Why? If an EU citizen were trying to evade taxes by hoarding money on a US bank account, he would rather profit from the US not giving back to EU, as long as he doesn't commit crime in the US itself.
Doesn't matter. The cops can't arrest everyone. The 68's movement - those were times where people actually changed things to the better. Even if they had to squat and throw stones and molotovs as part of the strategy. Today, nobody stands up when insane laws are passed. "Ah, it's just those people up there doing their stuff."
You could try minitube, a native Youtube client. You don't even need to have the stupid Flash Player installed to use it, so it doesn't eat more CPU than any other video player.
> Kind of ironic, given, umm, World War II and stuff, which country seems more free now.
World War II has been discussed to death, and it gets boring. It's just 12 damn years out of 1200 of German history. Besides of the fact that we will (because of these 12 years) never allow Austrians to make politics here again, I find the Weimar Republic, the imperial period and the troublesome centuries that led to them much more interesting in regards to how we attained our freedom oriented mindset. These were the times when we tried to find our identity as a nation state while everyone else was up and running and busy building colonies in Africa. Before 1871, travel was hard because a patchwork of microstates existed where our nation is today. Yes, that has probably resulted in our upholding of individual freedom.
According to the article in the German Wikipedia, first-time receivers *never* receive a higher rank than the second-lowest one, except of heads of states. So it's still quite an achievement.
Ok, which kind of English would you pick? Canadian? Australian? Caribbean? Ghanaese? Indian? Scots? Or one of the countless creole dialects and pidgins? It is one of the few languages that has never been officially reformed or standardized, so it is essentially... multiple languages. Exactly what you criticised.
Languages evolve to reflect the mindset of their speakers. Even if one had the means to eradicate all languages except some form of Standard English, it would instantly break up into ca. 6000 branches again.
I'd like to add to your thoughts that nowadays nearly all "devices" are computers too. They have general purpose CPUs (nearly always ARM- or MIPS-based) and more or less powerful I/O. In most cases it's only the software that confines them to specific gadget-typical tasks.
I remember googling the German internet for market share statistics months ago and unexpectedly ended up with a huge list of links to statistics pages of sites that all used a certain CMS. I spent some time sifting through them, leaving out everything with a relation to news and technology (possible geek domains). Linux was consistently between 3% and 8%. Mac was always around or under the 1% mark.
The 1% statistic definitely seems to favor the US, where Macs sell like hot cakes.
As an experienced OpenGL coder I somewhat disagree on the performance part. While the APIs are different in the way you set them up and call them, they are both designed to act as a slick and fast state-based layer between the app and the graphics driver.
There are a million ways the application's code, the way you interact with the graphics API, and the way the hardware itself behaves in respect to certain drawing operations can influence performance. The thought that the graphics API itself can become a bottleneck is really odd, seeing that.
Well, Cider is to the Mac what Wine is to Linux. Maybe Mac users don't care, but I remember when Google released a Linux "port" of Picasa (essentially the Windows executable with a bundled Wine distro), the community was full of uproar and laughter. The reason: They could just have recommended us to run the Windows build in, well, Wine.
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Why? If an EU citizen were trying to evade taxes by hoarding money on a US bank account, he would rather profit from the US not giving back to EU, as long as he doesn't commit crime in the US itself.
Doesn't matter. The cops can't arrest everyone. The 68's movement - those were times where people actually changed things to the better. Even if they had to squat and throw stones and molotovs as part of the strategy. Today, nobody stands up when insane laws are passed. "Ah, it's just those people up there doing their stuff."
Of course they won't. It's just that our spineless politicians take the "good relationship" with the US a bit *too* serious.
You could try minitube, a native Youtube client. You don't even need to have the stupid Flash Player installed to use it, so it doesn't eat more CPU than any other video player.
The difference is that they didn't license the GPL'd code.
You make it sound like the evilness (read: utter lack of ethics) were a funny meme, not a plain, cold fact.
> Kind of ironic, given, umm, World War II and stuff, which country seems more free now.
World War II has been discussed to death, and it gets boring. It's just 12 damn years out of 1200 of German history. Besides of the fact that we will (because of these 12 years) never allow Austrians to make politics here again, I find the Weimar Republic, the imperial period and the troublesome centuries that led to them much more interesting in regards to how we attained our freedom oriented mindset. These were the times when we tried to find our identity as a nation state while everyone else was up and running and busy building colonies in Africa. Before 1871, travel was hard because a patchwork of microstates existed where our nation is today. Yes, that has probably resulted in our upholding of individual freedom.
Ugh, you forgot the verb, the period and captitalization of two words.
Heil Hitler
Heil ihn doch selbst!
(German joke)
According to the article in the German Wikipedia, first-time receivers *never* receive a higher rank than the second-lowest one, except of heads of states. So it's still quite an achievement.
Arschloch.
When everyone can just speak English?
Ok, which kind of English would you pick? Canadian? Australian? Caribbean? Ghanaese? Indian? Scots? Or one of the countless creole dialects and pidgins? It is one of the few languages that has never been officially reformed or standardized, so it is essentially... multiple languages. Exactly what you criticised.
Languages evolve to reflect the mindset of their speakers. Even if one had the means to eradicate all languages except some form of Standard English, it would instantly break up into ca. 6000 branches again.
I'd like to add to your thoughts that nowadays nearly all "devices" are computers too. They have general purpose CPUs (nearly always ARM- or MIPS-based) and more or less powerful I/O. In most cases it's only the software that confines them to specific gadget-typical tasks.
Becoming childishly hysteric when realizing that there are multiple powers on this planet - yes, that smells American.
cmd is a pathetic toy compared to any Unix shell. Tweaking screen buffers won't help with that.
Your biggest hassle seems to be hardware support, and Ubuntu is not the greatest distro regarding that. Try Mandriva or PcLinuxOS.
And my advice is to switch to a distro with decent GUI configuration and less breakage, like Mandriva.
Stay away from the hard drugs. You will feel better soon.
Mod parent funny.
I remember googling the German internet for market share statistics months ago and unexpectedly ended up with a huge list of links to statistics pages of sites that all used a certain CMS. I spent some time sifting through them, leaving out everything with a relation to news and technology (possible geek domains). Linux was consistently between 3% and 8%. Mac was always around or under the 1% mark.
The 1% statistic definitely seems to favor the US, where Macs sell like hot cakes.
In Germany, you can reliably provoke a "huh?" by talking Macs. This gives a good market share indication.
Mac: 8%
Linux: 2%
Outside of North America, swap these two numbers.
Wasn't it that meeting where Microsoft showed a presentation slide depicting Linux at 8%, with the Mac slightly behind?
As an experienced OpenGL coder I somewhat disagree on the performance part. While the APIs are different in the way you set them up and call them, they are both designed to act as a slick and fast state-based layer between the app and the graphics driver.
There are a million ways the application's code, the way you interact with the graphics API, and the way the hardware itself behaves in respect to certain drawing operations can influence performance. The thought that the graphics API itself can become a bottleneck is really odd, seeing that.
Well, Cider is to the Mac what Wine is to Linux. Maybe Mac users don't care, but I remember when Google released a Linux "port" of Picasa (essentially the Windows executable with a bundled Wine distro), the community was full of uproar and laughter. The reason: They could just have recommended us to run the Windows build in, well, Wine.