructure is still way behind in a lot of places but the people, the former East Germans themselves, have adapted well. Take any given East German person and he/she will most likely be able to work and be as productive as the average West German if given the chance. My point was that the problem is not with the East German (or North Korean) individuals, it's on a different level.
It will only take you a couple of days maximum to figure out which times are morning, midday and evening in your area and adapt accordingly. It's a non-issue.
We already have the perfect TAI time zone so there is no need to define or redefine some other time zone. I'm Swedish BTW, so there is no nationalism involved for me.
It would only be confusing if only half of the population switched to the "global time zone".
It's no different than going from summer time to winter time. Just set your clock to the correct time in the new time zone and be done with it. It's not like people ask "11 o'clock in winter time or summer time?" when you say "11 o'clock" in the middle of the summer, or "11 o'clock in Sydney or New York?" when you are in New York. There is no new semantics involved.
I don't understand why one would resort to "two hours after the sun passing its highest point"?
Why is it harder to say "we meet at 15 o'clock" (which can mean the same thing that "we meet at 2 o'clock" means today depending on where you are)? On the internet you can say "logon to IRC at 11" and global TV channels can just say "news at 11" and it's 11 o'clock for everybody all over the world.
I don't think it should be that hard to relearn that "morning" is another number on the clock than it is today.
I agree. We should move to the TAI time zone instead of UTC/GMT as the basis instead of changing UTC, and in the long run get rid of time zones. What does it matter if your work day is defined as 14-22 instead of 8-17 when it's the same thing anyway? Oh, and the yanks and brits should also move to 24h time and SI-units and all of us should measure temperatures in Kelvin .:-)
I'm sure your economic calculations are pretty much correct and that "a bit worse" was a big understatement from my side. Great post!
I mostly took issue with "[North Korean] people will never, ever be able to live productive lives in a free society - they simply don't know how." as it comes off as quite racist. I'm sure that most North Korean individuals would be able to live a productive life in a free society IF given the chance.
Probably a lot worse but it's mostly speculation anyway. The only thing we know for sure is that NK's borders are even more strictly controlled than GDR's. It's hard to tell how their general public (those who do not openly oppose the regime) is treated besides being completely isolated from the outside world.
[North Korean] people will never, ever be able to live productive lives in a free society - they simply don't know how.
Most East Germans managed to adapt pretty well after the reunification, although North Korea is probably a bit worse than the GDR was. I don't think that Koreans are THAT much different from Germans. But yeah, it isn't going to be easy.
Just curious, given all these advances in JS speed, are there technical reasons why stuff like Python, Ruby and Perl aren't getting similar improvements in speed?
Not really. They ARE getting major speed improvements (especially Ruby), but there isn't as much money put into it. The techniques used to make JavaScript so fast are finding their way into other VM implementations also.
I regularly say "teh" instead of "the" when speaking as a way to emphasis the word, so instead of "This is Thee Book to read" I say "This is teh book to read". It started as a joke but has become a bad habit I guess...
I also spontaneously burst out "TEH NOM!" when I taste good food.
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It's actually not that different from USA, EU or most of the rest of the "western" world.
See DMCA, ACTA, PATRIOT act, INDECT, and so on...
I realised that after posting but hoped that nobody would notice. :(
By the way, Sir, that's a Russian inwension.
Nuclear wessels.
18 days, 13 hours, 26 minutes and 24 seconds, captin.
A ring of fire?
That would be bad enough, but they actually formed out of various clearly neo-nazi, white pride organizations that decided to get serious about getting into the parliament. Yes, they have officially condemned the more extreme views but a huge amount of the members is made up of people who were swastica waving skinheads in the 90s and their hangarounds.
They stopped waving swasticas in public in the late 90s when they decided to get serious about getting seats in the parliament. The party is made up of a mixture of former members of various neo-nazi, white pride organizations such as BSS (Bevara Sverige Svenskt - Keep Sweden Swedish), Nordiska Rikspartiet (The nordic state party), Framstegspartiet (The progression party) and Sverigepartiet (The Sweden party) though.
I'm running the latest build right now (on OSX) and the pure JavaScript C64 emulator is still quite a bit slower than in Chrome but it's still a LOT faster than previous Firefox versions.
If you still wonder what Indect is all about, take a look at their own information video...
Stallman has approved the Pirate Party's proposal of a 5 year commercial copyright and no copyright restrictions for non-commercial/private use (and no patents what so ever). Personally, I also think that's a fair compromise. If you haven't broke even after 5 years you probably never will.
and significant challenges making it play nice with Apache in a manner comparable to mod_php. (has mod_ruby come of age, yet? ;3)
Passenger is what you're looking for.
...unless one installs the official plugin with support for the "old style" query interface that they will supply, as noted in the article you linked to.
Yes, it's true that historically, Ruby has been slow. Ruby 1.9.x is a LOT faster than Ruby 1.8.x though, and Rails 3.0 is fully compatible with the latest Ruby 1.9.2.
There are also other Ruby implementations under way, most notably Rubinius which is often even faster already and has potential to become REALLY fast once they start optimizing it.
Speaking of brain activity, I saw a documentary on TV a few years ago that showed that people who can speak two or more languages use a larger part of their brain when speaking than those who only know one language, even when speaking their native/primary language. Their brain take more things into consideration when forming sentences.
Yes, I have, about five weeks ago. Yes, the infrastructure is still way behind in a lot of places but the people, the former East Germans themselves, have adapted well. Take any given East German person and he/she will most likely be able to work and be as productive as the average West German if given the chance. My point was that the problem is not with the East German (or North Korean) individuals, it's on a different level.
It will only take you a couple of days maximum to figure out which times are morning, midday and evening in your area and adapt accordingly. It's a non-issue.
We already have the perfect TAI time zone so there is no need to define or redefine some other time zone. I'm Swedish BTW, so there is no nationalism involved for me.
It would only be confusing if only half of the population switched to the "global time zone".
It's no different than going from summer time to winter time. Just set your clock to the correct time in the new time zone and be done with it. It's not like people ask "11 o'clock in winter time or summer time?" when you say "11 o'clock" in the middle of the summer, or "11 o'clock in Sydney or New York?" when you are in New York. There is no new semantics involved.
I don't understand why one would resort to "two hours after the sun passing its highest point"?
Why is it harder to say "we meet at 15 o'clock" (which can mean the same thing that "we meet at 2 o'clock" means today depending on where you are)? On the internet you can say "logon to IRC at 11" and global TV channels can just say "news at 11" and it's 11 o'clock for everybody all over the world.
I don't think it should be that hard to relearn that "morning" is another number on the clock than it is today.
I agree. We should move to the TAI time zone instead of UTC/GMT as the basis instead of changing UTC, and in the long run get rid of time zones. What does it matter if your work day is defined as 14-22 instead of 8-17 when it's the same thing anyway? Oh, and the yanks and brits should also move to 24h time and SI-units and all of us should measure temperatures in Kelvin . :-)
I'm sure your economic calculations are pretty much correct and that "a bit worse" was a big understatement from my side. Great post!
I mostly took issue with "[North Korean] people will never, ever be able to live productive lives in a free society - they simply don't know how." as it comes off as quite racist. I'm sure that most North Korean individuals would be able to live a productive life in a free society IF given the chance.
Probably a lot worse but it's mostly speculation anyway. The only thing we know for sure is that NK's borders are even more strictly controlled than GDR's. It's hard to tell how their general public (those who do not openly oppose the regime) is treated besides being completely isolated from the outside world.
[North Korean] people will never, ever be able to live productive lives in a free society - they simply don't know how.
Most East Germans managed to adapt pretty well after the reunification, although North Korea is probably a bit worse than the GDR was. I don't think that Koreans are THAT much different from Germans. But yeah, it isn't going to be easy.
Just curious, given all these advances in JS speed, are there technical reasons why stuff like Python, Ruby and Perl aren't getting similar improvements in speed?
Not really. They ARE getting major speed improvements (especially Ruby), but there isn't as much money put into it. The techniques used to make JavaScript so fast are finding their way into other VM implementations also.
I regularly say "teh" instead of "the" when speaking as a way to emphasis the word, so instead of "This is Thee Book to read" I say "This is teh book to read". It started as a joke but has become a bad habit I guess...
I also spontaneously burst out "TEH NOM!" when I taste good food.