OK you could call me Google centric or whatever but I strongly oppose sites like Forestle or Ecosia that use regular search engines but display the result on their sites get the advert money and buy co2 certificates.

I'd rather have a company that has an agenda for reducing footprint per standard PC by raising energy efficiency as Google did then supporting search engines like bing or yahoo via one of these outfits. At the end of the day these actions are more worth it IMHO. And apart from this advocacy they don't buy stupid certificates and only talk but also apply it to their own company.

http://www.google.com/corporate/green/

So apart from me not liking supporting MS or Yahoo this also has a greener aspect with sticking to Google.

Ok now to the financial bit.

They only donate advertisement money (80% for Ecosia). I dunno how often you usually click on adverts. I don't or at least it's rare.

So how do revenues work? we have the equation

YOUR-CONTRIBUTION = \SUM_views ( COST_{view} - INCOME_{view} )

or in other words if you don't click many adverts you burn their money/your rain forest or you abuse/steal from advertisers and click more adverts then you regularly would.

Especially stupid would be to have it as your starting page as Ecosia advertises. Every new tab or window burns money.

OK but this is just a stupid rant by you, you could say.

So here are some numbers and why I write this stupid rant:

Forestle claims to have saved 10,093,517.3 sq m.

sq m to acre times 50 per Costa Rican rain forest acre:
(10 100 000 / 4 046.85642) * 50 = 124 788.218 $

Ecosia states 134,633.48 Euro that is currently 176 544.882 so for an upper bound we round to 180000 $.

So both combined adds up to 305k US $

now go read what Google did with their small change in four days to promote chrome; add my rant from above and go figure.

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/12/60-million-tabs-towards-good-causes.html

this article http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/12/android-browser-user-agent-issues.html is horseshit.

because there are websites that query mobile and provide tiny versions instead of using the resolution of the device, the author asserts that mobile = tiny and therefor for large screens "Mobile" should be dropped.

if websites want to provide proper functioning sites for android they now need to fix this using the android bit of the string. therefor they have to touch their code anyway to provide proper functionality and not a mess that can't be used with a touch based interface.

so these sites need to fix their behaviour except if they don't provide different versions but then dropping mobile gains nothing.

so he advocates that the agent should be changed so sites brake and the site owner has two choices: fix behaviour or screw their customers.

wonder how his stance on the broken itunes/chrome bug would be (bug is that itunes would not open using chromes agent, instead download page is shown. chrome devs say WONTFIX, go complain to apple).

Been with Marta to Easy A last week ... or rather we went to a turkish movie but that was the only one of the whole turk movie festival that you could not purchase tickets for at the pictures. So we settled for the sneak preview.

The movie is really well made and only receives a B, because I'm not the target audience and certain parts of the movie are predictable, while others where not ... at least for me but Marta said she saw it early so probably I'm just kinda blind.

Spoiler/Plot: The movie is about Daria. Add some double standard Christian fundamentalists and a happy end with her childhood sweetheart.. Phoebe from friends was awesome. Emma Stone was also good but I didn't believed her being introduced as the nerd outcast (sorry exaggerating here), the only thing that separates her from the stereotype hollywoodian miss popular is that she is smart and has wits.

Rating: B+

downgraded to xp for several reasons

- fix refreshrate in dxdiag (I still run a crt)
- no annoying delays when starting things
- the security popup that warns me that something wants to do changes to my computer sometimes takes like forever
- the new taskbar is a #fail compared to the mac dock
- ...

now I'm going back thanks to starcraft.

ok could try to find what does the hick hack, but I expect that on a clean install and everything updated that things should run like a charm if they did on win7. The sad part, they don't.

I got realy annoying lags in starcraft II during multiplayer, lasting 3-4 secs and usually one right at the start followed by two more latter during the game. Also I got droped once.

so either my network driver for xp sucks or win 7, once a thing runs, does better to keep it that way.

alright!

ubisoft drm server down for at least 10 hours, according to http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/98927-Ubisoft-DRM-Authentication-Servers-Go-Down.

mhh does that help them to convince me that they are totally trustworthy? errr... no, it does not.

oh and while readinga around this topic of always-online-drm someone wrote that steam has an offline mode. sweat. obviously i didn't knew that. really cool for the non 3g data plan laptop crew (or those that rather use their cap for something useful).

so another time to anno 1404 bashing or rather anno 1404 publisher bashing.

so since they patched out the DRM everything should be fine, right? they put it right back in with the add on.

sorry i'm all like eric cartman in the pirate episode from season 14: "teh fcuk?"

oh and ubisoft/tages are of the helpful kind if i'm trusting the problems some users report on steam forums:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1147232

oh, steam. you know the-you-need-to-be-online-to-play-thing did not received the DRM patch. teh fcuk?

oh and on some flame sites they claim that all games after vencie will be online-to-play-games.

seriously? ubisoft go bankrupt already.

lucky for me i cut back on my game spendings only going for weekend madnesses of games that where on my radar like 'torchlight' and 'mount and blade', which i bought recently, since i am doing savings for new hardware. honestly i would be sooo pissed if i bought anno at premium and my hardware not being able to run the huge cities and ubisoft throwing yet another teh fcuk at me.

sounds like i have to wait until they bundle it drm free with some game magazine, by then i should also have decent enough hardware to push every slider to the right.

oh and to end with something positive. really love the screenies of venice and the retro gaming feeling from the demo. guess blue byte did a decent job. to bad they are owned by ubisoft.

So if I blog, google buzz buzzzzs this?

Oh and while I'm at it, been to avatar 3d sometime ago.

Really liked it. I hope ppl see the ugly face of the Sky People that destroy the rainforest of planet earth just to eat ridiculous huge amount of unhealthy non-human animal flesh.