Exactly. Any player in the search market that wants to compete with google should first get the non-US markets. Google is not very strong in countries that use non-latin characters and even for me in germany it is a pain to find german and english results at the same time.
She bought wii fit, played it for like 2 weeks then that fad wore off.
I think she misunderstood the purpose of wii fit. You're suppose to get rid of the fat
"Networking won't solve this". Imagine a second Katrina, you're in the middle of the floods, you still have electricity but mobile phone communication isn't working. You ask for technical help, and the answer you get is "Networking won't solve this. You need to build better dams instead".
As others pointed out, there are technical ways to create ad-hoc wifi networks, I guess similar to the idea of the OLPC networking mode.
There are probably even laws that state that websites from public institutions have to be accessible. But the sad thing is that in many cases "Accessibility" is implemented by adding a button somewhere on the site to make the font larger. I saw this at my former university. At the same time their webpage was so cluttered with frames (even after frames were fashionable) that the site would be very hard to browse with a text-only browser, so converting to braille would be hard. Really, websites with public information should STILL be tested with lynx or w3m just for this reason.
In the last year there was 12 Trillion dollar spent on bailing out banks. By non-communist parties. Again, who actually HAS an understanding of basic economics? Neither the banks nor existing parties in power, apparently. The worst thing is, nobody still knows how this immense amount of bailout money is going to be paid back, everybody is just trying to act as if nothing happened.
Unfortunately, in several cases the Europeans did not learn the lesson from the private rail systems in the US and more recently the UK. For example the Germans are actually still trying to privatize their relatively efficient railway system (typing from a packed german commuter train now). I'm not completely up-to-date, probably the economic crisis suspended the privatization for a while.
I partly agree, but since everybody is a layman in most of the fields of science, any good article should contain both the simplified representation for laypersons and then the exact formulation for those who need that. In an old-school encyclopedia there wouldn't be the space for it, but wikipedia could have this easily.
Don't forget Bing Gordyn, the 8th man on the moon. And the first one with a mustache, so basically the first man on the moon (with mustache). On the moon. Moon! Moon! Moon!
No, universities need funding. To increase your chance on funding, you need to have a measurable output. Like number of papers for the research part, or percentage of first-semester students that will pass the final exam. At least in the Netherlands and Germany, and depending on the study, classes with required attendance exist. With the change to Bachelor/Master, comparison to other universities got easier, and many curricula have been adapted to ensure students will pass (testing if homework has been done, etc). At the same time, the high schools in the Netherlands were restructured to give the pupils more responsibility. That only worked by scrapping part of the natural sciences, which are now taught in (obligatory?) preparation classes before your semester starts.
Basically, it's a mess. Personally, I'd think that universities are for developing an academic way of thought. But since that can't be quantified, funding won't depend on it, and it won't come in the equation.
I went to russia from the EU last year. It works like this: you pay a company to arrange the visum for you. This costs about 60 euro and takes 2 weeks. In the plane before landing you get a small form in which you fill in your name and in some cases the address where you will be staying, twice. You give this form at the border, they keep half of it, you have to give the other half when you go out. That's all there is to it, and it's not like Russia has different problems with terrorism than the US.
In Germany, you have to tell your city council which religion you are, and then the state subtracts a 50 euro/month tax from your salary, depending on your religion. If you want to stop paying, you have to get a written confirmation from a church pastor that you are out of the church. Separation of church and state? Not here.
Actually all those reasons are the reason that I buy at amazon and others. I once had a logitech headset that broke because of flimsy build quality. Within the year I went back to the store, but they wouldn't accept it. The only time I will buy something at a brick & mortar store will be if I need it on exactly that day and precise specifications don't count so much, for example empty cds.
Exactly. I have no need for latest & greatest, I just want to have Linux with as little as fuss as possible. Dell is doing this very nicely, I like their netbook linux adaptation even better than the asus one. It's just not perfect for mom & pop yet. Very close, though.
Hmm, did you ever see an actual train? It generally is not as wide as the train tracks it rides on. Not many people would fit in otherwise. For example, trains carry standard size shipping containers, which are 8 feet wide. Exterior width of a typical boxcar is 10 feet 8 inches. Since there has to be some space at both sides, 12 feet is not an unreasonable width for a single-lane train tunnel.
Indeed, as of April 22 2009, the german government has accepted a law censoring child porn on the internet. Nobody can object that child porn is bad, but in practice this law will end up blocking random urls (that can be instantly renamed anyway), and creating the means to block any information, be it on purpose or 'accidentally'.
Why censor? Because control of information means more power over people. How this applies to video games is not directly clear to me either, but as the summary says there is a lot of money involved which probably does not go to state taxes.
The wording of these safety reports is essential. Same happened to the subway of Cologne. They sent engineers to one of the buildings along the track that had cracks in it. These engineers wrote a report in which they described that it didn't look so bad, but recommended further investigation. This lead to the city not looking in to it anymore, and a collapse of the city library a few months later, killing several people and destroying irreplaceable historical documents.
As far as protective lab clothing is involved, during my chemistry master's project I didn't wear protective clothing in the lab most of the time. I guess it was a bit of a prestige issue, having the feeling that you know enough of the risks to assess when to wear a labcoat or not. In retrospect, I was bullshitting myself, even if I myself would be able to assess the risk of my work, there is no way on how to assess the risk of what the others in your lab are doing. Or just bad luck, a tube could just let loose all of a sudden.
And indeed, why was this lab accessable by this girl at all, at this day. Shut the bloody lab down during obligatory holidays.
Happened to someone I know about two months ago. She was suspicious about the e-mails (one about the change to automatic billing, one about the change back), but they looked legit. I already guessed it was a screw-up on skype's site, as no money was charged. Just as bad: in any case (or was it jajah) is that they automatically click the little checkbox on automatic payment every time you make a payment via their web site. You have to opt-out every single time.
I had a hardware problem on my german Dell Ubuntu mini, the keyboard would get stuck on one letter. I called Dell, got routed to the person responsible for service calls on Ubuntu machines, convinced him it wasn't a software problem and arranged with him to get a new keyboard sent to me. So no, they do their service themselves.
I have no access to the Dell sales statistics, but if I go to the german consumer website of Dell, and select a mini, it is right there in my face: 2 out of 3 offers for the 9" are ubuntu, one out of 4 for the 10". The 12" inch version is only available with ubuntu. I bought a 9" early this year, and are very happy with it, it is my main machine. I mounted an SD card as a disk, increased ram to 2 GB, and I have a very efficient linux machine now.
My only problem is that dell broke the loading of.Xmodmap some updates ago, and I'm not sure how to get them to repair it. Maybe I should call? A bigger problem, though not for me personally, is the network manager in unbuntu 8.04, which can't start umts sticks in a decent way. I assigned one of the nice buttons in the dell desktop to a wvdial script, but for people coming from windows, it would be a let-down.
No. Without these malevolent hackers, the website would have gotten into severe problems anyway with this backup scheme. The ones that should be persecuted, if any, are the sysadmins who had a very sloppy backup solution to backup the data worth a lot of time invested by their community.
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Exactly. Any player in the search market that wants to compete with google should first get the non-US markets. Google is not very strong in countries that use non-latin characters and even for me in germany it is a pain to find german and english results at the same time.
She bought wii fit, played it for like 2 weeks then that fad wore off.
I think she misunderstood the purpose of wii fit. You're suppose to get rid of the fat
As others pointed out, there are technical ways to create ad-hoc wifi networks, I guess similar to the idea of the OLPC networking mode.
There are probably even laws that state that websites from public institutions have to be accessible. But the sad thing is that in many cases "Accessibility" is implemented by adding a button somewhere on the site to make the font larger. I saw this at my former university. At the same time their webpage was so cluttered with frames (even after frames were fashionable) that the site would be very hard to browse with a text-only browser, so converting to braille would be hard. Really, websites with public information should STILL be tested with lynx or w3m just for this reason.
I was going to post a link to a funny script some guy once made that disactivates your linux after 30 days, but instead I found this
In the last year there was 12 Trillion dollar spent on bailing out banks. By non-communist parties. Again, who actually HAS an understanding of basic economics? Neither the banks nor existing parties in power, apparently. The worst thing is, nobody still knows how this immense amount of bailout money is going to be paid back, everybody is just trying to act as if nothing happened.
Unfortunately, in several cases the Europeans did not learn the lesson from the private rail systems in the US and more recently the UK. For example the Germans are actually still trying to privatize their relatively efficient railway system (typing from a packed german commuter train now). I'm not completely up-to-date, probably the economic crisis suspended the privatization for a while.
I partly agree, but since everybody is a layman in most of the fields of science, any good article should contain both the simplified representation for laypersons and then the exact formulation for those who need that. In an old-school encyclopedia there wouldn't be the space for it, but wikipedia could have this easily.
Don't forget Bing Gordyn, the 8th man on the moon. And the first one with a mustache, so basically the first man on the moon (with mustache). On the moon. Moon! Moon! Moon!
No, universities need funding. To increase your chance on funding, you need to have a measurable output. Like number of papers for the research part, or percentage of first-semester students that will pass the final exam. At least in the Netherlands and Germany, and depending on the study, classes with required attendance exist. With the change to Bachelor/Master, comparison to other universities got easier, and many curricula have been adapted to ensure students will pass (testing if homework has been done, etc). At the same time, the high schools in the Netherlands were restructured to give the pupils more responsibility. That only worked by scrapping part of the natural sciences, which are now taught in (obligatory?) preparation classes before your semester starts.
Basically, it's a mess. Personally, I'd think that universities are for developing an academic way of thought. But since that can't be quantified, funding won't depend on it, and it won't come in the equation.
I went to russia from the EU last year. It works like this: you pay a company to arrange the visum for you. This costs about 60 euro and takes 2 weeks. In the plane before landing you get a small form in which you fill in your name and in some cases the address where you will be staying, twice. You give this form at the border, they keep half of it, you have to give the other half when you go out. That's all there is to it, and it's not like Russia has different problems with terrorism than the US.
In Germany, you have to tell your city council which religion you are, and then the state subtracts a 50 euro/month tax from your salary, depending on your religion. If you want to stop paying, you have to get a written confirmation from a church pastor that you are out of the church. Separation of church and state? Not here.
btw two automobile tyres cost $240? What where they made of, gold?
Actually all those reasons are the reason that I buy at amazon and others. I once had a logitech headset that broke because of flimsy build quality. Within the year I went back to the store, but they wouldn't accept it. The only time I will buy something at a brick & mortar store will be if I need it on exactly that day and precise specifications don't count so much, for example empty cds.
Exactly. I have no need for latest & greatest, I just want to have Linux with as little as fuss as possible. Dell is doing this very nicely, I like their netbook linux adaptation even better than the asus one. It's just not perfect for mom & pop yet. Very close, though.
Hmm, did you ever see an actual train? It generally is not as wide as the train tracks it rides on. Not many people would fit in otherwise. For example, trains carry standard size shipping containers, which are 8 feet wide. Exterior width of a typical boxcar is 10 feet 8 inches. Since there has to be some space at both sides, 12 feet is not an unreasonable width for a single-lane train tunnel.
Indeed, as of April 22 2009, the german government has accepted a law censoring child porn on the internet. Nobody can object that child porn is bad, but in practice this law will end up blocking random urls (that can be instantly renamed anyway), and creating the means to block any information, be it on purpose or 'accidentally'.
Why censor? Because control of information means more power over people. How this applies to video games is not directly clear to me either, but as the summary says there is a lot of money involved which probably does not go to state taxes.
The wording of these safety reports is essential. Same happened to the subway of Cologne. They sent engineers to one of the buildings along the track that had cracks in it. These engineers wrote a report in which they described that it didn't look so bad, but recommended further investigation. This lead to the city not looking in to it anymore, and a collapse of the city library a few months later, killing several people and destroying irreplaceable historical documents. As far as protective lab clothing is involved, during my chemistry master's project I didn't wear protective clothing in the lab most of the time. I guess it was a bit of a prestige issue, having the feeling that you know enough of the risks to assess when to wear a labcoat or not. In retrospect, I was bullshitting myself, even if I myself would be able to assess the risk of my work, there is no way on how to assess the risk of what the others in your lab are doing. Or just bad luck, a tube could just let loose all of a sudden. And indeed, why was this lab accessable by this girl at all, at this day. Shut the bloody lab down during obligatory holidays.
Or for a next "Cube" or "Saw" movie.
Happened to someone I know about two months ago. She was suspicious about the e-mails (one about the change to automatic billing, one about the change back), but they looked legit. I already guessed it was a screw-up on skype's site, as no money was charged. Just as bad: in any case (or was it jajah) is that they automatically click the little checkbox on automatic payment every time you make a payment via their web site. You have to opt-out every single time.
I had a hardware problem on my german Dell Ubuntu mini, the keyboard would get stuck on one letter. I called Dell, got routed to the person responsible for service calls on Ubuntu machines, convinced him it wasn't a software problem and arranged with him to get a new keyboard sent to me. So no, they do their service themselves.
I have no access to the Dell sales statistics, but if I go to the german consumer website of Dell, and select a mini, it is right there in my face: 2 out of 3 offers for the 9" are ubuntu, one out of 4 for the 10". The 12" inch version is only available with ubuntu. I bought a 9" early this year, and are very happy with it, it is my main machine. I mounted an SD card as a disk, increased ram to 2 GB, and I have a very efficient linux machine now.
My only problem is that dell broke the loading of .Xmodmap some updates ago, and I'm not sure how to get them to repair it. Maybe I should call? A bigger problem, though not for me personally, is the network manager in unbuntu 8.04, which can't start umts sticks in a decent way. I assigned one of the nice buttons in the dell desktop to a wvdial script, but for people coming from windows, it would be a let-down.
No. Without these malevolent hackers, the website would have gotten into severe problems anyway with this backup scheme. The ones that should be persecuted, if any, are the sysadmins who had a very sloppy backup solution to backup the data worth a lot of time invested by their community.
and smell the lid, not the container!