Duh! German Church tax is not on top of regular tax, the state assumes the churches do "Good Work" with this money in lieu of what otherwise would be a State task and so the Church Tax is taken out of your regular tax.
The reason is historical, during the last centuries of the Roman Empire the Bishop of Rome was also the highest worldly leader, first as Caesar, later as Pope.
When the Roman Empire split up the middle part (mainly Germany) became an Emperor as political and religious leader, eventually the political power of the church was more and more handed over to civilians, Church Tax and other special privileges for established religions are a remnant of these millennia of European history.
In the drilling industry there is extensive use of the "Engineering Foot" that is divided in 10 "inches" (0.03048 m.).
A real bitch when you are not aware of it.
You sound like the guy who years ago at this same/. claimed the Inch is a more accurate engineering unit and gave as an example the metric conversion of 1/16" being 0.00158 m. having too many decimals and still only being rounded and not precise.
Your problem is partial conversion, angst of going the whole way.
There is no way to naturally define an "approximate" centimeter or a gram (as opposed to approximate inch, foot or ounce, for example).
Uhh? The beauty of the Decimal part of the Metric system is you can easily expresss 1/10th. of a cm. to 1 mm, what do you mean no approximation possible?
I have a hard time believing you can't get Metric tools in the US, we have shops in Louisiana and Texas and they generally get all their tools locally.
So maybe they try to rip you off by selling you two sets of US-sized sockets.
The funny thing with Metric sockets is they still use Inch-sized drives, like 3/8, 1/2 and 3/4".
Because the US/Imperial system is awful when working in fractions or doing rather important things like having to translate depth or hight into pressure differences.
The biggest problem is for companies and people being forced to work in both systems, yes some of us do travel or sell abroad.
Hehe, a damn good example of the problems of the US or Imperial system.:)
Would it have been a metric system you could have easily and without pen and paper figured out a 0.82 m. window needs 0.29 m. edge to be in the middle of a 1.40 m. wall.
Nobody cares if you drive 65 mph or the corresponding 105 kmh.
But it does matter for manufacturers building equipment for markets using the different units.
It should require no explanation conversions between mm, cm, m and km is easier to explain and comprehend than the conversions between 64th, inch, foot, yard and mile.
Alone the need for different tool sets is in my company a serious cost and especially a quality control issue.
Most USB sticks come with some dodgy software for encryption or easy back up, Android device manufacturers could just as easily include (a link to) an ext2/3 driver to be installed on the Windows box.
IIRC the patent disputes were about vfat, not regular fat and that could be sufficient to store the necessary drivers.
An example is TomTom that includes ext2fs and cygwin stuff in their tool kit.
All my external HD's have a mini USB2 or 3 port, why would the computer need anything bigger?
Micro SD is for me the most logical solution, it and the slot for it are tiny as are the SD and USB adapters.
Let's be realistic, such a tablet would cost a little more but it should hardly be an outrageous amount, maybe 10-15 $, €, whatever.
Put it next to the stripped down version and see what sells, speaking for myself and the people around me we'd play safe and get the complete package!
Even if you do get Linux running on the thing, so that many more people could shell out $900 to do the same thing, Microsoft will just be laughing all the way to the bank.
Then why have they put up this artificial barrier for an alternative OS?
Because they know the weakness of their own offering.
Why not?
I have a perfectly good working Microsoft optical mouse on this Linux computer, Microsoft hardware including this tablet is pretty good value for money.
They only need to take out the boot restriction but then they fear/feel/know Win8 is going to lose the battle with Open Software.
No, these are services, you buy into them and it includes some hardware, I would buy a phone and then get a contract for the services.
At least that's the way it works around here in Europe.
Please note Cinerama is not nvidia-settings.
But even then, this 'need' to reboot or restart X only comes up when you want to run separate X screens in stead of TwinView which I consider the standard for a dual screen set up.
Like when I do a presentation with LibreOffice I get the editable file on the laptop screen and the presentation on the beamer, easy for all because that way any other things on the laptop screen remain private.
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The reason is historical, during the last centuries of the Roman Empire the Bishop of Rome was also the highest worldly leader, first as Caesar, later as Pope.
When the Roman Empire split up the middle part (mainly Germany) became an Emperor as political and religious leader, eventually the political power of the church was more and more handed over to civilians, Church Tax and other special privileges for established religions are a remnant of these millennia of European history.
In the drilling industry there is extensive use of the "Engineering Foot" that is divided in 10 "inches" (0.03048 m.).
A real bitch when you are not aware of it.
Your problem is partial conversion, angst of going the whole way.
Please note the US oil/drilling industry expresses the SG of liquids in lbs/gal or for giggles lbs/cu.ft.
A nice example of an industry that's in deep shit because of the use of historic units is the oil industry, the safety of the well is depending on a driller using all kinds of irrational conversion factors:
http://www.drillingformulas.com/estimated-mud-weight-required-to-safely-drill-the-well/
There is no way to naturally define an "approximate" centimeter or a gram (as opposed to approximate inch, foot or ounce, for example).
Uhh? The beauty of the Decimal part of the Metric system is you can easily expresss 1/10th. of a cm. to 1 mm, what do you mean no approximation possible?
Try that with 1/10 of a foot :)
So maybe they try to rip you off by selling you two sets of US-sized sockets.
The funny thing with Metric sockets is they still use Inch-sized drives, like 3/8, 1/2 and 3/4".
The statistics are quite clear, in the years before the single currency we had significantly more inflation than in the ~13 years since.
http://www.global-rates.com/economic-indicators/inflation/consumer-prices/cpi/germany.aspx
Because the US/Imperial system is awful when working in fractions or doing rather important things like having to translate depth or hight into pressure differences.
The biggest problem is for companies and people being forced to work in both systems, yes some of us do travel or sell abroad.
Because it works around the world, no exceptions.
Hehe, a damn good example of the problems of the US or Imperial system. :)
Would it have been a metric system you could have easily and without pen and paper figured out a 0.82 m. window needs 0.29 m. edge to be in the middle of a 1.40 m. wall.
Don't mix up Metric and Decimal, even inches can be expressed in Decimal.
But it does matter for manufacturers building equipment for markets using the different units.
It should require no explanation conversions between mm, cm, m and km is easier to explain and comprehend than the conversions between 64th, inch, foot, yard and mile.
Alone the need for different tool sets is in my company a serious cost and especially a quality control issue.
Therefore I use a webdav app and keep the data on my own server.
True but it still works fine with the build in mic, I usually have the Nexus 7 on the desk in front of me to make my VOIP calls.
Most USB sticks come with some dodgy software for encryption or easy back up, Android device manufacturers could just as easily include (a link to) an ext2/3 driver to be installed on the Windows box.
IIRC the patent disputes were about vfat, not regular fat and that could be sufficient to store the necessary drivers.
An example is TomTom that includes ext2fs and cygwin stuff in their tool kit.
All my external HD's have a mini USB2 or 3 port, why would the computer need anything bigger?
Micro SD is for me the most logical solution, it and the slot for it are tiny as are the SD and USB adapters.
Let's be realistic, such a tablet would cost a little more but it should hardly be an outrageous amount, maybe 10-15 $, €, whatever.
Put it next to the stripped down version and see what sells, speaking for myself and the people around me we'd play safe and get the complete package!
Try harder, log in first :)
Even if you do get Linux running on the thing, so that many more people could shell out $900 to do the same thing, Microsoft will just be laughing all the way to the bank.
Then why have they put up this artificial barrier for an alternative OS?
Because they know the weakness of their own offering.
Don't buy the crap from MS :)
Why not?
I have a perfectly good working Microsoft optical mouse on this Linux computer, Microsoft hardware including this tablet is pretty good value for money.
They only need to take out the boot restriction but then they fear/feel/know Win8 is going to lose the battle with Open Software.
No, these are services, you buy into them and it includes some hardware, I would buy a phone and then get a contract for the services.
At least that's the way it works around here in Europe.
http://www.lemnislighting.com/en/about_greenhouse.html
Uhhh, Apple contracted TomTom for the maps where they work fine, it really was Apple's software that doesn't know what to do with the maps.
Please note Cinerama is not nvidia-settings.
But even then, this 'need' to reboot or restart X only comes up when you want to run separate X screens in stead of TwinView which I consider the standard for a dual screen set up.
Like when I do a presentation with LibreOffice I get the editable file on the laptop screen and the presentation on the beamer, easy for all because that way any other things on the laptop screen remain private.
Thankyou, I agree fully, almost any progress is good progress when it comes to space, China blowing stuff up and cluttering up LEO accepted http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6289519.stm of course.
I hope you don't know what that bold word means...