It'd be very interesting to learn about the overpay situation in Germany (or other parts of Europe) for those that are not in a trade union (Gewerkschaft) or have pay scale laws in place (Tarifvertrag). I'm talking not only about tech workers, but the majority of people working in media, design and architecture. In these professions, most people I know won't even bother to mention overtime to their bosses because paid overtime in these fields (especially in the latter three) is practically unheard of.
The reason given by the Viennese sounds a lot like the kind of perfidious methods M$ would employ to secure market share.
It's ridiculous. For the cost of changing back to Windoze, 8 m EUR, you could probably hire *ten* companies to port that silly language test application to Linux in a couple of weeks. Who are they kidding?
I wonder if there is a decision maker in the city of Vienna who maybe got a birthday present or two from Bill.
The guy's an engineer, but he's talking like a politician. He is not actually saying anything. He did not answer even one question. He's just spewing out empty word shells. (Not even minding the fact that he uses the word "really" in just about every sentence.) If I ever get into a position where I have to behave like that, I'm gonna kill myself. I couldn't look at myself in a mirror.
I'll confess, I'm a MS hater. I could just care less, but these guys have brought so much shit upon the world, there can be no ignoring them. I'm always hoping for something that will challenge my opinion of them, but whatever news there are from MS always just manages to undermine my perception of MS as a big bunch of spineless, soulless, greedy children.
Btw, gallium arsenide and gallium nitride are not alloys; they're inorganic compounds. An alloy is a mixture of two or more metals. There is a fundamental difference./wisecrack
They are talking about a silafluorene/fluorene copolymer. That is something entirely different to "free" silafluorene/fluorene, just as poly(e)thene (which your plastic bag is made of) is something entirely different to ethene, which is an inflammable gas.
It's a good thing for Wikipedia. A lot of people are media-conservative in the sense that they don't take Web content seriously, particulary an encyclopaedia that is written by volunteers. Example: I wanted to prove a point to my dad a while ago using a Wikipedia article, and his reply was essentially "that article has no value and cannot be trusted as it was written by people hanging around on the Web". A printed book made by a real, large and well-known publisher might change this attitude, especially of those people who think Web content is worth less than printed content.
Also, I'd expect it to push Wikipedia contributions and the overall article quality. If people may expect to see their work in a printed book hopefully sold in large numbers, it will motivate them to contribute higher-quality content to Wikipedia. You can go to a book store and tell your friend: hey, look, I wrote some of the stuff in this article!
On the downside, I agree with those who wonder how they will fit 50K articles into a 1000 page book. 50 articles per page will mean one short paragraph per article on average. It's not possible to represent the nature of Wikipedia content in a space that small. Most articles will have to be edited down to the kind of content you would expect in any conventional (printed) encyclopaedia.
Also, I wonder how much Bertelsmann will benefit from this deal. 1 EUR per book for Wikimedia is not exactly generous. On the other hand, we can expect to see this book prominently on display in most every book store. If they sell 100K copies, Wikimedia will get 100K EUR, which means a lot to them.
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No, no, it's because she was born in '77.
At least so much for creativity.
It'd be very interesting to learn about the overpay situation in Germany (or other parts of Europe) for those that are not in a trade union (Gewerkschaft) or have pay scale laws in place (Tarifvertrag). I'm talking not only about tech workers, but the majority of people working in media, design and architecture. In these professions, most people I know won't even bother to mention overtime to their bosses because paid overtime in these fields (especially in the latter three) is practically unheard of.
The reason given by the Viennese sounds a lot like the kind of perfidious methods M$ would employ to secure market share.
It's ridiculous. For the cost of changing back to Windoze, 8 m EUR, you could probably hire *ten* companies to port that silly language test application to Linux in a couple of weeks. Who are they kidding?
I wonder if there is a decision maker in the city of Vienna who maybe got a birthday present or two from Bill.
The guy's an engineer, but he's talking like a politician. He is not actually saying anything. He did not answer even one question. He's just spewing out empty word shells. (Not even minding the fact that he uses the word "really" in just about every sentence.) If I ever get into a position where I have to behave like that, I'm gonna kill myself. I couldn't look at myself in a mirror.
I'll confess, I'm a MS hater. I could just care less, but these guys have brought so much shit upon the world, there can be no ignoring them. I'm always hoping for something that will challenge my opinion of them, but whatever news there are from MS always just manages to undermine my perception of MS as a big bunch of spineless, soulless, greedy children.
Btw, gallium arsenide and gallium nitride are not alloys; they're inorganic compounds. An alloy is a mixture of two or more metals. There is a fundamental difference. /wisecrack
... the toxic element ...
They are talking about a silafluorene/fluorene copolymer. That is something entirely different to "free" silafluorene/fluorene, just as poly(e)thene (which your plastic bag is made of) is something entirely different to ethene, which is an inflammable gas.
You've confused toxic element FluorIne and the three-ring hydrocarben FluorEne.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorene
Interesting, and clever marketing by Websense. This is the third /. post linking to an article on their website in the past three weeks, iirc.
Am I the only one who thinks this is paranoid well beyond common reasoning?
-- Go to a public terminal in a respectable Internet café
-- Take a mobile device with you with which you can connect to the Internet
It's a good thing for Wikipedia. A lot of people are media-conservative in the sense that they don't take Web content seriously, particulary an encyclopaedia that is written by volunteers. Example: I wanted to prove a point to my dad a while ago using a Wikipedia article, and his reply was essentially "that article has no value and cannot be trusted as it was written by people hanging around on the Web". A printed book made by a real, large and well-known publisher might change this attitude, especially of those people who think Web content is worth less than printed content.
Also, I'd expect it to push Wikipedia contributions and the overall article quality. If people may expect to see their work in a printed book hopefully sold in large numbers, it will motivate them to contribute higher-quality content to Wikipedia. You can go to a book store and tell your friend: hey, look, I wrote some of the stuff in this article!
On the downside, I agree with those who wonder how they will fit 50K articles into a 1000 page book. 50 articles per page will mean one short paragraph per article on average. It's not possible to represent the nature of Wikipedia content in a space that small. Most articles will have to be edited down to the kind of content you would expect in any conventional (printed) encyclopaedia.
Also, I wonder how much Bertelsmann will benefit from this deal. 1 EUR per book for Wikimedia is not exactly generous. On the other hand, we can expect to see this book prominently on display in most every book store. If they sell 100K copies, Wikimedia will get 100K EUR, which means a lot to them.
Oh. He *was* talking about the VAT. My bad.
They were not talking about the VAT, but about the fact that 1 EUR of the sales price is going to go to Wikimedia. 1 EUR of 20 EUR is 5%.