I write 4 different languages and the nifty spell correction thingies always need to be told which language I am currently writing in. And you also can forget about messages written in multiple languages.
Hence for me a keyboard is good when I can accurately type what I need.
The business with deep pockets and large IT departments -that's banks and insurers- sort of drive us to monoculture. In earlier days it was COBOL that was suited to let hoards of application programmers be productive. Nowadays it's Java -with tons of restrictions. The idea is still to be able to follow the manufacturing industry and let programmers write predefined units. I this day and age still a crap idea IMHO bit the fact remains that deep pockets drive Java.
I'll learn new programming languages as soon as I can make money out of them. So today it's Java for me -and a bit of Perl, Bourne Shell and in extreme cases DOS BAT.
If I still were a student the situation would be different.
I'm a Google groopie but I fear Google Navigation just doesn't cut it in Europe. It costs you a fortune once you need to cross a border. Both EU and Euro don't prevent service providers charging ridiculous prices for roaming.
On a side note, I take pride in memorising routes -through several countries if necessary- and for me a navigator simply is a luxury I will do without.
Maybe Kevin is the reason why people refrain from investing in spill cleanup. Not so much an ideological but more a personal thing here. Imagine being stuck in an elevator with Kevin at your side.
People get so much less worked up about genetic engineering in bugs nobody likes...
Exactly and well put! I take the evolution leading to malaria mosquitoes is not completely known by man. And, mucking about with it, trying to fast-lane something we badly want may result in nasty consequences no one has foreseen. By the time it's too late a hand full of scientists repent righteously and an even smaller bunch of sorry businessmen will not be sorry at all while trying to fathom their riches, sipping a fancy drink with too many tiny umbrellas on an island surrounded by mosquito nets.
Freaks me out. Hell even Wikipedia nowadays is a dope pusher.
Anyway, I'd appreciate well written and factual prose reporting the effects of this illicit drug abuse. I'm too scared to damage my own brain and having heard a sample I resolved I can't stand the sound and it's also horribly boring.
Come lads, be sports, fsck up your brains for my interest and amusement. Please?
I've seen that on a tactile touch display that even varies in thickness as a number of pages are turned and it is powered by the kinetic energy of the gesture.
Its called a god damn book.
And soon we will have to pay MS royalties for reading one.
Why should you surrender over 50% of your income to a faceless state?
Why would having a "face" matter? The money goes to upkeep roads, law, and civilization in general.
A face matters. It's easy to spill money from people you've never known or even seen. I'd like to refer to Switzerland again where taxes are largely paid to the municipality you live in and where most of the public expenses are made. A much smaller bit goes to the region -the canton- and also a small part goes to the state -well, Bund to be precise.
It's much harder to waste the money of the people in the community you live in. Keeping earnings, expenses and decisions near to the affected people results in fairer solutions. I've seen this working.
In most states you pay road taxes and in some states these taxes are cleverly diverted to cover costs not related to roads. Think NL where you basically pay 100% of taxes on your car. Think even CH where fines are draconian and where people keep a yearly budget.
Law engineering, maintenance and enforcement costs a fair bit of money. As does the army. But estimate the total amount of tax a government collects and look at the numbers again.
In most society there usually is a silent agreement between the state and the intelligent/smart/fortunate ones in order to allow the latter to indulge themselves. IMHO "Peitschen" Peer showed arrogant disregard which didn't do Germany any favours. Naive and full of himself.
So basically, you are accusing Peer of demanding that the self-declared aristocracy be bound by the same laws as everyone else? And you have the never of accusing him of being full if himself?
And no, in "mos societies" there is no such agreement. Corruption is generally frowned upon.
Call it self-declared aristocracy if you like. But there always is a silent agreement whereby the powers that rule and the powers that act accept certain extravagances from each other. I don't say I approve but it's a matter of fact. You can rationalise it to apparent non-existence it but it'll not go away like that.
Peer was in a rage when he did his "righteous" act against the Swiss. His means were vile, he did not respect the autonomy of Switzerland and he tried to strong arm it. He'd better work on improving the German system by which German citizen would then naturally keep their assets in Germany. Maybe he should have looked at the Swiss system. Still not perfect but incredibly good.
Anyway, while on the subject of corruption, I possibly live in one of the least corrupt countries in the world, Switzerland, and even there I notice corruption on several subtle levels. Getting rid of it takes awareness by the people. Balanced education -with both left and right wing views and opinions explained- is the key to improvement and prospering.
OT: Germany's financial wizard also didn't get that by being tougher on tax dodgers, a significant amount of the intelligentsia will consider leaving Germany.
I don't consider people to be "intelligent", if they don't realize that contributing to the society is necessary, especially if they're the "strong one's". It's not like most people moving to Switzerland to evade German taxes would starve otherwise, if they stayed here. Granted, you might not be able to afford that Mercedes Benz or Porsche, but getting you from A to B is something your Audi accomplishes more than good enough.
Are you a student? Or perhaps early in your business career? In that case, one day you will realise that you yourself are the best judge of how the money you earned is best spent. Why should you surrender over 50% of your income to a faceless state?
Take Switzerland as an example. Similar left/right wing situation as in most other countries. However, people pay less tax, have more responsibilities and choose themselves to pay for services. There is no such thing as poverty and even the most anti social people are supported both financially and, more importantly, in learning how to become self-sufficient.
In most society there usually is a silent agreement between the state and the intelligent/smart/fortunate ones in order to allow the latter to indulge themselves. IMHO "Peitschen" Peer showed arrogant disregard which didn't do Germany any favours. Naive and full of himself.
Here in CH the Swiss federal railways decided to develop an iPhone app where you can consult the timetables. You can even buy an electronic ticket. Pretty cool.
Needles to say, there's no Android version and the NOKIA version of the app is on of the finer varieties of crap. The iPhone app shifts good money towards Apple.
If anything, public money should be spent on open(-ish) systems and IMHO Android should be the first supported platform.
I'd prefer Google and Facebook doing it. I can still NOT give them my data if I so please.
The summary says Facebook gathers data from non-users. However they do that is immaterial. It remains that allegedly Facebook gathers private information from 3rd parties.
There's a double moral in Germany. Crimes are punishable unless they're committed by the state. The good old Peer Steinbrück was prepared to pay millions for stolen information in order to collect a fraction more taxes.
OT: Germany's financial wizard also didn't get that by being tougher on tax dodgers, a significant amount of the intelligentsia will consider leaving Germany. I know, I live in Switzerland. Anyway, the sad and sorry idiot left office.
When Company XYZ looks to outsource, one more check mark on the sheet, Employee can't use BB [X]
I like the your romantic picturing. Now back to reality. Companies will not be too preoccupied on matters concerning privacy of members of the off shoring company on which they dumped shit loads of badly specified work because they failed to organize back home.
What if we took kids after high school, train them ourselves?
OK, I didn't completely RTFA but I agree that degree and programming skills do not correlate. However, I take any degree comes with a much broader curriculum and that training programmers yourself leaves you with employees with limited skills. Perhaps more importantly, there's the risk of creating a monoculture. That would be quite alarming.
Western businessmen don't employ certain races to make themselves look multicultural.
Maybe not, but prejudice was/is all around. I once witnessed an Indian being offered a very senior software position on the ground that "well, Indians are good at software". Made them look the look though.
Of course the Indian bloke in question actually was pretty much crap otherwise the idiotic situation wouldn't have gone noticed. He left the company without accomplishing anything other than cashing the pay check.
DISCLAIMER: I don't think Indians -or any other ethnic group of people- are generally better or worse at writing software. Prejudice based on either negative or positive generalisations is a very pure form of lunacy. The positive generalisations are the most tedious to get rid of as nobody is affected directly (but many indirectly.)
So I'd like to know where people get the notion that doing well is al about money? Monetary-wise I'm doing "not too shabby." Still I find being with my family the best time money can buy. Remember that when you kick the bucket the only thing you can be proud of is the way you were with the ones you loved. I'm an atheist but I maintain that if anything could be brought to the other side, that "thing" could only be related to the good vibes spread on earth. And although the "good vibes" thing isn't sure at all, you will absolutely leave your riches here.
Don't think "us" western people are particularly better at doing the stuff that really matters. Everywhere around the world there will be people enjoying the good company of others.
Rest assure, only in exceptional cases including computer hardware life on/. is not really promiscuous. The lawyer may find evidence of marital lethargy though.
The complaint here seems to be about the medium rather than the message itself.
Neither the message nor the medium are the problem here. The message is to inform the people and Twitter is a very valid medium. The casualness of the of twitter is what fills me with disgust. In my opinion such a message is best brought through a more dignified medium -one with more than 140 characters per message- that provides a minimum of background.
What's next? Diplomatic communications, war declarations through Twitter? In between coffee breaks and gym visits?
Good. I'd rather be fed news and information than sympathy and emotion. I don't care if it was done on Twitter or ABC/CBS/CNN/FOX News.
Hey Buch the world wouldn't be denied it's essential information if this communication would have been done in a slightly more tasteful fashion. I take you probably wouldn't recognise finesse if it would greet you politely and give you a hand.
Try and you'll see you can remain civilised even when handling matters of utter bastards.
Not a huge fan. Nevertheless a movement should be started to address the game played and enjoyed by billions of people as "football". IMHO there's "football" and there's "American football".
Not trolling, just plating a seed in the hope a sporty/.er will.... Oh forget it.
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I write 4 different languages and the nifty spell correction thingies always need to be told which language I am currently writing in. And you also can forget about messages written in multiple languages.
Hence for me a keyboard is good when I can accurately type what I need.
The business with deep pockets and large IT departments -that's banks and insurers- sort of drive us to monoculture. In earlier days it was COBOL that was suited to let hoards of application programmers be productive. Nowadays it's Java -with tons of restrictions. The idea is still to be able to follow the manufacturing industry and let programmers write predefined units. I this day and age still a crap idea IMHO bit the fact remains that deep pockets drive Java.
I'll learn new programming languages as soon as I can make money out of them. So today it's Java for me -and a bit of Perl, Bourne Shell and in extreme cases DOS BAT.
If I still were a student the situation would be different.
I'm a Google groopie but I fear Google Navigation just doesn't cut it in Europe. It costs you a fortune once you need to cross a border. Both EU and Euro don't prevent service providers charging ridiculous prices for roaming.
On a side note, I take pride in memorising routes -through several countries if necessary- and for me a navigator simply is a luxury I will do without.
Would that mean the US will also cease in trying to strong arm US law onto foreign, sovereign states?
Maybe Kevin is the reason why people refrain from investing in spill cleanup. Not so much an ideological but more a personal thing here. Imagine being stuck in an elevator with Kevin at your side.
I apologise for being myself; a fscking bastard.
http://www.ocens.com/inmarsat/inmarsat_FB_airtime.htm
Hell that's almost as much as Swisscom is charging me for roaming outside Switzerland. No kidding here!
People get so much less worked up about genetic engineering in bugs nobody likes...
Exactly and well put! I take the evolution leading to malaria mosquitoes is not completely known by man. And, mucking about with it, trying to fast-lane something we badly want may result in nasty consequences no one has foreseen. By the time it's too late a hand full of scientists repent righteously and an even smaller bunch of sorry businessmen will not be sorry at all while trying to fathom their riches, sipping a fancy drink with too many tiny umbrellas on an island surrounded by mosquito nets.
OK, I'm stretching it. But how far?
Freaks me out. Hell even Wikipedia nowadays is a dope pusher.
Anyway, I'd appreciate well written and factual prose reporting the effects of this illicit drug abuse. I'm too scared to damage my own brain and having heard a sample I resolved I can't stand the sound and it's also horribly boring.
Come lads, be sports, fsck up your brains for my interest and amusement. Please?
I've seen that on a tactile touch display that even varies in thickness as a number of pages are turned and it is powered by the kinetic energy of the gesture.
Its called a god damn book.
And soon we will have to pay MS royalties for reading one.
Why would having a "face" matter? The money goes to upkeep roads, law, and civilization in general.
A face matters. It's easy to spill money from people you've never known or even seen. I'd like to refer to Switzerland again where taxes are largely paid to the municipality you live in and where most of the public expenses are made. A much smaller bit goes to the region -the canton- and also a small part goes to the state -well, Bund to be precise.
It's much harder to waste the money of the people in the community you live in. Keeping earnings, expenses and decisions near to the affected people results in fairer solutions. I've seen this working.
In most states you pay road taxes and in some states these taxes are cleverly diverted to cover costs not related to roads. Think NL where you basically pay 100% of taxes on your car. Think even CH where fines are draconian and where people keep a yearly budget.
Law engineering, maintenance and enforcement costs a fair bit of money. As does the army. But estimate the total amount of tax a government collects and look at the numbers again.
In most society there usually is a silent agreement between the state and the intelligent/smart/fortunate ones in order to allow the latter to indulge themselves. IMHO "Peitschen" Peer showed arrogant disregard which didn't do Germany any favours. Naive and full of himself.
So basically, you are accusing Peer of demanding that the self-declared aristocracy be bound by the same laws as everyone else? And you have the never of accusing him of being full if himself?
And no, in "mos societies" there is no such agreement. Corruption is generally frowned upon.
Call it self-declared aristocracy if you like. But there always is a silent agreement whereby the powers that rule and the powers that act accept certain extravagances from each other. I don't say I approve but it's a matter of fact. You can rationalise it to apparent non-existence it but it'll not go away like that.
Peer was in a rage when he did his "righteous" act against the Swiss. His means were vile, he did not respect the autonomy of Switzerland and he tried to strong arm it. He'd better work on improving the German system by which German citizen would then naturally keep their assets in Germany. Maybe he should have looked at the Swiss system. Still not perfect but incredibly good.
Anyway, while on the subject of corruption, I possibly live in one of the least corrupt countries in the world, Switzerland, and even there I notice corruption on several subtle levels. Getting rid of it takes awareness by the people. Balanced education -with both left and right wing views and opinions explained- is the key to improvement and prospering.
I don't consider people to be "intelligent", if they don't realize that contributing to the society is necessary, especially if they're the "strong one's". It's not like most people moving to Switzerland to evade German taxes would starve otherwise, if they stayed here. Granted, you might not be able to afford that Mercedes Benz or Porsche, but getting you from A to B is something your Audi accomplishes more than good enough.
Are you a student? Or perhaps early in your business career? In that case, one day you will realise that you yourself are the best judge of how the money you earned is best spent. Why should you surrender over 50% of your income to a faceless state?
Take Switzerland as an example. Similar left/right wing situation as in most other countries. However, people pay less tax, have more responsibilities and choose themselves to pay for services. There is no such thing as poverty and even the most anti social people are supported both financially and, more importantly, in learning how to become self-sufficient.
In most society there usually is a silent agreement between the state and the intelligent/smart/fortunate ones in order to allow the latter to indulge themselves. IMHO "Peitschen" Peer showed arrogant disregard which didn't do Germany any favours. Naive and full of himself.
Here in CH the Swiss federal railways decided to develop an iPhone app where you can consult the timetables. You can even buy an electronic ticket. Pretty cool.
Needles to say, there's no Android version and the NOKIA version of the app is on of the finer varieties of crap. The iPhone app shifts good money towards Apple.
If anything, public money should be spent on open(-ish) systems and IMHO Android should be the first supported platform.
I'd prefer Google and Facebook doing it. I can still NOT give them my data if I so please.
The summary says Facebook gathers data from non-users. However they do that is immaterial. It remains that allegedly Facebook gathers private information from 3rd parties.
There's a double moral in Germany. Crimes are punishable unless they're committed by the state. The good old Peer Steinbrück was prepared to pay millions for stolen information in order to collect a fraction more taxes.
OT: Germany's financial wizard also didn't get that by being tougher on tax dodgers, a significant amount of the intelligentsia will consider leaving Germany. I know, I live in Switzerland. Anyway, the sad and sorry idiot left office.
When Company XYZ looks to outsource, one more check mark on the sheet, Employee can't use BB [X]
I like the your romantic picturing. Now back to reality. Companies will not be too preoccupied on matters concerning privacy of members of the off shoring company on which they dumped shit loads of badly specified work because they failed to organize back home.
Bank robbers usually escape in cars so maybe we should ban automobiles to cut down on the number of bank robberies! Its' the same logic.
Why is it always cars for the analogies? Why not ducks? Or oranges?
Or clown suits which most robbers wear and thus make clowning a very suspicious metier for that matter.
What if we took kids after high school, train them ourselves?
OK, I didn't completely RTFA but I agree that degree and programming skills do not correlate. However, I take any degree comes with a much broader curriculum and that training programmers yourself leaves you with employees with limited skills. Perhaps more importantly, there's the risk of creating a monoculture. That would be quite alarming.
Western businessmen don't employ certain races to make themselves look multicultural.
Maybe not, but prejudice was/is all around. I once witnessed an Indian being offered a very senior software position on the ground that "well, Indians are good at software". Made them look the look though.
Of course the Indian bloke in question actually was pretty much crap otherwise the idiotic situation wouldn't have gone noticed. He left the company without accomplishing anything other than cashing the pay check.
DISCLAIMER: I don't think Indians -or any other ethnic group of people- are generally better or worse at writing software. Prejudice based on either negative or positive generalisations is a very pure form of lunacy. The positive generalisations are the most tedious to get rid of as nobody is affected directly (but many indirectly.)
So I'd like to know where people get the notion that doing well is al about money? Monetary-wise I'm doing "not too shabby." Still I find being with my family the best time money can buy. Remember that when you kick the bucket the only thing you can be proud of is the way you were with the ones you loved. I'm an atheist but I maintain that if anything could be brought to the other side, that "thing" could only be related to the good vibes spread on earth. And although the "good vibes" thing isn't sure at all, you will absolutely leave your riches here.
Don't think "us" western people are particularly better at doing the stuff that really matters. Everywhere around the world there will be people enjoying the good company of others.
This is news?
I rent people all the time in Amsterdam's red light district!
Well, you must have the money then and the theory is strengthened by your efforts. Carry on Amsterdam!
Rest assure, only in exceptional cases including computer hardware life on /. is not really promiscuous. The lawyer may find evidence of marital lethargy though.
Car stopped and < 30 mph = your 'real' number.
The bit "Car stopped and" is redundant. You mean to say:
< 30 mph = your 'real' number.
(If I were Linus' teacher I'd give you an F.) (But I'm not.)
The complaint here seems to be about the medium rather than the message itself.
Neither the message nor the medium are the problem here. The message is to inform the people and Twitter is a very valid medium. The casualness of the of twitter is what fills me with disgust. In my opinion such a message is best brought through a more dignified medium -one with more than 140 characters per message- that provides a minimum of background.
What's next? Diplomatic communications, war declarations through Twitter? In between coffee breaks and gym visits?
Good. I'd rather be fed news and information than sympathy and emotion. I don't care if it was done on Twitter or ABC/CBS/CNN/FOX News.
Hey Buch the world wouldn't be denied it's essential information if this communication would have been done in a slightly more tasteful fashion. I take you probably wouldn't recognise finesse if it would greet you politely and give you a hand.
Try and you'll see you can remain civilised even when handling matters of utter bastards.
Follow their AG on twitter in order to stay in touch with their government, but they don't want to hear the icky stuff? Is that right?
You should think in the lines of discretion and good taste. Granted, not something occurring too often in US politics nowadays.
Not a huge fan. Nevertheless a movement should be started to address the game played and enjoyed by billions of people as "football". IMHO there's "football" and there's "American football".
/.er will .... Oh forget it.
Not trolling, just plating a seed in the hope a sporty