If the EU ever wants to step up to the Apple store it's more likely going to be about the non-negotiable monetary conditions they foist on programmers and publications.
Advertisers pay a LOT more per page in a fancy glossy than in your local rag even though it gets at least as many eyes.
These advertisers know their public and where to find them, the same is possible for on-line ads.
Right now it's in many cases just a matter of wildly shooting and hoping the odd duck falls at your feet.
No, these are real numbers that you can easily find via some googling.
There would be more disposable income and manufacturing (yes also in China) and services would get a boost.
No doubt similar happens in other developed countries, look at the top five and cry for the savings you could have had:
Infiniti € 8.293
Dodge € 3.348
Lexus € 3.337
Lancia € 3.218
Jaguar € 2.788
I think you miss something.
The price paid for advertisements depends on the demography of the visitors to the site and the chances you can make some business from it.
Would the site in question only allow quality advertisements that are palpable to it's public the chances of business coming forth increases dramatically and so does the price per click.
Don't forget, it's all commercial and (should be) calculated for effectiveness.
Besides, those running AdBlock are the least likely to click on an advertisement anyway, nothing lost.
You are right there is money to be made out of E-waste.
We are now two hours after the submission of this article and this seems to be the second comment, in my eyes some indication lots of people just don't care about recycling or the environment.
I call it utter crap to describe a useful GUI as bloat.
A useful GUI will be a graphical front end (really!) to the actual tools a nerd or specialist would employ via command prompts.
The non-specialist does have little knowledge of the proper names or spelling of tools he otherwise knows to exist, the GUI is the reminder, the pick list if you like, and a good GUI will lead him to a workable solution.
The useful GUI will also supply sufficient information for the non-specialist to make up his mind and lead to a correct order of operations.
I work as an instructor for the dedicated training department of our company.
Our business is not IT but the department I originate from is very IT related and so I mainly train new and existing employees of that particular department.
We have a formal competency system that all employees are enrolled in, it is the only way to move up the ladder.
All 'evidence' of training and experience is kept in a personnel development database and every employee or manager can consult it to find out how far the person is achieving his goals.
These goals are set during a(n annual) meeting in discussion with the line supervisor or manager.
The internal courses my department gives are geared towards goals set in the competency system at a high corporate level and employees get an invitation for a particular course after this annual meeting.
Once a grade rise has been approved based on the previous years course results, meeting of the competency and knowledge requirements, they get a new assignment with clear goals of further development.
Fast developers don't have to wait for the next annual meeting but can get promoted when ready, the same applies for those needing more time.
Especially, but not only, at the higher/ highest levels there are 3rd. party courses done by industry recognised institutes and specialists.
Those inclined can ask their line manager for approval to do an outside (usually night) course and after successfully completion get the cost reimbursed, would they leave the company before an agreed time they have to pro-rate pay back part of the course price.
We have company training centres in Europe, N. and S. America, Africa and S.E. Asia.
The whole system is conforming with ISO standards and is audited by DNV.
So until someone starts talking about secret payments of some kind, all I see is someone being convinced.
Just wait a couple of years until they're voted out.
Not much later their knowledge of the subject at hand will be recognised by one of the companies that have sponsored the lobbyists and the ex politician gets appointed to the board of directors.
Luckily enough the EU parliament consists of many individualists and providing some of them are made aware of this nice tally of subservience by some of their colleagues I see little chance of these amendments making it into the actual ruling.
It seems you don't understand fair competition can only happen when all play by the same rules.
Take the UK, (the) most developed countries in the EU follow the guidelines set by the Working Hours Directive, for the well-being of the workforce (~=population) an employee is allowed to work a maximum of 48 hrs. per week.
The UK Tories try all in their power to get exempted from it because "it's damaging to the economy"...
Yet the Germans that adhere rigorously have economic growth while the British economy shrinks.
This directive does allow exemptions for the likes of the police and the military but the UK saw fit to include the oil industry, yeah right, as if they are suffering!
The question is already answered by others, my question would be how the hell this company from a country where software patents are legally impossible has a leg to stand on?
You seem to be ill informed, utopia is not needed.
In countries with a functional system of social security it's based on savings, not taxation like in, say France or Italy.
And it doesn't just require a working younger generation to generate the necessary income and interest , it needs an efficient and productive workforce, not slaves or drones.
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If the EU ever wants to step up to the Apple store it's more likely going to be about the non-negotiable monetary conditions they foist on programmers and publications.
You are on your own, fix it.
Instead of an apology you could have formatted it and resend... :)
Advertisers pay a LOT more per page in a fancy glossy than in your local rag even though it gets at least as many eyes.
These advertisers know their public and where to find them, the same is possible for on-line ads.
Right now it's in many cases just a matter of wildly shooting and hoping the odd duck falls at your feet.
No, these are real numbers that you can easily find via some googling.
There would be more disposable income and manufacturing (yes also in China) and services would get a boost.
Here's an example from The Netherlands, the cost for commercials per car per brand: http://www.rtl.nl/components/financien/rtlz/2011/weken_2011/07/0218_1115_VW_geeft_per_auto_minst_aan_reclame_uit.xml
No doubt similar happens in other developed countries, look at the top five and cry for the savings you could have had:
Infiniti € 8.293
Dodge € 3.348
Lexus € 3.337
Lancia € 3.218
Jaguar € 2.788
The price paid for advertisements depends on the demography of the visitors to the site and the chances you can make some business from it.
Would the site in question only allow quality advertisements that are palpable to it's public the chances of business coming forth increases dramatically and so does the price per click.
Don't forget, it's all commercial and (should be) calculated for effectiveness.
Besides, those running AdBlock are the least likely to click on an advertisement anyway, nothing lost.
We are now two hours after the submission of this article and this seems to be the second comment, in my eyes some indication lots of people just don't care about recycling or the environment.
And Americans are just waking up :)
I call it utter crap to describe a useful GUI as bloat.
A useful GUI will be a graphical front end (really!) to the actual tools a nerd or specialist would employ via command prompts. The non-specialist does have little knowledge of the proper names or spelling of tools he otherwise knows to exist, the GUI is the reminder, the pick list if you like, and a good GUI will lead him to a workable solution.
The useful GUI will also supply sufficient information for the non-specialist to make up his mind and lead to a correct order of operations.
Our business is not IT but the department I originate from is very IT related and so I mainly train new and existing employees of that particular department.
We have a formal competency system that all employees are enrolled in, it is the only way to move up the ladder.
All 'evidence' of training and experience is kept in a personnel development database and every employee or manager can consult it to find out how far the person is achieving his goals.
These goals are set during a(n annual) meeting in discussion with the line supervisor or manager.
The internal courses my department gives are geared towards goals set in the competency system at a high corporate level and employees get an invitation for a particular course after this annual meeting.
Once a grade rise has been approved based on the previous years course results, meeting of the competency and knowledge requirements, they get a new assignment with clear goals of further development.
Fast developers don't have to wait for the next annual meeting but can get promoted when ready, the same applies for those needing more time.
Especially, but not only, at the higher/ highest levels there are 3rd. party courses done by industry recognised institutes and specialists.
Those inclined can ask their line manager for approval to do an outside (usually night) course and after successfully completion get the cost reimbursed, would they leave the company before an agreed time they have to pro-rate pay back part of the course price.
We have company training centres in Europe, N. and S. America, Africa and S.E. Asia.
The whole system is conforming with ISO standards and is audited by DNV.
They're only useful when they fit the socket of my n900.
No, the worry is how far he could get with just one user ID.
So until someone starts talking about secret payments of some kind, all I see is someone being convinced.
Just wait a couple of years until they're voted out.
Not much later their knowledge of the subject at hand will be recognised by one of the companies that have sponsored the lobbyists and the ex politician gets appointed to the board of directors.
The long and short straw.
Luckily enough the EU parliament consists of many individualists and providing some of them are made aware of this nice tally of subservience by some of their colleagues I see little chance of these amendments making it into the actual ruling.
You paint an ugly picture of some vocal English, regretfully for the good natured Brits you are spot-on.
Take the UK, (the) most developed countries in the EU follow the guidelines set by the Working Hours Directive, for the well-being of the workforce (~=population) an employee is allowed to work a maximum of 48 hrs. per week.
The UK Tories try all in their power to get exempted from it because "it's damaging to the economy"...
Yet the Germans that adhere rigorously have economic growth while the British economy shrinks.
This directive does allow exemptions for the likes of the police and the military but the UK saw fit to include the oil industry, yeah right, as if they are suffering!
But because it's also upside down you don't easily notice the difference.
You're clearly not thinking of the children!
The question is already answered by others, my question would be how the hell this company from a country where software patents are legally impossible has a leg to stand on?
As for "OMGWTF PONIES! CLICK HERE"; there is a radical difference between "critical by manufacturer" and "ponies"
The Brits that recently are outraged about the ponies in their Hamburgers might disagree...
And having to install iTunes, oh horror.
Hmm, where I am from people have since pre-historic times been an integral part of this environment.
In countries with a functional system of social security it's based on savings, not taxation like in, say France or Italy.
And it doesn't just require a working younger generation to generate the necessary income and interest , it needs an efficient and productive workforce, not slaves or drones.
A European government?