I don't think Germany even has laws that are adequate for crimes of this scale.
Don't worry, those responsible will receive the harshest punishment known to the German legal system: They will be forced to learn the entire German tax law and all associated fluff by heart. That's about ten years of their lives right down the drain, not to mention mental scarring, burnout etc.
Man, suddenly I'm very happy to be on the E network... (The German mobile networks have letter designations; The A, B and C networks were anlog and have been shut down; T-Mobile is present in the D network (900 MHz) and only slightly in the E network (1800 MHz). Anyhow, my prepaid card is not from T-Mobile and that's good.)
However, the basic point still holds - pay phones have become a rarity over here, as well. Mobile phones have displaced them. However, the German mobile phone market is fiercely competitive and it's easy to pick up a new SIM card for your mobile and use a competitor's network. Or, if you're less cautious, just get yourself a second SIM card from T-Mobile and don't tell your bosses about it.
It's not as if it'd actually cost you real money. In that regard Germany is different from the States.
Actually, the Israelites had a patent on a method of living in that particular region. When they were swept off the map, however, the Paletinians went and patented the same thing. Now the Israelites have redefined themselves as a new brand (the Israelis) and demand that thir patend be counted as prior art (and, if possible, reinstated). The Palestinians decline, the Israelis don't care and what follows is one of the uglier copyright wars of the recent past.
Of course we'd have to wonder why we do anything on a rock at all when there are no humans there. We do not see an immediate application as a product, thus this kind of science is useless.
Or, of course, these kinds of experiment help us understand the system that make up Mars so that at a later point we are able to actually do something with the planet - mine it, for instance. Yes, being able to predict the Martian wind is important for that; an unforseen sandstorm at the wrong time might destroy the rocket used to get the stuff into orbit.
There is a life past next quarter and sometimes you do have to invest without knowing for certain that you wil see returns in the immediate future.
So If TC takes off we can expect it not to work smoothly, given how many people are infected with various kids of malware. Unless Windows 7 is much more secure than Windows Vista, a lot of people will cry because their PC doesn't play games/music/videos unless it's reinstalled every two months.
Semantically you may be right, but insisting that copyright is not stealing is usually nothing more than a deliberate attempt to cloud the issue, and the fact that it is [i]wrong[/i] to copy an intellectual work without permission.
Actually, I think it's the other way around. By telling people copyright infringement is something it really isn't the **AA etc. automatically deliver a flawed argument and cause confusion among the people who don't know anything about copyright law. When someone point out that copyright infringement isn't, in fact, stealing, that argument sticks because it's true - even though it's tangential; people will rememer that "th other guy" poked a hole in the "theft" reasoning.
Portraying an action as something it isn't going to help your case and it might make you look like a kook. It's really the proponents of strong copyright infringement penalties who should be pedantic about proper nomenclature.
Anyone can have a blog, but only a geek will think it's a good idea to have a blog for his roleplaying characters.
Anyone can have USB gadgets, but only a geek will notice that the 5V DC USB offers are within tolerance for a Nintendo DS's 5.2V DC input and use an aftermarket NDS PSU and a USB cable to solder himself an USB NDS power cable. (Non-geeks might buy such cables, but why pay ten bucks for a ready-made one when you cn build your own for five?)
It's less about what you have, it's about how you use/get it. Of course, I'd expect most geeks to roll their own blog installation rather than sign up on Facebook.
Heck, Rand al'Thor would make for a better "magical leader" for the geeks and he's a whiny emo. If you want to quote literary figures that actually matter to geekdom, you better cite Hiro Protagonist or Henry Case. But then again they want something that's both mainstream and recent, which means they won't touch the core of geek culture by definition...
If it were nanometers it would mean that LEO and MEO satellites were a serious threat to kneecaps. Geostationary satellites would be much easier to implement, though.
So the lesson is "moving something by ionizing part of it is pretty hard to do in a conductive medium". Another lesson people tend to forget is "space research is all about blowing up things until you get it right". A new propulsion technology not working as expected during the first few trials is not quite counterintuitive.
Actually, nowadays it's becoming more and more easy to produce high-quality movies. You can do a render movie - in that case you only need decent voice actors, more or less powerful hardware, time and one or more persons who are good with the appropriate tools (and as Elephant's Dream has shown, such tools don't even need to cost money).
Good live-action movies can be filmed on a limited budget, as well. Just because 70% of all new movies have huge explosions and/or funky effects there is no requirement for all movies to be that way. A movie like Run Lola Run could be made without many effects requiring expensive equipment (like camera cranes).
Of course those movies will cater to a different audience than big SFX-heavy productions, but I do think that there might be a genuine market.
It just means you live anywhere outside the Commonwealth. Most non-native English speakers use AmE on the internet. Don't assume that only native speakers read Slashdot.
I use Microsoft. Its vendor lock-in strategy surpasses every bondage artist's skill and administering Windows boxen makes my inner masochist cry from glee. And pain, of course.
They also eat cute little puppies, which is fine with me as I'm a cat person.
Ah. I did the installer force-quit thing in Panther/Tiger, but the new Software Update put an end to that. I didn't think about checking apple.com for the package manually.
However, since the fles are for the OP's "own reference", I think it's fairly safe to assume he wants to be able to read them himself without going through some frontend. Hence the need for a flat-file database.
How about locales where the decimal separator is a comma? I know that some softwares will turn a line that contains the values 12,5 and 4,9 into the string 12,5,4,9. Using quotes is no option either, as the reading software might differentiate between numbers and strings.
CSV is nice, but I think it could need a bit more standardization.
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Of course this has to be mentioned as well:
Xkcd
Free software
Copyleft
Obligation
Obligation
Convention (norm)
Germany
Wikipedia
Xkcd
Seven!
Bullyparade
Science fiction
Biotechnology
Medication
Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
ATC code D
ATC code D08
Diiodohydroxypropane
Man, suddenly I'm very happy to be on the E network... (The German mobile networks have letter designations; The A, B and C networks were anlog and have been shut down; T-Mobile is present in the D network (900 MHz) and only slightly in the E network (1800 MHz). Anyhow, my prepaid card is not from T-Mobile and that's good.)
However, the basic point still holds - pay phones have become a rarity over here, as well. Mobile phones have displaced them. However, the German mobile phone market is fiercely competitive and it's easy to pick up a new SIM card for your mobile and use a competitor's network. Or, if you're less cautious, just get yourself a second SIM card from T-Mobile and don't tell your bosses about it.
It's not as if it'd actually cost you real money. In that regard Germany is different from the States.
Ugh. Wrong word.
Actually, the Israelites had a patent on a method of living in that particular region. When they were swept off the map, however, the Paletinians went and patented the same thing. Now the Israelites have redefined themselves as a new brand (the Israelis) and demand that thir patend be counted as prior art (and, if possible, reinstated). The Palestinians decline, the Israelis don't care and what follows is one of the uglier copyright wars of the recent past.
Obviously NASA should use GPS to detect wind.
Of course we'd have to wonder why we do anything on a rock at all when there are no humans there. We do not see an immediate application as a product, thus this kind of science is useless.
Or, of course, these kinds of experiment help us understand the system that make up Mars so that at a later point we are able to actually do something with the planet - mine it, for instance. Yes, being able to predict the Martian wind is important for that; an unforseen sandstorm at the wrong time might destroy the rocket used to get the stuff into orbit.
There is a life past next quarter and sometimes you do have to invest without knowing for certain that you wil see returns in the immediate future.
So If TC takes off we can expect it not to work smoothly, given how many people are infected with various kids of malware. Unless Windows 7 is much more secure than Windows Vista, a lot of people will cry because their PC doesn't play games/music/videos unless it's reinstalled every two months.
Yes, but I'd think that cyberpunk is a lot closer to geek culture than Harry Potter. But point taken. How about Ijon Tichy?
Portraying an action as something it isn't going to help your case and it might make you look like a kook. It's really the proponents of strong copyright infringement penalties who should be pedantic about proper nomenclature.
In my opinion, the furries can go yiff themselves. ;)
Anyone can have a blog, but only a geek will think it's a good idea to have a blog for his roleplaying characters.
Anyone can have USB gadgets, but only a geek will notice that the 5V DC USB offers are within tolerance for a Nintendo DS's 5.2V DC input and use an aftermarket NDS PSU and a USB cable to solder himself an USB NDS power cable. (Non-geeks might buy such cables, but why pay ten bucks for a ready-made one when you cn build your own for five?)
It's less about what you have, it's about how you use/get it. Of course, I'd expect most geeks to roll their own blog installation rather than sign up on Facebook.
Heck, Rand al'Thor would make for a better "magical leader" for the geeks and he's a whiny emo. If you want to quote literary figures that actually matter to geekdom, you better cite Hiro Protagonist or Henry Case. But then again they want something that's both mainstream and recent, which means they won't touch the core of geek culture by definition...
Just like lions. Lions are natural, as well.
So the lesson is "moving something by ionizing part of it is pretty hard to do in a conductive medium". Another lesson people tend to forget is "space research is all about blowing up things until you get it right". A new propulsion technology not working as expected during the first few trials is not quite counterintuitive.
Actually, nowadays it's becoming more and more easy to produce high-quality movies. You can do a render movie - in that case you only need decent voice actors, more or less powerful hardware, time and one or more persons who are good with the appropriate tools (and as Elephant's Dream has shown, such tools don't even need to cost money).
Good live-action movies can be filmed on a limited budget, as well. Just because 70% of all new movies have huge explosions and/or funky effects there is no requirement for all movies to be that way. A movie like Run Lola Run could be made without many effects requiring expensive equipment (like camera cranes).
Of course those movies will cater to a different audience than big SFX-heavy productions, but I do think that there might be a genuine market.
It just means you live anywhere outside the Commonwealth. Most non-native English speakers use AmE on the internet. Don't assume that only native speakers read Slashdot.
I use Microsoft. Its vendor lock-in strategy surpasses every bondage artist's skill and administering Windows boxen makes my inner masochist cry from glee. And pain, of course.
They also eat cute little puppies, which is fine with me as I'm a cat person.
Ah. I did the installer force-quit thing in Panther/Tiger, but the new Software Update put an end to that. I didn't think about checking apple.com for the package manually.
Thanks for reminding me.
However, since the fles are for the OP's "own reference", I think it's fairly safe to assume he wants to be able to read them himself without going through some frontend. Hence the need for a flat-file database.
How about locales where the decimal separator is a comma? I know that some softwares will turn a line that contains the values 12,5 and 4,9 into the string 12,5,4,9. Using quotes is no option either, as the reading software might differentiate between numbers and strings.
CSV is nice, but I think it could need a bit more standardization.