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Could you please elaborate on this a little more? How did German and Finnish derive from Sanskrit? Could you give examples?

That's what was my take from the article as well, it focused on performance base on single-sex vs. coed school education. Would this be an issue as well, if we had mandatory clubs and after school (coed) activities as well. Are we not confusing two things here? On the one hand, because the mandatory institution we have is school, and we consider getting to know the other sex an important part while growing up, we conclude that school should be coed, so to force the latter intent? Also, isn't interest in the other sex somewhere natural and could result in a higher after school coed activity (clubs, sports, ...) in those going to single-sex schools?

I think this is a dangerous fallacy many of us run into: judging content by it's domain name. Would the same content on a completely different domain change the prejudice towards the contents of the text? Similarly would a url shortener hide the potential bias? By seeing the domain name in this case one could assume a bias towards single sex schools. At least the author of that presence would be frank about it. Similarly couldn't it be that the author chose singlesexschool.org for it's catchiness and still favor coed?

While this particular article presents facts in favor of single sex schools, I would think that our duty is to educate our kids and peers to critically question anything they read and at least do a little research (scanning the site to get a basic understanding of the agenda the author may be pushing; to follow the supposedly supporting links, ...).

Wow that sounds like some kind of german from the distant past, if at any time we spoke that way. Don't get me wrong! It just sounds, let's say interesting :-)

So, why is the pirate party not on the top with all the NSA turmoil? Well, basically they let slip any chance to exploit the topic for their benefit slip. They used to have an pretty good start with a not too weak stand at first. But then leadership and politics within the party started and the whole thing basically just started to crumble. They might have gotten over it with their new party lead, though I feel that girl just screams too much; at least their leadership and inner politics have subsided (or thats what you get as a bystander).

The whole NSA stuff has come up over the recent weeks and basically intensified--but that might be my biased reading as well--and the pirate party has not made any visible attempt to get hold of the issue, make statements, propose solution, ... nothing.

So what does the pirate party stand for? I'm not quite sure. At least I don't feel like they are the ones who would ensure that the NSA spying would get thoroughly investigated as well as the general surveillance that is happening all over the place.

Neither seems any other party to be particularly interested in handling that topic. The two big parties CDU/CSU and SPD have their focus on other things. FDP seems to see a popular interest in the NSA/spying/surveillance, and tries to position itself. Though with the FDP this is always a gamble. Maybe they /really/ /really/ want to do something, but just can't because they are always forces in a coalition? Or maybe they didn't want to fix that in the first place, but pay lip service? DIE LINKE, well I don't really know what to say about them. One thing though, their Gregor Gysi is a hell of a skilled speaker.

EDIT: Completely forgot about the Green party; they do seem to be interested in tackling the problem, though it's just not their core competence.

Bottom line, I find it hard to single out a party that would truly attack the privacy issue.

EDIT: Thinking about it, it's probably the imperative form leading into the sentence. If we reword it a little, it gets a lot better: Eine Frage an die Deutschen: warum haben die Piraten so wenig Erfolg? In Bezug auf die NSA Affäre, usw., meine ich.

While I do feel the sentiments against paying again for a successor, it makes me feel sick[1]. It's 5 bucks; generously about two coffees. After apple takes it's cut the developer receives about US$3.5, just how many copies does the developer need to sell to make it a worthwhile venture? Reeder has been in the AppStore since September '09, until it went free in June '13. That's, in todays terms, 3.75years of support and updates for an app that cost's US$5 today. If Reeder2 takes the same path, that would be about US$1 per year taxable income to the developer.

[1]: I think this will become even more apparent over the next few years. Buy once for 99c, get lifetime updates is no sustainable business model.

I second what w_t_payne said. The following are just some ideas, please keep in mind that I'm no lawyer! This is no legal advice at all!

If you do have relatives in Germany, that might be a route to explore. I heard something in the news, that this may be an option.

For working though, that's going to be a tough one. Reading the Wikipedia article (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeitserlaubnis) right, it states that: "Asylbewerber dürfen für die ersten 12 Monate überhaupt nicht arbeiten (§ 61 Abs. 2 AsylVfG), anschließend gilt ein nachrangiger Arbeitsmarktzugang nach der BeschVerfV (siehe oben)." Which translates to: people seeking asylum must not take up any employment for the first 12 month.

As well as "Asylberechtigte, Konventionsflüchtlinge (§ 25 Abs. 1 und 2 AufenthG) sowie Ausländer mit einer Niederlassungserlaubnis (§ 9 Abs. 1 AufenthG) haben nach dem Aufenthaltsgesetz ein Recht auf Erwerbstätigkeit.", which transaltes to: people granted asylum (and some others) holding a residence permit, are allowed to work.

That's both ends of the spectrum, so there may be some middle ground after 12 month. I'm not lawyer though!

Finally, I think, maybe the folks from PRO Asyl may be the right ones to ask. See: http://www.proasyl.de/en/contact/

PS: regarding hosting, from my exprience it's a somewhat lengthy progress, depending on the regonal administration. Your host will have to provide financial standing for your stay (requirements differ for the duration of your stay), with that he or she has to send that document certifying the financial standing as well as a signed invitation to you (the original), with which you have to go to the german emabassy in your country and apply for a temporary visa.

It does look interesting indeed.

I also like the design and layout of the site.

BUT: Does the "Download" button behave weird for anyone else as well? It's quite slow, not really responsive, and at the same time pushes the content below the button downwards/upwards depending on state (might be part of being slow). [Safari on OS X]

edit: I'm referring to the download button here: http://abe33.github.io/spectacular/#Browser

Thanks. That kind of explains things a little, I did remember Hugo Chavez being quite vocal against the US. But was under the impression that the new government was less vocal in that regard. I guess I'm wrong. And probably Mr. Snowden would be the one to know.

Why would one go to Venezuela in his situation? What am I missing here? Or is that just a transit location towards Ecuador?

So following along with that eBay comparison, would forcing hosts to be classified in professional (power seller) and private solve this issue sufficiently? Not sure how you'd detect false positives?

I've seen options like those at more than one occasion. Flats rented out by room or bed, with the owner? (operator?) seemingly running it as a business.

Don't get me wrong, I don't necessarily consider that wrong. After all it's likely a little more like a youth hostel and gives you the option to maybe meet with a pre-screened[1] set of occupants? Making an option to meet people with similar interests, whether that's something you'd want to go for or not.

For me Airbnb always seemed covered that middle ground between Couchsurfing and Ho(s)tels.

[1]: what ever screening the host would really do is a completely different question. But having to be approved by the host gives the host a little option to screen those who come and go.

I cannot comment on the inner working of Samsung or a similar corporation of that size. But having grown up on a farm I can very much sympathize with the joy and, can we call it freedom, farming has to offer.

I often wonder if we, who code and spend quite a bit of our lifetime in front of computer displays have distanced ourselves from the nature around us a bit too much from time to time.

I find that £1200 item kinda odd. Is it an outlier? It's basically a male designer at 45+ with 14-15years of exp from Wales.

While it looks interesting and probably has some use cases, the syntax puts me off a little. YMMV. Yes, Obj-C has many brackets. But I find them supporting reading by grouping relevant elements together. I assume if you dislike lisp like languages, eero might help in this regard.

What I particularly don't like are the tailing return types.

I also assume apple is actively working to reducing the Obj-C verbosity to some extend.

Regarding the website, I miss a "get started" link. How do I take it for a quick test-drive?

EDIT: It sais: "Eero is a fully binary- and header-compatible dialect of Objective-C". Does this mean, I can write a module in Eero and have it derive the correct header files for me? Or do I need to re-write the header file to be consumed by (legacy) Obj-C?

Any recommendations for what sessions to watch first? What are the most substantial new features, one should pay close attention to with respect to iOS?

I want one of those new shiny MacBook Air Pros! :) Seriously Apple, why not name them like that?

As I mentioned in reply to notatoad, you can connect bluetooth devices to your iOS device. The trackpad, is the interesting thing though. I don't think iOS has a concept of Mouse...

Well, as of now, you can actually do connect your phone to the apple tv[1]. And you can connect a BT Keyboard as well. And I think I've also seen games utilizing the second screen for a different purpose then simply for mirroring.

I'm not so sure about the touchpad though.

Still I find that page a little bogus.

[1]: http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/airplay.html

Hmm, maybe that was to be expected from visualidiot.com? An interesting take idea on how to spin a blog post nonetheless.

Interesting, they just say "Smartphone", and have an iPhone (am I mistaken?!) lurking behind the Android device. Similarly, on the part where they had their marketing department create a "Gaming" sample, the device used as controller looks very much like an iPhone, even the connector does.

Hi, got Y9999Y9KE7X6 :) Will be in Singapore next week, want to meet up?

Looks pretty neat, and maybe a simple utility app that looks neat is just the way to go on the App Store.

One thing that caught my eye though was: why are the launch images not filled with the numbers? On a similar note, though--I don't have an idea how to solve that while still using lauch images--the launch image is white, changing themes, killing the app and restarting it hence results in a visible flickr.

That said, I did sometimes have trouble hitting the keys, due to the inactive space in between.

me neither, but now I understand why some discourage the concept of creating many tiny branches in hg. [you can't delete them -- i still find this hard to believe]

will likely be there as well.

somewhere in the upper 70s it starts being undefined... Confused Delphi with Pascal, and then missed Pascal m(

Interesting though :D

Is it just me or does the new exit icon with the door not align well with the other icons?

Love the idea. Execution is pretty nice. If some designer might space a few minutes to get the colours a little friendlier, that would be great!

Thanks for clearing that up. I ment to start with animated graphic novel (fixed now). I didn't even know about Visual novels and the exact meaning of the term graphic novel was also new to me.

When I was a kid we used to read Lucky Luke, Asterix and Obelix and Donald Duck. These days it seems that Magas have taken their spot. There's a pretty large bookstore here: Hugendubel, which provided reading corners; similar to a library, except all books are new. You can often find many kids immersed in Mangas.

To me it's like the following: if you animate a manga you end up with an anime. If you animate a comic you end up with animated cartoon.

But the presented product here is still different. It's like a hybrid of both -- or am I mistaken?

At first animated graphic novel sounded like an anime to me. But that concept looks interesting. I am not so sure if it will actually be better. After all, is not an important part of reading a novel, or graphic novel to be immersed in the story and let ones creativity and visualisation flow to make the story a living experience in ones mind? If this supports that, it would be very great! On the other hand if an animated graphic novel would distract from the this, it would be very sad.

I very much like the old touch that it's given and it contrasts great with the new technology.

In the end, if this concept can lure some kids, who'd rather watch an anime than read, to read more. That would be quite an achievement!

So this is a Lisp subset compiler to DCPU-16 written in a lisp that compiles to javascript. Is javascript really becoming the IL now?