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>> And my Facebook data I really don't care about.

If you are based in the EU, them the european data-protection laws give you the right to get a copy of all the data Facebook has on you, not just the data you uploaded but everything.

They have up to 40 days to deliver a CD-ROM with all your data.
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Are you confusing the wider UK economy and the GBP?
Okay, let me help the author here.

Having success and market penetration doesn't make things cool. It's great for the company, great for the ecosystem (and - that's a topic for another time in this particular case..) built around it. But not cool. Not sexy.

It could be. Success, piles of money and 'cool' aren't incompatible per se. They are just unrelated in my book.He has to accept that for a large audience out there, _in the real world_, there's nothing more boring than looking at SAP (and - wait. and wait. and wait).

"My advice: stop being bored by the stuff which makes the world turn."

My advice: Don't blow this out of proportion. If SAP dies tomorrow, the world is not going to end.
Don't you mean the Nexus S? N1 doesn't have NFC.
I think arethuza meant something like the facebook developer platform, xcode (iOS/Mac OS X hacking, read: apps) and the Google API's.
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I do understand the debt spiral argument. However if you look at eurostat public debt graphs (http://goo.gl/XX9f5) it seems to me that Italy,Spain,Finland "Debt to GDP" all went down from 1995 to 2008, of course then the financial crisis drove it way up.
If I recall correctly it is always reported that Italy now has the highest borrowing costs since the introduction of the euro zone, but that it had even higher debt + interest rates in lira areas...

However Greece is a totally different graph, it seems that the Euro gave access to cheap credit for the first time and they took as much as they could get. Or some of the former numbers are fake, who knows.

I guess there are two problems: 1) Current interest rates are unsustainably high 2) Unsustainable public policies...
Eurobonds would probably solve 1) but increase the danger that 2) doesn't get addressed.
Am I being stupid? If you use your ISP that "DNS Blocks" TPB, then surely all you need to do is switch to using Open DNS (or similar) and suddenly what your ISP does to their DNS server is irrelevant.
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Do you understand that a country with a large population will also have a large amount of user-generated content? It is not people with low wages, but court of law which should have the power to decide what content is inflammatory. The meaning of freedom and democracy doesn't vary with amount of population.
I haven't seen the developer side of it, but from the consumer POV in Germany, it hardly looks like a wasteland. There are a couple of services like Moneybookers, ClickandBuy, which are very PayPal-like.

There are also a few services circumventing both money "escrow" (not sure if the term is applicable) and the credit card companies by interfacing directly with your bank deposits, either directly (using your PIN/TAN, which you have to give to them, which seems insane) or through cooperation with the banks.

Fewer people over here have credit cards, which has lead to a different landscape. For many things, simple bank transfers are a viable payment option, too, as they are typically very fast (with ever shortening legal limits to how long they may take).
I'm not sure what you mean by 'SAP dies tomorrow', but - to put it bluntly - YES, the world will most likely stop functioning normally.
Sounds like your body transitioned into ketosis during the third or fourth day. You can know for sure by buying ketone test strips and drinking enough water. I've tested out ketosis for myself and experienced some strange effects: salad tasted better, but I had no cravings and no hunger; some days all I had was an egg.

It's not a good idea to stay in ketosis for more than a few weeks, since it's making your liver work harder to convert fat (rather than glycogen) into energy.
But that isn't true!

For example, Germany has a welfare system, but a budget defict that is ~3% of GDP (which seems pretty reasonable when you are trying to get an economy growing again)

Austria, The Netherlands, Denmark, etc etc all have similar (or better) welfare systems and low budget deficits.

The truth is that there isn't a single cause of the problems - Iceland was very different to Ireland, which was different to Greece, which is different to Italy. Each needs to be analyzed on its own.

But there is a good argument that taking private (bank) debts on as public debt isn't always a good way out of a problem this big.
I can access Google from home. And Facebook.

Which SAP instance are you suggesting to connect to, would I be so inclined? How would you start creating things for SAP vs. for example Facebook (or G+ now, or the Mac Store)?

There's a set of companies on the one side with broad public appeal and lots of ways to hack and tinker.
On the other side you have a behemoth with an army of suits, costing you a couple of limbs for every move - and it's completely useless for the layman.

Note the last statement. If you don't run a business and are in a couple of related positions you just don't care about that stuff. If you are you're probably using and either loathing or loving it. But even if they had SAP in 99% of all companies, they'd still only reach a limited subset of people.
Even the EU could print more money if it really, really wanted to.

The reason is that the debt loads are different. For the US it's actually NOT unmanageable. It's a lot, but it's fully manageable if people and the government take the right steps to keep it in check.

Take a look at the graphs here: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/reasons-...

Europe has much higher bank debt, overall higher government spending to GDP ratios (keep in mind in many cases this is with a lower overall GDP as well), and in a few cases higher debt to GDP levels. Europe has a handful of critical financial problems: shaky, heavily indebted banks; a massive debt burden; very little room to increase government spending; and an inability to actually regulate key aspects of the Eurozone economy (due to flaws in the nature of the laws backing the Euro). The EU in general is incapable of pulling even a hail mary bank bailout to stall for time. Add on top of this an even larger burden of state services (socialized medicine, pensions & retirement, welfare, etc.) that European politicians will have trouble downsizing to try to pay off the debt.

The US has a massive defense budget it could, in theory, trim substantially to bring the deficit under control, especially in concert with slightly reduced spending across the board and slightly increased taxes. The EU doesn't even have that option though, it's coming down to the wire and very little short of a miracle can save them.

Edit: note that the issue isn't paying down debt in the next few years, that's a fantasy for most of the world. The issue is keeping things together for the next few years to allow for long term effects like economic growth and inflation to really take care of the problem. For some parts of the EU there doesn't seem to be a way to make that happen. It won't be the worst thing in the world if some countries default on their debts (it'll probably be a footnote compared to other events of the last 3 decades), but it won't be a picnic either.
An elected member of parliament is not a member of government in India, and I guess, everywhere else. Legislature and executive are two separate parts of a democracy.
Yes, of course, that's exactly what the takedown notice is for. But only a copyright holder can send it (or someone legally allowed to act on their behalf).
I have used a recent version of Firefox. It has a load of HTML5 goodness but not many website's run these bleeding edge features.

It still looks incredibly ugly on the Mac. The last time I used Firefox on Mac it was wobbly. I only now have it installed for testing. The change in versioning was a mistake which caused a load of confusion. Firefox may be getting better in performance or memory usage but does it matter? Other browsers are already there.

I will keep tabs on Firefox but I see no reason to switch from Safari or anything else for that matter to Firefox at the moment. It is a bit like IE tbh. It is getting better but for a generation of users the reputation damage is already done.
Because it’s multiple times faster and being actively updated.
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SAP was built in the seventies on seventies technology, which it still uses today (ABAP). None of it's front end reporting tools (even Business Objects) are anything like "modern", and every patch they release is more and more unstable.

TechCrunch people know this, I'm sure there are plenty of ex-SAP consultants who got pretty tired of badly run projects by badly educated middle managers who have no business being put in charge of enormous and complex SAP implementations.

I have worked for some of the biggest companies in the world fixing some of the rubbish out there, and you know why SAP has so much money? Because the business just order another instance to migrate to each time they mess it up.

And so it goes on...
As far as I know, one of the biggest budget for our countries is debt service. Too much spending you say? Fine, cut on that budget, it's useless anyway. Or, rather, it should be.

When you think about it, the idea a government debt is ludicrous. When a government needs money, it should just "print" it. To avoid too much inflation, it just needs to destroy money through taxes. In other words, governments should be able to borrow from their central banks at 0% interest rate. Oh, and private banks should not be allowed to create money at all, be it through fractional reserve banking, credit default swaps, or tax havens. Money is too important to be left in the hands of such a tiny special interest group.

Now how do the system actually works? Private banks create the money, lend it to everyone else including governments (because governments relinquished the right to create money around the 70s), and force everybody to pay back at an interest. In the end, there is more debt than money, so the system is bound to either fail or grow exponentially. This is nuts.
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I think this one is very simple to understand: Pets don't commit fraud.

Or put differently: If somebody is running a scam here, the "pet" scenario would mean that it is you. The "poor people" scenario would mean that it is somebody else, making the whole situation a lot more complex. I think this is simply a matter of internal risk assessment triggers.
To be fair, there's only been one example of complete freezer failure at a cryonics firm that we know of, but one failure is enough if your corpse was being preserved at that firm. (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/354/m...)
I think interesting documentation in this regard would be nice. I believe there's a lot of space for developers to support small companies that aren't big enough to buy into SAP yet, but would benefit from other products and tools that can give them the same functionally. More importantly, have the benefit of their business processes being SAP friendly, but also allow other products to offer some of the same functionality for cheaper. My hope is that some of these products could grow to become a competitor to SAP.
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That's my understanding; a good analogy.
Wait, what? According to his figures, SAP makes $1.18bn profit from $12.46bn revenue (about 10% profit margin); Facebook brings in $1bn profit from $4bn revenue (about 25% profit margin), yet SAP is somehow claimed /more/ interesting? By what metrics? Is SAP somehow gonna grow quicker than Facebook and overtake it?

However you slice it, both SAP and Facebook have major share of their respective markets. Facebook seems to monetize the market better. Next story please.
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@prayag : Right to Freedom of Speech is a legally enforceable Fundamental Right in India. Are we talking about different Indias ?
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Fair enough. I'm the first to admit that I'm actively avoiding contact w/ that kind of technology (I did develop small things around SAP QA systems in a distant past, but except for that my exposure is limited to watching users around me).

To explain: I meant if they go out of business (and I didn't imply that this was even remotely likely). If the software had a kind of stroke and wouldn't work anymore, starting tomorrow, I'd agree with you.

I just hate the metrics used and the 'makes the world go 'round' tone in that article. What percentage of shirts, shoes and gadgets are produced in China? Would it be 'cool' (nothing against China..) to be live there, based on the 'We provide x% of the world's shoes' metric?
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It concerns the welfare system that has grown too big to be sustained by income taxes.

Or, to put it another way, the income taxes have become too low to support the welfare system.

To be honest, the amount of spurious framing in these debates is annoying me. Of course the welfare system is sustainable. The only question is whether there is a will to sustain it.

One way to look at it (which, admittedly, may be a form of framing as well): Do we want to live in a perhaps demanding but still caring society, where you can focus on achieving great things, or do we want to live in an uncaring society, where the majority is forced to focus on maintaining what little they have.

Fear of losing status or real standards of living is a great productivity killer, because fear generally switches our brains into a narrow-minded tunnel vision mode. That mode may be useful when you're chased by wolves in the forest, but it's not such a great thing for being productive in a complex economic environment.

What is driving now the crisis are public expenses, don't fool around with other fantasies.

There are always two sides of the coin. Where you see high expenses, I see low income.

It is also important to note that public welfare systems tend to be more efficient than private ones. In the case of Germany, for example, the overhead of private pension funds is often around or above 4%, where the overhead of the public pension system is below 1%. So for the same amount of pensions provided, the private system is more expensive and less efficient than the public system.
The problem is that most of the legal documentation available are really boring power point presentations that provide as little technical information as possible.

Most of their detailed documentation is only available for people who take up their courses (yes, they are that evil) and certification exams.

I do remember quite a bit of it was available on rapidshare though unless you were already working on something specific you wouldn't know what exactly to search for.

To start with, I would suggesting getting a book on SAP R/3. More specifically the SAP R/3 handbook by Jose Antonio Hernandez. I don't know of any thing available for free (legally) that is as good a place to start.

As for the product offerings from SAP, they more or less seem to be components that sit on the same application stack. So getting into one of these applications could provide insight into what everything else does.

Disclaimer: I work as an SAP Basis consultant (that's sort of an application admin + OS admin + DBA)
It is so refreshing to see a post about this issue. In a nutshell: profits are cool.
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The Euro is a current factor of the crisis as that is what makes (for example) Greece's problem into Germany's problem.

Germany has an interest rate of 2%, Greece 18%.
Germany has debt of 83% of GDP, Greece has 180%.

If Greece still had the drachma, then they could devalue it and work out their own problems. However, they don't. It is now the problem of every Eurozone country as their economies are linked to Greece through the Euro.

And, given the nature of Europe, if the Eurozone has severe problems then so does everyone else.

That's why it's a European crisis and not a Greece/Portugal/etc spending problem - because of the Euro.
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This is the origin of the term "journeyman" for instance... apprentices who would follow master craftsmen around until they became masters in their own right.

No, that's not right. When an apprentice finished their apprenticeship, they would usually have to leave their master's service. The openings for masters would be fixed per town by the guild, so journeymen would work itinerantly until they found an opening to become a master. Journeymen would work for a series of masters, and their relationship to these masters was entirely different to the relationship of apprentices.

The status of journeyman became institutionalised, so that the criterion for taking up a mastership was that one had travelled widely enough as a journeyman for some length of time and had crafted a masterpiece.

I've never heard of the idea of guilds organising flights: I should think that master guildsmen had more to lose than agricultural laborers from relocation. Perhaps if several guilds coordinated, it could be less than massively destructive. Where did you get this idea?
As someone who managed to lose over 100lbs through trying various techniques and adjusting by trial and error, I largely agree with your advice.

I rely on a diet of yogurt in the morning to get my day going, then one large meal for dinner. As long as you don't go overboard on the dinner, that generally leaves enough room for a "cheat day" each week.

Also, the "sprinting" technique worked wonders for me. I used a stationary bicycle and would do ~5min sprints/~2min breaks while watching TV or listening to music. If you live in an apt building and want to do that on the cheap, I've found running stairs works well too.

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I think it's safe to say that they, quite reasonably, figured out that the former is a risk-infested nightmare. Saying "hey, that actually cost $11, Bob!" is a minor thing in an interpersonal relationship, but when it has the potential to trigger a fraud investigation (think ex-girlfriend marking all 'casual' transactions as fraud after a breakup) you invite chaos.

So yes, they switched on that, but it's really not hard to see why. I wouldn't want to use it for personal transactions. (In Germany, we mostly use bank wire transfers for that.)
The UK economy isn't growing so well, and we won't have eliminated the structural benefit as soon as they'd have liked

This is largely by choice. The UK government is on the forefront of the austerity crowd. They cut spending and fire people. Is it any surprise that GDP (which is basically the sum of all spending) is on a disappointing trajectory?

In a way, the UK government is doing economics a huge favor by acting as a laboratory that implements unneeded austerity.

The proponents of austerity predicted an upswing of activity as a result. I would say their theory has been proven wrong by now.
Excellent find. You can even access around 25 photos from Mark Zuckerberg's profile.

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No sympathy here.

Abusing "donations" on paypal to avoid paying fees and taxes is not a good business practice. Either own up to the fact that you are indeed selling something or incorporate as an actual non-profit, neither is particularly onerous.
SAP deployments must work in some cases, surely.

I read somewhere that a large part of Apple's supply chain management is built on SAP, as well as being the system of record for iTunes/App Store transactions.

I can't find a reliable citation, since this will probably not be something they broadcast, due to their secrecy.

But then, they have the capital to massively spend on heavyweight internal systems.