I do use ext3. One reason is that I dualboot WinXP for gaming and I want to be able to access my files from both systems (and for obvious reasons I won't use FAT32 on my data partition).
Also, when I started playing with Linux I put SuSE 9.0 on an old computer, using ReiserFS for everything. It turned out that the hard drive developed bad sectos which quickly took out much of the data. That has caused me to perceive Reiser as somewhat risky - the data dies much more quickly than with other FSes. Of course it could've been due to blocks belonging to the metadata tree failing.
This does interest me (also because I'm currently cursed with a flaky HDD controller): Which FSes are the most resilient to damage? I'm not talking to a power outage interrupting some transaction, I'm talking about the HDD controller creating random bit errors or the hard drive itself developing bad sectors. It's nice if BlahFS is up to ten times faster than ext3 but if it gives me the safety of striped RAID I'm not going to like it...
It has lots of syntactic sugar and the ability to hack together a quick and dirty app in little time. Like VB is great for rapid prototyping and the creation of small utility apps where C++ would be overkill PHP is great for rapid prototyping and quick and/or temporary scripts.
PHP is no [insert your favourite script language here], but like VB it does have its place. It could use a major overhaul, but the concept makes sense. (Also, PHP makes for a somewhat useful generic preprocessor. Not the prettiest solution but it does work.)
That site wins the Grand Jesus_666 Prize for Most Useless Fusion Since The 5.1-Bladed Razor. Congratulations.
By the way, that site is good for you. It makes you avert your eyes from the screen in disgust, thus giving them a break from staring at it for hours. Thus it belongs in the same category of ergonomic goodness as Goatse.
I guess the obvious question is, is it ok to criticize Stallman posting naked pictures of himself? After all, he's not "a girl."
Maybe he wants to be one and all the time we just misheard him. I mean, there's not much of a difference between "Free Software" and "I want to be a girl and post naked pictures of myself on a message board". Just a few syllables, really.
GCJ is now bringing a lot more to the table than just cloning the Sun stuff. Sun would never do native executables because it doesn't fit into their 'vision.' The JVM and Write Once Debug Everywhere has no real place in the Free Software world.
Except for those projects who don't want to fight with managing target platforms. Unlike most C++ libraries Java runs somewhat decently everywhere. No working around OS-specific compiler quirks, GTK not using Aqua on MacOS or Windows not supporting half of the libraries the other platforms depend on.
In the Free world portability comes from automake/autoconf and doesn't need to pay the emulation overhead of a virtual machine or any of the other problems. Problems like each major Java app tending to bring along an entire JVM and set of libraries to solve compatibility issues.
You mean trying to learn M4 is in any way productive? Okay, there are alternatives (for example KDE made the move to the vastly superior CMake). Of course if you use, for example, libtdl, Boost and CMake you end up depending on three separate build systems when you really only need one. Much better than having a comprehensive class library from the start, yeah.
Note: I'm not a Java geek; in my opinion the language is far too verbose. However, if you want to support many architectures it is better than many other languages.
Hey, don't dis Orlandu (who'd only pass as a bishounen if Sean Connery passed as one), else T.G. Cid will lay waste to you, your town and your entire country. Dunno what he'll do with the rest of the afternoon, though.
(Once more I thank Squarenix for making FFT unlike most other FF games and I curse them for reversing this design decision with FFTA. Also, I pray to T.G. Cid because he could beat up JHWH and get away with it. Yay for the god-character!)
Phh. So one version of your anthem was slightly altered. I'm German and of the two anthems this country and the GDR had both suffered major text loss. Firstly the GDR's anthem was created by cutting off the first two stanzas of the Deutschlandlied because they were deemed too nationalistic*. Then, a bit into the 1970s the GDR decided that its anthem Auferstanden aus Ruinen should not be sung anymore because the line Deutschland einig Vaterland implied that there was one German state, not two. So from the 70s to 1990 we had two anthems, one of which had the first two stanzas removed and the other one couldn't be sung at all.
In comparison, the English Canadian anthem is exceptionally stable.
* The first stanza begins with the line Deutschland, Deutschland über alles ("Germany, Germany above everything") and continues in a similar fashion. This was interpreted to mean that Germany was superior to every other country (which fit in with the Nazis' world view); however, the song was actually written in 1841 and was referring to the fact that the people of the various German countries wanted one united state instead of the various counties, kingdoms etc. that were making up what's now Germany, Austria and part of the surrounding countries.
The second stanze reveals that the song is actually a bit of a drinking song, praising German wine, loyalty, women and singing. It was probably deemed too non-boring to be used for an anthem.
However, inadequate coverage is still better than no coverage at all. I have no idea on how to turn wood into charcoal, but if I really had to it'd be much easier to figure it out if I had written instructions. Even if they won't give me the knowledge to make it right the first time they'd give me the knowledge to get it right in a dramatically shorter time than if I had to rely on trial and error.
Which makes the comparison between Netscape and Norton* a valid one. I mean, have you looked at NAV and NIS recently? With "recently" meaning "in the last five years"? Ugh. At least Netscape didn't eat the system tray or trash itself so hard that you couldn't access the NIC or repair/uninstall it even in Safe Mode.
Ugh. I had the time in my head but I remembered wrong on which side the ads are. That's what happens when you don't watch much TV anymore. (Oh the horror etc.)
By the way, there's still advertisement - or rather the occasional productt placement. I remember when Die PARTEI* sold the rights to massive product placement in one of their election ads on eBay and then took a jab at ARD and ZDF in that ad when the public broadcasters were outraged over a party using product placement in a spot while they were just being criticized for doing the same thing in one of their shows.
* The party for work, constitutional state, animal protection, advancement of elites and grassroots democratic initiative. The name was chosen so that the acronym would be "Die PARTEI", reminiscent of, well, The Party. Die PARTEI is a party created by editors of the satirical magazine "Titanic" and used to satirize larger parties. One of their long-term goals is to rebuild the Berlin Wall.
What a pity I'm no tax consultant, they rake in the cash big time.
Yes they do. My former neighbor was one.
By the way, the German tax system is the most complex one in the world. We really ought to get rid of some of the junk... But then again that's something our politicians would have to do and they're far too busy making sure that nobody gets to take a bottle of water onto an airplane and everyone in the EU has an easily fakable RFID chip in their passports...
Yes, but if my ISP won't allow me to connect to the television's website, then the problem wouldn't be on my side. It's the ISP who have blocked my access, and I therefore have no equipment that can receive the material. To receive the TV shows I have to get a new ISP.
Nope, doesn't work that way. You could change your equipment back into a working state (get a different ISP) or use some other workaround (use a proxy) to get to the content. As long as you have a computer capable of accessing the internet in any way you have to pay.
If we put it another way: I go to my friend's home and watch his TV, do I have to pay? I have, after all, the equipment (my friend) that is needed to see TV shows. It doesn't matter if he don't let me into his home - I still have to pay because it is possible for him to change his mind later. Right?
You don't own your friend. Also, your friend is not capable of receiving and displaying broadcasted TV and/or radio signals, his TV/radio is. Since it's not your TV/radio, you don't have to pay.
One common trick for students who live with their parents is to declare that the student's TV set actually belongs to the parents and they just decided to put it in the student's room. Thus the student doesn't pay and the parents don't either (provided htey already have an own TV set they're paying for). Having access to such equipment isn't enough to neccessitate paying the GEZ, you have to own it.
But is has less awful photoshops. I particularly disliked the ones with Apple execs as ugly snowmen, although the ubiquitous flame effect made every single one about as pleasant as a self-inflicted shotgun blast to the crotch.
Amazingly, TFA manages to be even more unprofessional than a Slashdot discussion about Microsoft.
The thing is, the public channels are supposed to show stuff the private ones won't - for example they have a much higher rate of documentaries and other educational/informative shows. They are there because the lawmakers don't trust the private channels to show anything other than mindless junk to appeal to the crowds. And, in that respect, they are right.
Of course that's still not an excuse for the ARD to waste perfectly good money on soccer licenses.
BTW, you are aware that the RTL Group doesn't receive a single dime from the GEZ?
- other commercial TV programmes (on a lower budget) are just the re-runs of cheap crap that we have here as well.
Note that some stations have exactly that purpose! For example, kabel eins (yes, the name is written in lower case) belongs to ProSiebenSat.1 (the corporation that also, unsurprisingly, runs ProSieben and Sat.1) and is mainly used as the retirement home for old ProSieben shows. It's the place to go if you want to see reruns of The X-Files, Taken or Married... with Children. They also tend to inherit Star Trek shows and movies from Sat.1.
Similarly, VOX the RTL Group's old show channel (Home Improvement (inherited from RTL II), The nanny (inherited from RTL)), although the amount of new content is much higher then it is with kabel eins.
German TV channels often have roles that aren't explicitly stated. For example, Sat.1 has traditionally been the Star Trek channel and new Trek series are aired there. ProSieben is the home of Matt Groening's work (well, The Simpsons and Futurama). RTL II has many SciFi series (Stargate (SG1|Atlantis), Andromeda, Lexx (inherited from VOX and discontinued after the second season)). It also tends to have the most anime series, not counting bullshit like Pokémon etc. Wait, it has them as well.
And, well, K1 is P7S1's retirement homev for old but popular series.
So now the question will be, can you end up in a situation, where you have to pay for access, because you can download a pirated version from some website, but even though the law requires you to pay for the content, you still don't have access to a legal version of said content?
Not in Germany. Here you pay for access because you have a PC and a way to connect said PC to the internet. Even if you never visit the public broadcasters' sites or even build a router which filters out requests to such sites in hardware you still have to pay. The fee is not for actually accessing anything, it's for owning the equipment to be able to do so.
Will the next big thing be an ISP which doesn't give access to the website's of the nations public TV and radio stations' websites?
No. That was already offered and it already has been tried with television. If you have equipment which can receive the stuff (even if you modified it to be unable to do so - it could be modified back) you have to pay, period.
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* Networking is ever so slightly different. (Go away, Winsock! :( )
There, fixed it for you..
I do use ext3. One reason is that I dualboot WinXP for gaming and I want to be able to access my files from both systems (and for obvious reasons I won't use FAT32 on my data partition).
Also, when I started playing with Linux I put SuSE 9.0 on an old computer, using ReiserFS for everything. It turned out that the hard drive developed bad sectos which quickly took out much of the data. That has caused me to perceive Reiser as somewhat risky - the data dies much more quickly than with other FSes. Of course it could've been due to blocks belonging to the metadata tree failing.
This does interest me (also because I'm currently cursed with a flaky HDD controller): Which FSes are the most resilient to damage? I'm not talking to a power outage interrupting some transaction, I'm talking about the HDD controller creating random bit errors or the hard drive itself developing bad sectors. It's nice if BlahFS is up to ten times faster than ext3 but if it gives me the safety of striped RAID I'm not going to like it...
It has lots of syntactic sugar and the ability to hack together a quick and dirty app in little time. Like VB is great for rapid prototyping and the creation of small utility apps where C++ would be overkill PHP is great for rapid prototyping and quick and/or temporary scripts.
PHP is no [insert your favourite script language here], but like VB it does have its place. It could use a major overhaul, but the concept makes sense. (Also, PHP makes for a somewhat useful generic preprocessor. Not the prettiest solution but it does work.)
The key is stored in the Darwin source in osfmk/arch/commpage/commpage.c, if I'm not mistaken. The source release of Darwin comes without it, though.
People with a green orb next to their user name, as opposed to Foes (red orb), Fans (blue orb) or Freaks (orange orb).
Some points, its to be hoped, could be earned in ways that don't involve you having more money that sense.
Well, we are talking about WoW players...
That site wins the Grand Jesus_666 Prize for Most Useless Fusion Since The 5.1-Bladed Razor. Congratulations.
By the way, that site is good for you. It makes you avert your eyes from the screen in disgust, thus giving them a break from staring at it for hours. Thus it belongs in the same category of ergonomic goodness as Goatse.
Hey, at least the GP talked about "When Stallmans Attack" and not "Stallman Gone Wild"... Not that's an image you don't want.
I guess the obvious question is, is it ok to criticize Stallman posting naked pictures of himself? After all, he's not "a girl."
Maybe he wants to be one and all the time we just misheard him. I mean, there's not much of a difference between "Free Software" and "I want to be a girl and post naked pictures of myself on a message board". Just a few syllables, really.
GCJ is now bringing a lot more to the table than just cloning the Sun stuff. Sun would never do native executables because it doesn't fit into their 'vision.' The JVM and Write Once Debug Everywhere has no real place in the Free Software world.
Except for those projects who don't want to fight with managing target platforms. Unlike most C++ libraries Java runs somewhat decently everywhere. No working around OS-specific compiler quirks, GTK not using Aqua on MacOS or Windows not supporting half of the libraries the other platforms depend on.
In the Free world portability comes from automake/autoconf and doesn't need to pay the emulation overhead of a virtual machine or any of the other problems. Problems like each major Java app tending to bring along an entire JVM and set of libraries to solve compatibility issues.
You mean trying to learn M4 is in any way productive? Okay, there are alternatives (for example KDE made the move to the vastly superior CMake). Of course if you use, for example, libtdl, Boost and CMake you end up depending on three separate build systems when you really only need one. Much better than having a comprehensive class library from the start, yeah.
Note: I'm not a Java geek; in my opinion the language is far too verbose. However, if you want to support many architectures it is better than many other languages.
Hey, don't dis Orlandu (who'd only pass as a bishounen if Sean Connery passed as one), else T.G. Cid will lay waste to you, your town and your entire country. Dunno what he'll do with the rest of the afternoon, though.
(Once more I thank Squarenix for making FFT unlike most other FF games and I curse them for reversing this design decision with FFTA. Also, I pray to T.G. Cid because he could beat up JHWH and get away with it. Yay for the god-character!)
Hey, I was looking forward to some hot elf ya-- er, I mean, body mass hurrah!
Phh. So one version of your anthem was slightly altered. I'm German and of the two anthems this country and the GDR had both suffered major text loss. Firstly the GDR's anthem was created by cutting off the first two stanzas of the Deutschlandlied because they were deemed too nationalistic*. Then, a bit into the 1970s the GDR decided that its anthem Auferstanden aus Ruinen should not be sung anymore because the line Deutschland einig Vaterland implied that there was one German state, not two. So from the 70s to 1990 we had two anthems, one of which had the first two stanzas removed and the other one couldn't be sung at all.
In comparison, the English Canadian anthem is exceptionally stable.
* The first stanza begins with the line Deutschland, Deutschland über alles ("Germany, Germany above everything") and continues in a similar fashion. This was interpreted to mean that Germany was superior to every other country (which fit in with the Nazis' world view); however, the song was actually written in 1841 and was referring to the fact that the people of the various German countries wanted one united state instead of the various counties, kingdoms etc. that were making up what's now Germany, Austria and part of the surrounding countries.
The second stanze reveals that the song is actually a bit of a drinking song, praising German wine, loyalty, women and singing. It was probably deemed too non-boring to be used for an anthem.
However, inadequate coverage is still better than no coverage at all. I have no idea on how to turn wood into charcoal, but if I really had to it'd be much easier to figure it out if I had written instructions. Even if they won't give me the knowledge to make it right the first time they'd give me the knowledge to get it right in a dramatically shorter time than if I had to rely on trial and error.
Which makes the comparison between Netscape and Norton* a valid one. I mean, have you looked at NAV and NIS recently? With "recently" meaning "in the last five years"? Ugh. At least Netscape didn't eat the system tray or trash itself so hard that you couldn't access the NIC or repair/uninstall it even in Safe Mode.
It's "copywryde".
Ugh. I had the time in my head but I remembered wrong on which side the ads are. That's what happens when you don't watch much TV anymore. (Oh the horror etc.)
By the way, there's still advertisement - or rather the occasional productt placement. I remember when Die PARTEI* sold the rights to massive product placement in one of their election ads on eBay and then took a jab at ARD and ZDF in that ad when the public broadcasters were outraged over a party using product placement in a spot while they were just being criticized for doing the same thing in one of their shows.
* The party for work, constitutional state, animal protection, advancement of elites and grassroots democratic initiative. The name was chosen so that the acronym would be "Die PARTEI", reminiscent of, well, The Party. Die PARTEI is a party created by editors of the satirical magazine "Titanic" and used to satirize larger parties. One of their long-term goals is to rebuild the Berlin Wall.
What a pity I'm no tax consultant, they rake in the cash big time.
Yes they do. My former neighbor was one.
By the way, the German tax system is the most complex one in the world. We really ought to get rid of some of the junk... But then again that's something our politicians would have to do and they're far too busy making sure that nobody gets to take a bottle of water onto an airplane and everyone in the EU has an easily fakable RFID chip in their passports...
Yes, but if my ISP won't allow me to connect to the television's website, then the problem wouldn't be on my side. It's the ISP who have blocked my access, and I therefore have no equipment that can receive the material. To receive the TV shows I have to get a new ISP.
Nope, doesn't work that way. You could change your equipment back into a working state (get a different ISP) or use some other workaround (use a proxy) to get to the content. As long as you have a computer capable of accessing the internet in any way you have to pay.
If we put it another way: I go to my friend's home and watch his TV, do I have to pay? I have, after all, the equipment (my friend) that is needed to see TV shows. It doesn't matter if he don't let me into his home - I still have to pay because it is possible for him to change his mind later. Right?
You don't own your friend. Also, your friend is not capable of receiving and displaying broadcasted TV and/or radio signals, his TV/radio is. Since it's not your TV/radio, you don't have to pay.
One common trick for students who live with their parents is to declare that the student's TV set actually belongs to the parents and they just decided to put it in the student's room. Thus the student doesn't pay and the parents don't either (provided htey already have an own TV set they're paying for). Having access to such equipment isn't enough to neccessitate paying the GEZ, you have to own it.
I stand corrected.
But is has less awful photoshops. I particularly disliked the ones with Apple execs as ugly snowmen, although the ubiquitous flame effect made every single one about as pleasant as a self-inflicted shotgun blast to the crotch.
Amazingly, TFA manages to be even more unprofessional than a Slashdot discussion about Microsoft.
The thing is, the public channels are supposed to show stuff the private ones won't - for example they have a much higher rate of documentaries and other educational/informative shows. They are there because the lawmakers don't trust the private channels to show anything other than mindless junk to appeal to the crowds. And, in that respect, they are right.
Of course that's still not an excuse for the ARD to waste perfectly good money on soccer licenses.
BTW, you are aware that the RTL Group doesn't receive a single dime from the GEZ?
- other commercial TV programmes (on a lower budget) are just the re-runs of cheap crap that we have here as well.
Note that some stations have exactly that purpose! For example, kabel eins (yes, the name is written in lower case) belongs to ProSiebenSat.1 (the corporation that also, unsurprisingly, runs ProSieben and Sat.1) and is mainly used as the retirement home for old ProSieben shows. It's the place to go if you want to see reruns of The X-Files, Taken or Married... with Children. They also tend to inherit Star Trek shows and movies from Sat.1.
Similarly, VOX the RTL Group's old show channel (Home Improvement (inherited from RTL II), The nanny (inherited from RTL)), although the amount of new content is much higher then it is with kabel eins.
German TV channels often have roles that aren't explicitly stated. For example, Sat.1 has traditionally been the Star Trek channel and new Trek series are aired there. ProSieben is the home of Matt Groening's work (well, The Simpsons and Futurama). RTL II has many SciFi series (Stargate (SG1|Atlantis), Andromeda, Lexx (inherited from VOX and discontinued after the second season)). It also tends to have the most anime series, not counting bullshit like Pokémon etc. Wait, it has them as well.
And, well, K1 is P7S1's retirement homev for old but popular series.
So now the question will be, can you end up in a situation, where you have to pay for access, because you can download a pirated version from some website, but even though the law requires you to pay for the content, you still don't have access to a legal version of said content?
Not in Germany. Here you pay for access because you have a PC and a way to connect said PC to the internet. Even if you never visit the public broadcasters' sites or even build a router which filters out requests to such sites in hardware you still have to pay. The fee is not for actually accessing anything, it's for owning the equipment to be able to do so.
Will the next big thing be an ISP which doesn't give access to the website's of the nations public TV and radio stations' websites?
No. That was already offered and it already has been tried with television. If you have equipment which can receive the stuff (even if you modified it to be unable to do so - it could be modified back) you have to pay, period.