Sorry, but anti-copying technology means anti-listening technology, since these two processes are in effect the same. Also note that those are the CDs you won't be able to play on your pc or car stereo because, in effect, these CDs are not complying to the CD standards made in the 80's. So you wasted your money on a product that doesn't offer what it said it would (be a medium you can use to play music with on CD players). Thank you very much German lawmakers!
I'm living in Germany and was sort of proud of it even, being a bit of Linux heaven, but 2007 has been a very bad year for technology in Germany, most of it thanks to minister of interior Schäuble, I have the impression. The new ridiculous laws ('anti-hacking') that have been passed have everything in them to give Germany a big push backwards in time as far as technology is concerned. I wonder why they spend money trying to push themselves forward if they make laws bringing them backward at the same time. Why don't they sell out all technology to China directly. All I can say is, I didn't vote for these people and wouldn't if I could. I hope it gets better because there aren't many countries left with reasonable technology legislation.
Thank you for that one! It would be nice if you had made a latex template, though, that would have saved a lot of people the work to find out again and again how to mix the text in the two orientations. Well, you'd have to invent TeX first in those days, so I guess you're not to blame;)
I recently discoverd that when creating an on-line ad on some german websites for student housing they automatically use your input for the website to generate a bearded-bulletin pdf to print and hang out on your campus. It looks like the bearded bulletin is here to stay!
Just try to find lists of countries where tazers are allowed and where they are not allowed. I'm no expert in this, but I would say not many countries use them at the moment.
Tazers are as far as I know not used in Germany, not a very small country and with [ quote ] civilized [/quote ] inhabitants. If you try to vehemently disrupt a meeting in a way like this, you get probably worked onto the ground (like this guy), handcuffed (like this guy), and then just guided out of the place, instead of tazered. (There is a risk of a dog biting your leg, if present, but that also counts for both countries) See, not so difficult, was it. Many countries all over the world can do without the tazer and still keep order, without substituting the tazering for shooting. Most police shooting incidents in Europe seem to happen when police officers are attacked by an armed person. That is not the moment that you would normally use a tazer, as you need to be close by for that, and thus too late to start defending yourself. Actually just thinking about it: the only practical use of a tazer, as a short distance weapon, is in those cases where the victim is unarmed.
I can understand why you don't sympathize with the guy, but no matter the cause, tazering is a heavy physical action to put on someone who did NOT DO ANY PHYSICAL HARM TO ANYONE, and you should reconsider if you want this to be commonly used against citizens in various degree of civilizedness. Also remember that the kind of behavior that passes as 'civilized' or 'disturbing' might be subject to changes, depending on the time or state. In some regions of the US it might be disturbing when two people of the same gender are kissing. Get the tazers ready!
I got smartsuite with my aptiva 100 mhz in the second half of the 90s, and it was a blast! A very well made program with excellent equation editor, and easily costumizable. It really was a pleasure to use. I think it died because of lack of critical mass, MS forced its junk on every PC thinkable, along with the OS, IBM only had access to software on their own PCs.
And, allowing myself to add an open wish to IBM: please, fix the OOo stability before adding new features. For example, OOo over NFS will drive one mad at the moment, it just locks up completely. The default configuration seems very NFS unfriendly as well.
In careful study after doing the post (who has time to do research before posting anyway!), I found out that wicked sick only belongs to the killing sprees, which of course can't be the case here. Still "wicked sick" is such an awesome thing to say, that it should be mentioned as much as possible.
Didn't anyone tell you? Slashdot and its users stopped using new material about 5 years ago. Since then, we've just been posting and reading the same old shit over and over again, it's more efficient that way. Let me put it in an understandable form:
1. Read dupe article
2. Copy-paste sort-of-relevant post from last time
3....
4. Profit!
That website is actually made in the same type as GP opposes to. No raw data, but instead showing lots of Down Syndrom kids. Whereas the WHO report shows that of all things, the occurence of Down syndrom in kids hasn't changed significantly after Chernobyl. Also, it is very hard to get reliable statistics, where statistics is needed the most. Environmental lobby groups are likely to play the effects up, pro-nuclear power groups are likely to play them down, local governments would either like to show that they are not some poor place to have empathy with, or show that they need more funding to help with their healthcare. Anything can happen inbetween actual statistics and the statistics that are published in reports.
Seriously, I've never heard of something called a 'photoshop conference', but if all they discuss there is startup times and airbrushing techniques, it must be pretty boring.
The funny thing is, in Holland we call chemistry, physics, and math 'exact sciences' (exacte wetenschappen). Apart from math, this is quite far from the truth. Chemistry stops at the 3rd digit and physics is, as you say more a scaling science: if it is not ten times as big, it's the same.
You should become a scientist as well, because then you are obviously allowed to make valid statements about research you are unaffiliated with. Since, as everyone knows, all scientists know all the details about every scientific article ever written, and therefore are the main authority to project their personal opinions on any scientific results, and let that be used as a substitute for the conclusion from the actual authors, whenever that conclusion deviates too much from your own opinion.
Same here, I had too many bad experiences with freehosters and free urls in the end of the 90s that I would know even think about registering my domain at some 2 dollar per domain name host. In effect, you can logically expect the quality as with a free host, except that you pay for it this time. Say if you would have a good backup system, then still, what if it goes bust, how do you get your domain name back? Instead I registered a VPS with a local host that was probably a bit too expensive, but not a bad deal (9 euro per month for 10 GB space and 500 GB bandwith, one server shared per max. 10 people). Main point: I know how to reach them, and they have the money for a good service (and spend it for that as well).
I am a simple person. Can someone explain to me why you invite lots of journalists to see your new product, and then ask them not to write about it? They are journalists! Their job is to write things in (online) magazines! What are they supposed to write 'AMD showed us some very cool thing, but we are not allowed to write about it'. Why then invite them in the first place?
I can understand employees of companies have to sign NDAs to not tell anyone about what they are working on. But if you have a press event, you should make it so that you show the press that what you want to get out. Asking for NDAs is either mockup bullshit to make it more exciting for journalists to tell about what they have seen, or just a sign that they didn't organize their press meeting in a smart way.
I find many of my nerdy friends to be interested in art and good books as well, especially the ones that open interesting angles to looking at the world, often even going into the absurd. A good example is the work of Lewis Carroll, who was in fact a mathematician (and not called Lewis Carroll). I actually voluntarily memorized 'Jabberwocky' myself.
As for what you can do as an English teacher, my English teacher allowed me to read a few articles of popular scientific journals as substitute for a book in the list of 7 books I had to read for oral exams. (And he also wisely didn't ask me the question about the role of the Native American in 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest' I admit, I didn't really read the book. Well, most pupils just memorized the pre-made book summaries anyway).
In retrospect, he did a good thing with that, as I need the use of scientific English more than anything else nowadays.
But what I liked most of my school time was that most teachers were getting us think for ourselves. My biology teacher was phenomenal. He never used to present us the stuff in the book, he just started each class by asking one of the pupils a question.
Why do we need sex? What is a cold? He would not accept an "I don't know". Everyone feared his class, because you couldn't just lay back and sleep, he might send you away. But this was probably one of the best trainings for well, thinking for yourself!
In general, if you can in any way inspire kids with your general interests, you are doing already a good job in making them open-minded, and open mind helps you in all aspects of life.
I come originally from the Netherlands, which is probably one of the most lighted countries in the world. When I visit my family, I am amazed that at night with the curtains open it is as if it is day 24 hours a day. And this is not in a city center, just in a normal housing area. I now live in Germany, not so far away either geographically or culturally, but there is way less light out here, I would say less than half, and I can actually see the stars more often. Still I feel less scared than in the Netherlands, but that is because Germany really is the country of mostly law-abiding citizens the prejudice tells it to be. Most crimes are probably standardized according to some crime industry norm. Just joking...
On the Autobahns, there are almost no lights at all. In whole west Germany I only know about one or two pieces of a few kilometers where there are lights. And when I first came here I was surprised that driving on an Autobahn with no lights is actually more comfortable than driving on the completely illuminated Dutch roads. You can look much further ahead (an eye trained to the dark can distinguish a single photon, you can probably catch the light of a car that is a mile in front of you) . Also by the shape of the lights you can distinguish trucks from cars, which helps when you're speeding. In general, you can just concentrate better.
What I don't like BTW are the LED back lights on cars. For some reason they create a memory effect in my retina, and the eyes seem to automatically follow these lights, which is very distracting. This is probably because they have the overall same intensity as normal back lights, but much more focused. I wonder if this isn't dangerous on the long term.
[tin_foil_hat=on] All this is just collateral damage of the great "dumbing the people down" scheme that is needed to get more votes and support for political parties and ideas that make no common sense.
As a side note, as a non-native speaker I have the feeling (based on very unscientific incidental data) that these spelling errors are more often made by native speakers than by foreigners. Maybe because as a foreigner you are thought to be more aware of the differences of these words (that holds for any language).
Long answer: I've never heard of it before, but the PhrasR website is on http://www.pimpampum.net/phrasr/archive.php, and they have their contact info right out there on their front page at http://www.pimpampum.net. And gosh, it's "info@...". This wasn't much effort, didn't even have to do a whois! Please do it yourself next time, or your nerd status will be revoked! Just joking...
Anyway, these are pretty creative people, nice website, thank you for pointing me to it!
Hmm, as a non-US-ian, I am not so much in favor of the right to carry arms, but since it is historically important to the US I won't discuss that now.
What I do find interesting is that similar things are happening in Germany nowadays. The minister of interior Schüable got partially crippled 17 years ago when he was shot in an attack on him (he was then also minister of interior). Now, he is introducing a shitload of freedom-limiting laws, as you have read on slashdot this year (e.g. forbidding possession of 'hacking' tools).
Strangely enough, he is actually in favor of the loosening of the right to carry arms, probably because he wants to carry arms himself, I have no real clue. For both your example as the current, one can say: for any political measure, fear should not be the reason behind it.
DoD uses our system for a wide range of applications...
The main application is looking just as cool as in the movies! Seriously, this technology is wicked! I'd want to be some badass DoD employee pinpointing things on interactive displays. Preferably on transparent vertical screens, like in that james bond movie. And some others, but I forgot the names.
Also, this is one of the places where you wonder how it can be patented. I mean, this is no revolution, it is a development that has just been waiting to happen for ages. Touchscreen devices have been around for years and years now, as have been displaying maps on computers. The only limiting factor from these cool toys being developed on a large scale was the quality and size of the touchscreens available, the processing power to recalculate maps in real time, and some smart way to create the interface. Only the last part can be the innovation here I guess, but patenting an interface is not something I would deem useful, there are too many ways to work around it.
Oh they used cupboard, well, whatever floats their boat.
Personally (and rather unfortunately), I find the goatse analogy that I just mentioned easier to remember.
Also, just imagine the possibilities, an interactive goatse as screensaver! I should stop now ruining everybody's day, shouldn't I;) Sorry!
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Sorry, but anti-copying technology means anti-listening technology, since these two processes are in effect the same. Also note that those are the CDs you won't be able to play on your pc or car stereo because, in effect, these CDs are not complying to the CD standards made in the 80's. So you wasted your money on a product that doesn't offer what it said it would (be a medium you can use to play music with on CD players). Thank you very much German lawmakers! I'm living in Germany and was sort of proud of it even, being a bit of Linux heaven, but 2007 has been a very bad year for technology in Germany, most of it thanks to minister of interior Schäuble, I have the impression. The new ridiculous laws ('anti-hacking') that have been passed have everything in them to give Germany a big push backwards in time as far as technology is concerned. I wonder why they spend money trying to push themselves forward if they make laws bringing them backward at the same time. Why don't they sell out all technology to China directly. All I can say is, I didn't vote for these people and wouldn't if I could. I hope it gets better because there aren't many countries left with reasonable technology legislation.
Also note how he solved the layout problem of smileys within brackets: only a single bracket is needed, people!
I recently discoverd that when creating an on-line ad on some german websites for student housing they automatically use your input for the website to generate a bearded-bulletin pdf to print and hang out on your campus. It looks like the bearded bulletin is here to stay!
Yeah this number is way too low, $105 Billion is about the expected loss for a record company if you just downloaded a song of theirs from a torrent!
Tazers are as far as I know not used in Germany, not a very small country and with [ quote ] civilized [ /quote ] inhabitants. If you try to vehemently disrupt a meeting in a way like this, you get probably worked onto the ground (like this guy), handcuffed (like this guy), and then just guided out of the place, instead of tazered. (There is a risk of a dog biting your leg, if present, but that also counts for both countries) See, not so difficult, was it. Many countries all over the world can do without the tazer and still keep order, without substituting the tazering for shooting. Most police shooting incidents in Europe seem to happen when police officers are attacked by an armed person. That is not the moment that you would normally use a tazer, as you need to be close by for that, and thus too late to start defending yourself. Actually just thinking about it: the only practical use of a tazer, as a short distance weapon, is in those cases where the victim is unarmed.
I can understand why you don't sympathize with the guy, but no matter the cause, tazering is a heavy physical action to put on someone who did NOT DO ANY PHYSICAL HARM TO ANYONE, and you should reconsider if you want this to be commonly used against citizens in various degree of civilizedness. Also remember that the kind of behavior that passes as 'civilized' or 'disturbing' might be subject to changes, depending on the time or state. In some regions of the US it might be disturbing when two people of the same gender are kissing. Get the tazers ready!
And, allowing myself to add an open wish to IBM: please, fix the OOo stability before adding new features. For example, OOo over NFS will drive one mad at the moment, it just locks up completely. The default configuration seems very NFS unfriendly as well.
In careful study after doing the post (who has time to do research before posting anyway!), I found out that wicked sick only belongs to the killing sprees, which of course can't be the case here. Still "wicked sick" is such an awesome thing to say, that it should be mentioned as much as possible.
1. Read dupe article 2. Copy-paste sort-of-relevant post from last time 3. ...
4. Profit!
And even worse, he forgot 'wicked sick'!
That website is actually made in the same type as GP opposes to. No raw data, but instead showing lots of Down Syndrom kids. Whereas the WHO report shows that of all things, the occurence of Down syndrom in kids hasn't changed significantly after Chernobyl. Also, it is very hard to get reliable statistics, where statistics is needed the most. Environmental lobby groups are likely to play the effects up, pro-nuclear power groups are likely to play them down, local governments would either like to show that they are not some poor place to have empathy with, or show that they need more funding to help with their healthcare. Anything can happen inbetween actual statistics and the statistics that are published in reports.
Seriously, I've never heard of something called a 'photoshop conference', but if all they discuss there is startup times and airbrushing techniques, it must be pretty boring.
The funny thing is, in Holland we call chemistry, physics, and math 'exact sciences' (exacte wetenschappen). Apart from math, this is quite far from the truth. Chemistry stops at the 3rd digit and physics is, as you say more a scaling science: if it is not ten times as big, it's the same.
You should become a scientist as well, because then you are obviously allowed to make valid statements about research you are unaffiliated with. Since, as everyone knows, all scientists know all the details about every scientific article ever written, and therefore are the main authority to project their personal opinions on any scientific results, and let that be used as a substitute for the conclusion from the actual authors, whenever that conclusion deviates too much from your own opinion.
Same here, I had too many bad experiences with freehosters and free urls in the end of the 90s that I would know even think about registering my domain at some 2 dollar per domain name host. In effect, you can logically expect the quality as with a free host, except that you pay for it this time. Say if you would have a good backup system, then still, what if it goes bust, how do you get your domain name back? Instead I registered a VPS with a local host that was probably a bit too expensive, but not a bad deal (9 euro per month for 10 GB space and 500 GB bandwith, one server shared per max. 10 people). Main point: I know how to reach them, and they have the money for a good service (and spend it for that as well).
Warrants still have a meaning? I though we were in a 'anything goes, think of the terrorists / child molesters' kind of society nowadays.
I can understand employees of companies have to sign NDAs to not tell anyone about what they are working on. But if you have a press event, you should make it so that you show the press that what you want to get out. Asking for NDAs is either mockup bullshit to make it more exciting for journalists to tell about what they have seen, or just a sign that they didn't organize their press meeting in a smart way.
As for what you can do as an English teacher, my English teacher allowed me to read a few articles of popular scientific journals as substitute for a book in the list of 7 books I had to read for oral exams. (And he also wisely didn't ask me the question about the role of the Native American in 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest' I admit, I didn't really read the book. Well, most pupils just memorized the pre-made book summaries anyway). In retrospect, he did a good thing with that, as I need the use of scientific English more than anything else nowadays.
But what I liked most of my school time was that most teachers were getting us think for ourselves. My biology teacher was phenomenal. He never used to present us the stuff in the book, he just started each class by asking one of the pupils a question. Why do we need sex? What is a cold? He would not accept an "I don't know". Everyone feared his class, because you couldn't just lay back and sleep, he might send you away. But this was probably one of the best trainings for well, thinking for yourself!
In general, if you can in any way inspire kids with your general interests, you are doing already a good job in making them open-minded, and open mind helps you in all aspects of life.
Interesting how that is a standard forensic operation if firewire is not really present on so many PCs at all.... Does this work over USB as well?
On the Autobahns, there are almost no lights at all. In whole west Germany I only know about one or two pieces of a few kilometers where there are lights. And when I first came here I was surprised that driving on an Autobahn with no lights is actually more comfortable than driving on the completely illuminated Dutch roads. You can look much further ahead (an eye trained to the dark can distinguish a single photon, you can probably catch the light of a car that is a mile in front of you) . Also by the shape of the lights you can distinguish trucks from cars, which helps when you're speeding. In general, you can just concentrate better.
What I don't like BTW are the LED back lights on cars. For some reason they create a memory effect in my retina, and the eyes seem to automatically follow these lights, which is very distracting. This is probably because they have the overall same intensity as normal back lights, but much more focused. I wonder if this isn't dangerous on the long term.
[tin_foil_hat=on] All this is just collateral damage of the great "dumbing the people down" scheme that is needed to get more votes and support for political parties and ideas that make no common sense.
As a side note, as a non-native speaker I have the feeling (based on very unscientific incidental data) that these spelling errors are more often made by native speakers than by foreigners. Maybe because as a foreigner you are thought to be more aware of the differences of these words (that holds for any language).
Long answer: I've never heard of it before, but the PhrasR website is on http://www.pimpampum.net/phrasr/archive.php, and they have their contact info right out there on their front page at http://www.pimpampum.net. And gosh, it's "info@...". This wasn't much effort, didn't even have to do a whois! Please do it yourself next time, or your nerd status will be revoked! Just joking...
Anyway, these are pretty creative people, nice website, thank you for pointing me to it!
What I do find interesting is that similar things are happening in Germany nowadays. The minister of interior Schüable got partially crippled 17 years ago when he was shot in an attack on him (he was then also minister of interior). Now, he is introducing a shitload of freedom-limiting laws, as you have read on slashdot this year (e.g. forbidding possession of 'hacking' tools). Strangely enough, he is actually in favor of the loosening of the right to carry arms, probably because he wants to carry arms himself, I have no real clue. For both your example as the current, one can say: for any political measure, fear should not be the reason behind it.
The main application is looking just as cool as in the movies! Seriously, this technology is wicked! I'd want to be some badass DoD employee pinpointing things on interactive displays. Preferably on transparent vertical screens, like in that james bond movie. And some others, but I forgot the names.
Also, this is one of the places where you wonder how it can be patented. I mean, this is no revolution, it is a development that has just been waiting to happen for ages. Touchscreen devices have been around for years and years now, as have been displaying maps on computers. The only limiting factor from these cool toys being developed on a large scale was the quality and size of the touchscreens available, the processing power to recalculate maps in real time, and some smart way to create the interface. Only the last part can be the innovation here I guess, but patenting an interface is not something I would deem useful, there are too many ways to work around it.
Also, just imagine the possibilities, an interactive goatse as screensaver! I should stop now ruining everybody's day, shouldn't I ;) Sorry!
It's called the goatse interface. Using two hands two move the point of interest apart enables a closer look.