But unlike the others, the ear is seperated from your inner body by a watertight seal, as no material needs to be transfered for hearing. (unlike smells and tastes, that need to bring chemicals into contact with receptor cells)
In general, I'd say the parts of the ear that are exposed to the outside of your body, are at least as well guarded against bacteria as the rest of your body surface (skin)
That, and you don't put your phone into your ear. I'd be more concerned about those in-ear headphones.
The summary mentions a *designer*. Do we have a working prototype (cause that would be a sensation right away) or just a design mock-up? "Here is what a smell camera could look like. We'll build one as soon as someone discovers how our mysterious "main unit" could work"
And that "austrian" couple that got sentenced to 5 years this tuesday for spying for Russia.
Those last 3 weeks feel like a friggin James-Bond-Cold-War-Era-Spy-novel.
And I've not decided if it would be honesty or stupidity if we find out that our three letter agencys were busy with something else but spying on enemies and allies alike. (and foreigners and citizens alike)
No. That lecture was a direct result of their descision to teach the "science" in computer science seperatly from the coding part. That resulted in a lecture without any examples, as they would have been "code" and would have needed to decide on an example language.
Well, the semester we had to take "Introduction to C programming" at that department concentrated mostly on writing pit patterns to obscure ports to control the PCs timing chips, controlling external motor/generator setups, OpenGL viewports and other fun stuff.
That much for teaching code quality:-)
Definitly not how you would teach someone a programming language. I enjoyed it, as I already had a programming background, the others enjoyed it at least more than writing a double linked list in Pascal at the CS department.
But to write a bestseller, knowing at least one language is a prerequisite.
You may be the world bet pantomime - that won't help you starting your novel if you don't have access to language.
And as with novels, the originale language is pretty secondary (there are translators for that. Some stuff may work better in one language than the other, but usually you can get by with any language). It's more the "programming mindset" (what some other poster described as "logic").
Breaking down a big task in smaller subtasks, plan for every possible outcome, variables, loops etc....
I had to take a whole semester back at uni in "Introduction to OOP". That lecture was held by the CS department and i spent 4 months each tuesday at 7am in a lecture hall where someone waved around pictures of cars and planes and the respective stencils of cars and planes - their idea of explaining the concept without using a specific programming language.
Needless to say, i didn't get it.
A year later, a mechanical engineering professor summed up that whole semester in 5 seconds: "Classes are little more than structs with code inside".
But a Shakespeare play staged today is still a Shakespeare play?
That's a really difficult question. Most of the old, classic stories survived because they were told and retold all over, keeping them "modern". A painting, on the other hand, is finished when it's done.
Books are somewhere inbetween. Some are good because of a unique writing style, but others tell universal stories that won't suffer from modernizing language.
That happend to a friend of mine. (When we went to the Opera, so that's no friend-of-a-friend story, but an I-got-embarressed-along-story)
Of course she switched off her phone completly before entering the theatre. What she didn't know was that some phones (I think it was a Nokia, but the same thing happend to me once with an old Siemens) still have the ALARM TIMER running in the background and that the alarm clock will still work, even if the phone is switched off.
Here is a german article that explicitly connects todays expertise with the "right to be forgotten" and it IS about newspaper archives and Google and NOT about some self created facebook stuff.
No. The right to be forgotten means that if there is a police record because you ran a red light when you were 19 (think Bill Gates) should not keep you from ever getting a job again, even if you're 45, well educated, grown up and responsible. Just because some old stuff (newspaper article, whatever) is NOT old and forgotten but turns up among the Top10 results when a HR manager googles your name during a job interview.
We need either the right to be forgotten or a way to teach HR drones that people might change over the years.
No via legislation, but via money. That goes for the innovation that is a result from a controlled R&D process.
It does NOT effect the innovation that comes from pure serendipity, and that's why that curve neither starts nor ends at zero. But note that the right minimum is lower than the left one. Both ends describe a point where no money is invested anymnore, either because there is no money to make with inventions or inventing is to expensive because an invention would contain and base on an existing, patented invention. Too strict patent laws still may block serendipituous (is that even a real word?) improvements of existing inventions.
Except that the terrorists are not jewish. They were trying to get funding by jewish organizations by promising to target enemies of Israel. Instead of funding them, the jewish organizations contacted the FBI.
So no, the jews in this story are not the terrorists, in fact, they are the heroes.
It lookes like the slashdot editor (samzenpus) is either trying to discredit the jews on purpose or is too stupid to write a decent summary.
There is nothing like THE Jews in this story. Some Jews were heroes.
But what other kind of terrorists would ask Jewish organizations for funding? Muslim terrorists? definitly no. Anti-Gouvernment homegron style terrorists? No, don't think so. Neo-Nazis as "pro-Israel"? Aeehmm.. most definitly no.
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But unlike the others, the ear is seperated from your inner body by a watertight seal, as no material needs to be transfered for hearing. (unlike smells and tastes, that need to bring chemicals into contact with receptor cells)
In general, I'd say the parts of the ear that are exposed to the outside of your body, are at least as well guarded against bacteria as the rest of your body surface (skin)
That, and you don't put your phone into your ear. I'd be more concerned about those in-ear headphones.
Uhmm...... I thing that very few infections are passed on through the ears.....
The summary mentions a *designer*. Do we have a working prototype (cause that would be a sensation right away) or just a design mock-up? "Here is what a smell camera could look like. We'll build one as soon as someone discovers how our mysterious "main unit" could work"
Well that was the CS department tried before. But that that was the initial spark that made anything else fall in place. Just 6 months too late.
should be &thlig; exactly like ß (ß)
Wow. That guy invented ligatures!
That was the one occasion where i acutally wanted to show the code for an entity rather than the resulting char...
And France. http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/frankreich656.html
And that "austrian" couple that got sentenced to 5 years this tuesday for spying for Russia.
Those last 3 weeks feel like a friggin James-Bond-Cold-War-Era-Spy-novel.
And I've not decided if it would be honesty or stupidity if we find out that our three letter agencys were busy with something else but spying on enemies and allies alike. (and foreigners and citizens alike)
No. That lecture was a direct result of their descision to teach the "science" in computer science seperatly from the coding part. That resulted in a lecture without any examples, as they would have been "code" and would have needed to decide on an example language.
Well, the semester we had to take "Introduction to C programming" at that department concentrated mostly on writing pit patterns to obscure ports to control the PCs timing chips, controlling external motor/generator setups, OpenGL viewports and other fun stuff.
That much for teaching code quality :-)
Definitly not how you would teach someone a programming language. I enjoyed it, as I already had a programming background, the others enjoyed it at least more than writing a double linked list in Pascal at the CS department.
But to write a bestseller, knowing at least one language is a prerequisite.
You may be the world bet pantomime - that won't help you starting your novel if you don't have access to language.
And as with novels, the originale language is pretty secondary (there are translators for that. Some stuff may work better in one language than the other, but usually you can get by with any language). It's more the "programming mindset" (what some other poster described as "logic").
Breaking down a big task in smaller subtasks, plan for every possible outcome, variables, loops etc....
I had to take a whole semester back at uni in "Introduction to OOP". That lecture was held by the CS department and i spent 4 months each tuesday at 7am in a lecture hall where someone waved around pictures of cars and planes and the respective stencils of cars and planes - their idea of explaining the concept without using a specific programming language.
Needless to say, i didn't get it.
A year later, a mechanical engineering professor summed up that whole semester in 5 seconds: "Classes are little more than structs with code inside".
Are those cards considered legal tender? If not, how it is acceptable to be paid with it?
But a Shakespeare play staged today is still a Shakespeare play?
That's a really difficult question. Most of the old, classic stories survived because they were told and retold all over, keeping them "modern". A painting, on the other hand, is finished when it's done.
Books are somewhere inbetween. Some are good because of a unique writing style, but others tell universal stories that won't suffer from modernizing language.
That happend to a friend of mine. (When we went to the Opera, so that's no friend-of-a-friend story, but an I-got-embarressed-along-story)
Of course she switched off her phone completly before entering the theatre. What she didn't know was that some phones (I think it was a Nokia, but the same thing happend to me once with an old Siemens) still have the ALARM TIMER running in the background and that the alarm clock will still work, even if the phone is switched off.
Here is a german article that explicitly connects todays expertise with the "right to be forgotten" and it IS about newspaper archives and Google and NOT about some self created facebook stuff.
But does that include your right to remember what OTHER people wrongly told the entire planet about me and hold it against me?
Right.
But I'd put those extensive background-checkers into the same bag with the Googleing HR-monkeys.
Both seem to have difficulties discerning between past, present and future.
No way to wait for them. Just search for "reputation management"
No. The right to be forgotten means that if there is a police record because you ran a red light when you were 19 (think Bill Gates) should not keep you from ever getting a job again, even if you're 45, well educated, grown up and responsible. Just because some old stuff (newspaper article, whatever) is NOT old and forgotten but turns up among the Top10 results when a HR manager googles your name during a job interview.
We need either the right to be forgotten or a way to teach HR drones that people might change over the years.
Both wrong.
You should make sure that you don't appear in a newspaper article. Even if there is something newsworthy.
The original lawsuit was about an old newspaperarticle about a some Chapter 11 stuff still turning up when you searched for a name.
But worked very well for MS. (and a few others)
No via legislation, but via money. That goes for the innovation that is a result from a controlled R&D process.
It does NOT effect the innovation that comes from pure serendipity, and that's why that curve neither starts nor ends at zero. But note that the right minimum is lower than the left one. Both ends describe a point where no money is invested anymnore, either because there is no money to make with inventions or inventing is to expensive because an invention would contain and base on an existing, patented invention. Too strict patent laws still may block serendipituous (is that even a real word?) improvements of existing inventions.
Todays computers save a lot of power - by simply NOT firing them up and check your emails on your phone instead.
Read the article after writing my comment (in good /. tradition...)
I never would have KKK terrorists to support Israel.....
Except that the terrorists are not jewish. They were trying to get funding by jewish organizations by promising to target enemies of Israel.
Instead of funding them, the jewish organizations contacted the FBI.
So no, the jews in this story are not the terrorists, in fact, they are the heroes.
It lookes like the slashdot editor (samzenpus) is either trying to discredit the jews on purpose or is too stupid to write a decent summary.
There is nothing like THE Jews in this story. Some Jews were heroes.
But what other kind of terrorists would ask Jewish organizations for funding? Muslim terrorists? definitly no. Anti-Gouvernment homegron style terrorists? No, don't think so. Neo-Nazis as "pro-Israel"? Aeehmm.. most definitly no.
right, Solved by dictionary.
But is it any better for the real life lawyer and the real life doctors?
Today, it's "Office Space" for everyone.