Unless corporations have gained the right to vote and to hold public office while I wasn't looking?
So a foreigner living in your country isn't a person?:-)
In french a company is "une personne morale" a "moral person". I always found that one so funny:-) As a human being you are a "private person", "une personne privée".
It has rights and properties, and these rights can even protect it from me its unique shareholder. Various international treaties guarantee these rights abroad (for example: copyrights)
Yup. It's strange - folks will post comments like "Ruby can't scale for a huge enterprise app!".
I'm not a Ruby fanboy but I agree that this argument is quite poor. A lot of entreprise apps don't need to be scaled. I mean we all need easy to code little apps that you run once a week, or a "glue" language for a specific non mission critical task. Most of the time you end up with things like Perl or Bash.
My main concern about Ruby is that very few developers know it. And you still don't know if this trendy language (whatever its features are) will still be around in ten years.
Lots of those musicians (some of which I know personally or I bought a cd of them) don't play commercially either. They go to school and/or work and in their free time they make some high quality (good) music. If you buy their CD's direct, usually they'll throw in another CD or some other merchandise for free.
The fact is CD as a media is deing. I understand the problem of those musicians but that's a fact. The real problem IMHO is that an alternative way to pay artists for their work has to be found yet.
I really don't know...It looks to me that live performance is probably going to be the biggest source of income for those folks. There are so many ways to sponsor such events. But in some ways...Seeing too much commercial stuffs around "rebels" bands could be quite surprising, especially for teenagers.
I work and Live in Schaerbeek (near bvd Lambermont). If you claim there are a lot of muslim extremists causing problems, you should really visit us again.
The real problem are young thugs most from Arab origins (objectively). They are muslim as much as I'm catholic (ie: my education, not my belief). The real problem is their lack of education and bad manners. They harass woman (most seem to have difficulties to have a girlfriend...Guess why...), each time they have to say something, they have to spit first (I guess it is trendy amongst them). They stand for hours on doorsteps doing nothing. Thanks to our generous welfare state they receive monthly income doing nothing. Anyway I have noticed that things are improving. There are more and more young arabs finding jobs (low qualitification jobs...But at least they've got a job)
Anyway there is a property boom in Schaerbeek right now and price is rising 7% per year. I just bought an apartment over here, just like a lot of young Belgians who can't afford prices from more luxurious places in Brussels. I want to build my family here. Things are changing for the best hopefully.
Stop calling expert programmers "superstars". That's precisly the point. I'm glad this post already receive 5 insightful points
I'm a business owner. I will never hire anybody considering himself as a superstar. I prefer an average Hard worker Joe over anykind of Superstar anyday. I don't plan to manage a records company with Prince of Linux, Madonna of Windows and Tom of BSD. We are engineers, act like one.
The problem with this video is that it looks to much like an Apple marketing show. But he is brilliant IMHO. If Americans don't want him, he is more than welcome in Europe:-).
Well here is a brief summary: He presented several new concepts and Fab labs. Fal Labs vulgarize sciences and technologies. His thesis is that non-technical people have technical skills too. The goal of a Fab lab is to provide an environment where they can create their own stuffs. he cited several examples, including children who produced a more efficient design than MIT engineers for a very specific task/tool. But well English isn't my native tongue, so I suggest you to watch the video clip. Anyway it looks like a very interisting approach but he was too "selling his stuffs", it wasn't an objective approach.
Then there are also several concepts and proofs of concept (such a pity that he didn't provide more information). Most of them were related to "the code won't be abstract anymore". Basically your code becomes a "real" thing.
For example students have used molecules as bytes (?). The idea behind this experiment is when you compile...Your compiler would produce molecules. The ultimate goal would be to use all these complex molecules as instructions, then as functions to program "living things" or complex material. Well I really wonder how the debugger and the compiler will look like:-). Anyway it truly looks like the final stage of "Object oriented" language:-).
It is really interesting (IMHO), sure it is mainly about "ideas" but interesting ideas.
Why spend 3 times as much on something the person obviously is not interested in?
DivX is a container format. Codecs are changing rapidly. If you have no possibility to upgrade/download/modify your DixX player you are screwed. Yesterday for example I had to downlad "an upgrade" (?) for the Audio. Don't ask me what, I know almost nothing from that part of the computing world. The "offical" DivX player was installed on my laptop a couple of weeks ago.
I wonder how much those custom air compressors cost?
I think the real issue is: Does the state will finally tax the air we breathe? How does they plan to tax air...It is a pretty common commodity if I may say:-)
It was the strategy of the Huns...They occupied almost the whole Eurasian continent? Do you remember anything from them? Rome was totally different. Rome used to assimilate other people.
Rome used to be stronger : culturally, economically and even military for hundreds of years. Empires raise and die that's a natural process in human history. Rome was different from most Empires. Their main tool was diplomacy, especially during the gauls conquest or in Greece. They used their alliances with local kings or cities to attack/invade the others...Then after few decades the ally was so dependant on Rome that it was de facto annexed.
After the fall of the Empire, most Barbarians litteraly worshipped the Roman culture. Latin was still used (in a vulgar form) as the "lingua franca" in the whole Europe...Christianity the last Roman official religion was practiced by Barbarians rulers because it was Roman, it was politically extremely positive. Even Charlesmagne (XIth) asked the pope to be crowned as the Western Roman Emperor and protector of the holly Church. This title was still used by Austrian Emperor until very recently. The Bizantine emperor, a branch of the original Roman empire was crushed by Otomans in the XVIth. Most continental European rulers like the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, Charlemagne, Charlesquint, Napolean secretly dreamed to revive the Roman Empire....And even in today Russia the Byzantine empire is still used as propaganda by nationalists, an Orthodox empire weakenned by the decadent west.
Rome is a giant in history because it had the ability to choose its policy carefully. Brutal force wasn't the only tool...What is the best result? A totally annhilated country or millions of surviving citizens happily paying taxes to be part of the free trade routes (from the UK to Jordania)? How can you expect the most sincere allegiance? By the fear of your armies? Or by the fear to lose their wealth and trading partners?
Personnally I like FLASH...For the simple reason that it gives me around 50% of my income right now. Flash is truly favoured by designer. They simply love it. They've got things they understand: vector, bitmpas, layers, etc. And most importantly they can "click", they don't need to type (they are litteraly afraid of typing codes) They don't understand Actionscript. So a lot of my juicy contracts are about injecting actionscript codes similar to a good old HTML Form and beeing paid a fortune as an "Actionscript expert" (don't laugh):-).
Most programmers consider ActionScript like some crap (it is)). But financially it does mean that there is a very cosy niche market for folks like me. So keep saying No to flash please;-)
I've worked with a number of both pro graphic designers aand students. If they don't understand how web pages are built,
I second that. You need a web designer (or a designer with web experience) otherwise: 1. They will use shiny fonts...It will work on their PC, but of course those exotics fonts won't be installed on the surfer PC. 2. Pixel != DPI (you will find yourself with a web page width: 123345px) 3. Impossible layout (things that look beautiful but you cannot translate into HTML) 4. Layout with no flexibility (don't understand that a web page content may change) 5. Content mixed with graphics (If you use FLASH no real problem...But with HTML...) 6. Scroll down layout (big headers! beautiful ones...But the content remain invisible until you scroll down) 7 Etc.
But it certainly doesn't mean that a non designer should make the layout. It will be probably technically perfect but it will be usually plain ugly too.
It won't happen. The EU can't forbid a buyout (IMHO). But They can force you to sell assets if your "new" position is a threat for a fair market.
The gap between Google and Microsoft+Yahoo (in terms of search engine, advertisings, etc) is big. I don't see any reason why the EU would have to react.
Being Belgian and thus a neighbor of those crazy dutchmen (just kidding, they are nice neighbors), I don't see the point of this robot either. Personnally I take the gas station as an opportunity to stand up, relax and breath some fresh air er I mean being outside of my car:-). $110,00 is simply prohibitive. Gas station owners make barely a living with pumps and the small shops I don't understand how they could afford it
They're still considering inviting India to join NATO, a decision will be made once Australia becomes a full member.
Joining NATO doesn't mean that you move a subcontinent and a continent to Europe/Africa (the other side of the atlantic). otherwise you can't expect reinforcement for a billion of years or so.;-)
sissy:-) hehe sorry i'm just a gun owner, so my reaction would have been, ooo is that the new hk? or sig? i must go see..... me *jog's towards officer* "
That's probably the most typical American tourist behaviour:-). ps: (you cannot have a friendly chat with the British queen either...Especially while in Paris)
One of the big reasons the USA lost in Vietnam was that it became politically unacceptable to have body bags coming home
Another reason was the cost of war. I don't see it going down with hi-tech weaponries. In terms of cost It could be interesting to compare a robot (specialized in one duty) with a versatile foot soldier.
The last time I have used Perl: I'm currently writing a server based application written in c# (mono). The email class of c# was good...but enough flexible for the multipart graphically enriched email I had to send (a report not a spam...Mind you). I couldn't properly configured the MIME Parts (especially "inline"). If I had just c# the only available would have been a commercial library.
So I end up with Perl. perl -MCPAN -e shell . install MIME::Light (if I remind well) a couple lines after I had a tool ready to send emails (based html pages written by my c# application). The script is fired up by my c# application with several parameters. It works.
You do realize that the people who are leading this war are the same people who consider trolling Slashdot a professional sport?
How did you recognize us? I knew this crappy open source "a la Amiga workbench" Artificial voice running on Linux was a bad idea. Oops, sorry Gotta go...My mum is calling me.
I have developped web services with Perl, PHP, C#, Java and I tried Python for fun.
If you don't know HTML, Javascript CSS learn them First.
I'd certainly consider PHP as a good starting point...Why?
- You can easily play with PHP on most Linux distribution without any difficulties. Most of the time PHP is part of the default web server package. (same for Perl but usally it requires additionnal installation like DBI if you want to play with database) - Syntax is quite simple and almost as flexible as Perl (almost...) - Most Hosting companies provide PHP in their basic contract (Perl isn't as common as it used to be surprisingly, Python isn't yet). - Tons of references/tutorial/forums over the web.
If you don't know basic security rules (chmod, user's right and all), try to find a book related to basic Unix/Linux files management.
Once you master them, I really suggest to make the next step...And try C# or Java. If you want to make a living of web development...There are ten PHP web developers for one Java web developer (IMHO), Java usually means big projects with big money and long term contracts.
Slashdot Mirror
Unless corporations have gained the right to vote and to hold public office while I wasn't looking?
:-)
:-)
So a foreigner living in your country isn't a person?
In french a company is "une personne morale" a "moral person". I always found that one so funny
As a human being you are a "private person", "une personne privée".
It has rights and properties, and these rights can even protect it from me its unique shareholder.
Various international treaties guarantee these rights abroad (for example: copyrights)
Netflix is paying peanuts to get a lot of research done for them.
Nobody forced them to participate.
A team mentionned that they have learnt quite a lot during the contest.
The psychologist may loose the contest...But the publicity around is priceless IMHO. You would ever heard about him without it.
Yup. It's strange - folks will post comments like "Ruby can't scale for a huge enterprise app!".
I'm not a Ruby fanboy but I agree that this argument is quite poor. A lot of entreprise apps don't need to be scaled. I mean we all need easy to code little apps that you run once a week, or a "glue" language for a specific non mission critical task. Most of the time you end up with things like Perl or Bash.
My main concern about Ruby is that very few developers know it. And you still don't know if this trendy language (whatever its features are) will still be around in ten years.
Lots of those musicians (some of which I know personally or I bought a cd of them) don't play commercially either. They go to school and/or work and in their free time they make some high quality (good) music. If you buy their CD's direct, usually they'll throw in another CD or some other merchandise for free.
The fact is CD as a media is deing. I understand the problem of those musicians but that's a fact. The real problem IMHO is that an alternative way to pay artists for their work has to be found yet.
I really don't know...It looks to me that live performance is probably going to be the biggest source of income for those folks. There are so many ways to sponsor such events. But in some ways...Seeing too much commercial stuffs around "rebels" bands could be quite surprising, especially for teenagers.
Apple released a non-3G iPhone, to ensure that everyone who buys the first iPhone for $500, will buy the iPhone3G for $500, a year later.
A link to confirm this:
Next-generation iPhone to use 3G Infineon chipset in mid-2008
http://www.intoiphone.com/2008/02/28/ubs-next-generation-iphone-to-use-3g-infineon-chipset-in-mid-2008.html
I work and Live in Schaerbeek (near bvd Lambermont). If you claim there are a lot of muslim extremists causing problems, you should really visit us again.
The real problem are young thugs most from Arab origins (objectively). They are muslim as much as I'm catholic (ie: my education, not my belief). The real problem is their lack of education and bad manners. They harass woman (most seem to have difficulties to have a girlfriend...Guess why...), each time they have to say something, they have to spit first (I guess it is trendy amongst them). They stand for hours on doorsteps doing nothing. Thanks to our generous welfare state they receive monthly income doing nothing. Anyway I have noticed that things are improving. There are more and more young arabs finding jobs (low qualitification jobs...But at least they've got a job)
Anyway there is a property boom in Schaerbeek right now and price is rising 7% per year. I just bought an apartment over here, just like a lot of young Belgians who can't afford prices from more luxurious places in Brussels. I want to build my family here. Things are changing for the best hopefully.
Stop calling expert programmers "superstars".
That's precisly the point. I'm glad this post already receive 5 insightful points
I'm a business owner. I will never hire anybody considering himself as a superstar. I prefer an average Hard worker Joe over anykind of Superstar anyday. I don't plan to manage a records company with Prince of Linux, Madonna of Windows and Tom of BSD. We are engineers, act like one.
The problem with this video is that it looks to much like an Apple marketing show. But he is brilliant IMHO. If Americans don't want him, he is more than welcome in Europe :-).
:-). Anyway it truly looks like the final stage of "Object oriented" language :-).
Well here is a brief summary:
He presented several new concepts and Fab labs. Fal Labs vulgarize sciences and technologies. His thesis is that non-technical people have technical skills too. The goal of a Fab lab is to provide an environment where they can create their own stuffs. he cited several examples, including children who produced a more efficient design than MIT engineers for a very specific task/tool. But well English isn't my native tongue, so I suggest you to watch the video clip. Anyway it looks like a very interisting approach but he was too "selling his stuffs", it wasn't an objective approach.
Then there are also several concepts and proofs of concept (such a pity that he didn't provide more information). Most of them were related to "the code won't be abstract anymore". Basically your code becomes a "real" thing.
For example students have used molecules as bytes (?). The idea behind this experiment is when you compile...Your compiler would produce molecules. The ultimate goal would be to use all these complex molecules as instructions, then as functions to program "living things" or complex material. Well I really wonder how the debugger and the compiler will look like
It is really interesting (IMHO), sure it is mainly about "ideas" but interesting ideas.
Why spend 3 times as much on something the person obviously is not interested in?
DivX is a container format. Codecs are changing rapidly. If you have no possibility to upgrade/download/modify your DixX player you are screwed. Yesterday for example I had to downlad "an upgrade" (?) for the Audio. Don't ask me what, I know almost nothing from that part of the computing world. The "offical" DivX player was installed on my laptop a couple of weeks ago.
Bye bye Netscape
I wonder how much those custom air compressors cost?
:-)
I think the real issue is: Does the state will finally tax the air we breathe?
How does they plan to tax air...It is a pretty common commodity if I may say
It was the strategy of the Huns...They occupied almost the whole Eurasian continent? Do you remember anything from them?
Rome was totally different. Rome used to assimilate other people.
Rome used to be stronger : culturally, economically and even military for hundreds of years. Empires raise and die that's a natural process in human history. Rome was different from most Empires. Their main tool was diplomacy, especially during the gauls conquest or in Greece. They used their alliances with local kings or cities to attack/invade the others...Then after few decades the ally was so dependant on Rome that it was de facto annexed.
After the fall of the Empire, most Barbarians litteraly worshipped the Roman culture. Latin was still used (in a vulgar form) as the "lingua franca" in the whole Europe...Christianity the last Roman official religion was practiced by Barbarians rulers because it was Roman, it was politically extremely positive. Even Charlesmagne (XIth) asked the pope to be crowned as the Western Roman Emperor and protector of the holly Church. This title was still used by Austrian Emperor until very recently. The Bizantine emperor, a branch of the original Roman empire was crushed by Otomans in the XVIth. Most continental European rulers like the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, Charlemagne, Charlesquint, Napolean secretly dreamed to revive the Roman Empire....And even in today Russia the Byzantine empire is still used as propaganda by nationalists, an Orthodox empire weakenned by the decadent west.
Rome is a giant in history because it had the ability to choose its policy carefully. Brutal force wasn't the only tool...What is the best result? A totally annhilated country or millions of surviving citizens happily paying taxes to be part of the free trade routes (from the UK to Jordania)? How can you expect the most sincere allegiance? By the fear of your armies? Or by the fear to lose their wealth and trading partners?
I had a simple list of requirements: ...
NO CAMERA
Why don't you simply break the lens? Or paint it in black or something? Problem solved IMHO (?)
And whatever you do, just say NO to flash.
:-).
;-)
Personnally I like FLASH...For the simple reason that it gives me around 50% of my income right now. Flash is truly favoured by designer. They simply love it. They've got things they understand: vector, bitmpas, layers, etc. And most importantly they can "click", they don't need to type (they are litteraly afraid of typing codes)
They don't understand Actionscript. So a lot of my juicy contracts are about injecting actionscript codes similar to a good old HTML Form and beeing paid a fortune as an "Actionscript expert" (don't laugh)
Most programmers consider ActionScript like some crap (it is)). But financially it does mean that there is a very cosy niche market for folks like me.
So keep saying No to flash please
I've worked with a number of both pro graphic designers aand students. If they don't understand how web pages are built,
I second that. You need a web designer (or a designer with web experience) otherwise:
1. They will use shiny fonts...It will work on their PC, but of course those exotics fonts won't be installed on the surfer PC.
2. Pixel != DPI (you will find yourself with a web page width: 123345px)
3. Impossible layout (things that look beautiful but you cannot translate into HTML)
4. Layout with no flexibility (don't understand that a web page content may change)
5. Content mixed with graphics (If you use FLASH no real problem...But with HTML...)
6. Scroll down layout (big headers! beautiful ones...But the content remain invisible until you scroll down)
7 Etc.
But it certainly doesn't mean that a non designer should make the layout. It will be probably technically perfect but it will be usually plain ugly too.
It won't happen. The EU can't forbid a buyout (IMHO). But They can force you to sell assets if your "new" position is a threat for a fair market.
The gap between Google and Microsoft+Yahoo (in terms of search engine, advertisings, etc) is big. I don't see any reason why the EU would have to react.
Formats like JSON are just as usable, and not to mention more lightweight. Where's the gain?
The first thing coming to my mind:
no schema.
When you work in extremely complex environment, with different companies located in different cities/countries/continent...You need it.
Mafia doesn't French to me at all(I'm Frenchspeaker).
The closest French word would be "la pègre"
Wikipedia mentionned that it "may" derive from an arabic word.
Being Belgian and thus a neighbor of those crazy dutchmen (just kidding, they are nice neighbors), I don't see the point of this robot either. :-). $110,00
Personnally I take the gas station as an opportunity to stand up, relax and breath some fresh air er I mean being outside of my car
is simply prohibitive. Gas station owners make barely a living with pumps and the small shops I don't understand how they could afford it
They're still considering inviting India to join NATO, a decision will be made once Australia becomes a full member.
;-)
Joining NATO doesn't mean that you move a subcontinent and a continent to Europe/Africa (the other side of the atlantic). otherwise you can't expect reinforcement for a billion of years or so.
sissy :-) hehe sorry i'm just a gun owner, so my reaction would have been, ooo is that the new hk? or sig? i must go see..... me *jog's towards officer* "
:-).
That's probably the most typical American tourist behaviour
ps: (you cannot have a friendly chat with the British queen either...Especially while in Paris)
One of the big reasons the USA lost in Vietnam was that it became politically unacceptable to have body bags coming home
Another reason was the cost of war. I don't see it going down with hi-tech weaponries. In terms of cost It could be interesting to compare a robot (specialized in one duty) with a versatile foot soldier.
The last time I have used Perl:
I'm currently writing a server based application written in c# (mono). The email class of c# was good...but enough flexible for the multipart graphically enriched email I had to send (a report not a spam...Mind you). I couldn't properly configured the MIME Parts (especially "inline"). If I had just c# the only available would have been a commercial library.
So I end up with Perl. perl -MCPAN -e shell . install MIME::Light (if I remind well)
a couple lines after I had a tool ready to send emails (based html pages written by my c# application). The script is fired up by my c# application with several parameters. It works.
You do realize that the people who are leading this war are the same people who consider trolling Slashdot a professional sport?
How did you recognize us?
I knew this crappy open source "a la Amiga workbench" Artificial voice running on Linux was a bad idea.
Oops, sorry Gotta go...My mum is calling me.
I have developped web services with Perl, PHP, C#, Java and I tried Python for fun.
If you don't know HTML, Javascript CSS learn them First.
I'd certainly consider PHP as a good starting point...Why?
- You can easily play with PHP on most Linux distribution without any difficulties. Most of the time PHP is part of the default web server package. (same for Perl but usally it requires additionnal installation like DBI if you want to play with database)
- Syntax is quite simple and almost as flexible as Perl (almost...)
- Most Hosting companies provide PHP in their basic contract (Perl isn't as common as it used to be surprisingly, Python isn't yet).
- Tons of references/tutorial/forums over the web.
If you don't know basic security rules (chmod, user's right and all), try to find a book related to basic Unix/Linux files management.
Once you master them, I really suggest to make the next step...And try C# or Java. If you want to make a living of web development...There are ten PHP web developers for one Java web developer (IMHO), Java usually means big projects with big money and long term contracts.