As a beer "connoisseur", I can honestly attest that Heinken is horrible here in the states but in the Netherlands it's actually quite good.
Being born and raised 200 meters from the Heineken brewery in Amsterdam:-) but now living west of the atlantic, could it also be that in the Netherlands you are drinking Heineken often from the tap, while in the US/Canada it is always from a bottle?
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But to stay slightly on topic: if you want some eco-friendly beer in Amsterdam, check this place out. [brouwerijhetij.nl]
Fully agreed!! Twenty years ago, it was the only beer served on my wedding. Good stuff....
I agree, another good example is Fedora. I think most people, even those who are using it, would have preferred a product called something like "RedHat Express", "Open RedHat" (where the word "Open" is ofcourse one of the most awful words), "RedHat Developers Edition" or simply "RedHat 10". If you have to use Fedora (read: can't afford RedHat Enterprise Linux), you're feeling a second class citizen. And watching the unstability of Fedora, you probably even are.
So, if Dell doesn't want to favour a specific distro, would it be too tough and expensive for them to simply create their own? Having a DelLinux distro, would also give them a great opportunity for branding, marketing, etc. This even wouldn't have to be "the greatest distro ever", as long as it would serve the majority of Dell's customers, which are anyway not the hardcore Linux hackers.
I know, I know, to start such a thing is easy, but to keep it updated is going to cost _real_ money. But they can outsource that to their folks in India, or wherever.
Once read an article about Reykjavik (search the net a bit, for example) where the utility company installed fiber optic into every home, but doesn't provide any services on top of it. If you plug your computer in that RJ45 on the meter panel, you get to a simple portal that allows you to sign-up for only those services you like. Could be ISP (choice of many), could be VoIP, could be video on demand, could be home security, etc. I think that's a very cool model, allowing competition where it really matters. You only need a little government control over that utility company to avoid price fixing on that level, but that should be not too difficult to do (probably with the exception of the US:-).
And the best part... they have quiet cars. Generally it's either the first or last car on the train, and the rules are you can't use a cellphone (for voice) and you can't talk above a whisper there.
Which reminds me of dutch trains that had that 20 years ago already. Of course the signs with "stilte coupe" were in Dutch. And foreigners couldn't always read that, especially this Scottisch guy that thought it would be a great spot to play a little bagpipe....
Hey, now we know where he hangs out. Maybe we can get the poor fellow some extra weight-loss pills, so that he "looses 50 pounds in 5 days" and can slip through the bars.:-)
Seems silly - if one drive goes, the whole array dies - and on a beast like this, heat is likely to SERIOUSLY degrade the life of those drives...
OK, so you loose couple of hours of 'Desparate Housewifes'.... who cares, just wait for next week's episode.:-)
Seriously, the data you store on the drive of a PVR is not really "mission critical". So, I can understand if someone makes the trade-off for capacity versus redundancy.
And besides all kinds of other reasons, I guess that after the couple of years that we have lived now with "Pentium 4", it would have been a tough step for Intel to move on to either "Pentium 5" or "Pentium V". It would have sounded too much like a step back in history instead of moving forward to the next thing.
I strongly agree with the parent and the news is even better, because there are two solid and free IDE environments: You can also use NetBeans. A while back I finally gave up CLI based development and installed NetBeans. I had expected a steep learning curve before being productive, but in a few hours I had a fully functional JSP/Servlet application (incl. authentication and session managment) running on the bundled Tomcat server. OK, I had experience with other sw development IDE's (for C) but still, this was pretty painless and impressive.
.... the other argument is that "who cares how much someone gives to charity".
Giving to charity, so much an anglosaxon measurement for how good you are, always comes after (!!) the fact that people have taken care of their own well being. As a simple example, mother Theresa didn't GIVE to charity, she WAS charity.
Having moved from Europe to Canada (which follows the American/British model), I'm still flabergasted about how people here think that 'giving to charity' can wipe out their evil, or lack of action. You first lay-off a person, no problem at all, and then when Xmas comes you give some spaghetti-kits to them via the food-bank and -- even better for feeling good -- some cheap toys to the Childrens Hospital. And then it's all OK again.
I don't care a dime what Bill Gates is doing for Africa. That's only spending money. I do care what he is doing as a person, even more as a business person and that hasn't smelled very well over the last two decenia...
against global software piracy and potential global gains . . . .
Why is everything nowdays called global: "global warming", "the global war on terror", and now "global software piracy". It suggests that things are all around the world the same. Well, let me tell you, those people in Pakistan that survived the earthquake, would hope for a little "global warming", as long as it happens in their village and this winter of course. But I digress...
Why don't people start solving their problems at home? Probably it has to do with the fact that when you call your issues "global", or at least your plans for/against it, there is lesser chance that you get attacked. You can always claim that you do it to protect / help / save all those other global citizens. So, just a new type of CYA.
'Should'... yes!!! 'Could'... I don't think so. At least my experience with godaddy in the past (I'm personally luckily not hosted there, but my customer was) was one of absolute focus on rock bottom prices, with corresponding rock bottom quality. Hey, there are exceptions, but normally you get what you pay for.
I agree with all the rest of your message, but "the product needs a big, fat orange sticker on the top of the brick that says so" is such an American solution to an engineering problem, only inspired by lawyers and people suing each other for the tinyest thing in the hope of catching millions.
My car is also full of big orange stickers, warning me against blowing up the airbags:-) or whatever. I hate those and they are glued so well, that you can't remove them. Of course, if the sticker wouldn't be fixed permanently, someone would first remove the sticker and then sue the car manufaturer that he wasn't warned. And he would probably win that case.
Warning stickers is not the solution, product engineering and manufacturing quality control should take care of it.
I thought the USA was always erring on the side of "let's sue the bastard".:-)
Seriously: I'm not Canadian, but I do live in Canada, and I'm rather surprised with this weird twist in Canadian law regarding libel. I've normally not a high esteem about the USA justice system (and lawyers:), but in this case I agree fully with erring on the side of free speech!!
Don't forget, Steve Jobs has been through this whole process. And then the variant you prefer. NeXT was first a computer, then became the NeXTstep OS running on standard X86 hardware (OK, the HCL wasn't that long, but still). NeXT as a workstation didn't become the "success bigger than the Macintosh" that Jobs had expected, but NeXT as a pure software company brought in even less money. So Apple will definitely not go there again. People sometimes learn from their mistakes...:)
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Being born and raised 200 meters from the Heineken brewery in Amsterdam :-) but now living west of the atlantic, could it also be that in the Netherlands you are drinking Heineken often from the tap, while in the US/Canada it is always from a bottle?
Fully agreed!! Twenty years ago, it was the only beer served on my wedding. Good stuff....
I agree, another good example is Fedora. I think most people, even those who are using it, would have preferred a product called something like "RedHat Express", "Open RedHat" (where the word "Open" is ofcourse one of the most awful words), "RedHat Developers Edition" or simply "RedHat 10". If you have to use Fedora (read: can't afford RedHat Enterprise Linux), you're feeling a second class citizen. And watching the unstability of Fedora, you probably even are.
I know, I know, to start such a thing is easy, but to keep it updated is going to cost _real_ money. But they can outsource that to their folks in India, or wherever.
Once read an article about Reykjavik (search the net a bit, for example) where the utility company installed fiber optic into every home, but doesn't provide any services on top of it. If you plug your computer in that RJ45 on the meter panel, you get to a simple portal that allows you to sign-up for only those services you like. Could be ISP (choice of many), could be VoIP, could be video on demand, could be home security, etc. :-).
I think that's a very cool model, allowing competition where it really matters. You only need a little government control over that utility company to avoid price fixing on that level, but that should be not too difficult to do (probably with the exception of the US
You're right. The GP even managed to write "kind of" PowerPoint slide with bullets and all. I'm so sick of bullet lists...
And the best part ... they have quiet cars. Generally it's either the first or last car on the train, and the rules are you can't use a cellphone (for voice) and you can't talk above a whisper there.
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Which reminds me of dutch trains that had that 20 years ago already. Of course the signs with "stilte coupe" were in Dutch. And foreigners couldn't always read that, especially this Scottisch guy that thought it would be a great spot to play a little bagpipe
Hey, now we know where he hangs out. Maybe we can get the poor fellow some extra weight-loss pills, so that he "looses 50 pounds in 5 days" and can slip through the bars. :-)
Someone should take this guy to the bar and explain it to him over a 'free beer'.....
I'm sure a 9 month window would be considered a date!! :-)
OK, so you loose couple of hours of 'Desparate Housewifes' .... who cares, just wait for next week's episode. :-)
Seriously, the data you store on the drive of a PVR is not really "mission critical". So, I can understand if someone makes the trade-off for capacity versus redundancy.
And besides all kinds of other reasons, I guess that after the couple of years that we have lived now with "Pentium 4", it would have been a tough step for Intel to move on to either "Pentium 5" or "Pentium V". It would have sounded too much like a step back in history instead of moving forward to the next thing.
I strongly agree with the parent and the news is even better, because there are two solid and free IDE environments: You can also use NetBeans. A while back I finally gave up CLI based development and installed NetBeans. I had expected a steep learning curve before being productive, but in a few hours I had a fully functional JSP/Servlet application (incl. authentication and session managment) running on the bundled Tomcat server. OK, I had experience with other sw development IDE's (for C) but still, this was pretty painless and impressive.
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Ehhhh, I don't have 20 billion left over. Don't know about you.....
Giving to charity, so much an anglosaxon measurement for how good you are, always comes after (!!) the fact that people have taken care of their own well being. As a simple example, mother Theresa didn't GIVE to charity, she WAS charity.
Having moved from Europe to Canada (which follows the American/British model), I'm still flabergasted about how people here think that 'giving to charity' can wipe out their evil, or lack of action. You first lay-off a person, no problem at all, and then when Xmas comes you give some spaghetti-kits to them via the food-bank and -- even better for feeling good -- some cheap toys to the Childrens Hospital. And then it's all OK again.
I don't care a dime what Bill Gates is doing for Africa. That's only spending money. I do care what he is doing as a person, even more as a business person and that hasn't smelled very well over the last two decenia...
And yesterday I still had mod points. Sorry!!
Good to lead this from a buyer-seller confrontation into a much correcter bad-guy vs. good-guy discussion.
and run the silver knife up the goats abdomen .... Ahhhhh, so that's the magic of the SCSI terminator. :)
1 2 Java 22.129% +5.80%
2 1 C 19.632% +0.06%
3 3 C++ 11.026% -0.89%
4 4 PHP 9.629% -1.76%
5 5 (Visual) Basic 8.710% +0.54%
So I may guess that the remaining 28.874% of the programs are still written in Cobol? :-)
against global software piracy and potential global gains . . . .
Why is everything nowdays called global: "global warming", "the global war on terror", and now "global software piracy". It suggests that things are all around the world the same. Well, let me tell you, those people in Pakistan that survived the earthquake, would hope for a little "global warming", as long as it happens in their village and this winter of course. But I digress...
Why don't people start solving their problems at home? Probably it has to do with the fact that when you call your issues "global", or at least your plans for/against it, there is lesser chance that you get attacked. You can always claim that you do it to protect / help / save all those other global citizens. So, just a new type of CYA.
'Should' ... yes!!! 'Could' ... I don't think so. At least my experience with godaddy in the past (I'm personally luckily not hosted there, but my customer was) was one of absolute focus on rock bottom prices, with corresponding rock bottom quality. Hey, there are exceptions, but normally you get what you pay for.
My car is also full of big orange stickers, warning me against blowing up the airbags :-) or whatever. I hate those and they are glued so well, that you can't remove them. Of course, if the sticker wouldn't be fixed permanently, someone would first remove the sticker and then sue the car manufaturer that he wasn't warned. And he would probably win that case.
Warning stickers is not the solution, product engineering and manufacturing quality control should take care of it.
Oh, you can have it now, but first make some space in your basement for this equipment. :) Better ask your wife first.....
Seriously: I'm not Canadian, but I do live in Canada, and I'm rather surprised with this weird twist in Canadian law regarding libel. I've normally not a high esteem about the USA justice system (and lawyers :), but in this case I agree fully with erring on the side of free speech!!
Don't forget, Steve Jobs has been through this whole process. And then the variant you prefer. NeXT was first a computer, then became the NeXTstep OS running on standard X86 hardware (OK, the HCL wasn't that long, but still). NeXT as a workstation didn't become the "success bigger than the Macintosh" that Jobs had expected, but NeXT as a pure software company brought in even less money. So Apple will definitely not go there again. People sometimes learn from their mistakes... :)