SIcherheitstheater, das verdeutlichen soll, dass wir uns de facto "im Krieg befinden". Nichts hält den Untertanen so gut bei der Stange, wie der böse Feind, die ständige Gefahr, vor dem der Staat ihn beschützt. Ganz klar, dass dabei "alle zusammenhalten" (sprich: der Bürger gefälligst das Maul hält) und "alle den Gürtel enger schnallen müssen".
Yes. French actually is a 100% successor of the local vulgar latin. There's no "native" French that's somewhere in the bowels of the language; no celtic ("gallicus") roots to be found there.
It might. I just don't see any use in it. Says a former Linux advocate. Don't get me wrong, I'm writing this on a Debian stable machine, I'd never even think of using anything else for a daily driver and have been doing so for 25 years, but Windows users will be Windows users and I don't see any reason to adapt Linux to their needs. Or to that bundle of vague illusions that they believe to be what they need. The evolution of Windows has produced such a horrible, parasitic product that its' users don't see any other way now than to jump ship. They're mostly lost cases, IMO.
I was just getting seriously into CAAD, VR and visualization when I switched from NT to 2k - and to Linux on my second machine. I had Blender (still proprietary of NaN, then) importing DXF files via network share and render them in the backgroud while I was working on the next drawing on my W2k machine. Nobody understood what the heck I was doing but the visualisations (and even an animation in real 3D - gasp!) were quite a killer back then...
I think you're overinterpreting a bit. Actually the MS-droid doesn't really say anything. Just that the taskbar is not movable. Which was exactly the question.Typical evasion strategy.
building the taskbar from scratch meant that they had to cherry-pick things to put into the feature list first, and the ability to move the taskbar didn’t make the cut, for several reasons that Microsoft values.
Translation: Nobody really knows (or wants to take the blame), we probably just forgot to put on the feature list. Anyway, I'll just use the usual vague weasel-words that don't really mean anything.
Easy. It's Atlantis. Not only Americans would fail here, also ancient Greeks because they located Atlantis somewhere in the Aegean sea where an undersea quake sunk a couple of islands. Claiming Atlantis was lost and can't be found, of course, is cheap. It takes the illuminated mind of a trained alchemist to see the truth behind the blindwork of the temple knights and the dark forces of the Vatican.
There's only the One High and Mighty who can bring true greatness to humanity! Praise Cthulhu!