...like cutting 358 million Euro's in the next four years, while there is already a shortage of 700 million for the maintenance of the buildings only:(
They can't (and won't) pay the profits of the insurance-companies. Having your own disaster-budget is less expensive if you have the facilities to manage it.
There was a little bit of sarcasm in that sentence.
I meant to say that the germans treat Luxembourg also as 'another' province of them.
And for holiday-languages : Speak the native language or the 'local' world-language. And in western europe and northern-america, you can expect anyone to talk English (at least here in NL we're taught English from the age of 10), but not to talk German or French or Spanish or Italian or Dutch or whatever.
If my mother goes to the town where she's born and goes inside a shop, and people are talkin German to her because in the summer-season 90% of the people there are germans, then it's not very uncommon to get upset about that.
If you want to take a trip with your boat on a sunday-afternoon, and the lake is filled with beer-drinking, screaming and partying germans whith their millionaires-boats so that you can't find a place to find a little bit of rest, then it's also not very uncommon to get upset.
I don't have problems with people from other countries coming here, as long as they don't see smaller countries around them merely as holiday-provinces of their almighty country.
But even then, SBS stands for Scandinavian Broadcasting System and is, together with Net5 and V8, the biggest competitor of the HMG, with RTL4, RTL5 and Yorin in the Netherlands. And RTL stands for Radio Television Luxembourg, and afaik that's because the ASTRA stations are in Luxembourg, it's geographically the center of Europe. So RTL is originally not german (at least if you don't see Luxembourg as a province of Germany, but that's another story)
But it's all corporate stuff. Maybe SBS NL doesn't have much to do with SBS Scandinavia anymore, and RTL NL doesn't have much to do with RTL Luxembourg or Germany.
I missed the show yesterday, but the last time it was mostly in German. Even Dutch people who were talking in German, and that really sucks. I mean, speak in your native language or speak English (we Dutchies hate german people who come here for their holidays and expect us to talk fluently german.)
I think he means that the close-button on the toolbar is enough, and that the user doesn't have to be confronted with the choice between closing a window and removing an app from memory. The only thing he/she has to do is clicking the close-button in the titlebar. After the last window is closed, it's just plain normal that the program is removed from RAM (except for a quickstarter or so), but that's an implementation-issue, not a GUI-issue.
I remember from a couple of years ago the flood of CompuServe cd's here in the Netherlands. With every computer-related magazine there was one, and with a subscription you had twelve after a year.
Unfortunately (for them), they had a freepost mailbox, so there came initiatives to send the cd's in nice larger-than-envelope boxes by *registered* mail tot their freepost mailbox, one cd at a time. That way it costed them 8.50 guilders (4 euro/$) per sent-back cd. Since then I've never seen a CompuServe (or other spam) cd with a magazine:)
Doesn't America have something like registered mail or freepost mailboxes?
Hey, we're all masochists! If we weren't we didn't even invent computers. Slack is the ultimate computer OS because it's character fits nicely to that of a computer. If you don't like Slack, you don't like computers.
If you can play a DivX-video on your CRT, receive the signal that your screen transmits with your AM-radio, record the signal as if it was music, encode the track as mono mp3, and play the track again on your screen with this program, can you get a quite good quality then?
Are the specs of the clusters (ram, hd) per node or for the whole system? If they are per node with the 4-node cluster, you should have:
- 2000 MHz cpu power
- 120 GB hd space
- 2048 MB RAM
for 15000 $.
What does a comparable ix86-box cost? Can a dual-1.3 GHz / 2GB / 4x30 GB RAID compare with this for cluster-based apps? If so, It could be made for less than 7000$.
The idea is really cool, but it's just too expensive. I hope that enough creeps are crazy enough to buy them, so another company will make ix86-based briqs for much less money. Maybe this will open a market for extensible pc's. If the load is too high, you just (hot)plug another node in it, maybe even a G4-node for graphics-apps, a P4-node for number-crunching and so on. As far as I can remember, a british company (Acorn?) tried to make such a system in the early 90's. ---
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...like cutting 358 million Euro's in the next four years, while there is already a shortage of 700 million for the maintenance of the buildings only :(
They can't (and won't) pay the profits of the insurance-companies. Having your own disaster-budget is less expensive if you have the facilities to manage it.
fact is that the UT is responsible for 30% of the daily internet-traffic in the Netherlands :)
There was a little bit of sarcasm in that sentence.
I meant to say that the germans treat Luxembourg also as 'another' province of them.
And for holiday-languages : Speak the native language or the 'local' world-language. And in western europe and northern-america, you can expect anyone to talk English (at least here in NL we're taught English from the age of 10), but not to talk German or French or Spanish or Italian or Dutch or whatever.
Depends on the part of the country you live in...
If my mother goes to the town where she's born and goes inside a shop, and people are talkin German to her because in the summer-season 90% of the people there are germans, then it's not very uncommon to get upset about that.
If you want to take a trip with your boat on a sunday-afternoon, and the lake is filled with beer-drinking, screaming and partying germans whith their millionaires-boats so that you can't find a place to find a little bit of rest, then it's also not very uncommon to get upset.
I don't have problems with people from other countries coming here, as long as they don't see smaller countries around them merely as holiday-provinces of their almighty country.
But even then, SBS stands for Scandinavian Broadcasting System and is, together with Net5 and V8, the biggest competitor of the HMG, with RTL4, RTL5 and Yorin in the Netherlands. And RTL stands for Radio Television Luxembourg, and afaik that's because the ASTRA stations are in Luxembourg, it's geographically the center of Europe. So RTL is originally not german (at least if you don't see Luxembourg as a province of Germany, but that's another story)
But it's all corporate stuff. Maybe SBS NL doesn't have much to do with SBS Scandinavia anymore, and RTL NL doesn't have much to do with RTL Luxembourg or Germany.
I missed the show yesterday, but the last time it was mostly in German. Even Dutch people who were talking in German, and that really sucks. I mean, speak in your native language or speak English (we Dutchies hate german people who come here for their holidays and expect us to talk fluently german.)
I think he means that the close-button on the toolbar is enough, and that the user doesn't have to be confronted with the choice between closing a window and removing an app from memory. The only thing he/she has to do is clicking the close-button in the titlebar. After the last window is closed, it's just plain normal that the program is removed from RAM (except for a quickstarter or so), but that's an implementation-issue, not a GUI-issue.
I remember from a couple of years ago the flood of CompuServe cd's here in the Netherlands. With every computer-related magazine there was one, and with a subscription you had twelve after a year.
:)
Unfortunately (for them), they had a freepost mailbox, so there came initiatives to send the cd's in nice larger-than-envelope boxes by *registered* mail tot their freepost mailbox, one cd at a time. That way it costed them 8.50 guilders (4 euro/$) per sent-back cd. Since then I've never seen a CompuServe (or other spam) cd with a magazine
Doesn't America have something like registered mail or freepost mailboxes?
Hey, we're all masochists! If we weren't we didn't even invent computers. Slack is the ultimate computer OS because it's character fits nicely to that of a computer. If you don't like Slack, you don't like computers.
tnx. but I already found it @ this shop
...talking about nationalism...
Hey does someone know where I can buy Slack in the Netherlands? After using it for over two years, I'd like to pay for it to help the Slack-guys :)
But. hey. Why didn't they wait for Gnome 2.0? Or do we have to wait a year for a Slack-release with Gnome2?
If you can play a DivX-video on your CRT, receive the signal that your screen transmits with your AM-radio, record the signal as if it was music, encode the track as mono mp3, and play the track again on your screen with this program, can you get a quite good quality then?
Are the specs of the clusters (ram, hd) per node or for the whole system? If they are per node with the 4-node cluster, you should have:
- 2000 MHz cpu power
- 120 GB hd space
- 2048 MB RAM
for 15000 $.
What does a comparable ix86-box cost? Can a dual-1.3 GHz / 2GB / 4x30 GB RAID compare with this for cluster-based apps? If so, It could be made for less than 7000$.
The idea is really cool, but it's just too expensive. I hope that enough creeps are crazy enough to buy them, so another company will make ix86-based briqs for much less money. Maybe this will open a market for extensible pc's. If the load is too high, you just (hot)plug another node in it, maybe even a G4-node for graphics-apps, a P4-node for number-crunching and so on. As far as I can remember, a british company (Acorn?) tried to make such a system in the early 90's.
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