To all the web developers who are going to stop supporting IE6: I'll be happy to do your work!! I'll keep supporting IE6 for as long as possible. More web developers rejecting IE6 means more revenue for me! Yay!
That's the only thing in your post that I do not believe.
That goes back to basic windows application handling. In Windows, each window is basically a running process. Compare this to Mac where an application can run one, multiple or no windows.
No offence meant, but West Germany appears to have a culture of denial. (Without it, I doubt the country wouldn't be as democratic/prosperous as it is right now).
As said before, I think you are wrong.
Even today at important WWII landmarks in Germany I find the documentation on the actions of the Nazi regime ridiculously sparse. Go visit Cologne (city of former Gestapo headquarters) and find the lack of information.. while a lot of people have disappeared there. When I travel around Germany, which I like, rebuilt cities appear to bear no resemblance of the black history..
Well, shame on Cologne if that is the case. I welcome you to visit Karlsruhe where you can see the Stolpersteine (stumbling blocks) and Gedenksteine (memorial stones) just to name some of the many memorials in my home town which you literally cannot miss if you live here.
Fast forward to today's culture: playing the victim. Shouting censorship and behaving like a child who's toy has been taken, when the government/people try and limit violence and references to Nazi's in games. Perhaps it's not about Big Brother government, but about respect.
There have been cases where people have been brought into court (although not sentenced) because they had a protest shirt with a swastika crossed out, to show you some of the absurd consequences of that law.
The question of freedom of speech is a separate issue and you can try to make some arguments in favor of censorship. I didn't claim it was about Big Brother government, I just refuted the ridiculous idea that the laws are part of some conspiracy to suppress the discussion of the holocaust.
So yes, considering your well-informed education about the atrocities in WWII (*never again*) and your rigid stance on playing what you choose (i.e. WWII revivals), you are seriously in denial.
I don't even understand what you mean. And I don't play any WWII games.
Addendum: this seems to be a localisation issue. When searching from Germany, bing searches in something like "international mode", which seems to increase the weight for forums. Anyways, since I was logged in on google, the results were influenced by my settings and maybe even my web history. I retract my criticism of bing I made in the parent posting.
Bing isn't fine. I had to install a HP7900 box today and was looking for drivers. Google presents them as the frist result while Bing just gives me garbage.
While I confess I've never even visited Germany before, I had a teacher who did a while ago. I remember him telling us the Germans had a culture of denial, when it came to the WWII Nazi era. History textbooks would completely gloss over that part of history with only the vaguest mention of Hitler and his ambitions. At first, he tried to discuss and question it with people there, but he said it was almost like running into a brick wall. People would practically tell him to quiet down, because "we don't talk about that here anymore".
If that's accurate, then it goes a LONG way towards understanding why they'd ban a game like Wolfenstein, and why they're so adamant about banning sales of Nazi era items on eBay, etc. etc.
Are you trolling? You are spreading some serious misinformation here.
We have several Holocaust memorial days, there is probably a documentary on the Third Reich and World War Two once week on the TV channel. About a third of history education in school is dedicated to the Third Reich. I think a trip to a concentration camp is even mandatory for school classes.
The display of Nazi symbols is banned (with certain exceptions) not because of denial, but to fight right-wing extremists. And like every government, our government is being stupid and bans Nazi symbols even if they aren't being used by right-wing extremists but by ID software in Wolfenstein. We have a "department for youth protection", which is something like Jack Thompsons wet dream, which does all the censorship. German gamers hate it when their games are being censored, so don't confuse "what the German government does" with "what all German people think is good" like in the thread about the two murderers.
Wikipedia and its content, including the article in question, is hosted in the US. Why should the Wikimedia foundation comply to German laws just because some articles are written in German? Should articles written in Farsi comply to Iranian law, too?
Keep in mind that half the population has an IQ under 100 and that the civilization would collapse if half the population were excluded from gainful employment. In short, the world is being run by idiots.
Even if the world was populated by yours truly and your greatest intellectual heroes, half the population would still have an IQ under 100. That's how the IQ is defined.
That said -- your comment was a troll. pedophilia has nothing to do with the legal doctrine under discussion here, nor of free speech, any other related concept.
Maybe you aren't smart enough to see the connection.
The German society seems to be okay with forgetting such things. A large part of the slashdot community (a significant part of it living in the US) seems not to be okay with this. Different places, different minds.
I am German and no, I am not okay with this law. I also don't mind criticism from the US. Just because you live somewhere else doesn't mean you can't have an insightful opinion. Fuck moral relativism.
But doesn't this mean that if you have two copies of a file lying around, deduplication won't help you? The contents of both files is the same, but they are aligned differently in block space.
Yeah, why bother with professionalism at all if the attendees are obviously all sex-starved single geeks who think getting a boner from watching a chicks ass in public is "sexual empowerment"?
You don't have to be a Christian puritan to have some notion of taste. You can be a secular atheist citizen of an "unrepressed EU State" and still have some concept of appropriateness.
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To all the web developers who are going to stop supporting IE6: I'll be happy to do your work!! I'll keep supporting IE6 for as long as possible. More web developers rejecting IE6 means more revenue for me! Yay!
That's the only thing in your post that I do not believe.
How did you determine the memory usage?
That goes back to basic windows application handling. In Windows, each window is basically a running process. Compare this to Mac where an application can run one, multiple or no windows.
while(1) { alert("pwnd"); }
I don't care how much memory Chrome allocates as long as it doesn't page to disk, which is the slow part. For ad removal I just use privoxy.
I read that as him saying that the Direct2D sub-pixel rendering is more accurate (more aesthetic?) than the current GDI implementation.
Me too. But what does this tell you about the priorities at the IE team when this is something worth bragging about?
Try Google Chrome or any other WebKit-based browser
No offence meant, but West Germany appears to have a culture of denial. (Without it, I doubt the country wouldn't be as democratic/prosperous as it is right now).
As said before, I think you are wrong.
Even today at important WWII landmarks in Germany I find the documentation on the actions of the Nazi regime ridiculously sparse. Go visit Cologne (city of former Gestapo headquarters) and find the lack of information.. while a lot of people have disappeared there. When I travel around Germany, which I like, rebuilt cities appear to bear no resemblance of the black history..
Well, shame on Cologne if that is the case. I welcome you to visit Karlsruhe where you can see the Stolpersteine (stumbling blocks) and Gedenksteine (memorial stones) just to name some of the many memorials in my home town which you literally cannot miss if you live here.
Fast forward to today's culture: playing the victim. Shouting censorship and behaving like a child who's toy has been taken, when the government/people try and limit violence and references to Nazi's in games.
Perhaps it's not about Big Brother government, but about respect.
There have been cases where people have been brought into court (although not sentenced) because they had a protest shirt with a swastika crossed out, to show you some of the absurd consequences of that law.
The question of freedom of speech is a separate issue and you can try to make some arguments in favor of censorship. I didn't claim it was about Big Brother government, I just refuted the ridiculous idea that the laws are part of some conspiracy to suppress the discussion of the holocaust.
So yes, considering your well-informed education about the atrocities in WWII (*never again*) and your rigid stance on playing what you choose (i.e. WWII revivals), you are seriously in denial.
I don't even understand what you mean. And I don't play any WWII games.
Weil strichpunkt im jahre 1990 stehen geblieben ist und die bearbeitungsfunktion fehlt
Addendum: this seems to be a localisation issue. When searching from Germany, bing searches in something like "international mode", which seems to increase the weight for forums. Anyways, since I was logged in on google, the results were influenced by my settings and maybe even my web history. I retract my criticism of bing I made in the parent posting.
I think we have a case of localized results or something
the first results on bing for me (from germany, but the the option is set to "show all", not "only from germany"):
#1 forums.itrc.hp.com (miss)
#2 forums.itrc.hp.com (miss)
#3 shop.cancom.de (miss)
#4 shop.cancom.de (miss)
#5 h10010.www1.hp.com (somewhat of hit, still 4 clicks away)
#6 forums.novell.com (miss)
If I set the search option to "only english", result #5 pops up to #1.
Google (set to "search only english" by cookie):
#1 h20000.www2.hp.com (hit, drivers 1 click away)
Bing isn't fine. I had to install a HP7900 box today and was looking for drivers. Google presents them as the frist result while Bing just gives me garbage.
While I confess I've never even visited Germany before, I had a teacher who did a while ago. I remember him telling us the Germans had a culture of denial, when it came to the WWII Nazi era. History textbooks would completely gloss over that part of history with only the vaguest mention of Hitler and his ambitions. At first, he tried to discuss and question it with people there, but he said it was almost like running into a brick wall. People would practically tell him to quiet down, because "we don't talk about that here anymore".
If that's accurate, then it goes a LONG way towards understanding why they'd ban a game like Wolfenstein, and why they're so adamant about banning sales of Nazi era items on eBay, etc. etc.
Are you trolling? You are spreading some serious misinformation here.
We have several Holocaust memorial days, there is probably a documentary on the Third Reich and World War Two once week on the TV channel. About a third of history education in school is dedicated to the Third Reich. I think a trip to a concentration camp is even mandatory for school classes.
The display of Nazi symbols is banned (with certain exceptions) not because of denial, but to fight right-wing extremists. And like every government, our government is being stupid and bans Nazi symbols even if they aren't being used by right-wing extremists but by ID software in Wolfenstein. We have a "department for youth protection", which is something like Jack Thompsons wet dream, which does all the censorship. German gamers hate it when their games are being censored, so don't confuse "what the German government does" with "what all German people think is good" like in the thread about the two murderers.
If stabbing somebody's kidneys and throat, then smashing the head with a hammer doesn't make you a bad person, then what does?
Wikipedia and its content, including the article in question, is hosted in the US. Why should the Wikimedia foundation comply to German laws just because some articles are written in German? Should articles written in Farsi comply to Iranian law, too?
Keep in mind that half the population has an IQ under 100 and that the civilization would collapse if half the population were excluded from gainful employment. In short, the world is being run by idiots.
Even if the world was populated by yours truly and your greatest intellectual heroes, half the population would still have an IQ under 100. That's how the IQ is defined.
That said -- your comment was a troll. pedophilia has nothing to do with the legal doctrine under discussion here, nor of free speech, any other related concept.
Maybe you aren't smart enough to see the connection.
The German society seems to be okay with forgetting such things. A large part of the slashdot community (a significant part of it living in the US) seems not to be okay with this. Different places, different minds.
I am German and no, I am not okay with this law. I also don't mind criticism from the US. Just because you live somewhere else doesn't mean you can't have an insightful opinion. Fuck moral relativism.
He received it as a plasmoid and it crashed his desktop. But it looks nice.
You want a browser to be a file manager? How odd.
But doesn't this mean that if you have two copies of a file lying around, deduplication won't help you? The contents of both files is the same, but they are aligned differently in block space.
Maybe they pool their resources in Google Wave and ditch Google Groups as soon as Wave is ready.
Strange. I always thought that zsh would expand the * wildcard in a way that everything would be interpreted as a path. Thanks for the info.
You live in a fantasy land. The number of women that do not sell sexuality, if not actual sex is in the fractions of a percent.
You are right, everybody has a price. Even you would have sex with a man for a million dollars.
Yeah, why bother with professionalism at all if the attendees are obviously all sex-starved single geeks who think getting a boner from watching a chicks ass in public is "sexual empowerment"?
You don't have to be a Christian puritan to have some notion of taste. You can be a secular atheist citizen of an "unrepressed EU State" and still have some concept of appropriateness.
For Gnome users, Sonata should be mentioned.