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Why We Don’t Need Anti-Piracy Laws But More Artist & Consumer Awareness
In the wake of recent discussions about ACTA, SOPA, PIPA and a number of other Orwellian acronyms, the lines have been drawn rigidly. While the claims of anti-piracy lobbyists that illegal downloads destroy artists’ lives and lead to the annihilation of all artforms are somewhat amusing in their death-rattling desperateness, the claims of anti-copyright groups…
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Online Learning: The Future Has Arrived
You already have some idea of how valuable the Internet is for learning new languages. The latest technologies like Skype allow you to master a language from a native speaker instead of reading a lesson and listening to the accompanying tape over and over. However E-learning does not stop with foreign languages. Nowadays, you can…
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A 5 Minute German Mini Course [FREE DOWNLOAD]
In almost every language course there’s a part about grammar and looking at tables of conjugations and declensions. I still remember the faces of my students in Berlin whenever I whipped out the Irregular Verbs Worksheets… Now, I have to admit that there’s no way of just skipping that part altogether (it’s still worthwhile to…
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5 Simple Facts You Can Learn From A Computer Crash
Last week every user’s worst nightmare paid me a visit: the full fledged system crash. While I documented the death, resurrection and salvaging on Twitter, here are some conclusions from the whole episode. (As usual, what happened is rather inconclusive: laptop went to sleep and didn’t “wake up”. The nerds from the computer store told…
