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we just have to respectfully disagree.

the mandelbrot set is a red herring because it is fractal.

on the other hand, even if the genetic code is fractal, we know its granularity: its final granularity is not on the level of atoms. Nowhere even close.

Its final granularity is on the level of cells.

We know, for a fact, that the genetic code describes a way to produce the cells in the human body.

What we do not know, as you point out, is the atomic interactions that produce proteins and so on. But those atomic interactions are simply not important.

You know, we are getting to where we can just arbitrarily change the source code and see what happens (ie genetically modified organism).

I don't care what you say, when for the next ten years we have teams of researchers working with a compiler and 600 megabytes of binary code, and they can move anything and get the result (ie they can breed a new mouse with whatever changes to its genetic code they want) you cannot pretend that we won't have things figured out.

Going back to reality, as opposed to your red herring of the mandelbrot set, the number of transistors in a quad-core Nahalem Intel i7 processor is 731M and costs $287. When you compare the physical atoms of the brain to the physical atoms of the i7, you will not find as large a difference between the number that constitute an atomic computing element as you would have us believe.

I want you to imagine the brain squished down into a 2D matrix that is 1 neuron tall. How much area does it take up? You are pretending that the answer is "a larger area than the Solar System".

But it obviously isn't a larger area than a solar system. If you take 2-3 pounds of stuff (the human brain) and use it to put a 1-neuron thick coat on as large an area as you can, you're still not talking about many square kilometers.

How many neurons are in the human brain? 100 billion.

What is the density of neurons in the human brain? 1200 cubic centimeters.

You divide the two, you get 83,333,333 neurons per cubic centimeter. The cube root of that gives you the fact that there are 436 neurons per centimeter in each dimension. So, how much larger is it if you need the same 83 million neurons but you are working with with square metal? The square root of 83 million is 9,128. So each cubic centimeter of the brain is 9128 square centimeters at the same density. Therefore, the 1200 cubic centimeters of the whole brain in three dimensions represents 25,123 square centimeters at the same density.

ie we are talking about 158.5 centimeters by 158.5 centimeters of silicon (sqrt of above number). Remember my i7 link? It says the die size is 263 square mm. So, if we just divide 25122 square centimeters by 263 square millimeters, we get the fact that 9552 processors, at a cost of $287 each, will represent the same area as the human brain, squashed.
Call it $400 per processing unit (along with motherboard, interconnects, but also bulk pricing on the chip itself), and you get 9552 * $400 = $3,820,800 of hardware.

I guarantee you an i7 can simulate 436 neurons by 437 neurons in a square centimeter of metal. But let's say it can't. Let's say it takes 100 square centimeters of metal just to simulate the 437 by 437 neurons found in a "square centimeter worth" of human brain. You multiply the figure of 3.8 million by a hundred, you get 380 million.

Honestly, simulating two to three pounds of stuff, when you have the source code, can play with it until you discover how it works, is not that hard.

I would be downright surprised if within my lifetime this was not done (and for well under fi

http://maps.google.de/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Timmelsjochstra%C3%9Fe%2FB186&daddr=SS44bis&hl=de&geocode=FeKzywIdZqWoAA%3BFWJ_ywId9tepAA&mra=mi&mrsp=1&sz=12&sll=46.873336,11.077309&sspn=0.19175,0.445976&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=12

And I never found a way to tell Google about it...

Any?

CC.

YMMV

Besides; I usually do not care much about what marketing droids think they need to communicate.

CC.

Yeah, because it has never happened.

Oh, wait...

we can debate usability all day, but in the end it is preference

No, it is not. I even named the ISO standard that defines it. It has its own scientific field (HCI), you know, papers, conferences, all of that (been there, done that).

But at least we now quantitatively know that an Apple computer costs more than a dell with the exact same internals.

Oh yes, for one example.

If that's all it takes to convince you, look:

Dell notebook - $1075 vs. Apple MacBook - 815 (ca. $997). And the Dell has a smaller harddrive (no larger one available), no built-in camera, DVD reader not writer, etc.

So, in your own words, at least we now quantitatively know that an Apple computer costs less while having better specs than a dell. ;-)

Congratulations, your posting now is the top Google result for "ultraviolet catastrophe"

Most notorious incident over here was the Fat Corner: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fettecke (german) http://translate.google.de/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fettecke&sl=auto&tl=en (babelfish)

While you have valid points, in my mind the OP is for the most part correct. I tried visiting the following sites to get an impression of each:

http://news.google.com/
http://news.google.fr/
http://news.google.de/
http://news.google.es/
http://news.google.nl/
http://news.google.it/
http://news.google.es/

The biggest difference I see is that the German site has way more capitals. That aside, everything else looks on the surface (ie: when not actually trying to read anything) to follow the same general pattern. From a linguistics perspective, I don't doubt you're correct and many alterations have been introduced into each language as it diverged from a common root... but to an untrained eye scanning over the text of the sites above I'm not seeing a lot of variance.

People say horrible and untrue thing about Catholics and the Catholic Church all the time, but they don't try and abuse the legal system to stop them, because they recognise the importance of freedom of speech.

Right, they only abuse the legal system to stop people who are pointing out the truth. Don't believe me? Here is a recent case, where they threaten bloggers who basically citet a newspaper article about child abuse in the catholic church. They are not threatening the newspaper, because they could afford to defend themselves. So much for freedom of speech.

http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&ie=UTF-8&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.politblogger.eu/kindesmissbrauch-katholische-kirche-mahnt-kritischen-blogger-ab/&prev=_t

It would seem that many people outside of the US, including Canada and Germany, upon visiting www.google.com/phone have been receiving an error message saying "Sorry, the Nexus One phone is not available in your country."

I guess it doesn't go on sale in those countries until some undisclosed date.

Trying that again in traditional Chinese:
http://images.google.de/images?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&sa=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&start=0
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&sa=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&start=0

I don't speak (or read) Chinese but I do know Japanese and can recognise simplified vs traditional characters. I'm pretty sure that search is in simplified characters. I replaced the "men" with the Japanese "mon" which is identical to the traditional Chinese "men" and the results changed significantly. Link:

http://images.google.de/images?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&sa=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%96%80&btnG=Search+images

Trying that again in traditional Chinese:
http://images.google.de/images?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&sa=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&start=0
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&sa=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&start=0

I don't speak (or read) Chinese but I do know Japanese and can recognise simplified vs traditional characters. I'm pretty sure that search is in simplified characters. I replaced the "men" with the Japanese "mon" which is identical to the traditional Chinese "men" and the results changed significantly. Link:

http://images.google.de/images?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&sa=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%96%80&btnG=Search+images

Assuming we have an Internet surfer searching for information about Tiananmen square.

Inputs can be "Tiananmen" or tian1an2men2 in simplified Chinese (which will not render on /. due to missing UTF8 support)

Compare the Google returns for searches
http://www.google.de/search?hl=cn&safe=off&q=tiananmen&btnG=Search
http://www.google.cn/search?hl=cn&safe=off&q=tiananmen&btnG=Search

http://images.google.de/images?hl=cn&safe=off&q=tiananmen&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=cn&safe=off&q=tiananmen&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
(note the difference in the TLD, safe search is off in all cases)

Wildly different results, the CN domain returning no image of Tank Man and the DE domain returns nothing BUT him.

Trying that again in traditional Chinese:
http://images.google.de/images?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&sa=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&start=0
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&sa=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&start=0

Results almost identical, with only a slight variation in their order.

http://www.google.de/search?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw&start=0
http://www.google.cn/search?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw&start=0

Results again wildly different. Both searches now return Chinese content, but the DE domain prominently features a YouTube link to our good old friend Tank Man, while the CN domain prominently features a city map and Baidu links, which are guaranteed to not contain something about Tank Man, I can assure you.

This get's more pronounced if we search for Tiananmen in Chinese AND the year number 1989, which simply must return some content about the protests if the search engine itself is any good.

http://images.google.de/images?hl=en&safe=off&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8%201989&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=en&safe=off&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8%201989&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Same result: both searches return pages entirely in Chinese, but the DE domain return a Chinese photo of the protests first and the CN domain returning only photos of The Party Leaders and happy soldiers.

Let's compare the results with other TLDs
Russia:

Assuming we have an Internet surfer searching for information about Tiananmen square.

Inputs can be "Tiananmen" or tian1an2men2 in simplified Chinese (which will not render on /. due to missing UTF8 support)

Compare the Google returns for searches
http://www.google.de/search?hl=cn&safe=off&q=tiananmen&btnG=Search
http://www.google.cn/search?hl=cn&safe=off&q=tiananmen&btnG=Search

http://images.google.de/images?hl=cn&safe=off&q=tiananmen&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=cn&safe=off&q=tiananmen&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
(note the difference in the TLD, safe search is off in all cases)

Wildly different results, the CN domain returning no image of Tank Man and the DE domain returns nothing BUT him.

Trying that again in traditional Chinese:
http://images.google.de/images?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&sa=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&start=0
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&sa=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&start=0

Results almost identical, with only a slight variation in their order.

http://www.google.de/search?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw&start=0
http://www.google.cn/search?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw&start=0

Results again wildly different. Both searches now return Chinese content, but the DE domain prominently features a YouTube link to our good old friend Tank Man, while the CN domain prominently features a city map and Baidu links, which are guaranteed to not contain something about Tank Man, I can assure you.

This get's more pronounced if we search for Tiananmen in Chinese AND the year number 1989, which simply must return some content about the protests if the search engine itself is any good.

http://images.google.de/images?hl=en&safe=off&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8%201989&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=en&safe=off&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8%201989&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Same result: both searches return pages entirely in Chinese, but the DE domain return a Chinese photo of the protests first and the CN domain returning only photos of The Party Leaders and happy soldiers.

Let's compare the results with other TLDs
Russia:

Assuming we have an Internet surfer searching for information about Tiananmen square.

Inputs can be "Tiananmen" or tian1an2men2 in simplified Chinese (which will not render on /. due to missing UTF8 support)

Compare the Google returns for searches
http://www.google.de/search?hl=cn&safe=off&q=tiananmen&btnG=Search
http://www.google.cn/search?hl=cn&safe=off&q=tiananmen&btnG=Search

http://images.google.de/images?hl=cn&safe=off&q=tiananmen&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=cn&safe=off&q=tiananmen&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
(note the difference in the TLD, safe search is off in all cases)

Wildly different results, the CN domain returning no image of Tank Man and the DE domain returns nothing BUT him.

Trying that again in traditional Chinese:
http://images.google.de/images?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&sa=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&start=0
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&sa=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&start=0

Results almost identical, with only a slight variation in their order.

http://www.google.de/search?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw&start=0
http://www.google.cn/search?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw&start=0

Results again wildly different. Both searches now return Chinese content, but the DE domain prominently features a YouTube link to our good old friend Tank Man, while the CN domain prominently features a city map and Baidu links, which are guaranteed to not contain something about Tank Man, I can assure you.

This get's more pronounced if we search for Tiananmen in Chinese AND the year number 1989, which simply must return some content about the protests if the search engine itself is any good.

http://images.google.de/images?hl=en&safe=off&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8%201989&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=en&safe=off&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8%201989&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Same result: both searches return pages entirely in Chinese, but the DE domain return a Chinese photo of the protests first and the CN domain returning only photos of The Party Leaders and happy soldiers.

Let's compare the results with other TLDs
Russia:

Assuming we have an Internet surfer searching for information about Tiananmen square.

Inputs can be "Tiananmen" or tian1an2men2 in simplified Chinese (which will not render on /. due to missing UTF8 support)

Compare the Google returns for searches
http://www.google.de/search?hl=cn&safe=off&q=tiananmen&btnG=Search
http://www.google.cn/search?hl=cn&safe=off&q=tiananmen&btnG=Search

http://images.google.de/images?hl=cn&safe=off&q=tiananmen&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=cn&safe=off&q=tiananmen&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
(note the difference in the TLD, safe search is off in all cases)

Wildly different results, the CN domain returning no image of Tank Man and the DE domain returns nothing BUT him.

Trying that again in traditional Chinese:
http://images.google.de/images?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&sa=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&start=0
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&sa=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&start=0

Results almost identical, with only a slight variation in their order.

http://www.google.de/search?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw&start=0
http://www.google.cn/search?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw&start=0

Results again wildly different. Both searches now return Chinese content, but the DE domain prominently features a YouTube link to our good old friend Tank Man, while the CN domain prominently features a city map and Baidu links, which are guaranteed to not contain something about Tank Man, I can assure you.

This get's more pronounced if we search for Tiananmen in Chinese AND the year number 1989, which simply must return some content about the protests if the search engine itself is any good.

http://images.google.de/images?hl=en&safe=off&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8%201989&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=en&safe=off&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8%201989&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Same result: both searches return pages entirely in Chinese, but the DE domain return a Chinese photo of the protests first and the CN domain returning only photos of The Party Leaders and happy soldiers.

Let's compare the results with other TLDs
Russia:

Assuming we have an Internet surfer searching for information about Tiananmen square.

Inputs can be "Tiananmen" or tian1an2men2 in simplified Chinese (which will not render on /. due to missing UTF8 support)

Compare the Google returns for searches
http://www.google.de/search?hl=cn&safe=off&q=tiananmen&btnG=Search
http://www.google.cn/search?hl=cn&safe=off&q=tiananmen&btnG=Search

http://images.google.de/images?hl=cn&safe=off&q=tiananmen&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=cn&safe=off&q=tiananmen&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
(note the difference in the TLD, safe search is off in all cases)

Wildly different results, the CN domain returning no image of Tank Man and the DE domain returns nothing BUT him.

Trying that again in traditional Chinese:
http://images.google.de/images?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&sa=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&start=0
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&sa=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&start=0

Results almost identical, with only a slight variation in their order.

http://www.google.de/search?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw&start=0
http://www.google.cn/search?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw&start=0

Results again wildly different. Both searches now return Chinese content, but the DE domain prominently features a YouTube link to our good old friend Tank Man, while the CN domain prominently features a city map and Baidu links, which are guaranteed to not contain something about Tank Man, I can assure you.

This get's more pronounced if we search for Tiananmen in Chinese AND the year number 1989, which simply must return some content about the protests if the search engine itself is any good.

http://images.google.de/images?hl=en&safe=off&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8%201989&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=en&safe=off&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8%201989&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Same result: both searches return pages entirely in Chinese, but the DE domain return a Chinese photo of the protests first and the CN domain returning only photos of The Party Leaders and happy soldiers.

Let's compare the results with other TLDs
Russia:

Why not just use the localized language pages?

English http://www.google.com/intl/en/
Japanese http://www.google.co.jp/
Chinese http://www.google.cn/
Spanish http://www.google.es/
German http://www.google.de/
Swedish http://www.google.se/
Bork http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/

Note: If you happen to speak swedish, the the last one is a very perverted joke.

You can easily find any other language that google offers simply by typing "google in $X" into any google search page.

I've never been redirected to another page by these links, but YMMV.
However, the default searches build into the browsers tend to redirect constantly, no matter what you language is set to.

It was so bad I had to edit the search files on my system manually.

we made it all the way to 2009 before someone thought to conduct experiments on a matter as important to public safety as emergency exits.

Ahem.

Also, would a "narrow door" meet the legal requirements of an emergency exit in most jurisdictions? Probably not.

The ultimate answer to your question (sort of)

I'm still not convinced that this allows information to travel faster than light.

It is beyond my level of competence to evaluate this, and the topic seems controversial among physicists (e.g.). But I think it is plausible (and somehow fits into my current frame of reference, if there is any).

CC.

According to the German Google News http://news.google.de/news?pz=1&ned=de&hl=de&q=vom+meteorit+getroffenthere are 5 articles in German about this. One of course by infamous Bild.de - "Space attack on Gerrit". The meteorite sure hasn't hit the news here... Do I see some skeptic editors?

I have been using arcor.de for decades.

They are free like in free beer, have no limits, no binaries, just create an account on arcor.de and use the account and password to join their nntp-server. They are professional, doing it for over ten years, their servers are powerfull, what else do you want?

Besides you'll find more free providers at http://www.google.de/search?q=free+nntp

Fraunhofer IPMS is in Dresden, I wanted to link to Soviet Russia but my Time Travelling Portal is still in prototype and it only takes me back to the time when missing meme's was funny!

As you wrote above:

we generally burn 200-300 gallons of gas in a single day of fishing

With the proposed standard of 42 mpg, 300 gallons would take you half way around the globe. At least for long distance flights, airplanes are even (slightly) more efficient than that.
So how far do you live from the nearest movie theater?

What you cite is Fomenko's criticism of the current mainstream chronology. Not the content of the Fomenko's own theory itself. I think the way Wikipedia text is structured is a bit misleading.
So your comment actually second Fomenko's disappointment with the current chronology.

You can check the source of the citation here:

http://books.google.de/books?id=ORx_6NlgsngC&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=a+t+fomenko+Scaliger&source=bl&ots=5lEsgEnONz&sig=sN-EHAur2j7YY3z-NE9UAWkmQbY&hl=en&ei=gJEASpqLH4u8_AbB4Oz_Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPA91,M1

The book is published at a very famous Springer Verlag, if that is of any familiarity to you.

I am a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics myself and did not find Fomenko's argument crminaly insane or inscientific :-) They may be wrong, however, like any theory.

QUOTE:
These two volumes which concern mathematical statistical chronology represent a major, unique work and are the first of its kind published in the English language. A comprehensive set of mathematical and statistical techniques is presented for the analysis of chronological data. These include, as main tool, the means to compare texts and other sequential data and the ability to judge them in terms of similarity and, hence, closeness. These techniques constitute a new important trend in applied statistics. Volume I concentrates mainly on the development of the mathematical statistical tools and their application to astronomical data, including the Almagest and simulated data (to test the validity of the methods). Substantial material dealing with historical data and chronology is also included. Volume II concentrates on the application of these tools to narrative texts and ancient and medieval records (such as Egyptian, Byzantine, Roman, Greek, Babylonian, etc.). An astonishing wealth of historical data is considered. The conclusions which are drawn concerning the accepted chronological dating of events in ancient history will certainly provoke controversy and serious debate. These two volumes provide the necessary background and material for intelligent participation in such debates. For statisticians, historians, astronomers, archaeologists, and others with an interest in the integrity of historical dating and the means to analyze this.

More details
Empirico-statistical Analysis of Narrative Material and Its Applications to Historical Dating: The development of the statistical tools
By A. T. Fomenko
Edition: illustrated
Published by Springer, 1994
ISBN 0792326040, 9780792326045
204 pages

http://www.google.de/search?q=ubuntu+bug
First hit.

Deutsche Demokratische Republik

OK, it doesn't beat Byzantium.

There is an industry standard raw format - DNG. Canon and Nikon stick to their propriety raw formats to lock you into their equipment. Nikon even went so far as to encrypt the metadata of the raw files and try to use the DMCA to precent people from decoding their own images. The selection of manufacturers that support DNG is rather limited (Hasselblad, Leica, Ricoh and Samsung), but I think between those four, there should be something for evey price range.

Google results with "Wilhelm" = 2060 results.

With so many sources agreeing that "Wilhelm" is one of his first names it must be right!

So, Mr. von und zu Guttenberg: You better get your passport checked, there seems to be one name missing on it!

BTW if you can read german you can find a anonymous blog entry from the guy who added the "Wilhelm" to Wikipedia.

On that page I loved the quote from the "Süddeutsche" newspaper which translates into something like:

"...and his ten first names. Somtimes Guttenberg lists them. If you really ask him: Karl(1) Theodor(2) Maria(3) Nikolaus(4) Johann(5) Jacob(6) Philipp(7) Wilhelm(8) Franz(9) Joseph(10) Sylvester(11)"

(emphasis & numbers mine) So they knew he had 10 names, but never bothered to count the names they copied from Wikipedia)

Google results with "Wilhelm" = 2060 results.

With so many sources agreeing that "Wilhelm" is one of his first names it must be right!

So, Mr. von und zu Guttenberg: You better get your passport checked, there seems to be one name missing on it!

BTW if you can read german you can find a anonymous blog entry from the guy who added the "Wilhelm" to Wikipedia.

On that page I loved the quote from the "Süddeutsche" newspaper which translates into something like:

"...and his ten first names. Somtimes Guttenberg lists them. If you really ask him: Karl(1) Theodor(2) Maria(3) Nikolaus(4) Johann(5) Jacob(6) Philipp(7) Wilhelm(8) Franz(9) Joseph(10) Sylvester(11)"

(emphasis & numbers mine) So they knew he had 10 names, but never bothered to count the names they copied from Wikipedia)

50Mbps for 75% of Germany by 2014
This is already available in all major cities (including 160GB HDD IPTV receiver, 100 free IPTV channels and phone flatrate for about $80USD/Month)

They've been taking the "magic" path ever since Einstein and relativity came along and said reality is unintuitive

The fun part with relativity is that its not half as magical as it looks on the first view, it follows naturally when you accept that the speed of light is constant. Similarly a lot of quantum mechanics follows naturally when you accept that energy is quantized, which isn't all that far fetched to begin with, since matter is too. The annoying problem with quantum mechanics is that its pretty hard for a lay person to find any information on it that stays to the experimental facts instead of drifting away into magical interpretations.

Little video I ran across while googling for Beel's Theorem. Can't say I understand much of it, but at the end it started talking about boxes and balls as well...

I am a marketing droid. One of the things that has always been confusing to me is how I sign up. There seems to be lots of places where a developer can sign up, or even just start coding in spare time, submit a few changes etc. Perhaps I haven't looked lately, but I don't see any places that want my help.?

Maybe you didn't :)
This was the first hit of a simple Google search for me.

...they restricted or burned culture too.

These days they declared video games officially as cultural assets.

Google/Translate

There you go :D

Yet another reply...

Here is a link to the first unknown site to me ("unknown" means not wikipedia and not openoffice.org) from google.de search for "openoffice." here is the search. Still having a hard time finding a scam.

This guy apparently did find one: openoffice-suite.com and also www-openoffice.com

According to an article by German computer magazine c't, the image itself has not been blocked, only the article referencing it.
The article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer
The image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Virgin_Killer.jpg

Google knows this image as well: http://images.google.de/images?q=virgin%20killer

Not only is this another example of blocking the wrong thing, it is also an example of the Streisand effect in action. Who here knew about this image before ISPs tried to block it?

This incident demonstrates that individual URLs, even on very high-traffic sites, can technically be censored with devices which are already installed at UK ISPs. This should prompt more web server operators to enable SSL for all content (but it won't).

Remember the rule that 19 out of 20 computer users are pathetically systems-illiterate.

Be that as it may, de.wikipedia.org is still very easy to find.

Turkey is a very secular state and will not interfere with any religion unless it is not Islam.

Sounds like a flamebait? It's real: everyone is allowed to build places of worhips as long as it's a mosque. Building Christian churches is explicitly forbidden by law and will be met with heavy resistance. Renovating old Christian churches is also forbidden by law, as is public Christian worship. I believe Christian mission is also forbidden as well as giving away Bibles.

The few remaining Christians are routinely being killed and tortured with secular state authorities publicly announcing that they would not even try to solve the crimes or follow rumors that police themselves is behind it.

But yes, Turkey is a secular state, as long as you're an Atheist or Muslim.

old, well-tread, philosophically and scientifically fruitless territory here

In Germany, the topic is worth a dissertation (Theoretical Physics) <cyn>But alas, there never was remarkable progress in physics from there.</cyn>

link(pdf)

And, yes, avoiding to google beyond the first page and beyond the level of first thought makes the territory much safer.

CC.

http://maps.google.de/maps?hl=de&q=maps+geilenkirchen&ie=UTF8&ll=50.960427,6.044025&spn=0.027031,0.06815&t=h&z=14&iwloc=addr you see? the NATO airbase is obscured! TFA is BULLSHIT!

You don't even get the same site appearance if you go to the URL in the browser window.

http://maps.google.de/maps?t=m&hl=de&q=Tscheljabinsk+Russland&output=html

They don't even have an ajaxy styled maps in Germany. Anyone have any idea why not?

The actual url from the article's screenshot is this: http://maps.google.de/maps?t=m&hl=de&q=Tscheljabinsk+Russland Takes you to the same place with no smiley face. Some cars have been photoshopped out but others are in the exact same positions as the fake photo.

City on Google Maps

Screenshot from summary

Now, look at the vehicles on the street next to the smiley. On the south-west road, there are two cars next to each, same on both pictures. The cars also look the same on the north road, east of the smiley, and the road leading west. Looks like someone just cleared the street and added the smiley in.

Just to be sure, here is the link to the German Google Maps, which the screen shot appears to be coming from. I think it's a mock-up for when Google does update their images.

-rey

http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&hl=de&geocode=&q=chelyabinsk+russland&ie=UTF8&cd=1&ll=55.160089,61.402384&spn=0.002538,0.008261&t=h&z=18 Nothing in German Google either.

German magazine GameStar has already reported on this, and got a comment by EA. It says:
"The rumor is not true. Dead Space is currently being checked by the USK (German ESRB). Thus it's too early to talk about a ban"
Link: http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/action/1948825/dead_space.html (Google translation)

Did you buy your UID on Ebay?

It's really easy to find out what Long Term Support means for Ubuntu even if somehow you managed not to read or hear about it for the last 3 years.

Now that I'm working in academia researching functional programming languages I read feeds like Lambda the Ultimate, comp.lang.functional, PLNews, Topix Programming Languages, Planet Python and Planet Haskell.

http://www.google.de/search?q=log(3**113)%2Flog(2) 179 bit or 38 letters ... google works great ;p