What about the outrage from arrogant media producers who feel they deserve to continue raking in obscene profits for work they did many years ago?
I'm a user of piratebay, I know what I do is illegal and I won't reject my fault on somebody else. They define their price that's up to you to buy or not.
Sure I might consider to buy their stuffs if it was slightly cheaper but in the end, I know I'm the offender, they aren't. It's a bit childish to try proving we are on the right side, IMHO.
When you (implicitly) agree to take part of the benefits of living in a society, you also (implicitly) agree to pay the costs.
Depends what you mean by implicitly. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that I had already a debt of 35000 euro. This was a popular joke amongst belgians when the state debt was over 120% of the GDP in the 80's (now +/- 85% if I remind well).
Because of this bad management (in the 70's and early 80's) the income tax went up dramatically (over 50% of my income during all my professionnal life)...My grand father used to remind me that in 50's they only had to pay...around 28% (and there were no VAT but that's another story).
I personnally think anykind of deficit is a sort of crime. You jeopardize future generations well being. It should be outlawed and politicians allowing a structural deficit should be punished in a way or another.
Taxes isn't always for us, it is sometimes for them (those enjoying the welfare state of the 70's in my case and the debt left afterwards).
Airbust QA sucks, sadly. They differ highly with how Boeing does things; they rely on computers *way* too much, which is why I will never fly on an Airbus a/c. The pilot is not given #1 priority in the cockpit.
Why do we all come with +20 years old technology? The fact that we most learnt computer on these plateforms (commodore, atari, ZX spectrum, etc.) doesn't mean that today kids have to.
The web is their new playground, why not teach them the languages in the background (PHP, ASP, or even JavaScript). I'm sure they will soon find a pet project and they will be proud to show mum and dads their new shiny web service.
Make it fun, make it close to their reality and hobbies, you are often surprise how responsive they become.
Let BASIC die and die hard. If you want to teach a useful scripting language, there are plenty out there: Tcl/TK, Perl, Ruby, etc.
Well the merit of BASIC of that time is that it was available per default on (almost) all micro-computer, and in some ways BASIC was useful (...to classify your LP's collection:-p)
Today all computers have a web browser and the web is probably the thing they use the most...Why not JavaScript? It is quite simple to understand, its syntax is quite minimal/standard and you can produce something flashy quickly like alert("hello world"):-).
Assuming, of course, that the companies you've invested in don't fold with a negative value. From that, there's no recovery.
Don't buy individual stocks
Everything is a matter of balance. I have invested in JP morgan chase (nyse:JPM) in August ($36.6 I think) now the market value is +/- $46 (+25%). It truly outperfoms the market IMHO. Of course I didn't invest my whole savings on this. But saying you shouldn't buy individual stocks is as weird as saying that you should buy invididual stocks only. Things were you should never play as an amateur are the intraday and any short term speculation. Professionnal have information sources/technologies you'll never have.
Well I agree that The UK has never been the best of ESA partners concerning funds...But the last serious ESA program I remember (Hermes)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes_(shuttle)
has been blocked by Germany if I remember well. It was immediatly after the fall of the berlin wall and they needed all the money they had to finance the East-Germany reconstruction.
Looks like the partnership they had in mind with Russia has been jeopardized by the last Georgian-Russian Skirmish and an overall feeling concerning Russia (Lately a dispute with the Czcech Republic).
I buy a laptop each two years. around $700 each. I play video games occasionally. Those "cheap" laptops and desktops form the core of the PC market. Instead of developing games for this core market, they develop games for the tiniest fraction (ie hard core gamer) ready to spend $400 on a video card. Horsepower of those cheap computers? Well mine runs flawlessly vista and all its 3D gimmicks.
At the same time, being ideological is not connected with any especially noticable level of intelligence or consistence. As one example, if McCain wins by 51% then it will be interpreted as a sign that Americans are bigoted hate-filled unprogressed rednecked caveman-racists. If Obama wins by 51%, it will be seen as a Hallelujah of new hope for a social-democratic United States.
Well I'm European and until very recently I had great sympathy for McCain. Why did I change my view? Religion (ie: his vice-president). There is a big gap between the US and European countries on that issue. If an European prime minister or a President says "God bless #countryname" and dares to place dozens of "divine references" in his speech, it would be weird, scary in a way (a threat for the division between the state and the church). Even the catholic party in my country doesn't dare to say the word "God" when they discuss the abortion issue.
Well being European I beg to differ.
My last vacations (in july) were roughly 4 days wk included. First hollidays abroad for 3 years.
The reason? I'm business owner, I arrive at 8h00 and I usually leave at 19h00.
Frankly it all depends of your sector. You may have those famous 35 hours per week in public services (38 hours in mine) but extra hours are common in the private world (paid or not).
I don't mean we are as "bad" (or courageous) as the US, I simply mean that we aren't this "lost paradise" (or evil socialist countries) you all seem to dream about.
Read the article. It looks like common sense to me.A lot of kids have been told home that the earth is 6000 years old (Jehovah witnesses , Muslim extremists, and so on). That's a fact.
If you don't want to lose them, you have to confront their beliefs (creationism) with facts (science and in this case the theory of evolution). I find it quite healthy, it forces them to argue and to understand the way science works (no belief, observations, experimentations).
Why are chicken eggs so tasty? Animals have been stealing eggs from birds for millions of years, shouldn't they have evolved some non-tasty additives by now?
Change your point of view: why do "you" find eggs so tasty (because you are the predator in this scenario). Taste is subjective, most common repulsive things are bad for your health or are a danger. You like it because there a lot of proteins and fat. You are "programmed" to like it. Key ingredients for your survival (27% of fat, 12% of protein, the rest mostly water...How could you resist?).
why are those eggs so rich? Because the embryo needs it in order to grow, they don't appear ex nihilo. The prey and the predator are both living being. Both consumes the same thing.
A defence isn't always "material. Why such a short incubation? And after blossoming Why do they grow so quickly? Why such a burden on both parents? Why so many eggs and not just one?
the last part of the answer: parent habits. Why do they use nest? Why do they defend their young ones? Why do their parents stay alternatively inside the nest? Why those maternal instincts are so powerful? Instincts and "cultures" are also part of the evolution.
that chance is really rather slim. By the time they have taken out the memory and analyze it , the data will likely be gone.
Even so , it only works if your truecrypt volume was mounted at that moment. I don't auto mount it.
But that UPS gave me an idea though.Maybe it can be coupled to an auto forced dismount when the power is cut off.
Geeks and their porn files...We always wonder how to hide them:-)
This great if you have little experience with an object oriented language. They state that they are funny...Well sometimes they are:-).
Another way to learn java is to code a little Java mobile App. This is fun, the API is quite limited usually and so you don't need hours of documentation before seeing something nice.
The blackberry IDE was free and really nice to use back in my early days. You get the basic before heading to more serious things.
In any country you go to, no matter who the American president is, you'll find anti-Americans,
Real anti-americans are rare, as rare as being anti-french in Germany, anti-italian in spain, etc. (I live in Belgium)
The real issue is purely politic. If you support officially Bush in a diner, then you can expect some hot discussions. (But looks like they have nothing against Mc Cain).
A well designed page has no care for the specific font that is used, only the style of font and size.
Errr...Well that is not what communication agencies and multnationals have worked for would say. The font is extremely important and as a web developer (ie programmer) I got my ass regularly kicked because I couldn't see the difference between times new roman, Arial, Verdana and the rest (now I can:-)).
I love Quebec, but when it comes to politics, I hang my head. For example, you cannot even put up a poster in english. The stop signs say "arret", french for stop. In France, they say "stop".
From a foreign Frenchspeaking point of view. There are Frenchspeaking orthodoxes using French words almost forgotten on the other side of the Atlantic and a quite funny French with English words. Sometimes the mix is incredible you feel like speaking to a XVIIth person working for a hi-tech marketing department:-).
But I would go back any day:-). Great people, great country, for frenchspeaking people, there are "our" americans;-).
However, every side does not use whatever advantage they have; otherwise Americans would have nuked both Afghanistan and Iraq long ago. Which, given the trigger-happy moron in charge, I'm pleasantly surprised didn't actually happen.
Look at this report concerning the Korean war and nukes. Atomic bombs have been seriously considered but diplomatically speaking it would have seriously impaired the US position (see the British reaction) and stratigically speaking there were strong doubts that it would help to win the war....And even if you wiped the ennemy out of a region...Well what did you gain? The "freed" area will be a no man zone. A position lost depending on your strategy. It would even make your troops movement more complex and healthcare more costly/complex.
The beauty of perl OO is you are NOT put into a straightjacket by it
Well I agree, flexibility is the perl best asset... I'm sure that it is beautiful...Well thought and all. But I learnt Java, C#, PHP intensively, Python to some extents and the great things about these languages is that I don't start from scratch.
I know what a class is, what an interface, what abstract means, etc. You see very basic things.They all use approximatly the same syntax for any OO related feature.
With Perl? This is a totally different syntax, a different concept with a totally different technical slang (bless...I needed hours to understand it the first time I saw it...and days to understand how to create a singleton).
I'm sure that OO PHP5 is less powerful than OO Perl, but learning it is so natural, you don't even need a book if you have already programmed in objects.
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What about the outrage from arrogant media producers who feel they deserve to continue raking in obscene profits for work they did many years ago?
I'm a user of piratebay, I know what I do is illegal and I won't reject my fault on somebody else. They define their price that's up to you to buy or not. Sure I might consider to buy their stuffs if it was slightly cheaper but in the end, I know I'm the offender, they aren't. It's a bit childish to try proving we are on the right side, IMHO.
When you (implicitly) agree to take part of the benefits of living in a society, you also (implicitly) agree to pay the costs.
Depends what you mean by implicitly. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that I had already a debt of 35000 euro. This was a popular joke amongst belgians when the state debt was over 120% of the GDP in the 80's (now +/- 85% if I remind well). Because of this bad management (in the 70's and early 80's) the income tax went up dramatically (over 50% of my income during all my professionnal life)...My grand father used to remind me that in 50's they only had to pay...around 28% (and there were no VAT but that's another story).
I personnally think anykind of deficit is a sort of crime. You jeopardize future generations well being. It should be outlawed and politicians allowing a structural deficit should be punished in a way or another.
Taxes isn't always for us, it is sometimes for them (those enjoying the welfare state of the 70's in my case and the debt left afterwards).
Airbust QA sucks, sadly. They differ highly with how Boeing does things; they rely on computers *way* too much, which is why I will never fly on an Airbus a/c. The pilot is not given #1 priority in the cockpit.
I guess you won't ever fly a Boeing 787 either http://www.avtoday.com/av/categories/commercial/11668.html
Well I had to migrate a whole administration web site (coldfusion based) dating from 1998 to PHP. This migration was done on 2007.Reason?
Almost nobody knows it anymore.
Coldfusion is dead.
Bless(you);
How about using a Commodore 64 emulator?
Why do we all come with +20 years old technology? The fact that we most learnt computer on these plateforms (commodore, atari, ZX spectrum, etc.) doesn't mean that today kids have to.
The web is their new playground, why not teach them the languages in the background (PHP, ASP, or even JavaScript). I'm sure they will soon find a pet project and they will be proud to show mum and dads their new shiny web service.
Make it fun, make it close to their reality and hobbies, you are often surprise how responsive they become.
Let BASIC die and die hard. If you want to teach a useful scripting language, there are plenty out there: Tcl/TK, Perl, Ruby, etc.
Well the merit of BASIC of that time is that it was available per default on (almost) all micro-computer, and in some ways BASIC was useful (...to classify your LP's collection :-p)
Today all computers have a web browser and the web is probably the thing they use the most...Why not JavaScript? It is quite simple to understand, its syntax is quite minimal/standard and you can produce something flashy quickly like alert("hello world") :-).
Assuming, of course, that the companies you've invested in don't fold with a negative value. From that, there's no recovery.
Don't buy individual stocks
Everything is a matter of balance. I have invested in JP morgan chase (nyse:JPM) in August ($36.6 I think) now the market value is +/- $46 (+25%). It truly outperfoms the market IMHO. Of course I didn't invest my whole savings on this. But saying you shouldn't buy individual stocks is as weird as saying that you should buy invididual stocks only. Things were you should never play as an amateur are the intraday and any short term speculation. Professionnal have information sources/technologies you'll never have.
Well I agree that The UK has never been the best of ESA partners concerning funds...But the last serious ESA program I remember (Hermes) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes_(shuttle) has been blocked by Germany if I remember well. It was immediatly after the fall of the berlin wall and they needed all the money they had to finance the East-Germany reconstruction.
Looks like the partnership they had in mind with Russia has been jeopardized by the last Georgian-Russian Skirmish and an overall feeling concerning Russia (Lately a dispute with the Czcech Republic).
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/1319205
ATV was clearly an outsider compared to the ESA-Russian program...Now this is totally different. ESA wants to be independent as far as I understand.
I buy a laptop each two years. around $700 each. I play video games occasionally. Those "cheap" laptops and desktops form the core of the PC market.
Instead of developing games for this core market, they develop games for the tiniest fraction (ie hard core gamer) ready to spend $400 on a video card.
Horsepower of those cheap computers? Well mine runs flawlessly vista and all its 3D gimmicks.
At the same time, being ideological is not connected with any especially noticable level of intelligence or consistence. As one example, if McCain wins by 51% then it will be interpreted as a sign that Americans are bigoted hate-filled unprogressed rednecked caveman-racists. If Obama wins by 51%, it will be seen as a Hallelujah of new hope for a social-democratic United States.
Well I'm European and until very recently I had great sympathy for McCain. Why did I change my view? Religion (ie: his vice-president). There is a big gap between the US and European countries on that issue. If an European prime minister or a President says "God bless #countryname" and dares to place dozens of "divine references" in his speech, it would be weird, scary in a way (a threat for the division between the state and the church). Even the catholic party in my country doesn't dare to say the word "God" when they discuss the abortion issue.
Well being European I beg to differ. My last vacations (in july) were roughly 4 days wk included. First hollidays abroad for 3 years.
The reason? I'm business owner, I arrive at 8h00 and I usually leave at 19h00.
Frankly it all depends of your sector. You may have those famous 35 hours per week in public services (38 hours in mine) but extra hours are common in the private world (paid or not).
I don't mean we are as "bad" (or courageous) as the US, I simply mean that we aren't this "lost paradise" (or evil socialist countries) you all seem to dream about.
Read the article. It looks like common sense to me.A lot of kids have been told home that the earth is 6000 years old (Jehovah witnesses , Muslim extremists, and so on). That's a fact.
If you don't want to lose them, you have to confront their beliefs (creationism) with facts (science and in this case the theory of evolution). I find it quite healthy, it forces them to argue and to understand the way science works (no belief, observations, experimentations).
Why are chicken eggs so tasty? Animals have been stealing eggs from birds for millions of years, shouldn't they have evolved some non-tasty additives by now?
Change your point of view: why do "you" find eggs so tasty (because you are the predator in this scenario). Taste is subjective, most common repulsive things are bad for your health or are a danger. You like it because there a lot of proteins and fat. You are "programmed" to like it. Key ingredients for your survival (27% of fat, 12% of protein, the rest mostly water...How could you resist?).
why are those eggs so rich? Because the embryo needs it in order to grow, they don't appear ex nihilo. The prey and the predator are both living being. Both consumes the same thing.
A defence isn't always "material. Why such a short incubation? And after blossoming Why do they grow so quickly? Why such a burden on both parents? Why so many eggs and not just one?
the last part of the answer: parent habits. Why do they use nest? Why do they defend their young ones? Why do their parents stay alternatively inside the nest? Why those maternal instincts are so powerful? Instincts and "cultures" are also part of the evolution.
that chance is really rather slim. By the time they have taken out the memory and analyze it , the data will likely be gone. Even so , it only works if your truecrypt volume was mounted at that moment. I don't auto mount it. But that UPS gave me an idea though.Maybe it can be coupled to an auto forced dismount when the power is cut off.
Geeks and their porn files...We always wonder how to hide them :-)
My first Java book was: head first. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004651/
This great if you have little experience with an object oriented language. They state that they are funny...Well sometimes they are :-).
Another way to learn java is to code a little Java mobile App. This is fun, the API is quite limited usually and so you don't need hours of documentation before seeing something nice.
The blackberry IDE was free and really nice to use back in my early days. You get the basic before heading to more serious things.
In any country you go to, no matter who the American president is, you'll find anti-Americans,
Real anti-americans are rare, as rare as being anti-french in Germany, anti-italian in spain, etc. (I live in Belgium)
The real issue is purely politic. If you support officially Bush in a diner, then you can expect some hot discussions. (But looks like they have nothing against Mc Cain).
A well designed page has no care for the specific font that is used, only the style of font and size.
Errr...Well that is not what communication agencies and multnationals have worked for would say. The font is extremely important and as a web developer (ie programmer) I got my ass regularly kicked because I couldn't see the difference between times new roman, Arial, Verdana and the rest (now I can :-)).
Being compared to...Let's say Voltaire French (XVII-XVIIIth) is hardly an insult to me.
And if you read Wikipedia:
"Historically speaking, the closest relative of Canadian French is the 17th century koine of Paris.".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_French
Looks like I'm not the only one thinking that way.
I love Quebec, but when it comes to politics, I hang my head. For example, you cannot even put up a poster in english. The stop signs say "arret", french for stop. In France, they say "stop".
From a foreign Frenchspeaking point of view. There are Frenchspeaking orthodoxes using French words almost forgotten on the other side of the Atlantic and a quite funny French with English words. Sometimes the mix is incredible you feel like speaking to a XVIIth person working for a hi-tech marketing department :-).
But I would go back any day :-). Great people, great country, for frenchspeaking people, there are "our" americans ;-).
So...Californians, please don't eat LEDs...Voila problem solved.
Also, since net neutrality is not the law, that sort of throttling might even be legal.
Well I'm not a lawyer nor American...But due to their size, can't it be considered as unfair practices against the competition? (other VOD providers?)
However, every side does not use whatever advantage they have; otherwise Americans would have nuked both Afghanistan and Iraq long ago. Which, given the trigger-happy moron in charge, I'm pleasantly surprised didn't actually happen.
Look at this report concerning the Korean war and nukes. Atomic bombs have been seriously considered but diplomatically speaking it would have seriously impaired the US position (see the British reaction) and stratigically speaking there were strong doubts that it would help to win the war....And even if you wiped the ennemy out of a region...Well what did you gain? The "freed" area will be a no man zone. A position lost depending on your strategy. It would even make your troops movement more complex and healthcare more costly/complex.
The beauty of perl OO is you are NOT put into a straightjacket by it
Well I agree, flexibility is the perl best asset... I'm sure that it is beautiful...Well thought and all. But I learnt Java, C#, PHP intensively, Python to some extents and the great things about these languages is that I don't start from scratch. I know what a class is, what an interface, what abstract means, etc. You see very basic things.They all use approximatly the same syntax for any OO related feature.
With Perl? This is a totally different syntax, a different concept with a totally different technical slang (bless...I needed hours to understand it the first time I saw it...and days to understand how to create a singleton). I'm sure that OO PHP5 is less powerful than OO Perl, but learning it is so natural, you don't even need a book if you have already programmed in objects.