I'm opposed to the government changing legislation 'on the fly' just because one company does something bad.
True, they should analyze the problem first, which they have, because the already concluded that the proposed action of Deutsche Telekom would harm net-neutrality.
First, we need to make sure that the current laws don't cover this action.
It doesn't. Otherwise it would have been pointed out by now. The law should also not be designed to address the direct issue, which came up recently, but it should address net-neutrality in general.
Then the parliament can look into the matter and if necessary make a new law after proper deliberations.
The government should have started this process by now, but instead they decided to wait. They did not say "We look into it.". they said: "We look into it, when it really become an 'issue'." where the "issue" part is not accompanied by some rules, which would indicated that they ever find the behavior of Deutsche Telekom an issue.
The EU-parliament is elected by the European people. The EU-commission is initiated by the governments of the EU-member states, which are either directly elected by the people or elected by their national parliaments. furthermore, the commission have to be approved by the parliament. It is true, however, that the EU-commission should be more transparent and it would be a great step forward if it would be initiated by the parliament or elected by the public. These changes would have been possible in the Lisbon-Agreement, but some member state thought that would be too much Europeanization. The EU would then be equally or sometimes even more legit than some national parliaments and governments. And we will end to be [name your nationality].
I personally think, that is rubbish. You do not lose your identity just because there is not country attached to it. I am Swabian (South-West German folks) and are presently living in North-Germany. Of course I have a German passport, but I still feel like a Swabian and a German and a European (in descending order;-)).
That only looks that way, because the grass is greener on the other side. In Germany, one of the bigger EU countries, the German Telekom (former national telecommunication corporation) want to shape traffic for non-Telekom media products by 2016. The German government said: 'That is bad!' But they do not try to stop the Telekom from doing so. Sometimes there is only hope in the EU. And that is a rather strange feeling.
It is a signed treaty in many countries including the USA, Germany and if I am not mistaken Turkey. They agreed to make their laws compliance to this treaty. It is not just a pointless declaration. The UN agreed on it and nations signed it.
BTW: The discussion was not about the law, but about the right to participate in a protest in a foreign country. The term right stretches over both areas (declarations/treaties and local laws). However, as already pointed out, the country in question signed that treaty, which subsequently results in local laws, which implement the rights expressed in the declaration.
And I disagree. The right to assemble in groups in public is a human right and therefore is not limited to citizens. Have a look at Art 19 and 20: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
I can protest against any government. That is called free speech. If the politics in France suck and I have time, I could go there and protest. I could also protest in front of the French Embassy in Berlin, if that would be any closer than Paris.
That votes are only limited to those with citizenship is, however, a problem, as not all people living in a country can decide its government.
True. If he has it illegally. However, there are a few exceptions to the rule. Most likely, he has still strong bands to Turkey, which is totally understandable.
He is born in Turkey and migrated to Germany at the age of 14. No doubt he has still strong ties to his old country and feels as much to Turkish as German. Actually why make a big fuss about it? And especially about his nationality. If German laws would not prohibit double nationalities (there are some exceptions), he would be most likely still Turkish and German.
I do not understand your logic. His family might be still there. He could have many cultural ties to Turkey. And he could have a German and a Turkish passport and therefore be Turkish and German. BTW: There a many bonds between Germany and Turkey, because of the numerous Turkish immigrants in Germany, all the Germans going to Turkey for their holidays, and in addition a lot of economic and trade connections. Turkey is almost a EU member state.
For the PLC part this is true, if replacement PLCs do not have a different sampling speed. However, I was more referring to the control software running on PCs. 20 year old software do sometimes timing stuff based on CPU cycles and even if not, certain problems first occur when the software is executed faster. But, yes, this is only an issue for PLC scenarios, where PLCs and PCs are tightly coupled.
The strategy should include a short time support strategy for old hardware. You can run 20 year old software on today's PCs either directly or in a virtual machine. However, you might have problems, because they are too fast. This short term support must be supplemented by a migration strategy for the old PLCs. I know that is hard, have worked in a project using PLCs in railway control systems, which have to run for 20 or more years before they are replaced again. Therefore, you need also a strategy how to replace the replacement in the future.
One important tool to do this, is detailed documentation of protocols (including timings) and semantics of the software.
Honestly, I not get my self-esteem from the things I can buy. I lived perfectly with 700 EUR a month and I would be able to live with that today or with social security system money, if there were no jobs out there for me. My mother was able to raise us with little money. So money alone is not the most important stuff, as long as you have some steady income.
If you want to raise kids in a way that they can be a productive part of society, you should teach them, that consumerism is not the solution for a healthy and fulfilled life. Worked pretty well with my siblings.
My point is, if you have kids, you are able to muddle through. However, if you have no money it might be hard to get them into university (well not everyone needs to go there, sometimes other types of education are better suited for them) if you have to pay for them.
That's why I think we should invest in the poor and uneducated, so they can get education. Actually in many countries, the universities are without fees for the students. And they can get money from the state during their studies. I know, it is different in the US. So I would recommend changing that.
Smart people do not have children they can't raise in a good healthy environment and can't properly give them all the things they need as they grow and graduate into adulthood.
This is the normal excuse of "educated" people (have a look at Idiocrazy). What they really don't want, is to risk their careers. You could raise kids with less money. They still could get educated, as long as you support that. For example, in Germany the school system is highly selective. As long as your parents are educated well, you have a much higher chance to graduate from high school and go to university afterwards then children from less educated families. Even if you school system is not that bad, the same effect would still be existent.
A second cause for that imbalance is that educated people form partnerships and families later in life. They would be able to do that sooner if they would not constantly be taught to finish quickly. Otherwise some (more) women would consider have kids during their bachelor and master programs.
But most important. The "not-so-smart" people are not unintelligent. So educate them!
People who went to university are not smart. They have some more education, and some of them are even brilliant in their distinct field, but beside that, they are morons like everyone else. If you want to help the lower and middle classes, first, you have to provide a decent social security system, like Danmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany and similar countries. Second, you have to train people in a way so that they can find a purpose in life. That purpose is more important, than above minimal-income income. Third, there are people who really are not able to decide what they want in life. They need guidance. SO we as a society have to deliver that. But most prominently, we have to change the primary attitude in society or at least in economy: ME FIRST!
The primary function of these math courses including analysis and algebra is to teach you how math works. Math is a language which allows you to describe things. Math notations are widely used in CS. Most prominent, stuff like sets, classes, relations etc. are relevant to understand ontologies and meta-models, which you have to understand to be able to develop programs today. Graphs are everywhere in CS. Meta-models, models, databases, social networks you name it. If you start software monitoring, which is also relevant in todays software maintenance, you have to deal with differential equations and many other things from analysis.
So in shot: Yes math is important. And yes math is hard. Try to learn it like a language. When I was studying, I first understood it after momorizing many rules and lemmas etc. until it reached critical mass in my brain to be useful for anything. Nowadays I cannot work without it:-D
First, this is not suffice to discard them as allies (even though they are not). The USA was and is spying in Europe for various reasons including industry espionage, but they are still counted as allies by, let say France or Germany. Second, the USA is spying all around the world. Not only to murder suspects and protect its international position as overlords ehm I means, last remaining super-power and worlds policemen, but also for industrial purposes, like stealing technology or stealing trade secrets. Third, it has been reported that other nations do so as well.
No it isn't. While those silly ear pieces are there to help you to communicate. The glass camera is there to spy on everybody. Even though no-one wants to do that, Google does. Beside that problem, it is a great thing.
They should fix their trains and tracks so the trains are no longer later that often. Since they started becoming a privatized company, they raised prices and lowered service quality. They let the infrastructure rot and the new infrastructure they build is crumbling after five years.
Maybe they should send armed drones after the management.
BTW: The former CEO of the German railway is now in charge of the not yet completed new airport Berlin-Brandenburg.;-)
Aha. Maybe you should start to design your electronics differently, so ants can either not get close to the higher voltage circuits or use better insulation.
BTW: When there would be a biblical apocalypse, it would affect the whole planet. Or. If it is only in the US. Well, I will watch it on TV.
And another thing: Those ants already existed prior to those incidents (which might be triggered by globalized transportation and or the climate change). They lived in other countries for millions of years (or at least the last 6000 years in your time frame),
Yet another terrorist to fight against. Is it just me, or do we portrait the terrorist thing a little often lately. Maybe we should get over it. I personally don't like the plot. It is all about fighting against the end of the world. I am sick and tired of that. ST was always a combination of exploration of space and humanity. But there is nothing to be gained from that plot. Sad thing. This is no longer ST.
As a person, a group of people, or a company, I can do with my time what I want. If I want to develop a second open source phone OS. It is my pleasure or nemesis. If you like it use or contribute to it, if not don't. The same applies to Firefox OS or any other project heading in that direction. What some people miss out in open source is, there is no centralized plan to gain world dominance. The plan is freedom. This includes freedom of choice, but is not limited to it. I also can decide that I want to collaborate with others or that I want to make something completely different. Sometimes these differences are in nuances to the public, but they mean everything to me or my group or my company.
Sometimes I have the feeling, that people blame others just because they choose different paths. Yes I know this results in fragmentation. And too much fragmentation is bad for interoperability and therefore bad for the OSS movement, but multiple phone and tablet operation systems and UIs are not a problem as long as they all support open communication standards. In the end fragmentation often resulted in new standards on data exchange and communications, which allowed us to work together, but still try out our own ideas.
CSS is a DSL for styles primarily. It could be used for other stuff as well. There are libraries available in Java. However, I do not know of any C++ library. But google returns just a lot on the topic for "CSS c++ library"
Where I life, there are in 10 min walk distance. Three pharmacies (for drugs), three drugstores (for diapers and baby stuff, cleaning materials, etc.) The market is twice a week and also in a 10 min walk distance (and it is cheaper than any grocery, but more expensive than a discounter, but I do not want to buy food for me and my baby (if I had one) in a discounter. Honestly I want the good stuff). The point is, in my city infrastructure is decentralized. Of course I could go by car to one of those big malls, would be a 30 min drive, but why should I?
When it comes to child care. I would do as all the other parents at University do. For the first year you have to stay at home, but as we both life close by to our jobs, we could easily split and go on 50% or switch after half a year. With one year I could take the kid and bring it to the nursery/kindergarten on the other side of the campus or one of the city kindergartens. that would give me a lot of focus during work hours.;-) The kid can be transported with one of those nice kid-transport-bike trailers. They love it. I have seen that. A friend of mine (now lives in Berlin) did so. And they have space for all the necessary kid stuff. I can see the moms and dads bringing their kids to the university kindergarten every morning.
BTW: I would not necessarily use pre-packed or bottled baby food. Carrot or bananas are easily prepared (all in my family did that, and they are all working parents).
If I would be with my child at the market. Lets say it is two. So it will be able to do stuff. It would most likely steal an apple and then eat it. Not really a problem. I would, of course, have to pay for that. In a grocery, if you are not packed with stuff and stuff, it is not that a big problem to handle a kid.
Ah and yes. Don't go hungry to the grocery. Never ever.
I have seen that it is possible to organize yourself in a way that living without a car or with less car involvement is possible and even cheaper and more satisfying. If I have to spend time with the kids, I could go to the next park 2 min (5 min with kids, 10 min when they walk themselves) or I could go to the sea/fjord other direction.
You may google my location (fair approximation of my address, not the real of course) "kiel germany, mittelstraße" The university is at "christian-albrechts-platz 4, kiel, germany" and my spouse is working at somewhere there "UKSH Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Straße, Kiel, Germany". The marketplace is at "Exerzierplatz 1, Kiel, Germany"
If you want to find any close groceries/pharmacies etc., you have to google for brands not the generic term, otherwise you find nothing.
The original article is on the German federal state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, which is a small state in the north east of Germany. It is not the central government in Berlin. I can understand if people find that confusing. However, there are 16 federal states. Every one of them has a ministry of education.
Furthermore, the German government replaced Windows for Linux in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but after the election of the present government, they changed it back, because they are conservative and neo-liberal and do not like this commie Linux stuff. Officially, they determined that the other Ministries were not able to share documentation, because the Ministry of Foreign Affairs used ODT and they used DOC. The fun fact here, ODT is mandatory for all government documentation (but obviously only on paper not in reality).
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I'm opposed to the government changing legislation 'on the fly' just because one company does something bad.
True, they should analyze the problem first, which they have, because the already concluded that the proposed action of Deutsche Telekom would harm net-neutrality.
First, we need to make sure that the current laws don't cover this action.
It doesn't. Otherwise it would have been pointed out by now. The law should also not be designed to address the direct issue, which came up recently, but it should address net-neutrality in general.
Then the parliament can look into the matter and if necessary make a new law after proper deliberations.
The government should have started this process by now, but instead they decided to wait. They did not say "We look into it.". they said: "We look into it, when it really become an 'issue'." where the "issue" part is not accompanied by some rules, which would indicated that they ever find the behavior of Deutsche Telekom an issue.
The EU-parliament is elected by the European people. The EU-commission is initiated by the governments of the EU-member states, which are either directly elected by the people or elected by their national parliaments. furthermore, the commission have to be approved by the parliament. It is true, however, that the EU-commission should be more transparent and it would be a great step forward if it would be initiated by the parliament or elected by the public. These changes would have been possible in the Lisbon-Agreement, but some member state thought that would be too much Europeanization. The EU would then be equally or sometimes even more legit than some national parliaments and governments. And we will end to be [name your nationality].
I personally think, that is rubbish. You do not lose your identity just because there is not country attached to it. I am Swabian (South-West German folks) and are presently living in North-Germany. Of course I have a German passport, but I still feel like a Swabian and a German and a European (in descending order ;-)).
That only looks that way, because the grass is greener on the other side. In Germany, one of the bigger EU countries, the German Telekom (former national telecommunication corporation) want to shape traffic for non-Telekom media products by 2016. The German government said: 'That is bad!' But they do not try to stop the Telekom from doing so. Sometimes there is only hope in the EU. And that is a rather strange feeling.
It is a signed treaty in many countries including the USA, Germany and if I am not mistaken Turkey. They agreed to make their laws compliance to this treaty. It is not just a pointless declaration. The UN agreed on it and nations signed it.
BTW: The discussion was not about the law, but about the right to participate in a protest in a foreign country. The term right stretches over both areas (declarations/treaties and local laws). However, as already pointed out, the country in question signed that treaty, which subsequently results in local laws, which implement the rights expressed in the declaration.
And I disagree. The right to assemble in groups in public is a human right and therefore is not limited to citizens.
Have a look at Art 19 and 20: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
I can protest against any government. That is called free speech. If the politics in France suck and I have time, I could go there and protest. I could also protest in front of the French Embassy in Berlin, if that would be any closer than Paris.
That votes are only limited to those with citizenship is, however, a problem, as not all people living in a country can decide its government.
True. If he has it illegally. However, there are a few exceptions to the rule. Most likely, he has still strong bands to Turkey, which is totally understandable.
He is born in Turkey and migrated to Germany at the age of 14. No doubt he has still strong ties to his old country and feels as much to Turkish as German. Actually why make a big fuss about it? And especially about his nationality. If German laws would not prohibit double nationalities (there are some exceptions), he would be most likely still Turkish and German.
I do not understand your logic. His family might be still there. He could have many cultural ties to Turkey. And he could have a German and a Turkish passport and therefore be Turkish and German. BTW: There a many bonds between Germany and Turkey, because of the numerous Turkish immigrants in Germany, all the Germans going to Turkey for their holidays, and in addition a lot of economic and trade connections. Turkey is almost a EU member state.
There is a nice report on from the OECD on the quality of health care systems. And a short summary on the US system compared to the rest of the OECD countries http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/HealthSpendingInUSA_HealthData2012.pdf
For the PLC part this is true, if replacement PLCs do not have a different sampling speed. However, I was more referring to the control software running on PCs. 20 year old software do sometimes timing stuff based on CPU cycles and even if not, certain problems first occur when the software is executed faster. But, yes, this is only an issue for PLC scenarios, where PLCs and PCs are tightly coupled.
The strategy should include a short time support strategy for old hardware. You can run 20 year old software on today's PCs either directly or in a virtual machine. However, you might have problems, because they are too fast. This short term support must be supplemented by a migration strategy for the old PLCs. I know that is hard, have worked in a project using PLCs in railway control systems, which have to run for 20 or more years before they are replaced again. Therefore, you need also a strategy how to replace the replacement in the future.
One important tool to do this, is detailed documentation of protocols (including timings) and semantics of the software.
Honestly, I not get my self-esteem from the things I can buy. I lived perfectly with 700 EUR a month and I would be able to live with that today or with social security system money, if there were no jobs out there for me. My mother was able to raise us with little money. So money alone is not the most important stuff, as long as you have some steady income.
If you want to raise kids in a way that they can be a productive part of society, you should teach them, that consumerism is not the solution for a healthy and fulfilled life. Worked pretty well with my siblings.
My point is, if you have kids, you are able to muddle through. However, if you have no money it might be hard to get them into university (well not everyone needs to go there, sometimes other types of education are better suited for them) if you have to pay for them.
That's why I think we should invest in the poor and uneducated, so they can get education. Actually in many countries, the universities are without fees for the students. And they can get money from the state during their studies. I know, it is different in the US. So I would recommend changing that.
Smart people do not have children they can't raise in a good healthy environment and can't properly give them all the things they need as they grow and graduate into adulthood.
This is the normal excuse of "educated" people (have a look at Idiocrazy). What they really don't want, is to risk their careers. You could raise kids with less money. They still could get educated, as long as you support that. For example, in Germany the school system is highly selective. As long as your parents are educated well, you have a much higher chance to graduate from high school and go to university afterwards then children from less educated families. Even if you school system is not that bad, the same effect would still be existent.
A second cause for that imbalance is that educated people form partnerships and families later in life. They would be able to do that sooner if they would not constantly be taught to finish quickly. Otherwise some (more) women would consider have kids during their bachelor and master programs.
But most important. The "not-so-smart" people are not unintelligent. So educate them!
People who went to university are not smart. They have some more education, and some of them are even brilliant in their distinct field, but beside that, they are morons like everyone else. If you want to help the lower and middle classes, first, you have to provide a decent social security system, like Danmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany and similar countries. Second, you have to train people in a way so that they can find a purpose in life. That purpose is more important, than above minimal-income income. Third, there are people who really are not able to decide what they want in life. They need guidance. SO we as a society have to deliver that. But most prominently, we have to change the primary attitude in society or at least in economy: ME FIRST!
The primary function of these math courses including analysis and algebra is to teach you how math works. Math is a language which allows you to describe things. Math notations are widely used in CS. Most prominent, stuff like sets, classes, relations etc. are relevant to understand ontologies and meta-models, which you have to understand to be able to develop programs today. Graphs are everywhere in CS. Meta-models, models, databases, social networks you name it. If you start software monitoring, which is also relevant in todays software maintenance, you have to deal with differential equations and many other things from analysis.
So in shot: Yes math is important. And yes math is hard. Try to learn it like a language. When I was studying, I first understood it after momorizing many rules and lemmas etc. until it reached critical mass in my brain to be useful for anything. Nowadays I cannot work without it :-D
First, this is not suffice to discard them as allies (even though they are not). The USA was and is spying in Europe for various reasons including industry espionage, but they are still counted as allies by, let say France or Germany. Second, the USA is spying all around the world. Not only to murder suspects and protect its international position as overlords ehm I means, last remaining super-power and worlds policemen, but also for industrial purposes, like stealing technology or stealing trade secrets. Third, it has been reported that other nations do so as well.
I think this furor is totally overstated.
No it isn't. While those silly ear pieces are there to help you to communicate. The glass camera is there to spy on everybody. Even though no-one wants to do that, Google does. Beside that problem, it is a great thing.
They should fix their trains and tracks so the trains are no longer later that often. Since they started becoming a privatized company, they raised prices and lowered service quality. They let the infrastructure rot and the new infrastructure they build is crumbling after five years.
Maybe they should send armed drones after the management.
BTW: The former CEO of the German railway is now in charge of the not yet completed new airport Berlin-Brandenburg. ;-)
Aha. Maybe you should start to design your electronics differently, so ants can either not get close to the higher voltage circuits or use better insulation.
BTW: When there would be a biblical apocalypse, it would affect the whole planet. Or. If it is only in the US. Well, I will watch it on TV.
And another thing: Those ants already existed prior to those incidents (which might be triggered by globalized transportation and or the climate change). They lived in other countries for millions of years (or at least the last 6000 years in your time frame),
Yet another terrorist to fight against. Is it just me, or do we portrait the terrorist thing a little often lately. Maybe we should get over it. I personally don't like the plot. It is all about fighting against the end of the world. I am sick and tired of that. ST was always a combination of exploration of space and humanity. But there is nothing to be gained from that plot. Sad thing. This is no longer ST.
As a person, a group of people, or a company, I can do with my time what I want. If I want to develop a second open source phone OS. It is my pleasure or nemesis. If you like it use or contribute to it, if not don't. The same applies to Firefox OS or any other project heading in that direction. What some people miss out in open source is, there is no centralized plan to gain world dominance. The plan is freedom. This includes freedom of choice, but is not limited to it. I also can decide that I want to collaborate with others or that I want to make something completely different. Sometimes these differences are in nuances to the public, but they mean everything to me or my group or my company.
Sometimes I have the feeling, that people blame others just because they choose different paths. Yes I know this results in fragmentation. And too much fragmentation is bad for interoperability and therefore bad for the OSS movement, but multiple phone and tablet operation systems and UIs are not a problem as long as they all support open communication standards. In the end fragmentation often resulted in new standards on data exchange and communications, which allowed us to work together, but still try out our own ideas.
CSS is a DSL for styles primarily. It could be used for other stuff as well. There are libraries available in Java. However, I do not know of any C++ library. But google returns just a lot on the topic for "CSS c++ library"
Where I life, there are in 10 min walk distance. Three pharmacies (for drugs), three drugstores (for diapers and baby stuff, cleaning materials, etc.) The market is twice a week and also in a 10 min walk distance (and it is cheaper than any grocery, but more expensive than a discounter, but I do not want to buy food for me and my baby (if I had one) in a discounter. Honestly I want the good stuff). The point is, in my city infrastructure is decentralized. Of course I could go by car to one of those big malls, would be a 30 min drive, but why should I?
When it comes to child care. I would do as all the other parents at University do. For the first year you have to stay at home, but as we both life close by to our jobs, we could easily split and go on 50% or switch after half a year. With one year I could take the kid and bring it to the nursery/kindergarten on the other side of the campus or one of the city kindergartens. that would give me a lot of focus during work hours. ;-) The kid can be transported with one of those nice kid-transport-bike trailers. They love it. I have seen that. A friend of mine (now lives in Berlin) did so. And they have space for all the necessary kid stuff. I can see the moms and dads bringing their kids to the university kindergarten every morning.
BTW: I would not necessarily use pre-packed or bottled baby food. Carrot or bananas are easily prepared (all in my family did that, and they are all working parents).
If I would be with my child at the market. Lets say it is two. So it will be able to do stuff. It would most likely steal an apple and then eat it. Not really a problem. I would, of course, have to pay for that. In a grocery, if you are not packed with stuff and stuff, it is not that a big problem to handle a kid.
Ah and yes. Don't go hungry to the grocery. Never ever.
I have seen that it is possible to organize yourself in a way that living without a car or with less car involvement is possible and even cheaper and more satisfying. If I have to spend time with the kids, I could go to the next park 2 min (5 min with kids, 10 min when they walk themselves) or I could go to the sea/fjord other direction.
You may google my location (fair approximation of my address, not the real of course)
"kiel germany, mittelstraße"
The university is at "christian-albrechts-platz 4, kiel, germany" and my spouse is working at somewhere there "UKSH Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Straße, Kiel, Germany".
The marketplace is at "Exerzierplatz 1, Kiel, Germany"
If you want to find any close groceries/pharmacies etc., you have to google for brands not the generic term, otherwise you find nothing.
The original article is on the German federal state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, which is a small state in the north east of Germany. It is not the central government in Berlin. I can understand if people find that confusing. However, there are 16 federal states. Every one of them has a ministry of education.
Furthermore, the German government replaced Windows for Linux in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but after the election of the present government, they changed it back, because they are conservative and neo-liberal and do not like this commie Linux stuff. Officially, they determined that the other Ministries were not able to share documentation, because the Ministry of Foreign Affairs used ODT and they used DOC. The fun fact here, ODT is mandatory for all government documentation (but obviously only on paper not in reality).