Note that being unemployeed in Germany is different then being unemployeed in the US.
In the US, if you can't find a job you end up homeless (or on someone's couch) with no health insurance for you and your family. If you manage to find part time or contract work, you may not be able to find insurance to cover your family (I couldn't get coverage for my family, and a typical package cost $3600 a year). Your unemployment benefits in 3 months (or 6 months if there is an extension). If you don't find work in a year, you are dropped from the Unemployment Rate statistics, which artifically lowers the so-called "Unemployment Rate".
In Germany, unemployment isn't so severe: You don't have a job, but you do get government pay for a long time, and you and your family always have health insurance, which makes it easier to take on part-time and contract work.
They want to know what everyone is searching for in a given moment, and model their advertising business around that information. This is the purpose behind Gmail and Google Groups.
This is their business model. They are an Ad business first, and a search engine second.
They will gain information from your personal browsing records. Their advertising business can use this information with direct-market advertisements, future trend prediction, etc.
Re:I truly wished they have given a different name
on
KDE Switches to Subversion
·
· Score: 2, Informative
The submitter was complaining that the SVN utilities lack features available in the party CVS utilities; such as SVNweb vs CVSweb.
He wasn't complaining that SVN itself lacks useful features available in CVS. There are enough improvements (Atomic commits, versioning of directories and permissions) in SVN over CVS that switching to the new system is compelling.
The utilities don't all need to work now anyways. Any sort of large-scale migration like this is done in phases. Phase 1, switch the repository. Phase 2, switch the utilities, Phase 3, cleanup:)
People like you need to have your driving liceses revoked until you learn how to drive. Your risky behavior puts the health and safety of my family at risk. There is NO excuse for that.
It is not that easy to avoid accidents. My car insurance is $4000 a year.
Yes it is. It's simple.
I've been driving for 17 years without a single serious accident. I've had 3 tickets my entire life. My wife had one accident 15 years ago and has had one ticket. We live in the SF Bay Area, which is well known for it's agressive drivers, bad traffic and dangerous roads.
My parents have been driving for 45 years and have never had an accident, and have only had a few minor tickets.
It's not that hard, even in Texas.
My insurance is $700 a year for me and my wife from one of the top insurance companies. We also have a high deductable.
I tried telling the insurance company it was the other drivers that caused the 4 accidents but they don't believe me. Just because I have 5 speeding tickets doesn't make me a "high-risk" driver.
Yes it does. If you slow down, you will most definately have fewer accidents.
For most drives, speeding will usually only save you a few minutes. Personally, I'd rather arrive a few minutes later and remain relaxed with less stress.
You need to relax. Aggressive driving will only lead to more accidents and a heart attack when you're 55.
Simple, low tech ways to prevent car crashes.
on
Cars that Can't Crash?
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
I have 10 simple, low tech ways to which will guarentee fewer car crashes. Most of these already come with your current car, and the rest are simple and free to implement.
1. Breaks 2. Steering wheel 3. Side mirrors 4. Don't speed 5. Don't drink while drunk or high 6. Use your turn signal 7. Leave enough space between your car and the car in front of you. 8. Check over your shoulder to look in the blind spot before making a lane change. 9. Be considerate of other drivers. 10. Don't drive in LA.
And a bonus 11th point to feed the trolls:
11. Revoke the drivers licenses for anyone with 3 serious tickets in the last 5 years.
Gates and Bill Ford Jr., Ford's chairman and chief executive, said high-definition screens, speech recognition technology, cameras, digital calendars and navigation equipment with directions and road conditions will set car companies apart from their competitors.
That's nice and all, but how will these technologies help cars to 'not crash'? It seems like a digital calendar will lead to more crashes.
I didn't say that. I clearly said that MANY smart people do drugs, and MANY do not.
The parent poster was asserting that the there was a drug-using counterculture out there protesting, and a second, seperate intellectual math, technology and study culture who were into computer development. He is wrong.
Drug use has always been popular among MANY intellectuals and academics and inventor of technology. However, MANY people in the fields do not do drugs and also create many wonderful things.
and the people which think they understand things better on drugs are generally just overcoming personal inhibitions.
Learning is about overcoming personal inhibitions. Drugs can help SOME people to overcome personal inhibitions and understand deep intellectual concepts. They can also make you stupid. Most people do drugs for fun, not for intellectual reasons.
And how exactly you have gotten to the idea that Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the most powerful people in the world is beyond me.
He's Governer of California, the 7th largest economic entity in the world. 12% of the American population resides here, and it's the richest state in the Union with more then 12% of the American economy. Even with California's economic recession, we are still one of the most powerful entities in the world.
How could nobody in 11 years see that the changes were counted with a 16 bit signed integer?
If this company was run by a typical big company, somebody DID complain about this 16-bit signed integer. Chances are, they were told to shut up about it and not rock the boat. This frequently happens when someone points out a bug which would require a fundamental change to the system.
Most companies only like employees who think inside the box, despite telling people to think outside the box.
As someone who knows the history of Scotland, I'm sure you are well aware of what happens when one class of people has too much money and power over another class of people.
Scotland's history is a prime example of why rebellion can help society to progress.
In fact, if it wasn't for some great Scotish rebelious activity, most Scotish people would still be scrubbing the floors in some great English household or otherwise serving the wealthy English classes. Luckily for you, things have progressed in Scotland.
Scotland has progressed. What has happened in Scotland is now happening in the rest of the world.
It was the people who were into maths, technology, and study that were into computer development.
Big Brother and the Drug Warriors would like to thank you for spreading our propoganda. Now here's a coupon for a free Big Mac-- go see what's on TV.
I think you've swollowed too much of bullshit that the Drug War has pushed at you.
Many people who are into math, technology and study are also into drugs. Many are not.
Some people actually understand advanced topics in physics, math & engineering better when they are high. The secret is that they weren't high all the time-- because sometimes, as you said, you can't innovate without concentration.
It's not like this just happened in the 60s either. People have always done drugs, and some people have used those experiences to help create incredible things. Right now there are geniuses taking LSD, and some of those people are going to go on and do great things.
Unfortunately, many people who did drugs in the past would be persecuted if this knowledge became public. I bet your parents smoked pot once in a while-- it's too bad they can't be honest about it.
For example, many of the key developers of Chaos Theory did drugs, and they were pretty open about it.
Al Gore, George Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger have all been drug users, and they somehow became 3 of the most powerful people in the world.
Why are these cheap entry-level systems always targeted at the "Third World", rather than poor people here in the US?
Well first off, this article is about people in the UK. These thin clients are also designed for a centralized computer center, school, or business; not home use.
Second of all, in urban areas of the US, there ARE projects like this. Unfortunately, they don't get alot of news coverage-- not sexy enough I guess. They are small, poorly funded, poorly organized, stuck in politics, stuck in government bureaucracy, and there aren't that many of them. But they do exist.
There are also projects which can help in this sort of realm:
Ah, I see. Your solution is for someone else to fix the problem or volunteer for a humanitarian project, yet you quite concisely point out the problem here:
it's that the divide between the rich and the poor is vast.
From your description, these people need a revolution to redistribute the wealth. Obviously the rich people in your country don't really give a fuck.
I think that the convenience of using a thumbprint machine for entry into a gym is worth the sacrifice.
Sacrificing your deeply personal information for the convenience of a simple consumer product is plain dumb. Aren't you concerned with security? This is plain sleezy, and it wouldn't suprise me to see "24-hour Nautilus" (Sleezebags) use this scheme in a couple years.
The gym isn't doing this for your convenience. They do it to prevent people from sharing memberships, which is fine, but not when they resort to invasive tactics.
Better than having swipe-cards that fail after a single wash.
What if the thumb print machine breaks? I bet the gym bought some cheap thumb print machine out of the Tiger Direct catalog...
My gym just requires me to flash an ID card. If someone else borrows the card for a day, they don't care too much, and don't require some fascist technique to verify my identity.
But there is usually little motivation to steal one person's information. They could also go down the street on trash day and pick up used tissues from every house and compile the data that way. But that is not very efficient.
Now, if they stole the info from the Gym, they'd have biometric data for 1000 people, and probably end up with a ton of Credit Cards as well.
Well, I probably did it in the heat of the moment:)
Thanks for the advice.
Looks like Tracphone & Virgin both have prepaid plans, and they both support number portability. This will make good financial sense for some of my friends suckered into expensive plans.
I'm really looking for minutes which expire in a year, not in 90 days. Tracfone & Virgin sound like they might have what I need.
This sort of service is also good for an emergency phone in the car. You can call 911 from any phone, but sometimes I just need some gas (in the country) and my friend is 5 miles away.
Now, if phone numbers could be transfered to these prepaid plans, I could get some people out of their expensive cell phone plans.
A manager who understands both the business and technical aspects of a project is worth their weight in gold-pressed Latinum. Stay in touch with those people, you may end up working with them in 10 years.
Slashdot Mirror
Their unemployment is approaching 15%.
Note that being unemployeed in Germany is different then being unemployeed in the US.
In the US, if you can't find a job you end up homeless (or on someone's couch) with no health insurance for you and your family. If you manage to find part time or contract work, you may not be able to find insurance to cover your family (I couldn't get coverage for my family, and a typical package cost $3600 a year). Your unemployment benefits in 3 months (or 6 months if there is an extension). If you don't find work in a year, you are dropped from the Unemployment Rate statistics, which artifically lowers the so-called "Unemployment Rate".
In Germany, unemployment isn't so severe: You don't have a job, but you do get government pay for a long time, and you and your family always have health insurance, which makes it easier to take on part-time and contract work.
I'm sure Horde's great, if I have the time and resources to install, configure, host and maintain it on a spare computer in my house.
I would love to do that, but I don't have that sort of spare time.
Are there any service providers who run a bunch of the Horde apps?
money from your personal browsing records.
They want to know what everyone is searching for in a given moment, and model their advertising business around that information. This is the purpose behind Gmail and Google Groups.
This is their business model. They are an Ad business first, and a search engine second.
They will gain information from your personal browsing records. Their advertising business can use this information with direct-market advertisements, future trend prediction, etc.
The submitter was complaining that the SVN utilities lack features available in the party CVS utilities; such as SVNweb vs CVSweb.
:)
He wasn't complaining that SVN itself lacks useful features available in CVS. There are enough improvements (Atomic commits, versioning of directories and permissions) in SVN over CVS that switching to the new system is compelling.
The utilities don't all need to work now anyways.
Any sort of large-scale migration like this is done in phases. Phase 1, switch the repository. Phase 2, switch the utilities, Phase 3, cleanup
You sound like a troll :)
People like you need to have your driving liceses revoked until you learn how to drive. Your risky behavior puts the health and safety of my family at risk. There is NO excuse for that.
It is not that easy to avoid accidents. My car insurance is $4000 a year.
Yes it is. It's simple.
I've been driving for 17 years without a single serious accident. I've had 3 tickets my entire life. My wife had one accident 15 years ago and has had one ticket. We live in the SF Bay Area, which is well known for it's agressive drivers, bad traffic and dangerous roads.
My parents have been driving for 45 years and have never had an accident, and have only had a few minor tickets.
It's not that hard, even in Texas.
My insurance is $700 a year for me and my wife from one of the top insurance companies. We also have a high deductable.
I tried telling the insurance company it was the other drivers that caused the 4 accidents but they don't believe me. Just because I have 5 speeding tickets doesn't make me a "high-risk" driver.
Yes it does. If you slow down, you will most definately have fewer accidents.
For most drives, speeding will usually only save you a few minutes. Personally, I'd rather arrive a few minutes later and remain relaxed with less stress.
You need to relax. Aggressive driving will only lead to more accidents and a heart attack when you're 55.
Ocifer, I'm not as drunk as you think I am.
Dang typos...
I have 10 simple, low tech ways to which will guarentee fewer car crashes. Most of these already come with your current car, and the rest are simple and free to implement.
1. Breaks
2. Steering wheel
3. Side mirrors
4. Don't speed
5. Don't drink while drunk or high
6. Use your turn signal
7. Leave enough space between your car and the car in front of you.
8. Check over your shoulder to look in the blind spot before making a lane change.
9. Be considerate of other drivers.
10. Don't drive in LA.
And a bonus 11th point to feed the trolls:
11. Revoke the drivers licenses for anyone with 3 serious tickets in the last 5 years.
Gates and Bill Ford Jr., Ford's chairman and chief executive, said high-definition screens, speech recognition technology, cameras, digital calendars and navigation equipment with directions and road conditions will set car companies apart from their competitors.
That's nice and all, but how will these technologies help cars to 'not crash'? It seems like a digital calendar will lead to more crashes.
Driver: "Car! I said DON"T CRASH! DON'T CRASH!"
Drugs don't make you a genius,
I didn't say that. I clearly said that MANY smart people do drugs, and MANY do not.
The parent poster was asserting that the there was a drug-using counterculture out there protesting, and a second, seperate intellectual math, technology and study culture who were into computer development. He is wrong.
Drug use has always been popular among MANY intellectuals and academics and inventor of technology. However, MANY people in the fields do not do drugs and also create many wonderful things.
and the people which think they understand things better on drugs are generally just overcoming personal inhibitions.
Learning is about overcoming personal inhibitions. Drugs can help SOME people to overcome personal inhibitions and understand deep intellectual concepts. They can also make you stupid. Most people do drugs for fun, not for intellectual reasons.
And how exactly you have gotten to the idea that Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the most powerful people in the world is beyond me.
He's Governer of California, the 7th largest economic entity in the world. 12% of the American population resides here, and it's the richest state in the Union with more then 12% of the American economy. Even with California's economic recession, we are still one of the most powerful entities in the world.
How could nobody in 11 years see that the changes were counted with a 16 bit signed integer?
If this company was run by a typical big company, somebody DID complain about this 16-bit signed integer. Chances are, they were told to shut up about it and not rock the boat. This frequently happens when someone points out a bug which would require a fundamental change to the system.
Most companies only like employees who think inside the box, despite telling people to think outside the box.
You say that like it's a good thing.
No, I'm just saying that many people who drugs are successful in life. It's a ironic that they enforce the Drug War when they themselves did drugs.
"My country" is Scotland, as if it matters.
Excellent.
As someone who knows the history of Scotland, I'm sure you are well aware of what happens when one class of people has too much money and power over another class of people.
Scotland's history is a prime example of why rebellion can help society to progress.
In fact, if it wasn't for some great Scotish rebelious activity, most Scotish people would still be scrubbing the floors in some great English household or otherwise serving the wealthy English classes. Luckily for you, things have progressed in Scotland.
Scotland has progressed. What has happened in Scotland is now happening in the rest of the world.
It was the people who were into maths, technology, and study that were into computer development.
Big Brother and the Drug Warriors would like to thank you for spreading our propoganda. Now here's a coupon for a free Big Mac-- go see what's on TV.
I think you've swollowed too much of bullshit that the Drug War has pushed at you.
Many people who are into math, technology and study are also into drugs. Many are not.
Some people actually understand advanced topics in physics, math & engineering better when they are high. The secret is that they weren't high all the time-- because sometimes, as you said, you can't innovate without concentration.
It's not like this just happened in the 60s either. People have always done drugs, and some people have used those experiences to help create incredible things. Right now there are geniuses taking LSD, and some of those people are going to go on and do great things.
Unfortunately, many people who did drugs in the past would be persecuted if this knowledge became public. I bet your parents smoked pot once in a while-- it's too bad they can't be honest about it.
For example, many of the key developers of Chaos Theory did drugs, and they were pretty open about it.
Al Gore, George Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger have all been drug users, and they somehow became 3 of the most powerful people in the world.
I think they were being tongue-in-cheek. Unfortunately, the joke doesn't work if you can't hear the inflection.
Why are these cheap entry-level systems always targeted at the "Third World", rather than poor people here in the US?
Well first off, this article is about people in the UK. These thin clients are also designed for a centralized computer center, school, or business; not home use.
Second of all, in urban areas of the US, there ARE projects like this. Unfortunately, they don't get alot of news coverage-- not sexy enough I guess. They are small, poorly funded, poorly organized, stuck in politics, stuck in government bureaucracy, and there aren't that many of them. But they do exist.
There are also projects which can help in this sort of realm:
http://www.ltsp.org/
http://www.osef.org/ (They've been quiet for a while).
Looks like you are NYC, and I don't know what's available over there.
There are projects. And yes our own poor people are worth helping, but that doesn't mean you can't help the poor people in developing nations.
People won't buy the cheap, refurbished computers.
And believe it or not, there are tons of free, refurbished computers sitting around.
Ah, I see. Your solution is for someone else to fix the problem or volunteer for a humanitarian project, yet you quite concisely point out the problem here:
it's that the divide between the rich and the poor is vast.
From your description, these people need a revolution to redistribute the wealth. Obviously the rich people in your country don't really give a fuck.
Hey, you forgot Star Wars! Star Wars!!!! STAR WARS! (well ok maybe HHGTTG or some other scifi movie).
Rinse. Repeat.
Goodness, is that before or after the hot grits?
Bah, the Canyonero has a really small penis when you compare it to the Ford Exemption.
I think that the convenience of using a thumbprint machine for entry into a gym is worth the sacrifice.
Sacrificing your deeply personal information for the convenience of a simple consumer product is plain dumb. Aren't you concerned with security? This is plain sleezy, and it wouldn't suprise me to see "24-hour Nautilus" (Sleezebags) use this scheme in a couple years.
The gym isn't doing this for your convenience. They do it to prevent people from sharing memberships, which is fine, but not when they resort to invasive tactics.
Better than having swipe-cards that fail after a single wash.
What if the thumb print machine breaks? I bet the gym bought some cheap thumb print machine out of the Tiger Direct catalog...
My gym just requires me to flash an ID card. If someone else borrows the card for a day, they don't care too much, and don't require some fascist technique to verify my identity.
But there is usually little motivation to steal one person's information. They could also go down the street on trash day and pick up used tissues from every house and compile the data that way. But that is not very efficient.
Now, if they stole the info from the Gym, they'd have biometric data for 1000 people, and probably end up with a ton of Credit Cards as well.
but what can you do?
:)
Well, I probably did it in the heat of the moment
Thanks for the advice.
Looks like Tracphone & Virgin both have prepaid plans, and they both support number portability. This will make good financial sense for some of my friends suckered into expensive plans.
In fact, Tracfone does support Number Portability.
And so does Virgin Mobile.
You are right... all minutes expire.
I'm really looking for minutes which expire in a year, not in 90 days. Tracfone & Virgin sound like they might have what I need.
This sort of service is also good for an emergency phone in the car. You can call 911 from any phone, but sometimes I just need some gas (in the country) and my friend is 5 miles away.
Now, if phone numbers could be transfered to these prepaid plans, I could get some people out of their expensive cell phone plans.
Thanks for the tip.
A manager who understands both the business and technical aspects of a project is worth their weight in gold-pressed Latinum. Stay in touch with those people, you may end up working with them in 10 years.
Good luck.