Everything in the internet!

Before two days I decided to format my laptop after many months of constant use. So, I put in the CD driver the CD that was provided with the laptop and I was amased because it could not format my laptop. So, in a command prompt I decided to do it the hard way (format C). After that I got the message a failure message when it started.
After the initial panic, I searched in the Internet to see why I couldn't reach the BIOS menu even though I tried both F8 and DEL. It was not so difficult to find out that for my laptop it needed another sequence to do it and then I wanted to search some other relative things to ensure that this time I would do everything in a correct way.
After all this searching I was convinced: Everything concerning computer problems exist in some Internet page and one simple search is usually enough to find it for free.
This is very important, because even today, people who panic after the simplest problem with their computer or electronic device are so many and they loose a lot of money for technicians when a simple search is competent of solving their problem. This money, could be used to something more useful and productive....
Of course, it needs some experience to find the correct keywords that the search engine "needs" in order to provide the wanted results! I would dare to say, that this the most difficult part, meaning that finding the keywords every time can be time-consuming and destructive. For instance in the story narrated above in the beginning searching with keywords like format laptop was completely insufficient and my results were discouraging and thus I was forced to be creative and specify my case more.

Apart from computer problems, Internet contains almost every possible fundamental knowledge,which seems to be positive but the user has to be careful about the dangers hidden...

Latin language

While most young people grow up they understand that Latin are always very useful.

Not only they are the predeccecor of most Europian (and English) languages but also many phrases are used nowadays too. That makes the ksowledge of this language a very useful and powerful weapon in an era that everyone tries to learn only the most famous languages (usually two or three foreign). For those who know Latin this argument seems ridiculous, because many words that are used in English for instance come directly from latin and in this way it is easier to learn their actual root.

What is more, even though Latin is not anymore a spoken language it still exists in philosophy. Many philosophical theories exist and are based on latin phrases like Kant's "sapere aude". This is what makes Latin a great weapon for those who want to know more and acquire more advanced knowledge of this world. It is, also, very common to use latin phrases when you speak. It makes your speech more intellectual and more formal.

I think that these reasons are enough for anybody to learn Latin and then he/she will be able to understand why Latin is one of the most powerful languages...

The new museum of Acropolis

Yesterday was a special day not only for the greek civilians but for the whole world. That’s because one vision of decades that came true. The ancient meanings of liberty, freedom and democracy now have a great place to express themselves. This is nothing else than the new Acropolis museum.

Acropolis is the hill here one of the greatest (ancient) monuments, among them Parthenon, are built. Until now, there was only a small museum that didn’t have enough space for many of the monuments to be placed. Before thirty years the greek government decided that a new museum was essential in order to put all these pieces of art.

However, the museum was built only now because there were many conflicts where it should have been built and where (near the Acropolis, to another part of town where there are not so many ancient ruins). Also, it was pretty difficult for architects and archeologists to conduct all these surveys. The transportation of the marbles was a very difficult process.

But now, the new museum is ready and it opened it’s gates last night. From now on the whole world is invited to visit it. Through this, tourists can enjoy the original marbles (apart from those that are stolen from the british museum) and understand the importance of the unique piece of arts. Only when you see them you can understand how fabulus they are. Furthermore, tourists could enjoy the marbles even if they were put in an island on Atlantic Ocean, but only when you have the view of the original place that they were put you can “feel” the marbles. You can feel the majesty of them and what this represented for the ancient Athens and why all meanings of democracy, liberty and freedom were found in the ancient city of Athens. When you see the marbles and then rise your eyes and see the Acropolis you have an entire view of the original purpose for which they were built.

From, the above it is obvious that the new Acropolis museum is one unique museum that was built to host except for these marbles, all the ancient ideals that nowadays we consider as granted…

The new president of France

Even though he was elected before a year and three months, N. Sarkozy has passed through many stages of those a president passes during his govern.
In the beginning of the year Sarkozy was unpopular because they considered him a media president. Though this week the parliament and the Senate confirmed the constitutional changes he had promised before the elections. These changes are considered a great victory for him and they are supposed to re-shape
In fact these changes give more power to the parliament and more freedom to the citizens. Also, he dared to pass those changes during a period in which France gets the presidency of the European Union, which means he has to work hard to accomplish something.
That’s why I hold that the president can be criticized only after the half time of his presidency has passed and even then people may make mistakes.

The results of a new “No” for Europe

The day before yesterday civilians of Ireland voted “No” to the new Treaty. That will undoubtedly affect the future of the treaty and the European Union.

The new treaty that had been signed by the prime ministers or the presidents of the 27 countries was supposed to give a new chance to the countries to a common policy in some matters, like the external policy. Thus, it was a good step after the previous “No” in 2005 for the new European Constitution. Even though many leaders expected the result of the referendum, the official results changed their plans. Now they have a new failure to deal with and their choices are limited.

In fact, what the first instructions said was that the rest countries that have not still ratified the treaty should do it and then this will press Ireland to a new referendum in order to accept the treaty. This is the optimistic plan. However, there are those who claim that the new “no” will freeze every trial for the “unification”.

The fact is that this is like an explosion to the building that the leaders try to make after the previous explosion. As we all know, it is likely that this explosion will delay the builders, but there is a chance, a very tiny one, that this will accelerate the process. I hope that the second hypothesis will happen, but I think it’s very unlikely for it to come true. The future will show…

Greece … on fire!!

Greece … on fire!!

During the last 72 hours more than sixty people have been found dead due to the fires that have appeared in the country. It is a real tragedy so many to people to die from fires. Also, many unique forests have been destroyed, and a major environmental disaster has been caused.

This summer is the worst of the last years as concerns the burned forests. It is characteristic, that the forest Parnitha which is one of the last forests that still exist in Athens (the capital of Greece) was burnt down and the scientists believe that it will take 70- 150 years to become as it was before the fire.

After Parnitha, in which many rare animal species lived, another forest in Peloponnesus, below Athens, with many rare species was destroyed during the last three day. Actually many forests of Peloponnesus caught fire these three days and that is the place where sixty people died from the fires. Now the firemen are trying to prevent the fire from going towards the ancient town of Olympia, the place where the Olympiads originally took place in the ancient Greece

Maybe the worst thing is that not only we managed to cause a huge environmental damage and sixty people died, but that the firemen found out some things which caused the fires to say that most of the fires were caused by arsonists. I do not know how or why the arsonists are doing this to our future, because destroying the forests means destroying our future, but it causes anger to every thinking person. Even though I do not think it will happen, I hope that the arsonists will be caught and punished strictly

Measuring happiness

Happiness

During the last ten years more and more scientists, psychologists and researchers claim that in every country’s indicators that measure the progress achieved (usually the GNP- gross national product) should be included an indicator for the happiness of the people.

According to these “specialists” this will help the governments to have a clearer view of their people and thus become more effective. Of course, many politicians till now have said that the indicators such as the GNP do not represent the reality of the common people lives. “When these indicators rise, people become more miserable” said one Greek politician once.

However, happiness is very subjective. For instance, a common child in most of the countries of Africa will consider itself happy if it can have the essential food and clothes, while in Europe children are more demanding. As a consequence, measuring happiness will be something doubtful and it will be easy for some politicians to use this indicator according to what they like.

To sum up, even though every existing indicator is never fully objective about the development of as country and it’s people, a new indicator about happiness will be pretty inaccurate if some strict criteria are not followed, and I am not sure if everybody has in mind these criteria. That’s the main reason for my hesitation towards this happiness indicator and I suggest letting it for now…