I have the urge to comment on this one. Why is it that we STILL focus so much of our attention on Nazi and Austria? Is this your way of showing you have a certain media-induced level of historic information? Does this make you sound intellectual? Consider once that the generations since then have actually built one of the most stable and economically functional systems in the world! I just wish that at some point Austria will not always be immediately associated with Nazis (as i have been called many times while in the states) and instead be seen as a small, prospering and an immensely culturally diverse country.
Btw, if you ever come and visit Austria, in particular Vienna, you will see the abundance of multi-cultural people that have moved here over the past decade. There are almost more non-austrians in vienna. With the expansion of the EU, one could argue that Vienna is becoming once again the center for creativity, knowledge and business. See pre-WWI era...
Another interesting fact that many people seem to not know about Vienna -- Vienna has about 1.8 million (roughly) inhabitants, the next big city (Graz) has about 250.000 of a total of 8 million in Austria. If you take this comparison, than Washington DC should have roughly 60 million inhabitants (about a fourth of the total current american population). This is an interesting distribution of city-to-country population. No other city in the world, as far as i know, has this.
I guess its time to start marketing a little bit more my home country:)
Coming from Vienna , I can only mention the deep-founded disagreement for the micro$oft organization. In vienna, if you dont use linux, you are not a real human:)
And another thing, the wine comment is absolutely correct. Some of the best wines are produced here in the country. Unfortunately, due to these micro-vineyards, we cant and dont want to share any with the world. But now that we are on the topic, is anyone interested in producing WEINUX -- a linux based vineyard production system? Does something like that exist? Does Linux or applications for linux support the operations of a vineyard?
Sorry to have this particular topic bust everyones balls, but doesn't this promote terrorism to a certain extent? Considering that I live outside of the US, my territories are not really graphically covered (from a high resolution perspective). But the US territories seem to be beautifully depicted with high resolution. Wouldn't you use this tool to plan something? Doesn't this bother anyone?
Don't get me wrong...I love this stuff! Find it to be the cheapest (and laziest) travelling alternative around, but certain security measures should be taken. For that matter, does anyone know if the people that realesed this have considered this?
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Btw, if you ever come and visit Austria, in particular Vienna, you will see the abundance of multi-cultural people that have moved here over the past decade. There are almost more non-austrians in vienna. With the expansion of the EU, one could argue that Vienna is becoming once again the center for creativity, knowledge and business. See pre-WWI era...
Another interesting fact that many people seem to not know about Vienna -- Vienna has about 1.8 million (roughly) inhabitants, the next big city (Graz) has about 250.000 of a total of 8 million in Austria. If you take this comparison, than Washington DC should have roughly 60 million inhabitants (about a fourth of the total current american population). This is an interesting distribution of city-to-country population. No other city in the world, as far as i know, has this.
I guess its time to start marketing a little bit more my home country :)
Coming from Vienna , I can only mention the deep-founded disagreement for the micro$oft organization. In vienna, if you dont use linux, you are not a real human :)
And another thing, the wine comment is absolutely correct. Some of the best wines are produced here in the country. Unfortunately, due to these micro-vineyards, we cant and dont want to share any with the world. But now that we are on the topic, is anyone interested in producing WEINUX -- a linux based vineyard production system? Does something like that exist? Does Linux or applications for linux support the operations of a vineyard?
Sorry to have this particular topic bust everyones balls, but doesn't this promote terrorism to a certain extent? Considering that I live outside of the US, my territories are not really graphically covered (from a high resolution perspective). But the US territories seem to be beautifully depicted with high resolution. Wouldn't you use this tool to plan something? Doesn't this bother anyone? Don't get me wrong...I love this stuff! Find it to be the cheapest (and laziest) travelling alternative around, but certain security measures should be taken. For that matter, does anyone know if the people that realesed this have considered this?