And if you are lucky enough to be able to read German, there is of course Chefkoch with an abundance of recipes. Among my friends and colleagues, it "chefkoch.de" has become a word similar to "googling".:-)
Probably all those posts got already modded down, but when I read the comments, there were at least 3 stating such things. Fortunately, the moderation system appears to work.:-)
Since I am not too familiar with the issue, I'd rather leave that to the experts instead of just claiming "you can't predict this and that".
Even if you are right, experts are experts (and politicians are politicians, for that matter). If an expert has something to say about his field, he should be allowed to speak, even if you personally disagree. Science is also discourse. If you effectively disallow one opinion on a matter that is not yet settled, you will never find truth.
At the moment, the system is completely voluntarily. If I read the press release correctly, it should ease identity control for travelers. You no longer have to go through manual control but can instead simply look into a camera. Of course, you'll need to be registered first.
The German authorities will not be able to enforce this system for a long time, as it is impossible to force all other countries to provide such data.
Besides, did you ever notice that Europeans have to provide biometric information when applying for a US visa?
Actually it was on the radio (at least here in Bavaria). Sometimes it is better to hear radio than just watch dumb TV.:-)
And to all those Germany-bashing guys here: the law that made this possible was actually brought to us because the US administration wanted tighter controls and criticised European passports; so please, for once, get informed before reverting to boring prejudices.
What science are you in? As I am myself a scientist, I came to realise that there are different kinds of science. Social scientists tend to find their own truths and fight over it. Truth in this sense is not absolute, it depends on the proponent. Natural sciences, however, are much more focussed on the one truth which can be proved either by formal methods (which themselves are known to be correct) or by facts. Granted, there is still dispute over this and that in natural sciences, but much less so than in social sciences.
If a nobel laureate (of the natural sciences) says that someone is twisting the truth, then it should make you think. If 20 nobel laureates do so, then even more.
The Knoppix CD edition *does* support writing NTFS. It uses the native Windows drivers to mount the filesystem. Not the fastest approach, but reliable.
Microsoft has a reputation of abusing not only users but also latin terms. IE is "it est". Even worse is their translation of "Re:" in email subjects to things like "AW" (Antwort) or "SV" (Svar) which both means "reply" (first in German, second in Swedish and probably Danish), whereas the "re" in emails comes from latin "In Re" (in the subject of).
One might see a database as merely a "big file" with mechanisms to access and modify it consistently (and surely, Google has some means to ensure consistency). A big file does not disqualify for the term "database" just because it is not produced by one of {Oracle, MS-SQL,...} or cannot be queried by the language SQL.
It is also possible to consider the Web to be a database (of Web sites). Or an XML, BibTeX, dbm, whatsoever file.
This has always been a little controversial, but there have been student strikes before. You are right, students are not required to take classes, and what the students do is not a strike in the legal sense. On the other hand, if noone goes to the lectures, they are effectively not being held. This *does* have a large effect, at least in politics.
Also, since a student strike does not hurt as much as a worker strike, the students have to revert to more spectacular means. The one described in this article is one of them. Another media effective action was the demonstration at IKEA last week where many students occupied the beds there and "applied" for educational asylum in Sweden.
You could say it is a kind of demonstration, but a very specific one.
BTW: I am not a student, but work as assistant at a German university, so I am familiar with the current situation and the student protests.
For them to send at least one message to "root@[offending IP address]" telling me there was a problem in the first place.
The right address for this is "postmaster@..." or "abuse@...", and definately not "root@...". Maybe they indeed did sent you notice, but you didn't have those two (in some parts of the world required) addresses set up correctly.
I'm a 4th year computer science major, focused on coding.
You won't need a university degree for coding. You probably intend to do software engineering.
Most money in this area is made by specialised software that is only suited for a small number of customers and highly customised for their purposes. Even if all software were Open Source, and even if you would publish your own specialised software as Open Source, you'd still earn your money for customisation, i.e. for adding customer-specific extensions, etc. If you developed a program, you have sufficient expertise to be a few years ahead of others who might take the source and try to earn money with it.
Most people I know earn their money with this kind of work.
Not that I am using KDE, but how does using KDE put money into McBride's pocket, if everything is GPL? As for non-GPL software: Nobody is required to write QT-based software. Openoffice, Gnumeric, Mozilla all run fine in KDE. Is Evolution bad just because Ximian has control over it?
Personally I think MSOffice is the best thing Microsoft's ever released
No, the best thing Microsoft has ever released is Age of Empires. In fact, I would be completely satisfied if Microsoft would focus on programming games, they are good at that.:-)
That's the problem. All of your energy saving techniques make life more miserable. Computers -should- always be on. Flourescent lights are miserable and cause headaches and probably some form of cancer. Flat panels are ok but I think the resolution and color treatment of a CRT is still better. Efficient appliances clean less, keep food less fresh, and cook worse. It takes energy to boil water, takes energy to have decent light, takes energy to do anything.
Funny thing is that we need much less energy to achieve these tasks in Europe (according to this message the factor is aproximately 1.67). So obviously, there must be much potential for saving energy in the US.
Also, your claim that fluorescent lamps cause headache is complete nonesense. Modern energy-saving lights do not flicker. The only thing one has to get used to is that the light is somewhat "whiter" than from ordinary lamps.
And what definately causes cancer is nuclear contamination (whereas to claim that for energy saving lights is ridiculous). Maybe the risk of a meltdown in a nuclear plant is very low. But considering the amount of damage such a meltdown can cause, it is still much too big.
For a USian it is easy to say that Chernobyl is not much of a problem, since it doesn't affect you. We Europeans however still suffer from the consequences, although we were several thousand kilometers away. For instance, since it is now autumn the local newspapers still publish what kinds of mushrooms should not be consumed due to high contamination.
I would recommend you to read some literature about the issue before glorifying nuclear power. Fiction books like Fall-Out (Die Wolke) and The last children (Die letzten Kinder von Schewenborn) should be a must-read in every school (as they were for us some 10-15 years ago). True, such books are fiction, but based on known facts about the effects of a nuclear meltdown and the laws that take effect in such cases.
I also remember a German TV production which demonstrated what would happen (based on the current laws on this issue) in case of a meltdown in Central Europe. The film was never shown in Germany (probably censorship) but I had the chance to see it in Sweden. It was very shocking to see how citizens will be treated if they happen to be in the 100km-zone of a nuclear meltdown.
Especially since Bavaria's ruling party (CSU - christian conservative) today got a 2/3 majority. (and note: this is NOT the party ruling the city of Munich!). People are soo stupid sometimes. Good night democracy.
You'll see by the stats posted there that our robbery and other forms of crime are lower than England's and other countries,
Maybe that is because burglary usually does not involve guns. Anyway, I prefer being robbed than being murdered.
While we have a higher percentage of murder, our murder rates are declining while theirs are rising, narrowing the gap.
A difference between 14 and 0.4 is more than a gap. It's a factor of 35! And US stats are even more than twice as high than Northern Ireland which was considered as being at war at that time.
This is most certainly not a rule of logic, neither basic nor anything else. I'd recommend you take a good book (e.g. Eliott Mendelson, "An Introduction into Mathematical Logic") and get a clue before doing such statements!
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Even if you are right, experts are experts (and politicians are politicians, for that matter). If an expert has something to say about his field, he should be allowed to speak, even if you personally disagree. Science is also discourse. If you effectively disallow one opinion on a matter that is not yet settled, you will never find truth.
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The German authorities will not be able to enforce this system for a long time, as it is impossible to force all other countries to provide such data.
Besides, did you ever notice that Europeans have to provide biometric information when applying for a US visa?
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And to all those Germany-bashing guys here: the law that made this possible was actually brought to us because the US administration wanted tighter controls and criticised European passports; so please, for once, get informed before reverting to boring prejudices.
Sebastian
If a nobel laureate (of the natural sciences) says that someone is twisting the truth, then it should make you think. If 20 nobel laureates do so, then even more.
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The Knoppix CD edition *does* support writing NTFS. It uses the native Windows drivers to mount the filesystem. Not the fastest approach, but reliable.
Sebastian
Microsoft has a reputation of abusing not only users but also latin terms. IE is "it est". Even worse is their translation of "Re:" in email subjects to things like "AW" (Antwort) or "SV" (Svar) which both means "reply" (first in German, second in Swedish and probably Danish), whereas the "re" in emails comes from latin "In Re" (in the subject of).
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One might see a database as merely a "big file" with mechanisms to access and modify it consistently (and surely, Google has some means to ensure consistency). A big file does not disqualify for the term "database" just because it is not produced by one of {Oracle, MS-SQL, ...} or cannot be queried by the language SQL.
It is also possible to consider the Web to be a database (of Web sites). Or an XML, BibTeX, dbm, whatsoever file.
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Also, since a student strike does not hurt as much as a worker strike, the students have to revert to more spectacular means. The one described in this article is one of them. Another media effective action was the demonstration at IKEA last week where many students occupied the beds there and "applied" for educational asylum in Sweden.
You could say it is a kind of demonstration, but a very specific one.
BTW: I am not a student, but work as assistant at a German university, so I am familiar with the current situation and the student protests.
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The right address for this is "postmaster@..." or "abuse@...", and definately not "root@...". Maybe they indeed did sent you notice, but you didn't have those two (in some parts of the world required) addresses set up correctly.
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You won't need a university degree for coding. You probably intend to do software engineering.
Most money in this area is made by specialised software that is only suited for a small number of customers and highly customised for their purposes. Even if all software were Open Source, and even if you would publish your own specialised software as Open Source, you'd still earn your money for customisation, i.e. for adding customer-specific extensions, etc. If you developed a program, you have sufficient expertise to be a few years ahead of others who might take the source and try to earn money with it. Most people I know earn their money with this kind of work.
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Not that I am using KDE, but how does using KDE put money into McBride's pocket, if everything is GPL? As for non-GPL software: Nobody is required to write QT-based software. Openoffice, Gnumeric, Mozilla all run fine in KDE. Is Evolution bad just because Ximian has control over it?
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Geography for USians: It's that island close to the south pole, south-east of California.:-)
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No, the best thing Microsoft has ever released is Age of Empires. In fact, I would be completely satisfied if Microsoft would focus on programming games, they are good at that.:-)
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Funny thing is that we need much less energy to achieve these tasks in Europe (according to this message the factor is aproximately 1.67). So obviously, there must be much potential for saving energy in the US.
Also, your claim that fluorescent lamps cause headache is complete nonesense. Modern energy-saving lights do not flicker. The only thing one has to get used to is that the light is somewhat "whiter" than from ordinary lamps.
And what definately causes cancer is nuclear contamination (whereas to claim that for energy saving lights is ridiculous). Maybe the risk of a meltdown in a nuclear plant is very low. But considering the amount of damage such a meltdown can cause, it is still much too big.
For a USian it is easy to say that Chernobyl is not much of a problem, since it doesn't affect you. We Europeans however still suffer from the consequences, although we were several thousand kilometers away. For instance, since it is now autumn the local newspapers still publish what kinds of mushrooms should not be consumed due to high contamination.
I would recommend you to read some literature about the issue before glorifying nuclear power. Fiction books like Fall-Out (Die Wolke) and The last children (Die letzten Kinder von Schewenborn) should be a must-read in every school (as they were for us some 10-15 years ago). True, such books are fiction, but based on known facts about the effects of a nuclear meltdown and the laws that take effect in such cases.
I also remember a German TV production which demonstrated what would happen (based on the current laws on this issue) in case of a meltdown in Central Europe. The film was never shown in Germany (probably censorship) but I had the chance to see it in Sweden. It was very shocking to see how citizens will be treated if they happen to be in the 100km-zone of a nuclear meltdown.
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RMS has a serious drawback. He is not European.:-)
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Especially since Bavaria's ruling party (CSU - christian conservative) today got a 2/3 majority. (and note: this is NOT the party ruling the city of Munich!). People are soo stupid sometimes. Good night democracy.
Somewhat frustrated,
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Maybe that is because burglary usually does not involve guns. Anyway, I prefer being robbed than being murdered.
While we have a higher percentage of murder, our murder rates are declining while theirs are rising, narrowing the gap.
A difference between 14 and 0.4 is more than a gap. It's a factor of 35! And US stats are even more than twice as high than Northern Ireland which was considered as being at war at that time.
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You won't be able to play many DVDs with it, since libcss is one of the major legal problems...
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However, native threads do not work for the Java plugin in Mozilla yet.
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As Slashdot is among these 0.01%, I'd prefer a whitelist.:-)
SebastianThis is most certainly not a rule of logic, neither basic nor anything else. I'd recommend you take a good book (e.g. Eliott Mendelson, "An Introduction into Mathematical Logic") and get a clue before doing such statements!
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