Would you describe your level of outrage as being five times stubbing your toe or is it more like 0.5 times some idiot double parking you in for half an hour?
No shit. I happen to think that sucks and I welcome people trying to circumvent it. So far most of the suggestions seem to be "don't do that," which is not very constructive when you do, in fact, want to do that. For instance, suggesting someone NOT keep a journal (wherever) because it might be discovered is not a very good suggestion when that someone wants to write down personal thoughts (who cares for what reason).
Now, if your employer has locked down internet access particularly tightly, accessing private storage might be difficult. But otherwise, I can't imagine this being impossibly hard. Off the top of my head, there's Wuala, which is a cloud storage service like Dropbox, but all of the data is stored encrypted. Dropbox also encrypts, but only during transmission, so man-in-the-middle attacks (e.g. by the employer) are difficult; however, the data is stored in the clear on the Dropbox servers, so it's possible somebody else could gain access to it -- the Dropbox admins, LEO, possibly your next-of-kin in case of your demise. Wuala OTOH stores stuff encrypted on their servers, so without the key phrase nobody can read it. (Or at least that's what they claim! Big honking caveat there.) They have a Java webstart thing you can use to access your stuff from any computer that can execute Java webstart things, which might or might not be true for an office PC. If you can use that, I think it'd be a fairly safe way to store private data; although you'd still need to create the file locally before storing it on the platform.
I'm not affiliated with Wuala in any way, incidently, but if you want to sign up you're welcome to use my referral link to give both of use increased storage. There are a few other services that work similarly, Wuala is just the first one I found that did end-to-end encryption. E.g. SpiderOak Online Storage sounds similar. I also tried to use Dropbox along with encfs for end-to-end encryption but it's just not that convenient.
I don't really care; Germany has moderately relaxed gun laws by most standards, and I still don't need to think about who has access to guns and who doesn't. It's just not relevant. I spend as much time worrying about criminals with guns as I spend worrying about a terrorist blowing up the train I'm sitting in. I certainly don't fantasize about people robbing me in my home, raping me etc etc.
People tend to worry too much about being stabbed to death and too little about growing old in poverty. Makes sense, because one is a seemingly concrete threat while the other (and related worries) are more abstract. Media reinforces that perspective. Governments don't seem to mind.
I think it's nice. I'm pretty sure that after a fairly short time you'll be able to "read" the new style just like the old one. And I'd be surprised if they got rid of the various informational layers that Civ IV had. TFA also mentions a new 2D overview mode which is more iconographic, he compares it to a board game. I just hope you won't end up playing most of the game in that mode after a while...
I never said you should import anything; I certainly never said you should copy Germany's system and I don't really think anybody else is suggesting that, either. Though I'm not aware of a perfect system, so trying to implement that and only that might be futile. I don't have any real insights into the US health system drama, whenever I've looked all the arguments sounded as if they were coming from a different planet.
I'd be willing to trade a pile of manure for a smaller one.
Having used used streetcars/trams for a long time now, delays due to accidents are very rare. It's not really an issue. The situation might be different in other cities and countries, though, since the layout of the roads and other traffic conditions certainly play a role. I'm don't doubt the delay due to accidents is much higher for cars than for streetcars, though. (For overall delays I'm not ready to make such a bold statement.)
Comparing the efficiency of different modes of transportation is really difficult; and it's a bit odd (though not unusual) to use miles per gallon when trains and streetcars in western countries usually run on electricity. Finding emission equivalent information for public transport is hard because while passenger numbers are readily available, the average travelled distance isn't. The only solid information I could find in a couple of minutes is that the Berlin S-Bahn (urban light rail) has emissions of 72g CO2(equiv) per person and kilometre. The Berlin S-Bahn never struck me as particularly modern. The 2010 Prius (low emissions variant) allegedly emits 89g CO2 per kilometre, previous models emit 104g. Oh and I just found another reference, the German railway claims an average of 2.6l gasoline/100km per person for a half-filled long distance train, which translates to 58g CO2 per person and kilometre. (The typical average utilisation of long distance trains here seems to hover around 45%.)
The fact that a breakdown has been "imminent" for more than a decade is telling. But sure, it's not perfect, far from it. I never said it was. That doesn't make the association of publicly supported and regulated health insurance == monopoly == evil any less absurd.
Germany has basically universal public health insurance and people can chose between dozens if not hundreds of regulated insurance companies as well as many, many private insurance companies. There is absolutely no monopoly and a bewildering amount of choice.
Thanks, the Perl 5 to 6 series were exactly what I was looking for. I've read through pretty much all of them now, very interesting. I think after using Perl6 for a while it would be pretty hard going back to Java and C++.
Anybody know of a well-written, up-to-date Perl 6 introduction? That is, an introduction to the Perl 6 feature, not a programming tutorial. There are many resources about Perl 6, it's difficult to know which one is worth reading and which is outdated. Even if it doesn't take off, it seems that Perl 6 brings enough new and interesting concepts to the table that it's worth reading about.
In fact, Tree Style Tabs is very similar to this Tab Candy thing: both are (among other things) hierarchical visualizations of tabs. With Tab Candy it's more of a flat hierarchy, though he does introduce meta groups at a later stage. Anyway, the big difference is that Tab Candy uses an expose mode to manage the tabs, while Tree Style Tabs manages them in the boring favicon + title way. The expose thing looks great, but I'm not sure if it's suited all that way to managing tabs -- tab thumbnails never did anything for me, one Slashdot page looks a lot like another, and the same is true for API pages, forum threads, etc. And Tree Style Tabs has the big advantage of being self-organising, since each tab forms an implicit tab group, and new tabs are automatically added to their parent tabs.
It's not like he hacked it to pieces and made a shelf from it. He turned one electronic music instrument into another. Essentially, he installed a hardware upgrade. Like installing more RAM, only a tad more involved.
Hard to argue with those demands. Of course, while on the one hand it's fairly broad for a "sex party", there are still a lot of areas that aren't covered at all -- economic policies, environmental policies, foreign relations, etc, etc.
It really wasn't that bad. The only thing that really required micromanagement was the funding of individual schools and hospitals. That really was handled poorly; both should have defaulted to auto-adjusted funding according to the number of pupils/patients, with some kind of manual setting in cases where you do want to override. The economy was pretty stable if you build the city in a sustainable way... Of course if e.g. pollution is continually rising, you can't expect things to go smoothly while running unattended.
I agree that the area was too small -- I'd really like to have several cities with full transportation/economy simulation on a single map. Your ideas on a more detailed economy sound a bit like Transport Tycoon (and related games) -- I guess SimCity could work with a similar model, even though the player influence is only indirect.
Modern machines are fast, but SC4s simulation engine -- the transportation engine in particular -- can still slow down a fast computer down to a crawl. Too bad SimCity 4 isn't multithreaded...
Sure, but in the same process they also "acquired" many KDE developers, I just don't know whether the original or current KHTML/Webkit devs are among them. Nokia does contribute to Webkit, so it stands to reason they got at least some Webkit devs via the Trolltech acquisition.
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Would you describe your level of outrage as being five times stubbing your toe or is it more like 0.5 times some idiot double parking you in for half an hour?
You appear to have some sort of speech disorder though.
No shit. I happen to think that sucks and I welcome people trying to circumvent it. So far most of the suggestions seem to be "don't do that," which is not very constructive when you do, in fact, want to do that. For instance, suggesting someone NOT keep a journal (wherever) because it might be discovered is not a very good suggestion when that someone wants to write down personal thoughts (who cares for what reason).
Now, if your employer has locked down internet access particularly tightly, accessing private storage might be difficult. But otherwise, I can't imagine this being impossibly hard. Off the top of my head, there's Wuala, which is a cloud storage service like Dropbox, but all of the data is stored encrypted. Dropbox also encrypts, but only during transmission, so man-in-the-middle attacks (e.g. by the employer) are difficult; however, the data is stored in the clear on the Dropbox servers, so it's possible somebody else could gain access to it -- the Dropbox admins, LEO, possibly your next-of-kin in case of your demise. Wuala OTOH stores stuff encrypted on their servers, so without the key phrase nobody can read it. (Or at least that's what they claim! Big honking caveat there.) They have a Java webstart thing you can use to access your stuff from any computer that can execute Java webstart things, which might or might not be true for an office PC. If you can use that, I think it'd be a fairly safe way to store private data; although you'd still need to create the file locally before storing it on the platform.
I'm not affiliated with Wuala in any way, incidently, but if you want to sign up you're welcome to use my referral link to give both of use increased storage. There are a few other services that work similarly, Wuala is just the first one I found that did end-to-end encryption. E.g. SpiderOak Online Storage sounds similar. I also tried to use Dropbox along with encfs for end-to-end encryption but it's just not that convenient.
I don't really care; Germany has moderately relaxed gun laws by most standards, and I still don't need to think about who has access to guns and who doesn't. It's just not relevant. I spend as much time worrying about criminals with guns as I spend worrying about a terrorist blowing up the train I'm sitting in. I certainly don't fantasize about people robbing me in my home, raping me etc etc.
People tend to worry too much about being stabbed to death and too little about growing old in poverty. Makes sense, because one is a seemingly concrete threat while the other (and related worries) are more abstract. Media reinforces that perspective. Governments don't seem to mind.
Huh I guess I'm happy I live in a country where crazy paranoids don't have widespread access to guns.
I think it's nice. I'm pretty sure that after a fairly short time you'll be able to "read" the new style just like the old one. And I'd be surprised if they got rid of the various informational layers that Civ IV had. TFA also mentions a new 2D overview mode which is more iconographic, he compares it to a board game. I just hope you won't end up playing most of the game in that mode after a while...
I never said you should import anything; I certainly never said you should copy Germany's system and I don't really think anybody else is suggesting that, either. Though I'm not aware of a perfect system, so trying to implement that and only that might be futile. I don't have any real insights into the US health system drama, whenever I've looked all the arguments sounded as if they were coming from a different planet.
I'd be willing to trade a pile of manure for a smaller one.
Having used used streetcars/trams for a long time now, delays due to accidents are very rare. It's not really an issue. The situation might be different in other cities and countries, though, since the layout of the roads and other traffic conditions certainly play a role. I'm don't doubt the delay due to accidents is much higher for cars than for streetcars, though. (For overall delays I'm not ready to make such a bold statement.)
Comparing the efficiency of different modes of transportation is really difficult; and it's a bit odd (though not unusual) to use miles per gallon when trains and streetcars in western countries usually run on electricity. Finding emission equivalent information for public transport is hard because while passenger numbers are readily available, the average travelled distance isn't. The only solid information I could find in a couple of minutes is that the Berlin S-Bahn (urban light rail) has emissions of 72g CO2(equiv) per person and kilometre. The Berlin S-Bahn never struck me as particularly modern. The 2010 Prius (low emissions variant) allegedly emits 89g CO2 per kilometre, previous models emit 104g. Oh and I just found another reference, the German railway claims an average of 2.6l gasoline/100km per person for a half-filled long distance train, which translates to 58g CO2 per person and kilometre. (The typical average utilisation of long distance trains here seems to hover around 45%.)
References (two thirds German, I'm afraid):
Emissions in Berlin public transport: http://www.benjamin-hoff.de/article/3140.energieverbrauch-und-co2-emissionen-im-verkehr.html
Deutsche Bahn AG: http://www.s-bahn-berlin.de/aktuell/2010/024_klimaschutz.htm
Prius: http://priuschat.com/forums/gen-iii-2010-prius-main-forum/54240-2010-prius-92g-km-low-emissions-89g-km-version.html
The fact that a breakdown has been "imminent" for more than a decade is telling. But sure, it's not perfect, far from it. I never said it was. That doesn't make the association of publicly supported and regulated health insurance == monopoly == evil any less absurd.
Germany has basically universal public health insurance and people can chose between dozens if not hundreds of regulated insurance companies as well as many, many private insurance companies. There is absolutely no monopoly and a bewildering amount of choice.
Apparently a web analysis tool like Google Analytics... but in REAL TIME!!!
Used by 100k sites, whatever that's worth.
Kids these days simply lack the moral teachings of WarGames.
Thanks, the Perl 5 to 6 series were exactly what I was looking for. I've read through pretty much all of them now, very interesting. I think after using Perl6 for a while it would be pretty hard going back to Java and C++.
Anybody know of a well-written, up-to-date Perl 6 introduction? That is, an introduction to the Perl 6 feature, not a programming tutorial. There are many resources about Perl 6, it's difficult to know which one is worth reading and which is outdated. Even if it doesn't take off, it seems that Perl 6 brings enough new and interesting concepts to the table that it's worth reading about.
Quit anthropomorphising evolution. It hates that!
In fact, Tree Style Tabs is very similar to this Tab Candy thing: both are (among other things) hierarchical visualizations of tabs. With Tab Candy it's more of a flat hierarchy, though he does introduce meta groups at a later stage. Anyway, the big difference is that Tab Candy uses an expose mode to manage the tabs, while Tree Style Tabs manages them in the boring favicon + title way. The expose thing looks great, but I'm not sure if it's suited all that way to managing tabs -- tab thumbnails never did anything for me, one Slashdot page looks a lot like another, and the same is true for API pages, forum threads, etc. And Tree Style Tabs has the big advantage of being self-organising, since each tab forms an implicit tab group, and new tabs are automatically added to their parent tabs.
That also sounds pretty cool. Might I suggest making a video of it and uploading it to YouTube?
It's not like he hacked it to pieces and made a shelf from it. He turned one electronic music instrument into another. Essentially, he installed a hardware upgrade. Like installing more RAM, only a tad more involved.
Hard to argue with those demands. Of course, while on the one hand it's fairly broad for a "sex party", there are still a lot of areas that aren't covered at all -- economic policies, environmental policies, foreign relations, etc, etc.
Clearly, they're acronyms. I assume this PORNOGRAPHY thing is something about Pizza related Obesity etc...
They had only the one braking system? Huh, didn't even know that was legal in the US.
It really wasn't that bad. The only thing that really required micromanagement was the funding of individual schools and hospitals. That really was handled poorly; both should have defaulted to auto-adjusted funding according to the number of pupils/patients, with some kind of manual setting in cases where you do want to override. The economy was pretty stable if you build the city in a sustainable way... Of course if e.g. pollution is continually rising, you can't expect things to go smoothly while running unattended.
I agree that the area was too small -- I'd really like to have several cities with full transportation/economy simulation on a single map. Your ideas on a more detailed economy sound a bit like Transport Tycoon (and related games) -- I guess SimCity could work with a similar model, even though the player influence is only indirect.
Modern machines are fast, but SC4s simulation engine -- the transportation engine in particular -- can still slow down a fast computer down to a crawl. Too bad SimCity 4 isn't multithreaded...
Sure, but in the same process they also "acquired" many KDE developers, I just don't know whether the original or current KHTML/Webkit devs are among them. Nokia does contribute to Webkit, so it stands to reason they got at least some Webkit devs via the Trolltech acquisition.