The Minister of culture has openly supported the vigilante tactics of the "pirate-hunters"
Yes, but "Trond Giske, 4.0, god som gull", is demonstratebly not the brightest chap. Anything he says without a script should be just plainly disregarded.
There's a reason he's stuck as minister of culture. He's open, friendly and generally agreeable, so they want him as a visible part of the team, but not doing anything important. If he ever gets an important position, I will consider turning in my citizinship.
Full disclosure: I'm Norwegian!
As somebody who has spent a fair time abroad, I'm growing to like Norway more and more. We're just, well, sensible.
The ISP's don't censor, don't log and don't do crappy shit. They all do subscribe to a voluntary kidporn DNS-filter though. I actually downloaded the list of wikileaks once, switched to opendns (whom we all should avoid) and checked it out. I really, really regretted it. There really was childporn there. Anybody getting of on that shit needs to have their dick cut off.
Either way, the ISP's are upfront if they're selling internet with usage limits (mainly due to strong Norwegian customer protection, companies aren't allowed to fuck you over), and everything just generally works. Not that that stops most norwegian from bitching about everything though. Bitching is kinda the national past-time.
Seriously, I'm a big believer in the "freedom to not be fucked over". I definitivly enjoy not being screwed over, and I really do think more people should subscribe to it:)
Any metric is, at best, indicative. You can spend all day designing a better metric and by the end, you're still not going to get anything better than, well, indicative.
As with all data-analysis, make sure that whoever's using these numbers know how bad they are. If we're dealing with reports and decisions, make sure that there's a short explanatory comment by somebody in the know about to which degree you feel that these numbers are representative (example : overall performance is improved, but averages are scewed by a large of number complicated bugs on New Product).
Oh, and if the people making decisions are MBA's unable to read a single short sentence, you're screwed either way. Then you just have to roll with it:)
I actually thought it was slashdot following standards and IE being rubbish, since everything was fine with Opera at home. So, I guess this means that the machine they test new changes on before rolling out is running Opera? That's a rather limited test-suite, not that I don't approve though. GO OPERA!
Conan is an enjoyable game. I'm not playing it currently, as the wast majority of people here, as it isn't really my type of game.. but still, it's an enjoyable game. If you're wondering about playing it, try the 7-day trial. It's free.
That said, I'm sick and tired of whiners making uninformed, poorly written posts. The Conan forums were full of them a month after launch. Why?! It's not going to help, it's not going to solve anything and it's ruining the forums for the people who actually play and enjoy the game.
Furthermore, why on earth are native speakers the ones with the most spelling mistakes? When they're ranting, can't they include some details on whats wrong, instead of just " tihs game suxx".. so atleast the people reading would get some information and some basis for discussion? Seriously, why are so many people acting like utter retards?
It's the same phenomon that whenever a company relocates, they tend to relocate to really near wherever the top managment lives. The human brain is really good at making up good, objective reasons for justifying whatever it wants to.
Vista RTM had some copy performance issues but SP1 fixed those, and during Win7 there was a significant focus on improving copy / move / delete performance.
It's a crazy, crazy world when the limiting factor on IO-transfers is the overall operating system. It's just so utterly fundamentally wrong that I'm having trouble finding words.
I mean, seriously, these are very well-defined and simple operations. You can mess with the scheduler a bit, to ensure the computer doesn't freeze when copying, but that doesn't incur that big a overhead.. what else is there to do? IO is a lot slower than the rest of the stuff inside the machine, and thus IO should run at something close to its maximum speed. Always.
Of course it works. In Norway there has been serious talks (like, not only nerds in basements) about not routing traffic through Sweden anymore. I don't know if anything came out of it, but I'm willing to bet it's affecting long-term plans on where to build pipelines.
The bill doesn't just cover traffic to/from swedish households, it covers all traffic entering and leaving the country.
Seriously, did you even read the summary? Did the mods? Critical infrastructure will be audited. Small business owners don't run critical infrastructure. Home users aren't running critical infrastructure off their DSL-lines. You could argue using the slippery slope argument, but saying that the government shouldn't inspect critical infrastructure (power grid, telephone system, water supply) because in the future they might restrict home users illegal file-sharing is so disconnected from reality it's utterly scary.
Furthermore, regarding their competence. They're not all idiots. Alot of governmental work is setup in ways that doesn't exactly promote talent, but they're still not raging retards. There are plenty of people that are fully aware that the wast majority of infrastructure doesn't run Windows. Hell, a lot of these systems were created long before DOS existed.
However, you are correct in that there will probably be a couple of silly results.. like a non-networked Win98 pc being audited. This could be a good thing though, because the 'if it works, don't touch it' mentality that often happens in real life quote often isn't a good long-term strategy.
As an aside, as a foreigner (just to ensure I don't get modded up), I'm absolutely flabbergasted that the wast majority of "omfg the government is scary"-americans seem to be republicans. The republicans are the ones who illegally wiretapped you. They're the ones who threw away habeas corpus. They're the ones who allowed torture and imprisoned foreigners for years without any sort of trial or oversight. I just honestly cannot believe they still got 45.66% of the vote. That is just utterly insane. New leader sure, but same party. Are you all daft?
But wait, there's more! These machines will soon be set up so that their hard disks are restored from a standard image every night at midnight. That guarantees that every student will have to click through the license every single time they start the software. That means if every student uses OOo once a week in lab, we potentially have the EULA being clicked through 1200 times per semester. Ugh!
Or rather, you could ask whoever's making the image to click through once.
I think being startled has much more to do with the ability to concentrate than with fear.
The article doesn't mention people being startled at all, the (yet again) idiotic summary does. Either way, they connect the amount of fear-response to images to polical views. Very cultural and American-specific, but still interesting.
All in all, this research is probably crap.
Good job! You debunked the research based on a incredibly bad summary of a probably slightly misleading newsblurb of an interview from some guy who probably read the actual paper last year. I'm proud of you, and your opinion is important to me.
I mean, ff the link provided was the actual reasearchpaper I could somehow understand you not bothering to read it, they can be kinda heavy.. occasionally.. but the article in question is a 30 lines easy-to-read short-on-details news-blurb!
Is this a reference to some historical myth that I am missing? I think I understand where this (satire) is coming from in that some mythologies contained trolls or troll like creatures. But what is the eating contest reference to? Anyone heavy on Norse mythology or is this some remote Fantasy reference?
It's not Norse, but it is Norwegian (or scandinavian, I'm actually not sure).
It's referring to a story about a guy named Askeladden who got captured by a troll, and challenged him to an eating contest using porrige. Askeladden put his backpack and as the eating contest went on, filled his backpack up. When it was full, he said to the troll: 'It's no problem, I'll just slit up my stomack and I'm ready to eat more', and he cut open his backpack.. A while later the troll was full too, and askeladden persuaded him to do the same:)
As the genetic blueprint of all life forms, DNA uses the same set of four basic building blocks, known as bases, to code for a variety of proteins used in cell functioning and development.
This isn't quite true. DNA is the genetic blueprint for all cellular lifeforms. There are RNA viruses, there are prions... neither of which use DNA as their genetic blueprints.
I'm not a native speaker, so the definitions in english might not be entirely the same, however viruses aren't generally considered to be alive since they can't replicate themselves. Bacteria are the smallest lifeform there is.
This is what happens with all kinds of raw materials. The price goes up, but the supply doesn't try out.
Don't be silly. For some raw materials, there's a finite supply in circulation. For metals, as zillions of other people have pointed out, that means just digging in the right places (like landfills). Although, it does mean that our total usage has a hard cap.
Other raw materials, most prominently oil, are consumed. You burn it, it disappears, and it ain't coming back. Obviously, there's a finite supply (given current technology levels that is). Sure, once the prices goes up other sources become viable, so the process of running out is long and drawn out. That doesn't chance the fact that there is a finite supply, and that the rules of the game will change.
First off, I teach maths/IT to 16 to 19 year olds in Norway.
Maths has definitivly become a lot easier here. It takes a lot less work to get good grades now, and there's an alarming lack of focus on basic math skills. There's plenty of A-students who can't do basic math. The norwegian school-system is really fucked up though. There's so much focus on getting the trouble-makers through school, so they're allowed to basically take over classes. I mean, we don't want to send them to special schools, because that would stigmatize them! Never mind the 25 other students in the class, they'll just have to sit there and feel neglected.. Not to mention, without consequences these students never learn. I've had students yell at me straight off at 08:15 in the morning because the last test had some questions which weren't exactly as the ones in the book. They're so mal-adjusted and unfit for real life it's scary.. (ohh.. and just for kicks.. 90% of the worst students are pakestani.. while they make up about 3-4% of Oslo in total..trying to teach them anything is basically a crash-course in becoming a racist)
That said, I work with a couple of really old math teachers, and there's a few subjects like probabilites that are completely new them.. so math has changed. Don't be fooled though, they've replaced all the hard'n'gritty stuff with fluffy feel-nice stuff.
In Norway, we've had two big reforms in the last ten years, and both made the hardest paths easier. Ironically, they also both made the maths for students taking vocational education harder. It's so tragic I want to cry:(.
Maybe I am just strange, but I find it absolutely fascinating how a group of people can have such a strong hatred of Israel.
That one's really easy.
Take a look at a map. Find Israel. Nice, small country, eh? Then find Gaza and west-bank on the map.. and then stop to think for a few seconds. Put aside your feelings, old thoughts on who did what to who when and why, push the horror-stories away.. and just stop to consider the underlying basics in this conflict...
.. because in the end, what you're left with is this; There are 'provinces' (or states) in Israel, where the inhabitants have no legal rights. Nobody recognizes them as seperate states, they have no control over their own air-space or their own borders, and they have no voting rights in the nation they're supposed to belong to according to the map.
In other words, apartheid. It's that simple. The current situation is completely amoral and completely unacceptable. Israel should either work on incorporating the occupied terrorities into their own state, or work on getting the hell out.. and I'm absolutely flabbergasted we're actually trading with them. They should have been trade-boycotted to hell and back a long time ago.
Yes Catholic church, that is precisely how idiotic you sound right now.
Didn't sound any weirder to my ears than the rest of the shit they're trying to sell... and hey, people buy it!
I mean, if you accept the premise that God exists as the catholics claim he does, which all catholics necessarily must do, it's just plain common sense that any aliens landing here will have be catholics. God doesn't discriminate.
If you swung an axe at a door and made a small chip, which would be more insane: Thinking that the next or subsequent blow would put the blade entirely through the door, or thinking that you could swing the axe at the door all day and do nothing but make small cuts?
The first time you're swinging at a perfectly wholesome door. The second time you'd be swinging at a slightly chipped door. The third time at slightly more chipped door.. ie, not the same action at all, so it wouldn't be insanety.. Now going around the block, tapping each door once lightly with a screwdriver and after 2000 doors still hoping you'd find one which would mysteriously implode would be insanety.
The definition is perfectly acceptable. Trying exactly the same thing, will result in the same result, always.
I thought it was self-evidentary that stripes should run the same way you're most likely to scan.. so you don't have to work too hard to keep your eyesight on the same line. Apparently it wasn't that evident though.
That said, zebra-stripes are nice when you choose good colours, and have them run in the direction they're supposed to.. and they're really horrible when you screw up.. as a lot of people do.
Why don't you just send a copy of every email sent to that address to each of the 10 members individuals addresses, and let each of them sort it anyway they want.
That only works well under the presumption that everyone's able/bothered to work out their own filtering system... and that's one heck of a presumption:)
If you're going to use tags, since you're a small group you're pretty much going to have to limit yourself to a set predefined ones.. and then the only difference between tags and folders is that a document can only have one folder, but several tags. If you're only 10 people I doubt you really need that finegrained a control, so folders should work just as well as tags.
That said, what this essentially boils down to is the general answer to next to every bloody architectural question out there is; it doesn't matter what you do, as long as you do it well. Seriously, what solution you choose is next to never important, it's how well you use that solution that matters.
I'm a person who is a bit up'n'down myself, and I believe you.
When I'm happy I sound interesting and lively when I'm speaking, my eyes are sharp and my posture much better. It is really amazing amazing how differently people react to me then.
I bet you're seeing some of the same effect. It can be quite absurd at times.
The difference between 'Same shit, different wrapping' and 'Same shit, same wrapping' is neglible.
I'm not trolling though, it's a serious argument:
The important difference between the US and Cuba is the independent judiciary. Look at Hong Kong, Singapore and various other well-function south-asian countries and the numerous failed democrasies in the world and you'll find one important trend. Parlamentarism, checks'n'balances and sharing of power leads to succesfull societies.
1. You can give your key to a trusted associate, for example to housesit or run an errand for you. Giving your arm to a trusted associate is computationally intensive, destructive, and irreversible.
I don't normally make stupid, redundant posts, and I apologize for this one..
.. but anyone describing cutting of your arm as computationally intensive is A-OK! in my book.
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Yes, but "Trond Giske, 4.0, god som gull", is demonstratebly not the brightest chap. Anything he says without a script should be just plainly disregarded.
There's a reason he's stuck as minister of culture. He's open, friendly and generally agreeable, so they want him as a visible part of the team, but not doing anything important. If he ever gets an important position, I will consider turning in my citizinship.
Full disclosure: I'm Norwegian! As somebody who has spent a fair time abroad, I'm growing to like Norway more and more. We're just, well, sensible. The ISP's don't censor, don't log and don't do crappy shit. They all do subscribe to a voluntary kidporn DNS-filter though. I actually downloaded the list of wikileaks once, switched to opendns (whom we all should avoid) and checked it out. I really, really regretted it. There really was childporn there. Anybody getting of on that shit needs to have their dick cut off. Either way, the ISP's are upfront if they're selling internet with usage limits (mainly due to strong Norwegian customer protection, companies aren't allowed to fuck you over), and everything just generally works. Not that that stops most norwegian from bitching about everything though. Bitching is kinda the national past-time. Seriously, I'm a big believer in the "freedom to not be fucked over". I definitivly enjoy not being screwed over, and I really do think more people should subscribe to it :)
Any metric is, at best, indicative. You can spend all day designing a better metric and by the end, you're still not going to get anything better than, well, indicative.
As with all data-analysis, make sure that whoever's using these numbers know how bad they are. If we're dealing with reports and decisions, make sure that there's a short explanatory comment by somebody in the know about to which degree you feel that these numbers are representative (example : overall performance is improved, but averages are scewed by a large of number complicated bugs on New Product).
Oh, and if the people making decisions are MBA's unable to read a single short sentence, you're screwed either way. Then you just have to roll with it :)
I actually thought it was slashdot following standards and IE being rubbish, since everything was fine with Opera at home. So, I guess this means that the machine they test new changes on before rolling out is running Opera? That's a rather limited test-suite, not that I don't approve though. GO OPERA!
Conan is an enjoyable game. I'm not playing it currently, as the wast majority of people here, as it isn't really my type of game.. but still, it's an enjoyable game. If you're wondering about playing it, try the 7-day trial. It's free.
That said, I'm sick and tired of whiners making uninformed, poorly written posts. The Conan forums were full of them a month after launch. Why?! It's not going to help, it's not going to solve anything and it's ruining the forums for the people who actually play and enjoy the game.
Furthermore, why on earth are native speakers the ones with the most spelling mistakes? When they're ranting, can't they include some details on whats wrong, instead of just " tihs game suxx".. so atleast the people reading would get some information and some basis for discussion? Seriously, why are so many people acting like utter retards?
It's the same phenomon that whenever a company relocates, they tend to relocate to really near wherever the top managment lives. The human brain is really good at making up good, objective reasons for justifying whatever it wants to.
It's a crazy, crazy world when the limiting factor on IO-transfers is the overall operating system. It's just so utterly fundamentally wrong that I'm having trouble finding words.
I mean, seriously, these are very well-defined and simple operations. You can mess with the scheduler a bit, to ensure the computer doesn't freeze when copying, but that doesn't incur that big a overhead.. what else is there to do? IO is a lot slower than the rest of the stuff inside the machine, and thus IO should run at something close to its maximum speed. Always.
The bill doesn't just cover traffic to/from swedish households, it covers all traffic entering and leaving the country.
Seriously, did you even read the summary? Did the mods? Critical infrastructure will be audited. Small business owners don't run critical infrastructure. Home users aren't running critical infrastructure off their DSL-lines. You could argue using the slippery slope argument, but saying that the government shouldn't inspect critical infrastructure (power grid, telephone system, water supply) because in the future they might restrict home users illegal file-sharing is so disconnected from reality it's utterly scary.
Furthermore, regarding their competence. They're not all idiots. Alot of governmental work is setup in ways that doesn't exactly promote talent, but they're still not raging retards. There are plenty of people that are fully aware that the wast majority of infrastructure doesn't run Windows. Hell, a lot of these systems were created long before DOS existed.
However, you are correct in that there will probably be a couple of silly results.. like a non-networked Win98 pc being audited. This could be a good thing though, because the 'if it works, don't touch it' mentality that often happens in real life quote often isn't a good long-term strategy.
As an aside, as a foreigner (just to ensure I don't get modded up), I'm absolutely flabbergasted that the wast majority of "omfg the government is scary"-americans seem to be republicans. The republicans are the ones who illegally wiretapped you. They're the ones who threw away habeas corpus. They're the ones who allowed torture and imprisoned foreigners for years without any sort of trial or oversight. I just honestly cannot believe they still got 45.66% of the vote. That is just utterly insane. New leader sure, but same party. Are you all daft?
Save as PDF or XPS from microsoft. Works like a charm. I have no idea why they didn't include it as standard.
Or rather, you could ask whoever's making the image to click through once.
The article doesn't mention people being startled at all, the (yet again) idiotic summary does. Either way, they connect the amount of fear-response to images to polical views. Very cultural and American-specific, but still interesting.
Good job! You debunked the research based on a incredibly bad summary of a probably slightly misleading newsblurb of an interview from some guy who probably read the actual paper last year. I'm proud of you, and your opinion is important to me.
I mean, ff the link provided was the actual reasearchpaper I could somehow understand you not bothering to read it, they can be kinda heavy.. occasionally .. but the article in question is a 30 lines easy-to-read short-on-details news-blurb!
It's not Norse, but it is Norwegian (or scandinavian, I'm actually not sure).
It's referring to a story about a guy named Askeladden who got captured by a troll, and challenged him to an eating contest using porrige. Askeladden put his backpack and as the eating contest went on, filled his backpack up. When it was full, he said to the troll: 'It's no problem, I'll just slit up my stomack and I'm ready to eat more', and he cut open his backpack.. A while later the troll was full too, and askeladden persuaded him to do the same :)
I'm not a native speaker, so the definitions in english might not be entirely the same, however viruses aren't generally considered to be alive since they can't replicate themselves. Bacteria are the smallest lifeform there is.
Don't be silly. For some raw materials, there's a finite supply in circulation. For metals, as zillions of other people have pointed out, that means just digging in the right places (like landfills). Although, it does mean that our total usage has a hard cap.
Other raw materials, most prominently oil, are consumed. You burn it, it disappears, and it ain't coming back. Obviously, there's a finite supply (given current technology levels that is). Sure, once the prices goes up other sources become viable, so the process of running out is long and drawn out. That doesn't chance the fact that there is a finite supply, and that the rules of the game will change.
Maths has definitivly become a lot easier here. It takes a lot less work to get good grades now, and there's an alarming lack of focus on basic math skills. There's plenty of A-students who can't do basic math. The norwegian school-system is really fucked up though. There's so much focus on getting the trouble-makers through school, so they're allowed to basically take over classes. I mean, we don't want to send them to special schools, because that would stigmatize them! Never mind the 25 other students in the class, they'll just have to sit there and feel neglected.. Not to mention, without consequences these students never learn. I've had students yell at me straight off at 08:15 in the morning because the last test had some questions which weren't exactly as the ones in the book. They're so mal-adjusted and unfit for real life it's scary.. (ohh.. and just for kicks.. 90% of the worst students are pakestani.. while they make up about 3-4% of Oslo in total..trying to teach them anything is basically a crash-course in becoming a racist)
That said, I work with a couple of really old math teachers, and there's a few subjects like probabilites that are completely new them.. so math has changed. Don't be fooled though, they've replaced all the hard'n'gritty stuff with fluffy feel-nice stuff.
In Norway, we've had two big reforms in the last ten years, and both made the hardest paths easier. Ironically, they also both made the maths for students taking vocational education harder. It's so tragic I want to cry :(.
Take a look at a map. Find Israel. Nice, small country, eh? Then find Gaza and west-bank on the map.. and then stop to think for a few seconds. Put aside your feelings, old thoughts on who did what to who when and why, push the horror-stories away.. and just stop to consider the underlying basics in this conflict...
In other words, apartheid. It's that simple. The current situation is completely amoral and completely unacceptable. Israel should either work on incorporating the occupied terrorities into their own state, or work on getting the hell out.. and I'm absolutely flabbergasted we're actually trading with them. They should have been trade-boycotted to hell and back a long time ago.
When somebody's blaming 'you', it could be collective 'you'. You did make the society you're living in after all.
I mean, if you accept the premise that God exists as the catholics claim he does, which all catholics necessarily must do, it's just plain common sense that any aliens landing here will have be catholics. God doesn't discriminate.
The definition is perfectly acceptable. Trying exactly the same thing, will result in the same result, always.
I thought it was self-evidentary that stripes should run the same way you're most likely to scan.. so you don't have to work too hard to keep your eyesight on the same line. Apparently it wasn't that evident though.
That said, zebra-stripes are nice when you choose good colours, and have them run in the direction they're supposed to.. and they're really horrible when you screw up.. as a lot of people do.
If you're going to use tags, since you're a small group you're pretty much going to have to limit yourself to a set predefined ones.. and then the only difference between tags and folders is that a document can only have one folder, but several tags. If you're only 10 people I doubt you really need that finegrained a control, so folders should work just as well as tags.
That said, what this essentially boils down to is the general answer to next to every bloody architectural question out there is; it doesn't matter what you do, as long as you do it well. Seriously, what solution you choose is next to never important, it's how well you use that solution that matters.
When I'm happy I sound interesting and lively when I'm speaking, my eyes are sharp and my posture much better. It is really amazing amazing how differently people react to me then.
I bet you're seeing some of the same effect. It can be quite absurd at times.
I'm not trolling though, it's a serious argument:
The important difference between the US and Cuba is the independent judiciary. Look at Hong Kong, Singapore and various other well-function south-asian countries and the numerous failed democrasies in the world and you'll find one important trend. Parlamentarism, checks'n'balances and sharing of power leads to succesfull societies.
Being able to pick the president doesn't.