Have you tried programming against the minix kernel? Maybe in 5 years it will be better, but it is very lacking in features, documentation and overal quality (ie. it is buggy and not very good overall). Minix looks good from the offset, but it would need a lot of work to get to such a state...
Remember how much the EU did about the genocide in Rwanda>
The region I live (Holland & Belgium) actually sent troops before the shit went down. We did not send enough, but the way the US (and some other countries) acted was really terrible, it would have been better if they didn't do anything at all. In other conflicts both the EU and US did virtually nothing. For instance, look at Rwanda's neighbouring country Burundi during the same conflict. Both the EU countries and the US need to step up to the plate and send more troops, support staff and material in this type of mission.
More seriously, the interface seems nice but the quality of the audio and video is similar to youtube and the non-English-language music offering is not too good. What is the point here really?
Sorry for plugging my own country, but I think Holland should be checked by anyone looking for temporary work in Europe:
English is spoken by nearly everyone under 80 years old. There are many people that can deal with complex english conversation. Still, Dutch is available to learn as a second language, and people will love it if you can speak even a limited amount of it. Many people (immigrant and other) have gone before you in learning Dutch.
Holland is welcoming to knowledge workers like you. Clearly, there still is an immigration procedure, and there will be hassles. But a lot is done to make things as easy as possible.
Massive presence from international companies. For a number of reasons, many large US, Japanese, Korean and other companies have their European headquarters in The Netherlands. Also, companies like Philips, Shell, ING, ABN Amro are Dutch based companies that use lots of IT. Also, smaller companies in Holland tend to have a shortage of qualified IT personel.
Working hours are short, with many free days available to you. Giving you time to see the country, travel Europe, learn the language, or do whatever the hell you want with the time
Working culture tends to be (but isn't always, of course) efficient and supportive. Dutch workers don't put up much with hierarchies, and organizations are as flat as they get.
Top notch infrastructure: in public transportation, trans-european rail, roads, biking lanes, internet access, mobile connectivity, water management (including drinking water), airport and seaports, Holland ranks among the best.
Amsterdam - highly rated by tourists - is nearby wherever you live in the country.
Paris, Brussels, Berlin and London are a short budget flight, or a slightly longer rail(/boat) ride away. Budget flights available to nearly anywhere in Europe, also very easy (but less comfortable) to take a bus to anywhere in Europe.
In the case of the unfortunate: High quality health care, and you will never have to worry about the costs.
Above all: open, approachable people, that are passionate about quality of life, freedom and having a good time
Anyway, whichever country you choose, I wish you a great time!
ps. for anyone that goes to Holland for a longer time, you might want to read The Undutchables to prevent any culture shock:-).
Well, I'm not going to enumerate European Microsoft competitors for you. You may have heard of these little things called Linux, KDE, etc.
What I do like to ask you is to stop projecting your own nationalistic feelings onto others. This is not action against the US, this is action against abusive monopolists. How do you feel that taking very little action is working out for the US in the telecom sector?
In the EU we have a Commissioner for Competition. She takes action against abusive behaviour by large companies. This affects companies like telcos and banks in the EU, but also companies like Microsoft. I think that the actions taken by this organization are generally effective and taken in the eye of consumer interest. I find it hard to believe that there would be much nationalism working against the US.
What you should also take into account is that the EU is not a nation, and nationalistic feelings about it are pretty rare. Typically people in the EU feel more strongly about competition with their neighbouring member states than about US companies.
Excuse me, but what Parallel Universe do you live in? Is it nice there? Because one thing is for sure here: European politicians do not agree on many things at all. I wonder what made you write that? There's not a single issue that doesn't come across differently in every European country. Take the War in Iraq, the EU CAP, the EU itself, religion and religious issues such as abortion, ethnic discrimination, immigration, European integration, NATO organisation and so on.
Well, I think the GP is right. You'll find that both in the European Commission, and the Parliament, a single country can push an issue very far. On many issues, other countries will see advantages in helping the directive (or objection to it) forward. Also, don't forget there are worlds of difference between being roughly neutral and actively working against a directive. Of course, there is generally no consensus, and there will be disagreement about the colour of the shed and all. The issues you mention are more difficult than that, but for other things this often goes.
If a country like Denmark is strongly for or against killing copyright violations, this could strongly affect the outcome of directives. Right now the Danish government seems opposed to it to the extend of blocking the Pirate Bay from DNS. Just getting them to rethink the validity of that reasoning within the frames of their own laws can mean a lot. A more neutral stance could potentially give a lot more protection for pirates EU-wide.
I think you're right in saying that you can't compare Windows Service Packs to Mac OS X releases. However, your further statements about this puzzle me.
Point OS X releases include new features and updates old ones, while MS Service packs do neither of those. Service packs are just bundles of all the security updates since the last service pack.
IMHO that's not true. Windows XP SP2 added a whole range of new features (for instance in the wireless networking area), and other service packs have done so too.
Point OS X releases are more akin to Ubuntu LTS releases or something along those lines.
Ubuntu LTS releases generally have very few new features. Something like the Leopard release wouldn't be an LTS release. Als, there is no real equivalent for repositories in Mac OS, making comparisons about releases hard.
Service packs don't even mean anything anymore to the consumer because of the improvements to the automatic rollout of updates in windows.
Ok, where is your source on that one? Any citation? Windows XP SP2 meant a lot to consumers AFAIK.
So, what are the limits of the word 'commercial'? The way I read this license, you basically can not use this for anything. Websites with advertisements have an indirect trade or profit goal, you can't use the content on something like Youtube (which is part of a for-profit company), you can't use the artwork in a GPL'ed piece of code (it allows commercial use). Even a private artwork can be seen as a work to improve someones portfolio. The potential for good would be a lot bigger if the CC licenses didn't have this limit.
Of course, everyone should pick the license they want, but I think people underestimate just how limiting the NC licenses are for people that try to stick to the law.
You can't sit here and tell me that New Soviet Russia, China, Cuba, Canada, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Israel, Iran, Brazil, Christmas Island, don't do the same thing.
The UK, Germany and Switzerland don't have something like Guantanamo Bay (AFAIK). If you don't lock down people behind bars in terrible conditions, you have less to hide about your prisons, so you don't have to change Wikipedia. The other countries, well, you're pretty much proving the point by comparing them to the US.
I don't really like or dislike Vista, but come on...
UAC is NOT working as advertised. It is so useless that EVERYBODY turns it off! That is everybody who can find the button to turn it off. I've used Vista and within the first five minutes I turned off UAC and this wasn't even MY computer.
That is hyperbole, there are plenty of people that leave it on. Turning it off is easy, however.
The whole problem is that there is no ROOT account. You have to explicitly tell an app to run as Root and even then it balks at you.
This is also common practice among some Linux and BSD variants. In Vista and those systems you can make a root/administrator account. In Vista, with UAC turned on, administrative users are notified when they commit actions that affect other users. Does that really seem that unreasonable as default? Remember, you can turn it off.
There are plenty of examples where software ask you for confirmation by default. Think about sending POST data unencrypted in Firefox. Deleting a file in Konqueror. Installing software in Ubuntu (even requires your password, generally). The general attitude is to be on the safe side.
And a shitload of apps didn't work on it and many still don't.
In general, programs that are written to Microsofts guidelines (of the past 7 years or so) will work fine. Crappy software transfers poorly, everywhere. At this point however, I'd be really surprised if you could name any major software from the last few years that does not work in Vista.
If you are paying attention, Skype is incorporated in Luxembourg, which is part of the EU, just like Germany (they actually share borders). Do you think the EU would allow for some European company to provide tools to "terrorists" without having eavesdropping ability?
While the Eskimos may have 70 words for snow, Dutch probably has one. I remember watching a movie and the English line was something like "the pain doesn't hurt" and the Dutch translation was "Pijn is nicht pijn" - Pain is not pain.
Don't forget that the Belgians also supposedly speak Dutch. They probably use skywhitening or something like that for snow, alongside the French word pronounced as if it's Dutch. Their translation of the line in the movie would probably come down to something like 'Bodily anquish doesn't strain mentally'. Those people have raped their use of the Dutch language as much as the Americans have ruined English.
Having said that, I live in the Netherlands. I don't really see much reason to trust my own government any more than the US gov with my voice/data. If you're going to make super-secret communications, just don't send them unencrypted over a vast and dangerous network.
One day a white man in the 50s comes into an argument with a large gang of Moroccan teens. Although the details are disputed, with some saying he pulled a knife on them, and others saying they waved a knife at him and he grabbed hold of it, the result was that a passing policeman shot him dead on sight. The source of the knife is the only disputed thing - what's not disputed is that he was not making threatening moves with it, and did not get a warning.
Actually, it is widely believed that he had a baseball bat and later got a knife. What is disputed is whether or not he made threatening moves. Keep in mind, this was a guy that was known to be aggressive, especially when drunk. (check telegraaf of around that time)
What follows is the white populace rioting in the entire borough. Cars are torched, rocks thrown at police, and a police station razed and burnt down to the ground. Most/all attacks are directed towards the police.
All attacks are directed towards the police, but still cars are torched? The fact is that much private property was destroyed in the riots.
The police, on government orders, board up every entrance and street leading into the entire borough. Not yellow tape police barriers, but literally impassable walls and fences. Tightly spaced on every fence there are tall poles with video cameras pointing inwards. People trying to get in are fined on the spot, or arrested. The police lead raids in to arrest people who break curfew, until there's none breaking curfew left. A month later a city official speaks in the area and urges tolerance and reconciliation, and that large sums will be spent on urban regeneration.
People who needed to get in could get in (with proper ID). This was an experiment to keep rioters from outside Ondiep to fuel the riots. I don't really know what the problem is with using video cameras. There was no real curfew in place, but people weren't allowed to 'hang together' (samenscholingsverbod).
1. Can anyone here, without googling it, tell me when and where this was?
It is a factually incorrect overview of what happened in Utrecht earlier this year.
2. If there is a good reason, can you see similar use of video monitored ring fencing of rioting boroughs in the US?
Maybe. Why not? This was an experiment to contain riots.
3. Can you guess how many national European newspapers this was reported in?
Probably a dozen or so Dutch (it was rehashed in the newspapers endlessly) and a couple of Belgian. Others didn't pick it up because a single dead and some riots are simply not interesting internationally.
Wanting to be like Rome doesn't put you in the same list as Rome, for that you should aim to be like the Greek. Wanting to be like Rome puts you in the same list as Hitler and maybe Napoleon.
Many attacks are done with cell-phones. In general, they use either the alarm or call.
In the madrid train bombing they used the alarm clock and didn't call (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Train_Bombing control f mobile). In London the theory is that they used the alarm clock and didn't call (although I'm not sure, there was no unexploded phone there AFAIK).
However, with a train, you can be fairly certain about the time you want the phone to explode. With a president, you don't really know at what time he will be at a specific location. You probably don't have access to the stage, so you want to hit him somewhere on his way or near the crowd. With an alarm this is very hard, with some remote device it is a lot easier.
It is of course possible to use another remote detonator, but since recent western world attacks have been done with mobile phones, it's pretty sensible to just jam the signal.
(and yes, they could still use some other method, but at least they have cut out some obvious ones with this method)
The girl should just have claimed that the ID wasn't hers, and have filed a libel suit. She is accused of committing a crime without having had a fair trial, so it is ridiculous that she is publicly named and shamed for it.
Switzerland has anti-hate speech laws. The US does not. Therefore, the US has more freedom of speech than Switzerland.
Well, unless ICANN wants to start a campaign to start a genocide, it is very hard to imagine how on earth you could be litigated for hate speech by managing domains. Hate speech is not very different from slander and libel in the US, in the sense that it is very hard to prosecute someone on it, but it is possible in theory. On the other hand, in the US, DMCA and patents are a very real problem. So, I don't know if you're right from a theoretical perspective, but at least in practice, in the US you have more problems with litigation.
I see all the negativity and I don't understand it. This is a seemingly good VM product being released as open source. I think this is a great contribution by Innosoft and I'd like to thank them for that. I'm installing Kubuntu on it right now.
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Have you tried programming against the minix kernel? Maybe in 5 years it will be better, but it is very lacking in features, documentation and overal quality (ie. it is buggy and not very good overall). Minix looks good from the offset, but it would need a lot of work to get to such a state...
Just because we can.
The region I live (Holland & Belgium) actually sent troops before the shit went down. We did not send enough, but the way the US (and some other countries) acted was really terrible, it would have been better if they didn't do anything at all. In other conflicts both the EU and US did virtually nothing. For instance, look at Rwanda's neighbouring country Burundi during the same conflict. Both the EU countries and the US need to step up to the plate and send more troops, support staff and material in this type of mission.
That's nearly a quarter of my mp3 collection!
More seriously, the interface seems nice but the quality of the audio and video is similar to youtube and the non-English-language music offering is not too good. What is the point here really?
Anyway, whichever country you choose, I wish you a great time!
:-).
ps. for anyone that goes to Holland for a longer time, you might want to read The Undutchables to prevent any culture shock
It would be a lot easier to pressure China into cleaning up their mess if a certain western country reduced its own polution.
Well, I'm not going to enumerate European Microsoft competitors for you. You may have heard of these little things called Linux, KDE, etc.
What I do like to ask you is to stop projecting your own nationalistic feelings onto others. This is not action against the US, this is action against abusive monopolists. How do you feel that taking very little action is working out for the US in the telecom sector?
In the EU we have a Commissioner for Competition. She takes action against abusive behaviour by large companies. This affects companies like telcos and banks in the EU, but also companies like Microsoft. I think that the actions taken by this organization are generally effective and taken in the eye of consumer interest. I find it hard to believe that there would be much nationalism working against the US.
What you should also take into account is that the EU is not a nation, and nationalistic feelings about it are pretty rare. Typically people in the EU feel more strongly about competition with their neighbouring member states than about US companies.
Well, I think the GP is right. You'll find that both in the European Commission, and the Parliament, a single country can push an issue very far. On many issues, other countries will see advantages in helping the directive (or objection to it) forward. Also, don't forget there are worlds of difference between being roughly neutral and actively working against a directive. Of course, there is generally no consensus, and there will be disagreement about the colour of the shed and all. The issues you mention are more difficult than that, but for other things this often goes.
If a country like Denmark is strongly for or against killing copyright violations, this could strongly affect the outcome of directives. Right now the Danish government seems opposed to it to the extend of blocking the Pirate Bay from DNS. Just getting them to rethink the validity of that reasoning within the frames of their own laws can mean a lot. A more neutral stance could potentially give a lot more protection for pirates EU-wide.
So, what are the limits of the word 'commercial'? The way I read this license, you basically can not use this for anything. Websites with advertisements have an indirect trade or profit goal, you can't use the content on something like Youtube (which is part of a for-profit company), you can't use the artwork in a GPL'ed piece of code (it allows commercial use). Even a private artwork can be seen as a work to improve someones portfolio. The potential for good would be a lot bigger if the CC licenses didn't have this limit.
Of course, everyone should pick the license they want, but I think people underestimate just how limiting the NC licenses are for people that try to stick to the law.
There are plenty of examples where software ask you for confirmation by default. Think about sending POST data unencrypted in Firefox. Deleting a file in Konqueror. Installing software in Ubuntu (even requires your password, generally). The general attitude is to be on the safe side.In general, programs that are written to Microsofts guidelines (of the past 7 years or so) will work fine. Crappy software transfers poorly, everywhere. At this point however, I'd be really surprised if you could name any major software from the last few years that does not work in Vista.
Just check for the evil bit?
Having said that, I live in the Netherlands. I don't really see much reason to trust my own government any more than the US gov with my voice/data. If you're going to make super-secret communications, just don't send them unencrypted over a vast and dangerous network.
Hope that helped.
The privacy policy is a copy of Apples privacy policy with their name and some filler added.
http://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/
vs
http://www.medisoncelebrity.com/legal/privacy/
(for instance, check the 'kids' sections)
Wanting to be like Rome doesn't put you in the same list as Rome, for that you should aim to be like the Greek. Wanting to be like Rome puts you in the same list as Hitler and maybe Napoleon.
Well, in Dutch it's called like that ('dubbele punt'). That he tries to apply a Dutch-ism to a foreign language probably means he's Belgian.
I have no idea about other languages giving a similar name.
Many attacks are done with cell-phones. In general, they use either the alarm or call.
g control f mobile). In London the theory is that they used the alarm clock and didn't call (although I'm not sure, there was no unexploded phone there AFAIK).
In the madrid train bombing they used the alarm clock and didn't call (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Train_Bombin
However, with a train, you can be fairly certain about the time you want the phone to explode. With a president, you don't really know at what time he will be at a specific location. You probably don't have access to the stage, so you want to hit him somewhere on his way or near the crowd. With an alarm this is very hard, with some remote device it is a lot easier.
It is of course possible to use another remote detonator, but since recent western world attacks have been done with mobile phones, it's pretty sensible to just jam the signal.
(and yes, they could still use some other method, but at least they have cut out some obvious ones with this method)
The girl should just have claimed that the ID wasn't hers, and have filed a libel suit. She is accused of committing a crime without having had a fair trial, so it is ridiculous that she is publicly named and shamed for it.
Switzerland has anti-hate speech laws. The US does not. Therefore, the US has more freedom of speech than Switzerland.
Well, unless ICANN wants to start a campaign to start a genocide, it is very hard to imagine how on earth you could be litigated for hate speech by managing domains. Hate speech is not very different from slander and libel in the US, in the sense that it is very hard to prosecute someone on it, but it is possible in theory. On the other hand, in the US, DMCA and patents are a very real problem. So, I don't know if you're right from a theoretical perspective, but at least in practice, in the US you have more problems with litigation.
Viewers in Europe and Africa will have the best vantage point, able to watch the entire eclipse in action
Except in the regions around England and the low countries, of course, where it is always clouded.
I see all the negativity and I don't understand it. This is a seemingly good VM product being released as open source. I think this is a great contribution by Innosoft and I'd like to thank them for that. I'm installing Kubuntu on it right now.