I'm more a fan of "hard core" SF like Star Trek myself, but X-files can be classified as SF I think. It takes the scientific possibility that aliens could exist, and explores some of the effects that could have. That's what SF is, extrapolation of known scientific facts, to see what effect they could have. I did not watch the X-files often enough to elaborate further.
It most definately also falls into some other classifications as well, but fantasy is more Charmed, Buffy, mutantX, Angel, not X-files AFAIK.
There's this psychiatrical illness named ADHD, it makes you very active and action minded, coupled with short attention spans. Some develop into artists, some into criminals, according to theory largely because of upbringing.
Disclaimer: IANAP, but my mother teaches at a school for children with (severe) psychiatrical problems. autism, paranoia, ADHD, etc. They have classes of 4 children, and that's a strain.
In the Netherlands hemming is done at no extra cost in the somewhat more expensive stores (where they actually have personel capable of doing this, not some random 18y old) You might need to come back in 20 minutes, but I always use the service. (
First of all: your numbers are likely wrong: from http://www.nationmaster.com/country/us/Crime
Assaults per capita: USA: 7.7 per 1000 (1999) CA: 7.25 per 1000 (2000)
Murders (1999) USA: 0.04 per 1000 CA: 0.01 per 1000
So according to these numbers you are about 4 times as likely to be murdered in the USA as in Canada, and about as likely to be assaulted.
Secondly using your numbers: Your are twice a likely to get assaulted in Canada, but 4.5 times as likely to get murdered in the USA. It's a hard choice, but I would perfer Canada, as I have more chance to stay alive.
I do not beleive the numbers on your killology site, I live in the Netherlands and they say 8.3(1977) 27.4(1993) (1.3% incease is wrong by these numbers) I know the number of non-natural deaths in 2004 was 30 per 100.000 (close to the stated 27.4), specified als 5/100000 traffic accidents, 17/100000 deadly falls, 6/100000 siucides, leaving at most 2 per 100000 as murders. I think your killology site is using wrong numbers.
http://www.cbs.nl/nl/publicaties/publicaties/alg em een/statistisch-jaarboek/a-26-2004.pdf
http://www.cbs.nl/nl/publicaties/publicaties/maa ts chappij/bevolking/b-15/b-15-04-02.pdf Tells me the Netherlands have 250/16.000.000 = 1.5 per 100.000 murders. (compared to Florida 1152 for the same size population)
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/popInfo.php?locIn de x=10 http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/fsac/Publication s/SACN otes/focusing_on_murder.asp
The CBS is the Dutch central Bureau for Statistics, the governmental statistics organisation.
According to http://www.nationmaster.com/country/nl/Crime The Netherlands should read: Assaults per 1000: 2.73 (2000) Murders per 1000: 0.01 (2000)
> This way, it should be possible to make an educated guess about the real competence just by hearing someone's self-judgement.
I'm not so sure about that, the article more or less states that most people rate themselves to perform in the 60-70% compared to their peers, largely independent of their actual scores. Only if you are or have become competent can you make a good guess.
I liked the article too, but it does make one a little less confident.
> (The comment is also doubly stupid, because the US only has about four times the population of Germany anyway.) > Population of USA = 250 million Population of Germany = 85 million, so about 1:3, If one would assume a voter turnout of 80% for Germany, and 50% for the USA, it would be 1:2, certainly on the same scale.
But, the fact is on most key areas the Republicans and Democrats are becoming nearly indistinguishable.
From across the pond I can only agree with this statement. Both USA mayor parties are right-wing conservative compared to almost every european political party you can come up with. Compare to the Conservatives in GB, CDU/CSU in Germany, Partido Popular in Spain, Forza Italia in Italy, RPR in France. AFAIK these are all considered center-right in their contries, but I think most have viewpoints to the left of both Democrats and Republicans.
The USA political system looks odd from where I am standing, but I suppose the same holds true in reverse.
The only thing better as Delphi is Borland C++Builder*, which can do all the things Delphi can, and use the C++ bonus when needed (multiple inheritance, templates, function call overloading, low level stuff) They should dump the BDE, although the idea was nice.
*) I have no experience coding Java or C#, they are possibly better, this actually is a limited comparison between Delphi and C++Builder.
I have a shortlist of stuff I need a database to do, and AFAIK MySQL is the best for this job, please suggest any replacements: - It needs to run on windows (95-XP) - It must be allowed to be distributed with closed source apps. - It should be automatically installed and running when the user clicks 'OK' a few times in the installer that also installs the closed source app.
For the commercial licence fee you can do this with MySQL. We used Paradox and Access before MySQL, and compared to those MySQL is a blessing.
Our clients are the equivalent of WinME laptop-carrying traveling salesmen, assuming any knowlegde is to much, but they do but the 5,000 Euro highly specialized applications we make. (one was running Windows95 inside VMware on WindowsXP, thinking he was running only win95, and wondering why our application could not find the serial port, I'll not explain any further, it was a mess)
The power of the Unix CLI is that it's fragmented into small usefull pieces that can be combined using standard methods however the user wants. It has two drawbacks: - You have to know it quite well before it starts to pay off. It's not easy to search for something that does [fill in purpose]. - You need a basic "programmer" mindset.
It would be more powerfull if it was not all lumped together in a few directories, but structured like a GUI menu. [File manipulation string manipulation Help etc.]
The advantage of a GUI is: - It helps you narrow down your choices fast if you do not know what you are exactly searching. - There is a predefined selection of choices pre-programmed, preventing user-error and the need for programming skills.
The CLI is potentially more powerfull, but also a much higher and longer and steeper learning curve.
I learned most of what I know about linux from my SuSE 6.1 paper manual. It's a good book. Linux is not yet ready for everyone becuase you still need a manual. (wtf? mount? , I just want to read the floppy/usb key/ etc. was one of my first newbie problems)
I agree, I am by no means a very experienced Linux user, although I do now how to compile a kernel, add some custom module/etc.
My point was: Most of the time if I want an application I fire up Yast, select te rpm, have it solve any dependencies, and install. Worked every time with the 8.0 and newer versions, most of my "under the hood" experience with Linux is from older versions (like SuSE 6, 7, kernel with 2.0, 2.2) Lately everything I needed just worked, pop in the DVD, tell Yast what I want, and presto, it's ready.
I do think that from a ISP perspective more uniformity is needed, and API's at a higher level: I do not want a RS232 port character device, I want a modem, I want to tell it, "Use error correction, fixed baud 4800 and dial 1234567", independant of what modem is connected and how (USB, RS232, RS488, ISA, PCI, etc). (Modem's are my everyday live, and the Windows TAPI hell, but it IS available). The same is true I think for other peripherals.
When I was in highschool, not only did we learn all nations and their capitals, but also all USA states and their capitals, canadian, chinese, australian, french, UK, and German provinces and their capitals. I can still reproduce about 80% of what i've learned then. I think I could scetch a pretty acurate world map from the top of my head.
I only live in a fairly small country (about the size of New York or Florida in population, smaller in size) called the Netherlands, maybe you've heard of it. For us traveling more as 100-200 km means going abroad, therefore I suppose more emphasis is put on geography in our schools.
There used to be this TV program here, about holydays, and they were always at some exotic location, asking dutch tourists to point where they were on a world map. They often failed, so I will not say every dutchman has a profound knowledge of geography.
The international news here does not concern mainly the USA, but maybe only 10% of the time, now it's your election time, 20% if you include items about Irak, but usualy the USA is a topic 1-3 times a week, or about 5% of international news. I think, Belgium, Germany, the UK, France, Israel, the EU and Russia feature more often on the news as the USA.
I think the main point of the GPL version IS to solicit contributions, but for them to be included you need to waiver your rights, so they can dual licence and make a buck.
The REAL question is: So why the GPL and not BSD or some other licence?
Because it's makes it illegal for competitors to include MySQL code into their own software of fork MySQL. It's GPL to prevent the likes of MS or Oracle from copying the smart parts, legally at last, and still get at least some of the benefits of open source.
maybe I'm not fully getting this, but aren't you just getting this from your ISP's proxy or something after a few attempts, at least I noticed that the first time I tried to get this file took much longer as a second attempt.
Defensive choices. They know they'll never get fired for going the Intel - Microsoft route, they might get fired if they choose something else, and it doesn't work.
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I'm more a fan of "hard core" SF like Star Trek myself,
but X-files can be classified as SF I think.
It takes the scientific possibility that aliens could exist,
and explores some of the effects that could have. That's what SF is, extrapolation of known scientific facts, to see what effect they could have.
I did not watch the X-files often enough to elaborate further.
It most definately also falls into some other classifications as well,
but fantasy is more Charmed, Buffy, mutantX, Angel, not X-files AFAIK.
There's this psychiatrical illness named ADHD,
it makes you very active and action minded,
coupled with short attention spans.
Some develop into artists, some into criminals,
according to theory largely because of upbringing.
Disclaimer: IANAP, but my mother teaches at a school
for children with (severe) psychiatrical problems.
autism, paranoia, ADHD, etc.
They have classes of 4 children, and that's a strain.
In the Netherlands hemming is done at no extra cost in the somewhat more expensive stores (where they actually have personel capable of doing this, not some random 18y old) You might need to come back in 20 minutes, but I always use the service.
(
First of all: your numbers are likely wrong:
g em een/statistisch-jaarboek/a-26-2004.pdf
a ts chappij/bevolking/b-15/b-15-04-02.pdf
n de x=10n s/SACN otes/focusing_on_murder.asp
from http://www.nationmaster.com/country/us/Crime
Assaults per capita:
USA: 7.7 per 1000 (1999)
CA: 7.25 per 1000 (2000)
Murders (1999)
USA: 0.04 per 1000
CA: 0.01 per 1000
So according to these numbers you are about 4 times as likely to be murdered in the USA as in Canada, and about as likely to be assaulted.
Secondly using your numbers:
Your are twice a likely to get assaulted in Canada, but 4.5 times as likely to get murdered in the USA. It's a hard choice, but I would perfer Canada, as I have more chance to stay alive.
I do not beleive the numbers on your killology site, I live in the Netherlands and they say 8.3(1977) 27.4(1993) (1.3% incease is wrong by these numbers)
I know the number of non-natural deaths in 2004 was 30 per 100.000 (close to the stated 27.4), specified als 5/100000 traffic accidents, 17/100000 deadly falls, 6/100000 siucides, leaving at most 2 per 100000 as murders.
I think your killology site is using wrong numbers.
http://www.cbs.nl/nl/publicaties/publicaties/al
http://www.cbs.nl/nl/publicaties/publicaties/ma
Tells me the Netherlands have 250/16.000.000 = 1.5 per 100.000 murders. (compared to Florida 1152 for the same size population)
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/popInfo.php?locI
http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/fsac/Publicatio
The CBS is the Dutch central Bureau for Statistics, the governmental statistics organisation.
According to http://www.nationmaster.com/country/nl/Crime
The Netherlands should read:
Assaults per 1000: 2.73 (2000)
Murders per 1000: 0.01 (2000)
> This way, it should be possible to make an educated guess about the real competence just by hearing someone's self-judgement.
I'm not so sure about that, the article more or less states that most people rate themselves to perform in the 60-70% compared to their peers, largely independent of their actual scores.
Only if you are or have become competent can you make a good guess.
I liked the article too, but it does make one a little less confident.
> (The comment is also doubly stupid, because the US only has about four times the population of Germany anyway.)
>
Population of USA = 250 million
Population of Germany = 85 million,
so about 1:3, If one would assume a voter turnout of 80% for Germany, and 50% for the USA, it would be 1:2, certainly on the same scale.
But, the fact is on most key areas the Republicans and Democrats are becoming nearly indistinguishable.
From across the pond I can only agree with this statement. Both USA mayor parties are right-wing conservative compared to almost every european political party you can come up with.
Compare to the Conservatives in GB, CDU/CSU in Germany, Partido Popular in Spain, Forza Italia in Italy, RPR in France.
AFAIK these are all considered center-right in their contries, but I think most have viewpoints to the left of both Democrats and Republicans.
The USA political system looks odd from where I am standing, but I suppose the same holds true in reverse.
Uhu, my former employer started selling a lot more after he doubled the price from 2500 euro to 5000 for a piece of software we were selling.
Hmm, lameness filter want more than a title, ... ...
3) Profit!
Appart from AP I realy like CTP II, at least much more as Civ3 and ctp1
OO actually is already in TP6, with all the turbo-vision stuff it already feels quite Delphi-like.
The only thing better as Delphi is Borland C++Builder*,
which can do all the things Delphi can, and use the C++ bonus when needed (multiple inheritance, templates, function call overloading, low level stuff)
They should dump the BDE, although the idea was nice.
*) I have no experience coding Java or C#, they are possibly better,
this actually is a limited comparison between Delphi and C++Builder.
I have a shortlist of stuff I need a database to do, and AFAIK MySQL is the best for this job, please suggest any replacements:
- It needs to run on windows (95-XP)
- It must be allowed to be distributed with closed source apps.
- It should be automatically installed and running when the user
clicks 'OK' a few times in the installer that also installs the closed source app.
For the commercial licence fee you can do this with MySQL.
We used Paradox and Access before MySQL, and compared to those MySQL is a blessing.
Our clients are the equivalent of WinME laptop-carrying traveling salesmen, assuming any knowlegde is to much, but they do but the 5,000 Euro highly specialized applications we make.
(one was running Windows95 inside VMware on WindowsXP, thinking he was running only win95, and wondering why our application could not find the serial port, I'll not explain any further, it was a mess)
I think my (Borland) compiler warns me if I do something like this.
Can't check right now, but maybe you need to check your warnings more often.
I'm Dutch and I did send letters. Other Dutchmen/women join me!
Uhhuh...
Same thing here.
All my gamer friends are buying Athlon64's with Nvidea6800's
The power of the Unix CLI is that it's fragmented into small usefull pieces that can be combined using standard methods however the user wants.
It has two drawbacks:
- You have to know it quite well before it starts to pay off. It's not easy to search for something that does [fill in purpose].
- You need a basic "programmer" mindset.
It would be more powerfull if it was not all lumped together in a few directories, but structured like a GUI menu.
[File manipulation string manipulation Help etc.]
The advantage of a GUI is:
- It helps you narrow down your choices fast if you do not know what you are exactly searching.
- There is a predefined selection of choices pre-programmed, preventing user-error and the need for programming skills.
The CLI is potentially more powerfull, but also a much higher and longer and steeper learning curve.
I just watched it for the first time and I totally agree :-)
I learned most of what I know about linux from my SuSE 6.1 paper manual.
It's a good book. Linux is not yet ready for everyone becuase you still need a manual.
(wtf? mount? , I just want to read the floppy/usb key/ etc. was one of my first newbie problems)
I agree, I am by no means a very experienced Linux user, although I do now how to compile a kernel, add some custom module/etc.
My point was: Most of the time if I want an application I fire up Yast, select te rpm, have it solve any dependencies, and install.
Worked every time with the 8.0 and newer versions, most of my "under the hood" experience with Linux is from older versions (like SuSE 6, 7, kernel with 2.0, 2.2) Lately everything I needed just worked, pop in the DVD, tell Yast what I want, and presto, it's ready.
I do think that from a ISP perspective more uniformity is needed, and API's at a higher level: I do not want a RS232 port character device, I want a modem, I want to tell it, "Use error correction, fixed baud 4800 and dial 1234567", independant of what modem is connected and how (USB, RS232, RS488, ISA, PCI, etc). (Modem's are my everyday live, and the Windows TAPI hell, but it IS available).
The same is true I think for other peripherals.
When I was in highschool, not only did we learn all nations and their capitals, but also all USA states and their capitals, canadian, chinese, australian, french, UK, and German provinces and their capitals. I can still reproduce about 80% of what i've learned then. I think I could scetch a pretty acurate world map from the top of my head.
I only live in a fairly small country (about the size of New York or Florida in population, smaller in size) called the Netherlands, maybe you've heard of it. For us traveling more as 100-200 km means going abroad, therefore I suppose more emphasis is put on geography in our schools.
There used to be this TV program here, about holydays, and they were always at some exotic location, asking dutch tourists to point where they were on a world map. They often failed, so I will not say every dutchman has a profound knowledge of geography.
The international news here does not concern mainly the USA, but maybe only 10% of the time, now it's your election time, 20% if you include items about Irak, but usualy the USA is a topic 1-3 times a week, or about 5% of international news. I think, Belgium, Germany, the UK, France, Israel, the EU and Russia feature more often on the news as the USA.
I think the main point of the GPL version IS to solicit contributions, but for them to be included you need to waiver your rights, so they can dual licence and make a buck.
The REAL question is: So why the GPL and not BSD or some other licence?
Because it's makes it illegal for competitors to include MySQL code into their own software of fork MySQL. It's GPL to prevent the likes of MS or Oracle from copying the smart parts, legally at last, and still get at least some of the benefits of open source.
maybe I'm not fully getting this, but aren't you just getting this from your ISP's proxy or something after a few attempts, at least I noticed that the first time I tried to get this file took much longer as a second attempt.
Defensive choices. They know they'll never get fired for going the Intel - Microsoft route, they might get fired if they choose something else, and it doesn't work.
Thank you,
I thought I remembered that typical horizon is 25-50 km, now I do not need to dig up the numbers.