It may be true that in areas with high infant-mortality (or low average life-expectancy), people have more children as a way to compensate. Other animals do the same, so why should humans be any different.
What is an issue, though, is the time it takes for humans to switch to a lower rate of child-birth, or smaller families; this tends to take a few generations, by which time you are already facing a possible over-population.
(disclaimer: I'm the 9th child in a family, from a western European country)
First time I saw a girl put in lenses I was quite drunk up until she got it in - then I sobered up just from the thought of having to do something like that... When I (several years) later saw lasik/eye-surgery on TV, I wished I was drunk, just from seeing it, and I guarantee that if I ever need a doctor to anything remotely similar, I'm going to demand full anesthesia!
The notion of something sharp poking into my eye, even from the side? No, not interested really...
I'm a Windows XP + OSX 10.6 user, and recently bought a computer running "Windows 7 Home Premium" or something - I'm have trouble seeing it as a viable alternative to Debian 1.0.
(Yes, I said it: Windows 7 is actually pretty bad)
Disclaimer: I'm a Dane, who now lives in Belgium...
No idea about how easy it is or isn't to find a job in general, but for any technical job in DK, you'd likely be disqualified if you do not have a good command of the English language. in some few areas knowledge of German will help, and for specialty jobs, various other languages will help.
As for Danish, nah - I regularly have to use English when at hotels and restaurants in Copenhagen (I don't speak Swedish, and the waitresses don't speak Danish). In tech-jobs, it is even less of a requirement, at least in international companies. An example: Out CPH office was 1/3 natives at one point, with several employees having Danish as their 2nd or 3rd language. Meetings were/are held in English, and the boss doesn't speak a single word of Danish.
Is running VERY slowly with 74 players on the server I ended up at... and Firefox was complaining about scripts not responding. Is pretty cool demo, but need more polishing.
Going through the setup of Windows Media Center on a new Win7 Home Premium, it fails repeatedly during a set where it needed to download something from Microsoft - have tried a few different times, and verified that there is no apparent network issue here.
So XBMC is better than Media Center in that it runs on Win7.
I normally consider myself a somewhat smart cookie, but this topic makes my head spin a bit too much. Hats off to you for understanding (some of?) it:)
I know next to nothing on this matter, but recall having read that linking ground-based telescopes allows for much better observations/resolutions based on the distance between these telescopes.
If this is the case wouldn't 2+ telescopes in space be able to out-perform any ground-based installations, simply due to there being more, well, space?
I was reading about attempts at using viruses to cure other ailments, incl cancer, from ca 100 years ago in the Ukraine... so very old news indeed! (except for the mutation/engineering-thing perhaps)
vmware still has issues with all the I/O going through the hypervisor. the blades have local storage for the OS
HP absolutely promised us and our customer that there is no I/O issues using their vmWare server-solution, compared to bare-metal.....not that I believed them.
Hate to bring sources into a slashdot conversation, but Sandvine's 2011 report has 53.6% as "real-time entertainment" [...] So if those numbers are correct, roughly 15% of the Internet is porn.
Don't you think you should know what "primaries" are before you poke fun at them?
I actually do - you'll be amazed at the amount of attention it is getting over here (I suspect because one of the previous presidents managed to F things up for the rest of the world, and now the world is wary of whom you're going to elect next).
You might find it interesting, too, that the last presidential election in the US was almost portrayed as if it was first between Obama and Clinton, and when Clinton lost, then round 2 was Obama and whats-his-name.... The republican primaries were barely mentioned, and it sounded like a foregone conclusion that the republicans were "irrelevant" in the election; it was apparently just between the democrats.
At this stage, I've decided to only get election-details from The Daily Show and CNN - at least then there is something to laugh about.
And to be a bit on-topic: During the current Primaries, I'm curious to see if there are any correlation between Candidates talking about Iran, and the price of crude oil.
Energy-companies have generally being doing a killing in DK - prices are _also_ high to pay for exorbitant wages in the upper levels of management at DONG and its allies.
Don't think anybody said that this connection was available across all of Estonia. If he lives in Tallinn, or one of the other larger cities, it is as densely or less densely populated as most cities around the planet, so the ability to provide internet there for a given price and at a given service-level should be equal to that of most ofter cities.
Basically, you should at least be able to get the same product for the same price, in London, Washington and other large cities, particular if cost is proportional to size-of-area and inversely so to population.
I looked at LinkedIn, to see if it would be worth using for finding jobs - concluded that, no, it wasn't really.
I'm in IT; I'm a Project Manager with a fairly wide experience-set, and specific training and skills. Most things it would propose are far outside of my skillset or level, e.g. mandatory languages that I do not speak, or experience in fields that I have not worked. Searching gave me nothing that was better. Looking to links from me to the suggested companies were useless, as it would show links via people that live in other countries and have never met me nor the recruiter.
Meanwhile, I can still network, I can still look at job-postings on real job-boards, and I can still write actual letters (instead of clicking on "apply" button on LinkedIn).
Jobs are found by who you know - not which 200 links on linkedin you might have.
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The fact that these POS voting machines are built[...]
Point-Of-Sale Voting Machines? Me likes!
It's a sad day indeed when common sense is considered "extreme".
State your case without hyperbole and maybe someone will listen.
Judging from what little US TV I see (since I'm only there occasionally), the opposite is true.
(Yes, I should have gone for a Fixed That For You, or a Car Analogy, but too tired at the moment)
It may be true that in areas with high infant-mortality (or low average life-expectancy), people have more children as a way to compensate. Other animals do the same, so why should humans be any different.
What is an issue, though, is the time it takes for humans to switch to a lower rate of child-birth, or smaller families; this tends to take a few generations, by which time you are already facing a possible over-population.
(disclaimer: I'm the 9th child in a family, from a western European country)
Just curious, but if the poster would be working actively to remove these rights/advantages from all married couples, would that be better?
First time I saw a girl put in lenses I was quite drunk up until she got it in - then I sobered up just from the thought of having to do something like that...
When I (several years) later saw lasik/eye-surgery on TV, I wished I was drunk, just from seeing it, and I guarantee that if I ever need a doctor to anything remotely similar, I'm going to demand full anesthesia!
The notion of something sharp poking into my eye, even from the side? No, not interested really...
I'm a Windows XP + OSX 10.6 user, and recently bought a computer running "Windows 7 Home Premium" or something - I'm have trouble seeing it as a viable alternative to Debian 1.0.
(Yes, I said it: Windows 7 is actually pretty bad)
Disclaimer: I'm a Dane, who now lives in Belgium...
No idea about how easy it is or isn't to find a job in general, but for any technical job in DK, you'd likely be disqualified if you do not have a good command of the English language. in some few areas knowledge of German will help, and for specialty jobs, various other languages will help.
As for Danish, nah - I regularly have to use English when at hotels and restaurants in Copenhagen (I don't speak Swedish, and the waitresses don't speak Danish). In tech-jobs, it is even less of a requirement, at least in international companies.
An example:
Out CPH office was 1/3 natives at one point, with several employees having Danish as their 2nd or 3rd language. Meetings were/are held in English, and the boss doesn't speak a single word of Danish.
Last I checked, there were 20-odd CE certs available, and it didn't really matter which one you got...
Thanks for the hint - wasn't it, and still not able to do much of anything, but was worth a try :)
Cheers!
Is running VERY slowly with 74 players on the server I ended up at ... and Firefox was complaining about scripts not responding.
Is pretty cool demo, but need more polishing.
Easy: A release v1.0
Going through the setup of Windows Media Center on a new Win7 Home Premium, it fails repeatedly during a set where it needed to download something from Microsoft - have tried a few different times, and verified that there is no apparent network issue here.
So XBMC is better than Media Center in that it runs on Win7.
Thanks! Interesting stuff - went googling :)
I normally consider myself a somewhat smart cookie, but this topic makes my head spin a bit too much. Hats off to you for understanding (some of?) it :)
I know next to nothing on this matter, but recall having read that linking ground-based telescopes allows for much better observations/resolutions based on the distance between these telescopes.
If this is the case wouldn't 2+ telescopes in space be able to out-perform any ground-based installations, simply due to there being more, well, space?
3.) bask in the fact that somwhere, someone is regretting the release of this technology.
You don't think think that having to sift through hours of recordings of owners masturbating is going to do that on its own?
I was reading about attempts at using viruses to cure other ailments, incl cancer, from ca 100 years ago in the Ukraine ... so very old news indeed!
(except for the mutation/engineering-thing perhaps)
vmware still has issues with all the I/O going through the hypervisor. the blades have local storage for the OS
HP absolutely promised us and our customer that there is no I/O issues using their vmWare server-solution, compared to bare-metal.....not that I believed them.
Hate to bring sources into a slashdot conversation, but Sandvine's 2011 report has 53.6% as "real-time entertainment"
[...]
So if those numbers are correct, roughly 15% of the Internet is porn.
how much of the 53.6% is real-time porn?
Don't you think you should know what "primaries" are before you poke fun at them?
I actually do - you'll be amazed at the amount of attention it is getting over here (I suspect because one of the previous presidents managed to F things up for the rest of the world, and now the world is wary of whom you're going to elect next).
You might find it interesting, too, that the last presidential election in the US was almost portrayed as if it was first between Obama and Clinton, and when Clinton lost, then round 2 was Obama and whats-his-name.... The republican primaries were barely mentioned, and it sounded like a foregone conclusion that the republicans were "irrelevant" in the election; it was apparently just between the democrats.
At this stage, I've decided to only get election-details from The Daily Show and CNN - at least then there is something to laugh about.
And to be a bit on-topic: During the current Primaries, I'm curious to see if there are any correlation between Candidates talking about Iran, and the price of crude oil.
Hope you don't mind me quoting you ... :)
https://plus.google.com/106639317314065291577/posts/irsF5UAvfsE
It's more tolerable there given their denser population [...]
Judging from the snippets we see from the current US Elections/Pre-elections/whatever-you-call-that, the Americans are the denser ones....
Energy-companies have generally being doing a killing in DK - prices are _also_ high to pay for exorbitant wages in the upper levels of management at DONG and its allies.
Don't think anybody said that this connection was available across all of Estonia.
If he lives in Tallinn, or one of the other larger cities, it is as densely or less densely populated as most cities around the planet, so the ability to provide internet there for a given price and at a given service-level should be equal to that of most ofter cities.
Basically, you should at least be able to get the same product for the same price, in London, Washington and other large cities, particular if cost is proportional to size-of-area and inversely so to population.
I looked at LinkedIn, to see if it would be worth using for finding jobs - concluded that, no, it wasn't really.
I'm in IT; I'm a Project Manager with a fairly wide experience-set, and specific training and skills. Most things it would propose are far outside of my skillset or level, e.g. mandatory languages that I do not speak, or experience in fields that I have not worked. Searching gave me nothing that was better.
Looking to links from me to the suggested companies were useless, as it would show links via people that live in other countries and have never met me nor the recruiter.
Meanwhile, I can still network, I can still look at job-postings on real job-boards, and I can still write actual letters (instead of clicking on "apply" button on LinkedIn).
Jobs are found by who you know - not which 200 links on linkedin you might have.
If it was 900 EUR for the device, and it was very reusable, I'd almost offer to buy my doctor one.
Is still a very good price, though.