I have a better idea. Show up for 40, but be extra polite, and do everything perfect. Don't call in or anything, just show up at the normal start time, leave at the normal day's end. If they call you into a meeting, don't say anything, just listen. Within 3 days time, you will be fired. But you've already got the lawyer on retainer for wrongful termination at that point.
Well, in the Netherlands this wouldn't happen. First of all, if you are on a one year contract they have to give you one month to find another job. If you are on a contract for unlimited time it's about two months. Second, overtime has to be compensated. And for working on saturdays you get 125% and on sundays 150%. You can't be fired if you don't want to work on saturday or sunday. Second, if you are fired you have to go to court and fight the decision otherwise you won't get any unemployement payment.
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As far as I know almost all cars use 12 volt. Only trucks use 24 volt. The first VW beatle used 6 volt like most cars of that time. Later they switched to 12 volt.
But don't forget that even thoug landline phone is relatively expensive, mobile is even more expensive. Especially if using it across national borders, it is obscenely expensive.
Also for data (modem, ADSL) mobile phone is not really an alternative.
I see mobile telephony mostly as fashionable, but less functional (slow data speed, very expensive)
Contrary to what you think, a mobile (gsm network) is cheaper to run and also is cheaper to build than a wired network. Second, due to the fact that GSM is an open standard you can mix equipment from different vendors without a problem. And don't forget that due to the fact that there is one common standard you don't get a situation like the US where every vendor uses its own non-standard system. The biggest problem with the US nowadays is that they still suffer the "not invented here syndrom".
Flatrates for Dialups DO exist, but you have to switch to another TELCO that the Deutsche Telekom for this. Since ISDN is more common in Europe than the US, i'll tell you something about it: dialing in is instantenous, a few milisceconds usually, speed is 64Kb/s up- and downlink (fullduplex so to speak), and the neccesary equipment is standardized here, if your'e cheap, you can use analog telephones via a so called "A/B-Wandler". Some Telcos let you use channelbundling, which ups the speed to 128Kb/s up/down. Since T-DSL is not available anywhere, not even in some streets in bigger cities, where in the next street it is, this could be a viable alternative.
It can be worse. In the Netherlands we have three major ADSL-providers (bbnet, KPN and Versatel). Prices are between 36 euro a month for 'ADSL lite' (256 Kb down 64 up), ADSL basic is around 60 euro a month (768 Kb down 128 up) and ADSL fast is around 99 euro a month (1,5 Mb down, 256 Kb up). Then there is also unlimited ADSL (up 8 Mb/sec down, 1 Mb up) for 99 to 129 euro a month. Cable internet is also very common (about 97% of all households have cabletelevision). Prices and speed vary between providers and prices are between 25 and 50 euro a month (Chello is 1,5 Mb/sec down and 128 Kb/sec up). Flatrate ISDN is available but starts at 160 euro a month (which is insane). So if you live in the Netherlands it's ADSL, cable or dialup.
And there is even a sourveforge project started. I have build five meshap units. The VIA-EPIA V8000 is only 109 euro including the processor and a processorcooler. Only thing you need next to this board is a 128 mb sdram module, a 32 CF IDE drive and a PCI-wirelesscard. And of course a case. The biggest advantage is, that it works and that is doesn't cost you an arm and a leg.
Multikabel/quicknet does not allow a router. But they do recommend you to use a firewall. The firewall i'm using is running linux with an iptables based firewall. Behind it are 8 computers. So, it's not a router but a firewall.
That is a very poor analogy since in the vast majority of the US mainland it is perfectly legal to carry a gun.
And which proves that banning guns also brings down crime rates. There are around 2 million people in prison in the US (on a population of around 265 million). Compare this to for instance to the Netherlands with 16 million people and only around 40.000 people in prison and it's very easy to see that due to the fact that it is legal to carry a gun in the US also means that there is more crime and thus more people in prison. It so simple...
No mention of actual censorship. Although the american media has a reputation for being good at self-censorship, i.e. 'don't criticise the president while we're "at war"' and all that.
Heheh, that's why i'm always watching bbc world instead of cnn.
You know, one day they're gonna fuck with the wrong person--say, a Tim McVeigh type--bankrupt the hell out of them, ruin their life, the usual. And at that point, when said person has nothing much to live for anymore and certainly nothing to lose, Scientology HQ will go up in a big orange-red ball of ammonium nitrate and diesel oil.
Well, they've tried it with Karin Spaink and XS4ALL here in the Netherlands. And they lost.
You can, however, get a pretty damn good, home-theater worthy, modded pioneer player for around $250
Well, i bought a LG DVD 5084 which is regioncode free by default for around 159 euro. And the shop also sold modified DVD players for around 40 euro more than the non-modified DVD players. This was at mediamarkt in Amsterdam bijlmer. Guess what, it isn't forbidden by Dutch law to sell regioncode free DVD players. I have some regioncode 1 disc's which play without any problem at all.
Well, i have a filter on my mail programm which redirects all mail from htomail.com, yahoo.com, aol.com and msn.com to the trash. And that is enough to get rid of almost 90% of all the spam i'm receiving.
That's why you get it to all run wirelessly on bluetooth so you have to be within the 20 ft limit (or whatever small number it is) so that fsckage is limited and no script kiddie can hit everything at once.
I have abetter idea. Put bluetooth into every apliance in the kitchen and also put a bluetooth basestation there. So that you only need one ethernetcable to control everything. Advantage is no wires needed to every device and with ipv6 it is possible to give everything it's own ip-number. The only thing we are still missing is a VoIP bluetooth mobile phone. If you put a bluetooth basestation in every room you can do some nice things with it.
But soft drinks seemed ridiculously expensive last time I was there. I'm used to buying a 0,5-L bottle for EUR 0.50 in both the U.S. and Greece, and it was 2-3x that in Holland...
Heheh. That's why i'm always buying 1.5 liter bottles. They are cheaper and you can buy them at every super market. A bottle of coca cola cost something like ? 1,10.
It's quite simple Linux is NOT competition for the desktop market. YES, I have been running Linux since 1993 on my own desktop, but I'll be one of the first to admit that it's not ready for mainstream.
It is very simple. I use linux on my webserver, fileserver and router. On my desktopmachine i'm running MacOS X. On my laptop i'm running MacOS x. Now, the problem is very simple. MacOS X has a damn good graphical interface and lots of good desktop software. Linux doesn't. Linux is a very good OS for a web- and fileservers or on a router. But not a very good desktop OS. MacOS X server is nice, but needs expensive hardware (a Macintosh is a little bit more expensive than most pc's I use as server). And I know a lot of developers which use a Macintosh for their development work and use linux for their server. It's what they call "best of both world's)
So now I'm going to go with Linux and OpenOffice, soon as I can find a good replacement for... some program for making b'day, etc. cards.
Why not a Mac with open office? As far as I know it is running on MAcOS X. The only thing you need is a working X window enviroment which is downloadable at versiontracker. Or use appleworks. Yes, it looks like a stripped down version but it works and opens and saves without any problem most word and excel files. And it is free on most new Mac's. Linux is nice, for servers. But for a desktop machine MacOS X is a lot more usable. Especially for normal people (not nerds and people with knowledge about unix). And most old unix nerds dig MacOS X. Beneath the graphical interface there is a very powerfull unix with lots of tools. And, like linux all information and even the sourcecode is almost free.
Well, according to mtr www.theregister.co.uk is now 28 hops away. Traffic is now routed from chellonetworks to alter.net. Instead of the normal 6 hops. O yeah, it is routed from Amsterdam to London, then to New York, Washington and then back to London and to www.theregister.co.uk. I can't imagen that this is the fastest route... But to be fair i'm using an UPC/Chello connection.
Since the bulb is not even on the market yet, what is to stop the company from improving the design at the last minute? And where did the author of the article get this information to begin with? It seems kind of shaky.
Well, I actually think that this 'bulb' is already on the market for at least 10 years. It is very common in Europe to replace normal light bulbs with low power bulbs based on fluorescent TL. Those 'bulbs' use 8 times less energy than normal bulbs and a ten times longer life time. Only disadvantage is, that can interfere with wireless equipment. But I never had any problems with WiFi.
hey've opened part of it, so far. the streaming server is open source.
Yup, and it runs on Linux, NT and MacOS (X).
Second, contrary to WMP and REAL it is completely free.
And with the MPEG4 codec you'll have the best streaming video solution on the market.
Apple Desktop Bus. That thing that the keyboard and mouse (and possibly other things like modems and what not) used to be plugged into. It disappeard about the time the iMac first showed up.
When they switched to a new stanxdard which was based on ADB called USB.
Not many people know that the USB protocol is based on the ADB protocol.
And before Apple started to use USB, USB was better know as "unused Serial Bus'.
Apple was the first to really use it.
bloody hell, they really are hyping the G5, and they haven't got any confirmation of what technologies it will use, they simply assume that motorola's latest chip will be the basis, how much would you have to pay for a mac for them to make returns on their production process?
Well, actually.. A G5 powermac will cost almost the same as the current G4 machines.
The PPC8500 is a 64 bits processor which is 100% backwards compatible.
I've seen some preliminary SpecFP and SpecINT figures and if those are correct a PPC8500 running at 1,6 Ghz is equal to a P4 running at 3 Ghz.
It is twice as fast as a Itanium running at 80 Mhz. and uses only 15 watts peak.
Compare that with around 60 watts for a P4 running at 2 Ghz..
The difference with this chip is, that most of design work was done by Apple itself.
This chip uses 0.13 micron technology and SOI.
So,actually the dye size is almost equal to that of the G4 which means that it will cost almost the same.
Don't forget that the PowerPC chip is based on the Power architecture of IBM.
OSX is a good product. Apple wants to make some money. They definetely have enough to put MacFixIt out of business if this would've gone to court. Why should MacFixIt be defiant on the issue? The site, after all, is dedicated to Apple products.
Fact is, that the 10.1 update CD is free.
Yes, if you order it you have to pay shipping and handling .
But if you go to your local Apple dealer you can get the update kit for $ 0.
Apple doesn't make much money on their software.
The reason is very simple.
They sell computers.
MacOS X is $120.
For this money you get a MacOS 9.1 CD, MacOS 10 CD and the developers tools.
All in a nice cardboard box.
The money they ask for it is to pay for the development of it.
Compare this with the insane prices M$ ask for their crappy software and you'll see that Apple is a completely different company who isn't ripping of their customers.
Yes, R&D costs money and Apple spends large amounts of cash on it.
The result is lots of nice new computers and technology's.
...Apple's license agreement, which you accepted upon purchasing a copy of the Software, specifically prohibits you from copying, decompiling, reverse engineering, disassembling, modifying or creating derivative works of the Software.
So, this EULA is not valid in most of Europe.
According to the law you have the right to make backups for personal use.
So long as you don't sell it or give it to somebody else.
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But Saddam's in Montreal, remember? Drinking martini's and laughing his arse off. Not in Good Old God Forsaken Family Values Walmart Censored America.
Yeah, and he just got his holiday payment from the CIA.
Wouldn't suprise me.
Yeah, Europe is really great, but you know any year now the Germans are going to whip up an army and try to take over Europe again.
Dream on.
THe general trend in Europe is to shrink the armies because a. they cost too much money b. why do you need a large army?
I have a better idea. Show up for 40, but be extra polite, and do everything perfect. Don't call in or anything, just show up at the normal start time, leave at the normal day's end. If they call you into a meeting, don't say anything, just listen. Within 3 days time, you will be fired. But you've already got the lawyer on retainer for wrongful termination at that point.
Well, in the Netherlands this wouldn't happen.
First of all, if you are on a one year contract they have to give you one month to find another job.
If you are on a contract for unlimited time it's about two months.
Second, overtime has to be compensated.
And for working on saturdays you get 125% and on sundays 150%.
You can't be fired if you don't want to work on saturday or sunday.
Second, if you are fired you have to go to court and fight the decision otherwise you won't get any unemployement payment.
As far as I know almost all cars use 12 volt.
Only trucks use 24 volt.
The first VW beatle used 6 volt like most cars of that time.
Later they switched to 12 volt.
But don't forget that even thoug landline phone is relatively expensive, mobile is even more expensive. Especially if using it across national borders, it is obscenely expensive.
Also for data (modem, ADSL) mobile phone is not really an alternative.
I see mobile telephony mostly as fashionable, but less functional (slow data speed, very expensive)
Contrary to what you think, a mobile (gsm network) is cheaper to run and also is cheaper to build than a wired network.
Second, due to the fact that GSM is an open standard you can mix equipment from different vendors without a problem.
And don't forget that due to the fact that there is one common standard you don't get a situation like the US where every vendor uses its own non-standard system.
The biggest problem with the US nowadays is that they still suffer the "not invented here syndrom".
Flatrates for Dialups DO exist, but you have to switch to another TELCO that the Deutsche Telekom for this. Since ISDN is more common in Europe than the US, i'll tell you something about it: dialing in is instantenous, a few milisceconds usually, speed is 64Kb/s up- and downlink (fullduplex so to speak), and the neccesary equipment is standardized here, if your'e cheap, you can use analog telephones via a so called "A/B-Wandler". Some Telcos let you use channelbundling, which ups the speed to 128Kb/s up/down. Since T-DSL is not available anywhere, not even in some streets in bigger cities, where in the next street it is, this could be a viable alternative.
It can be worse.
In the Netherlands we have three major ADSL-providers (bbnet, KPN and Versatel).
Prices are between 36 euro a month for 'ADSL lite' (256 Kb down 64 up), ADSL basic is around 60 euro a month (768 Kb down 128 up) and ADSL fast is around 99 euro a month (1,5 Mb down, 256 Kb up).
Then there is also unlimited ADSL (up 8 Mb/sec down, 1 Mb up) for 99 to 129 euro a month.
Cable internet is also very common (about 97% of all households have cabletelevision).
Prices and speed vary between providers and prices are between 25 and 50 euro a month (Chello is 1,5 Mb/sec down and 128 Kb/sec up).
Flatrate ISDN is available but starts at 160 euro a month (which is insane).
So if you live in the Netherlands it's ADSL, cable or dialup.
And there is even a sourveforge project started .
I have build five meshap units.
The VIA-EPIA V8000 is only 109 euro including the processor and a processorcooler.
Only thing you need next to this board is a 128 mb sdram module, a 32 CF IDE drive and a PCI-wirelesscard.
And of course a case.
The biggest advantage is, that it works and that is doesn't cost you an arm and a leg.
Multikabel/quicknet does not allow a router.
But they do recommend you to use a firewall.
The firewall i'm using is running linux with an iptables based firewall.
Behind it are 8 computers.
So, it's not a router but a firewall.
That is a very poor analogy since in the vast majority of the US mainland it is perfectly legal to carry a gun.
And which proves that banning guns also brings down crime rates.
There are around 2 million people in prison in the US (on a population of around 265 million).
Compare this to for instance to the Netherlands with 16 million people and only around 40.000 people in prison and it's very easy to see that due to the fact that it is legal to carry a gun in the US also means that there is more crime and thus more people in prison.
It so simple...
No mention of actual censorship. Although the american media has a reputation for being good at self-censorship, i.e. 'don't criticise the president while we're "at war"' and all that.
Heheh, that's why i'm always watching bbc world instead of cnn.
You know, one day they're gonna fuck with the wrong person--say, a Tim McVeigh type--bankrupt the hell out of them, ruin their life, the usual. And at that point, when said person has nothing much to live for anymore and certainly nothing to lose, Scientology HQ will go up in a big orange-red ball of ammonium nitrate and diesel oil.
Well, they've tried it with Karin Spaink and XS4ALL here in the Netherlands.
And they lost.
You can, however, get a pretty damn good, home-theater worthy, modded pioneer player for around $250
Well, i bought a LG DVD 5084 which is regioncode free by default for around 159 euro.
And the shop also sold modified DVD players for around 40 euro more than the non-modified DVD players.
This was at mediamarkt in Amsterdam bijlmer.
Guess what, it isn't forbidden by Dutch law to sell regioncode free DVD players.
I have some regioncode 1 disc's which play without any problem at all.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/tech/1516
Well, i have a filter on my mail programm which redirects all mail from htomail.com, yahoo.com, aol.com and msn.com to the trash.
And that is enough to get rid of almost 90% of all the spam i'm receiving.
That's why you get it to all run wirelessly on bluetooth so you have to be within the 20 ft limit (or whatever small number it is) so that fsckage is limited and no script kiddie can hit everything at once.
I have abetter idea.
Put bluetooth into every apliance in the kitchen and also put a bluetooth basestation there.
So that you only need one ethernetcable to control everything.
Advantage is no wires needed to every device and with ipv6 it is possible to give everything it's own ip-number.
The only thing we are still missing is a VoIP bluetooth mobile phone.
If you put a bluetooth basestation in every room you can do some nice things with it.
But soft drinks seemed ridiculously expensive last time I was there. I'm used to buying a 0,5-L bottle for EUR 0.50 in both the U.S. and Greece, and it was 2-3x that in Holland...
Heheh.
That's why i'm always buying 1.5 liter bottles.
They are cheaper and you can buy them at every super market.
A bottle of coca cola cost something like ? 1,10.
It's quite simple Linux is NOT competition for the desktop market. YES, I have been running Linux since 1993 on my own desktop, but I'll be one of the first to admit that it's not ready for mainstream.
It is very simple.
I use linux on my webserver, fileserver and router.
On my desktopmachine i'm running MacOS X.
On my laptop i'm running MacOS x.
Now, the problem is very simple.
MacOS X has a damn good graphical interface and lots of good desktop software.
Linux doesn't.
Linux is a very good OS for a web- and fileservers or on a router.
But not a very good desktop OS.
MacOS X server is nice, but needs expensive hardware (a Macintosh is a little bit more expensive than most pc's I use as server).
And I know a lot of developers which use a Macintosh for their development work and use linux for their server.
It's what they call "best of both world's)
So now I'm going to go with Linux and OpenOffice, soon as I can find a good replacement for... some program for making b'day, etc. cards.
Why not a Mac with open office?
As far as I know it is running on MAcOS X.
The only thing you need is a working X window enviroment which is downloadable at versiontracker.
Or use appleworks.
Yes, it looks like a stripped down version but it works and opens and saves without any problem most word and excel files.
And it is free on most new Mac's.
Linux is nice, for servers. But for a desktop machine MacOS X is a lot more usable.
Especially for normal people (not nerds and people with knowledge about unix).
And most old unix nerds dig MacOS X.
Beneath the graphical interface there is a very powerfull unix with lots of tools.
And, like linux all information and even the sourcecode is almost free.
It's on The Register [theregister.co.uk] too
Well, according to mtr www.theregister.co.uk is now 28 hops away.
Traffic is now routed from chellonetworks to alter.net.
Instead of the normal 6 hops.
O yeah, it is routed from Amsterdam to London, then to New York, Washington and then back to London and to www.theregister.co.uk.
I can't imagen that this is the fastest route...
But to be fair i'm using an UPC/Chello connection.
Since the bulb is not even on the market yet, what is to stop the company from improving the design at the last minute? And where did the author of the article get this information to begin with? It seems kind of shaky.
Well, I actually think that this 'bulb' is already on the market for at least 10 years.
It is very common in Europe to replace normal light bulbs with low power bulbs based on fluorescent TL.
Those 'bulbs' use 8 times less energy than normal bulbs and a ten times longer life time.
Only disadvantage is, that can interfere with wireless equipment.
But I never had any problems with WiFi.
hey've opened part of it, so far. the streaming server is open source.
Yup, and it runs on Linux, NT and MacOS (X).
Second, contrary to WMP and REAL it is completely free.
And with the MPEG4 codec you'll have the best streaming video solution on the market.
Apple Desktop Bus. That thing that the keyboard and mouse (and possibly other things like modems and what not) used to be plugged into. It disappeard about the time the iMac first showed up.
When they switched to a new stanxdard which was based on ADB called USB.
Not many people know that the USB protocol is based on the ADB protocol.
And before Apple started to use USB, USB was better know as "unused Serial Bus'.
Apple was the first to really use it.
DiVX * MPEG4.
The next version of Quicktime will support MPEG4 but not DiVX.
The file format MPEG4 uses is the quicktime file format.
bloody hell, they really are hyping the G5, and they haven't got any confirmation of what technologies it will use, they simply assume that motorola's latest chip will be the basis, how much would you have to pay for a mac for them to make returns on their production process?
Well, actually.. A G5 powermac will cost almost the same as the current G4 machines.
The PPC8500 is a 64 bits processor which is 100% backwards compatible.
I've seen some preliminary SpecFP and SpecINT figures and if those are correct a PPC8500 running at 1,6 Ghz is equal to a P4 running at 3 Ghz.
It is twice as fast as a Itanium running at 80 Mhz. and uses only 15 watts peak.
Compare that with around 60 watts for a P4 running at 2 Ghz..
The difference with this chip is, that most of design work was done by Apple itself.
This chip uses 0.13 micron technology and SOI.
So
Don't forget that the PowerPC chip is based on the Power architecture of IBM.
OSX is a good product. Apple wants to make some money. They definetely have enough to put MacFixIt out of business if this would've gone to court. Why should MacFixIt be defiant on the issue? The site, after all, is dedicated to Apple products.
Fact is, that the 10.1 update CD is free.
Yes, if you order it you have to pay shipping and handling .
But if you go to your local Apple dealer you can get the update kit for $ 0.
Apple doesn't make much money on their software.
The reason is very simple.
They sell computers.
MacOS X is $120.
For this money you get a MacOS 9.1 CD, MacOS 10 CD and the developers tools.
All in a nice cardboard box.
The money they ask for it is to pay for the development of it.
Compare this with the insane prices M$ ask for their crappy software and you'll see that Apple is a completely different company who isn't ripping of their customers.
Yes, R&D costs money and Apple spends large amounts of cash on it.
The result is lots of nice new computers and technology's.
Looking at Apple's summary of their EULA:
...Apple's license agreement, which you accepted upon purchasing a copy of the Software, specifically prohibits you from copying, decompiling, reverse engineering, disassembling, modifying or creating derivative works of the Software.
So, this EULA is not valid in most of Europe.
According to the law you have the right to make backups for personal use.
So long as you don't sell it or give it to somebody else.