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Comment Re:German's listening to pop music (Score 5, Interesting) 143

My Neice ended up going to a high school in Germany. She spoke English but quickly picked up German. One of the friends she made asked her one day what it was like actually understanding the lyrics of the songs they listened to. To them it was just a bunch of pleasant-sounding gibberish. So you can enjoy the songs without knowing the words.

Decades ago, there was an Italian music star named Adriano Celentano that came out with a song called "Prisencolinensinainciusol". The lyrics were nonsense. He wanted to make a song that showed how English sounded to the Italian ear. It was his biggest hit.

Comment Re:Horrible License Terms (Score 1) 60

Its license runs for a year, after which you will get a fresh copy. This means you won't be able to configure your own system and keep it alive -- you'll have to recreate it, from scratch, annually.

Annual license that is a complete pain-in-the-A$$

In other words How To Make Something Seriously Restricted Without Actually Saying So

Yeah, it sounds like they're intentionally driving away anyone but paying customers at this point.

Comment Re:Hypothetical question (Score 1) 26

My thought experiment is, what if two black holes were approaching each other very rapidly on a not-quite-collision course, so that the sides of their event horizons briefly overlapped as they passed. Would they stick together?

ISTM that if anything was inside the overlapping area they'd have to stick, since otherwise that thing would be escaping from one of them. But is there anything there? Maybe something that just now fell in and hasn't had time to fall to the center? Or, is there quantum foam inside a black hole, and if so, would that count as "something" that would force the black holes to stick?

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