[...]and a manufacturer of decent tablets and handsets to boot.
I was wondering if the Motorola tablets are also produced by Motorola Mobility (the part Google acquired). I couldn't find anything in the press release other than Motorola Mobility being a "leading manufacturer for smartphones"... which may or may not include the tablets.
[...] remove punk from my statement and use the term anarchist, does it make sense now?
Your original statement seems to be about the typical Neonazi outfit these days. If that's the case, both "punk anarchist" and "anarchist" unfortunately are now longer true. The (ideologically well-trained) Neonazis these days wear suits and ties. They learned that their brutal outfit doesn't cater to the masses. So just like the wolf in the fairy tale they adapted, slipped into the sheep's costume, ate crayon and tuned down their radical messages a bit so that they sound more rational. I said "unfortunately" above as this is more dangerous than the 80s-90s "punk" that will just fit you straight in the face. That did hurt - but the Neonazis could be easily identified as one. These days they (try to) sneak into positions of power. And we might only realize their true conviction if it's too late.
Stop listening to Fox "News". There is no relationship between Nazis and socialism. The Nazis hated socialists. They simply co-opted the word for their name as a little trick to steal supporters. The Nazis were right-wing by all standards.
No. The Nazis implemented a lot of laws and rules which qualify as being "socialist". I bet if you ask people on the streets these days in Germany about who implemented these things back in the day, a lot of them would guess "SPD" (Socialdemocrats). This is no surprise as the Nazi leaders (with the exception of Göring - a fighter ace of WW I, perhaps) were working class people and suffered from those restrictions/under those circumstances themselves before coming into power.
Here's a quick list off the top of my head:
Bonus payment for overtime and work done on Sundays/bank holidays.
Access to higher-rated professions for working class people. I.e. becoming an officer was restricted to nobles and upper-class citizens.
Women were treated as equal in jobs, even allowed in leading positions.
The Nazis were very good observers and analyzers of the decline of the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic. Most of it was of course done out of necessity (men needed as soldiers -> women in factories) . But it was also done out of conviction.
Apple's case against Samsung is for making a copy of the iPhone as a whole item - hardware, software, form factor all together. The German court clearly agrees, hence the preliminary injunction which Samsung will clearly appeal.
This is misleading. A preliminary injunction ("Einstweilige Verfügung") in Germany doesn't mean the court agrees. The only thing the court agrees to is that you might have a case in a trial.
From the Germanic tribe Alemanni ("Alemannen" in German); a tribe residing in the south of Germany. During the Migration Age, they headed south (Italy, France, Spain etc.) and that's why in those countries the name for Germany stems from Alammani
English-speaking folks learned of the existence of Bavaria when it was called Bavaria or something phonetically similar. Baden-Württemberg was formed after WWII so it was never called something else.
That doesn't make sense as for example Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate) and Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia) were also formed after WWII. So, it must be something else... interesting question nonetheless.
The precise term used in the court's decision is "personenbezogene (Daten)". I translated that as "personal (data)". Not sure if that matches it 100%. The term describes data such as my bank account number, email address and so forth. A good translation is hard enough. Add to that, that IANAL and that these terms were coined in court, and it even becomes a lot more difficult for me to come up with the right English term.
The court's decision has also a lot to do with consent. You need my (written) consent for passing information around to a 3rd party that you gathered about/from me.
But to take your example: telling anybody else seems legal. But taking a picture of it and showing it around not, unless the "event" was deemed to be of "public interest". It also makes a difference where you "publish" the information. Telling you friends is OK, disclosing it to the public (a blog, a forum, local newspaper...) not.
About the murder case: you'll often find the name of both the accussed and the victim annonymized, commonly like "John S. from B." for "John Smith from Berlin" and faces will be pixeled on photos.
Of course there are exceptions to the rule such as the already mentioned "(of) public interest".
As fas as i understand the west German strong movement and awareness for the issue arose in 1987 census, which caused a lot of work for the courts and polarized the population against government data collection.
To add to that, the German Supreme Court's ("Bundesverfassungsgericht", abr. "BVerG") ruling on the 1987 census establishet a new constitutional right for German citiziens: Informational Self-Determination ("Informationelle Selbstbestimmung"). It basically says: You - and only you - have got the right to decide how your personal data is used/stored.
There's also the rule of "data spareness" ("Datensparsamkeit" - not sure if that translation makes sense) - you're not allowed to collect more (personal) information than needed to fulfill your business/service. For example, you're offering a (free) newsletter on your web site. The only mandatory information you're allowed to collect is an email address. No name, no nothing.
That's (German Privacy Laws) a good thing. The bad thing is: the law is handled very strict if it comes to (private) entities. But federal data collection is always thought as the exception to the rule, see the EU data retention ("Vorratsdatenspeicherung") - decided and voted for by German MEPs - ruled unconstitutional by the BVerG later on. Or wire tapping ("GroÃYer Lauschangriff"), just to mention two prominent examples.
The reason USA became the wealthiest country in the world in 19 century was capitalist free market and industrialization, which only became possible because the US was so free to do business in because the government was so limited, so small and so insignificant.
You seem to ignore the fact that this wealth was gained at the expense of future generations. If you let the "Free Market" run free, it will only look for the short term outcome. Gigantic monocultures, killing diversity and easy fall prey to any vermin. Wastelands where resource were pulled out of the ground with whatever toxic material helped speeding up the process.
While that generated a lot of wealth for 2-3 generations, the future generations most likely have to spent even more money to remove and undo the remnants.
Did we need a good search engine? Sure we did. And Google is about the best engine there is, at least in my opinion. It certainly wasn't when it started. [...] If Google launched a year earlier or later, they would not have succeeded most likely. Not because or despite their strategy, but because their strategy doesn't matter as much as they (and it seems not only them) think.
What?
I've searched the web before Google with Yahoo, Altavista, Hotbot, Webcrawler and a dozen other "search engines" which names I've long have forgotten. And I still remember my disbelief when trying Google for the first time and almost every hit one the first page was relevenat for the stuff I searched for. "How do they do that?", I wondered, "Everybody else mostly returns crap (compared to Google)."
It wasn't the right time. It was the right idea: not just crawling the web for keywords, but weighting in the number of times that page is linked from other pages (PageRank). That's what made Google the company it is now within a short amount of time. Everyone who used Google for the first time didn't bother to go back to use his old search engine, because Google's results were so much better. Had Google been around a couple of years earlier, Yahoo for example would have never become the gorilla it was at that time.
You're right that for some products/companies the time matters very much. But choosing Google as an example wasn't a good choice, IMHO.
Doesn't Lord of the Rings Online already have such a system? It became big and kind of died a little, but is still going strong. How is this different than EVE?
EVE is a sandbox. LOTRO and WoW are theme parks. Everything in EVE is created by players. Be it items from outposts ("space stations") and titans (biggest ship) down to that one bullet you shoot at another player or NPC.
But there's more. Even EVE's main content is created by players. The whole universe is on one server, where each player in this world plays on (ignoring cEVE for a moment). Things that happen on the other side of the galaxy - mighty alliances crashing and losing their own territory, for example - can influence me. That's the stuff EVE's attraction is made of.
EVE's PvE content OTOH is not very appealing. You do it to grind for ISK (ingame currency), which you need to fuel your other activities.
This year EVE's slogan is 'EVE is real'. With the upcoming FPS DUST514 (for PS3), which will be tied into the EVE universe, EVE finally sets its feet on the ground of all those planets we bypassed all the years. Add to that WiS (Walking in Stations)/CQ (Captian's Quarter) - bits of which have just been added with this expansion - EVE is really becoming a 'world simulation'. In theory. The vision is a great one. The execution, well, not so much lately.
As of now, CCP has acted more like nature's law. They set the boundaries within which the player's could form and shape their own world. With the introduction of MT - be it vanity items or 'power items' - CCP has shape-shifted from being Nature's Law to Deity of the World. Items magically appear out of thin air, whereas the previous expansion even took away more NPC provided items and let player manufacture those, too.
Introducing MT - even for vanity itmes - seems like a neglectible minor addition. But it changes the whole premise of the game.
Schadenfreude is if something bad happens to someone else, be it a simple mistake like dropping his glass of beer or something more serious which might even hurt him, but for some reason you can't resist and giggle and think it's funny nonetheless.
Often this is accompanied by some kind of "He deserved it" feeling.
Simply put: enjoying someone's else misery in a humorous way is Schadenfreude. That's at least how that term is used in Germany, where it stems from.
Well, that's because this is still the old (homebrew) forum from 2003. The new one (based on YAF) was taken offline on its release day because of the above incident at the end of April, but hasn't come back online since then.
As for forum search, there's really only one place to go, Chribba's eve-search.com.
And the cookie thing: that was not a user's issue. You could impersonate yourself as a dev/GM, gaining their "magic" on the forums, post as those (and as any player, too), edit any posting you like and things like that. Pretty much like the same obvious and stupid mistake that also enabled the Citibank hack.
Don't get me wrong, I like EVE, I do like the guys at CCP to some extend and from what I've read over the years, the server/hardware guys seem to be one of the better departements at CCP. Unfortunately, you can secure your servers hardware-wise all you want, if a coder is too sloopy and let things as the above happen, you're out of luck.
Stop spreading your green bullshit. Currently, Germany is importing around 10% of the consumed electricity.
Nice try, mate. Instead of wasting your time with insulting people, you could do a bit reading and don't compare apples with ornages.
Yes, Germany does import power from time to time, just like any other country does: when peak loads happen. So, yes - 10% of the consumed power might be imported.
This still doesn't change the fact that we produce more power over the year than we consume and therefore export more power than we import.
And I happily return you your "stop spreading your agenda" minus the insult.
Germany also has an issue with their nuclear waste.
Not only Germany. To this day there doesn't exist a final (="until it's nonhazardous") nuclear waste storage in the world. The nuclear waste piles are stored "temporarily" everywhere (often at/near the power plants) until they come up with a method to store the toxic waste away safely for the next thousands of years. No one in his right mind would leave such a toxic time bomb for his children and grandchildern and grand-grandchildren and...
But seriously, it is very disappointing to see the Germans make a rash decision from a scared gut-feeling instead of sticking to science and intelligent logic.
It was no "rash decision". Since Tschernobyl, the German poeple were opposed to nuclear power, just the lobbyists had bigger wallets. And it is a logical decision. No power is more expensive to produce than nuclear power. It's just that a lot of the expenses are payed by the tax payer. If the nuclear power lobby had to pay that all themselves, the price for 1 kW/h would be > 2 EUR instead of the 0,30somthing (or whatever) cents we pay right now.
The last time they did this it didn't work out so well for the rest of Europe, or them in the end for that matter...
The last time we did something "evil" like this was the start of the wide-spread usage of the car catalysator back in the mid/late 80ies. Germany made catalysators mandatory for cars. Alone (in Europe, California was there earlier). And all other Europe countries followed sooner or later. As far as I can tell, it did work out. Both for the people and the environment.
Relying on another country for your electricity needs..
Nope. Germany is a net-exporter of electric power in Europe. Shuting down those nuclear plants still doesn't make us a net-importer. It's just that we don't export as much as before.
I've been using the term "app" as a short version for "application" long before Apple came up with its "App Store" or the term "app" for those applications.
And as I'm a non-native English speaker, I didn't come up with it myself, but learned it from others, who must have used it before.
Here's a Google search for just one single domain (a programming language's forum), showing the usage of the term "app".
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I was wondering if the Motorola tablets are also produced by Motorola Mobility (the part Google acquired). I couldn't find anything in the press release other than Motorola Mobility being a "leading manufacturer for smartphones" ... which may or may not include the tablets.
Your original statement seems to be about the typical Neonazi outfit these days. If that's the case, both "punk anarchist" and "anarchist" unfortunately are now longer true. The (ideologically well-trained) Neonazis these days wear suits and ties. They learned that their brutal outfit doesn't cater to the masses. So just like the wolf in the fairy tale they adapted, slipped into the sheep's costume, ate crayon and tuned down their radical messages a bit so that they sound more rational. I said "unfortunately" above as this is more dangerous than the 80s-90s "punk" that will just fit you straight in the face. That did hurt - but the Neonazis could be easily identified as one. These days they (try to) sneak into positions of power. And we might only realize their true conviction if it's too late.
No. The Nazis implemented a lot of laws and rules which qualify as being "socialist". I bet if you ask people on the streets these days in Germany about who implemented these things back in the day, a lot of them would guess "SPD" (Socialdemocrats). This is no surprise as the Nazi leaders (with the exception of Göring - a fighter ace of WW I, perhaps) were working class people and suffered from those restrictions/under those circumstances themselves before coming into power.
Here's a quick list off the top of my head:
The Nazis were very good observers and analyzers of the decline of the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic. Most of it was of course done out of necessity (men needed as soldiers -> women in factories) . But it was also done out of conviction.
This is misleading. A preliminary injunction ("Einstweilige Verfügung") in Germany doesn't mean the court agrees. The only thing the court agrees to is that you might have a case in a trial.
From the Germanic tribe Alemanni ("Alemannen" in German); a tribe residing in the south of Germany. During the Migration Age, they headed south (Italy, France, Spain etc.) and that's why in those countries the name for Germany stems from Alammani
(Later) ... Ah! Wikipedia to the rescue! Names of Germany
That doesn't make sense as for example Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate) and Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia) were also formed after WWII. So, it must be something else ... interesting question nonetheless.
The precise term used in the court's decision is "personenbezogene (Daten)". I translated that as "personal (data)". Not sure if that matches it 100%. The term describes data such as my bank account number, email address and so forth. A good translation is hard enough. Add to that, that IANAL and that these terms were coined in court, and it even becomes a lot more difficult for me to come up with the right English term.
The court's decision has also a lot to do with consent. You need my (written) consent for passing information around to a 3rd party that you gathered about/from me.
But to take your example: telling anybody else seems legal. But taking a picture of it and showing it around not, unless the "event" was deemed to be of "public interest". It also makes a difference where you "publish" the information. Telling you friends is OK, disclosing it to the public (a blog, a forum, local newspaper ...) not.
About the murder case: you'll often find the name of both the accussed and the victim annonymized, commonly like "John S. from B." for "John Smith from Berlin" and faces will be pixeled on photos.
Of course there are exceptions to the rule such as the already mentioned "(of) public interest".
To add to that, the German Supreme Court's ("Bundesverfassungsgericht", abr. "BVerG") ruling on the 1987 census establishet a new constitutional right for German citiziens: Informational Self-Determination ("Informationelle Selbstbestimmung"). It basically says: You - and only you - have got the right to decide how your personal data is used/stored.
There's also the rule of "data spareness" ("Datensparsamkeit" - not sure if that translation makes sense) - you're not allowed to collect more (personal) information than needed to fulfill your business/service. For example, you're offering a (free) newsletter on your web site. The only mandatory information you're allowed to collect is an email address. No name, no nothing.
That's (German Privacy Laws) a good thing. The bad thing is: the law is handled very strict if it comes to (private) entities. But federal data collection is always thought as the exception to the rule, see the EU data retention ("Vorratsdatenspeicherung") - decided and voted for by German MEPs - ruled unconstitutional by the BVerG later on. Or wire tapping ("GroÃYer Lauschangriff"), just to mention two prominent examples.
You seem to ignore the fact that this wealth was gained at the expense of future generations. If you let the "Free Market" run free, it will only look for the short term outcome. Gigantic monocultures, killing diversity and easy fall prey to any vermin. Wastelands where resource were pulled out of the ground with whatever toxic material helped speeding up the process.
While that generated a lot of wealth for 2-3 generations, the future generations most likely have to spent even more money to remove and undo the remnants.
What?
I've searched the web before Google with Yahoo, Altavista, Hotbot, Webcrawler and a dozen other "search engines" which names I've long have forgotten. And I still remember my disbelief when trying Google for the first time and almost every hit one the first page was relevenat for the stuff I searched for. "How do they do that?", I wondered, "Everybody else mostly returns crap (compared to Google)."
It wasn't the right time. It was the right idea: not just crawling the web for keywords, but weighting in the number of times that page is linked from other pages (PageRank). That's what made Google the company it is now within a short amount of time. Everyone who used Google for the first time didn't bother to go back to use his old search engine, because Google's results were so much better. Had Google been around a couple of years earlier, Yahoo for example would have never become the gorilla it was at that time.
You're right that for some products/companies the time matters very much. But choosing Google as an example wasn't a good choice, IMHO.
The Rolling Stones, AC/DC and many many other successful acts want to have a word with you.
EVE is a sandbox. LOTRO and WoW are theme parks. Everything in EVE is created by players. Be it items from outposts ("space stations") and titans (biggest ship) down to that one bullet you shoot at another player or NPC.
But there's more. Even EVE's main content is created by players. The whole universe is on one server, where each player in this world plays on (ignoring cEVE for a moment). Things that happen on the other side of the galaxy - mighty alliances crashing and losing their own territory, for example - can influence me. That's the stuff EVE's attraction is made of.
EVE's PvE content OTOH is not very appealing. You do it to grind for ISK (ingame currency), which you need to fuel your other activities.
This year EVE's slogan is 'EVE is real'. With the upcoming FPS DUST514 (for PS3), which will be tied into the EVE universe, EVE finally sets its feet on the ground of all those planets we bypassed all the years. Add to that WiS (Walking in Stations)/CQ (Captian's Quarter) - bits of which have just been added with this expansion - EVE is really becoming a 'world simulation'. In theory. The vision is a great one. The execution, well, not so much lately.
As of now, CCP has acted more like nature's law. They set the boundaries within which the player's could form and shape their own world. With the introduction of MT - be it vanity items or 'power items' - CCP has shape-shifted from being Nature's Law to Deity of the World. Items magically appear out of thin air, whereas the previous expansion even took away more NPC provided items and let player manufacture those, too.
Introducing MT - even for vanity itmes - seems like a neglectible minor addition. But it changes the whole premise of the game.
Disclaimer: Native German speaker here.
Schadenfreude is if something bad happens to someone else, be it a simple mistake like dropping his glass of beer or something more serious which might even hurt him, but for some reason you can't resist and giggle and think it's funny nonetheless.
Often this is accompanied by some kind of "He deserved it" feeling.
Simply put: enjoying someone's else misery in a humorous way is Schadenfreude. That's at least how that term is used in Germany, where it stems from.
Well, that's because this is still the old (homebrew) forum from 2003. The new one (based on YAF) was taken offline on its release day because of the above incident at the end of April, but hasn't come back online since then.
As for forum search, there's really only one place to go, Chribba's eve-search.com.
And the cookie thing: that was not a user's issue. You could impersonate yourself as a dev/GM, gaining their "magic" on the forums, post as those (and as any player, too), edit any posting you like and things like that. Pretty much like the same obvious and stupid mistake that also enabled the Citibank hack.
"High level of security"? You mean like storing authentication credentials in plain text in cookies?
Don't get me wrong, I like EVE, I do like the guys at CCP to some extend and from what I've read over the years, the server/hardware guys seem to be one of the better departements at CCP. Unfortunately, you can secure your servers hardware-wise all you want, if a coder is too sloopy and let things as the above happen, you're out of luck.
Nice try, mate. Instead of wasting your time with insulting people, you could do a bit reading and don't compare apples with ornages.
Yes, Germany does import power from time to time, just like any other country does: when peak loads happen. So, yes - 10% of the consumed power might be imported.
This still doesn't change the fact that we produce more power over the year than we consume and therefore export more power than we import.
And I happily return you your "stop spreading your agenda" minus the insult.
Not only Germany. To this day there doesn't exist a final (="until it's nonhazardous") nuclear waste storage in the world. The nuclear waste piles are stored "temporarily" everywhere (often at/near the power plants) until they come up with a method to store the toxic waste away safely for the next thousands of years. No one in his right mind would leave such a toxic time bomb for his children and grandchildern and grand-grandchildren and ...
It was no "rash decision". Since Tschernobyl, the German poeple were opposed to nuclear power, just the lobbyists had bigger wallets. And it is a logical decision. No power is more expensive to produce than nuclear power. It's just that a lot of the expenses are payed by the tax payer. If the nuclear power lobby had to pay that all themselves, the price for 1 kW/h would be > 2 EUR instead of the 0,30somthing (or whatever) cents we pay right now.
The last time we did something "evil" like this was the start of the wide-spread usage of the car catalysator back in the mid/late 80ies. Germany made catalysators mandatory for cars. Alone (in Europe, California was there earlier). And all other Europe countries followed sooner or later. As far as I can tell, it did work out. Both for the people and the environment.
Nope. Germany is a net-exporter of electric power in Europe. Shuting down those nuclear plants still doesn't make us a net-importer. It's just that we don't export as much as before.
Perhaps you missed the point where ...
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So, VETO doesn't live in Goinard any more?
Seems like Kaspersky is also supporting Linux machines (WS + servers).
I've been using the term "app" as a short version for "application" long before Apple came up with its "App Store" or the term "app" for those applications.
And as I'm a non-native English speaker, I didn't come up with it myself, but learned it from others, who must have used it before.
Here's a Google search for just one single domain (a programming language's forum), showing the usage of the term "app".
Never ever, don't support the slavers!
In rust, we (Minmatar) trust.
Check for yourself. No need to donwload/install the Steam client, if you just want to browse their catalog.