you would realize how ridiculous and xenophobic your post is
I spent some time in Germany at friends and family's places... And apart from Finish and Hungarian I can't find any (non Germanic) language that doesn't sound better than German.
On the other hand I am always pleased to be surprised, so if you have a good example...
Fear sells better than education in the US.
Fear is even more effective in keeping the masses away from political matters than the not so democratic voting system there is in the US.
Fear and hate are also good reasons to justify any war crimes and laws which strip the people from their rights.
German, beautiful? I mean... yes in a sense, if you want to train Rottweilers it has some charms... But to call it beautiful you probably must be a great fan of Industrial metal.
Long live Rammstein!
Seriously there is no way to protect the population with laptops or the laptops themselves, but throw enough of those somewhere to make them too numerous to be interesting for looters.
Press and books too have been chased and burned on occasion.
You could parachute those "One Laptop per child" things with solar batteries all around the world and use Mesh Networking (Like 802.11s) to connect them.
Contrary to food and water it does not need to be redistributed everyday to be used by someone. (Like pollution, once it's there it's there).
While the idea seems weird it could prove to work, let's remember that the press changed the world radically by giving access to cheaper information and knowledge as well as to cheaper and more effective means of diffusion for authors.
This led to better exchange of ideas, less effective censorship, more innovation and drastic changes in the organization of affairs, states and politics. Democracy as we know it emerged thanks to this improvement.
I think I can reasonably argue that the company remains french as its founders are still the decision makers, only 2 of the 9 decision makers represent foreign investors. The team is:
- Mr. Michel Combes
- Mr. Dominique D'Hinnin
- Mr. David Gardner
- Mr. Phil Harrison
- Mr. Didier Lamouche
- Mrs. Gina Germano
- Mr. Jeffrey Lapin
- Mr. Eli Muraidekh
- Mr. Benoit Regnault de Maulmin
Depends on the education level as well as on the gray cell density of the girls.
What really plays in the attraction is the level of confidence exhibited by the male.
Pathetic you are. Have you never bought a product before its release date?
There is no reason to release a review when no "non disclosure agreement" was signed.
The suit is just a move to remove bad reviews before the official date and to get the origin of the retailer who leaked the game.
Also you might be an international law expert and will be able to argue that, but I don't think buying a product before release date is a crime in any country in Europe. Neither is posting reviews of a product.
Also just to make sure anyone remembers, Atari is an evil French company.
Because you are only capable of knowing a set number of languages? Yes he uses the d20 system... When you are a level 3 programmer, you have little squares in your head so you can learn only 3 level 1 languages and 1 level 2 Language.
You get over the limit pretty fast when you work in video edition.
Also listening to Internet radios and watching TV over internet uses tons of bandwidth...
But true that for US standards it's a lot. Mainly when you compare the crappy internet access you get there to the 100Mbps/50Mbps (with VoIP and TVoIP for less than 30 euros) you get in France and other places in Europe.
And it will not change soon the US falls behind due to lack of real legislation for ISPs.
The US ISPs are just slowing down the US internet economy. But it's good for us then:)
The SDK is crippled. Not function wise but legally. It is forbidden for example to use the WAN interface of the iPhone for VoIP applications. This makes it basically impossible to introduce applications like Skype or SIP softphones on the iPhone when you are outside of a usable WiFi zone. Also the Apple guidelines state that it is forbidden to leave your application running during voice communications and while your application is out of scope. This again makes any messaging application impossible on the iPhone.
These restrictions are here to artificially limit competition between advanced communication applications and the telcos. It keeps you dependent on the old phone voice communications and the old SMS system which are obsolete and extremely expensive comparing to any IM and SIP solution.
This way you are banned from using any innovative communication technology while paying for the (artificially) crippled internet connection plus the expensive call rates.
Owned indeed, but as a prize for the hack. Once again, the macbook air manages to get the attention making the other prizes nameless... Who wants to win a boring nameless computer... And with the downloaded filenames overflow recently introduced by "the lastest version of" Safari a couple of days ago it must have been a piece of cake.
Anyway, no one got interested in the rest and the guy went straight for the MBA...
The money from the TV Tax in France is used to maintain an independent set of public channels. I agree that that quality of the programs is not perfect but it's still much better than most of the cable channels I have in North America. The news are much better, provide a better world coverage and are more balanced than in the US. And you don't have so many useless commercials (In the US you pay for commercials with some content interrupting the flow from time to time).
These public channels provide all the basic and minimum information and entertainment that is required by an educated population and expected from a strong public system.
On the other hand policing artificial taxes to keep obsolete companies alive is certainly not what you expect from any strong government. It's like making you pay an additional tax to keep at least 1 horse for 10 citizens because that was the proportion of horses used before the automobile.
Well, reality check: since the invention of the engine horses became a niche market for horse riders and collectors. It would be scandalous to make everyone pay to just keep the horse market artificially alive. The same applies to all the impacted industries which have not taken the opportunity the internet provides.
Maybe a better example would be Disneyland: you pay to enter, and that pays for the haunted mansion, even if you never go there. Yes you pay for the package you buy... But the cost is balanced: an average customer will use x attractions, so you pay for x +-(aimed profit margin) unsuccessful attractions are removed the most successful ones stay. Also you don't pay an additional tax on your ticket for the Roller coaster Association of America because Disneyland provides better family attractions than the 6 flags
buying a swiss army knife with a can openner, even if you never use it. This has nothing to do. The Victorinox company creates products designed to be multi functional. The Swiss army requires some of the tools and other people/geeks/punters who always find a need for it. If you are not interested by the features you can buy an Opinel, these are good enough knives.
Having to pay a tax for a failed business model doesn't provide any additional functionality to my internet connection, it just hurts the consumer, the independent artists and the internet economy in general.
If you believe the music industry should get money for failing to use the internet as a distribution channel you create a situation where you reward laziness and inactivity. You discourage innovation and risk taking. You slowdown adoption rate of the internet and at the same time the resulting business and services growth.
Even worst you create a precedent where anyone can claim rights to a tax on your internet connection. The post office and UPS for loss of profit because people stop using mail and now switched to e-mails, the publication industry because people prefer to surf the news and read documentations online instead of buying paper publications... Lazy people get very dishonest when big money is involved... and 20 billion $ is big enough for the big 4.
And if you really want to pay the artists for their music buy directly from them, look for fair music sites. Most important go to their concerts... At least you really get what the artist does and you can buy as much merchandising as you like afterwards...
I don't see the point in your comment.
You compare a state critical utility with a private product/commodity.
I invite you to look for the role of transport channels in your society, then think about it, and finally learn to make a difference between critical infrastructures and leisure products.
Until now the internet does not allow moving raw materials, goods or people. If you don't maintain roads you slowdown your production and distribution, you encourage congestions and further slowdowns, basically you kill your economy.
Even if you live at your work place you need your food, clothes, computers, paper, and other goods produced, processed, and delivered... I doubt you buy food from your neighbors garden.
All you use and consume on a daily basis is transported.
On the other hand racketing the population because you believe your life shouldn't change is typical of any failed state. The music industry failed to provide its services through an extremely efficient and popular medium and now pays the consequences.
The internet in the northern america is slow and unadapted... a contention rate of 100:1 is irrational on a 10 Mbps line. In Canada there is nearly no Broadband, most traffic is caped so when you need to download your DB from work or your Debian DVDs you have to suffer being last in line, on a 100:1 line there are 99 people surfing the web who take precedence on you. Basically you pay an irrationally high price for a 12 Mbps connection and get less than 0.1Mbps.
Adding additional charges to the primitive and unadapted infrastructure will only slowdown the adoption of the internet, and slowdown the associated economy (the internet is a transport channel).
The music industry had its chance but ignored it... Apple made the move (with unadapted pricing but this is another problem). There is no reason to keep an obsolete infrastructure alive at the expense of the rest of the current and future economy.
A much more adapted analogy would be: Let's create an additional VAT tax in all capitalist countries to give some money to communism because it failed on its own.
Over-clocking is not the hype anymore...
Now it's under-clocking and lower power consumption to show how responsible you are.
Or this guy is just smug about it... "yeah.. I got it in a record time on an underclocked proc... youk now..."
Or again the article might have the facts wrong.
I am going to write a genetic algorithm to find the best solution to the question and run it on my Pentium 133MHZ... but first I need to determine the best fitness algorithm.
I believe suspending all US copyright and patents until the US complies would be a great idea...
Ok, maybe not the copyrights... that would be a disaster to all the real artists whose music would be replaced in stores around the world by cheap crap like Britney Spears and other highly promoted and talentless junk.
Although I doubt it would have any impact on Bollywood's irrational constant success;-)
Slashdot Mirror
That was pretty harsh :) (Although Germans are creative.)
you would realize how ridiculous and xenophobic your post is
I spent some time in Germany at friends and family's places... And apart from Finish and Hungarian I can't find any (non Germanic) language that doesn't sound better than German.
On the other hand I am always pleased to be surprised, so if you have a good example...
Fear sells better than education in the US.
Fear is even more effective in keeping the masses away from political matters than the not so democratic voting system there is in the US.
Fear and hate are also good reasons to justify any war crimes and laws which strip the people from their rights.
German, beautiful? I mean... yes in a sense, if you want to train Rottweilers it has some charms... But to call it beautiful you probably must be a great fan of Industrial metal.
Long live Rammstein!
Swiss German is pretty weird, but it remains german... But to some Germans it will sound like Quebecois to some French.
You are right, one state accredited company to do one thing is the best idea comrade, don't let the capitalist regime change your mind.
The usual passive measures? Land mines?
Seriously there is no way to protect the population with laptops or the laptops themselves, but throw enough of those somewhere to make them too numerous to be interesting for looters.
Press and books too have been chased and burned on occasion.
If I were them I would have put the money on a new account... at City Bank...
You could parachute those "One Laptop per child" things with solar batteries all around the world and use Mesh Networking (Like 802.11s) to connect them.
Contrary to food and water it does not need to be redistributed everyday to be used by someone. (Like pollution, once it's there it's there).
While the idea seems weird it could prove to work, let's remember that the press changed the world radically by giving access to cheaper information and knowledge as well as to cheaper and more effective means of diffusion for authors.
This led to better exchange of ideas, less effective censorship, more innovation and drastic changes in the organization of affairs, states and politics. Democracy as we know it emerged thanks to this improvement.
I think I can reasonably argue that the company remains french as its founders are still the decision makers, only 2 of the 9 decision makers represent foreign investors. The team is:
- Mr. Michel Combes
- Mr. Dominique D'Hinnin
- Mr. David Gardner
- Mr. Phil Harrison
- Mr. Didier Lamouche
- Mrs. Gina Germano
- Mr. Jeffrey Lapin
- Mr. Eli Muraidekh
- Mr. Benoit Regnault de Maulmin
Depends on the education level as well as on the gray cell density of the girls.
What really plays in the attraction is the level of confidence exhibited by the male.
You can't understand... "They" are watching him.
It is owned at 51% by a French company. The buyout of the remaining stock was accepted recently.
Pathetic you are. Have you never bought a product before its release date?
There is no reason to release a review when no "non disclosure agreement" was signed.
The suit is just a move to remove bad reviews before the official date and to get the origin of the retailer who leaked the game.
Also you might be an international law expert and will be able to argue that, but I don't think buying a product before release date is a crime in any country in Europe. Neither is posting reviews of a product.
Also just to make sure anyone remembers, Atari is an evil French company.
and the targeted platforms are somewhat limited Just so you stop your bullshit : Generic Objective-C programs [...] can also be compiled for any system supported by gcc, which includes an Objective-C compiler.
Its a turn off because
Sorry for the harshness, but it is well deserved when you see this type of FUD propagated by pretending "BSD guys"
You get over the limit pretty fast when you work in video edition. :)
Also listening to Internet radios and watching TV over internet uses tons of bandwidth...
But true that for US standards it's a lot. Mainly when you compare the crappy internet access you get there to the 100Mbps/50Mbps (with VoIP and TVoIP for less than 30 euros) you get in France and other places in Europe.
And it will not change soon the US falls behind due to lack of real legislation for ISPs. The US ISPs are just slowing down the US internet economy. But it's good for us then
The SDK is crippled. Not function wise but legally. It is forbidden for example to use the WAN interface of the iPhone for VoIP applications. This makes it basically impossible to introduce applications like Skype or SIP softphones on the iPhone when you are outside of a usable WiFi zone. Also the Apple guidelines state that it is forbidden to leave your application running during voice communications and while your application is out of scope. This again makes any messaging application impossible on the iPhone.
These restrictions are here to artificially limit competition between advanced communication applications and the telcos. It keeps you dependent on the old phone voice communications and the old SMS system which are obsolete and extremely expensive comparing to any IM and SIP solution.
This way you are banned from using any innovative communication technology while paying for the (artificially) crippled internet connection plus the expensive call rates.
Owned indeed, but as a prize for the hack. Once again, the macbook air manages to get the attention making the other prizes nameless... Who wants to win a boring nameless computer... And with the downloaded filenames overflow recently introduced by "the lastest version of" Safari a couple of days ago it must have been a piece of cake.
Anyway, no one got interested in the rest and the guy went straight for the MBA...
Interesting? no... but does it blend?
These public channels provide all the basic and minimum information and entertainment that is required by an educated population and expected from a strong public system.
On the other hand policing artificial taxes to keep obsolete companies alive is certainly not what you expect from any strong government. It's like making you pay an additional tax to keep at least 1 horse for 10 citizens because that was the proportion of horses used before the automobile.
Well, reality check: since the invention of the engine horses became a niche market for horse riders and collectors. It would be scandalous to make everyone pay to just keep the horse market artificially alive. The same applies to all the impacted industries which have not taken the opportunity the internet provides.
Maybe a better example would be Disneyland: you pay to enter, and that pays for the haunted mansion, even if you never go there. Yes you pay for the package you buy... But the cost is balanced: an average customer will use x attractions, so you pay for x +-(aimed profit margin) unsuccessful attractions are removed the most successful ones stay. Also you don't pay an additional tax on your ticket for the Roller coaster Association of America because Disneyland provides better family attractions than the 6 flags
buying a swiss army knife with a can openner, even if you never use it. This has nothing to do. The Victorinox company creates products designed to be multi functional. The Swiss army requires some of the tools and other people/geeks/punters who always find a need for it. If you are not interested by the features you can buy an Opinel, these are good enough knives.
Having to pay a tax for a failed business model doesn't provide any additional functionality to my internet connection, it just hurts the consumer, the independent artists and the internet economy in general.
If you believe the music industry should get money for failing to use the internet as a distribution channel you create a situation where you reward laziness and inactivity. You discourage innovation and risk taking. You slowdown adoption rate of the internet and at the same time the resulting business and services growth.
Even worst you create a precedent where anyone can claim rights to a tax on your internet connection. The post office and UPS for loss of profit because people stop using mail and now switched to e-mails, the publication industry because people prefer to surf the news and read documentations online instead of buying paper publications... Lazy people get very dishonest when big money is involved... and 20 billion $ is big enough for the big 4.
And if you really want to pay the artists for their music buy directly from them, look for fair music sites. Most important go to their concerts... At least you really get what the artist does and you can buy as much merchandising as you like afterwards...
I don't see the point in your comment.
You compare a state critical utility with a private product/commodity.
I invite you to look for the role of transport channels in your society, then think about it, and finally learn to make a difference between critical infrastructures and leisure products.
Until now the internet does not allow moving raw materials, goods or people. If you don't maintain roads you slowdown your production and distribution, you encourage congestions and further slowdowns, basically you kill your economy.
Even if you live at your work place you need your food, clothes, computers, paper, and other goods produced, processed, and delivered... I doubt you buy food from your neighbors garden.
All you use and consume on a daily basis is transported.
On the other hand racketing the population because you believe your life shouldn't change is typical of any failed state. The music industry failed to provide its services through an extremely efficient and popular medium and now pays the consequences.
The internet in the northern america is slow and unadapted... a contention rate of 100:1 is irrational on a 10 Mbps line. In Canada there is nearly no Broadband, most traffic is caped so when you need to download your DB from work or your Debian DVDs you have to suffer being last in line, on a 100:1 line there are 99 people surfing the web who take precedence on you. Basically you pay an irrationally high price for a 12 Mbps connection and get less than 0.1Mbps.
Adding additional charges to the primitive and unadapted infrastructure will only slowdown the adoption of the internet, and slowdown the associated economy (the internet is a transport channel).
The music industry had its chance but ignored it... Apple made the move (with unadapted pricing but this is another problem). There is no reason to keep an obsolete infrastructure alive at the expense of the rest of the current and future economy.
A much more adapted analogy would be: Let's create an additional VAT tax in all capitalist countries to give some money to communism because it failed on its own.
Over-clocking is not the hype anymore...
Now it's under-clocking and lower power consumption to show how responsible you are.
Or this guy is just smug about it... "yeah.. I got it in a record time on an underclocked proc... youk now..."
Or again the article might have the facts wrong.
I am going to write a genetic algorithm to find the best solution to the question and run it on my Pentium 133MHZ... but first I need to determine the best fitness algorithm.
I believe suspending all US copyright and patents until the US complies would be a great idea... ;-)
Ok, maybe not the copyrights... that would be a disaster to all the real artists whose music would be replaced in stores around the world by cheap crap like Britney Spears and other highly promoted and talentless junk.
Although I doubt it would have any impact on Bollywood's irrational constant success