I moved to Germany for my now wife. I've learned to speak fluent but grammatically poor German. My colleagues are all German. The biggest difference I've noticed, is dealing with the pain-in-the ass , . separator issues.
English speaking developers who have their computers configured for English-language separators have NO IDEA how much hassle it is for the rest of the world. The single most useful thing you could do, is run your computer in another language, including different thousand/decimal separators. You'll find a whole pile of bugs, it'll be a build nightmare at first, but the code WILL make less assumptions about how people use their numbers.
We even found third party software where the XML we were using to control it changes, based on your current language settings. APART from one of it's features, that's always in English, whatever your language settings. The firm that wrote it hadn't realised, because all of their developers used German. Ugly, ugly ugly.
Then at least disclose that it's a European experiment. We spent billions on it, credit where its due please. Americans generally work on the principle that if nothing is said about location, it's American. Quoting an American regarding the experiment reinforces this view.
I left the UK and moved to Germany, about 18 months ago. I barely spoke a word of German when I arrived. Admittedly the main reason was that my fiancee is German, but I'd been uncomfortable about the same issues you mention regarding the UK and the direction it's heading. It's the best thing I ever did.
I learned German for 4 months, then started looking for work. I had an MSc in IT, but no IT experience. I got a job within 1 month of looking, the firm speaks German, but most of the developers speak good English. At first I only spoke English at work, but now I speak German where I can, English the rest of the time
I have to say that Germany is FAR better than the UK on most of these issues. Whilst they do have ID cards here, they're not electronic and probably only exist as a hangover from being an occupied state after WWII (the allies required it).
My advice would be take the plunge! Don't worry about language too much within the EU if you're going for IT jobs (maybe apart from France, but that could be just reputation).
ITER is the world's best chance of obtaining almost infinite amounts of clean energy. Most of the recent press about the National Ignition Facility has ignored one key fact - the NIF is about creating fusion explosions to model bombs. Sure, it can also be used for fusion power research, but that's not the primary reason it received it's funding. ITER is about developing commercial fusion using a tokamak.
Also, the way the US cancelled all funding for ITER for 2008 was pretty disgusting. If a country becomes a partner in such large science projects, they need to stick with it, rather than screwing everyone around
I assume you've read Brave New World? That kind of thinking can lead to extreme conclusions.
It might seem a nice idea, but implementing any social system around that kind of concept would be very difficult to do without extreme consequences for society. Unfortunately most people are more sheep-like and are easily scared
I've escaped all this crap by moving to Germany. I never really like the way britain is becoming a surveillance state and moving here was such a breath of fresh air.
It wasn't that hard to find an IT job either, only one month of serious searching.
I'll never need one of these british ID cards, I'm not paying for that bloody database, and the DNA database here has people's names taken out of it if they aren't found guilty.
You're talking about two different things, really. I work for a company making sensor network software and hardware. You're never going to get it running on the same Access Pointss as consumer internet - the requirements are too different.
For the sensor networks, we're aiming for 10 year battery life, with network bandwidth that makes modems from 10 years ago look fast. No one wants to use that for their AP.
The ONLY part of the sensor network that might use a consumer AP is the link between the sensor net and the outside world - but in practice sticking a SIM card into the link is the easiest thing
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I don't know, well before 2002. I'm sure they know the exact date!
no congress can bind any future congress. So no congress can set budget policy in any future year. They can make recommendations (and do), but this isn't guaranteed.
And yet, America is the only country I see consistently restricting themselves like this. Certainly in Britain, one pariliament can't set budget policy for the next, but projects don't have to rejustify funding every year and cancellations of large science projects are rare.
And when it comes to your Presidents... Doesn't Bush seem to be doing a good job of binding spending for the next president? If there is no money...
...semi-First World countries like those in Europe...
Europe is semi-First world now? Whilst I understand someone saying that not all countries within europe are first world, I'd like to point out that the EU market in 2007 had higher GDP than the US, ok it has more citizens too, but the ratio really is fairly comparable. If EU isn't first world, then only USA and Japan are. Or you're crazy.
Funnily enough, they have different names because they mean different things. I think the mention of "England" at the end of the article should have matched the title.
The article states that Fermilab can begin exploring to 160GeV in the summer. LHC is due to be switched on before that. From all I've read, LHC has a MUCH better chance of being sure of what it finds at around those energies. I think any article on this subject can't even pretend to be balanced without discussing LHC.
Actually, it's THE SAME PROBLEM THEY STILL HAVEN'T FIXED, that's still happening in the released version. What's the point in ignoring beta testers? Why reinstall an entire OS because there's one pernickety file that doesn't matter for normal operation? Why not just replace the one file?
I tried the (two) public betas on my Vista Ultimate 64 partition. They all failed to install at 19%. I reported it on the forums, tried to send my logs to an email address they said they'd set up, and even identified which file was supposedly "corrupt" (the one it was installing actually).
For my trouble, I've been ignored, and I'm now going to have to reinstall the ENTIRE OS because some small part of it is supposedly corrupt (systems works fine) and they won't let me just fix that. Lovely. My Ubuntu install is so much better, I wish I didn't need the vista one.
The very concept is crazy: organised terrorists who have something to hide KNOW BETTER THAN TO TRAVEL USING IDENTIFIABLE METHODS OF PAYMENT. This is police-state logic at its worst. The obvious next step is to prevent any method of payment that isn't identifiable. Would you be happy with being FORCED to reveal your identity for every financial transaction in your entire life? We may choose to do so now using credit cards, but most of the time we have the option of paying cash.
The article talks about everything from motes to handhelds, all on the same network. I work for a company that has a low-bandwidth low-power sensor node product, selling software to hardware makers, and hardware for prototyping purposes. The requirements vary so much from sensor-only devices to handhelds, that any product catering for both would be inherently compromised. Does your handheld want to work with a network that has a total bandwidth like modems from 20 years ago, shared between all the nodes? Is it really concerned with keep power emissions so low that it can stay on that network for 10 years, powered by batteries? how about a sensor attached to your radiator?
Techies tend to think about what CAN be done with a certain technology, but sometimes we try and generalise too far
Do you think it's a coincidence that Paul McCartney and Heather Mills finish their divorce suit and then the beatles catalog gets sold for $400M dollars. "Yes your honour, that's a list of all my assets AT THE MOMENT".
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I moved to Germany for my now wife. I've learned to speak fluent but grammatically poor German. My colleagues are all German. The biggest difference I've noticed, is dealing with the pain-in-the ass , . separator issues. English speaking developers who have their computers configured for English-language separators have NO IDEA how much hassle it is for the rest of the world. The single most useful thing you could do, is run your computer in another language, including different thousand/decimal separators. You'll find a whole pile of bugs, it'll be a build nightmare at first, but the code WILL make less assumptions about how people use their numbers. We even found third party software where the XML we were using to control it changes, based on your current language settings. APART from one of it's features, that's always in English, whatever your language settings. The firm that wrote it hadn't realised, because all of their developers used German. Ugly, ugly ugly.
Then at least disclose that it's a European experiment. We spent billions on it, credit where its due please. Americans generally work on the principle that if nothing is said about location, it's American. Quoting an American regarding the experiment reinforces this view.
I left the UK and moved to Germany, about 18 months ago. I barely spoke a word of German when I arrived. Admittedly the main reason was that my fiancee is German, but I'd been uncomfortable about the same issues you mention regarding the UK and the direction it's heading. It's the best thing I ever did.
I learned German for 4 months, then started looking for work. I had an MSc in IT, but no IT experience. I got a job within 1 month of looking, the firm speaks German, but most of the developers speak good English. At first I only spoke English at work, but now I speak German where I can, English the rest of the time
I have to say that Germany is FAR better than the UK on most of these issues. Whilst they do have ID cards here, they're not electronic and probably only exist as a hangover from being an occupied state after WWII (the allies required it).
My advice would be take the plunge! Don't worry about language too much within the EU if you're going for IT jobs (maybe apart from France, but that could be just reputation).
ITER is the world's best chance of obtaining almost infinite amounts of clean energy. Most of the recent press about the National Ignition Facility has ignored one key fact - the NIF is about creating fusion explosions to model bombs. Sure, it can also be used for fusion power research, but that's not the primary reason it received it's funding. ITER is about developing commercial fusion using a tokamak.
Also, the way the US cancelled all funding for ITER for 2008 was pretty disgusting. If a country becomes a partner in such large science projects, they need to stick with it, rather than screwing everyone around
And as they say, people who know radio use wires.
So... what do you do when people are too sheeplike to make sane decisions on their own? Coddle them and make them more like sheep?
Get them to vote for you!
I assume you've read Brave New World? That kind of thinking can lead to extreme conclusions.
It might seem a nice idea, but implementing any social system around that kind of concept would be very difficult to do without extreme consequences for society. Unfortunately most people are more sheep-like and are easily scared
I didn't say I left because of the surveillance state. I left because I have a German fiancee. I just said that I had escaped all this crap.
Please don't complain about your pet topics when people aren't bringing them up
I've escaped all this crap by moving to Germany. I never really like the way britain is becoming a surveillance state and moving here was such a breath of fresh air.
It wasn't that hard to find an IT job either, only one month of serious searching.
I'll never need one of these british ID cards, I'm not paying for that bloody database, and the DNA database here has people's names taken out of it if they aren't found guilty.
You're talking about two different things, really. I work for a company making sensor network software and hardware. You're never going to get it running on the same Access Pointss as consumer internet - the requirements are too different.
For the sensor networks, we're aiming for 10 year battery life, with network bandwidth that makes modems from 10 years ago look fast. No one wants to use that for their AP.
The ONLY part of the sensor network that might use a consumer AP is the link between the sensor net and the outside world - but in practice sticking a SIM card into the link is the easiest thing
I don't know, well before 2002. I'm sure they know the exact date!
no congress can bind any future congress. So no congress can set budget policy in any future year. They can make recommendations (and do), but this isn't guaranteed.
And yet, America is the only country I see consistently restricting themselves like this. Certainly in Britain, one pariliament can't set budget policy for the next, but projects don't have to rejustify funding every year and cancellations of large science projects are rare.
And when it comes to your Presidents... Doesn't Bush seem to be doing a good job of binding spending for the next president? If there is no money...
...semi-First World countries like those in Europe...
Europe is semi-First world now? Whilst I understand someone saying that not all countries within europe are first world, I'd like to point out that the EU market in 2007 had higher GDP than the US, ok it has more citizens too, but the ratio really is fairly comparable. If EU isn't first world, then only USA and Japan are. Or you're crazy.
I hate to say anything good about Steam, but this is one thing they get right - they simply ask.
Thankfully, I'm not. Although, the affect of your politics on all of us non-Americans, when we don't get to vote... rather frustrating.
The whole point of using super conductors is that their resistance is incredibly low, almost 0 ohm.
No, the whole point of using super conductors is that the resistance is EXACTLY 0 ohm, not incredibly near. There is no resistance, at all.
If I could get my pc on the cooling network..... mmmmmm, 65K. Should be enough for anybody!
They've bought senators, how can it be illegal when they've got paid for law makers fighting on their side(!)
Funnily enough, they have different names because they mean different things. I think the mention of "England" at the end of the article should have matched the title.
The article states that Fermilab can begin exploring to 160GeV in the summer. LHC is due to be switched on before that. From all I've read, LHC has a MUCH better chance of being sure of what it finds at around those energies. I think any article on this subject can't even pretend to be balanced without discussing LHC.
Actually, it's THE SAME PROBLEM THEY STILL HAVEN'T FIXED, that's still happening in the released version. What's the point in ignoring beta testers? Why reinstall an entire OS because there's one pernickety file that doesn't matter for normal operation? Why not just replace the one file?
I tried the (two) public betas on my Vista Ultimate 64 partition. They all failed to install at 19%. I reported it on the forums, tried to send my logs to an email address they said they'd set up, and even identified which file was supposedly "corrupt" (the one it was installing actually).
For my trouble, I've been ignored, and I'm now going to have to reinstall the ENTIRE OS because some small part of it is supposedly corrupt (systems works fine) and they won't let me just fix that. Lovely. My Ubuntu install is so much better, I wish I didn't need the vista one.
The very concept is crazy: organised terrorists who have something to hide KNOW BETTER THAN TO TRAVEL USING IDENTIFIABLE METHODS OF PAYMENT. This is police-state logic at its worst. The obvious next step is to prevent any method of payment that isn't identifiable. Would you be happy with being FORCED to reveal your identity for every financial transaction in your entire life? We may choose to do so now using credit cards, but most of the time we have the option of paying cash.
The article talks about everything from motes to handhelds, all on the same network. I work for a company that has a low-bandwidth low-power sensor node product, selling software to hardware makers, and hardware for prototyping purposes. The requirements vary so much from sensor-only devices to handhelds, that any product catering for both would be inherently compromised. Does your handheld want to work with a network that has a total bandwidth like modems from 20 years ago, shared between all the nodes? Is it really concerned with keep power emissions so low that it can stay on that network for 10 years, powered by batteries? how about a sensor attached to your radiator?
Techies tend to think about what CAN be done with a certain technology, but sometimes we try and generalise too far
Do you think it's a coincidence that Paul McCartney and Heather Mills finish their divorce suit and then the beatles catalog gets sold for $400M dollars. "Yes your honour, that's a list of all my assets AT THE MOMENT".