In Germany there are several weekly newspapers with in-depth news. "Die Welt" and "Die Zeit" I buy them every now and then actually like that concept a lot, since they won't have the one-paragraph news flashes that I read on the internet anyway, but they do have a lot of longer articles about current situations. This one newspaper gives me enough to read for a week, and it's conceived in such a way that it's not outdated when I read it a week later. In contrast, some months ago I got a free yearly subscription on "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" because of some online job site. This would normally cost about 600 euros I guess, and give me a >20-page newspaper every day. I just never got to read most of each paper, ended up with a lot of old paper, and found many articles about financial situations that were just slightly different from the news a day before. So, for me, a nice weekly 'old'-news newspaper anytime.
I am reading/typing from the train at this very moment. Since this week, I have a 40 minute train trip in my commute, and I found that it is very useful for relaxing internet stuff like slashdot. About 50% of the trip I have umts, 25% it falls down to gprs, and the rest is unfortunately without signal, but since it is at the same spot every day I can just preload some pages I want to read during that time. Currently using a linux netbook, it takes 1-2 minutes between boot and until the usb umts stick is started. I am therefore considering the android, though I am not sure if the screen will be practical enough.
For my overall 50km trip in a densely populated part of germany, I spend as much on public transport as I would on just the gas for the car. Due to traffic jams in this area even the time needed from a to b is almost equal.
I agree, the difference between the functionality of a computer OS and a smartphone OS is steadily decreasing, and at a point in the near future will be gone completely, so it makes a lot of sense to include all of them in the same chart.
There is no corrugation on the nokia screen, it just clicks. So no, they're not doing it better. The airpump system is probably not the best solution, but at least the effect of individual buttons is there.
I hate the guts out of myspace and facebook. Seriously. There is no content. For example, I search for a new 'hip' band, so they only have a myspace page. Now, try to find the band biography or past tourdates. You won't find it. Instead, you will see a list of pictures of 'friends' of the band, about whom you couldn't care less. In that respect, Geocities actuallý was better, because at least you had a chance (even if it was small) of finding useful information there.
same story here: I had a pentium 133 with 172 mb of ram running linux with a sleek windowmanager (Windowmaker / blackbox) up to about 2001, it became less usable due to more video and flash content online. All the rest it did perfectly well. Then I bought a Via Cyrix 666 mhz, with 512 mb of ram, due to a crappy on board videocard it still had problems with video content, although watching tv was still possible. I used that up to last year, where finally cheap netbooks became available that were of high quality. Because I only bought SSD netbooks (no swap!), I had to increase the RAM to the maximum of 2 GB, but that was a 17 euro investment.
And there is exactly the point: It's about the "good" in "good enough", and about the investment you need to make to get there. Up to 2008 it was impossible to buy a 300 euro laptop, I looked. There were 450 euro laptops, but those were a bunch of crap, weak battery, crappy screen, etc. The netbook and nettops revolutionized the quality-per-price ratio of the computer market.
I'm not sure about the platform choice though. One company controls the hardware and software. There are no alternatives in either category that allow you to benefit from prior investments- replacing the hardware or OS requires junking everything you already have.
sounds like the average military/government spec to me.
and... you'll have to install the keyring package all of a sudden, find the corresponding key, add the backports to the repository before updating and installing, and comment out the backports entry in the sources.list afterwards to avoid unexpected updates with unknown consequences. This is just doable, but far from trivial at the moment. There's a lot of streamlining and automated conflict checking to be done there.
Put otherwise: eReader can decide to do this as they wish. But they shouldn't be surprised if the inconvenience they give me make me take my money somewhere else.
In europe you pay 20 eurocent per kWh at least. This is only going to go up in time. Cost per windmill-kWh will go down due to higher efficiency of future models and longer lifespan. This will converge eventually.
Yes, there was a time that every town larger than three barns and a shed had their own streetcar. This was of course not sustainable. But, looking at europe, in most towns larger than 200.000 inhabitants the streetcar was viable enough to remain until this date. I wouldn't be surprised if GM bought exactly that 10% of the streetcar companies where the chance of being successful was highest.
Indeed, often I get documents where there is a signature of someone else, like the secretary, just saying "in assignment of". If the document is really important you could always have it hand-signed later on.
there's a difference between delegating part of your work for part of the profit or delegating part of your work for all of the profit. The second one is called being ripped off. It's morally fraud and you know it.
Germany is a pretty car-obsessed country but even here the fast trains have a nicely working system. One could say that there are many things wrong with it: tickets are expensive, it has cost that state a lot of money to build it, and for anything longer than a 6 hour drive, taking the plane is just as fast. That said, I use it with cheap early-booked tickets (30-60 euro independent of distance), it has onboard wlan for T-Mobile customers, per every pair of seats there is a power outlet. And when I arrive, I'm completely relaxed, in shape, and in the center of the town I want to be. Overall, it's a win. The US has a different geography though, many suburbs etc, not always a connecting public transport system. But if they start in places like california or the east coast, and build up from there, it could well work.
These passive houses are quite popular now here in Germany. I like the idea, but I am wondering about how good they are in supplying clean air, reducing humidity, preventing growth of microorganisms, etc. According to the wikipedia site, it at least needs regular maintenance of the HEPA filters.
Remember: music starting automatically when you open a website, animated pictures, and of course, frames. What's the next, the unreadable background pattern
From a different point of view, Mexico becoming a police state would make Mexico just fit in line with the rest of the world, no exceptions. That's the state of it now. Can't even say that it's more or less corrupt than others, when even in a 'civilized' like France the media boss friends of the president can get ridiculous laws on internet access all the way up to the senate (that battle is still not finished).
Also many of the applications are still close but no cigar. I don't care too much, though, this thing has way more potential than any of the other platforms, and there is still a lot of room for sales next to the iphone.
It also decreases the compatibility with the systems your userbase use. Smart move! I really wonder how many of the legal and illegal XP users combined actually have SP3. Yes the illegal XP users are a legitimate userbase, because they are a big part of the reason that the OS got adopted so successfully.
I don't have the phone yet, but installed eclipse and started playing around with developing. The accompanying DDMS as standalone or plugin for eclipse is fantastic too, you can simulate external phone and data connections, different connection qualities, read in gps trajectories to be communicated as a gps signal to your emulator.
I never understood the concept of campus police. I've seen several campuses all around europe, none of them had campus police, or even a branch of the normal police on site. Why did the US think them necessary and kept them in place? Must cost a lot, too.
I'm quite offended with all those pro-evolution books that are in amazon's page ranking, why is there not a warning label on the amazon page that evolution is just an idea, and there are other, more religiously correct theories?
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In Germany there are several weekly newspapers with in-depth news. "Die Welt" and "Die Zeit" I buy them every now and then actually like that concept a lot, since they won't have the one-paragraph news flashes that I read on the internet anyway, but they do have a lot of longer articles about current situations. This one newspaper gives me enough to read for a week, and it's conceived in such a way that it's not outdated when I read it a week later. In contrast, some months ago I got a free yearly subscription on "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" because of some online job site. This would normally cost about 600 euros I guess, and give me a >20-page newspaper every day. I just never got to read most of each paper, ended up with a lot of old paper, and found many articles about financial situations that were just slightly different from the news a day before. So, for me, a nice weekly 'old'-news newspaper anytime.
Or even better: hit the monkey tree times to be able to make a comment!
For my overall 50km trip in a densely populated part of germany, I spend as much on public transport as I would on just the gas for the car. Due to traffic jams in this area even the time needed from a to b is almost equal.
I agree, the difference between the functionality of a computer OS and a smartphone OS is steadily decreasing, and at a point in the near future will be gone completely, so it makes a lot of sense to include all of them in the same chart.
There is no corrugation on the nokia screen, it just clicks. So no, they're not doing it better. The airpump system is probably not the best solution, but at least the effect of individual buttons is there.
I hate the guts out of myspace and facebook. Seriously. There is no content. For example, I search for a new 'hip' band, so they only have a myspace page. Now, try to find the band biography or past tourdates. You won't find it. Instead, you will see a list of pictures of 'friends' of the band, about whom you couldn't care less. In that respect, Geocities actuallý was better, because at least you had a chance (even if it was small) of finding useful information there.
And there is exactly the point: It's about the "good" in "good enough", and about the investment you need to make to get there. Up to 2008 it was impossible to buy a 300 euro laptop, I looked. There were 450 euro laptops, but those were a bunch of crap, weak battery, crappy screen, etc. The netbook and nettops revolutionized the quality-per-price ratio of the computer market.
I'm not sure about the platform choice though. One company controls the hardware and software. There are no alternatives in either category that allow you to benefit from prior investments- replacing the hardware or OS requires junking everything you already have.
sounds like the average military/government spec to me.
and... you'll have to install the keyring package all of a sudden, find the corresponding key, add the backports to the repository before updating and installing, and comment out the backports entry in the sources.list afterwards to avoid unexpected updates with unknown consequences. This is just doable, but far from trivial at the moment. There's a lot of streamlining and automated conflict checking to be done there.
Put otherwise: eReader can decide to do this as they wish. But they shouldn't be surprised if the inconvenience they give me make me take my money somewhere else.
In europe you pay 20 eurocent per kWh at least. This is only going to go up in time. Cost per windmill-kWh will go down due to higher efficiency of future models and longer lifespan. This will converge eventually.
Yes, there was a time that every town larger than three barns and a shed had their own streetcar. This was of course not sustainable. But, looking at europe, in most towns larger than 200.000 inhabitants the streetcar was viable enough to remain until this date. I wouldn't be surprised if GM bought exactly that 10% of the streetcar companies where the chance of being successful was highest.
Indeed, often I get documents where there is a signature of someone else, like the secretary, just saying "in assignment of". If the document is really important you could always have it hand-signed later on.
there's a difference between delegating part of your work for part of the profit or delegating part of your work for all of the profit. The second one is called being ripped off. It's morally fraud and you know it.
The rights of most of the content you can find on TPB are not in the hands of the respective creators anyway.
Germany is a pretty car-obsessed country but even here the fast trains have a nicely working system. One could say that there are many things wrong with it: tickets are expensive, it has cost that state a lot of money to build it, and for anything longer than a 6 hour drive, taking the plane is just as fast. That said, I use it with cheap early-booked tickets (30-60 euro independent of distance), it has onboard wlan for T-Mobile customers, per every pair of seats there is a power outlet. And when I arrive, I'm completely relaxed, in shape, and in the center of the town I want to be. Overall, it's a win. The US has a different geography though, many suburbs etc, not always a connecting public transport system. But if they start in places like california or the east coast, and build up from there, it could well work.
These passive houses are quite popular now here in Germany. I like the idea, but I am wondering about how good they are in supplying clean air, reducing humidity, preventing growth of microorganisms, etc. According to the wikipedia site, it at least needs regular maintenance of the HEPA filters.
Remember: music starting automatically when you open a website, animated pictures, and of course, frames. What's the next, the unreadable background pattern
I guess that retailers tend to have a different opinion on that one.
From a different point of view, Mexico becoming a police state would make Mexico just fit in line with the rest of the world, no exceptions. That's the state of it now. Can't even say that it's more or less corrupt than others, when even in a 'civilized' like France the media boss friends of the president can get ridiculous laws on internet access all the way up to the senate (that battle is still not finished).
Also many of the applications are still close but no cigar. I don't care too much, though, this thing has way more potential than any of the other platforms, and there is still a lot of room for sales next to the iphone.
It also decreases the compatibility with the systems your userbase use. Smart move! I really wonder how many of the legal and illegal XP users combined actually have SP3. Yes the illegal XP users are a legitimate userbase, because they are a big part of the reason that the OS got adopted so successfully.
I don't have the phone yet, but installed eclipse and started playing around with developing. The accompanying DDMS as standalone or plugin for eclipse is fantastic too, you can simulate external phone and data connections, different connection qualities, read in gps trajectories to be communicated as a gps signal to your emulator.
I never understood the concept of campus police. I've seen several campuses all around europe, none of them had campus police, or even a branch of the normal police on site. Why did the US think them necessary and kept them in place? Must cost a lot, too.
I'm quite offended with all those pro-evolution books that are in amazon's page ranking, why is there not a warning label on the amazon page that evolution is just an idea, and there are other, more religiously correct theories?