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Beim Nerdcore gefunden! Danke!

.If we would be a band, this is our current line-up:

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Full members:
Darryl - band leader, conductor, piano
Swen - manager
Thomas - arranger, clarinet
Helmut - trumpet
Nadim - percussion, ukulele
Ines - vocals

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Regular and guest appearances:
Andreas - trombone
Benjamin (new!) - right now tambourine, later maybe accordeon
Christian (or is he full member? Honestly I dont know…) - flute
HCL - double bass, tuba
Matthew (just starting) - dont know for shure yet, they said he can play many instruments, maybe French horn?
Michael - guitar
Rena (just starting) - backing vocals
Tanja (leaving soon…) - violin

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The result would sound a bit like these lot: 17hippies

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+ now 4 something completely different:
In case you would like to learn something new: As we just build the bridge to music, why not read about Mr Paetorius now?
(this has nothing to do with the topic of this post, it just adds a little intellectual spice to it)

Now this is really weired, prisoners on the Philippines performing the Michael Jackson Thriller Video. If Michael would like to join? I hope they will perform also some other classics. I am sure that is not the last gig.

stiletto flippers is the trend:

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Anyone fancy baked pidgeon for breakfast?

Just sitting on the sofa at the weekend having my laptop on my lap. After quite a while, I felt uncomfortable because of the heat. The left side of the device contains the CPU. In my case, a Pentium M 1500 (ohoh, I must play the jingle now! But I can’t. Just do it inside your head. Otherwise, you are not allowed to read on.).
This Pentium M has the folloing technical data:
Die size: 0,82 cm2
Termal design power: 24,5 W

Let’s compare this to one my hot plates:
Size: 14cm -> area: 308 cm2
Power consumption: 1500W

The hot plate is ~375 times bigger than my cpu but it “only” ~61 times the energy. In other words:
If my CPU was a hot plate, it would only consume 4W.
If my hot plate was a CPU, it would consume ~9,200W!

If you would extrapolate the size of your CPU to the size of your hot plate, you should better cook your tea on the backside of your laptop!

I will consinder buying an asbestos-free heat shield for my legs to prevent burning them …

I am surrounded by mac users. Nice and creative people. But it seems, that some kind of propaganda brain washed them. They always mix things up when they talk about their computers.
Here are some facts about these “nice machines”:

It’s fast

Yes, a Mac is fast - now. Of course, it has always been fast. That’s what Steve J. told you. The Power PC was supposed to be 2-3 times faster than a PC. Nothing to say about that. Now, after Apple joined the dark side of the force, the “new Macs” should be 2-3 times faster … again. Bit now Steve compares it to the “old Macs”. How does that fit together?
Hint: it is not faster than a PC … it IS a PC

Unix based

Wow, they got rid of Mac OS 9.x and use a Unix based system now. Y have real multitasking (typing AND printing … yes, both in parallel! Great), a login, all that nice stuff.
Just a hint: Windows NT (15 years old) was already based on VMS Unix, used a micro kernel … … …

It’s secure

There are viruses, worms, trojans … and they all live on … of course: a PC. It is not possible, that a “bad program” can run on a Mac. And why not? Because the Mac users do not know, that it is possible. And if something is not possible …
Douglas Adams wrote about that “human feature”. A yellow starship is landing in a football stadium. Nobody seems to recognize it. Arthur is sitting next to Ford. Both can see that starship landing. Arthur is wondering, why the others can not see it. But it’s quite simple: it is not their problem. They do not “expect” a starship to land there. And that’s why they do not see it happen.
Same for the Mac users. The

The truth is hard:
http://www.golem.de/showhigh2.php?file=/0705/52500.html
http://www.golem.de/showhigh2.php?file=/0705/52013.html
http://www.golem.de/showhigh2.php?file=/0705/52008.html
http://www.golem.de/showhigh2.php?file=/0704/51975.html
http://www.golem.de/showhigh2.php?file=/0704/51810.html

No blue screens of death (BSOD)

Occasionally Windows reminds you, that there is a driver, that is not 100% compatible. The system just crashes and gives you a dump of the last activities before death. You have to switch it off and on … What a miserable way to handle really big software design and coding issues.
The Mac is better: the “death-screen” is just black, not blue. Hey, that’s better!
But you will not see it, because it does not crash (twice per day)

Wake up!!
Since you have these intel CPUs in the Apple machines, you just can not say: “I have a Mac”. You also have to say, which system you are running. Windows or MacOS! And if you meet a PC user, you can not just laugh and say, that he is dying species: he might run MacOS on his PC. It’s all i386 code now. Keep that in mind.