All these phonetic rules you mentioned depend more on the dialect than on how Hochdeutsch is supposed to sound. I've lived in NRW and in Bavaria for 8 years and the second "e" in segeln is quite loud (although admittedly in Bavaria much louder than in NRW). If you don't believe me, try hitting on the play button next to segeln in LEO: http://dict.leo.org/ende/?lang... I don't think that someone would spell it "segln" after hearing this. When writing an unknown word for the first time if you use the "write as you speak" method you will be just fine 95% of the time. With a little bit of experience, you'll easily get to 99%.
About the learning method, what the article describes is the core of the Montessori system, which has been applied across Europe for many years now (depending on the school and the country either in full or partially). We have yet to discover if it is better or worse.
Interesting, but I think your causation is backwards.
Kids that are not taught to appreciate form and style and who are not taught to be analytic and think on a different level, will never bother to write elegantly (not to mention about finding something elegant to write about). Forcing grammar rules on kids will not make them deeper thinkers, it will just piss them off. Give the kids a good book to read, discuss with them about it afterwards and show them that there is more than meets the eye, and they will want to be better writers.
Spelling in German is quite trivial, because you spell a word exactly as you pronounce it. There are some exceptions, but they are, too, bound by rules that one will learn eventually; they don't have to be force-fed to schoolchildren. So, considering this is a language where a spelling-bee makes almost no sense, no, Germany isn't raising a generation of illiterates.
Yes, an ionized gas glows on its own, just like a neon light. I don't know if this is the case though. The case someone made above about the oxidization of fine metal particles seems plausible, too.
In the case of a normal fire though, the glow comes from the red-hot soot particles that come from the inefficient combustion of carbon fuel, so it's not the gasses glowing from the heat.
This is a pretty cool feature. I have seen a similar implementation in a Mercedes and a Toyota, but for backwards driving only. It would turn on the camera as soon as you shifted into reverse.
Facebook is transitioning from a simple social network to a full-fledged technology company that rivals Google
In what world is Facebook a full-fledged technology company that rivals Google? Let's see what each company offers me: Google's search engine was a big thing when it started; it meant that you didn't have to use a shitload of search engines to find stuff (meta-search engines, anyone?) and now it rightfully dominates this market. Google gave me free email that didn't suck (well maybe some redesigns did) and has tons of space: people left Hotmail and never had to look back. Google Maps and Earth are just mind-blowing if you come to think of it, so I don't really have to comment on those. Google bought YouTube, and now serves us our vids, too. Google has stuff like the Google Art project that produces high-quality scans of artwork around the globe and silently delivers them to Wikipedia, so that we can all enjoy them for free. Google produced the OS that powers my phone and its browser, so that we get some diversity at least in the mobile world and don't get MS and Apple dominating that market as well (admittedly, it gets boring).
With Facebook, I can stay in touch with my friends that are in remote locations, upload my photos for them to see, and watch theirs. There is also some simple gaming going on (I'm not into it, but lots of people are). Oh, and with Instagram I can apply crappy filters to my photos. All these things, btw, I can do with Google+, but Google was late in the social media space, so I prefer FB since pretty much everybody that I know is already there.
FB is not a fully fledged tech company, they are a website for wasting your time. That's about it. I don't care how many little old ladies play candy crush or whatever the newest hot app is on FB, this won't make them a tech company unless they start developing some new tech. Continuously. If Google has been as stagnant as FB they wouldn't have gone past the development of their search engine.
Err... No. This is publishing a photo without a model release. There are laws that make this illegal already, there is no need for more, and certainly the service provider should be left out of this.
So to pay for the entire Apollo programme all over again, you would only need to divert roughly 1.2% of the annual military budget each year.
Spot on. Not to mention that, given that building heavy lift rockets has military applications as well,. So with a little bit of creative accounting they could book the rocket development in the military budget.
Cooling will certainly not be a problem and the geological activity is minimal (if at all present), so earthquakes and tsunamis are out of the question.
Well, nobody's perfect. Try and work on this weak spot and, maybe someday, you'll learn to appreciate good software, too!
I am intrigued by topics like setting up e-mail servers, reading about cloud stuff like Office 365
Yeah, I know what it feels like. At this point you should try and take up more challenges like LaTeX and CVS.
I'm a good teacher and excel at explaining things as well.
Hmmmm... This changes things. I mean, it's fine with you being an n00b and all, but please don't transmit your insecurities to our kids! Think of the children!
First of all, no country criticized US of anything; Reporters Without Borders is an NGO. Also, the list is on their website without any real commentary on the rankings, just a few notes mainly on the top and bottom scorers (US ain't one of them).
Second, just because you seem to have absolutely no idea about how the rest of the world functions, let me fill you in: In Europe, suing people in general is considered a complete waste of time and money, not to mention suing somebody about his opinion, that is straight-out retarded.
Third, not only are the Netherlands 2nd in RWB's list, but it seems that they have the complete libertarian opinion-expressing package with its ups and downs.
So, feel free to express your opinion, but know that it's complete bullshit.
However arbitrary the boycott may seem to you, there is some support behind it. Now, if someone decides to ignore it, but still chooses to use the classic interface, wouldn't you agree that they thus show support for Beta, although they don't like using it? They would not participate in the boycott, although they actually support its meaning and purpose (by choosing not to use Beta for posting). Thus the hypocrisy.
You are definitely not bound by any covenant. Feel free to post as much as you want the coming week. But if you really want to make a point, post your comments using the Beta interface.
Sorry for the Offtopic comment, but I thought I'd put this out there just before the anti-Beta boycott officially starts:
Whoever posts stories, comments, moderates or meta-moderates the coming week using the classic Slashdot interface is a hypocrite.
If you like the Beta or couldn't care less about it, then you should use it actively and prove by your participation that you accept it. I think we can be democratic about it and let the community choose. If the comment sections of the articles look alive and well by next Monday, this will mean that the community chose Beta. If AC comments are listening to the crickets, this will mean that the comments are by passer-bys and the actual community chose Classic.
Unfortunately, this seems to be what they teach in MBA programs these days. Everything needs to be periodically "refreshed" or "updated"; even if everything is going exactly how it should and you're #1 in your niche, there's this (horribly mistaken, IMO) impression that your product will magically get better if you change it.
Well they teach that for good reason. If you rest upon your laurels for a long time, then a startup will come from nowhere with a better product that you couldn't even dream of and your userbase will drop you like a sack of potatoes. Microsoft was owning the browser "market" until Mozilla came along, now Chrome is owning the mobile market. Yahoo! was the search engine of choice until Google made them completely irrelevant. Hotmail was looking pretty good too, until Gmail came along. The list goes on and on.
Now, the huge difference is that all of these products/services were beaten by someone/something that was significantly better. Change is important if you want to remain relevant; but MBA programs also teach that you should listen to your customers. Now, Dice is probably listening to the wrong demographic that, I would argue, has no idea how an internet forum should look like (Whitespace? Sure, why not?). Moreover, their implementation is so half-assed it hurts. Even Facebook has a larger information density than Beta: Although it's also a scrollfest, every post is contained and you can see the post, who liked it, and the first handful of comments together with a box for your own comment in one single page.
If a supplier sets their price, it's up to the customer to evaluate if the product is worth the money. I dumped my television altogether a decade ago and don't miss it at all (I do pay the ridiculous german fee for my radios though, since I value listening to the radio). Sportsbars and friend's houses are better options for watching sports anyway.
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All these phonetic rules you mentioned depend more on the dialect than on how Hochdeutsch is supposed to sound. I've lived in NRW and in Bavaria for 8 years and the second "e" in segeln is quite loud (although admittedly in Bavaria much louder than in NRW). If you don't believe me, try hitting on the play button next to segeln in LEO: http://dict.leo.org/ende/?lang... I don't think that someone would spell it "segln" after hearing this. When writing an unknown word for the first time if you use the "write as you speak" method you will be just fine 95% of the time. With a little bit of experience, you'll easily get to 99%.
About the learning method, what the article describes is the core of the Montessori system, which has been applied across Europe for many years now (depending on the school and the country either in full or partially). We have yet to discover if it is better or worse.
Interesting, but I think your causation is backwards.
Kids that are not taught to appreciate form and style and who are not taught to be analytic and think on a different level, will never bother to write elegantly (not to mention about finding something elegant to write about). Forcing grammar rules on kids will not make them deeper thinkers, it will just piss them off. Give the kids a good book to read, discuss with them about it afterwards and show them that there is more than meets the eye, and they will want to be better writers.
Spelling in German is quite trivial, because you spell a word exactly as you pronounce it. There are some exceptions, but they are, too, bound by rules that one will learn eventually; they don't have to be force-fed to schoolchildren. So, considering this is a language where a spelling-bee makes almost no sense, no, Germany isn't raising a generation of illiterates.
You should tell Microsoft. I hear they are looking to upgrade Metro.
Yes, an ionized gas glows on its own, just like a neon light. I don't know if this is the case though. The case someone made above about the oxidization of fine metal particles seems plausible, too.
In the case of a normal fire though, the glow comes from the red-hot soot particles that come from the inefficient combustion of carbon fuel, so it's not the gasses glowing from the heat.
This is a pretty cool feature. I have seen a similar implementation in a Mercedes and a Toyota, but for backwards driving only. It would turn on the camera as soon as you shifted into reverse.
Facebook is transitioning from a simple social network to a full-fledged technology company that rivals Google
In what world is Facebook a full-fledged technology company that rivals Google? Let's see what each company offers me:
Google's search engine was a big thing when it started; it meant that you didn't have to use a shitload of search engines to find stuff (meta-search engines, anyone?) and now it rightfully dominates this market. Google gave me free email that didn't suck (well maybe some redesigns did) and has tons of space: people left Hotmail and never had to look back. Google Maps and Earth are just mind-blowing if you come to think of it, so I don't really have to comment on those. Google bought YouTube, and now serves us our vids, too. Google has stuff like the Google Art project that produces high-quality scans of artwork around the globe and silently delivers them to Wikipedia, so that we can all enjoy them for free. Google produced the OS that powers my phone and its browser, so that we get some diversity at least in the mobile world and don't get MS and Apple dominating that market as well (admittedly, it gets boring).
With Facebook, I can stay in touch with my friends that are in remote locations, upload my photos for them to see, and watch theirs. There is also some simple gaming going on (I'm not into it, but lots of people are). Oh, and with Instagram I can apply crappy filters to my photos. All these things, btw, I can do with Google+, but Google was late in the social media space, so I prefer FB since pretty much everybody that I know is already there.
FB is not a fully fledged tech company, they are a website for wasting your time. That's about it. I don't care how many little old ladies play candy crush or whatever the newest hot app is on FB, this won't make them a tech company unless they start developing some new tech. Continuously. If Google has been as stagnant as FB they wouldn't have gone past the development of their search engine.
Err... No. This is publishing a photo without a model release. There are laws that make this illegal already, there is no need for more, and certainly the service provider should be left out of this.
The patent titles don't mean shit, legally or otherwise. If you really want to know what a patent is about you should go straight to the claims.
Jobs did not have it. Woz had it.
Fixed that for you.
Oh! I've seen that movie! It's where the African-American astronaut finds the Nazi base on the moon that has been forgotten since the 40ies.
So to pay for the entire Apollo programme all over again, you would only need to divert roughly 1.2% of the annual military budget each year.
Spot on. Not to mention that, given that building heavy lift rockets has military applications as well,. So with a little bit of creative accounting they could book the rocket development in the military budget.
If backwards compatibility is costly, then imagine the cost of spawning all those new buggy versions every other week!
Cooling will certainly not be a problem and the geological activity is minimal (if at all present), so earthquakes and tsunamis are out of the question.
I like Microsoft products
Well, nobody's perfect. Try and work on this weak spot and, maybe someday, you'll learn to appreciate good software, too!
I am intrigued by topics like setting up e-mail servers, reading about cloud stuff like Office 365
Yeah, I know what it feels like. At this point you should try and take up more challenges like LaTeX and CVS.
I'm a good teacher and excel at explaining things as well.
Hmmmm... This changes things. I mean, it's fine with you being an n00b and all, but please don't transmit your insecurities to our kids! Think of the children!
I could buy all the land around a person's house and starve them to death since they couldn't leave.
Hmm... I don't think so. Planning law would require that the house has a road leading to the house, and the road is publicly owned.
You know, we have soap here in Europe as well...
We're an autonomous commune, you insensitive clod!
First of all, no country criticized US of anything; Reporters Without Borders is an NGO. Also, the list is on their website without any real commentary on the rankings, just a few notes mainly on the top and bottom scorers (US ain't one of them).
Second, just because you seem to have absolutely no idea about how the rest of the world functions, let me fill you in: In Europe, suing people in general is considered a complete waste of time and money, not to mention suing somebody about his opinion, that is straight-out retarded.
Third, not only are the Netherlands 2nd in RWB's list, but it seems that they have the complete libertarian opinion-expressing package with its ups and downs.
So, feel free to express your opinion, but know that it's complete bullshit.
And I guess you have a clear and viable plan on what to to with the waste?
OK, I'll break it down for you.
However arbitrary the boycott may seem to you, there is some support behind it. Now, if someone decides to ignore it, but still chooses to use the classic interface, wouldn't you agree that they thus show support for Beta, although they don't like using it? They would not participate in the boycott, although they actually support its meaning and purpose (by choosing not to use Beta for posting). Thus the hypocrisy.
You are definitely not bound by any covenant. Feel free to post as much as you want the coming week. But if you really want to make a point, post your comments using the Beta interface.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
And I think you should buy a freaking dictionary.
Sorry for the Offtopic comment, but I thought I'd put this out there just before the anti-Beta boycott officially starts:
Whoever posts stories, comments, moderates or meta-moderates the coming week using the classic Slashdot interface is a hypocrite.
If you like the Beta or couldn't care less about it, then you should use it actively and prove by your participation that you accept it. I think we can be democratic about it and let the community choose. If the comment sections of the articles look alive and well by next Monday, this will mean that the community chose Beta. If AC comments are listening to the crickets, this will mean that the comments are by passer-bys and the actual community chose Classic.
Dixi.
Unfortunately, this seems to be what they teach in MBA programs these days. Everything needs to be periodically "refreshed" or "updated"; even if everything is going exactly how it should and you're #1 in your niche, there's this (horribly mistaken, IMO) impression that your product will magically get better if you change it.
Well they teach that for good reason. If you rest upon your laurels for a long time, then a startup will come from nowhere with a better product that you couldn't even dream of and your userbase will drop you like a sack of potatoes. Microsoft was owning the browser "market" until Mozilla came along, now Chrome is owning the mobile market. Yahoo! was the search engine of choice until Google made them completely irrelevant. Hotmail was looking pretty good too, until Gmail came along. The list goes on and on.
Now, the huge difference is that all of these products/services were beaten by someone/something that was significantly better. Change is important if you want to remain relevant; but MBA programs also teach that you should listen to your customers. Now, Dice is probably listening to the wrong demographic that, I would argue, has no idea how an internet forum should look like (Whitespace? Sure, why not?). Moreover, their implementation is so half-assed it hurts. Even Facebook has a larger information density than Beta: Although it's also a scrollfest, every post is contained and you can see the post, who liked it, and the first handful of comments together with a box for your own comment in one single page.
So don't watch the games.
If a supplier sets their price, it's up to the customer to evaluate if the product is worth the money. I dumped my television altogether a decade ago and don't miss it at all (I do pay the ridiculous german fee for my radios though, since I value listening to the radio). Sportsbars and friend's houses are better options for watching sports anyway.