It's not always true. Being German, I had to learn German grammar in school, and it's quite difficult even for native speakers (or at least was until much of it was watered down a few years ago). Strangely enough, I was one of the few who just got it, without the need for a foreign language, but there are many who say that they didn't really get it until they learned Latin, a language with an even more complex grammar, from scratch.
English on the other hand doesn't seem to have much of a grammar (I mean, a language almost without declension and conjugation?), so there is not much to be taught. Or maybe I just didn't notice, because most of the few grammar rules which are there are quite similar to German rules.
Then again, if there isn't much to be taught, it should't be difficult to teach it well...
It sure does. It creates a byte-by-byte-Copy of the original. The internal structure of the partition doesn't matter, because is's restored as a whole.
The strength of dd is its simplicity. It does nothing but reading and writing data. You can read data from a device and store them in a file. Then you can compress that file.
To do it on the fly: dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=1048576 | gzip -c >/some/place/winxp_backup_current.raw.gz An 8Gig-Partition should give you a compressed backup-File of about 3 Gigs. This you can store on a large partition, split and store on several CD-Rs or mail it to your granny. Splitting is quite easy too, you can tell dd to read a certain part of the partition.
To restore the backup, just uncompress the file, then use dd to read the file and write the data back to the partition.
I use this for backups of my WinXP-Partition (which I use solely for gaming). It works so well I have no intentions of looking for another solution. Still, if you have other needs, this might not be for you.
Pros: - simple - reliable - scriptable (like everything on the command line)
Cons: - a few minutes downtime for the backup, I don't think there is a way to do this reliably while Windows is running - no flashy bits, like looking at what's inside the backup without actually extracting it
Of course there is no security by obscurity, but the war against cheaters is not one you can actually win. It's a constant arms race, and obscurity at least gives you a head start.
The islam has proven to be very scientific hundreds of years ago, nobody knows how fast science might have advanced had christian crusaders not burned all those islamic bibliaries.
The islamic world also was able to govern itself without sinking into anarchy, before it was raped by the christian world.
While the islam and it's followers tend to be a little more hot-tempered than christians, the islam is quite peaceful by nature.
The problem with the islam is that recently, too many islamic people have become religious fanatics. Violent fanatics, this includes religios fanatics of all religions as well as any others like drug bosses seeking wealth and power, are a threat to peace. That radical islamists have pulled a few big stunts lately and are right now maybe the biggest threat to world peace should not give you ideas about what the islam is like.
If you'd want to make your mind about catholic people, would you only look at what the IRA did and conclude that this was the nature of catholic religion?
Most muslims who have not been turned extreme by extreme circumstances (like having to endure terror and torture by having to live in the Iraq as a shiite under Saddam), will agree that radical islamists have indeed left the path of islam a long time ago.
Btw: The roman catholic church needed 500 years to acknoledge that the earth circles around the sun. This was little more then ten years ago. Let the islam beat that.
This would't be implemented like the internet. The internet is a "stupid" network, anyone can join and have anything transmitted anywhere else, and it will find it's way.
A power grid has to be regulated... but that isn't the problem, really, it's done quite successfully here in Europe.
If we here in Germany lost several plants at once, we could get power from France or Austria or somewhere else in Europe. We're very well-connected. I think the same applies to large parts of the "old Europe".
The other reason why it is very improbable we could see an outage like this is that we have reserves. Every power plant has to be able to increase it's output by 2% in a matter of seconds. Every plant also has to be able to increase it's output further by shoving in more coal or something (probably doesn't apply to wind/water/sun-plants).
If a plant goes black, the other ones have the reserves to replace it easily. As far as I know, most plants in the US operate on full capacity with no reserves at all, so when one plant goes black, the other ones in the same grid overload and shut down.
A little regulation can do wonders here. And yes, this will make power more expensive.
There are many things that have a price that one should consider not to pay for, like drugs or a hitman.
And of course, harming the environment is so cheap in the US that there is just no real incentive not to do it. That it's too cheap is what many people are concerned about.
When you have a nice stereo and are already annoyed by bad or mediocre recordings, making them sound worse with lossy compression is not really desirable.
If they are encoded 256kbit/s or lossless, I might think about it. Until then, I'll have to buy music in physical form.
When I see some hardcore FPS gamer have a visit to the hospital, and watch a real human life disappear before their eyes, then come out smiling, I'll believe video games might, over the long term, desensitize children.
The world isn't all black and white. Learn to distinguish the shades of grey.
I do believe that seeing violence, to some degree also virtual violence, may desensitize a person, especially children. But I don't think the effect is dramatic, nor do I believe it does a serious amount of harm.
Think about the World War II, millions of soldjers saw violent acts on almost unimaginable scale.
There is one really big difference. Most soldiers didn't go to war for fun. Violent games and movies are for fun, though.
When you give a dog something to eat, or just put it under the dogs nose, it will produce more saliva.
If you ring a bell each time, this won't stop the saliva.
After a while, just ringing the bell will increase saliva flow.
This wouldn't work if you gave the dog something it doesn't like.
That doesn't mean that playing all sorts of computer games made me violent, nor anyone i know.
You said that, not me. I was mere pointing out differences.
> why is it then you all want to goto school here
Your school system does have some advantages over ours, at least when it comes to making the best out of talented people. Over here, we tend to care more about giving everyone a decent education. And of course improving your skill in foreign languages and broadening your horizon by seeing other countries is considered "good" over here.
> you all want to move here
Do we? Why didn't I notice that Europe is deserting?
> etc etc..
The virtues of capitalism do have it's appeal. That doesn't mean that capitalism doesn't have it's drawbacks.
> stop being so petty. We are better than you..
Ah yes, the sign of someone who will never learn, neither from your own mistakes, nor from anybody elses mistakes. Terrific.
I'm white with you on the pandering. Although I am way less offended by it, it tends to be used mainly in movies that have no substance or anything else that I could enjoy, thereby making watching these movies a waste of time (unless you do it with friends so you can make jokes about it, which works for most bad flicks).
I don't think the nude scene of the Terminatrix differs that much from Arnie's nudes. Sure, I guess we get to see her breasts, but neither her vagina nor his penis. Breasts are just too difficult to hide without making the scene look really awkward.
And if the Terminatrix walks into a pub naked, I doubt people will laugh at her and use her as an ashtray like they did with Arnie. She will of course be an object of desire for all men who see her. But what would you expect if a woman like this enters a room naked? It is just realistic, so I have no problem with it.
I haven't seen T3 yet, but Arnie had nudes in both T1 and T2, I don't see why a female Terminator should arrive with chastity belt, spiky bra and veil.
Actually, in my expierience, movies that rely on their babe-factor (like, hm, Tomb Raider?) don't have nudes, because they are aimed at twelve year olds.
I don't remember having seen a movie that used nudes to attract horny male viewers in the mainstream. Near-nudes, yes, but nudes? If I just forgot about them, because seing someone nude in a movie isn't something I remember for the rest of my life, please enlighten me.
Some poeple in the US tend to be a little to uptight about this. I mean, there is nudity in reality, so why shun it from a movie? A bit of realism in movies doesn't hurt, it's not like you'd want to remove the blood and noise from Saving Private Ryan and show it to your children. I always find it hilarious when movies obviously avoid nudity at all cost, which is no problem for a movie that was meant to be hilarious in the first place, but would really destroy the experience of most movies for me.
As far as I know, most nude-scenes are cut out anyway for the US-versions.
Actually, in europe, we regard violence in movies as more harmful to young people than nudity, so even without a single nude scene, it wouldn't ever be rated what we call equivalent to PG. Remove the violence, leave the nudes, and it would be a perfect PG over here. (this may not apply to all of Europe, but at least significant parts)
You have your opinion about nudes, however many (or most?) people don't mind, and movies are not produced for you alone. Live with it.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see how that is condescending. It's just practical. Under Linux, it's practical to leave compiling to distributors or users.
I mean, look at how condescending Redhat and Debian are, with all those compiled packages they give you...
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It's not always true. Being German, I had to learn German grammar in school, and it's quite difficult even for native speakers (or at least was until much of it was watered down a few years ago). Strangely enough, I was one of the few who just got it, without the need for a foreign language, but there are many who say that they didn't really get it until they learned Latin, a language with an even more complex grammar, from scratch.
English on the other hand doesn't seem to have much of a grammar (I mean, a language almost without declension and conjugation?), so there is not much to be taught.
Or maybe I just didn't notice, because most of the few grammar rules which are there are quite similar to German rules.
Then again, if there isn't much to be taught, it should't be difficult to teach it well...
I prefer gzip, bzip2 is a little cpu-intensive for my taste.
It sure does. It creates a byte-by-byte-Copy of the original.
The internal structure of the partition doesn't matter, because is's restored as a whole.
He was modded funny because he seems to regard a partition full of random data as "encrypted".
dd doesn't care about this stuff, it just reads/writes the data byte by byte...
The strength of dd is its simplicity. It does nothing but reading and writing data. You can read data from a device and store them in a file. Then you can compress that file.
/some/place/winxp_backup_current.raw.gz
To do it on the fly:
dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=1048576 | gzip -c >
An 8Gig-Partition should give you a compressed backup-File of about 3 Gigs.
This you can store on a large partition, split and store on several CD-Rs or mail it to your granny.
Splitting is quite easy too, you can tell dd to read a certain part of the partition.
To restore the backup, just uncompress the file, then use dd to read the file and write the data back to the partition.
I use this for backups of my WinXP-Partition (which I use solely for gaming). It works so well I have no intentions of looking for another solution.
Still, if you have other needs, this might not be for you.
Pros:
- simple
- reliable
- scriptable (like everything on the command line)
Cons:
- a few minutes downtime for the backup, I don't think there is a way to do this reliably while Windows is running
- no flashy bits, like looking at what's inside the backup without actually extracting it
Of course there is no security by obscurity, but the war against cheaters is not one you can actually win.
It's a constant arms race, and obscurity at least gives you a head start.
The islam has proven to be very scientific hundreds of years ago, nobody knows how fast science might have advanced had christian crusaders not burned all those islamic bibliaries.
The islamic world also was able to govern itself without sinking into anarchy, before it was raped by the christian world.
While the islam and it's followers tend to be a little more hot-tempered than christians, the islam is quite peaceful by nature.
The problem with the islam is that recently, too many islamic people have become religious fanatics.
Violent fanatics, this includes religios fanatics of all religions as well as any others like drug bosses seeking wealth and power, are a threat to peace.
That radical islamists have pulled a few big stunts lately and are right now maybe the biggest threat to world peace should not give you ideas about what the islam is like.
If you'd want to make your mind about catholic people, would you only look at what the IRA did and conclude that this was the nature of catholic religion?
Most muslims who have not been turned extreme by extreme circumstances (like having to endure terror and torture by having to live in the Iraq as a shiite under Saddam), will agree that radical islamists have indeed left the path of islam a long time ago.
Btw: The roman catholic church needed 500 years to acknoledge that the earth circles around the sun. This was little more then ten years ago. Let the islam beat that.
Its not about selling your ideals, unless you're as fanatic as RMS and try to change the world no matter what.
For all other people, it's just about living together with people who have different ideals.
Sure it's coming, but the article was not written in 20 years, was it? It should stick to the facts as they are now.
This will take at least a few more decades.
Since European carrier rockets are in their fifth generation now, I wouldn't consider them "news".
Europe has sent things up into space for quite a while now...
This would't be implemented like the internet.
The internet is a "stupid" network, anyone can join and have anything transmitted anywhere else, and it will find it's way.
A power grid has to be regulated... but that isn't the problem, really, it's done quite successfully here in Europe.
If we here in Germany lost several plants at once, we could get power from France or Austria or somewhere else in Europe. We're very well-connected. I think the same applies to large parts of the "old Europe".
The other reason why it is very improbable we could see an outage like this is that we have reserves. Every power plant has to be able to increase it's output by 2% in a matter of seconds.
Every plant also has to be able to increase it's output further by shoving in more coal or something (probably doesn't apply to wind/water/sun-plants).
If a plant goes black, the other ones have the reserves to replace it easily.
As far as I know, most plants in the US operate on full capacity with no reserves at all, so when one plant goes black, the other ones in the same grid overload and shut down.
A little regulation can do wonders here. And yes, this will make power more expensive.
There are many things that have a price that one should consider not to pay for, like drugs or a hitman.
And of course, harming the environment is so cheap in the US that there is just no real incentive not to do it. That it's too cheap is what many people are concerned about.
Countries that are more densely populated really feel the effects of pollution, so people start to actually care about the environment.
Not caring about it ist just too damm easy and cheap, so both development or adoption of environmental technology are pretty slow in the US.
When you have a nice stereo and are already annoyed by bad or mediocre recordings, making them sound worse with lossy compression is not really desirable.
If they are encoded 256kbit/s or lossless, I might think about it. Until then, I'll have to buy music in physical form.
And no, I'm not audiophile, just an enthousiast.
I do believe that seeing violence, to some degree also virtual violence, may desensitize a person, especially children. But I don't think the effect is dramatic, nor do I believe it does a serious amount of harm.
When you give a dog something to eat, or just put it under the dogs nose, it will produce more saliva.
If you ring a bell each time, this won't stop the saliva.
After a while, just ringing the bell will increase saliva flow.
This wouldn't work if you gave the dog something it doesn't like.
That doesn't mean that playing all sorts of computer games made me violent, nor anyone i know.
> If Europe is so damn great
You said that, not me. I was mere pointing out differences.
> why is it then you all want to goto school here
Your school system does have some advantages over ours, at least when it comes to making the best out of talented people. Over here, we tend to care more about giving everyone a decent education.
And of course improving your skill in foreign languages and broadening your horizon by seeing other countries is considered "good" over here.
> you all want to move here
Do we? Why didn't I notice that Europe is deserting?
> etc etc..
The virtues of capitalism do have it's appeal. That doesn't mean that capitalism doesn't have it's drawbacks.
> stop being so petty. We are better than you..
Ah yes, the sign of someone who will never learn, neither from your own mistakes, nor from anybody elses mistakes. Terrific.
Maybe it is also the reason why our murder rate is so incredibly much lower than yours.
There's a dark side to everything.
I'm white with you on the pandering. Although I am way less offended by it, it tends to be used mainly in movies that have no substance or anything else that I could enjoy, thereby making watching these movies a waste of time (unless you do it with friends so you can make jokes about it, which works for most bad flicks).
I don't think the nude scene of the Terminatrix differs that much from Arnie's nudes. Sure, I guess we get to see her breasts, but neither her vagina nor his penis. Breasts are just too difficult to hide without making the scene look really awkward.
And if the Terminatrix walks into a pub naked, I doubt people will laugh at her and use her as an ashtray like they did with Arnie. She will of course be an object of desire for all men who see her. But what would you expect if a woman like this enters a room naked? It is just realistic, so I have no problem with it.
I haven't seen T3 yet, but Arnie had nudes in both T1 and T2, I don't see why a female Terminator should arrive with chastity belt, spiky bra and veil.
Actually, in my expierience, movies that rely on their babe-factor (like, hm, Tomb Raider?) don't have nudes, because they are aimed at twelve year olds.
I don't remember having seen a movie that used nudes to attract horny male viewers in the mainstream. Near-nudes, yes, but nudes? If I just forgot about them, because seing someone nude in a movie isn't something I remember for the rest of my life, please enlighten me.
Some poeple in the US tend to be a little to uptight about this.
I mean, there is nudity in reality, so why shun it from a movie? A bit of realism in movies doesn't hurt, it's not like you'd want to remove the blood and noise from Saving Private Ryan and show it to your children.
I always find it hilarious when movies obviously avoid nudity at all cost, which is no problem for a movie that was meant to be hilarious in the first place, but would really destroy the experience of most movies for me.
As far as I know, most nude-scenes are cut out anyway for the US-versions.
Actually, in europe, we regard violence in movies as more harmful to young people than nudity, so even without a single nude scene, it wouldn't ever be rated what we call equivalent to PG.
Remove the violence, leave the nudes, and it would be a perfect PG over here. (this may not apply to all of Europe, but at least significant parts)
You have your opinion about nudes, however many (or most?) people don't mind, and movies are not produced for you alone. Live with it.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see how that is condescending. It's just practical.
Under Linux, it's practical to leave compiling to distributors or users.
I mean, look at how condescending Redhat and Debian are, with all those compiled packages they give you...
When it's finished, which most people guess right now will be Q4 this year or Q1 next year.