Yeah, its not the nicest change of all time, but I recently implemented it for a customer and with a bit of magic and a dictionary of the form {"GB":20.0,"DE":19.0, ...} and everything was fine.
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I bought a new laptop recently and just didn't install any text editors. I had a deadline a month away and a project where I was familiar with the existing technologies.
That motivated me enough.
Add a bit of vimgolf and a lot of googling and here I am using vim for everything, everywhere. I occasionally catch myself writing emails in vim and then just copying them into Mail before I fire them off.
That passage struck me as odd as well, the answer is: He is selling something to you as you read it.
A bit obscure because the product doesn't really exist anymore as we read it 18 years later.
I am not saying banks are not needed, and I am not running around with a tinfoil hat, but saying that investment banks are 'working quite successfully' might be a bit of a stretch.
The physical Google button is a somewhat terrible idea, I think someone tried something similar a while back http://bit.ly/1rZkPdO
When I read the first paragraph of the article and looked at the very first image I hated it, but the further I scrolled the better I understood what they tried to do and the more I liked it.
No idea about your visa, but if you are enrolled somewhere that shouldn't be a problem.
Application process: will vary widely, for many human sciences you can just enroll (Sociology, History, Gender Studies, all that stuff). You might even be able to just enroll for Business in some places.
For CS degrees sometimes you have to apply formally and show what projects you have done, submit your grade sheet, sometimes interviews. For my M.Sc. I was allowed to interview via Skype because I was abroad at the time. They gave me proper coding and interview questions and grilled me for 45mins. Some proof of A-Levels will be required.
Living costs: Will vary depending on where you go. Berlin will be dead cheap, so will be many places in the former GDR, while southern cities like Munich or Stuttgart will be more expensive. Hamburg is also fairly expensive. Nothing like the Bay Area or NY though.
A very nice resource for German Universities is: http://ranking.zeit.de/che2014/en/
No idea about the other mentioned countries, but I was surprised that Scotland didn't show up, but they might be only free for non-english EU citizens.