I really don't understand why you would even want shopping results in your "start menu" (as in, the menu a user sees when he/she starts interacting with the DE in the canonical way). There are times where I go shopping, and then I go to a shop. In 99.9% of my computer interactions, I want to run some kind of program, not spend money.
I could imagine a service where Canonical acts as an intermediary between me and the shop. For this service I would expect local sellers (not just amazon - I can just go to amazon.com) and some form of vetting or guarantee from Canonical. This could be an application or if needed a 'tab' or something on the main launcher - but certainly not in the normal search results, for all kinds of reasons: undesired content, privacy, and unpredictability: one gets used to certain keystrokes leading to a program, and since shopping results are dynamic, the same "super, t, e, r, m, [enter]" can suddenly become a purchase of Terminator rather than opening the terminal.
The way it's implemented now it's just a money grab by Canonical, where they are selling my private data and giving me ads I don't want.
(Happy *buntu user, but switched to xmonad a while ago so no lens for me)
Dutchman here, there has been quite some coverage on radio and television.
If you say no the police will pay you a visit to ask why you said no. They have no legal means to entice you to change your opinion, this is a voluntary action (but as the purpose is to find relatives rather than the perp himself, they can afford some negatives).
They also say that the data cannot legally be used for anything other than this investigation and will be destroyed afterwards, but this indeed boils down to trust.
To the OP: it's not just "do you trust the government". If it also the (much more difficult) moral dilemma whether you want to collaborate in prosecuting a (possibly close) relative and presumably put all your family through a great deal of stress...
So I am assuming that this proposal is meant to be tongue in cheek. While completely workable, it kind of throws the baby out with bath water, so to speak
I agree. You can state it even simpler: The best CO2 capture can do is undo the burning of fossil fuels. Due to inefficiencies, one needs more than 1 joule of sequestration to undo 1 joule of coal burning. Thus, to undo the total effect of burning fossil fuels, this plan requires more than our total energy production in wind farms. And if we are going to build those wind farms, why not build them closer by and stop burning fossil fuels in the first place?
The only reasons this plan could have merit is (1) if wind parks on antartica are more efficient. While this could be true in terms of space efficiency and maybe in terms of amount of wind, I really don't believe this makes up for the transport and maintenance nightmare; or (2) as a solution for the non-constant production of wind energy. Airborne CO2 is used as a sort of "battery" which is replenished by sequestration and used by burning oil. This also sounds horribly inefficient.
That said I am not sure that machines like this are inevitable. There was a time when humans could just hunt and gather. At worst they could do limited agriculture. Now look at the amount of machinery the complexity of the supply chain just to get an ear of corn out of the ground. And look at flowers. We can't just keep bees around to pollinate them, they have to brought in special. And if cross pollination between orchards occur, and entire crop can be ruined. Is it inconceivable that as our population grows, as we cut down wild forest for crops of ranch land or managed timber, that the ability of the troposphere to support human life will begin to degrade. I can see atmospheric machine to insure oxygen content, CO2 content, even heat and humidity to be developed and deployed in the next few generations. Is this bad? I don't know, but it is something to think about.
While I sympathize with the sentiment, remember that in the past, >90% of humans had to till the field, and even so famines and malnutrition were common. Hunting/gathering also requires almost everybody to be involved in food production, and also requires inordinate amount of space per person. Just look at e.g. wheat yield per acre since 1950. Even after we had moved to mechanical agriculture on large fields with fertilizer, yield per acre *tripled* from around 750 to over 2500 in 1950-2000. If we stop modern farming, I'm afraid a lot of people are going to starve. The challenge is how to keep up current levels of food production in a sustainable way, not how to go back to pre-modern times.
In general, this may be true. However, TFA is based on "Two recent studies published [in Harvard journal] International Security". Reading further, these are:
n “Targeting Top Terrorists: How Leadership Decapitation Contributes to Counterterrorism,” Bryan Price, who will soon join the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy, analyzed the effects of leadership attacks on 207 terrorist groups from sixty-five countries between 1970 and 2008.
And:
Patrick Johnston, a former fellow in the Belfer Center’s International Security Program who is now at the RAND Corporation, considers whether leadership decapitation reduces the effectiveness of terrorist and insurgent groups. In “Does Decapitation Work? Assessing the Effectiveness of Leadership Targeting in Counterinsurgency Campaigns,” Johnston...
Given that the two cited authors are respectively joining the military and a think tank affiliated with the military, I an afraid that these studies has the objectivity of the former Iraqi Minister of Information... Also, a scientific journal will accept a theoretical model or simulation if it is methodologically sound, even if the actual bearing on reality is questionable (cf. all the rational choice / homo economicus type articles), so the peer review process here is no guarantee of sound political/military analysis.
Tried using VLC to stream from my dreambox satellite receiver, but no luck. It doesn't recognize the m3u file and it I point it to a web address it doesn't do anything. Hope that they'll fix it in the real version!
I think that there should be a "place in sandbox" (chroot) option, where the app sees fake contacts, a false GPS location, a dummy file system, etc., so the app is happy (as it thinks it has permissions), and the user is happy (as it gets the functionality without paying the cost).
The fake contacts could even include a app12+honeypot@example.com email contact, so we know that any spam comes from them.
I'm a rabid python fan and I'm afraid I have to *agree* with you here.
I used to think that using whitespace for delineating blocks made sense. It saves a character and usually a line (the closing bracket) and forces others to properly indent, making it easier to spot some silly mistakes.
I think the counterargument about spaces and tabs is mostly resolved: proper editors make sure that only spaces are used, even though theoretically tabs would make more sense (as in, a single tab character makes more sense than an arbitrary (4) number of spaces).
However, I second the gripe about copy pasting, even not running outlook. Certain chat clients eat whitespace, and copy-pasting code from different levels of indentation (say abstracting away an inner loop) means that you need to take care to preserve the relative indentation while changing the absolute level. Sure, editors have commands to move blocks left or right, but with brackets it would be copy, paste, select-all, re-indent.
This, plus mostly unfounded whitespace hate from non-python programmers*, has convinced me that using traditional blocks would have been wiser.
*) as a python programmer, anything that convinces someone to shy away from python is a bad thing (TM), as fewer programmers = less existing code and less available programmers to hire
Emacs and VI are good editors, and are great tools for working on a codebase and project that you are intimately familiar with.
Eclipse and especailly VS are fantastic IDEs, but AFAIK they kind of suck on dynamic languages, because (1) they don't use any of the great opportunities for supporting a programmer using dynamic executing, inspection etc, and esp (2) because all the features that make most IDEs great (links to documentation, click-through to implementation, autocomplete) are done using static code inspection, which sucks with a dynamic language because you have no clue what type an object is or could be.
If this can bring the power of a modern IDE to dynamic languages and actually uses the dynamic element of it do enhance coding, it will be a great new tool in the box.
What is the problem you want to secure yourself against? The loss of 4k$? The loss of your data? The theft of your data?
The 4k$ cannot be secured other than through old fashioned don't let them steal it and/or (travel) insurance
The loss of your data is secured by diligent backing up, but if you rely on 'cloud' services that should be fine (I am sure that Amazon has some way of redownloading your books if your kindle is lost, no? DropBox certainly works as a backup plan). Make sure that the required configuration / passwords etc are somewhere.
The theft of your data is also not so difficult. DropBox copies the files locally, but if you just encrypt the whole drive that is works on you should be fine. If your device (tablet/cell phone) doesn't support that, and you fear theft, don't use dropbox on it or get a better device.
I'm not a lawyer, and certainly not a Belgian one, but as far as I understand this is a civil case. In civil cases, the rules for evidence are much more lenient compared to criminal cases (eg less formal requirements and preponderance of evidence compared to very strict evidence rules and a full burden of proof on the accuser). For that reason, the outcome of civil suits is compensation and restoration, not punishment.
If you think civil cases should result in punitive sanctions, think about American music industry. They (ab)use the civil court system to sue infringers, threatening with statutory punitive damages. In (most of?) the EU, you can sue for copyright infringement, but the maximum damages are the actual and provable damages caused by the sued party.
Or did you want punitive damages only for the "bad guys"... that would make for some interesting legislation:-)
To combine the ideas of two posters above, what is needed is:
Split personal information in 'private' and 'public' info. For example, your facebook friends are (I think?) public, while the email addresses and mobile numbers of your contacts are generally private. There should be sane default settings that can be altered.
Allow any apps that ask for permission to see personal information X three choices: allow, allow public only, deny. The app should not be able to see the difference between allow and allow public only, it just gets less info. The email address and phone number of the default contacts (customer service, voicemail etc) will be public, so the app will generally get some email addresses to send spam to if that's what it does.
Make it easy for apps to run with minimum privileges. For example, if I would creata an agenda app that allows the user to email directly to someone attending a meeting, I really don't need to either see emails or control the email app. What is needed is an API function "email this person", which would open an email editor with the email address of the person (which is never given to 'my' app). Same for calling people. In this way, apps can give rich features while using only 'public' personal information. Note: I don't know whether these things are possible atm, I'm a phone user, not a (phone) developer.
Finally, it should be possible to limit the 'requires internet access ' to the domain the app came from ('a la java'). Again, the app should not see this difference, just get connection refused on other addresses.
Anyway, I'm a user rather than a (phone) developer, and I guess a lot of people don't care so much about their private parts, but it seems that awareness is growing...
That depends on your specific situation. In my case, I had two fears: #1 that my employer would prevent me from working on 'my' software if I leave, and #2 that a competitor would 'run away' with my software without sharing back.
If your only fear is #1, then surely you want the most permissive license, i.e. BSD or equivalent. In my case, both fears lead me to use the (Affero) GPL.
Using a copyleft license might actually help get permission from legal since you will have to* share any improvements you make back with the company. If I were the employer, I would sooner license as GPL than as BSD, since BSD essentially turns it into shared copyright, while in GPL the copyright owner has a substantially better legal position than the licensee.
You could even present it as a proper 'two-way' contract: you give all IP on the specific project to them (preventing any future difficulty over the legality of the employment conditions and fighting over whether all work was actually done during your tenure) and in return they license it to you. Reducing risk and uncertainty for the employer might be language that the legal people understand.
*) obviously, you only have to share back when you distribute or (under the Affero clause) when you offer it as a service on the internet
What I did at my current (academic) job is to keep copyright with my employer, but have them license it back to me under GPL. This means that if I move jobs or start my own business I can keep working on these projects. You can sell it to them as showing how they (ie, you) contribute to the community etc, and that they keep all IP so there is no danger of you suing them and they can always relicense.
Downside is of course that your future business model would have to build around an OSS core, but there are various options (OSS backend with proprietary frontend, web business / software as a service (no distribution = no requirement to give source code), proprietary modules that actually make it work (but make sure that the proprietary part cannot be construed as a derived work), etc etc.
EU law has direct force in national law, EU law trumps national law, and questions of interpretation of EU law are handled by the EU court, whose decisions are binding for the national courts. The EU is very far from toothless in areas where it has legal competence.
If they are indeed replacing the '95 directive the "published document" will have the form of a EU directive, which member states are compelled to turn into national law. If they don't do so, the EC (or, I think, any citizen with standing) can sue them in the EU court for failing to comply.
What you are referring to as toothless is probably in issue domains like foreigh affairs and defense, where the member states have full competence and the only thing the EU can do is try to forge some sort of consensus.
I'm a very happy user of xmonad tiling window manager, but there is indeed a big learning curve and a lot of keyboard hitting. I've seen screenshots of beautiful xmonad setups but mine is quite dull and I'm not willing to invest time in learning config-fu to beautify things.
It would be fantastic if someone could make a tiling window manager based distribution ("XMonabuntu"?:-)) that just works out of the box and has some point-and-click configurability and theming support.
In the Netherlands, there is a "knowledge worker" rule that says that if you can find a job that requires a degree and pays X% better than minimum (or modal?) wage, it's easy to get a working permit, plus you get a huge tax break (although I think there are cutting down on the latter). Any decent sized company will have someone in the HRM department who knows these rules and can help with the paper work.
If you are here 5 years and pass a test you can apply for citizenship but that might require renouncing your US citizenship.
Whats the difference between Straight and Strait? Straight, as in a line without a waver or curve. Strait: "A strait is a narrow, navigable channel of water that connects two larger navigable bodies of water. "
And for the love of foreigners, if you guys do something about your spelling issues, please remove unsounded letters (like the "gh" in straight"), don't add any more of them. That's just cheating at scrabble!
Related question: I would like to use a tablet for grading and correcting assignments and reading and annotating papers (all pdf). I would need it to sync to a storage for pdf files, preferably with a means of adding metadata (tags, bibliography, etc) with a good frontend on the PC as well.
Are there any good apps/applications for that now? Because then I might consider getting a tablet. Is it worth trying to get an e-ink device? Are there any e-ink devices running a sensible OS?
Funny, I just started using PGP last week and was surprised at the ease of setup and use. As I don't actually know anyone who uses it I don't think I can encrypt mail (as they would need to have a keypair), but I do sign all my mail, and even outlook users see the little 'seal' icon, even though gmail users don't apparently.
That will not be so easy. Notice that this is not the committee, but the ECJ finding that based on the basic treaties of the Union this is not permissible, like how they said that transfer fees cannot be paid for players who are no longer under contract since that bars free movement of labour. To change this would require a revision of the EU treaties, which is not easy to accomplish. Sometimes, that's a bad thing; sometimes a good thing.
I think physics is an interpreted language, so the executable is the source code. I have the nagging feeling however that waiting for author death plus 75 (or whatever it is nowadays) will take a while, so here's hoping that (s)he has released it into the public domain (although some of the more jealous accounts make one doubt it). There was even a message board on which the author left a number of comments, but that got trolled so heavily we have no idea what is from the programmer and what is a goatse link...)
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I really don't understand why you would even want shopping results in your "start menu" (as in, the menu a user sees when he/she starts interacting with the DE in the canonical way). There are times where I go shopping, and then I go to a shop. In 99.9% of my computer interactions, I want to run some kind of program, not spend money.
I could imagine a service where Canonical acts as an intermediary between me and the shop. For this service I would expect local sellers (not just amazon - I can just go to amazon.com) and some form of vetting or guarantee from Canonical. This could be an application or if needed a 'tab' or something on the main launcher - but certainly not in the normal search results, for all kinds of reasons: undesired content, privacy, and unpredictability: one gets used to certain keystrokes leading to a program, and since shopping results are dynamic, the same "super, t, e, r, m, [enter]" can suddenly become a purchase of Terminator rather than opening the terminal.
The way it's implemented now it's just a money grab by Canonical, where they are selling my private data and giving me ads I don't want.
(Happy *buntu user, but switched to xmonad a while ago so no lens for me)
Obligatory xkcd:
http://xkcd.com/154/
FTFY
Dutchman here, there has been quite some coverage on radio and television.
If you say no the police will pay you a visit to ask why you said no. They have no legal means to entice you to change your opinion, this is a voluntary action (but as the purpose is to find relatives rather than the perp himself, they can afford some negatives).
They also say that the data cannot legally be used for anything other than this investigation and will be destroyed afterwards, but this indeed boils down to trust.
To the OP: it's not just "do you trust the government". If it also the (much more difficult) moral dilemma whether you want to collaborate in prosecuting a (possibly close) relative and presumably put all your family through a great deal of stress...
So I am assuming that this proposal is meant to be tongue in cheek. While completely workable, it kind of throws the baby out with bath water, so to speak
I agree. You can state it even simpler: The best CO2 capture can do is undo the burning of fossil fuels. Due to inefficiencies, one needs more than 1 joule of sequestration to undo 1 joule of coal burning. Thus, to undo the total effect of burning fossil fuels, this plan requires more than our total energy production in wind farms. And if we are going to build those wind farms, why not build them closer by and stop burning fossil fuels in the first place?
The only reasons this plan could have merit is (1) if wind parks on antartica are more efficient. While this could be true in terms of space efficiency and maybe in terms of amount of wind, I really don't believe this makes up for the transport and maintenance nightmare; or (2) as a solution for the non-constant production of wind energy. Airborne CO2 is used as a sort of "battery" which is replenished by sequestration and used by burning oil. This also sounds horribly inefficient.
That said I am not sure that machines like this are inevitable. There was a time when humans could just hunt and gather. At worst they could do limited agriculture. Now look at the amount of machinery the complexity of the supply chain just to get an ear of corn out of the ground. And look at flowers. We can't just keep bees around to pollinate them, they have to brought in special. And if cross pollination between orchards occur, and entire crop can be ruined. Is it inconceivable that as our population grows, as we cut down wild forest for crops of ranch land or managed timber, that the ability of the troposphere to support human life will begin to degrade. I can see atmospheric machine to insure oxygen content, CO2 content, even heat and humidity to be developed and deployed in the next few generations. Is this bad? I don't know, but it is something to think about.
While I sympathize with the sentiment, remember that in the past, >90% of humans had to till the field, and even so famines and malnutrition were common. Hunting/gathering also requires almost everybody to be involved in food production, and also requires inordinate amount of space per person. Just look at e.g. wheat yield per acre since 1950. Even after we had moved to mechanical agriculture on large fields with fertilizer, yield per acre *tripled* from around 750 to over 2500 in 1950-2000. If we stop modern farming, I'm afraid a lot of people are going to starve. The challenge is how to keep up current levels of food production in a sustainable way, not how to go back to pre-modern times.
In general, this may be true. However, TFA is based on "Two recent studies published [in Harvard journal] International Security". Reading further, these are:
n “Targeting Top Terrorists: How Leadership Decapitation Contributes to Counterterrorism,” Bryan Price, who will soon join the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy, analyzed the effects of leadership attacks on 207 terrorist groups from sixty-five countries between 1970 and 2008.
And:
Patrick Johnston, a former fellow in the Belfer Center’s International Security Program who is now at the RAND Corporation, considers whether leadership decapitation reduces the effectiveness of terrorist and insurgent groups. In “Does Decapitation Work? Assessing the Effectiveness of Leadership Targeting in Counterinsurgency Campaigns,” Johnston ...
Given that the two cited authors are respectively joining the military and a think tank affiliated with the military, I an afraid that these studies has the objectivity of the former Iraqi Minister of Information... Also, a scientific journal will accept a theoretical model or simulation if it is methodologically sound, even if the actual bearing on reality is questionable (cf. all the rational choice / homo economicus type articles), so the peer review process here is no guarantee of sound political/military analysis.
Tried using VLC to stream from my dreambox satellite receiver, but no luck. It doesn't recognize the m3u file and it I point it to a web address it doesn't do anything. Hope that they'll fix it in the real version!
I think that there should be a "place in sandbox" (chroot) option, where the app sees fake contacts, a false GPS location, a dummy file system, etc., so the app is happy (as it thinks it has permissions), and the user is happy (as it gets the functionality without paying the cost).
The fake contacts could even include a app12+honeypot@example.com email contact, so we know that any spam comes from them.
I'm a rabid python fan and I'm afraid I have to *agree* with you here.
I used to think that using whitespace for delineating blocks made sense. It saves a character and usually a line (the closing bracket) and forces others to properly indent, making it easier to spot some silly mistakes.
I think the counterargument about spaces and tabs is mostly resolved: proper editors make sure that only spaces are used, even though theoretically tabs would make more sense (as in, a single tab character makes more sense than an arbitrary (4) number of spaces).
However, I second the gripe about copy pasting, even not running outlook. Certain chat clients eat whitespace, and copy-pasting code from different levels of indentation (say abstracting away an inner loop) means that you need to take care to preserve the relative indentation while changing the absolute level. Sure, editors have commands to move blocks left or right, but with brackets it would be copy, paste, select-all, re-indent.
This, plus mostly unfounded whitespace hate from non-python programmers*, has convinced me that using traditional blocks would have been wiser.
*) as a python programmer, anything that convinces someone to shy away from python is a bad thing (TM), as fewer programmers = less existing code and less available programmers to hire
Emacs and VI are good editors, and are great tools for working on a codebase and project that you are intimately familiar with.
Eclipse and especailly VS are fantastic IDEs, but AFAIK they kind of suck on dynamic languages, because (1) they don't use any of the great opportunities for supporting a programmer using dynamic executing, inspection etc, and esp (2) because all the features that make most IDEs great (links to documentation, click-through to implementation, autocomplete) are done using static code inspection, which sucks with a dynamic language because you have no clue what type an object is or could be.
If this can bring the power of a modern IDE to dynamic languages and actually uses the dynamic element of it do enhance coding, it will be a great new tool in the box.
What is the problem you want to secure yourself against? The loss of 4k$? The loss of your data? The theft of your data?
The 4k$ cannot be secured other than through old fashioned don't let them steal it and/or (travel) insurance
The loss of your data is secured by diligent backing up, but if you rely on 'cloud' services that should be fine (I am sure that Amazon has some way of redownloading your books if your kindle is lost, no? DropBox certainly works as a backup plan). Make sure that the required configuration / passwords etc are somewhere.
The theft of your data is also not so difficult. DropBox copies the files locally, but if you just encrypt the whole drive that is works on you should be fine. If your device (tablet/cell phone) doesn't support that, and you fear theft, don't use dropbox on it or get a better device.
Hey! A conspiracy! I like a good conspiracy on Friday to kick off the weekend.
Could you point to some more dark forces that have contributed to hiding this "exposition"?
Yeah, but that's Luxembourg. Arrest like 5 people and you've arrested almost a quarter of the population. A lot harder to do that in the US.
You seem to be doing a good job, though...
I'm not a lawyer, and certainly not a Belgian one, but as far as I understand this is a civil case. In civil cases, the rules for evidence are much more lenient compared to criminal cases (eg less formal requirements and preponderance of evidence compared to very strict evidence rules and a full burden of proof on the accuser). For that reason, the outcome of civil suits is compensation and restoration, not punishment.
If you think civil cases should result in punitive sanctions, think about American music industry. They (ab)use the civil court system to sue infringers, threatening with statutory punitive damages. In (most of?) the EU, you can sue for copyright infringement, but the maximum damages are the actual and provable damages caused by the sued party.
Or did you want punitive damages only for the "bad guys"... that would make for some interesting legislation :-)
To combine the ideas of two posters above, what is needed is:
Anyway, I'm a user rather than a (phone) developer, and I guess a lot of people don't care so much about their private parts, but it seems that awareness is growing...
Wollt ihr den totalen Grieg?
That depends on your specific situation. In my case, I had two fears: #1 that my employer would prevent me from working on 'my' software if I leave, and #2 that a competitor would 'run away' with my software without sharing back.
If your only fear is #1, then surely you want the most permissive license, i.e. BSD or equivalent. In my case, both fears lead me to use the (Affero) GPL.
Using a copyleft license might actually help get permission from legal since you will have to* share any improvements you make back with the company. If I were the employer, I would sooner license as GPL than as BSD, since BSD essentially turns it into shared copyright, while in GPL the copyright owner has a substantially better legal position than the licensee.
You could even present it as a proper 'two-way' contract: you give all IP on the specific project to them (preventing any future difficulty over the legality of the employment conditions and fighting over whether all work was actually done during your tenure) and in return they license it to you. Reducing risk and uncertainty for the employer might be language that the legal people understand.
*) obviously, you only have to share back when you distribute or (under the Affero clause) when you offer it as a service on the internet
What I did at my current (academic) job is to keep copyright with my employer, but have them license it back to me under GPL. This means that if I move jobs or start my own business I can keep working on these projects. You can sell it to them as showing how they (ie, you) contribute to the community etc, and that they keep all IP so there is no danger of you suing them and they can always relicense.
Downside is of course that your future business model would have to build around an OSS core, but there are various options (OSS backend with proprietary frontend, web business / software as a service (no distribution = no requirement to give source code), proprietary modules that actually make it work (but make sure that the proprietary part cannot be construed as a derived work), etc etc.
EU law has direct force in national law, EU law trumps national law, and questions of interpretation of EU law are handled by the EU court, whose decisions are binding for the national courts. The EU is very far from toothless in areas where it has legal competence.
If they are indeed replacing the '95 directive the "published document" will have the form of a EU directive, which member states are compelled to turn into national law. If they don't do so, the EC (or, I think, any citizen with standing) can sue them in the EU court for failing to comply.
What you are referring to as toothless is probably in issue domains like foreigh affairs and defense, where the member states have full competence and the only thing the EU can do is try to forge some sort of consensus.
I'm a very happy user of xmonad tiling window manager, but there is indeed a big learning curve and a lot of keyboard hitting. I've seen screenshots of beautiful xmonad setups but mine is quite dull and I'm not willing to invest time in learning config-fu to beautify things.
It would be fantastic if someone could make a tiling window manager based distribution ("XMonabuntu"? :-)) that just works out of the box and has some point-and-click configurability and theming support.
In the Netherlands, there is a "knowledge worker" rule that says that if you can find a job that requires a degree and pays X% better than minimum (or modal?) wage, it's easy to get a working permit, plus you get a huge tax break (although I think there are cutting down on the latter). Any decent sized company will have someone in the HRM department who knows these rules and can help with the paper work.
If you are here 5 years and pass a test you can apply for citizenship but that might require renouncing your US citizenship.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081210140645AADMNkG
Whats the difference between Straight and Strait?
Straight, as in a line without a waver or curve.
Strait: "A strait is a narrow, navigable channel of water that connects two larger navigable bodies of water. "
And for the love of foreigners, if you guys do something about your spelling issues, please remove unsounded letters (like the "gh" in straight"), don't add any more of them. That's just cheating at scrabble!
Related question: I would like to use a tablet for grading and correcting assignments and reading and annotating papers (all pdf). I would need it to sync to a storage for pdf files, preferably with a means of adding metadata (tags, bibliography, etc) with a good frontend on the PC as well.
Are there any good apps/applications for that now? Because then I might consider getting a tablet. Is it worth trying to get an e-ink device? Are there any e-ink devices running a sensible OS?
Funny, I just started using PGP last week and was surprised at the ease of setup and use. As I don't actually know anyone who uses it I don't think I can encrypt mail (as they would need to have a keypair), but I do sign all my mail, and even outlook users see the little 'seal' icon, even though gmail users don't apparently.
(Ubuntu 11.10 + evolution)
That will not be so easy. Notice that this is not the committee, but the ECJ finding that based on the basic treaties of the Union this is not permissible, like how they said that transfer fees cannot be paid for players who are no longer under contract since that bars free movement of labour. To change this would require a revision of the EU treaties, which is not easy to accomplish. Sometimes, that's a bad thing; sometimes a good thing.
I think physics is an interpreted language, so the executable is the source code. I have the nagging feeling however that waiting for author death plus 75 (or whatever it is nowadays) will take a while, so here's hoping that (s)he has released it into the public domain (although some of the more jealous accounts make one doubt it). There was even a message board on which the author left a number of comments, but that got trolled so heavily we have no idea what is from the programmer and what is a goatse link...)