Most likely the responsible guys are not the programmers but the "product managers". Programmers like to play with their software. You can not call it "testing" but everyone once a while "clicks through" his work. But as soon as a programmer raises his finger he gets put down as "you have no clue anyway!"
At the same time, the GPS unit is activated on the phone and the phone attempts to get a lock. No, the cell towers you are connected to triangulate on you.
Why, don't you just come to Germany and read a newspaper about it? And honestly, what has the WTO to say about german energy prices? Why are you not happy! The more Audi or Porsche has to pay for energy the more expensive is the car in your country! Is that not good for you to compete with us?
That reminds me about a story at a mayour web mail and now internet company in Germany. M$ approached them every month to send sales men to show the M$ solutions to them. After years of pestering management desided a group of 'selected developers' should meet those salesmen and evaluate the technology. Bottom line it was about M$ selling them an exchange server infrastructure. The 'selected dev team' obviously planned to let them run ontoma wall. Anyway, so they had that perfect planned day, with 4 sessiosns of 90 minutes talks about various technologies, where the developers politely asked simple questions. And at the end of the day one developer asked: 'this is all nice and good, but can your backend really process 50k emails?' The M$ representative nodded and said: '50k eMails per month is no problem. With some tweaking I believe 50k per week is manageable'. The developer nodded, too "Well, I was thinking about 50k per hour, on average and about 250k on peak".
The funny thing is not the missmatch in numbers. It is the braindead retarded idea of an american company that the biggest web/mail hoster in germany (80,000,000 inhabitants) can be hosted by a 4 CPU 256MB Pentium 'X' on an exchange server.
You are wrong. Free software was always related to GNU. Open Source were all other 'open/free' software you could download. I use the term since 1988/1989 and was not even aware that most software *I* called 'open source' is/was in fact 'free software' from the gnu project.
Open Source is changing the wold. A cloud without linux, docker, Java, and all those Apache projects is nearly unthinkable. However why would a bank or a travel agency or an airline open source their custom made software?
The numbeds for power prices are wrong. I doubt anyone pays more than 25cents, on a remote north sea island, perhaps. I pay 18 cents, and could drop that perhaps to 18 or 14 if I was not to lazy to switch provider. The average is hardly above 22 cents.
kW/h prices are hardly relevant anyway, relevant is the total amount you pay per month or the percentage of your income. And in that regard Germany is quite low. I pay 100Euro a month for electricity AND natural gas.
Germany is not importing power. We export about 1/3rd of our power generation.
We mostly are a transit country for exports into our neighbours, some charts show this as import, but they usulally have also transit charts or export charts.
Keep in mind that modern "Tagalog" is an artificial language. Formed after WW2 in language contests to determine what the official language of the Philippines should be. It is basically an amalgam of the 2 or 3 most common Tagalog dialects.
Well, I'm born 1966, the word I grew up with was "Telephon" (note the ph, it is now reformed to an f). However my grand aunt used "Fernsprecher". I don't recall others using that word (but probably my fathers mother did, too)
In an SF novel, by John Brunner (probably "Stand on Sansibar") the author explains that OK comes from an African dialect spoken in Senegal. And the word in that dialect is "wokai" which means "all is fine" or "all is good" or "for sale" or "you can have". It came to Europe by dutch traders.
However I never checked this... after all SF stories are truth, or not?
This is probably one of the most idiotic posts about a triviality like correct spelling.
Aluminium is spelled all over the world aluminium... now for you dumbfuck americans the question is WHY? Why would that be the preferred and correctspelling?
Because it is pronounced that way! Like every damn other chemical element that ends with "ium", there are dozens!
Yeah, you pronounce it different, like you pronounce Uranus wrong and make jokes about it which make you look super childish in the eyes of the rest of the 6.9 billion inhabitants on the planet.
I really wonder what happened to common sense. You are now the second person bringing up that brine issue.
Last time I checked, desalination plants where placed at places where large amounts of salt water were available. A coast of a majour sea comes to mind. Cape Town actually can chose from two of them.
What to do with the brine I leave as an mental excercise for the reader...
It would be highly inconvenient but individuals could walk to the ocean, get water, carry it back to their apartment, boil it, and produce clean drinking water. Seriously?
Yes, you personally. However rising the price of water above the price of beer... not sure if that works. Then again people need to flush the toilet. And then again, last time I checked, but I might be wrong, a gallon is 2.6 liters. So in a climate like Cape Town a person needs about 3 gallons. In a random german city people already are supposed to drink about 2 gallons per day. And then again, 1 gallon per day for $10 is $300 per month, and you have neither washed, showered or flushed the toilett for that price.
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Most likely the responsible guys are not the programmers but the "product managers".
Programmers like to play with their software. You can not call it "testing" but everyone once a while "clicks through" his work.
But as soon as a programmer raises his finger he gets put down as "you have no clue anyway!"
At the same time, the GPS unit is activated on the phone and the phone attempts to get a lock.
No, the cell towers you are connected to triangulate on you.
Why, don't you just come to Germany and read a newspaper about it?
And honestly, what has the WTO to say about german energy prices?
Why are you not happy! The more Audi or Porsche has to pay for energy the more expensive is the car in your country! Is that not good for you to compete with us?
That reminds me about a story at a mayour web mail and now internet company in Germany.
M$ approached them every month to send sales men to show the M$ solutions to them.
After years of pestering management desided a group of 'selected developers' should meet those salesmen and evaluate the technology.
Bottom line it was about M$ selling them an exchange server infrastructure.
The 'selected dev team' obviously planned to let them run ontoma wall. Anyway, so they had that perfect planned day, with 4 sessiosns of 90 minutes talks about various technologies, where the developers politely asked simple questions.
And at the end of the day one developer asked: 'this is all nice and good, but can your backend really process 50k emails?'
The M$ representative nodded and said: '50k eMails per month is no problem. With some tweaking I believe 50k per week is manageable'.
The developer nodded, too "Well, I was thinking about 50k per hour, on average and about 250k on peak".
The funny thing is not the missmatch in numbers. It is the braindead retarded idea of an american company that the biggest web/mail hoster in germany (80,000,000 inhabitants) can be hosted by a 4 CPU 256MB Pentium 'X' on an exchange server.
You are wrong.
Free software was always related to GNU.
Open Source were all other 'open/free' software you could download.
I use the term since 1988/1989 and was not even aware that most software *I* called 'open source' is/was in fact 'free software' from the gnu project.
Open Source is changing the wold.
A cloud without linux, docker, Java, and all those Apache projects is nearly unthinkable.
However why would a bank or a travel agency or an airline open source their custom made software?
Reprocessing spend fuel just produces more waste, roughly a factor of ten. :)
Get a dams clue
Coal usage in Germany is dropping year by year, idiot.
The numbeds for power prices are wrong.
I doubt anyone pays more than 25cents, on a remote north sea island, perhaps.
I pay 18 cents, and could drop that perhaps to 18 or 14 if I was not to lazy to switch provider.
The average is hardly above 22 cents.
kW/h prices are hardly relevant anyway, relevant is the total amount you pay per month or the percentage of your income.
And in that regard Germany is quite low. I pay 100Euro a month for electricity AND natural gas.
Read my old posts, there are enough citations. ...
And: learn how to google
Germany is not importing power.
We export about 1/3rd of our power generation.
We mostly are a transit country for exports into our neighbours, some charts show this as import, but they usulally have also transit charts or export charts.
Get a damn clue, moron.
Perhaps he only knew those two foreign words, Entomology and Etymology, and is constantly mixing them up?
That could happen to the best of us!
Keep in mind that modern "Tagalog" is an artificial language. Formed after WW2 in language contests to determine what the official language of the Philippines should be. It is basically an amalgam of the 2 or 3 most common Tagalog dialects.
Well,
I'm born 1966, the word I grew up with was "Telephon" (note the ph, it is now reformed to an f).
However my grand aunt used "Fernsprecher".
I don't recall others using that word (but probably my fathers mother did, too)
In an SF novel, by John Brunner (probably "Stand on Sansibar") the author explains that OK comes from an African dialect spoken in Senegal. And the word in that dialect is "wokai" which means "all is fine" or "all is good" or "for sale" or "you can have". It came to Europe by dutch traders.
However I never checked this ... after all SF stories are truth, or not?
In German, "Kraeuter Tee", aka "herbal tee", in french however it is an "infusion".
This is probably one of the most idiotic posts about a triviality like correct spelling.
Aluminium is spelled all over the world aluminium ... now for you dumbfuck americans the question is WHY? Why would that be the preferred and correctspelling?
Because it is pronounced that way! Like every damn other chemical element that ends with "ium", there are dozens!
Yeah, you pronounce it different, like you pronounce Uranus wrong and make jokes about it which make you look super childish in the eyes of the rest of the 6.9 billion inhabitants on the planet.
P and F are similar sounds. I guess many americans call her dad not dad but pa, or at least grandpa, is called grandpa ...
Father is obviously the "more formal name" of a male parent. The informal is Pa, Papa etc. Same with "Mum", "Mom" and "Mother".
Americans can not even pronounce "amen" correctly.
Amen is greek, and does not exist in any other language.
I really wonder what happened to common sense.
You are now the second person bringing up that brine issue.
Last time I checked, desalination plants where placed at places where large amounts of salt water were available. A coast of a majour sea comes to mind. Cape Town actually can chose from two of them.
What to do with the brine I leave as an mental excercise for the reader ...
It would be highly inconvenient but individuals could walk to the ocean, get water, carry it back to their apartment, boil it, and produce clean drinking water.
Seriously?
No comment ... facepalm.
South Afrika is a first worl country.
No one is or will be dying of thirst there.
How stupid are you?
But thanx for your brain dead suggestions.
Welcome to the black market of water trade: "Suk! Suk!"
Yes, you personally. ... not sure if that works.
However rising the price of water above the price of beer
Then again people need to flush the toilet.
And then again, last time I checked, but I might be wrong, a gallon is 2.6 liters. So in a climate like Cape Town a person needs about 3 gallons. In a random german city people already are supposed to drink about 2 gallons per day.
And then again, 1 gallon per day for $10 is $300 per month, and you have neither washed, showered or flushed the toilett for that price.
Why would it need fixing? ...
Sorry, I don't get it