Hitler was raised a Catholic, but expressed nothing but contempt for Christianity later in life.
Formally, Hitler never left the Roman Catholic church. Hitler never stopped to pay his due fees to the church (called "Kirchensteuer", "church tax" in Germany and Austria). He is said to have been a regular attendant at church services.
On the other hand, Hitler never has been excommunicated by the Roman Catholic hierarchy, either.
An interesting read: "Der Glaube des Adolf Hitler - Anatomie einer politischen Religiosität" (The Faith of Adolf Hitler. Anatomy of a political religiosity), by historian Friedrich Heer.
One of theses of this book is that Hitler's anti-semitic views have been continuously derived from those held by major Roman Catholic leaders and institutions during Hitler's youth in Austria.
From N. Ravitch's review of the book "It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush", by Joe Conason:
"Those who find fascistic tendencies abundantly present in religious bodies are often thrown the example of Hitler's alleged opposition to religion in general and Christianity in particular. This ignores much scholarship (by such historians as Richard Steigmann-Gall in THE HOLY REICH, AND Friedrich Heer in DAS GLAUBEN DES ADOLF HITLERS (The Faith of Adolf Hitler) which demonstrates how fully prepared German Protestants and later German Catholics were to accept Nazi policies and doctrines. It was because both religious Christians and Nazis shared a hatred of modernity, progress, rationalism, social change, and Jews."
The mistake these people are making is that they are still thinking in terms of "vendors" and "customers". The point of open source software is that the users are the developers.
Well said.
Open source does not fit into a "market" model in many aspects.
There's also the term "market share" that does not make any sense here - nearly all PCs purchased as complete systems will contribute to the market share of Windows as it comes pre-installed, most notably on notebooks. Even if some of them will be converted into "linux-only" on the day of purchase, this will not be reflected in "market share".
You get MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (AVI, VOB), ISO, MPEG-4 (AVI, DivX, DivX VOD, XviD) for Video; WAV, MP3, MPEG-4 (AAC) ****, WMA, AC3, OGG Vorbis for Audio; Firewire (and USB) for connectivity to your computer; and NTSC/PAL Composite Video, S-Video, Analog YPbPr Video, SCART RGB, VGA (1024x768), HDTV (480p, 720p, 1080i) for plugging the Tvisto into your TV.
You add the 3.5" HD of your choice, like one of these quiet Samsung SpinPoints, format it in HFS or HFS+ (in case you prefer it over FAT32 and NTFS;-) and off you go, playing back ISOs of DVDs.
There is no recording of video or ausio with the Tvisto, though.
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated to MacPower in any way, just pleased with most of their products.
Most of the routers in the Table of Hardware bearing the "supported" tag are equipped with some version of the Broadcom 47xx chip. This may be handy for a first cross check.
Second, besides Linksys models there are more routers from other manufacturers that are supported as well.
Especially with Asus and Buffalo routers, one does not have to deal with different sub-sub-revisions of a router, as is the case with Linksys (and Netgear).
If I got you right, I'd say you are right (I mean "correct" here, and "I agree with you", respectively. What an advantage the political right has in the english-speaking world by "owning" the word "right" with its various connotations...).
In political theory in France, since the years following the French Revolution there has been the dichotomy of a "parti de mouvement" (literally "Party of Movement") and a (literally "Party of Order"). Traditionally, "parti de mouvement" has been associated with political left (as a whole), "parti d'ordre" with the political right.
In my view, the widespread association (in Europe) of the "Party of Movement" with an existing socialist or social-democratic party of considerable size and influence has been now wrong for a very long time, plain wrong. When in power, these parties tend to be as much "Party of Order" as a conservative political party, see e.g. New Labour in the U.K. More examples can be found in most other european countries, of course.
Also in my view, the (theoretical) "Party of Order" is a field crowded densely by most existing political parties of a certain size whereas the (theoretical) "Party of Movement" is an area almost empty, i.e., nearly void of the big, established political parties.
Back to topic: FOSS, including GNU and Linux, is clearly a phenomenon of the "parti de mouvement" side of the world, whereas commercial and proprietary platforms like Windows and Mac OS belong to the "parti d'ordre".
Wait a minute. Maybe there's a better name for the thing.
If I remember right, one of Allen's other ventures tried to launch another sub-sub-notebook lookalike some years before. It also was supposed to cost $2000. It also was supposed to run Windows.
costs around $800 in the U.S. and that the Zaurus seems to be similar in form factor and capabilities. It just doesn't run Windows. So with the FlipStart, this is a hefty $1200 premium just to run Windows.
I'd rather prefer to call Allen's latest baby "FlipFlop".;-)
Walter.
P.S. Some kind of Windows obsession with Paul Allen has to be understood, of course. But then again, he might be doing this kind of projects just to get some tax-deductible expenses.
The threat to cancel MS Office for Mac OS is and has been the big stick that Microsoft has never missed to shake in Apple's direction.
To come out with "something compatible" to MS Office for Windows is not an easy thing to do.
Apple could have supported the development of OpenOffice in a substantial way for years now (this would have been the way to go), but they rather preferred not to.
As a consequence, Microsoft's big stick will continue to work perfectly.
If they get to the 5% range, then they could start to approach even being the #1 home computer.
In France, Apple currently has a 3 per cent share of the market (overall market share, not just home users). One year ago, Apple had circa 2.1 percent.
In its best time, Apple had a market share of around 20 percent in France. The situation should be pretty much the same in the other European countries that once had been strongholds of Apple over years, namely Switzerland and Sweden.
As long as Apple has yet to "septuple" (i.e., multiply by 7) its market share just to get where they have once been already, the horizon will be full of clouds. Changing the company's name from Apple Computer, Inc to Apple, Inc. might not be too helpful, either.
The labels are hurting the industry with DRM. Apple is willing to ditch it wholesale
That's what Apple _says_. But that's not what Apple _does_.
Apple might start offering indy tracks (at least those that are offered DRM-free in other online shops) DRM-free tomorrow. Even better, Apple might have offered these indy tracks (a substantial number of them) DRM-free from the launch of the iTMS.
Double standards? Hypocrisy? Or just old worn-out "money talks"?
The Newton was early, too early, entering something that could not even be called a PDA market. The iPhone will be late, maybe too late, entering a highly competitive and highly saturated market, like Europe, towards the end of 2007, and even more so in Asia (think gadget loving Japan) where the iPhone will appear only sometime in 2008.
Eventually, the iPhone's fate might share some features with the Newton's in the long run nonetheless.
Here in the US, as opposed to say Japan or the EU, we pay for our $500 cell phones in multi-year contracts for phone services, so we actually think it costs us $50 for a phone, since it's bundled with our overpriced service.
Not so much of a difference in the part of Europe where I live.
The advertizing channels are chock full of "0 euro" and "1 euro" cell phones, usually to be had bundled with a two year service contract. As far as I remember, contracts longer than two years are not permitted by law in some EU countries, otherwise the service prividers would certainly offer three and four year contracts.
Only the most expensive phones, like UMTS and smartphone types, do have a "make believe" price of 150 or 200 euros advertized.
The market for mobile phones without a contract is apparently very, very small.
The "1973" part is said to be referring to the year when the first mobile phone has been presented. Btw, this phone has been a prototype by Motorola.
To me, the Neo1973 or some other mobile based on the OpenMoko platform, will be the way to go as well.
On the other hand, the iPhone, like a lot of other offerings from Apple in the past two years or so, does not seem to be a "must have" at all (and I have been a user of Macintosh computers since 1986).
The often cited 200 patents in the iPhone ("boy, did we patent it!", like Steve Jobs put it on stage in SF) are further 200 reasons _not_ to get an iPhone. Most of these patents should be software implemented and/or pretty trivial ones, obviously, so what will they be primarily utilized for? You get the idea.
Over here in Europe, to date there are no software patents yet (which good status quo to keep, IMHO) and many people are very sceptical towards trivial patents and the runaway patent system in general.
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Hitler was raised a Catholic, but expressed nothing but contempt for Christianity later in life.
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Formally, Hitler never left the Roman Catholic church. Hitler never stopped to pay his due fees to the church (called "Kirchensteuer", "church tax" in Germany and Austria). He is said to have been a regular attendant at church services.
On the other hand, Hitler never has been excommunicated by the Roman Catholic hierarchy, either.
An interesting read: "Der Glaube des Adolf Hitler - Anatomie einer politischen Religiosität" (The Faith of Adolf Hitler. Anatomy of a political religiosity), by historian Friedrich Heer.
One of theses of this book is that Hitler's anti-semitic views have been continuously derived from those held by major Roman Catholic leaders and institutions during Hitler's youth in Austria.
From N. Ravitch's review of the book
"It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush", by Joe Conason:
"Those who find fascistic tendencies abundantly present in religious bodies are often thrown the example of Hitler's alleged opposition to religion in general and Christianity in particular. This ignores much scholarship (by such historians as Richard Steigmann-Gall in THE HOLY REICH, AND Friedrich Heer in DAS GLAUBEN DES ADOLF HITLERS (The Faith of Adolf Hitler) which demonstrates how fully prepared German Protestants and later German Catholics were to accept Nazi policies and doctrines. It was because both religious Christians and Nazis shared a hatred of modernity, progress, rationalism, social change, and Jews."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A10EW
... which one of the statements can be trusted more, the so-called fake or the official one?
Let's call it a tie. ;-)
(ergo Qt4, ergo it may easily be on Windows machines by year's end!).
Who will still care about Windows, by year's end?
Sadly, Zitter's approach might even work with some people.
Btw., what about CHAP (Consumer Happiness Access Package)?
... and more and more people are not going to buy it, because it stinks:
Just change its name (preferably to something very euphemistic) and be done with it?
The mistake these people are making is that they are still thinking in terms of "vendors" and "customers". The point of open source software is that the users are the developers.
Well said.
Open source does not fit into a "market" model in many aspects.
There's also the term "market share" that does not make any sense here - nearly all PCs purchased as complete systems will contribute to the market share of Windows as it comes pre-installed, most notably on notebooks. Even if some of them will be converted into "linux-only" on the day of purchase, this will not be reflected in "market share".
.. start selling all the tracks of the Indy labels without DRM?
From the beginning of iTMS?
Last year?
Last week?
Not yet?
Hmmmm...
You might be sorry.
Icaza will not come to your rescue once Microsoft Legal has taken over. Neither will Novell.
"The SEC said it will not pursue any further action against Apple itself, which cooperated fully with the probe"
;-)
Note the term "Apple itself" which means Apple as a company.
Steve Jobs, contrary to what many people seem to believe, is still a different entity.
So there will be probably further action against Jobs himself.
Every time someone buys one of these digital lifestyle devices and find they work better on the Mac, they will consider a Mac for their next computer.
Oh yes, the so called "halo effect" hypothesis.
With 100 millions (or so) of iPods sold, this should have had some notable effect on Macintosh sales.
According to published market research data, Mac market share sky rocketed from 2.5 per cent in 2005 to 3.1 in 2006.
So most buyers of Apple's lifestyle devices may consider buying a Mac, and consider, and consider, and... finally buy a Dell or an Acer.
Apple's conclusion? Let's launch another gadget...
Walter.
If I write software for musicians, Apple's approx 40%-50% marketshare in this niche makes them viable.
:-(
If you write software for musicians to run on the Mac platform, you'll have Apple as a direct competitor.
To get that functionality, you might better look elsewhere:
o
;-) and off you go, playing back ISOs of DVDs.
http://www.macpower.com.tw/entertainment/mm/tvist
You get MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (AVI, VOB), ISO, MPEG-4 (AVI, DivX, DivX VOD, XviD) for Video; WAV, MP3, MPEG-4 (AAC) ****, WMA, AC3, OGG Vorbis for Audio; Firewire (and USB) for connectivity to your computer; and NTSC/PAL Composite Video, S-Video, Analog YPbPr Video, SCART RGB, VGA (1024x768), HDTV (480p, 720p, 1080i) for plugging the Tvisto into your TV.
You add the 3.5" HD of your choice, like one of these quiet Samsung SpinPoints, format it in HFS or HFS+ (in case you prefer it over FAT32 and NTFS
There is no recording of video or ausio with the Tvisto, though.
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated to MacPower in any way, just pleased with most of their products.
Walter.
Most of the routers in the Table of Hardware bearing the "supported" tag are equipped with some version of the Broadcom 47xx chip. This may be handy for a first cross check.
Second, besides Linksys models there are more routers from other manufacturers that are supported as well.
Especially with Asus and Buffalo routers, one does not have to deal with different sub-sub-revisions of a router, as is the case with Linksys (and Netgear).
Walter.
... has few successful businesses outside of Windows and Office (and never had).
;-)
And I'm not referring to Google here.
If I got you right, I'd say you are right (I mean "correct" here, and "I agree with you", respectively. What an advantage the political right has in the english-speaking world by "owning" the word "right" with its various connotations...).
In political theory in France, since the years following the French Revolution there has been the dichotomy of a "parti de mouvement" (literally "Party of Movement") and a (literally "Party of Order"). Traditionally, "parti de mouvement" has been associated with political left (as a whole), "parti d'ordre" with the political right.
In my view, the widespread association (in Europe) of the "Party of Movement" with an existing socialist or social-democratic party of considerable size and influence has been now wrong for a very long time, plain wrong. When in power, these parties tend to be as much "Party of Order" as a conservative political party, see e.g. New Labour in the U.K. More examples can be found in most other european countries, of course.
Also in my view, the (theoretical) "Party of Order" is a field crowded densely by most existing political parties of a certain size whereas the (theoretical) "Party of Movement" is an area almost empty, i.e., nearly void of the big, established political parties.
Back to topic: FOSS, including GNU and Linux, is clearly a phenomenon of the "parti de mouvement" side of the world, whereas commercial and proprietary platforms like Windows and Mac OS belong to the "parti d'ordre".
Just my 2c.
Wait a minute. Maybe there's a better name for the thing.
;-)
If I remember right, one of Allen's other ventures tried to launch another sub-sub-notebook lookalike some years before. It also was supposed to cost $2000. It also was supposed to run Windows.
Considering that a Sharp Zaurus
http://www.dynamism.com/sl-c3000/main.shtml
costs around $800 in the U.S. and that the Zaurus seems to be similar in form factor and capabilities. It just doesn't run Windows. So with the FlipStart, this is a hefty $1200 premium just to run Windows.
I'd rather prefer to call Allen's latest baby "FlipFlop".
Walter.
P.S. Some kind of Windows obsession with Paul Allen has to be understood, of course. But then again, he might be doing this kind of projects just to get some tax-deductible expenses.
What if Apple got the incentive to do with KOffice as they did with KHTML to make Safari?
You mean, take the code and be done with that?
Hopefully, KOffice has been put under a better licence than the KHTML code.
A GPL licence would have prevented this (which was, formally, a legitimate behaviour, of course).
Walter.
So Apple has started to give it away for free?
The threat to cancel MS Office for Mac OS is and has been the big stick that Microsoft has never missed to shake in Apple's direction.
To come out with "something compatible" to MS Office for Windows is not an easy thing to do.
Apple could have supported the development of OpenOffice in a substantial way for years now (this would have been the way to go), but they rather preferred not to.
As a consequence, Microsoft's big stick will continue to work perfectly.
Walter.
If they get to the 5% range, then they could start to approach even being the #1 home computer.
In France, Apple currently has a 3 per cent share of the market (overall market share, not just home users).
One year ago, Apple had circa 2.1 percent.
In its best time, Apple had a market share of around 20 percent in France. The situation should be pretty much the same in the other European countries that once had been strongholds of Apple over years, namely Switzerland and Sweden.
As long as Apple has yet to "septuple" (i.e., multiply by 7) its market share just to get where they have once been already, the horizon will be full of clouds. Changing the company's name from Apple Computer, Inc to Apple, Inc. might not be too helpful, either.
The labels are hurting the industry with DRM. Apple is willing to ditch it wholesale
That's what Apple _says_.
But that's not what Apple _does_.
Apple might start offering indy tracks (at least those that are offered DRM-free in other online shops) DRM-free tomorrow.
Even better, Apple might have offered these indy tracks (a substantial number of them) DRM-free from the launch of the iTMS.
Double standards?
Hypocrisy?
Or just old worn-out "money talks"?
"iPhone may well become Apple's next Newton"
;-)
Hmmm, wait a minute...
"iPhone may well become Apple's first Zune"
Seems a bit better now.
The Newton was early, too early, entering something that could not even be called a PDA market.
The iPhone will be late, maybe too late, entering a highly competitive and highly saturated market, like Europe, towards the end of 2007, and even more so in Asia (think gadget loving Japan) where the iPhone will appear only sometime in 2008.
Eventually, the iPhone's fate might share some features with the Newton's in the long run nonetheless.
Here in the US, as opposed to say Japan or the EU, we pay for our $500 cell phones in multi-year contracts for phone services, so we actually think it costs us $50 for a phone, since it's bundled with our overpriced service.
Not so much of a difference in the part of Europe where I live.
The advertizing channels are chock full of "0 euro" and "1 euro" cell phones, usually to be had bundled with a two year service contract. As far as I remember, contracts longer than two years are not permitted by law in some EU countries, otherwise the service prividers would certainly offer three and four year contracts.
Only the most expensive phones, like UMTS and smartphone types, do have a "make believe" price of 150 or 200 euros advertized.
The market for mobile phones without a contract is apparently very, very small.
The "1973" part is said to be referring to the year when the first mobile phone has been presented. Btw, this phone has been a prototype by Motorola.
To me, the Neo1973 or some other mobile based on the OpenMoko platform, will be the way to go as well.
On the other hand, the iPhone, like a lot of other offerings from Apple in the past two years or so, does not seem to be a "must have" at all (and I have been a user of Macintosh computers since 1986).
The often cited 200 patents in the iPhone ("boy, did we patent it!", like Steve Jobs put it on stage in SF) are further 200 reasons _not_ to get an iPhone. Most of these patents should be software implemented and/or pretty trivial ones, obviously, so what will they be primarily utilized for? You get the idea.
Over here in Europe, to date there are no software patents yet (which good status quo to keep, IMHO) and many people are very sceptical towards trivial patents and the runaway patent system in general.