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by holri 15y ago
It seems that actually no one is reading the original text. I did, and I did not find any censor, ISP reponsibility or surveillance points. I asked the German Pirate Party for clarification and citation, with no luck. Everything in there is
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by holri 15y ago
Probably the antithesis, also worth reading: Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/986428.Computer_Power_and...
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by holri 15y ago
There is also some movement to make community hardware: http://Open-PC.com/ From the community, for the community The Open-PC is a PC for everyday use built by the Linux community for the Linux community. We use only free software. Your h
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by holri 15y ago
What is wrong with the UI of Maemo?
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by holri 15y ago
Dinner canceling: http://www.drhuber.at/downloads/cancer_chemoprevention.pdf
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by holri 15y ago
It was also very common in the past that Germany could not sell all bonds offerd. The rate of return for German Bonds is very low now, no wonder that the demand is also low. It is just how markets work. The fact that this makes it to the he
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by holri 15y ago
Emacs is like piano playing, you are typing unconscious. Image playing a piano with a GUI and mouse! Unthinkable.
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by holri 15y ago
The smartphone N900 has a very sensitive touch screen and a stylus. Altough it would be possible to live without it, it would be a big regression. People just said ohhh that's so old fashioned. Sinve my phone is not a fashion item but a wor
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by holri 15y ago
This does not look like a discontinued project: https://gitorious.org/~qtbynokia
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by holri 15y ago
Meego is just a marketing Buzzword. The N9 OS ist not a true MeeGo device anyway. Because MeeGo should be Moblin + Maemo. This Intel+Nokia adventure was a disaster. But what the N9 actually is, is Maemo + Qt. And Maemo is a mobile Debian. N
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by holri 15y ago
Just type $ sudo gainroot on any Nokia Maemo/MeeGo device
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by holri 15y ago
That's apparently wrong: http://nokiagadgets.com/2011/10/20/n9-broke-pre-order-record...
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by holri 15y ago
Smartphones and Tablets are not a replacment for a PC but a complement. I do not see why it should die.
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by holri 15y ago
Regarding Siri: I talked to my Nokia phone years ago already. I spoke the name to call and it dialed the number. It worked quite good but: 1. People around me thought I am stupid talking to my phone 2. Dialing with the keys was easier and f
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by holri 15y ago
This problem has been solved hundred years ago. The solution is called post office. Nowadays they were getting to expensive and therefore have been replaced in Austria by post partners like gas stations, or small super markets in your neigh
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by holri 15y ago
Yes, but mainly because of the baby mortality which has decreased very much since then. This has an huge effect on livespan statistics.
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by holri 15y ago
Because managament was abviously stupid. The N900 was already a fine product.
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by holri 15y ago
The free software movement giant will definitely be around in 100 years.
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by holri 15y ago
Also grow your own vegetables in the garden. It's not only cheap, it has also no pesticide pollution, tastes much better and is very healthy because it's fresh. But the most important thing is the psychological effect: You seed, you care, y
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by holri 15y ago
My washing machine or dish washer is programmable at the moment. They often wash in the night. I don't mind when they are washing given them a target finishing time. My 2 thermal heat pumps for hot water and heating could easily take the pr
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by holri 15y ago
There are citing a study by the bank "Landesbank BW". You can find the same study in other media mentioned. A bank is usually very reputable in calculating economics.
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by holri 15y ago
http://www.taz.de/1/zukunft/umwelt/artikel/1/solarstrom-wird...
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by holri 15y ago
There are huge electr. pumped storage hydro power stations in use in Austria und Switzerland for decades... http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpspeicherkraftwerk#.C3.96ste... Also smart grids (trinding price due to current demand and consump
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by holri 15y ago
Because of the ongoing massive costs savings it is expected that within 2015 or so it will be cheaper for house owner's to produce their own energy with photovoltaic than buying it. (Without governmental support) This will be a massive game
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by holri 15y ago
That was not a replacement but a completely different product with superficial simalarities and the same name. The path was not a migration path but a runaway path.
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by holri 15y ago
That's why Sergei Korolev the chief engineer behind the successfull russion space program that led to Gargarins victory said: „The genius of a construction lies in its simplicity. Everybody can build complicated things."
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by holri 16y ago
This of course depends on the sources. Mine are the official Austrian statistics. With your sources bus is still more than 2 times safer per hour.
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by holri 16y ago
no I am saying that "2 hours flying is more dangerous than 2 hours driving." For the estimate of the risks in my live I am asking what is the safer mode of living. Therefore the risk of an activity hast to be related to spent livetime.
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by holri 16y ago
Correct. But I never ask the question if I go by car or plane from New York to L.A because it would take too long by car. This simply not a practical relevant comparison. The question what to do or not do in my livetime is the relevant one.
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by holri 16y ago
An example: A bus driver job is far more secure than a pilot job. When comparing activities we should relate spent livetime not distances to risk.

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