Fink About It

Guess what… size doesn’t matter! At least, when it comes to computer cases, bigger’s never better!

The story

There are quite some computer stores in my area – one of them has very competent workers and bad product quality, the other has good quality, but the people there give you a lot of BS information. So I went there to ask for the optional external sound cable for my graphics card, which should make it possible to get HDMI working with sound. Anyway, I got there with my small barbone case (see above) and put it next to his monster case. He was smiling at me and started a conversation: Read on

German is certainly not an easy language. Many people even claim that it is one of the most difficult languages in the world¹. But what is the point of comparing it to other living languages which, for English speakers even worse, only consist of glottal stops? And what is it exactly that makes German so hard to learn? Bastian Sick, who is the author of the Der Dativ ist dem Genetiv sein Tod book series and who works as a journalist for the Spiegel magazine, is a major contributor to the insight that German obviously is a demanding language and challenging to learn and use for non-native speakers; had already understood impressively well in the 19^th century. This is going to be a critical essay about the intricacies of the German language and how they are depicted in Mark Twain’s The Awful German Language². In the following, I am going to outline the great writer’s perspective on the German language and I will also continue to evaluate on it from today’s point of view. Read on

1. That’s certainly not true given the almost unpronounceable guttural phonemes of Mongolian languages enriched with an over boarding grammar structure, for example. [↩]
2. If not marked separately, all subsequent quotations can be found in: Mark Twain, The Awful German Language, Aufbau Verlag, Berlin, 1963. [↩]

When you have a blog you are supposed to write something, right? When you have enough time on your hands to think about what you want to write and how to accomplish it, mostly you don’t have a problem to do so. But it’s your obligation to blog regularly, if you want to establish a core readership. Then it is really hard to not blog about something wrong, just to fill your blog. Here are three things you should not blog about.

I’m not home, so break in, everybody!

Most personal blogs make the mistake to get too personal. They post information about where they live or when they are on holiday. Without asking they publish pictures of their neighbors or friends. The dangers are obvious, when you look at the consequences: Sites get indexed so fast that even if you take off a picture or a post about anybody, people will be able to find it elsewhere¹. And even if you don’t give your address on your blog, people can look up your address by typing in your domain at whois services². So now they have your address – tell them when you’re gone and your new flat screen will be going on a long holiday, too. Read on

1. e.g. the “cached” button in Google [↩]
2. e.g. try and search for any domain here. You will see their actual address. [↩]

This is an informative essay about artificial intelligence. Firstly this essay will argue that artificial intelligence is nothing to be afraid about, and secondly that its development is driven by computer games. In the following I am going to explain how artificial intelligence works and how intelligence is created. To do this I will be looking at some representative movies and games to show how artificial intelligence is depicted. Finally I will investigate its restrictions and misbehaviors with the help of the “Tale-Spin-Program” which was developed in 1976 to invent animal fables. 
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Ok, I got it. There are a lot of services out there. And guess what: I don’t even know how more than half of them work not to speak of what there purpose is.

Twitter

Let’s take Twitter as a famous example. What is the purpose of having people only post short messages with 160 characters? Is it to shut down verbal diarrhea? When it is a tool to let everybody know what you’re doing, I can imagine the following happening between two twitterers that know each other well:

@lilfreak: I’m just doing my homework.
@hotelmom: Yeah, you better, peewee!

Everybody will check for people’s activities. The government might hack the Twitter accounts, log every entry. Burglars know when you go shopping. And worst of all: If Google search engines start indexing this crap, there will be even more SPAM out there. Wanna read something straighforward? How about this solution: Read on