Do Germans Dream of Electric Penguins?

if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The 01000001-Team.

Mmmmmm....purple.

Actually it doesn't surprise me at all...that's why I apologized to the Dutch. Perhaps I should apologize to the Germans as well. My paternal grandparents were both immigrants from Germany. I actually took three years of German in high school. That was over 20 years ago and although now it is lost to me from disuse it was quite obvious to me that the articles were in Dutch and not in German. A silly cultural joke isn't always a indication of ignorance; sometimes it is really nothing more than a silly joke.

I only took one season of Benny Hill German in high school. My apologies to the Dutch.

Maybee zie posteer kann no sprechen oder reeden die Dutchenzeelandspache so gut.

That should be a font name.

I stand corrected by AC's #1 and #2 with my apologies as IANAS. I completely agree that my comment was not factually accurate, please allow me to rephrase it. This experiment and the conclusions drawn from it in the article remind me of ideas proposed by Roger Penrose in his book, The Emperor's New Mind. Anyone interested in further reading of relevance to this discussion might consider this book. I really enjoyed it.

Your NASA Tau Chi name is...Ballute.

Roger Penrose hypothesized this 20 years ago.

It's a resort.

This isn't just funny, it's true! If they are having a PR problem, it can't be because they are calling "Constantinople" Byzantium. That little switch happened about 1700 years ago. He goes on to say it's still a very sensitive issue, well I bet it is. He just pissed off the Turks all over again. Keep up the good work dealing with those sensitive PR issues...the song make a catchy little mnemonic if you need help keeping it straight.

Need I say more?

Content providers have finally found their businesses on the wrong side of the law of supply and demand. For a long time it appeared that the public's voraciously insatiable appetite for entertainment and news would fuel ever growing profits indefinitely. Now thanks to the series of tubes the world is flooded with instantly accessible free media content. I think that the massive amount of available free media is curbing public demand for media with a price. I think that this effect is independent of the phenomenon of media piracy which just rubs salt in this wound. ACTA will be the industry tool for attacking piracy. In addition to being a simple money grab, I think that metered traffic and caps on use are intended to reduce the competing effect of free media by making you pay more heavily for access to any media or information. If you watch streaming video all day instead of cable TV you could end up paying for it as if it was a cable bill; indeed a cable bill that behaves more like a cell phone bill, i.e. rising with consumption. Content providers are sick of trying to compete with free...this is a means to impose a higher price on the free media products that they are competing with.