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Comment · 10 years ago
Certain services (Search, Gmail, YouTube) are inaccessible from Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Comment · 10 years ago
This article is quite ignorant of any history. It might be cool for preschoolers to find flags with similar geometry and colors, but making any conclusions without mentioning the historical context is wrong.

Why would "The Traditional view" be traditional when it represents just a fraction of the relevant history that shaped the culture of European countries? The same goes for "Historical and cultural divide".

Let's take Central Europe as an example - the "Traditional view" was valid for 45 years (during the Cold War) and does not hold for more than 25 years now. The article also dismisses roughly 300 years of the Habsburg Monarchy, 100 years of Austia-Hungary and the years preceding the Cold War.

These lightly ignored years are important when speaking of any cultural divide as tradesmen, craftsmen, students, etc. moved around the empires and exchanged goods and knowledge with each other. Travelling around European towns and villages shows how the builders and craftsmen influenced each other - in regions much larger than the current states.

Comment · 11 years ago
Is there a way to find for how long they use the app before deleting it? Can you track the activity of the user, e.g. number of tasks added per day? Or, in other words, are you losing long-term users or the ones that are trying out 5 different todo/reminder apps just to pick the one they like the most?
Comment · 11 years ago
I went down the same road - using mdadm and a UPS instead of a HW RAID controller with battery backup unit. LSI MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i SGL with a battery backup costs roughly 650 EUR; Eaton 9130i 1500VA Rack 2U UPS costs 850 EUR. So it's a bit more expensive, but you would be buying that UPS anyway.
Comment · 12 years ago
I think it's a macro. A company that builds companies.
Comment · 12 years ago
I have to admit that it comes close to Volvo's best achievement today. But not quite. I've managed to cram a 2m (6.6 ft) ladder into my 15 years old S40. Which makes me even more fond of it than ever before.

It has no touch screens - just terrific hardware controls. No fancy electronics, manual transmission, a 2.0l petrol engine without turbos (not even one). All this makes me believe that this incredibly sleek and calm vehicle has its best days ahead of it! I got a bit carried away, still, that durability and utility of these older Volvos... There is something refined about them even when carrying ladders around.

Comment · 12 years ago
Are all these icons black-and-white? It seems to be fashionable to use monochrome colors for icons these days (Gmail, many mobile and desktop apps). It makes for a sleek and calm interface. I think its choosing the easy way out. Instead of picking a good pallet and shapes, just remove the colors and all of a sudden a seemingly unrelated set of graphics has something very distinctive in common (it worked particularly well for me in a small newspaper where low quality photos were contributed by different authors, just make them grayscale, voila).

Really, color is such a great way to convey information.

Comment · 12 years ago
What kind of scanner/imaging equipment is needed for the studies? It's not quite clear to me from the article.

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