The world was very different in 2001 than in 1991.
Even more so if you step back a moment from a pure technological view and recognize what happened around the world. Remember the Iron Curtain? The Cold War? Well, the whole of Eastern Europe and USSR turned from dictatorship to democracy, resulting in perhaps the best decade (say roughly 1989ish-2001) the world has been through since the end of WW II.
One thing that is more dangerous to EVE than to other MMORPG - most serious players have at least 2 accounts and pay for it. If CCP annoys one serious player, 2 accounts are unsubscribed.
Spot on. Add to that the fact that these older players are also the ones that add the real content to EVE - all the drama that gets mentioned on gaming web sites and blogs - makes this even worse. Without those, EVE becomes annoying for the "grunts"... and they well leave the game, too.
Wait, what? APPLE "refuses" to innovate? Tell me, friend - which of these things came first:
iPad, or Galaxy Tab? (hint: not the Samsung product.)
iPhone, or Galaxy? (hint: not the Samsung product.)
Who is copying whom, again?
Yeah, sure. There haven't been countless "tabs" before the iPad and countless "smartphones" before the iPhone. Or MP3 players before the iPod.
Oh, and I forgot... the earth is flat.
Apple is good a getting things done right. Picking up concepts done by others, recognizing their potential if done right and then actually doing it right. But the last time Apple inovtated something was probably around the days of the Apple ][
This whole mess (this Apple vs. Samsung than Samsung vs. Apple case as the latest example) makes kindergardens look like very mature business. Kill those patent systems already, ffs!
The whole Vista/7 dual-sided start bar is still a pain to navigate [...]
Try Classic Shell, which brings back "the old" W2K menu to Vista/Win7/W2K8 Server. It has been a life saver for me. It even adds (configurable) the missing "Shared folder" icon indicators, which MS - in all their wisdom - removed from W2K8 Server.
[..] make millions of dollars from their own personal investments.
Could we all please stop naming it "investment". That somehow implies that you basically lend money to a company, because you believe in their (long-term) success - be it products or services.
The thing most of youu are referring to should be properly labeled as "speculation", as very few who put money into this are interested in both the company and/or product. They're mainly interested in a (short-term) gain.
You're somewhat right, but "Bündnis 90/Die Grünen" (= official name of the German Green Party) isn't that much more appealing either. And I bet that unfortunately a good amount of people don't even now what "Bndins 90" stands for and what's the story of that part of the name.
Green Representative Renate Künast claimed that her party got the most gains of all parties - the Green Party gained 4.5% more votes than during the last election in 2006... but the Pirate Party gained about 6% over that result - reaching 9%.
To be fair, she said "most gains of all parties already presented in the Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus". Which is the truth.
Just because we (yeah "we" - proud member of German's Pirate Party here) made it into the parlament, doesn't mean we have to immediatly adopt the typical political "quoting out of context and/or leaving out important parts of a quote" like all other parties practice it.
As with a lot of details of today's German political system, the roots for this stem from lessons learned form the 3rd Reich or the Weimar Republic, to be more precised. Long story short: it is believed that the heavy fragmentation of the parlament at that time finally lead to the rise of Hitler and the NSDAP.
To prevent that from happening again, the 5% hurdle was introduced when founding the Federal German Republic.
Not to mention the popular real pirate Klaus StÃrtebeker who - despite being an outlaw - is conceived as a "good guy". A german Robin Hood, if you want.
Heise is famous (or "infamous" to certain parties) for "Doing the right thing(tm)!". They've done so in the past and I truely hope they continue to do so in the future.
I went to Germany recently and found out that you can drink alcohol pretty much anywhere you like. On the street, on the train, whatever.
Yepp. But that's generally true for Europe, not just for Germany, if I'm not mistaken.
That's why that "rebel" thing in american movies, were the "cool guys" drink alcohol on the street without hiding it in that ugly brown bag, never worked the way here it works in the U.S.A.
This has nothing to do with links per se. This is about the government making sure that web sites do not break any laws - in that case German privacy laws are breached by placing behavioural tracking links on web sites . It is my educated guess that U.S. authorities do the same (=make sure the laws are followed) in the U.S.A., too.
Liberal still means that outside the the of the USA.
Exactly. When I found out that the term "liberal" is nowerdays meant as an insult in AE (not sur about BE), I was wondering what the Statue of Liberty (Hint: both stem from liber) would have to say about that.
I didn't even realise Motorola produced some of these things, but could it mean we'll see Google SatNavs, Google Car Kits, Google Cable/DSL modems, Google DVRs, and er, Google Baby Monitors?
What often happens if one company buys another for just parts of it, is that they try to split off the non-relevant parts and sell them straight away. I very much doubt that Google is interested in most of those products - at least in a short to medium timeframe. It's one thing to produce software and services, but another to manufacture goods. The Nexus didn't go so well, if I'm not mistaken.
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For those that wonder what it is: Federweißer.
Even more so if you step back a moment from a pure technological view and recognize what happened around the world. Remember the Iron Curtain? The Cold War? Well, the whole of Eastern Europe and USSR turned from dictatorship to democracy, resulting in perhaps the best decade (say roughly 1989ish-2001) the world has been through since the end of WW II.
Well, the idea of corporations ruling the world, not countries/governmets, seems to describe the current state pretty accurate.
Disclaimer: I've read the Neuromancer trilogy in the late 1990s and that was the *one* thing that made me think "Scary how correct you are."
Spot on. Add to that the fact that these older players are also the ones that add the real content to EVE - all the drama that gets mentioned on gaming web sites and blogs - makes this even worse. Without those, EVE becomes annoying for the "grunts" ... and they well leave the game, too.
It wasn't "leaked". It was handed over to the CCC by a lawyer. He defended a guy in court which the malware was used against to collect evidence.
Yeah, sure. There haven't been countless "tabs" before the iPad and countless "smartphones" before the iPhone. Or MP3 players before the iPod. Oh, and I forgot ... the earth is flat.
Apple is good a getting things done right. Picking up concepts done by others, recognizing their potential if done right and then actually doing it right. But the last time Apple inovtated something was probably around the days of the Apple ][
You're sure about that?
This whole mess (this Apple vs. Samsung than Samsung vs. Apple case as the latest example) makes kindergardens look like very mature business. Kill those patent systems already, ffs!
Try Classic Shell, which brings back "the old" W2K menu to Vista/Win7/W2K8 Server. It has been a life saver for me. It even adds (configurable) the missing "Shared folder" icon indicators, which MS - in all their wisdom - removed from W2K8 Server.
Could we all please stop naming it "investment". That somehow implies that you basically lend money to a company, because you believe in their (long-term) success - be it products or services.
The thing most of youu are referring to should be properly labeled as "speculation", as very few who put money into this are interested in both the company and/or product. They're mainly interested in a (short-term) gain.
So, how exactly is glaciers melting around the world a local phenomen?
I think you are mistaken: Facebook Germany GmbH, Große Burstah 50-52, 20457 Hamburg, Bundesrepublik Deutschland
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You're somewhat right, but "Bündnis 90/Die Grünen" (= official name of the German Green Party) isn't that much more appealing either. And I bet that unfortunately a good amount of people don't even now what "Bndins 90" stands for and what's the story of that part of the name.
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I'd extend that to 'and admits to know nothing (or haven't formed and official opinion yet) about topics they really have no clue about (right now).
To paraphrase Lt. Commander Data: "Sometimes the scientifically most accurate answer one can give is: I don't know."
To be fair, she said "most gains of all parties already presented in the Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus". Which is the truth.
Just because we (yeah "we" - proud member of German's Pirate Party here) made it into the parlament, doesn't mean we have to immediatly adopt the typical political "quoting out of context and/or leaving out important parts of a quote" like all other parties practice it.
As with a lot of details of today's German political system, the roots for this stem from lessons learned form the 3rd Reich or the Weimar Republic, to be more precised. Long story short: it is believed that the heavy fragmentation of the parlament at that time finally lead to the rise of Hitler and the NSDAP.
To prevent that from happening again, the 5% hurdle was introduced when founding the Federal German Republic.
Not to mention the popular real pirate Klaus StÃrtebeker who - despite being an outlaw - is conceived as a "good guy". A german Robin Hood, if you want.
I heard they even changed their name - they're referred to as 'lobbyists' these days as to not to reveal their real identity.
And everyone knows that coal is only used for energy production, nothing else, like cooking steel or something the like ...
I don't think so. For example, these guys seem to offer a good collection of strategy games.
Heise is famous (or "infamous" to certain parties) for "Doing the right thing(tm)!". They've done so in the past and I truely hope they continue to do so in the future.
Erhm ... no. Except you wanted to show your ignorance, which worked just fine. Doom was rated 18+ (not banned) because it "promoted" violence.
Yepp. But that's generally true for Europe, not just for Germany, if I'm not mistaken.
That's why that "rebel" thing in american movies, were the "cool guys" drink alcohol on the street without hiding it in that ugly brown bag, never worked the way here it works in the U.S.A.
This has nothing to do with links per se. This is about the government making sure that web sites do not break any laws - in that case German privacy laws are breached by placing behavioural tracking links on web sites . It is my educated guess that U.S. authorities do the same (=make sure the laws are followed) in the U.S.A., too.
Exactly. When I found out that the term "liberal" is nowerdays meant as an insult in AE (not sur about BE), I was wondering what the Statue of Liberty (Hint: both stem from liber ) would have to say about that.
What often happens if one company buys another for just parts of it, is that they try to split off the non-relevant parts and sell them straight away. I very much doubt that Google is interested in most of those products - at least in a short to medium timeframe. It's one thing to produce software and services, but another to manufacture goods. The Nexus didn't go so well, if I'm not mistaken.