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There are several ways to see the issue and it depends on what you mean with miracle: Biological viewpoint: It's not a miracle because it is unexplainable or anything, but exactly because we know how it works it is so fascinating. A single cell with a single set of chromosomes has all the...

Haha, the guide is awesome. I've been to Finland once but only to Helsinki and liked it a lot. I loved that you do not have to tip but then again, your food prices are crazy expensive. I had the feeling that fins tend to be shy but maybe I just met the wrong people.

I think the future is likelier to lie in legal advertisment based streaming, something along the lines of spotify or tv shows you can watch online. It is getting very popular these days and I think most do not mind few ads if they can watch/listen anything whenever they want legally. In case...

I would say that Unity is more Apple than Windows but I do not agree that it is less productive. I think the dash works quite well, typing in the application/file you want is faster than clicking yourself through. Clicking through in the Gnome Shell was not slow at all but I do not think that...

@Alterego-X: I know, but it is a legal difference in many countries and many see streaming also not as bad because you do not have it permanently and you do not have a way to upload it to someone else. I also agree with the points mentioned by some people here, that people just do not think...

My three best guesses: 1. Everytime you hear about losses, you can't really talk about losses, because nobody knows how many who have pirated the product would've payed for it if they were not able to pirate. This is especially true for porn is my guess. Due to the social stigma most people...

Haha, at least you can then choose the way you want software to piss you off :P Seriously: As far as I can tell, you do not need to remember an exact phrase but it will begin searching as soon as you type in your words. I do not know if synonyms are supported, I guess not, so I understand...

Indeed, it looks quite similar. I wonder why it is not more popular or well known (or am I the only one who has not heard about it o_O). I am not aware of any other OS using it, except Ubuntu planning to obviously.

@JesterRaiin: The thing though is, you do not have to choose mac/win over linux, you can use linux perfectly well in parallel. In fact, I think most do that. I happen to not need programs which are windows/linux exclusive and that's why I wrote that I do not need windows. I just wanted to avoid...

I never liked KDE and Xfce that much either and also liked the "old" Gnome 2 shell. However, I never had big issues when they changed to unity but did not see the advantages right at the beginning. However, especially now with HUD I understand why they went that way. The HUD demonstrates this...

Hmm, ok gonna remove the "advertisement" then, there are just so many unaware of Ubuntu, that I wanted to give them at least some information and references and where to have a look what I'm talking about. But you're right, this thread should be only about HUD. As far as photoshop, I use GIMP...

Everybody probably knows the problem when using software that you know what you want the program to do, but you simply forgot where the option to do so was and so you search through all the menus and still cannot find it. In these cases you probably just want to shout at the computer and say...

Maybe not the best recommendation for you, but one where I'm sure you haven't heard of them because nobody outside Germany knows Mikroboy and barely anyone in Germany: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v6ydUmhHu4

Some laptops have a digital audio output, often combined with other ports. In case yours does not you can buy an external sound card which should have one and has some other advantages as well. And yeah, I understand why people use it, I use it myself, it was a reply to the question why it is...

As suggested, bandcamp is pretty good, you can also download free .flac from some artists like lumber lung. As for why .flac is so rare: People don't know about it and don't need it. Even many computer literate have not heard about it and the whole world uses mp3. MP3 is good enough for most...