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Okay - it really seems to be quite active right now. Thank you for your insight.

I've used the Linq queries in one of my projects, but I like the QueryOver statements more (a little bit too much black magic in the Linq queries).

But I believe that it was a great effort - so let me thank you for that !

What is your opinion on the state of NHibernate ?

I've started using it in 2009. I am still using it in my projects, but I am still not sure if NHibernate is functional complete or if the project is nearly dead.

It works fine for me (if it is not worth the effort I am using Dapper.net), but it doesn't seem that there is much active development going on.

I do. When I fall asleep in front of the TV (my bedroom is normally colder) without a blanket I wake up freezing. Even in summer nights I prefer a very light blanket to cover myself.

Thank you for your effort - this is awesome. When I was watching the pictures I wished to see current picturese of these areas.

Coming from Central Europe it tastes like chlorine for me. Not as extrem as US water - but absolutely noticeable.

Well - if I am staying in "my country" I leave my manual selected carrier on. When I'm travelling into the other countries I change it to automatic carrier search. Works fine for me.

Living in a border region nearly everyone here uses "manual carrier search" (I don't know the proper English term for this). Otherwise it can get pretty costly.

That is not my experience at all (as someone coming from Austria).

When working with Americans we had to sugar coat so much so noone was embarassed or we didn't step on the toes of the American workers.

Maybe this was just my experience.

I do the same thing in recording studios. You have to turn off your phone completely. Nothing worse than ruining a good take when you receive a call.

Thank you for your calculations. Great stuff!

wow - do you have any sources for your example with the 747 on the transatlantic flight. I dont' think you're wrong, I just would like to check the facts. I know that transatlantic flights are VERY bad for the environment and for the carbon foot print someone leaves behind.

I do understand your sentiment - but I am in the same boat as the original poster. I really enjoy watching sport - but I haven't enjoyed a single eSport event I've seen. But I enjoy watching the physical aspect of sports (I mainly watch Ice Hockey and American Football), altough I enjoy the tactics in these two sports too.

Austria in Europe, not Australia on the Southern Hemisphere :)

Innsbruck average temperature: http://www.holiday-weather.com/innsbruck/averages/

That's pretty close to Chicago.

Well in Austria the current standard is triple pane windows (my parents house form the 70ies had double pane windows).

I don't know the current percentage, but passive houses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house) are getting more and more in this area.

Not beeing in the construction business I can't give you any details how the way we insulate our houses compares to your information. Most of the houses here are built with concrete and bricks, so they're insulated differently (styrofoam, as much as I know).

Are Japanese houses even worse than American houses ? From a European stand point most American houses are built cheaply and especially their insulation is much worse than in Middle Europe. At least that is what I've been told and what I've experienced some years ago.

Not everything is well in Germany.

The "Stern", one of the big German magazines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern_(magazine), took a big nosedive in quality in my opinion.

3 or 4 years ago (i am not sure when this exactly happend) they did a "redesign" - and since then many hard topics and inconvienient stories where left behind for soft topics and lifestyle articles.

I really enjoyed reading it but right now I won't bother most of the time.

They even changed their, in my opinion hilarious, but sarcastic album reviews to album reviews which sound like a rehash of the PR text from the record company.

The most important thing is the picture of the lead journalists at the end of the story and how they "connect to this story". And the guy who writes 3 pages about his cooking. And the boring "I am so edgy and showing two sides of my personality" PR interview with a celebrity. Yesterday I've read one of these interviews with the question "do you enjoy wearing suits?"

To be fair, sometimes they still have well made articles, but many times it is just boring feel-good-journalism.

I am not from England, I am from Austria.

Maybe it is one of the effects of losing two world wars (and beeing a neutral country), but I've never seen "support our troops" or something like that in person before.

There are some kind of army ads (I hardly see ads), some athletes are part of the army (so they earn some money and can train) and that's it in Austria.

For me there is a difference in showing an ad to "join the royal marine commando" and the expectation to partake in a "be part of the flag" / support our troops ceremony before I see a sports match. But most likely I am just a little more sensitive than most in this regard.

As someone from Europe attending an NFL game in London it was really strange.

We'll we've got the anthems before a game in Europen sports too. But all this "support our troops" and the "be part of a big flag" thing left a bad taste in my mouth.

Even stranger if you are neither from the US or England and should partake in a show of patriotism for countries you don't really care about.

Well for quality furniture 10x the price of IKEA is not really obscene (depends on which price point of IKEA you're talking about - there are some more "high-end-ish" things there).

But in furniture you get what you pay for - but it has to work with your life (if you are changing your place to live every year or so I don't see the point in buying expensive furniture).

If you stay in one place (or at least are planning to do so) quality furniture which matches your rooms is great (at least for me).

For me it was the other way round. Roboto was much more compact and easier to read. Interface seemed to use more whitespace in the words.

Okay ! Didn't know this - thank you for your explanation.

Can you please elaborate the point "professional jury vs a jury system basically designed to ensure the least qualified people are in the jury" ?

Somewhen around 2005 many bands had Flash websites. And this is pretty much the last time I've seen full blown Flash websites.

The only thing I'm using Flash now any more is watching videos. Where I'm living it is sadly still the standard for some TV stations video websites.

Oops - thank you.

Really ?

As someone who speaks natively German, can you give me an example or a source for this ?

ß is after a long vocal, ss is after a short vocal. I don't know any regional problems with that (and I come from a region with a VERY different language than most of the German speaking people)

Some years back I was using testing. It was the year they changed over from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3. I couldn't use the stable release because my mainboard and cpu wasn't supported.

Boy, was this a hard process. It took some months until my system worked without GDM crashes. After that I changed over to Arch and been a happy Arch-er since than. I wouldn't recommend running testing.

I've heard that unstable is more like Arch linux and the rolling release model of Arch Linux works very well for me.

The nootropics angle was disturbing for me. If you take so much (and I guess this can be a slippery slope) that you get anxiety problems then those substances are a problem for you.

I can't recognize a single artist from his screenshots besides Lady Gaga.

MusicBee has some kind of band shot next to each band name. It is nice - but in my list most of the bands are 3 to 5 dudes, so you can't really recognize the bands with the headshot.

But I am definitely the hoarder type from his characterization - so his music player is most definitely not the one for me.

Yeah I am still using a Q6600 in the recording PC in my rehearsal room / home studio.

Great CPU - still running and more than fast enough for my recording needs (maximum 16 tracks per take - about 20 tracks per song)

Thank you for the link - exactly what I was searching !