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Marvelous find! This brings back (very) old memories! :D

Folding@Home is available on every PS3 - keeps the machine busy during short breaks, but a waste of money having it running 24/7.

There's quite a bit of great music released under Creative Commons licences (usually free for non-commercial use). Just check the web.

I guess with all that 'mine's better than yours' going around we should stand back for a moment and be very, very happy that this discussion actually is hypothetical.

Nice! Loved it up there when I was still studying in Freiburg - those pics bring back memories! :D

:) personally I prefer sed... ;)

Notepad++ is THE text editor when using Windows. What i really like with Notepad++ are its filtering options and support for regex based search (perfect for checking huge log files from multithreaded apps). My work environment is usually Linux, tho, so I mostly use gedit for things like SQL scripts, or quick changes to C source or header files.

I prefer Netbeans over Eclipse - being a former .Net/VisualStudio developer now doing mainly Java EE and some C development, I somehow never could warm up to Eclipse. The good thing: using Maven the actual IDE doesn't matter. You use the ide you like and collaboration works just fine. As for the Java vs .Net topic: If you're doing Windows-only development then .Net is perfect: good integration and support (on newer OS versions the runtime is already installed) and you have easy access to all parts of the OS (even to COM components and native apis). If you want to go multi-platform then .Net is crap. Mono supports only part of the Windows .Net api, and you would be a fool to trust M$ to care the least for anything but their own OS regarding patents or changes to the API. If you want to do desktop apps that are truly multiplattform then I'd rather recommend good old C/C++ (maybe combined with QT or another multi-platform gui framework) instead of Java: you get an executable that just works on a specific platform - without the need to install a seperate runtime - and you have better access to hardware specific features (which may be something as simple as accessing a serial port or reading special system data). There's C/C++ compilers available for almost any hardware available and while the standard libraries are much smaller compared to .Net or Java many popular libraries are also multi-platform. The downside with using Java for desktop apps is the need for users to install a specific runtime - and the problems you get when you actually need to use native apis. The latter can be done but is quite tedious compared to .Net (on Windows) or C/C++ (on any platform). The real advantage for Java is its server-side usage (Java-based web apps and J2EE): you can easily write software that will run - without recompiling - on Linux, Windows or Unix and which integrates really well into existing enterprise IT structures (where Windows servers are rather rare and support for Java is great). So Java works really well for enterprise applications, for web apps (as a - imo - better alternative to PHP etc.), and for mobile apps (like Android or Java ME stuff) where you have a pre-installed runtime on the device. The point being: there's no 'X is better than Y' here: both have their place, weaknesses and strengths. The IT world is much bigger than the (almost) Windows-only end-user market, and out there .Net is rather useless. Java on the other hand missed it's opportunity of becoming a platform for great desktop apps long ago - mostly due to performance issues with older versions of the runtime and Microsofts early attempts to fight it's usage on the Windows platform. The good thing: there's always C/C++ :)

I played both, Morrowind and Oblivion, and while Oblivion had some annoying 'improvements' (like the auto-levelling bandits and monsters, the weak ending of the main story,...) I found it a smoother (as in: often less annoying and tiring) gaming experience that was still very satisfying. Morrowind had the more interesting and darker setting while Oblivion was more easy going and provided better story telling. Both were very good games and Bethesda has a long history of providing good rpg games, so I'm sure they'll deliver again.

Some more picture from a trip to a small island at the German North Sea coast this October: First days were quite stormy: not that this stopped some people from surfing (and/or taking a dip... brrrr!) German frigate 'Brandenburg' passing by (probably on it's way to nearby Wilhelmshaven, where it's stationed): At the beach... Sunset over the Wadden Sea:

Inside the Sagrada Familia: I really like this church - not so much from the outside (to many styles mixed together), but the inside is very, very impressive.

old vs new: siesta: reconstruction of an old spanish galley:

Congrats, topaz! Here's some pictures I took in Barcelona this september: La Rambla: View across the old harbour and the beaches...

Uh, it's radio show, a tv show, a computer game (with extra cool gimmiks - and actually the first computer game I bought!), a book triology in six parts, and - for the young ones - a movie... And I'm pretty sure someone probably made it into a theatre play and a musical, too!Anyways, current 'official' explanation for the cloud is an approaching airplane. Might be possible, especially if the original recording was done with heavy zoom. Still images look (for someone without any factual knowledge) very much like a missile, tho.

In the southern Black Forest there's a valley called Höllental ('Hell's Valley') - and guess what the village at the valleys exit is called? Right: Himmelreich ('Heaven'). Names like these aren't really uncommon - Wikipedia lists for Germany alone 7 more villages (and four mountains) with the same name...

But then these definitely aren't the kind of WW2-style 'old diesel-electric' subs mentioned above. They are among the most modern submarines available today - they just happen not to come with a nuclear powerplant but fuel cells for underwater ops (which actually makes them harder to detect).

The problem is, at the moment he's not accused of any severe crimes (note: the man extradited to Germany is currently not accused of espionage or of having taken part in the murder - only of having helped someone to obtain a passport under false pretense). As he already spent time in jail in Poland and will only have to pay a fine for what he did anyways, why should he stay in prision or even be confined to staying in Germany?

He'll not be accused of espionage, tho, and might get away with a fine.

[deleted] mixed up the 'zepellin' car' in the second video with the original poster...

I'm sure everyone but the referee realized that England had scored. It's really a shame. Of course I'm happy we won, but I'm even more happy that we shot two more goals just to show it wasn't completely undeserved. All in all I think Gemany played a lot better, still that one goal might have changed the course of the game. Good games all around now that it's win-or-bust - everyone fighting till the end!

Woot! What a goal (the 1:0 for Spain)... I mean, how stupid can a keeper get? :eek:

Damn, missed the Italy game yesterday due to the game happening during work hours. Only saw a summary on tv later, but just the counter and popups from FootieFox were enough to shock the whole office into disbelieve... Well, who'd have thought of that! Congrats Slovakia!

Well, maybe just to save England from yet another penalty trauma? ;)Basically I fear they might suffer the same as in the game against Italy at the WC2006 - already thinking of the penalty shootout while their opponent makes a last minute goal and wins. They have to aim to win this one quickly.

Germany didn't shine yesterday - great goal by Özil, but that's about it. If they want to stand a chance against England they really have to play MUCH better - and maybe try to win before the (almost inevitable) penalty shootout...

I'd be happy for South Africa to make it to the next round, but I doubt they or Uruguay will manage to score high enough for this to happen.