Most of my family (i been there only as a baby) left Germany and returned in Greece (now i have only few cousins living there, married to German wifes). I am originaly from northern-eastern Greece (you know, where almost all, or their families, were in Germany!), living the last few decades in Athens (you know, where almost all, or their families, are originaly from some other part of Greece!), feeling like an immigrant with nostalgia for his home! O.K., my case is not so bad as yours (and i believe/hope yours is not as bad as the older's were), but i feel you patrioti...
To receive it, you have to spend at least one night in the manor!
Dude... i don't know if you mean what i think that you mean,,, but i am Greek... i don't know what you think about us Greeks (don't believe the barbarous lies), but i will decline the offer... blame your pseudonym!
Yes, you are right, my prediction (even if i support the idea) is also that this will go nowhere. Excluding the income differences important for marketing, in the case of your film example the language barriers that must be bridged with a cost, with the car example it is like demanding countries like mine (Greece) to abolish the (so important for the state's revenue) special tax imposed on every car sale.
It would be like you expecting every supermarket in Europe to sell milk for the same price! "It's all milk! I should be able to buy milk for 2 Euros in Germany or 2 Euros in Greece!"
This "milk thing" is one of the most used argument in Greece (maybe in the opposite way of what you may expect). Cows need the northern climate to produce milk economically, i.e., Germany's cow milk will alway be cheaper than Greece's. In Greece many use this specific product to argue that milk is very expensive in comparison to Germany, so... EU is bad for Greece! Not to mention that we do "tricks" (e.g., what is defined as "fresh milk", or "long preserved") that makes importing milk from Germany impossible, just to "protect" our cow milk producers (in the same time we want our products to freely move inside EU... o.k., it's not only us Greeks that play this "game", but still it makes me angry that we don't respect the rules of a common market.)
Linux is (just) "A" successful kernel - NOT "THE", NOT EVEN THE "MOST" (NOT EVEN AMONG THE "OPEN" KERNELS).
Excluding the most successful kernel (i.e., Microsoft's), and among only open-source kernels, the most successful (open-source) kernel is... BSD!
Thank you, i will go now to some "/." story and make fun of APPLE's fans who think that their glorious shit come straight from Steve's (R.I.P.) pure ass.
The European Union is firstly and above other things a common market - we, Europeans of the Union, agreed to that before any other type of unification (other types -e.g. monetary- which not all members of the union accept yet, and may never accept). While EU is very problematic for many reasons (not only economical... as many would think i mean because i am a Greek!), its common market concept is the least problematic (and the least negative in the eyes of its citizens). Geo-blocking inside EU is against the common market concept, so it is good that we will get rid of it. But is that means that we Greeks could watch some great football matches from England, Spain, Germany, Italy, etc? I highly doubt that nationall content providers among the EU members will agree so easily to provide their valuable products (e.g., football) to every member. Because if it is only for stupid things like Eurovision... well, we get that already, we commentary in Greek (so no need for any barbarian).
According to that logic then all of your web browsing is open to police capture without a warrant.
Yes... BUT it's not the same with what i wrote about the phone's case, so you can not compare the cases directly. Your web browsing is not open to police but its history logs -if it's on someones else servers- is (which in the case of web browsing -but not of phone' communication history logs- is usually -i.e., if you don't exchange personal data other than the connection related- essentially the communication itself).
Everything you download is captured in logs on a web server somewhere so you are saying it's fine for the police to look at them, no warrant required?
When the communication history logs or -even any actual communication (i.e., your personal data)- it is in someone's else server then it is not yours, it's theirs. This should be common knowledge now, and actualy this decision was made based on similar reasoning (i.e., it is common knowledge, so no expectation of privacy).
The justices ruled that there is no expectation of privacy for your location when you're using a cell phone. One of the judges wrote: We find no reason to conclude that cellphone users lack facts about the functions of cell towers or about telephone providers' recording cell tower usage.
A right and well justified decision, since it's not about the privacy of the communication but about the location records, in the same way a witness can testify that a suspect was in some location - and no warrant is needed because a court can order a witness to testify.
Ha! O.K., i am not gonna lie to you no more... i never met the guy! BUT: as a conscript, many times i had to share a tent with either a guy that wanted me to stay awake with him and play stupid games or some other who just wanted to sleeep! If a had an option, i choosed wise!
Thanks, you are right (i am struggling with my English - see my signature).
Kudos for spotting the gag, though.
Kudos for being a grammarNaZi... the world always needs more!
Still, having a tax authority runs at a loss is an, ummm, "impressive" feat.
In the last fiscal year we had a surplus - that is impressive for Greece!
Of course its employees make quite a healthy profit...
Bad old habits, acquired from almost 4 centuries of having the Ottoman filth in our proximity - as we say in Greece, a decade of occupation from NaZi Germany would have help us forget the Ottoman way of doing things.
Yes, you are right, adjusting the swappiness level is a much better way (with the swapoff/swapon command also - and "/etc/fstab" for persistence) - i choose to not have any swap partition (on my desktop machine), but that is only because i know what swap is and how to get it back if i need to. And you are also right about the "servery defaults". Well, we just need some more UNIX education for the LINUX masses!
If only Linux installers would get with the times and default to no swap partition when at least 4GB of RAM is present.
Then we could put that nasty "swap" business behind us entirely.
I choose to not have any swap in my (8GB) desktop, but i understand that it is needed in some cases, and better be safe than sorry, so, we (you and me, who know what swap is and how/when to use it) should not blame the "Linux installers" who need to care about all those UNIX "illiterates" (that are the majority of current users i believe) - i am not so sure about this "default to no swap partition when at least 4GB of RAM is present" (because i don't trust all those UNIX "illiterates"), but some advice/explanation when installing would be nice.
with low-memory systems (lots of the current models have just 2GB, which brings many Linux distros to a disk-swapping crawl)
If you consider ("just"!?) 2GB as "low-memory" (!) then i think you are already in the wrong path for your "repurposing" quest, but anyway: the "disk-swapping crawl" is easily solved by disabling swap - swap is not needed so much for your use case (as you describe it, and as i understand it), and disabling swap (a dying craft i am afraid...) has a long tradition in the "repurposing" art!
You can do it either using the "swapoff/swapon" commands (more permanently in something like the "/etc/fstab"), or even by not having a swap partition.
The data you provide are up to fiscal year 2013, and most important it is about debt (he managed to balance the books and have surplus from which our debt will be payed back) - the "social nature" of the government is our problem... that created the debt, that creates the current social problems!
but you are mistaken about the "hate Europe" part, since the most important reason i hate Muslims is because i LOVE Europe
The feeling is unlikely to be mutual.
Depends on the section of Europe. France has long been leery of Muslims, and the UK is starting to move in that direction as well.
I just want to add that some Greeks were under the Muslim's rule until recently - we still have many Greeks alive that remember well what it means to be a Christian in a Muslim state. This is not an opinion (i expressed my opinion about Muslims in some other comment in this thread), it is just a fact. Also i would like to inform that i grow up in a place where the majority were Muslims!
The Germans taught that to the Greeks when they forcefully took a loan from a conquered Greece during WW2, then spent the money and refused to repay when the war was over.
Hmmm... i am surprised that you know that...
Not that we fucking Greeks deserve any excuse for our other stupid behaviors, but yes, you are right, what you wrote is true (by the way: Hitler, until he was defeated, payed some of the money back!!! His successors in the goverment of the German (west, east, or unified now) state... no!)
Maybe the Germans, for lending them a load of money which they pissed up the wall instead of using it to drag their country into the 20th century.
You could ask me directly fellow Slashdoter, i try to answer direct questions honestly. NO i don't hate Germans (and yes, they lend us a load of money which we pissed up the wall instead of using it to drag our country into the 21th century - if you visit Greece you would be convinced that we are not so retarded to be living in the 19th century).
I guess that's just as believable as the rest of the scenario.
O.K., the "zombie apocalypse" thing is not so believable... but some other parts of my scenario come from personal experience! Don't ask... conscript military service!
I am not in the field (as you are from what i understand), so i can not name products: a (custom) ERP (SAP based i think) that is used from small-medium businesses in Greece, some internal public sector's (health/tax) services that went "on the cloud", etc.
If it's a custom ERP then why did the customer have the vendor move it to the cloud if they didn't want to? The whole point of custom software is that it is customized for the customer and does exactly what they want it to do.
Greece is a small market, where: a) small-medium businesses are in the mercy of the few software businesses that customize the ERP of my example and provide the IT services in bulk b) the public sector (the biggest IT services consumer by far) has an (not so bad) internal office that develops services/software, but usually force it's "customers" (other public sector branches AND some private sector businesses, e.g., pharmacies, accountants, who cooperate with the public sector) to what it thinks it is right instead of asking them what they need/want.
I am not making much sense because i don't really know the subject (!)... at all (especially about the "cloud" issue)! But generally, as a former (non software) business owner, that was very dependent on IT, i can say that changing -some major or even minor parts of- your enterprise infrastructure is really problematic.
You shouldn't have to change your IT infrastructure in any significant way just to run a different (alternative) program.
The IT services of my (non-IT related) business (years ago, so no "cloud" issues) was in the control of a Greek IT business - that was my decision, but it was the only cost effective and realistic (because i started from zero, and at the beggining it was convenient). Changing some things was theoretically possible if i asked but... i was actually in the mercy of them. I understand their point of view (especially since now i am in the software developing shit...), so i don't complain, i just describe the situation, that it gets worse if you are in a small market like Greece is.
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Surely it is in Greece!
I start to like you - why don't you sign up for a Slashdot account? You already have one? Well, use it!
Most of my family (i been there only as a baby) left Germany and returned in Greece (now i have only few cousins living there, married to German wifes). I am originaly from northern-eastern Greece (you know, where almost all, or their families, were in Germany!), living the last few decades in Athens (you know, where almost all, or their families, are originaly from some other part of Greece!), feeling like an immigrant with nostalgia for his home! O.K., my case is not so bad as yours (and i believe/hope yours is not as bad as the older's were), but i feel you patrioti...
In Greece we have a saying: "you must be very careful where your put your dick and your sign" - READ THE FUCKING EULA!
To receive it, you have to spend at least one night in the manor!
Dude... i don't know if you mean what i think that you mean,,, but i am Greek... i don't know what you think about us Greeks (don't believe the barbarous lies), but i will decline the offer... blame your pseudonym!
It would be like you expecting every supermarket in Europe to sell milk for the same price! "It's all milk! I should be able to buy milk for 2 Euros in Germany or 2 Euros in Greece!"
This "milk thing" is one of the most used argument in Greece (maybe in the opposite way of what you may expect). Cows need the northern climate to produce milk economically, i.e., Germany's cow milk will alway be cheaper than Greece's. In Greece many use this specific product to argue that milk is very expensive in comparison to Germany, so... EU is bad for Greece! Not to mention that we do "tricks" (e.g., what is defined as "fresh milk", or "long preserved") that makes importing milk from Germany impossible, just to "protect" our cow milk producers (in the same time we want our products to freely move inside EU... o.k., it's not only us Greeks that play this "game", but still it makes me angry that we don't respect the rules of a common market.)
Why Was Linux the Kernel That Succeeded?
Linux is (just) "A" successful kernel - NOT "THE", NOT EVEN THE "MOST" (NOT EVEN AMONG THE "OPEN" KERNELS). Excluding the most successful kernel (i.e., Microsoft's), and among only open-source kernels, the most successful (open-source) kernel is... BSD!
Thank you, i will go now to some "/." story and make fun of APPLE's fans who think that their glorious shit come straight from Steve's (R.I.P.) pure ass.
Where's my $5K?
On Mars.
South Park mocking Apple
I once read something wise: "To do something right, you often have to roll up your sleeves and get busy"!
Thank you Sir, let that be a lesson to every one: READ THE FUCKING EULA.
I remember a south park episode like this and the human caterpillar...
YOU NEED TO READ THE EULA. apple will do crazy stuff to you if you don't...
The episode where APPLE forced people in some anal stuff? (hey, don't go crazy now, i am not a bigot, i just READ THE EULA)
The European Union is firstly and above other things a common market - we, Europeans of the Union, agreed to that before any other type of unification (other types -e.g. monetary- which not all members of the union accept yet, and may never accept). While EU is very problematic for many reasons (not only economical... as many would think i mean because i am a Greek!), its common market concept is the least problematic (and the least negative in the eyes of its citizens). Geo-blocking inside EU is against the common market concept, so it is good that we will get rid of it. But is that means that we Greeks could watch some great football matches from England, Spain, Germany, Italy, etc? I highly doubt that nationall content providers among the EU members will agree so easily to provide their valuable products (e.g., football) to every member. Because if it is only for stupid things like Eurovision... well, we get that already, we commentary in Greek (so no need for any barbarian).
According to that logic then all of your web browsing is open to police capture without a warrant.
Yes... BUT it's not the same with what i wrote about the phone's case, so you can not compare the cases directly. Your web browsing is not open to police but its history logs -if it's on someones else servers- is (which in the case of web browsing -but not of phone' communication history logs- is usually -i.e., if you don't exchange personal data other than the connection related- essentially the communication itself).
Everything you download is captured in logs on a web server somewhere so you are saying it's fine for the police to look at them, no warrant required?
When the communication history logs or -even any actual communication (i.e., your personal data)- it is in someone's else server then it is not yours, it's theirs. This should be common knowledge now, and actualy this decision was made based on similar reasoning (i.e., it is common knowledge, so no expectation of privacy).
The justices ruled that there is no expectation of privacy for your location when you're using a cell phone. One of the judges wrote: We find no reason to conclude that cellphone users lack facts about the functions of cell towers or about telephone providers' recording cell tower usage.
A right and well justified decision, since it's not about the privacy of the communication but about the location records, in the same way a witness can testify that a suspect was in some location - and no warrant is needed because a court can order a witness to testify.
Awesome! So what is the PM of Singapore like?
Ha! O.K., i am not gonna lie to you no more... i never met the guy! BUT: as a conscript, many times i had to share a tent with either a guy that wanted me to stay awake with him and play stupid games or some other who just wanted to sleeep! If a had an option, i choosed wise!
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Thanks, you are right (i am struggling with my English - see my signature).
Kudos for spotting the gag, though.
Kudos for being a grammar NaZi... the world always needs more!
Still, having a tax authority runs at a loss is an, ummm, "impressive" feat.
In the last fiscal year we had a surplus - that is impressive for Greece!
Of course its employees make quite a healthy profit...
Bad old habits, acquired from almost 4 centuries of having the Ottoman filth in our proximity - as we say in Greece, a decade of occupation from NaZi Germany would have help us forget the Ottoman way of doing things.
Yes, you are right, adjusting the swappiness level is a much better way (with the swapoff/swapon command also - and "/etc/fstab" for persistence) - i choose to not have any swap partition (on my desktop machine), but that is only because i know what swap is and how to get it back if i need to. And you are also right about the "servery defaults". Well, we just need some more UNIX education for the LINUX masses!
disabling swap (a dying craft i am afraid...)
If only Linux installers would get with the times and default to no swap partition when at least 4GB of RAM is present.
Then we could put that nasty "swap" business behind us entirely.
I choose to not have any swap in my (8GB) desktop, but i understand that it is needed in some cases, and better be safe than sorry, so, we (you and me, who know what swap is and how/when to use it) should not blame the "Linux installers" who need to care about all those UNIX "illiterates" (that are the majority of current users i believe) - i am not so sure about this "default to no swap partition when at least 4GB of RAM is present" (because i don't trust all those UNIX "illiterates"), but some advice/explanation when installing would be nice.
https://xkcd.com/1504/
Now go post it here: http://science.slashdot.org/st...
It landed on Mars with the goal of surviving 90 sols (Martian days), and it has just logged its 4,000th
Good job soldier - and NASA engineers.
with low-memory systems (lots of the current models have just 2GB, which brings many Linux distros to a disk-swapping crawl)
If you consider ("just"!?) 2GB as "low-memory" (!) then i think you are already in the wrong path for your "repurposing" quest, but anyway: the "disk-swapping crawl" is easily solved by disabling swap - swap is not needed so much for your use case (as you describe it, and as i understand it), and disabling swap (a dying craft i am afraid...) has a long tradition in the "repurposing" art!
You can do it either using the "swapoff/swapon" commands (more permanently in something like the "/etc/fstab"), or even by not having a swap partition.
Oh really now? Have you seen how he raised the debt while at the same time taking measures that cripppled the social nature of the government?
http://www.google.gr/publicdata/explore?ds=ds22a34krhq5p_&met_y=gd_pc_gdp&idim=country:el:de:it&hl=en&dl=en
The data you provide are up to fiscal year 2013, and most important it is about debt (he managed to balance the books and have surplus from which our debt will be payed back) - the "social nature" of the government is our problem... that created the debt, that creates the current social problems!
The feeling is unlikely to be mutual.
Depends on the section of Europe. France has long been leery of Muslims, and the UK is starting to move in that direction as well.
I just want to add that some Greeks were under the Muslim's rule until recently - we still have many Greeks alive that remember well what it means to be a Christian in a Muslim state. This is not an opinion (i expressed my opinion about Muslims in some other comment in this thread), it is just a fact. Also i would like to inform that i grow up in a place where the majority were Muslims!
The Germans taught that to the Greeks when they forcefully took a loan from a conquered Greece during WW2, then spent the money and refused to repay when the war was over.
Hmmm... i am surprised that you know that...
Not that we fucking Greeks deserve any excuse for our other stupid behaviors, but yes, you are right, what you wrote is true (by the way: Hitler, until he was defeated, payed some of the money back!!! His successors in the goverment of the German (west, east, or unified now) state... no!)
Maybe the Germans, for lending them a load of money which they pissed up the wall instead of using it to drag their country into the 20th century.
You could ask me directly fellow Slashdoter, i try to answer direct questions honestly. NO i don't hate Germans (and yes, they lend us a load of money which we pissed up the wall instead of using it to drag our country into the 21th century - if you visit Greece you would be convinced that we are not so retarded to be living in the 19th century).
I guess that's just as believable as the rest of the scenario.
O.K., the "zombie apocalypse" thing is not so believable... but some other parts of my scenario come from personal experience! Don't ask... conscript military service!
I am not in the field (as you are from what i understand), so i can not name products: a (custom) ERP (SAP based i think) that is used from small-medium businesses in Greece, some internal public sector's (health/tax) services that went "on the cloud", etc.
If it's a custom ERP then why did the customer have the vendor move it to the cloud if they didn't want to? The whole point of custom software is that it is customized for the customer and does exactly what they want it to do.
Greece is a small market, where: a) small-medium businesses are in the mercy of the few software businesses that customize the ERP of my example and provide the IT services in bulk b) the public sector (the biggest IT services consumer by far) has an (not so bad) internal office that develops services/software, but usually force it's "customers" (other public sector branches AND some private sector businesses, e.g., pharmacies, accountants, who cooperate with the public sector) to what it thinks it is right instead of asking them what they need/want.
I am not making much sense because i don't really know the subject (!)... at all (especially about the "cloud" issue)! But generally, as a former (non software) business owner, that was very dependent on IT, i can say that changing -some major or even minor parts of- your enterprise infrastructure is really problematic.
You shouldn't have to change your IT infrastructure in any significant way just to run a different (alternative) program.
The IT services of my (non-IT related) business (years ago, so no "cloud" issues) was in the control of a Greek IT business - that was my decision, but it was the only cost effective and realistic (because i started from zero, and at the beggining it was convenient). Changing some things was theoretically possible if i asked but... i was actually in the mercy of them. I understand their point of view (especially since now i am in the software developing shit...), so i don't complain, i just describe the situation, that it gets worse if you are in a small market like Greece is.