Somewhat.

The current borders don't follow historical kingdoms/duchies/tribal areas too closely, because there was a lot of switchery. Current German states were formed after WW2.

But germany has 16 states with their own constitutions, parliaments, history, "counties", and historical regions, national minorities and languages and dialects.

My state has Frisian and Danish minorities, with their own party guaranteed a seat in the parliament, their languages protected and intact, their own schools, and Frisian towns have their Frisian names on the place-name signs.

There are historical regions like Anglia, North Frisia, Schleswig (partly in Denmark), Holstein and the Duchy of Lauenburg (the Duke is missing).

These regions can't all be their own states, since Germany would consist of lots of small independent states then (it actually did work like that once), so there were a couple reforms, and the allies after WW2 mostly created the current set of 16 somewhat bigger states (these roughly include historical regions though, except the large kingdom/province of Prussia, which was exterminated).

Under Nazi rule, the individual states were weakened and the idea was one centralized country "led" from Berlin. That didn't happen though.

Pretty sure Bavaria would love to have their own national team. They think they're special like that. The rest, not so sure. I was more kidding than anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Germany

Germany is a federal republic, not least because the allies deemed it the safest option. If the states are caught in their own rivalries, over money for example, it's unlikely to unite and go all Nazi on anyone.

Germans have federal ID cards etc, though. The individual states also have no armies, but they have their own police forces. 

was the cow named after the region or is it somehow the other way around?

anyways, that's a lot of interesting information actually :o. 

My work is related to diary farming, and the two most common cows are called Holsteins and Fresians. They are the type with the black and white patches that you see on all of the milk commercials.
The Holstein cow is the one which produces the most milk.

I did not realise that they were named after regions in Germany! 

on are farm before it became an ex-farm were Holsteins and Jerseys. the Holstein is cow with the highest milk production but supposedly the jersey has more fat or creme or whatever which was better for butter production. the Holsteins were a lot larger than the jerseys and we had them crossbreeding so we had more than one jersey cow die giving birth to a Holstein calf (or they would sometimes become crips and we had to get this pulley thing and yank the calf out and shoot the mother, which is shit in the dairy industry :/)
oh what fun life is when you're the one doing the killing. 

does anyone know where a "Jersey" is in Europe? because I'm pretty sure the cows are not named after *New* Jersey. 

Small island off the south coast of the UK. It's a Crown Dependent, kinda independant but not entirely. Like half way between Canada and Wales. Often used as something of a tax haven for the financial industry. 

Argentina or Germany ? 

In 2006 I was sure we were going to lose against Argentinia, and then we won. I hope the team can repeat that success. Either way, it's going to be an interesting game. 

But I'm skimming - what comes out of a Holstien cow?

Is there a Glen Fiddich cow?

Or better yet, a cash cow?

Now you can see why the title of this post is. 

And I used the word 'skimming'.

I haven't slept properly in days. 

Visit me in NYC! 

Yeah... I'd like to see Germany get up.. but the argies aren't too shabby, and Maradonna is really geeing everyone up.

Germany's manager looks pretty focused too. 

"Fresians" are named after a Dutch province 

That ball isn't round anyway..,
although even not excactly flat.

can't help it,
I'm Dutch. 

Is anyone aware of any problems running Fitz.85 or any of the usual compile routines under Windows 7 in 64 bit?

If so, any solutions? 

I always use windows command prompt for tools.
I always put my -commands in the windows desktop shortcuts too. Works a charm - Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.... 

And try to run it in a legacy Windows version mode. 

No. 

...I will lash out on a new MB upgrade and go 64 bit. 

are an ethnic group. Several regions/provinces/counties in Holland and Germany are named after them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisians

Frisian football team would probably kick some ass, if it existed. 

The cow is named after the place at least in case of Holstein. There is also a type of horse named "Holsteiner". Statues have been built for individual horses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holsteiner

There's also Holsten beer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-krFFBHnmM&NR=1

Some say the beer tastes like horse piss, however. :-)

Then there is Wacken Open Air, a metal festival about which there exists a movie, "Full Metal Village".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZjNhF-HPsE

Attention, cow moshing. 

i actually did have a problem with windows 7 + 64bit + fitzquake...

the timing was off due to some kind of coding practice that used older methods or somesuch. i had to use quakespasm, which is basically the same thing only it works. i think it has to do with SDL and a different timing thing. 

the timing problem i think was more due to the multicore cpu (i have a core2 duo) than 64bit.

otoh, if you're going 64bit, do they even make single core 64bit cpus any more? 

I'm going with an Intel i7 so there are going to be a few cores to play with. I will let you know what happens.

Also, I had a legit copy of an RC Windows 7 which has now expired, so I need to buy (I missed MS's offer as I was travelling at the time). It will therefore be a complete rebuild from scratch.

Fun times ahead... I may be gone for some time. 

And no problems here. With Quake anyway...