Oh, by the way, how low Slashdot has fallen - people here don't know the difference between operating system and GUI anymore and they call themselfs "geeks".
spending money on infrastructure in a recession is actually a good idea. you've got to spend money on infrastructure sooner or later anyway, so why not save jobs that way and exploit the advantage of recession typical low prices for raw materials at the same time?
When you cannot distinguish between work of fiction and a simulation of a real event happened a couple of years ago how can you honestly describe yourself as being able to distinguish between videogames and reality?
Also, you pretty much outed yourself as a nationalistic arsehole. Admit it, you are only disappointed that you cannot shoot some sand niggers singing "america fuck yeah"
Uhm, AG stands for Aktiengesellschaft (joint stock company) and is common for all German-speaking countries. The legal basis for it differs though between Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
GmbH is a limited liability company and also exists in every German-speaking country. If you a french-speaking Swiss, AG is Societe Anonyme and GmbH is Societe a Responsabilite limite (sorry, no accents because I doubt slashdot supports them and besides my French is pretty rusty).
...it was a Mini-Linux distribution in size of four floppies which I downloaded from some BBS. This distribution used the UMSDOS file system and could be started from a DOS prompt (didn't have a spart hard drive).
I remember that I even managed to get X working after a while, but to be honest Linux looked for me as a huge step back from OS/2 Warp which I preferred those days.
Well, as for european cars failing american crash safety standards, it is pretty much the same as american poultry failing russian food standards (true story, american chicken thighs is banned in russia since 2002).
It is not that european cars are less safe, it is just that american crash tests are different (for example chevy aveo practically failed the european crash test but got four stars in the american crash test).
Sure, but Nicholas II ceased to be a czar in 1917. He was forced to abdicate after the february revolution. When he was executed he was just a civilian. There were no monarchs in Russia afterwards.
GP is also right that there were no czars in the soviet union since USSR was established in 1922 and Nicholas Romanov was executed in 1918, as you correctly stated.
You should learn a bit more about Lenin before you call him a czar. He was a true believer in communism and really tried to implement it in Russia. For example he abolished the passport because in his opinion it was a tool of a police state. On the one hand he forced the people to overcome illiteracy, on the other side he made lot of liberate policies like decriminalizing homosexuality and declaring the unconditional right of separation for national minorities.
He also was afraid of the Communist Party becoming a large bureaucratic bog and he warned of Stalin becoming too powerful.
- So that's the power box that we've been having problems with, if you could take a look... - Sure, but why is this straw lying around here?" - Hm, and why are you wearing a mask? - Hmmm... well, give me a blowjob then.
The first patent for the field-effect transistor principle was filed in Canada by Austrian-Hungarian physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld on October 22, 1925, but Lilienfeld published no research articles about his devices, and they were ignored by industry. In 1934 German physicist Dr. Oskar Heil patented another field-effect transistor. There is no direct evidence that these devices were built, but later work in the 1990s show that one of Lilienfeld's designs worked as described and gave substantial gain. Legal papers from the Bell Labs patent show that William Shockley and a co-worker at Bell Labs, Gerald Pearson, had built operational versions from Lilienfeld's patents, yet they never referenced this work in any of their later research papers or historical articles.
Please don't be such a sell-out, of course the U.S. is not perfect but it is the independence on which we are founded (free from socialist BS) that has produced the results.
so it was a country free from socialist bullshit which achieved the first spaceflight?
then again, compare deutsche bahn back then and now. crazy prices, trains coming hours too late are considered normal, lots of connections are abandoned.
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So?
Wake me up when your iPod Touch can do A2DP.
Oh, by the way, how low Slashdot has fallen - people here don't know the difference between operating system and GUI anymore and they call themselfs "geeks".
sure there is. lots of them, actually. here is a link to a freeware one: http://www.not-big-deal.com/product.php?product_id=1
spending money on infrastructure in a recession is actually a good idea. you've got to spend money on infrastructure sooner or later anyway, so why not save jobs that way and exploit the advantage of recession typical low prices for raw materials at the same time?
A honest question: what is, in your opinion, wrong with Ada?
I never learned Ada myself but everything I heard about it was pretty good.
How could be that modded "Insightful"?
When you cannot distinguish between work of fiction and a simulation of a real event happened a couple of years ago how can you honestly describe yourself as being able to distinguish between videogames and reality?
Also, you pretty much outed yourself as a nationalistic arsehole. Admit it, you are only disappointed that you cannot shoot some sand niggers singing "america fuck yeah"
To be honest, I know only one single corporation really spending money on basic research - IBM.
Uhm, AG stands for Aktiengesellschaft (joint stock company) and is common for all German-speaking countries. The legal basis for it differs though between Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
GmbH is a limited liability company and also exists in every German-speaking country.
If you a french-speaking Swiss, AG is Societe Anonyme and GmbH is Societe a Responsabilite limite (sorry, no accents because I doubt slashdot supports them and besides my French is pretty rusty).
Well, glas doesn't filter UV completely, but almost. That is the reason for using special quartz glas for UV optics and applications.
yes, photochromic is the english word for it, sorry, i used the german term for it by mistake.
as you might or might not know, the windshield filters the uv rays. phototropic glasses cannot function in a car.
which was pretty much true then.
ipod was a hype. iphone is a hype.
...it was a Mini-Linux distribution in size of four floppies which I downloaded from some BBS. This distribution used the UMSDOS file system and could be started from a DOS prompt (didn't have a spart hard drive).
I remember that I even managed to get X working after a while, but to be honest Linux looked for me as a huge step back from OS/2 Warp which I preferred those days.
Well, as for european cars failing american crash safety standards, it is pretty much the same as american poultry failing russian food standards (true story, american chicken thighs is banned in russia since 2002).
It is not that european cars are less safe, it is just that american crash tests are different (for example chevy aveo practically failed the european crash test but got four stars in the american crash test).
Exactly. Just yesterday an all-russian tanker crew fought off a pirate ship with water cannons.
You should recheck Wikipedia. The last russian monarch resigned 5 years before the soviet union came into existence.
Sure, but Nicholas II ceased to be a czar in 1917. He was forced to abdicate after the february revolution. When he was executed he was just a civilian. There were no monarchs in Russia afterwards.
GP is also right that there were no czars in the soviet union since USSR was established in 1922 and Nicholas Romanov was executed in 1918, as you correctly stated.
Insightful my arse.
You should learn a bit more about Lenin before you call him a czar. He was a true believer in communism and really tried to implement it in Russia. For example he abolished the passport because in his opinion it was a tool of a police state. On the one hand he forced the people to overcome illiteracy, on the other side he made lot of liberate policies like decriminalizing homosexuality and declaring the unconditional right of separation for national minorities.
He also was afraid of the Communist Party becoming a large bureaucratic bog and he warned of Stalin becoming too powerful.
it is also known for great dialogues:
- So that's the power box that we've been having problems with, if you could take a look...
- Sure, but why is this straw lying around here?"
- Hm, and why are you wearing a mask?
- Hmmm... well, give me a blowjob then.
So you never heard of that MacLeod guy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_transistor
The first patent for the field-effect transistor principle was filed in Canada by Austrian-Hungarian physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld on October 22, 1925, but Lilienfeld published no research articles about his devices, and they were ignored by industry. In 1934 German physicist Dr. Oskar Heil patented another field-effect transistor. There is no direct evidence that these devices were built, but later work in the 1990s show that one of Lilienfeld's designs worked as described and gave substantial gain. Legal papers from the Bell Labs patent show that William Shockley and a co-worker at Bell Labs, Gerald Pearson, had built operational versions from Lilienfeld's patents, yet they never referenced this work in any of their later research papers or historical articles.
so it was a country free from socialist bullshit which achieved the first spaceflight?
then again, compare deutsche bahn back then and now. crazy prices, trains coming hours too late are considered normal, lots of connections are abandoned.
please reread what I have written.
my anecdotal evidence supports these claims.
there are other personal details which aren't biometric, like the postal address, marital status, place of birth and so on.