I also find it totally amazing that Konrad Zuse's Z3 is always and consistently omitted by americans when it comes to determine which one was the first real computer. My guess is most of them simply don't know about the Zuse and the Z3. It's quite sad, because the achievements of this man are astounding.

Yup, the processor was alright... Intel's Linux drivers were not. Just to enable the embedded ethernet driver I had to compile in a whopping 1MB of driver madness from Intel. On a system where the kernel itself was only 600kB. And where we only had 16MB NOR flash for storage. Hurray. I have never seen such a shit before, it looked like they implemented their own kernel besides the kernel.

They're dominating the market, but it's not a monopoly (any more, now that there are more competitors).

If you play the game, you have to play by the rules. Nobody forces anybody to use the AppStore. It's the developer's decision (I know because I do play this game). But if you want to distribute your app through it you have to obey to Apple's rules, it's their playground.

You can always use Cydia instead or serve a different platform (Android, Nokia, RIM, WP7) if you don't like Apple or the AppStore.

Psssst, don't spoil the fun of mindless Apple bashing by providing a totally valid reason for the app removal ! Or at least provide another possible victim to direct the nerd rage at.

Thanks for that link, that's an interesting site.

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot".

— Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic

When the deal regarding the Transrapid was announced in Germany most people didn't take notice that the deal involved China wanting to eventually build the trains themselves which of course means licensing the technology and transferring a lot of know-how. So people who now accuse China of stealing obviously didn't pay attention back then because at least to me and a few of my friends it was immediately obvious that eventually we would get cut out of the picture. So what, we've got the Transrapid for over 20 years now and all we have in Germany is a test course. In Shanghai, at least it's really transporting people even if in the long run it won't be our technology any more. Better than not making use of it at all.

Almost, now it's: "In Corporate America, movie watches you" :-) I'm not from the US so I can't tell how bad it is, but one can get the impression that the level of surveillance is even worse than during the cold war... but most surveillance seems not to be done by the government any more but by corporations.