In my experience, a large percentage of Germans speak very good English (certainly better than my German) and they tend to have a lot of exposure to American culture due to the US forces TV being shown over there.
Learning French is far more relevant in a bilingual country, but not so useful in England, especially considering the long history of animosity between England and France.
It would almost make more sense to learn Welsh or Gaelic, but it's considered that French is more "useful". To my mind, Spanish or Chinese would be far more useful than French (and German - I did a couple of years of German lessons as well).
I'm not against teaching languages in schools (except for the atrocious way that they do it), but teaching some form of programming would be far more useful in today's society.
Most people don't speak French by choice. Why force the 99% of kids that would not otherwise have an interest in France to suffer through some poorly-though-put introduction to French?
(Back in the 80s, I was taught French in UK school, but not computers. Fat lot of good that was to me.)
The only way I can see this happening is if the CSV doesn't have text fields enclosed with quotes where the text can include a comma or alternatively if there is a newline/carriage return in the middle of test fields.
I just can't see how you could write a sql query that would return different numbers of columns per row unless you tried really hard. I bet you wouldn't be able to find anyone else having the same problem with oracle who isn't a customer of yours.
I just had a quick look at the wikipedia article on science and it agrees with you. It seems that science is more or less split into empirical science and formal science where formal science is mathematics, logic and statistics.
Surely mathematics is different to science due to the completely different methodology.
For valid science, there has to be data that could falsify a theory, even though it was previously thought to be valid. That could never happen in maths - once true, always true. In that respect, maths is more like religion. Once you believe that 2 + 2 = 4, then you have to believe the rest of maths built on that premise.
If you feel that way, I'm surprised that you bother paying for your games.
You could always put aside the money that you would have paid and instead buy DRM-free games or donate it to the EFF, but it's your money, so you can do whatever you want with it.
Why do hearing aids need to be regulated anyway? You can buy all kings of headphones/earbuds that don't need to be regulated, What's so special/dangerous about hearing aids?
The number of exploits has very little to do with how ubiquitous the software is (although that does change how hard people look for exploits), but far more to do with whether security was designed in or just some after-thought.
Modern internet explorer is far more secure than the old IE6 debacle and the reason that flash and acrobat reader have so many exploits is due to Adobe not caring overly much about security.
The whole idea that you (or any customer) has to keep hold of receipts and/or discs to prove that they aren't "thieves" is completely wrong. What happened to innocent until proved guilty?
As far as I'm concerned, when I buy something, I'm not obligated to keep the receipts, packaging or any part of it that I don't want to keep. If someone thinks that I've stolen it, they'd better be able to prove that I did steal it and I'm not talking about a couple of lines from a server log indicating that an ip address has been associated with a partial file transfer.
I really think that customers need to stand up and refuse to do any business with companies that try to brand us as crooks and thieves.
I replied to someone else who was confusing luminiferous aether with a concept of aether. Luminiferous aether is completely useless as a theory as you'd have to fit in so many workarounds to get it to work, whereas General Relativity fits the data so much more easily.
I don't see how you can equate phlogiston with energy as they had the entire concept of combustion the wrong way round. They believed that phlogiston was a substance inside objects that got released during combustion. This in no way explains how substances become more massive when they are oxidised, nor how oxygen is depleted from the air. I think you are playing with semantics to try to shoe-horn phlogiston into physics when it's simply incorrect.
I was referring to "luminiferous aether" which would be the medium that transmits light (if it were true). You seem to be referring to spacetime fabric as aether which would make light the equivalent of gravity waves (i.e. spacetime would be the gravitational aether that transmits gravity waves).
Aether is used as a concept, but unfortunately, too many people confuse it with the old useless theory of luminiferous aether - yourself included.
I hate to tell you, but modern physics does not have luminiferous aether in it whatsoever.
It's not even difficult to completely disprove aether by running an experiment to measure the speed of light and see if it various according to the direction of the earth's movement "through the aether". If light propagates using aether, then it's speed won't be constant.
I bet you think that phlogiston is still used in physics as well.
Agreed, but when there are decent open source solutions, it would make more sense to favour open source due to it's advantages. I'd much rather see my tax money going on the government improving an existing open source project to exactly fit their needs than see the same money going into costly licensing fees.
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Do you still provide service to that client? If so, then I guess that would count as agreeing to their modifications.
Haven't you heard of noscript or flashblock plugins for firefox?
Why is charging for it in violation of the GPL?
Sending compromising photos to newspapers/partners isn't illegal, so is demanding money for keeping the photos secret, not extortion?
In my experience, a large percentage of Germans speak very good English (certainly better than my German) and they tend to have a lot of exposure to American culture due to the US forces TV being shown over there.
Nowhere.
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Learning French is far more relevant in a bilingual country, but not so useful in England, especially considering the long history of animosity between England and France.
It would almost make more sense to learn Welsh or Gaelic, but it's considered that French is more "useful". To my mind, Spanish or Chinese would be far more useful than French (and German - I did a couple of years of German lessons as well).
I'm not against teaching languages in schools (except for the atrocious way that they do it), but teaching some form of programming would be far more useful in today's society.
Most people don't speak French by choice. Why force the 99% of kids that would not otherwise have an interest in France to suffer through some poorly-though-put introduction to French?
(Back in the 80s, I was taught French in UK school, but not computers. Fat lot of good that was to me.)
Does that apply to federal crime as well?
How are murders handled - does the victim's family have to press charges before it is treated as a crime?
The only way I can see this happening is if the CSV doesn't have text fields enclosed with quotes where the text can include a comma or alternatively if there is a newline/carriage return in the middle of test fields.
I just can't see how you could write a sql query that would return different numbers of columns per row unless you tried really hard. I bet you wouldn't be able to find anyone else having the same problem with oracle who isn't a customer of yours.
I've done plenty of exports of data from oracle databases and have never seen this. Are you sure that you're using CSV correctly?
I just had a quick look at the wikipedia article on science and it agrees with you. It seems that science is more or less split into empirical science and formal science where formal science is mathematics, logic and statistics.
Surely mathematics is different to science due to the completely different methodology.
For valid science, there has to be data that could falsify a theory, even though it was previously thought to be valid. That could never happen in maths - once true, always true. In that respect, maths is more like religion. Once you believe that 2 + 2 = 4, then you have to believe the rest of maths built on that premise.
If you feel that way, I'm surprised that you bother paying for your games.
You could always put aside the money that you would have paid and instead buy DRM-free games or donate it to the EFF, but it's your money, so you can do whatever you want with it.
Why do hearing aids need to be regulated anyway? You can buy all kings of headphones/earbuds that don't need to be regulated, What's so special/dangerous about hearing aids?
The number of exploits has very little to do with how ubiquitous the software is (although that does change how hard people look for exploits), but far more to do with whether security was designed in or just some after-thought.
Modern internet explorer is far more secure than the old IE6 debacle and the reason that flash and acrobat reader have so many exploits is due to Adobe not caring overly much about security.
This.
The whole idea that you (or any customer) has to keep hold of receipts and/or discs to prove that they aren't "thieves" is completely wrong. What happened to innocent until proved guilty?
As far as I'm concerned, when I buy something, I'm not obligated to keep the receipts, packaging or any part of it that I don't want to keep. If someone thinks that I've stolen it, they'd better be able to prove that I did steal it and I'm not talking about a couple of lines from a server log indicating that an ip address has been associated with a partial file transfer.
I really think that customers need to stand up and refuse to do any business with companies that try to brand us as crooks and thieves.
I replied to someone else who was confusing luminiferous aether with a concept of aether. Luminiferous aether is completely useless as a theory as you'd have to fit in so many workarounds to get it to work, whereas General Relativity fits the data so much more easily.
I don't see how you can equate phlogiston with energy as they had the entire concept of combustion the wrong way round. They believed that phlogiston was a substance inside objects that got released during combustion. This in no way explains how substances become more massive when they are oxidised, nor how oxygen is depleted from the air. I think you are playing with semantics to try to shoe-horn phlogiston into physics when it's simply incorrect.
I was referring to "luminiferous aether" which would be the medium that transmits light (if it were true). You seem to be referring to spacetime fabric as aether which would make light the equivalent of gravity waves (i.e. spacetime would be the gravitational aether that transmits gravity waves).
Aether is used as a concept, but unfortunately, too many people confuse it with the old useless theory of luminiferous aether - yourself included.
Sounds right to me - that's how GPL code works.
I hate to tell you, but modern physics does not have luminiferous aether in it whatsoever.
It's not even difficult to completely disprove aether by running an experiment to measure the speed of light and see if it various according to the direction of the earth's movement "through the aether". If light propagates using aether, then it's speed won't be constant.
I bet you think that phlogiston is still used in physics as well.
As far as I know, they only have to make the source code available to the people/partners that they distribute it to.
Agreed, but when there are decent open source solutions, it would make more sense to favour open source due to it's advantages. I'd much rather see my tax money going on the government improving an existing open source project to exactly fit their needs than see the same money going into costly licensing fees.
Hear hear!