Godwin's Law is: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
Since Germany is the topic, and no comparison to Nazis or Hitler was involved, then no invocation of said law occurred. No, this is not a case of Godwin's law. Germany managed to start one world war without the Nazis!
This guy is really one of a kind. I mean, most people I know who use windows don't give a damn about the legal status of the software they're using! I mean, talk about free software to the average windows user and they will tell you that all their software came free of charge anyway.
Even on a job (for a company which doesn't exist anymore anyway) when I was setting up a computer I was given a set of CD-Rs and the hint to google for office activation codes...
Long before 9/11 when he was in the government under Kohl, he was allways pushing his right-wing law and order politics. In the current situation he can finally achieve his aims.
This finally has convinced me that there should be no more obstacles to genetic research!
You can fill my garden with modified man eating plants, you can kill my neighbours with terrible designer diseases, I don't care as long as you can give me back my hair!
It's appalling how many people think Darwin's theory implies we (humans) evolved from apes.
What is your problem with humans evolving from apes?
Of course we did not evolve from modern apes but from creatures who we, if we met them today, would probably call apes. And we share common ancestors with every known creature.
Whatever you do;
Do not think about your tongue. /thats a very old and dirty trick, best said to acidheads. but if you think somebody can't put something in somebody's head well, what are you thinking about right now?
What I am thinking about right now? A certain girl's tongue!
Yeah, you know, because that's *the* biggest complaint you see on enthusiast/overclocker message boards. Exploding capacitors.
Well okay, I didn't overlock my system, but I had several capacitors explode on my mainboard some years ago! Turnes out to be a problem with the PSU...
That reminds me of a friend who was quite proud of his fanless water cooling solution which worked with several litres of water as heat dump in a container sitting under his desk.
When one of the main pipes got loose somehow, it not only fried some hardware, but majorely pissed of his landlord...
There sure are better alternatives to PHP in the OSS sector! PHP IMHO is a nice toy but nothing I would use in a commercial project.
A soon to be totally OS sollution is of course JAVA with Apache and Servlets/JSP. Just take a look at Sun's website, they have a lot of information, examples and tutorials available. Also, Java is totally plattform independent and easily installed on Windows, if that remains your development system.
Another, more recent sollution would be Ruby on Rails, which has some realy niffty features.
And no, not a dumb question at all! One hint: If you got the time, just download the OSS you are considering ang play around with it, that's probably more usefull than my dumb answer.;-)
Understanding the difference between particle and electromagnetic radiation would be a start.
Oh right, explain the difference between particles and waves, the Nobel Price is waiting for you!
(All right, I know what you meant, I just couldn't resist!)
Give the laptops to the girl children and point out some websites about emancipation, human rights and birth control!
That would be a big step in solving one of the biggest problems humanity faces.
The likelyhood that simple RF is how advanced cultures communicate is ludicrous. I don't want to get all sci-fi on this thread, but chances are something like subspace (e.g. faster than light) communication is required to really be effective. Otherwise you'll have years and years to wait for a reply from anything, especially given the nearest possibly populated planets are what, hundreds of light years away?
Chances are, FTL is impossible. Fact is *we* do communicate with radio
They use it to take pseudo-colour images of things like x-ray and gamma-ray bursts
Detecting x-rays and gamma-rays with a radio telescope? I don't think so
It's true there are lots of possible research projects with more or less emidiate benefits for humanity, but I don't think radio astronomy is the reason they don't happen. There are other areas already mentioned (and the US are not the only country spending ludicrous amounts of money on their military) which eat up heaps of money without much noticeable gain of knowledge.
They did not understand how the internet works?
They did not publish their personal information on some website, they sent it to someone who had published an ad in a suitable forum! This has nothing to do with "how the internet works" but is all about "how people work"!
Of course I would not send my real name, official email-address and such in response to an ad, but this has nothing to do with me being a nerd, but with knowing that there are truly stupid people out there.
Somehow it seems every scientist doing research in the us has to find a use for his research in "fighting terrorism" when he wants to get money.
Even the ones researching crabs and other small animals!
I am German (says my passport) and I have never ever owned, shared or stolen any music by David Hasselhoff!
Also I don't know anybody here who listens to him, or even knows him. I don't know him. I only had eyes for Pamela and I didn't own a radio when his songs were played several times a day.
Last defence: I got a Luca Turilli CD playing in the background right now!
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This guy is really one of a kind. I mean, most people I know who use windows don't give a damn about the legal status of the software they're using! I mean, talk about free software to the average windows user and they will tell you that all their software came free of charge anyway.
Even on a job (for a company which doesn't exist anymore anyway) when I was setting up a computer I was given a set of CD-Rs and the hint to google for office activation codes...
Schäuble scared? I don't think so.
Long before 9/11 when he was in the government under Kohl, he was allways pushing his right-wing law and order politics. In the current situation he can finally achieve his aims.
This finally has convinced me that there should be no more obstacles to genetic research!
You can fill my garden with modified man eating plants, you can kill my neighbours with terrible designer diseases, I don't care as long as you can give me back my hair!
It's appalling how many people think Darwin's theory implies we (humans) evolved from apes.
What is your problem with humans evolving from apes?
Of course we did not evolve from modern apes but from creatures who we, if we met them today, would probably call apes. And we share common ancestors with every known creature.
Btw. zoologically speaking we are apes!
"Nobody knows that they saw it, but they did..."
"A nice, big, c*ck..."
Whatever you do;
/thats a very old and dirty trick, best said to acidheads. but if you think somebody can't put something in somebody's head well, what are you thinking about right now?
Do not think about your tongue.
What I am thinking about right now? A certain girl's tongue!
;-p
Yeah, you know, because that's *the* biggest complaint you see on enthusiast/overclocker message boards. Exploding capacitors.
Well okay, I didn't overlock my system, but I had several capacitors explode on my mainboard some years ago! Turnes out to be a problem with the PSU...
That reminds me of a friend who was quite proud of his fanless water cooling solution which worked with several litres of water as heat dump in a container sitting under his desk.
When one of the main pipes got loose somehow, it not only fried some hardware, but majorely pissed of his landlord...
There sure are better alternatives to PHP in the OSS sector! PHP IMHO is a nice toy but nothing I would use in a commercial project.
A soon to be totally OS sollution is of course JAVA with Apache and Servlets/JSP. Just take a look at Sun's website, they have a lot of information, examples and tutorials available. Also, Java is totally plattform independent and easily installed on Windows, if that remains your development system.
Another, more recent sollution would be Ruby on Rails, which has some realy niffty features.
And no, not a dumb question at all! One hint: If you got the time, just download the OSS you are considering ang play around with it, that's probably more usefull than my dumb answer. ;-)
We can all sit on blankets with our girlfriends and hold hands while we watch this.. oh wait..
You saw the problem. It's much to cold this time of year! If it was summer ... oh wait...
Understanding the difference between particle and electromagnetic radiation would be a start.
Oh right, explain the difference between particles and waves, the Nobel Price is waiting for you!
(All right, I know what you meant, I just couldn't resist!)
Give the laptops to the girl children and point out some websites about emancipation, human rights and birth control!
That would be a big step in solving one of the biggest problems humanity faces.
And it would realy annoy the fundamentalists...
The likelyhood that simple RF is how advanced cultures communicate is ludicrous. I don't want to get all sci-fi on this thread, but chances are something like subspace (e.g. faster than light) communication is required to really be effective. Otherwise you'll have years and years to wait for a reply from anything, especially given the nearest possibly populated planets are what, hundreds of light years away?
Chances are, FTL is impossible. Fact is *we* do communicate with radio
They use it to take pseudo-colour images of things like x-ray and gamma-ray bursts
Detecting x-rays and gamma-rays with a radio telescope? I don't think so
It's true there are lots of possible research projects with more or less emidiate benefits for humanity, but I don't think radio astronomy is the reason they don't happen. There are other areas already mentioned (and the US are not the only country spending ludicrous amounts of money on their military) which eat up heaps of money without much noticeable gain of knowledge.
Note to self: Don't post after sleeples night.
Yes, I should have use the fscking Preview Button.
there is a Samta Claus!
You and me both, buddy!
They did not understand how the internet works?
They did not publish their personal information on some website, they sent it to someone who had published an ad in a suitable forum! This has nothing to do with "how the internet works" but is all about "how people work"!
Of course I would not send my real name, official email-address and such in response to an ad, but this has nothing to do with me being a nerd, but with knowing that there are truly stupid people out there.
I'm quite sure goldfish would be equaly heroic, if they only got the opportunity!
Somehow it seems every scientist doing research in the us has to find a use for his research in "fighting terrorism" when he wants to get money.
Even the ones researching crabs and other small animals!
We saved you in World War II, so go to hell! If it weren't for us, you'd all be speaking German now!
But I *am* speaking german?!?
Realy, I learned a lot about the value of things by selling on Ebay!
Sell something realy good and expensive - nobody will bid.
Sell the contents of your wastebasket - undreamed of profit!
I am German (says my passport) and I have never ever owned, shared or stolen any music by David Hasselhoff!
Also I don't know anybody here who listens to him, or even knows him. I don't know him. I only had eyes for Pamela and I didn't own a radio when his songs were played several times a day.
Last defence: I got a Luca Turilli CD playing in the background right now!
It is Rails which does the pluralisation, this is not an inbuild Ruby feature! ;-)
Ruby istelf, being japanese, doesn't care about plural!
The usual pale face with the dark shadows under the eyes and the three days growth or the nasty sunburn I'm wearing right now?
And why do I automatically reduce all such topics to "who can I get a woman?"?. Oh right, I'm posting on /.!