Not sure where you get your information from, but over in the EU where incandescent lamps have now been phased out for a couple of years, you can really buy any lamp type you might need in LED form.
See these links for what is just the normal assortment of LED lamps sold in the Netherlands; https://www.benelux.ledvance.c... and https://www.gamma.nl/assortime...
I really thought we were past this, but apparently the Republican Party is able to not only resurrect a dead horse, but also starts riding it...
So, people wanting to get an iPhone at a lesser price point still can. It's not called the XS or XR, but you can get a perfectly serviceable iPhone 7 with 128 Gb storage for half of proverbial $1000 ($549) and $50 bucks more gets you an iPhone 8 with 64 Gb storage which is enough for most tasks.
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Why not paying from the taxes? Because the programs can then be politically influenced! That's why.
You'll hear complaints in the Murdoch owned media that the BBC is left wing and biased. Trust me, after the Netherlands did away with the license fee (because it was cumbersome and people didn't understand why they had to pay for it) and switched to a tax payer funding, the usual suspects (usually on the right side of the political spectrum) have since started influencing and outright adjusting the content.
In the Netherlands the long treasured pluriform system is now on the verge of collapsing under the weight of the ratings. I wouldn't go as far as saying the content is politically influenced, but the system is not completely without government influence either. The way the BBC is funded is actually very clever, its fee is set outside the political cycle. Here is some more info about this scheme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/9637e45d-c96c-36c6-9e3f-af141e81cab4 (Sorry, don't know how to make a hotlink on Slashdot)
Quite a few people inside and outside the UK truly understand the value of the BBC. It goes far beyond Top Gear, don't believe the Murdoch owned media lambasting the BBC.
Fortunately, this kind of rhetoric doesn't work in Europe. Still, though, in essence they're saying; it's a waste of money for taxpayers and we'll help waste some more.
Nice company, but then again, we already knew that, didn't we?
Here we are, in 'old Europe', having done away with checks in the late 80s, credit cards were really never that popular (I've never paid a single bill with it) and we're used to full electronic banking since the mid 90s. In the Netherlands we have had direct deposit and direct debit for ages.
So, yes, you can set it up so that any company can take whatever it feels you owe them and yes, it only takes one call to the bank to reverse it.
But I've decided against it.
Why?
Since I can't tell my employer to let me just withdraw whatever I feel he owes me, why should a supplier to me be able to do just that?
It's true! I'd like to see a study that links this kind of numbers to the availability of commercial TV. It's my firm belief that the garbage that's being spewed out the last 15 years by commercial TV is helping to destroy our societies.
and invented overlapping windows, drop down menus, highly readable screenfonts, a desktop with integrated file manager, file oriented OS (instead of an application oriented one), auto-eject floppies and a full office suite (Lisa Office System 7/7, care to ask why MS doesn't use the term Office System anymore for Office 2003?) to boot.
Not to mention auto power off and resume everything after power on(you have to see this to believe it) .
I've used the Lisa extensively in the late 80s and early 90s (before they became to fragile) and I absolutely adore this system. I wish it would be possible to come up with an emulator. It's a great computer that was at least 10 years before it's time.
And what about the hardware devices out there?
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Great, a week after buying a Philips DVD player that supports DivX 3,4 & 5 we are getting version 6.
Anybody in the know about those hardware devices out there that play one form or another of DivX?
Why is that crap available in the school's cafeteria anyway? OK, while juice is fine in some cases, soda is definitely not. Nor are fries and burgers, so why do they sell those?
Now the schools are installing monitoring systems to see what kids are buying. No doubt some corporation is behind that scheme.
Why not make everything a lot simpler? Cancel the outsourcing of the school cafeteria to a big caterer and start serving healthy food. Use charge cards that parents can charge up and can only be spent at the cafeteria, so no leakage occurs to McDonald's.
Really, sometimes the world can be made a lot simpler by pushing corporations out of the loop.
When my body started to develop symptoms of RSI I got myself a Wacom tablet, an A6 one. They're fairly expensive compared to a cheap mouse, but in my opinion they're worth every penny. It takes a good couple of days to fully adjust to it but once you're hooked you can't imagine working with a mouse anymore. It's much faster, plus the natural grip of a pen is much more confortable. Every once in a while I'm forced to use a mouse and even after 30 minutes I'll start to feel my arm again. So no mice for me anymore.
For the n-th time, what would Apple have to gain? Who would buy a Mac when they could buy a Dell. Does anyone seriously believe Microsoft would release Office for Mac OS X for Intel?
The Mac would die the day the CPU would be the same as in a generic PC. Not from a architectural standpoint, I think they could make it happen, but marketingwise.
What seems to be completely absent about this discussion is the fact that Apple developed this technology in the mid nineties. Dubbed V Twin. This technology was part of the failed attempt to bring Mac OS into the future, called Copland.
Almost all Dutch banks use 2 way authentication for internet banking. I've been using it since 1997 at the Rabobank, the biggest internet bank in Europe. First with just a token calculator, now with a token calculator that also needs the actual bankcard to work. You insert the card (it has a chip) and it asks you to enter the pin. It will then generate a code that will work to log on to the banking website.
After you've set up a couple of transactions you'll need to authorise again (with pin) for the bank to get them processed. This time with 2-factor authentication.
This way, a man in the middle attack as Schneier describes is a little less likely since one knows exactly when one is authorising a transaction or merely logging in.
As mentioned already by someone else, Prince2 is fast becoming the defacto project management standard in Europe. I wouldn't be surprised if it would become the defacto standard in the world because Prince2 focuses so much on viability of a project.
At each phase Prince2 checks whether the reason for doing the project in the first place are still valid. If not, a the project is halted or even shutdown. This way, Prince2 tries to assure that projects are done with a valid businesscase. Not only before the start of a project, but also while running the project.
Prince2 can be quite daunting and it's not recommended when all you're doing is upgrading the local Exchange server. But projects with a budget above 100K dollars could benefit from running them with Prince2.
And no, Prince2 is not just for IT projects. Although it started life in the IT world it has become a generic method that can be used in any line of business.
I was gonna write up a post about the absence of FireWire on PCs when I found this article and was surprised to learn that FireWire was once the core of the PC98 specification. Only until Apple tried to charge several dollars per PC and the voltage specifications of the neccesary chips proved to be very high it was dropped from the PC98 spec.
I'd always thought that FireWire was kept out of the standard PC spec because Intel didn't invent it. In a way the rise of USB is ironic because Apple was instrumental in making USB a success. Until the original iMac it was routinely called the Unused Serial Bus.
Apple as a company has always sucked huge donkeyballs. I remember the late 80's and early 90's when they were still riding high on the high margins of the Macintosh. The arrogance of the company was almost unbearable. From the outside they seem humbler these days but my friends who still have to work with them the culture inside Apple is still very much the same.
Apple, great products but the company sucks. See this website for another example of Apple's actions.
What I haven't seen here yet, is the ability of Mac OS X to have scripts attached to folders. This is so incredibly powerful it's not funny anymore.
For example, one can set up an OS X Server with shared folders that'll e-mail stuff to different receipients depending on the folder. Or zip and archive everything sorted by client.
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Not sure where you get your information from, but over in the EU where incandescent lamps have now been phased out for a couple of years, you can really buy any lamp type you might need in LED form. See these links for what is just the normal assortment of LED lamps sold in the Netherlands; https://www.benelux.ledvance.c... and https://www.gamma.nl/assortime... I really thought we were past this, but apparently the Republican Party is able to not only resurrect a dead horse, but also starts riding it...
So, people wanting to get an iPhone at a lesser price point still can. It's not called the XS or XR, but you can get a perfectly serviceable iPhone 7 with 128 Gb storage for half of proverbial $1000 ($549) and $50 bucks more gets you an iPhone 8 with 64 Gb storage which is enough for most tasks.
Logging in for the first time in years to reply to this.
Why not paying from the taxes? Because the programs can then be politically influenced! That's why.
You'll hear complaints in the Murdoch owned media that the BBC is left wing and biased. Trust me, after the Netherlands did away with the license fee (because it was cumbersome and people didn't understand why they had to pay for it) and switched to a tax payer funding, the usual suspects (usually on the right side of the political spectrum) have since started influencing and outright adjusting the content.
In the Netherlands the long treasured pluriform system is now on the verge of collapsing under the weight of the ratings. I wouldn't go as far as saying the content is politically influenced, but the system is not completely without government influence either. The way the BBC is funded is actually very clever, its fee is set outside the political cycle. Here is some more info about this scheme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/9637e45d-c96c-36c6-9e3f-af141e81cab4 (Sorry, don't know how to make a hotlink on Slashdot)
Quite a few people inside and outside the UK truly understand the value of the BBC. It goes far beyond Top Gear, don't believe the Murdoch owned media lambasting the BBC.
Fortunately, this kind of rhetoric doesn't work in Europe. Still, though, in essence they're saying; it's a waste of money for taxpayers and we'll help waste some more.
Nice company, but then again, we already knew that, didn't we?
Not...
Here we are, in 'old Europe', having done away with checks in the late 80s, credit cards were really never that popular (I've never paid a single bill with it) and we're used to full electronic banking since the mid 90s. In the Netherlands we have had direct deposit and direct debit for ages.
So, yes, you can set it up so that any company can take whatever it feels you owe them and yes, it only takes one call to the bank to reverse it.
But I've decided against it.
Why?
Since I can't tell my employer to let me just withdraw whatever I feel he owes me, why should a supplier to me be able to do just that?
What a joker. This is as fake as it can be. The video shows Windows and then it shows him moving his phone about.
This is what you get when the government keeps taking away liberties everyone takes for granted.
Next time when you vote, please remember that it's not just 'the bad guys' when they mean terrorists.
Since the term terrorist is used pretty wide and broadly, it may mean you next time you do something 'the authorities' inappropriate.
It's true! I'd like to see a study that links this kind of numbers to the availability of commercial TV. It's my firm belief that the garbage that's being spewed out the last 15 years by commercial TV is helping to destroy our societies.
I have a big long thing that describes the whole thing.
And then you proceed with writing text?
After downloading and installing this version I can not find out which version I have installed now. The About box does't show anything.
and invented overlapping windows, drop down menus, highly readable screenfonts, a desktop with integrated file manager, file oriented OS (instead of an application oriented one), auto-eject floppies and a full office suite (Lisa Office System 7/7, care to ask why MS doesn't use the term Office System anymore for Office 2003?) to boot.
Not to mention auto power off and resume everything after power on(you have to see this to believe it) .
I've used the Lisa extensively in the late 80s and early 90s (before they became to fragile) and I absolutely adore this system. I wish it would be possible to come up with an emulator. It's a great computer that was at least 10 years before it's time.
Great, a week after buying a Philips DVD player that supports DivX 3,4 & 5 we are getting version 6.
Anybody in the know about those hardware devices out there that play one form or another of DivX?
Why is that crap available in the school's cafeteria anyway? OK, while juice is fine in some cases, soda is definitely not. Nor are fries and burgers, so why do they sell those?
Now the schools are installing monitoring systems to see what kids are buying. No doubt some corporation is behind that scheme.
Why not make everything a lot simpler? Cancel the outsourcing of the school cafeteria to a big caterer and start serving healthy food. Use charge cards that parents can charge up and can only be spent at the cafeteria, so no leakage occurs to McDonald's.
Really, sometimes the world can be made a lot simpler by pushing corporations out of the loop.
When my body started to develop symptoms of RSI I got myself a Wacom tablet, an A6 one. They're fairly expensive compared to a cheap mouse, but in my opinion they're worth every penny. It takes a good couple of days to fully adjust to it but once you're hooked you can't imagine working with a mouse anymore. It's much faster, plus the natural grip of a pen is much more confortable. Every once in a while I'm forced to use a mouse and even after 30 minutes I'll start to feel my arm again. So no mice for me anymore.
For the n-th time, what would Apple have to gain? Who would buy a Mac when they could buy a Dell. Does anyone seriously believe Microsoft would release Office for Mac OS X for Intel?
The Mac would die the day the CPU would be the same as in a generic PC. Not from a architectural standpoint, I think they could make it happen, but marketingwise.
What seems to be completely absent about this discussion is the fact that Apple developed this technology in the mid nineties. Dubbed V Twin. This technology was part of the failed attempt to bring Mac OS into the future, called Copland.
It's still very much alive, as is much that was developed as part of Copland. Today, it's called Apple Information Access Toolkit.
What's up with the Google 'cache' anyway? Half the time when the original site is down, the cache won't work either. Some cache...
Almost all Dutch banks use 2 way authentication for internet banking. I've been using it since 1997 at the Rabobank, the biggest internet bank in Europe. First with just a token calculator, now with a token calculator that also needs the actual bankcard to work. You insert the card (it has a chip) and it asks you to enter the pin. It will then generate a code that will work to log on to the banking website.
After you've set up a couple of transactions you'll need to authorise again (with pin) for the bank to get them processed. This time with 2-factor authentication.
This way, a man in the middle attack as Schneier describes is a little less likely since one knows exactly when one is authorising a transaction or merely logging in.
with trying to enforce that policy. Would iChat on Mac OS X (or any other voice/video chat program) be illegal as well?
As mentioned already by someone else, Prince2 is fast becoming the defacto project management standard in Europe. I wouldn't be surprised if it would become the defacto standard in the world because Prince2 focuses so much on viability of a project.
At each phase Prince2 checks whether the reason for doing the project in the first place are still valid. If not, a the project is halted or even shutdown. This way, Prince2 tries to assure that projects are done with a valid businesscase. Not only before the start of a project, but also while running the project.
Prince2 can be quite daunting and it's not recommended when all you're doing is upgrading the local Exchange server. But projects with a budget above 100K dollars could benefit from running them with Prince2.
And no, Prince2 is not just for IT projects. Although it started life in the IT world it has become a generic method that can be used in any line of business.
They won't disable key activation, just for keys that are assigned to the top 20 OEM clients of Microsoft.
They are however planning to get rid of online activation alltogether.
Hmm, I hope India has enough people to man those call centers.
I was gonna write up a post about the absence of FireWire on PCs when I found this article and was surprised to learn that FireWire was once the core of the PC98 specification. Only until Apple tried to charge several dollars per PC and the voltage specifications of the neccesary chips proved to be very high it was dropped from the PC98 spec.
I'd always thought that FireWire was kept out of the standard PC spec because Intel didn't invent it. In a way the rise of USB is ironic because Apple was instrumental in making USB a success. Until the original iMac it was routinely called the Unused Serial Bus.
It won't help much, no matter what real world evidence says, the Bush administration won't accept it anyway.
Apple as a company has always sucked huge donkeyballs. I remember the late 80's and early 90's when they were still riding high on the high margins of the Macintosh. The arrogance of the company was almost unbearable. From the outside they seem humbler these days but my friends who still have to work with them the culture inside Apple is still very much the same.
Apple, great products but the company sucks. See this website for another example of Apple's actions.
http://tellonapple.org/
What I haven't seen here yet, is the ability of Mac OS X to have scripts attached to folders. This is so incredibly powerful it's not funny anymore.
For example, one can set up an OS X Server with shared folders that'll e-mail stuff to different receipients depending on the folder. Or zip and archive everything sorted by client.