OK, you got me. The use of articles with company/organization names is quite incoherent in German, or I just don't know the exact rules. But I know that names of IT companies are never written with an article. Companies written with their full name like "Santa Cruz Organization" or "Deutsche Bank" however always have an article, as well as noncommercial organizations (NGOs, political parties, universities) even when the name is abbreviated. An exception is "Greenpeace" for example, which has no article.
On the other hand we say "der DPD" which is the abbreviation of Deutscher Paketdienst ("German Parcel Service") and it is a commercial company.
My theory, after thinking about it, is simply that the article is omitted when it would be in the neuter ("das" as opposed to m. "der" oder f. "die"). Hmm, I may be right with that. Or not. Even as a native speaker, I don't claim German is a particularly easy language:-)
Like my sibling said: Rather a typical Windows issue. Everyone I know runs top-notch commercial software packages on Windows, but I doubt they could have afforded to pay for all that.
On Linux, you get all that functionality for free, which leaves more money in our pockets to spend on commercial games and badass hardware that drives them.
"Hitler" would be "Stalin" and Godwin's Law would be called Günthers Gesetz, because German would have continued to be the lingua franca of science/technology.
It's not only possible, but 99.9% sure, that the DNS server that looks up Google for you and the backbone nodes that route your HTTP request run some form of Unix.
Ask most people on the street what Linux and OS2 are and you'll get a blank stare. At work, our web servers are RHEL. We have a guy on our team who is deaf, and his interpreter, during a conference call, asked how to spell that word we kept using, what was it, linx? linuts? liniz? Is Linux really so unknown where you live? I live in Germany and I get the blank stare about 50% of the time when I talk about Macs, but practically never with Linux. Quite surprising, because I had zero luck finding other Linux users or just any Linux installations in my area.
For most Windows users, without the presence of a competent system administrator, a Linux machine will either be unusable, or just as ridiculously insecure as Windows. You cannot code a patch for the interface between the keyboard and the chair. I can tell you what my patch is. I just don't give those bozos the root password, or on distros that use sudo, I create a user account for them that is not in the admin group. The effect: Nothing breaks down, and the only occasions they have to call me is when they need more software installed.
I just peeked into/etc/popularity-contest.conf. I noticed the line PARTICIPATE="no" there and I never touched that file before. You have to manually set that to "yes" to participate in the usage survey.
So, by default it is running and collecting data, but does not send it.
Like everybody outside of the US I can't think in feet, so here is a conversion to standard units: 232 m or a ~15m x 15m room. Calling a small backyard office like that an "interoperability lab" is an euphemism.
That's the best point made in this discussion so far. People who decide to actively block web advertisements would have ignored them anyway. This means they have never been a target audience in the first place, so where is the financial loss here?
But those greedy folks will not stop bitching until they have sold every eskimo a refrigerator.
No FUD, only educated experience. As someone who happens to know a couple of badass Windows admins, I give you an approximate translation: "Everything I know about Linux was hammered into my head during MCSE training. This first stage of brainwashing initiated my career as a mindless drone who screws up peoples' computers all the time but still feels superior to any mundane human being".
Nice, but it does not eliminate some of the underlying design problems that make NTFS rather slow and inefficient as a server level file system.
- no journaling to speak of. A power outage can eat or corrupt unsaved data.
- it fragments files (heck, even metadata gets fragmented!)
- no symlinks and other special files.
But even with a modern file system, it would still be a resource hog on any server, because it cannot run without a GUI.
Yes, I was tempted to write a similar reply. As long as the SDL library is kept as an external reference (i.e. not statically linked to your program), you can still make changes to it, publish the modified source code and nevertheless keep your actual game engine proprietary if you like so.
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OK, you got me. The use of articles with company/organization names is quite incoherent in German, or I just don't know the exact rules. But I know that names of IT companies are never written with an article. Companies written with their full name like "Santa Cruz Organization" or "Deutsche Bank" however always have an article, as well as noncommercial organizations (NGOs, political parties, universities) even when the name is abbreviated. An exception is "Greenpeace" for example, which has no article.
:-)
On the other hand we say "der DPD" which is the abbreviation of Deutscher Paketdienst ("German Parcel Service") and it is a commercial company.
My theory, after thinking about it, is simply that the article is omitted when it would be in the neuter ("das" as opposed to m. "der" oder f. "die"). Hmm, I may be right with that. Or not. Even as a native speaker, I don't claim German is a particularly easy language
Like my sibling said: Rather a typical Windows issue. Everyone I know runs top-notch commercial software packages on Windows, but I doubt they could have afforded to pay for all that.
On Linux, you get all that functionality for free, which leaves more money in our pockets to spend on commercial games and badass hardware that drives them.
I don't think retarded 12 year olds are able to understand or apply sarcasm.
I'm very proud he is not a citizen of my country.
You are a fascist and now officially godwined. This should be modded Troll.
BTW, the correct word is "fischen".
Hello Darl! It was a hard day, wasn't it?
When the Simpsons were first aired in Germany (I was a kid then), I actually wondered why Bart did not have a Bart (beard).
No, proper nouns are not written with an article in German. It's simply "SCO".
"Hitler" would be "Stalin" and Godwin's Law would be called Günthers Gesetz, because German would have continued to be the lingua franca of science/technology.
That means - your Mac is at least 34 years ahead of Windows :-)
It's not only possible, but 99.9% sure, that the DNS server that looks up Google for you and the backbone nodes that route your HTTP request run some form of Unix.
AFAIK usually the EULA is displayed the first time you start a preinstalled Windows.
Yes, bwahahahaha and a more fulfilling job.
I just peeked into /etc/popularity-contest.conf. I noticed the line PARTICIPATE="no" there and I never touched that file before. You have to manually set that to "yes" to participate in the usage survey.
So, by default it is running and collecting data, but does not send it.
Wow, nice to find a real Debian admin here!
You answered your own question. The domain name itself already explains what it does.
Like everybody outside of the US I can't think in feet, so here is a conversion to standard units: 232 m or a ~15m x 15m room. Calling a small backyard office like that an "interoperability lab" is an euphemism.
Just another reason to stick with Linux.
That's the best point made in this discussion so far. People who decide to actively block web advertisements would have ignored them anyway. This means they have never been a target audience in the first place, so where is the financial loss here?
But those greedy folks will not stop bitching until they have sold every eskimo a refrigerator.
No. They will add a wave machine and a sauna to attract more servers.
Nice, but it does not eliminate some of the underlying design problems that make NTFS rather slow and inefficient as a server level file system.
- no journaling to speak of. A power outage can eat or corrupt unsaved data.
- it fragments files (heck, even metadata gets fragmented!)
- no symlinks and other special files.
But even with a modern file system, it would still be a resource hog on any server, because it cannot run without a GUI.
Yes, I was tempted to write a similar reply. As long as the SDL library is kept as an external reference (i.e. not statically linked to your program), you can still make changes to it, publish the modified source code and nevertheless keep your actual game engine proprietary if you like so.