Get your nose examined. Really there is a big difference between these two things. Why do you want to put them on the pillory for a crime their already got their punishment. And we as a society should not try to indulge us in vengeance.
Interesting point: - Stalin did the same in Russia and depending on what study you trust he even got even more people killed, however he had more time - Pol Pot in Cambodia (however he was not able to top it, because there were not enough Cambodian) - French merchants delivered slaves from Africa to the USA, were approx 50% losses during the transportation process were acceptable (however I do not know any official number of dead person, because they didn't count so well without Holerith counting devices) - The Spanish and Portuguese invaded South America and eradicated many different ethnics and cultures there. They also did not keep count. However it is surely an atrocity. - Also the US tried to help the French recolonize Korea where they failed and they tried to establish an US controlled government in South Vietnam. The people didn't like this and resisted. And therefore the US poisoned their country (they did this mainly in South Vietnam and not in North Vietnam which is an interesting fact as well)
And we could continue this list of state or group driven murder throughout human history. The question is, what makes one more evil than the other? Is it the number of people or dead people divided by time. Or other ridiculous metrics which can help us to shift around blame or point fingers on each other.
Like: 70 years ago Germans murdered million in Europe and therefore their grandchildren are all murderers too. And they are all guilty.
Another option would be to start to learn from history, but as long any discussion on Germany includes Nazi Germany this will not happen.
The facts are, that two guys murdered someone, they went to jail, they got their punishment. Now after jail they are free men again. And therefor they should be treated as such. People do not want to have pictures of themselves with pants down on the Internet. For good reasons. And for the same reasons the information that you killed someone should not be posted on the net. This would opens a door to discrimination. That they did it, is part of their privacy. And in certain contexts (e.g. working for the state) they have to provide a "certificate of conduct".
/. is not an US only web-site. However, you're absolutely right with your advice to ask a lawyer. Also I would recommend to read the license which comes with the data and code. And I want to add: Fortran is a readable language and it is not really hard to learn.
A strong password is a good thing to protect your front door. Of course it is useless if you tell it everybody (phishing) or if you install password logging tools to tell the password a special group of people. But that has nothing to do with the password, it has to do with human behavior. A strong password is good, but it is useless without other security measures. This is no surprise. I hear the loud noise of a rice sack falling over. If I am not mistaken, it comes form China.
Indeed you are absolutely right. However, even with a degree in CS, people tend to forget that planning and designing is as important as programming. Many start directly with programming when you tell them a problem. Sometimes they say they do extreme programming, but to be honest, they use chaos programming. And that fails always. Therefore the best thing is to learn how to design and develop software, as well as requirement engineering. The programming experience comes with time. And a good CS can learn a new language in 2 weeks, while a $LANGUAGE-Only-Coder has problems to switch languages if the problem requires it. And don't forget. Most typical languages are all the same. They have imperative, functional, and object-oriented features. Some support these paradigms better than other, but you can use these paradigms in all languages even assembler. For example it is easier to use Java for OOP than assembler, but you still can model objects in assembler. You have to handle all pointers yourself, but it is possible. The GObject stuff used in gtk+ is written in C, but it is still an OOP pattern.
You have to learn the rest of your life. And as long as you do so your brain will be able to learn and to process information. It will get a little slower with time. However, this could be related to the greater amount of available information, which is automatically used. Older people create less mistakes. You will never be too stupid for the tech job. And if you are good in management and you like management more than tech then switch. You need to learn other things in management. And there will be no smooth way back to a tech job, but if you really like management. Go for it. You have to learn so much new things, which is very stimulating. And stimulating is good.
To go back in a tech job later, would require that you learn new terminology which will be available at that time. If you have an understanding of general concepts, then this is no problem, because the most stuff is just relabeling. Think of modules. Today they are called components, which is a generalization of the module concept, nothing more. The real change is in the product world. Think about routers or tools ten years back and today. What has changed? If this change doesn't frighten you. Go for management.
Also if you can stay in touch with technology evolution, then this should not be a problem. And a change back would result in a additional stimulating phase of reentering the tech domain.
I did something similar. I studied CS for 3 years part-time and then worked for 7 years full time, then I reentered university and studied full time. At first the switches were difficult, but after a short period it was always easy to manage it and even stay ahead of the crowd. It is a myth that people get dumb when they get older.
No, I would say they played their roles well. However, they picked characters with more courage. I wouldn't say that they acted outside of their character, but no one picked the real world equivalent of a nerd. Even in sci-fi RPGs nerds are clever and integrated in society. This reaction is understandable, because the not integrated figure without out many skills will most likely die quickly.
I think RPGs are a good thing as long as you do not try to transfer patterns out of the game into real life. RPGs are good to play around with other roles than those you "play" IRL.
You are absolutely right. The problem for most people is, that they have certain anxieties and fears (angst) which are not rational. If you think things through only dreads remain.
A typical "angst" would be to fear tomorrow, because something bad could happen. Or you don't ask a girl out, because of the consequences. However, if you think it through. The worst that could happen is a rejection from that girl, which doesn't mean you are ugly and not lovable. It just means that she doesn't want to go out with you (this time).
A typical aspect of angst is that you cannot act or react you are like the rabbit in front of a snake. Or Mogly in front of the snake. You are hypnotized and paralyzed by this angst.
However, to solve such situations, you need to go into meta-mode.;-)
Oh I learned the same thing IRL. Including the following: Don't kill your neighbor. Drive safely. Be nice to your teammates, but do not become an apple-polisher or teams idiot it won't help you and the team. A yes and, a team goes through different phases: a) You meet them the first time. b) You start working c) You start fighting d) hopefully you work it out e) you work perfectly with your colleges f) you release in time And don't push people. Their performance will suck. Its better when they want it or at least accept it.
I would say people act braver in RPG than in real life, because most of the stuff you can do in a game is beyond your normal capabilities. And even more important: If you die you can start all over. Beside a depression that your character died, nothing of consequence happens. IRL you have to face the real consequences. If you trick your chef or a customer, this will come back to you. And all behavior patterns (protocols in certain situations) can be learned IRL even better than in RPGs. This is because RPGs are only a model of a world, which is beside some fancy features as dull as the real one, but only a model. The real thing is much more complex, and challenging, and rewarding. Think of it: You collect 1000000 of currency X in game. However, IRL using the same time to collect 100000 $/EUR/Pound would be more rewarding. And think of real relationships vs. RPG-relationships.
They changed their processes. And while they did that, they migrated to OSS applications. And as a last step they change the operating system. And do not forget. They are Germans, they have a plan. And they will follow it to the bitter end.
If you live in Berlin, then you could see Germany's imperfection. That's what makes that city so enjoyable. However, I have to agree, that Germans tend to seek perfection in their engineering work. Sometimes they over-engineer something.
No. They migrated the applications first. In addition they replaced bad, old applications for administrative processes with new ones, which are designed to work with modern administrative processes. That's what it taking so long. Also they are training their stuff.
They did a little more than migrating to Linux. They started by migrating the applications. And while they did it they improved the internal processes. So they used the migration also to improve other parts of the bureaucracy/of the city management. This is why this is taking so long. They rewrote specialized applications, they integrated several small office solutions to city wide solutions. And they said in the beginning they do not want to overstrain the users. So they first give them new browsers, email-clients, word-processors. Then they added new plugins for these applications etc.
OSS can be innovative. To do so, people have to discuss these innovations on conferences IRL and online. For example, there are several interesting ideas available for the next GNOME environment which are very innovative [http://live.gnome.org/BrianMuhumuza/ToPaZ]. No other system provides them. Of course these ideas can only become reality when more people are starting to support them.
Well the German Government is working on that issue. If he wants, he can come and help us fighting against our government. Or he can stay in the UK and fight his government (if there is any government left in the UK). We are all in the same boat in the EU. A lot of freedom limitations come from EU institutions. They do what the national governments want, not what the parliaments want or the people. So we have to fight that. And we have to fight that all over Europe.
Beside the fact, that in most other countries you have to learn a new language. In most western countries you will find, ID cards, repressions, observation of the public, monitoring communication activities. The last one is done in every EU country. Cameras are not limited to the UK and even the Spanish have ID cards with fingerprints (was Franco's idea and I thought the idea came from Otto Schily). Instead of fleeing find a way to fight it. And one step to do so is, to get organized. You cannot win if you are not willing to leave the house.
Look we have the very same problems everywhere. So it might help to fight. Think about public health care. It was not invented by the establishment. People fought for it. So if you want to deorwellize the UK, Europe and the rest of the world. Start in your home country. Running away is no solution.
If you want to go to Germany, well we are building a new Internet censorship infrastructure, or go to France they just try to establish a three strike thingy for the MI. Or go to Sweden their already ahead of Germany. As I already said, there is no EU country without total communication monitoring. So you might think. The US, Australia, or Canada is an option. Well forget it, they are doing the very same thing. You might find countries like Columbia or Venezuela without more attractive. However, they have other problems.
So I only could ask you, beg you. Stay and fight, and not run and hide.
NASA once built a Mars-probe with part SI and part Imperial system. It was a failure. Also the boosters and the rocket are far more integrated than a truck and a boat.
I think it is doable, but may be it is too expensive. What I cannot understand. Why are they using boosters, which have been difficult to handle in the past?
Because we replace old parts by new parts in new projects. Also we try to migrate technology. So old services can still run for a while in new systems.
However, software engineering is far away from being comparable to other engineering disciplines. While other engineers can calculate if something breaks (e.g. statics) we cannot do this with the same accuracy, because our tools are not that far developed.
Also, NASA will have to do the migration some time in the future. So why not do it now. The SI system won't change in the foreseeable future.
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Get your nose examined. Really there is a big difference between these two things. Why do you want to put them on the pillory for a crime their already got their punishment. And we as a society should not try to indulge us in vengeance.
Interesting point:
- Stalin did the same in Russia and depending on what study you trust he even got even more people killed, however he had more time
- Pol Pot in Cambodia (however he was not able to top it, because there were not enough Cambodian)
- French merchants delivered slaves from Africa to the USA, were approx 50% losses during the transportation process were acceptable (however I do not know any official number of dead person, because they didn't count so well without Holerith counting devices)
- The Spanish and Portuguese invaded South America and eradicated many different ethnics and cultures there. They also did not keep count. However it is surely an atrocity.
- Also the US tried to help the French recolonize Korea where they failed and they tried to establish an US controlled government in South Vietnam. The people didn't like this and resisted. And therefore the US poisoned their country (they did this mainly in South Vietnam and not in North Vietnam which is an interesting fact as well)
And we could continue this list of state or group driven murder throughout human history. The question is, what makes one more evil than the other? Is it the number of people or dead people divided by time. Or other ridiculous metrics which can help us to shift around blame or point fingers on each other.
Like: 70 years ago Germans murdered million in Europe and therefore their grandchildren are all murderers too. And they are all guilty.
Another option would be to start to learn from history, but as long any discussion on Germany includes Nazi Germany this will not happen.
The facts are, that two guys murdered someone, they went to jail, they got their punishment. Now after jail they are free men again. And therefor they should be treated as such. People do not want to have pictures of themselves with pants down on the Internet. For good reasons. And for the same reasons the information that you killed someone should not be posted on the net. This would opens a door to discrimination. That they did it, is part of their privacy. And in certain contexts (e.g. working for the state) they have to provide a "certificate of conduct".
/. is not an US only web-site. However, you're absolutely right with your advice to ask a lawyer. Also I would recommend to read the license which comes with the data and code. And I want to add: Fortran is a readable language and it is not really hard to learn.
A strong password is a good thing to protect your front door. Of course it is useless if you tell it everybody (phishing) or if you install password logging tools to tell the password a special group of people. But that has nothing to do with the password, it has to do with human behavior. A strong password is good, but it is useless without other security measures. This is no surprise. I hear the loud noise of a rice sack falling over. If I am not mistaken, it comes form China.
Indeed you are absolutely right. However, even with a degree in CS, people tend to forget that planning and designing is as important as programming. Many start directly with programming when you tell them a problem. Sometimes they say they do extreme programming, but to be honest, they use chaos programming. And that fails always. Therefore the best thing is to learn how to design and develop software, as well as requirement engineering. The programming experience comes with time. And a good CS can learn a new language in 2 weeks, while a $LANGUAGE-Only-Coder has problems to switch languages if the problem requires it. And don't forget. Most typical languages are all the same. They have imperative, functional, and object-oriented features. Some support these paradigms better than other, but you can use these paradigms in all languages even assembler. For example it is easier to use Java for OOP than assembler, but you still can model objects in assembler. You have to handle all pointers yourself, but it is possible. The GObject stuff used in gtk+ is written in C, but it is still an OOP pattern.
You have to learn the rest of your life. And as long as you do so your brain will be able to learn and to process information. It will get a little slower with time. However, this could be related to the greater amount of available information, which is automatically used. Older people create less mistakes. You will never be too stupid for the tech job. And if you are good in management and you like management more than tech then switch. You need to learn other things in management. And there will be no smooth way back to a tech job, but if you really like management. Go for it. You have to learn so much new things, which is very stimulating. And stimulating is good.
To go back in a tech job later, would require that you learn new terminology which will be available at that time. If you have an understanding of general concepts, then this is no problem, because the most stuff is just relabeling. Think of modules. Today they are called components, which is a generalization of the module concept, nothing more. The real change is in the product world. Think about routers or tools ten years back and today. What has changed? If this change doesn't frighten you. Go for management.
Also if you can stay in touch with technology evolution, then this should not be a problem. And a change back would result in a additional stimulating phase of reentering the tech domain.
I did something similar. I studied CS for 3 years part-time and then worked for 7 years full time, then I reentered university and studied full time. At first the switches were difficult, but after a short period it was always easy to manage it and even stay ahead of the crowd. It is a myth that people get dumb when they get older.
No, I would say they played their roles well. However, they picked characters with more courage. I wouldn't say that they acted outside of their character, but no one picked the real world equivalent of a nerd. Even in sci-fi RPGs nerds are clever and integrated in society. This reaction is understandable, because the not integrated figure without out many skills will most likely die quickly.
I think RPGs are a good thing as long as you do not try to transfer patterns out of the game into real life. RPGs are good to play around with other roles than those you "play" IRL.
You are absolutely right. The problem for most people is, that they have certain anxieties and fears (angst) which are not rational. If you think things through only dreads remain.
A typical "angst" would be to fear tomorrow, because something bad could happen. Or you don't ask a girl out, because of the consequences. However, if you think it through. The worst that could happen is a rejection from that girl, which doesn't mean you are ugly and not lovable. It just means that she doesn't want to go out with you (this time).
A typical aspect of angst is that you cannot act or react you are like the rabbit in front of a snake. Or Mogly in front of the snake. You are hypnotized and paralyzed by this angst.
However, to solve such situations, you need to go into meta-mode. ;-)
Well this is true literally and figuratively.
Oh I learned the same thing IRL. Including the following:
Don't kill your neighbor.
Drive safely.
Be nice to your teammates, but do not become an apple-polisher or teams idiot it won't help you and the team.
A yes and, a team goes through different phases:
a) You meet them the first time.
b) You start working
c) You start fighting
d) hopefully you work it out
e) you work perfectly with your colleges
f) you release in time
And don't push people. Their performance will suck. Its better when they want it or at least accept it.
I would say people act braver in RPG than in real life, because most of the stuff you can do in a game is beyond your normal capabilities. And even more important: If you die you can start all over. Beside a depression that your character died, nothing of consequence happens. IRL you have to face the real consequences. If you trick your chef or a customer, this will come back to you. And all behavior patterns (protocols in certain situations) can be learned IRL even better than in RPGs. This is because RPGs are only a model of a world, which is beside some fancy features as dull as the real one, but only a model. The real thing is much more complex, and challenging, and rewarding. Think of it: You collect 1000000 of currency X in game. However, IRL using the same time to collect 100000 $/EUR/Pound would be more rewarding. And think of real relationships vs. RPG-relationships.
They changed their processes. And while they did that, they migrated to OSS applications. And as a last step they change the operating system. And do not forget. They are Germans, they have a plan. And they will follow it to the bitter end.
If you live in Berlin, then you could see Germany's imperfection. That's what makes that city so enjoyable. However, I have to agree, that Germans tend to seek perfection in their engineering work. Sometimes they over-engineer something.
No. They migrated the applications first. In addition they replaced bad, old applications for administrative processes with new ones, which are designed to work with modern administrative processes. That's what it taking so long. Also they are training their stuff.
They did a little more than migrating to Linux. They started by migrating the applications. And while they did it they improved the internal processes. So they used the migration also to improve other parts of the bureaucracy/of the city management. This is why this is taking so long. They rewrote specialized applications, they integrated several small office solutions to city wide solutions. And they said in the beginning they do not want to overstrain the users. So they first give them new browsers, email-clients, word-processors. Then they added new plugins for these applications etc.
OSS can be innovative. To do so, people have to discuss these innovations on conferences IRL and online. For example, there are several interesting ideas available for the next GNOME environment which are very innovative [http://live.gnome.org/BrianMuhumuza/ToPaZ]. No other system provides them. Of course these ideas can only become reality when more people are starting to support them.
Well the German Government is working on that issue. If he wants, he can come and help us fighting against our government. Or he can stay in the UK and fight his government (if there is any government left in the UK). We are all in the same boat in the EU. A lot of freedom limitations come from EU institutions. They do what the national governments want, not what the parliaments want or the people. So we have to fight that. And we have to fight that all over Europe.
Beside the fact, that in most other countries you have to learn a new language. In most western countries you will find, ID cards, repressions, observation of the public, monitoring communication activities. The last one is done in every EU country. Cameras are not limited to the UK and even the Spanish have ID cards with fingerprints (was Franco's idea and I thought the idea came from Otto Schily). Instead of fleeing find a way to fight it. And one step to do so is, to get organized. You cannot win if you are not willing to leave the house.
Look we have the very same problems everywhere. So it might help to fight. Think about public health care. It was not invented by the establishment. People fought for it. So if you want to deorwellize the UK, Europe and the rest of the world. Start in your home country. Running away is no solution.
If you want to go to Germany, well we are building a new Internet censorship infrastructure, or go to France they just try to establish a three strike thingy for the MI. Or go to Sweden their already ahead of Germany. As I already said, there is no EU country without total communication monitoring. So you might think. The US, Australia, or Canada is an option. Well forget it, they are doing the very same thing. You might find countries like Columbia or Venezuela without more attractive. However, they have other problems.
So I only could ask you, beg you. Stay and fight, and not run and hide.
Europeans aerospace industry is using the metric system. If they use fasteners in a different system, then this is a minor thing.
And we need some genetics work, so we have 12 fingers in future. ;-)
NASA once built a Mars-probe with part SI and part Imperial system. It was a failure. Also the boosters and the rocket are far more integrated than a truck and a boat.
I think it is doable, but may be it is too expensive. What I cannot understand. Why are they using boosters, which have been difficult to handle in the past?
Because we replace old parts by new parts in new projects. Also we try to migrate technology. So old services can still run for a while in new systems.
However, software engineering is far away from being comparable to other engineering disciplines. While other engineers can calculate if something breaks (e.g. statics) we cannot do this with the same accuracy, because our tools are not that far developed.
Also, NASA will have to do the migration some time in the future. So why not do it now. The SI system won't change in the foreseeable future.
Continuous use of this Imperial system allows the rest of the world to make jokes, every time the NASA creates a new crater on Mars.
And BTW. when the ESA send a satellite to Mars it work perfectly. However the Britsh Beagle 2, manufactured in the UK created a new crater on Mars.
Think of that NASA.
Don't do this in Bavaria, you will get a liter beer and not something between 0.5-0.4 l