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Well, I knew why I put off installing my graphic tablet for over half a year. After fiddling around with the drivers I at least got my old bluetooth adapter to work on Win 7, but as to my Wacom UD-1212, it looks like a lost cause. I can't believe I can't find any driver for Win 7. Wacom flat out said at their forum that they don't bother making drivers for such antique hardware, and screw all their customers who now can use their fully-functional, expensive devices as doorstoppers.
Question to the flist:
a) anyone, by any chance, know if there's a driver for my antiquity?
b) If there isn't: anyone want a Wacom UD-1212 bluetooth graphics tablet for $ 0,00 + postage? (won't run under Vista or Win 7 or higher, apparently)
c) can anyone recommend me a good new graphics tablet? I have half a mind to boycott Wacom now, but I suspect other companies aren't much better and I'm valuing product quality, so if the best choice is another Wacom I'll grudgingly buy that.
For something entirely different, there was a fandomsecret last night about some of the cast of Heroes singing "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" on a trip to Munich. I learned in that thread that it's a very common misconception that those are the official lyrics of the German anthem.
Ignoring the total overreaction (imho) of a lot of my fellow Germans in that thread over a cultural faux pas, I figure that rather than jump down non-native speakers' throats for not picking up on foreign-language lyrics, cultural nuances and German sensitivities, it's better to simply make it more common knowledge that these lyrics are considered inappropriate. They're not outright banned here, but they might as well be. Only the third verse is today's official anthem and starts with the words "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" (unity and right and freedom). ( Read more... )
In my opinion, Germany asked for that sort of confusion when they didn't scrap the entire anthem instead of just the first two verses. And then when our two countries reunited we had another chance to get rid of the thing which would've made sense on more than one level, and again we let it pass by.
Question to the flist:
a) anyone, by any chance, know if there's a driver for my antiquity?
b) If there isn't: anyone want a Wacom UD-1212 bluetooth graphics tablet for $ 0,00 + postage? (won't run under Vista or Win 7 or higher, apparently)
c) can anyone recommend me a good new graphics tablet? I have half a mind to boycott Wacom now, but I suspect other companies aren't much better and I'm valuing product quality, so if the best choice is another Wacom I'll grudgingly buy that.
For something entirely different, there was a fandomsecret last night about some of the cast of Heroes singing "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" on a trip to Munich. I learned in that thread that it's a very common misconception that those are the official lyrics of the German anthem.
Ignoring the total overreaction (imho) of a lot of my fellow Germans in that thread over a cultural faux pas, I figure that rather than jump down non-native speakers' throats for not picking up on foreign-language lyrics, cultural nuances and German sensitivities, it's better to simply make it more common knowledge that these lyrics are considered inappropriate. They're not outright banned here, but they might as well be. Only the third verse is today's official anthem and starts with the words "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" (unity and right and freedom). ( Read more... )
In my opinion, Germany asked for that sort of confusion when they didn't scrap the entire anthem instead of just the first two verses. And then when our two countries reunited we had another chance to get rid of the thing which would've made sense on more than one level, and again we let it pass by.
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