I actually think this contributed to those statistics google released, possibly in a major way.
I barely even bother with the www and the domain anymore.
Good luck trying to learn Dutch in the Netherlands - even if you speak to people in Dutch they will respond in English. That's literally anybody under the age of 50.
And might I add to that: especially anyone working in IT. But that's a good thing.
When you arrive in a foreign country looking for a place to live and a job, do you want to be utterly helpless because of a language barrier?
There's plenty of programs in the Netherlands and Belgium to learn Dutch. We've got a lot of immigration coming from the middle-east for a while, and those immigrants need (and usually want) to learn dutch, because most locals don't speak Moroccan Arabic or Turkish. So while you can learn the language from a native teacher, at your own pace, you will be understood perfectly by the locals and colleagues at work when speaking English.
One more thing: Don't expect to pick up on any French of German if you're in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, all three might be the official national languages, most people only speak one of them. It's a bit ironic, but most Dutch-speaking Belgians will understand and speak English a lot better than French.
outside of academia, nobody really cares where you went to school only what you can actually do.
If you really believe that, you are desperately naive.
Keep in mind that we're talking about the European job market. If it's not Ivy League or MIT, we've never heard about it.
When you've picked a country you want to work in, don't forget to read up on the local education standards.
A few years back things started changing here, we've got bachelors and masters here too now, but they might be slightly different to the American model. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_process Just so you know how your degree compares to the locals'.
IANA US Citizen, so I only have a limited understanding of how you handle things over there. But I think things like a telephone network should not be privately owned.
Shouldn't the US government have invested in laying telephone and network infrastructure, and then lease it out to telco's? Then there could have nice fair competition, which would be good for the customer, right?
What happened down here in Belgium, is that the government used to own the telephone network, but then partly privatized the phone national company, which now owns the entire network and sells access to smaller companies (similar to the situation described in TFS). Down the line, it's us customers who get overcharged and get really crappy DSL lines.
made a repost because I slacked of and didn't preview the last one:(
IANA US Citizen, so I only have a limited understanding of how you handle things over there.
But I think things like a telephone network should not be privately owned.
Shouldn't the US government have invested in laying telephone and network infrastructure, and then lease it out to telco's?
Then there could have nice fair competition, which would be good for the customer, right?
What happened down here in Belgium, is that the government used to own the telephone network, but then partly privatized the phone national company, which now owns the entire network and sells access to smaller companies (similar to the situation described in TFS). Down the line, it's us customers who get overcharged and get really crappy DSL lines.
Here in Belgium and other European countries, bandwidth is not throttled but capped. I can Bittorrent as much as I want, but I fall back to 1-3 kB/s as soon as I hit the 100 gigabyte barrier. This system is waaaay less underhand or hypocrite. FYI, I'm at 30.7 GB this month. It resets the day after tomorrow.
Free market capitalism, eh? It's just crazy enough to work. We should try that here.:) I live in Belgium too, and I strongly disagree with parent. Our internet access may be neutral, but they're slower (4Mbits down / 400Kbits upload is the common standard for our adsl), and we're mocked by almost every other Western-European country for our traffic capped. Seriously, the biggest provider (a partially state-owned company, which has the entire nation's telephone net infastructure) charges 41 euros (61 usd) for 12 Gigabytes of traffic per month. Twelve, that's nothing! If you want to buy an extra pack of 5 Gb, it costs another 5 euros.
Our internet providers would make a terrible model to follow, capped internet is almost just as terrible as a non-neutral net.
I was actually looking at the pictures and thinking "wow, those are really rich colors".
Only than I realized what I was viewing them on... a current-tech samsung tft.
A bit like watching a commercial for hdtv on tv and being impressed.
A term like asteroid defense, to me, always brings up the image of a battery of laser cannons or special nuclear silo's that actually -defend- us against asteroids.
Wouldn't it be more appropriatly dull to call this asteroid observation?
I have a friend that uses his passport as his main ID. He showed it to me once: He keeps it wrapped in a couple of layers of tinfoil. It's one of those newfangled RFID passports:P Check out the RFID Blocking Passport Billfold at ThinkGeek:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/910f/
Slashdot Mirror
I'm pretty sure everyone else on Slashdot already voted for Serenity...
So did these guys.
Hah! fooled you! It's not a relevant comic!
Do you really think they need that much porn?
I actually think this contributed to those statistics google released, possibly in a major way.
I barely even bother with the www and the domain anymore.
Good luck trying to learn Dutch in the Netherlands - even if you speak to people in Dutch they will respond in English. That's literally anybody under the age of 50.
And might I add to that: especially anyone working in IT. But that's a good thing.
When you arrive in a foreign country looking for a place to live and a job, do you want to be utterly helpless because of a language barrier? There's plenty of programs in the Netherlands and Belgium to learn Dutch.
We've got a lot of immigration coming from the middle-east for a while, and those immigrants need (and usually want) to learn dutch, because most locals don't speak Moroccan Arabic or Turkish.
So while you can learn the language from a native teacher, at your own pace, you will be understood perfectly by the locals and colleagues at work when speaking English.
One more thing: Don't expect to pick up on any French of German if you're in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, all three might be the official national languages, most people only speak one of them. It's a bit ironic, but most Dutch-speaking Belgians will understand and speak English a lot better than French.
outside of academia, nobody really cares where you went to school only what you can actually do.
If you really believe that, you are desperately naive.
Keep in mind that we're talking about the European job market.
If it's not Ivy League or MIT, we've never heard about it.
When you've picked a country you want to work in, don't forget to read up on the local education standards.
A few years back things started changing here, we've got bachelors and masters here too now, but they might be slightly different to the American model. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_process
Just so you know how your degree compares to the locals'.
The reason there's no 'e' in BluRay is that you're not allowed to trademark names of colors.
You must be new here.
On the subject of Project Orion, this TED talk by George Dyson is a must-see: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/george_dyson_on_project_orion.html/
It's a great presentation with uncovered previously classified stuff.
IANA US Citizen, so I only have a limited understanding of how you handle things over there.
:(
But I think things like a telephone network should not be privately owned.
Shouldn't the US government have invested in laying telephone and network infrastructure, and then lease it out to telco's?
Then there could have nice fair competition, which would be good for the customer, right?
What happened down here in Belgium, is that the government used to own the telephone network, but then partly privatized the phone national company, which now owns the entire network and sells access to smaller companies (similar to the situation described in TFS).
Down the line, it's us customers who get overcharged and get really crappy DSL lines.
made a repost because I slacked of and didn't preview the last one
IANA US Citizen, so I only have a limited understanding of how you handle things over there. But I think things like a telephone network should not be privately owned. Shouldn't the US government have invested in laying telephone and network infrastructure, and then lease it out to telco's? Then there could have nice fair competition, which would be good for the customer, right? What happened down here in Belgium, is that the government used to own the telephone network, but then partly privatized the phone national company, which now owns the entire network and sells access to smaller companies (similar to the situation described in TFS). Down the line, it's us customers who get overcharged and get really crappy DSL lines.
Free market capitalism, eh? It's just crazy enough to work. We should try that here.
Seriously, the biggest provider (a partially state-owned company, which has the entire nation's telephone net infastructure) charges 41 euros (61 usd) for 12 Gigabytes of traffic per month. Twelve, that's nothing! If you want to buy an extra pack of 5 Gb, it costs another 5 euros. Our internet providers would make a terrible model to follow, capped internet is almost just as terrible as a non-neutral net.
I was actually looking at the pictures and thinking "wow, those are really rich colors". Only than I realized what I was viewing them on... a current-tech samsung tft. A bit like watching a commercial for hdtv on tv and being impressed.
A term like asteroid defense, to me, always brings up the image of a battery of laser cannons or special nuclear silo's that actually -defend- us against asteroids. Wouldn't it be more appropriatly dull to call this asteroid observation?
Lately, every time I try to think of something like the title of a song, and I can't remember right away, I feel the urge to get wikipedia up.
It's ironic that all this information technology is making us dumber.
Just imagine a beowulf-minigun of these!
Now you can be paranoid with style!