> That's reality. Anything else is fiction and ignores how the global economy works.
No. That is the world according the 18th century theory of Adam Smith, which is partly true, but hardly the whole of the story.
Selective protectionism and its reduction after the build-up of a competitive industry with high value products was/is key to the success of large parts of Taiwan, ROK and China.
That, of course, doesn't mean that I support the tariff, because who, but nationalists, cares, that the EU doesn't produce digital cameras, when the EU already is a region with high grade products and has a stable trade surplus.
To my knowledge, there are already LTFC (Low-temperature fuel cells), like PEM, which are already working for years in 50-100 deg C range, but the problem is keeping them below the 100 degrees. Two years ago, Georgia Tech has announced, that they were capable of pushing it up to 120 deg (source) and last year, Volkswagen announced the development of a fuel cell working at 160 deg (source).
The ancient greek literature? Grimm's Fairy tales?
Also, as you state it, one could understand it as if the bible was the source of those moral themes, and not only a fairly known and old writing concerning ethics.
> Christian Democratic Union [...] How f'd up is that [...] at least I don't have to worry about that kind of crap here
Contrary to the US, in Germany you can be elected to the most powerful office, without having to continously profess ones faith. In Germany 40-50% are agnostic/atheists compared to the U.S, where there are 3-9%.
> Then last month Schäuble said guilty until proven innocent is the way criminal jurisprudence should work.
First, I do not support Mr. Schaeubles politicial position.
But: He did not said "guilty until proven innocent is the way criminal jurisprudence should work". He said, while the concept of innocent until proven guilty applies to jurisprudence, it does not for the excecutive. Well more correctly, he did not mention the first part, only the one the executive.
While this is certainly true, I feel a bit wary, that he considers it necessary to say it that way in the press. His constant emphasising the needs of law enforcement over the rights of the individuals is suspect, to say the least.
The difference is the detail of data you have on the subject and what you extrapolate from the data.
The fact, that said George Burns lived to be 100 is anecdotal for determining the effect of smoking on mankind, as the data is fairly limited, and not very well documented. Therefor it is very hard to generalise the causality and apply the results to a possibly unrelated case.
However, if we'd speaking of the fact that, say, William Burns has developed pulmonary metastases, necrosis and various other ailments, hence, the treating doctor doesn't believe in the patient will playing cricket anytime soon, no one would speak of anecdotal evidence, as the data would be neither limited, nor well documented and is highly related to the case in question.
> [...] You could, e.g., equate chemical bonding with atoms "holding hands" and such, but that doesn't do anyone any good. The advanced reader gets no useful information, and the naive ones don't get anything meaningful that they can build on, either.
On the contrary. The whole education is based on dumbing down. You could start with "holding hands", if it is approriate, but usually one starts with negative electron planets in orbits around a positive atomic core. The latter is only a little bit more sophisticated lie. I don't believe, you consider starting chemistry with QED as a sensible idea. You have to start with a graspable concept, and then build upon it.
> it should be illegal unless/untill the police get a warrant.
Not quite correct. It is also illegal when the police gets a warrant (which they have currently done). The court judged, that hacking into a computer is not covered by the laws of wiretapping (which they are allowed to do secretly with a warrant), but that it is search and seizure. Contrary to wiretapping, search and seizure has to be done in the presence of witnesses of the community (e.g. neighbours). After the search, the suspect has to be delivered a notice about the warrant, a protocol about the search and the confiscated items.
> I have recently seen job adverts in the UK that have included lines such as "the sort of person we are looking for is a geek. You probably prefer to relate to computers and have very few friends".
I'd say, it is more a positive trend. To my eyes, it means just: "We are not necessarily looking for a technical person with good communication skills, speaking 2 foreign languages fluently and managing experience. We are just looking for a person with good technical skills with a personal interest in intelectual challenges."
You see, they are writing "you probably prefer", not "we prefer you to". I'd say it is an encouragement for socially less apt, but technically inclined ones (commonly called "geeks" or "nerds") to apply for the job.
Do you mean something like the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA (as it is written in the article at the second place, in capital letters)? Or are you speaking from a different one, unknown to me?
The poster of the story seems to be under the false impression that the FBI activated the mobile phone's integrated microphone. This would have been quite alarming. However, if he (or the original author) had read the affidavit correctly (as you probably did), he'd notice that they just bugged him. (Point 3: "[...] through a listening device placed in the cellular phone [...]").
> It apparently works, as they do have a very low crime rate in comparison to say, the good ole USA.
Not necessarily. From what I've heard, you can buy in Sanlitun (Beijing) cheap films on DVD. More openly American films and a little bit more hidden (i.e. not on the open street) pornography. This, of course, is all illegal. But a crackdown happens only every now and then and only if a big-wig will show its face, or some international event comes. The reason, why there won't be mass-arrests is, that almost everyone will know in advance, when that will be.
Remember, a lower crime rate just means that there are less crimes recorded.
> Qt's controls are all emulated, it's like using Java Swing when you can use SWT instead.
So? If Swing were as fast as native widgets (which in my experience Qt widgets are), and integrate in the native OS desktop as any other application (dito), would there even be SWT?
Another advantage of wxWidgets is its ease porting from MFC due to its similarity.
Bogus. It is standard C++ and compiles as such. Qt simply introduces some "keywords", which are either macros or empty defines and therefor interpreted or stripped by any standard preprocessor. moc interpretes those keywords and generates another (standard-conform) C++-file. You are free to write that generated code by hand, but I'd rather not.
As English is not my native tongue, I looked up the word on Merriam Webster, and look what I found
1 obsolete : WEAL, WELFARE 2 : abundance of valuable material possessions or resources
You see, it is has become wealth creation. Or would you say that if a single mother wouldn't have to take two jobs in order to pay for her child(ren) nourishment and education, there would be an abundance of possessions?
In related news, among the Top 400 Wealthiest People in the US, there is not a single millionaire anymore, only billionaires (1E9).
Also, one is only listed as unemployed in the US, when one is drawing unemployment benefits. This, however, is limited for a certain time. For example, if you are unemployed for longer than, say 26 weeks, you won't receive any benefits anymore, and hence will not counted as unemployed.
> It's typical nerd hubris to believe that you can solve social problems through technological means.
That is not what nerds are trying, it is what society is doing: Trying to solve social problems through software for wetware (laws).
In the case of computer based communities, that laws are codified in programming languages, whereas in RL it is codified in legalese.
> It's been proven time and time again that you can't.
Yes... like flying.
I admit, my first statement seem to be more an argument against the possability of creating a good working online community, as we cannot really claim to have solved our social problems in real life.
However, one has to remember, that an on-line community only has to solve a small subset of the problems, which one has to solve in real life.
IRC, some time ago (one or two years ago) there was a post on Slashdot about a sociology study on the matter on reward and penalty system in communities, which claimed to have isolated some simple rules for a thriving one. I cannot remember having seen it implemented in software.
The difference is Google is not the only search engine. It isn't even the market leader in China. At least, before you could be sure, when you where able to circumvent the Great Firewall of China, (which I've heard from Chinese students is not all that complicated) that you had unrestricted access to the internet.
But now? What results returns Google, when it encounters a Chinese IP?
> Note that max speed increases as hull length increases
According my admittedly limited nautical knowledge, this rule (of thumb) relates to he hull speed, whereby the top-speed increases with the square-root of the waterline of the hull. This rule, however, applies only for swimming, single hull boats. This kayak is supposed to "floats over the water", so it has practically no drag, and hence, the rule does not apply.
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> That's reality. Anything else is fiction and ignores how the global economy works.
No. That is the world according the 18th century theory of Adam Smith, which is partly true, but hardly the whole of the story.
Selective protectionism and its reduction after the build-up of a competitive industry with high value products was/is key to the success of large parts of Taiwan, ROK and China.
That, of course, doesn't mean that I support the tariff, because who, but nationalists, cares, that the EU doesn't produce digital cameras, when the EU already is a region with high grade products and has a stable trade surplus.
To my knowledge, there are already LTFC (Low-temperature fuel cells), like PEM, which are already working for years in 50-100 deg C range, but the problem is keeping them below the 100 degrees.
Two years ago, Georgia Tech has announced, that they were capable of pushing it up to 120 deg (source)
and last year, Volkswagen announced the development of a fuel cell working at 160 deg (source).
The ancient greek literature? Grimm's Fairy tales?
Also, as you state it, one could understand it as if the bible was the source of those moral themes, and not only a fairly known and old writing concerning ethics.
> Christian Democratic Union [...] How f'd up is that [...] at least I don't have to worry about that kind of crap here
Contrary to the US, in Germany you can be elected to the most powerful office, without having to continously profess ones faith. In Germany 40-50% are agnostic/atheists compared to the U.S, where there are 3-9%.
> Then last month Schäuble said guilty until proven innocent is the way criminal jurisprudence should work.
First, I do not support Mr. Schaeubles politicial position.
But: He did not said "guilty until proven innocent is the way criminal jurisprudence should work". He said, while the concept of innocent until proven guilty applies to jurisprudence, it does not for the excecutive. Well more correctly, he did not mention the first part, only the one the executive.
While this is certainly true, I feel a bit wary, that he considers it necessary to say it that way in the press. His constant emphasising the needs of law enforcement over the rights of the individuals is suspect, to say the least.
The difference is the detail of data you have on the subject and what you extrapolate from the data.
The fact, that said George Burns lived to be 100 is anecdotal for determining the effect of smoking on mankind, as the data is fairly limited, and not very well documented. Therefor it is very hard to generalise the causality and apply the results to a possibly unrelated case.
However, if we'd speaking of the fact that, say, William Burns has developed pulmonary metastases, necrosis and various other ailments, hence, the treating doctor doesn't believe in the patient will playing cricket anytime soon, no one would speak of anecdotal evidence, as the data would be neither limited, nor well documented and is highly related to the case in question.
> [...] You could, e.g., equate chemical bonding with atoms "holding hands" and such, but that doesn't do anyone any good. The advanced reader gets no useful information, and the naive ones don't get anything meaningful that they can build on, either.
On the contrary. The whole education is based on dumbing down. You could start with "holding hands", if it is approriate, but usually one starts with negative electron planets in orbits around a positive atomic core. The latter is only a little bit more sophisticated lie. I don't believe, you consider starting chemistry with QED as a sensible idea. You have to start with a graspable concept, and then build upon it.
> it should be illegal unless/untill the police get a warrant.
Not quite correct. It is also illegal when the police gets a warrant (which they have currently done). The court judged, that hacking into a computer is not covered by the laws of wiretapping (which they are allowed to do secretly with a warrant), but that it is search and seizure. Contrary to wiretapping, search and seizure has to be done in the presence of witnesses of the community (e.g. neighbours). After the search, the suspect has to be delivered a notice about the warrant, a protocol about the search and the confiscated items.
> but to the disk and
ionice
> and outbound network queues.
QoS/Differentiated Services + marking with iptables --pid-owner <pid>
As (almost) always under linux, the tools are already there, but simple accessible GUIs are lacking.
> I have recently seen job adverts in the UK that have included lines such as "the sort of person we are looking for is a geek. You probably prefer to relate to computers and have very few friends".
I'd say, it is more a positive trend. To my eyes, it means just: "We are not necessarily looking for a technical person with good communication skills, speaking 2 foreign languages fluently and managing experience. We are just looking for a person with good technical skills with a personal interest in intelectual challenges."
You see, they are writing "you probably prefer", not "we prefer you to". I'd say it is an encouragement for socially less apt, but technically inclined ones (commonly called "geeks" or "nerds") to apply for the job.
Do you mean something like the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA (as it is written in the article at the second place, in capital letters)? Or are you speaking from a different one, unknown to me?
The poster of the story seems to be under the false impression that the FBI activated the mobile phone's integrated microphone. This would have been quite alarming. However, if he (or the original author) had read the affidavit correctly (as you probably did), he'd notice that they just bugged him. (Point 3: "[...] through a listening device placed in the cellular phone [...]").
> It apparently works, as they do have a very low crime rate in comparison to say, the good ole USA.
Not necessarily. From what I've heard, you can buy in Sanlitun (Beijing) cheap films on DVD. More openly American films and a little bit more hidden (i.e. not on the open street) pornography. This, of course, is all illegal. But a crackdown happens only every now and then and only if a big-wig will show its face, or some international event comes. The reason, why there won't be mass-arrests is, that almost everyone will know in advance, when that will be.
Remember, a lower crime rate just means that there are less crimes recorded.
So? If Swing were as fast as native widgets (which in my experience Qt widgets are), and integrate in the native OS desktop as any other application (dito), would there even be SWT?
Another advantage of wxWidgets is its ease porting from MFC due to its similarity.
I rest my case.
Bogus. It is standard C++ and compiles as such. Qt simply introduces some "keywords", which are either macros or empty defines and therefor interpreted or stripped by any standard preprocessor. moc interpretes those keywords and generates another (standard-conform) C++-file. You are free to write that generated code by hand, but I'd rather not.
> There is no "yielding the right of way", either you have it or you don't.
Um, contrary to the UK and Ireland, there is a right of way in Continental Europe.
Because you can't breed oxen from a pair of chicken and you can only put maybe a single ox in a hen-coop for 80 chickens? Figuratively speaking.
You see, it is has become wealth creation. Or would you say that if a single mother wouldn't have to take two jobs in order to pay for her child(ren) nourishment and education, there would be an abundance of possessions?
In related news, among the Top 400 Wealthiest People in the US, there is not a single millionaire anymore, only billionaires (1E9).
Also, one is only listed as unemployed in the US, when one is drawing unemployment benefits. This, however, is limited for a certain time. For example, if you are unemployed for longer than, say 26 weeks, you won't receive any benefits anymore, and hence will not counted as unemployed.
> It's typical nerd hubris to believe that you can solve social problems through technological means.
That is not what nerds are trying, it is what society is doing: Trying to solve social problems through software for wetware (laws).
In the case of computer based communities, that laws are codified in programming languages, whereas in RL it is codified in legalese.
> It's been proven time and time again that you can't.
Yes... like flying.
I admit, my first statement seem to be more an argument against the possability of creating a good working online community, as we cannot really claim to have solved our social problems in real life.
However, one has to remember, that an on-line community only has to solve a small subset of the problems, which one has to solve in real life.
IRC, some time ago (one or two years ago) there was a post on Slashdot about a sociology study on the matter on reward and penalty system in communities, which claimed to have isolated some simple rules for a thriving one. I cannot remember having seen it implemented in software.
5 years ago? The system you describe sound as if it was already 5 years in 2001. Pentium-MMX have been released in 1997.
I am pretty sure my current system (Athlon Thunderbird 900MHz) is from that era.
The difference is Google is not the only search engine. It isn't even the market leader in China. At least, before you could be sure, when you where able to circumvent the Great Firewall of China, (which I've heard from Chinese students is not all that complicated) that you had unrestricted access to the internet.
But now? What results returns Google, when it encounters a Chinese IP?
This falls under:
> unless the suspect is caught in an illegal act and seen doing so by the eyes of several officers.
Because wireless is a shared medium and those 11Mb/s is shared by n users?
> Note that max speed increases as hull length increases
According my admittedly limited nautical knowledge, this rule (of thumb) relates to he hull speed, whereby the top-speed increases with the square-root of the waterline of the hull. This rule, however, applies only for swimming, single hull boats. This kayak is supposed to "floats over the water", so it has practically no drag, and hence, the rule does not apply.