ADSL at 2MB+ is available in towns, but perhaps not in all villages and there is also the possiblity of internet via your cable tv supplier.
My point was, in those areas, not only villages are affected. Look at Dresden, for example, a town which nobody would call "rural area" or so. Dresden is actually preparing for Wimax (babelfish-link) as no ISP seems to be willing to make use of the glass fiber. Quite similar situations in parts of Berlin, Potsdam and Halle, which are indeed no small villages:-)
Cable TV is fairly ubiqitous in Germany with penetration down to the smaller villages.
Oh yeah, the myth of cable:-) You know, there are actually ISPs in Germany offering broadband over TV-cable and it's true that a lot of households have access to the TV-cable. If you look at western Germany, for example the Ruhr area, only someresidents of Dortmund, Bochum, Duesseldorf and Cologne can actually go online via cable. Most towns in this populous area can only watch tv over cable. In the former GDR, most people stick to their satellite dish as cable has always been not very cheap in Germany and not very wide spread in the eastern part:-)
regards,
Stirz
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The news.com article goes "Rural areas are still underserved, according to the Commission, with about 60 percent penetration.". I wouldn't call the German capital a "rural area". In wide areas of eastern Germany and it's former capital, telephony is mainly based on fiber optics that were installed shortly after the reuinification replacing ordinary telephone-cables. It's rather bizarre when you live there because ISPs refuse to offer you more than dial-up (64K). If you are "lucky" and still have some ordinary copper-cored cable, you might get a decent DSL connection although fiber should allow "real" broadband.
Honestly, if this was really implemented, my digital VCR would receive signals telling him where to cut out the commercials. My personal DVB=>DVD-process would surely simplify:-)
BTW: Would anyone buy a TV that doesn't allow free zapping?
I wouldn't call it a waste if this bacteria uses half its energy for reproduction. More bacteria mean more hydrogene being produced, or did I get this wrong?
Sorry Mjlner, as I am not a native speaker, I've apparently not made it clearly enough: I wanted to say that even 50 years ago, there was drug (ab)use for military purposes. Hence, this "news" is not quite as new as it seems:-)
In the best case, an army is run but never has to shoot a real bullet at real people in combat. Drug application is a different story: soldiers on guard (a shift can be 24h and longer) might appreciate drug consumption if they assume it could help them performing their duty.
Giving Methamphetamines to soldies to "stay alert" and to "strengthen confidence" has -sadly enough- a long tradition. As Wikipedia tells us even the Nazis spreaded the drug among their Wehrmacht. What's the point of a government saying "Stay away from drugs!" on the one hand and willingly giving it to soldiers on the other?
Seems alright, I quit military service a long time ago...
Clockmaker, you must be watching too much sci-fi series...:-)
Read carefully: they did not clone Copernic, but only reconstructed his face like by forensic means. If you are interested in a quite similar case (and dare to open another German website:-) ), you might be interested in the reconstruction of a pirate's face, which could be the famous German pirate "Klaus Störtebeker". They used a nearly 600 year old skull and quite similar procedures. However, DNA-analysises are still an option to clearify ancestory aspects.
I've seen two photos of the reconstructed head over at German "Spiegel online" and I the first thing that came to my mind was: "That's James Cromwell". Just compare some photos on your own. The similarity is really amazing:-)
I'm afraid, this is not necassery good news. Sure, on one hand, Koch's device seems to good to be true: it consumes waste materials and turns them into something useful (Something similar was used by Nazi-Germany to produce synthetic gasoline from coal). Furthermore, this news appears in a period of time where oil prices seem to skyrocket pushing up taking gasoline and Diesel prices, of course.
But:
If you still stick to combustion, the real problem will remain. As far as exhausted gases are concerned, there is no difference if my VW runs on "natural" Diesel or on Koch's Diesel.
I would really appreciate a "Mr. Fusion"-car that eats up my garbage producing nothing more than a decent acceleration and some hot air, but this seems to be really far awar... *sigh*
The claim spreaded by German media that Dr. Christian Koch is producing Diesel fuel from dead cats is entirely wrong and are entirey unrealistic.
Legal steps have already been taken to counter these claims."
This is ridiculous... Koch's firm simply introduced methods to produce Diesel fuel from waste oil, plastic waste, old plants, sewage sludge, ordinary household garbage and
cadavers (which *surprise* could also be run-over cats!).
That's right. One of theses plants belonged to "Norsk Hydro" and was involved in some secret WW2-project. The Nazis tried to produce tons of deuterium-oxide ("heavy water") there for their nuclear scientists. Just have a look here. When Werner Heisenberg in 1942 replied to Nazi ministry of war that a "nuke" would be up to 5 years away, funds were pulled out of this project to further von Brauns rocketry. (For those who can read German, surf here.
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think of M.U.L.E. or Pirates! .
:-)
I bet the creators of these lists are too young to know what games still have the same highly addictive potential since the early/mid 1980s...
Hm, I feel like being really old now... *damn*
Oh yeah, the myth of cable
regards,
Stirz
The news.com article goes "Rural areas are still underserved, according to the Commission, with about 60 percent penetration.". I wouldn't call the German capital a "rural area". In wide areas of eastern Germany and it's former capital, telephony is mainly based on fiber optics that were installed shortly after the reuinification replacing ordinary telephone-cables. It's rather bizarre when you live there because ISPs refuse to offer you more than dial-up (64K). If you are "lucky" and still have some ordinary copper-cored cable, you might get a decent DSL connection although fiber should allow "real" broadband.
regards,
Stirz
Honestly, if this was really implemented, my digital VCR would receive signals telling him where to cut out the commercials. My personal DVB=>DVD-process would surely simplify :-)
BTW: Would anyone buy a TV that doesn't allow free zapping?
Regards,
Stirz
sncr :-)
I wouldn't call it a waste if this bacteria uses half its energy for reproduction. More bacteria mean more hydrogene being produced, or did I get this wrong?
Sorry Mjlner, as I am not a native speaker, I've apparently not made it clearly enough: I wanted to say that even 50 years ago, there was drug (ab)use for military purposes. Hence, this "news" is not quite as new as it seems :-)
In the best case, an army is run but never has to shoot a real bullet at real people in combat. Drug application is a different story: soldiers on guard (a shift can be 24h and longer) might appreciate drug consumption if they assume it could help them performing their duty.
Giving Methamphetamines to soldies to "stay alert" and to "strengthen confidence" has -sadly enough- a long tradition. As Wikipedia tells us even the Nazis spreaded the drug among their Wehrmacht. What's the point of a government saying "Stay away from drugs!" on the one hand and willingly giving it to soldiers on the other?
Seems alright, I quit military service a long time ago...
Regards
Stirz
Clockmaker, you must be watching too much sci-fi series... :-)
:-) ), you might be interested in the reconstruction of a pirate's face, which could be the famous German pirate "Klaus Störtebeker". They used a nearly 600 year old skull and quite similar procedures. However, DNA-analysises are still an option to clearify ancestory aspects.
Read carefully: they did not clone Copernic, but only reconstructed his face like by forensic means. If you are interested in a quite similar case (and dare to open another German website
Regards,
Stirz
I've seen two photos of the reconstructed head over at German "Spiegel online" and I the first thing that came to my mind was: "That's James Cromwell". Just compare some photos on your own. The similarity is really amazing:-)
Regards,
Stirz
I'm afraid, this is not necassery good news. Sure, on one hand, Koch's device seems to good to be true: it consumes waste materials and turns them into something useful (Something similar was used by Nazi-Germany to produce synthetic gasoline from coal). Furthermore, this news appears in a period of time where oil prices seem to skyrocket pushing up taking gasoline and Diesel prices, of course.
But:
If you still stick to combustion, the real problem will remain. As far as exhausted gases are concerned, there is no difference if my VW runs on "natural" Diesel or on Koch's Diesel.
I would really appreciate a "Mr. Fusion"-car that eats up my garbage producing nothing more than a decent acceleration and some hot air, but this seems to be really far awar... *sigh*
Taken (and translated) from http://alphakat.de/ :
"IMPORTANT INFORMATION
The claim spreaded by German media that Dr. Christian Koch is producing Diesel fuel from dead cats is entirely wrong and are entirey unrealistic.
Legal steps have already been taken to counter these claims."
This is ridiculous... Koch's firm simply introduced methods to produce Diesel fuel from waste oil, plastic waste, old plants, sewage sludge, ordinary household garbage and cadavers (which *surprise* could also be run-over cats!).
Tsss... tabloids...
That's right. One of theses plants belonged to "Norsk Hydro" and was involved in some secret WW2-project. The Nazis tried to produce tons of deuterium-oxide ("heavy water") there for their nuclear scientists. Just have a look here. When Werner Heisenberg in 1942 replied to Nazi ministry of war that a "nuke" would be up to 5 years away, funds were pulled out of this project to further von Brauns rocketry. (For those who can read German, surf here.