@BlueSoul ...I just really don't know, because if I look at a magazine rack it's no longer for technology. I gave that up yeaers ago, when the few tech 'zines left in the German market addressed topics no longer of interest to me.
Also, if anyone else here saw those kind of magazines on sale in other countries... feel free to say so. I'm curious.
(btw, somehow related - I wonder how they can get away with selling a guide to how to steal your neighbor wifi connection with included tools but no one still is selling a "become a burglar" guide with enclosed crowbar)
@Magisch Not if your technology forces you to learn a new language every five years, or so. Example: WordBasic->VBA/VB6->C#->(Office Open) XML->JavaScript... Funny, the transition from VBA to C#, then back (sort of) to JavaScript was "you've got to be kidding me". I only just got my head around data-typing, etc. and now I have to unlearn it, again?
But it''s the attitude of entitlement that makes it so onorous. I don't mind instructing at the beginner level. But when people can't be bothered to provide the additional information requested or to actually answer what you ask...
the different data types just slot into different memory areas in my brain. SQL too, but sql is sort of seperate from other programming languages for me
@CindyMeister meh, mine doesn't work that way. I get buffer overflows all the time and they bleed into each other. Maybe because I grew up bilingual. But I mix all of my langauges up these days, it's really annoying.
@terdon Searching for a word while speaking and knowing the one on the tip of the tongue is not the right language, but not being able to locate anything in that language..
@BlueSoul Except that most of the stuff that I'd label "feedback" isn't necessarily rude/abusive.. it may just as well be unkind, or not needed. Rude/abusive is a very clearly defined category, but people seem to think that anything that's not that is automatically feedback... it's not.
It's really weird for those around us though. I have friends with whom we'll switch from Greek to English to Spanish to French in the same conversation.
We were sitting in a bar in Athens a while back and the guy next to us came up and asked "But, where the hell are you guys from!?"
@terdon Sometimes a word or a concept just doesn't quite fit when you try to translate it. There are nuances and subtleties that you can't always express in a different language. So yeah, communicating is easy when you can just slip in a word here and there and not worry that it won't be understood.
@Tinkeringbell That was the point, draw a little attention :P
@Magisch Yep :-) Those who live in the area of Stuttgart, and right on our border, have it easiest. Apparently, the farther north one goes, the worse the problem. Except that Dutch/Flanders are much closer to Swiss than to "Platt", it seems.
@Tinkeringbell As for the unkind - I fear this is a case of tomayto/tomahto - I just mean anything that violates the "be nice" principle. As for the not needed, it all amount to defining what is not needed. Obviously repeating the same thing that has been already posted by 40 other different answer is not really needed, I would just upvote the others.
@Mithical Oh, sure. And that's a large part of it. But sometimes the word might be "table" or whatever, but it just doesn't come to me in the language I happen tobe speaking.
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> If anything misunderstood, to better assist you, we would like to collect more information about the situation. Could you please record a video about "Yes there is, I just created it" and "Created app catalog because that is required for this app, installed app successfully, app doesn't show up, go back to admin, no app catalog.Shows up in site collections as an app site, is definitely there" to clarify the situation here?
msdn is wack - "this was fixed in the latest update" - no it wasn't, - "please provide the new steps to reproduce this in the latest build" - the SAME STEPS
That's what happens when you out-source support to non-native-English speaking and, basically, non-experts in a technology. And what made me so happy, originally, to find SO.
idk if it's just that though, it's one thing when it's a Q&A where nobody is hired, it's another thing when it's a site for just a handful of pretty major IDEs which doesn't allow an easy way for the responders to see whether the tests against a certain bug are green or red
OTOH given the language skills we (responders) sometimes have to deal with (OP not being able to type a comprehensible sentence) I suppose a video might, in the long run, be easier and quicker to understand.
if you understood what the words meant you could just at least formulate proper English like "Could you please record a video of the existing site that is reported as not existing?"
I like original movies which are not based on books, those usually get more right than those based on books
also, as a middle ground, some anime series are based on ... sort of books, illustrated comics, and they have longer air time which allows more possibility to get something done right... it's a weird middle ground though
not that this is the end all be all example, just the first thing I remembered
@user1306322 Hmm, robotics and transhumanism... Well, there's David Brin's Kiln People that explores the definition of human. Asimov, of course, for robots. The recent Murderbot series by Martha Wells also have an interesting take, and Ann Leckie's Ancillary Sword is absolutely brililant.
@user1306322 Although, that's one person's take on what something should look like. What everyone images as they read (as they should) will be different. Films are fun, but there's much less personal involvement than with comtemplating/interpreting a book.
I can't really think of a more in-depth and "real" title as Ghost in the Shell mainline series, if we're talking robotic implants and electronification of human brain
I like when authors give me specific ideas and problems to ponder about, not just define the general problem topics with a huge space for imagination, that's like not enough :p
sure the classics like Neuromancer have started it all but there's gotta be more and better these days
I just don't follow the modern scifi book news at all
@user1306322 On the one hand, there are the old classics (19th century) with tons of descriptive prose. Too much, for my taste, these days and I find myself skipping (which I didn't 50 years ago). OTOH, today seems to be mostly action (like in movies) and too little description. I suppose, it's a matter of taste and the times.
Back in the 19th century there were no TVs, films or photographs, so a lot of description was necessary and desired. Not so much, these days, with so much at our fingertips.
I really liked the pacing of GITS series where there is a lot of breathing space and they get to show you a bit of the day-to-day life in a world of cyberized people, and I like these types of works the most
@CindyMeister I kinda feel like this is a problem because the most popular depictions are now so obvious to us that imagining ourselves it boring, so it's such a breath of fresh air when some new work shows details of an unknown novel world design
@CindyMeister ghost in the shell, there are a number of movies and series and some spinoffs
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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
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@user1306322 Thanks :-) It's never made TV channels here in Europe, and I've ever watched much animé. Sounds interesting and I'll keep an eye out for it.
@user1306322 I heard there's a new "Foreigner" due this spring FWIW. Somehow, I only just managed to get my hands on Cyteen and Regeneration this last winter - no idea why it took me so long. Not sure I even yet have all of them!
check out Dennou Coil myanimelist.net/anime/2164/Dennou_Coil it's not super serious but I really liked how "yea we live in this world, what about it?" the whole thing is
@Gimby only in the same sense as a a "life sentence" is roughly 20 years :p
I've run out of good movies and anime to watch a couple of years ago and I'm not that old
Maybe once I've reached the age where I can't get up and move about it will be just the thing! Keep me quiet so that the nurses can go about their business...
myanimelist.net/anime/26/Texhnolyze (note the low ID, site creators were fans) is kinda weird, I don't think I enjoyed it, but it sure is atmospheric if you like grim and gritty aspects of cyberpunk
@user1306322 from what I heard, that should not be recomended because its quality is pretty bad compared to the original one. Which already was pretty unhappy.
But at least there you kinda expected the thing wouldn't end very happily
(yet, you probably didn't expect that Violence Jack was actually Devilman sequel)
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Don't get me wrong please. I am OK with SEI making more money by getting and convincing new investors. But doing that in risk of loosing their biggest treasure, which is a long term established community, is probably the worst way.
IANAL or a good business man, but that's so obvious that this course recently driven won't lead to anything good.
@TravisJ Yeah... though Shog hadn't been here much in a long while to avoid certain pings, if I understood correctly, the room is definitely different now he's gone entirely :(
@Tinkeringbell "though Shog hadn't been here much in a long while to avoid certain pings" That's a different story, and we all know who was the culprit :P
Shog even complained about such behavior several times, and set up some rules when it's OK to ping him or not. Some people even took these against him. But well, that's history ...
I guess lokum (that's the more common word here) pretty much fades compared to other Turkish sweets
Of course, there's the fact that some things are not sweet enough for some and too sweet for other people, but I guess if you asked me for the best Turkish sweet, it would be baklava.