Yes, and you use these wind turbines by buying German coal and Swedish water and nuclear power when the wind doesn't blow. So you are in no way self reliant - you have outsourced our energy problems to you neighbors.
What you are describing is a typical niche market. Actually, scanners are becoming a niche market and you describe an extremely specialized application of scanners. 99,99% of the scanners sold doesn't have this problem that you face - for these "normal" scanners a USB2 port is enough and the USB3 will be overkill.
But that isn't true. Cars today are much more efficient and better than they were 100 years ago. They don't evolve as fast as computer but they have evolved. And cars evolved FAST the first years they existed - computers are still a young.
Besides, it is wrong to say that nothing will evolve just because they haven't evolved for years. Take ships as an example - there wasn't much development in ships between the 15th century and the 18th century. Then the steam engine came and changed everything during the 19th century.
You Americans are obsessed with guns. Observe Egypt - they just had a revolution. Without guns being used..... Guns don't help revolutions. You don't need your guns - but that is beyond the average Americans grasp since he/she have been told since childhood that "guns is good".
The nucelar lobby here in my country, which sadly dominates the press and almost controls the energy politics, wants it to be classified as a level 7 and claims that Japan lies. How can they know that from the other side of the globe? The journalists doesn't ask since they are all lobbyists for the environmentalists.
Could you Americans please stop trying to force us other in the world to accept your fascist corporations wishes? Please continue to live in your corporate govern country that you believe is the worlds greatest democracy but STOP trying to force us other to obey your corporate overlords.
Sadly the Pirate Bay case proves that this doesn't hold true in Sweden any more. Apparently you can loose a trial just because important Americans think you should, no matter what the law says.
And if haven't been for English we couldn't have had this discussion since we have about 23 languages only in the EU. I don't understand Hungarian and you probably don't understand Swedish and they are not even related (Hungarian being one of these odd Finnish-Hungarian languages) so we wouldn't be able to communicate.
Anyone who think English grammatic is hard should try German grammatic - that is much harder. I also guess that English speakers would find Swedish and other German language grammatic hard to understand as well.
One important thing with English is that it is easy to understand. It is harder to speak and write correctly (I am not a native speaker so I have several grammatic problems) but it is very easy to read and also listen to (if not spoken with a very bad dialect).
You are also very exposed to English. The American cultural influence is very strong. You hear English in music lyrics, movies and on TV every day.
But to English's defense so isn't this really comparable. First, Latin wasn't really a big language in other than the Latin countries - mostly the Church used it in other countries. And most priest spoke very bad Latin. Other Latin speakers where the aristocracy and diplomats.
Then came French. But French was almost only spoken by the aristocracy and diplomats. So it was never common for an European to know French. Most spoke one language - their own.
The difference is that almost all citizen in Europe have learned English after WWII. That makes it harder to "replace" English. It is much easier to change a small privileged class like diplomats and aristocrats to use a new language - it is something completely different to try to make a couple of hundred million ordinary citizens to learn a new second language. For most off us that would mean learning a third or perhaps even fourth language, something that most ordinary citizens don't have time to do. Also, it isn't so easy to learn a new language when you are older than about 12 years so changing second language is something that is done over generations more than a couple off years - my grandmothers generation does for instance speak German instead of English as second language.
I have a feeling that Esperanto is easier to learn for people that have a Latin language as a base, like Spanish, French or English. The grammar seam to correspond mostly to these languages so how easy is it to learn if you speak a German language as primary language?
I would like to point out something - the Swedish laws against rape is extremely broad. Actually, it is so formulated that some of the most prominent lawyers in Sweden say that to be absolutely sure to NOT be accused of rape in Sweden, you would almost need to make a written contract before you start and record it (with written permission off course). That is course a bit extreme but it is probably the only way to be sure to not end up in court. My guess is that famous layers don't have much sex.
Please. If you think Europe is scared off the current Russia, please think again. We are actually getting along better and better with Russia.
I would also like to point out that we have defended ourself against the Russians for over thousand years and they still haven't defeated us. Currently we don't have anything to fight with them about - the Russians is ALSO more afraid of the Chinese than any other country. Russia needs Europe as friends and we Europeans wants to be friend with them. No, we know how to handle Russia without you. It was Sovjetunion we had trouble with.
Some of us watch DVDs using these optical drives you know... It is especially nice if you is on a business trip and want to see a movie - you only need to go down to the gas station and rent it and it will fit right into your laptop. So until we have another way of renting movies (and preferable not over Internet since that would be slow when you connect from hotels or with a 3g modem) I would like to keep the DVD drive.
Which is a bad way to spread an new interface. You want an interface to become widespread and used by everyone - making it exclusive for Apple is counter productive even if it is only for a limited time.
Remember the USB launch? USB didn't took off until PCs and Windows supported it - there was quite few USB devices made before when Apple was the only one delivering USB equipped computers and then it almost exploded when Windows 98 was launched with USB support. Now I am sure some Mac zealot is going to dig up one hundred USB devices that existed before PCs got USB ports but I am not saying that USB devices didn't exist - I am saying that there was no mass market like became later.
I am not saying they won't appear. I am saying that most won't appear until Apples exclusive right is over. Having "exclusive right" off an interface is only stupid - you want an interface to be as widespread as possible so as many uses it as possible to get as many devices to use it as possibly. Exclusive is the opposite of that.
Yeah, and as long as they are the only one rolling out the Lightpeak because they are the only one allowed, there will be almost no devices made to plug into the interface... an interface without anything to plug in isn't much to brag about.
Lightpeak "will reportedly be an Apple exclusive at first." Sounds like a very good idea - making an interface exclusive for a manufacture which makes less than 10% of the computers. That will off course make the third party appliance makers go wild and support this interface instead of USB3 which can be used with the other 90% of the computers... really a great idea. It will sure be funny for the Apple users to brag about their new Lightpeak connections when they have almost nothing to plug into them and all other poor users will envy them.
There is only one more court to appeal to and that is the Swedish Supreme Court. That court only tries special cases that is of importance so it isn't sure that they will try this case.
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What about communistic terrorist then?
The popularity.
Yes, and you use these wind turbines by buying German coal and Swedish water and nuclear power when the wind doesn't blow. So you are in no way self reliant - you have outsourced our energy problems to you neighbors.
What you are describing is a typical niche market. Actually, scanners are becoming a niche market and you describe an extremely specialized application of scanners. 99,99% of the scanners sold doesn't have this problem that you face - for these "normal" scanners a USB2 port is enough and the USB3 will be overkill.
But that isn't true.
Cars today are much more efficient and better than they were 100 years ago. They don't evolve as fast as computer but they have evolved. And cars evolved FAST the first years they existed - computers are still a young.
Besides, it is wrong to say that nothing will evolve just because they haven't evolved for years. Take ships as an example - there wasn't much development in ships between the 15th century and the 18th century. Then the steam engine came and changed everything during the 19th century.
You Americans are obsessed with guns.
Observe Egypt - they just had a revolution. Without guns being used.....
Guns don't help revolutions. You don't need your guns - but that is beyond the average Americans grasp since he/she have been told since childhood that "guns is good".
The nucelar lobby here in my country, which sadly dominates the press and almost controls the energy politics, wants it to be classified as a level 7 and claims that Japan lies. How can they know that from the other side of the globe? The journalists doesn't ask since they are all lobbyists for the environmentalists.
The people in Europe is against it but I can promise you that the so called "leaders" in EU will be in favor off this new ACTA.
Could you Americans please stop trying to force us other in the world to accept your fascist corporations wishes?
Please continue to live in your corporate govern country that you believe is the worlds greatest democracy but STOP trying to force us other to obey your corporate overlords.
Thanks.
Sadly the Pirate Bay case proves that this doesn't hold true in Sweden any more. Apparently you can loose a trial just because important Americans think you should, no matter what the law says.
So what you are telling us are that we should choose H.264 because they will sue you if you don't?
Sounds like extortion to me.
Perhaps it is time for a new revolution and a new republic?
And if haven't been for English we couldn't have had this discussion since we have about 23 languages only in the EU.
I don't understand Hungarian and you probably don't understand Swedish and they are not even related (Hungarian being one of these odd Finnish-Hungarian languages) so we wouldn't be able to communicate.
Anyone who think English grammatic is hard should try German grammatic - that is much harder.
I also guess that English speakers would find Swedish and other German language grammatic hard to understand as well.
One important thing with English is that it is easy to understand. It is harder to speak and write correctly (I am not a native speaker so I have several grammatic problems) but it is very easy to read and also listen to (if not spoken with a very bad dialect).
You are also very exposed to English. The American cultural influence is very strong. You hear English in music lyrics, movies and on TV every day.
But to English's defense so isn't this really comparable.
First, Latin wasn't really a big language in other than the Latin countries - mostly the Church used it in other countries. And most priest spoke very bad Latin. Other Latin speakers where the aristocracy and diplomats.
Then came French. But French was almost only spoken by the aristocracy and diplomats. So it was never common for an European to know French. Most spoke one language - their own.
The difference is that almost all citizen in Europe have learned English after WWII. That makes it harder to "replace" English. It is much easier to change a small privileged class like diplomats and aristocrats to use a new language - it is something completely different to try to make a couple of hundred million ordinary citizens to learn a new second language. For most off us that would mean learning a third or perhaps even fourth language, something that most ordinary citizens don't have time to do. Also, it isn't so easy to learn a new language when you are older than about 12 years so changing second language is something that is done over generations more than a couple off years - my grandmothers generation does for instance speak German instead of English as second language.
I have a feeling that Esperanto is easier to learn for people that have a Latin language as a base, like Spanish, French or English. The grammar seam to correspond mostly to these languages so how easy is it to learn if you speak a German language as primary language?
I would like to point out something - the Swedish laws against rape is extremely broad.
Actually, it is so formulated that some of the most prominent lawyers in Sweden say that to be absolutely sure to NOT be accused of rape in Sweden, you would almost need to make a written contract before you start and record it (with written permission off course).
That is course a bit extreme but it is probably the only way to be sure to not end up in court. My guess is that famous layers don't have much sex.
Please.
If you think Europe is scared off the current Russia, please think again.
We are actually getting along better and better with Russia.
I would also like to point out that we have defended ourself against the Russians for over thousand years and they still haven't defeated us. Currently we don't have anything to fight with them about - the Russians is ALSO more afraid of the Chinese than any other country. Russia needs Europe as friends and we Europeans wants to be friend with them. No, we know how to handle Russia without you. It was Sovjetunion we had trouble with.
Some of us watch DVDs using these optical drives you know...
It is especially nice if you is on a business trip and want to see a movie - you only need to go down to the gas station and rent it and it will fit right into your laptop. So until we have another way of renting movies (and preferable not over Internet since that would be slow when you connect from hotels or with a 3g modem) I would like to keep the DVD drive.
Which is a bad way to spread an new interface.
You want an interface to become widespread and used by everyone - making it exclusive for Apple is counter productive even if it is only for a limited time.
Remember the USB launch? USB didn't took off until PCs and Windows supported it - there was quite few USB devices made before when Apple was the only one delivering USB equipped computers and then it almost exploded when Windows 98 was launched with USB support. Now I am sure some Mac zealot is going to dig up one hundred USB devices that existed before PCs got USB ports but I am not saying that USB devices didn't exist - I am saying that there was no mass market like became later.
I am not saying they won't appear.
I am saying that most won't appear until Apples exclusive right is over.
Having "exclusive right" off an interface is only stupid - you want an interface to be as widespread as possible so as many uses it as possible to get as many devices to use it as possibly.
Exclusive is the opposite of that.
I see. If you don't applaud Apples decisions, you are a troll?
Yeah, and as long as they are the only one rolling out the Lightpeak because they are the only one allowed, there will be almost no devices made to plug into the interface... an interface without anything to plug in isn't much to brag about.
Lightpeak "will reportedly be an Apple exclusive at first."
Sounds like a very good idea - making an interface exclusive for a manufacture which makes less than 10% of the computers. That will off course make the third party appliance makers go wild and support this interface instead of USB3 which can be used with the other 90% of the computers... really a great idea.
It will sure be funny for the Apple users to brag about their new Lightpeak connections when they have almost nothing to plug into them and all other poor users will envy them.
There is only one more court to appeal to and that is the Swedish Supreme Court. That court only tries special cases that is of importance so it isn't sure that they will try this case.