You're probably both right. Recent movies get first sold in something like a "premium edition" with bonus and the like. These have DSS, prices are 15-25 Euros. Older movies get reprinted, without any bonus and often no more CSS, in cheap DVDs sold for prices under Eur 10, sometimes as low as Eur 3. B series movies, even recent ones, can regularly be found at promotional sales for Eur 1-5, mostly without CSS. Of course this suffers exceptions, stores and editors have some more rules when fixing their prices!
The market is not so small: Most DVDs here are either French soundtrack only (for french movies), or french+english for US movies, or french+english+original language for other origins. We sometimes also get French+English+Dutch as this allows a common DVD for Belgium/ France/ Luxemburg/ Nerderlands. DVDs with more languages do exist but are unfrequent. When I go to Germany, which I do quite often, DVDs are generally with German/English sound, so they do not get the same edition as France.
Man that's really expensive ! The price for a passport here is aroud 75 Euro, all inclusive. And moreover most countries accept our ID card in lieu of the pass, and this card is for free : Most people here don't have a passport. (except those who travel to the US;-)
Don't really know how it is at the US/Canada border, but I lived at the german/french border for years. As long as I had a local license plate on my car, I was almost never even stopped ! The officers, both german and french, kept waving me to drive on. When I tried it with Parisian license plates they were more inclined to check my ID card, which on one occasion I had forgotten. I had to follow the officer in the office, where my drivers license was examined (does not mention citizenship here but has postal address on it). The man then asked me a few questions about my parents, and some local details he must have tought a foreigner would not be aware of, and then told me I could go ! That's years ago, nowadays the two countries are inside the "Schengen treaty territory" and there isn't anything more than a road sign at the border, although at some crossovers a slowly decaying building still stands as a reminder of past times. Funny how things evolve in opposite directions in different places.
How about Corsica and the resistance to French colonialism there? The Corsican resistance periodically explodes bombs to try to drive the French out.
You forget a small detail : We have a democracy, here, and the Corsican nationalists are engaged in every election. At their VERY BEST they get about 20% votes. So what ? Should we flatly ignore the 80% ppl wanting to stay french in favor of those 20% ? New Caledonia voted for an independance plan. It will vote again (I don't remember when) and if they want independance they'll get it.
French Gaullist Nationalism - It makes the French feel big and important *snip* That's why De Gaulle pulled out of active NATO involvement
No, he simply did not want us to go on war towards the Warsaw pact under US command, without having the faintest say. Can you perhaps see a similarity with much more recent events ?
- Don't go on thinking we have illusions about our "power", that's utterly wrong. But we do not accept anything for the sole reason it is proposed by a more powerful country
- As for muslims, especially Algerians, I must say they feel real bad here, as is proven by them fleeing this land everyday... oh wait...
- I was more than once in our former North-African colonies and as a french I was often especially welcomed. Damn, these people must be masochists... BTW The Algerian independance war was a disaster most french disaproved, and De Gaulle put an end to it.
- The current US governement thinks it can use brute force to get a better Irak. We'll see, it might as well provide us with a brand new Islamic republic...
... And I insist on working only 35 hours a week with 9 weeks off each year ! I am 42, with a little girl to raise and a decent income. I actually prefer trading a bigger paycheck for more time with my kid. Like parent poster said, there's more to life than much money, big house and heavy car. Is it someway indecent to claim that, having a decent life standard, I do not care to enhance it by any means ?
just FYI, in France the (major) chain "Carrefour" began recently to sell inexpensive linux PCs. And the machines sold much better than what they had predicted, so it's currently difficult to get one...
You got this wrong: - I'm not sure the US of the 40's and the US of today are really the same country. The first was a country with strong principles, and applied them, well better than we applied ours. I can't count how many times I was admirative. The last, well, leaves somewhat to desire. Speaking of 4th reich like a previous post is of course BS, but what I admired in the 40's US is for the best part gone with the years... - We (the whole EU) have as high standards as the US for delivering IDs and passports. The US administration today has full acces to all data from the airlines, comprising passport data and even credit card numbers, so why take it again if it isn't for not trusting us ? - If you consider my post is "anti-american rethoric", please listen to Gaza or Tehran or a couple of other places in the third world for an example of what "anti-american rethoric" means. Or is it no longer allowable to write the faintest criticism against any US policy without being considered and enemy ? - If we did the same at Paris airport with US citizens, how would you feel ? honestly ? I too got fingerprints and picture taken for my job, but until now we do not take them from US tourists and I did not hear we plan to do it. Altough some kind of "retaliation" could now emerge. - About being there when we need you : We sure had an absolute need to join against Irak in 1991. We sure had a deep need to follow to Kabul en 2002. In both cases the reason for going to war were obvious and we followed you. For Irak in 2003 the reasons were, let's say, not so obvious.
I know where the ennemies of my country are, and I do NOT think they're in the US. If you look for someone "spewing anti-american rethoric" you're wrong, but I'm not willing to blindly applause on every american decision, and I can and will "vote with my feet" against this one.
I agree totally. Prentending you have allies, and then treating their citizens as criminals... I know french people are already seen as supporting terrorists by some US people, but this goes definitively too far. I always thought I would visit the states one day, but for as long as this crap goes on I'll certainly not go : There are sufficient interesting places in the world to visit without me being considered as a criminal right at the arrival !
French enterprises are some of the most horribly corrupt entities buying entrance into third world markets (its a de-facto practice for them and their congress allows it) Just FYI, the french IRS allowed bussinesses to deduce the money used on bribery in designated third world countries from their revenues. No longer true, that allowance was revoked years ago : Now at least they have to hide the dirty tricks;-)
Nor can I. I always wondered how the judges in the US handle the fact that rightfull court rulings are not so rarely opposed to the public's preference.
For month now everything written in english, except when coming from a whitelist of know expeditors, gets trashed. Very efficient against spam, but of course not applicable in either US or UK ! Sometimes it's better to be european...
Agreed, but over here some older Nokia models (3310, 3410...) , which were just plain cell phones with no frill, did sell years long, and not even at a very low price. Then recently, Nokia offered a new model with color screen & musical ringtone download, at almost the same price. The remarkable thing is, the look, ergonomy and default settings "clones" the older model : Most people buying one keep these settings. Needless to say, the default ringtone is just that : A "phone ringing" sound
You're right, the images are the early versions put out by the ECB before introducing the currency. They were deliberately grossly unaccurate, in order to complicate counterfeiters life and thus delay the appearance of counterfeit Euros. In particular, the colours are totally false. The pictures you pointed to, have also somewhat faulty colours, but they are very closer to the real thing
That's the same I recently said in a discussion about spam. Recently spammmers try to evade my mail filter by writing crap like for example v1agra for viagra: Do they really think that by telling me "No matter you put a filter to avoid our ad, YOU'RE GONNA READ THIS !!!" they will have me buy their product? This seems almost exactly the same bad reasoning applied to pop-ups.
I currently try 9.2 : Xine has been replaced by Totem (which uses a xine engine). To play encrypted DVDs I just added libdvdcss from plf. This is becoming very easy, I remember I had a few things to find/download/install to get xine to play encrypted DVDs on Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1. And getting it to correctly handle DVD menus was not so simple either, while now totem does well out of the box.
On my laptop, I use an Archos MiniHD USB2 external hardrive. Mandrake 9.1 (and now 9.2) configure it and it's just a matter of mount to use it. Knoppix, which I tried also, readily puts an icon on the desktop. If I remove it and plug a USB key at the same place, the latter works identically. I feel USB in Linux is now as easy as in Windows.
My country once sold Exocet missiles to Argentina. Those where then fired at english ships during the Falkland war : The UK did not have the key to disable them and we had to urgently explain how to do it. Not something we should be proud of, I believe.
Are you suggesting that an attack on EU satelites would result in the EU collapsing and degenerating into an Islamic Theocracy?
Have you ever counted how much muslims live here in Europe ? So take care rejecting this kind of hypothesis : The chances of that happening may be very low, but they are not nil. And chances are high that there would be serious unrests. And even without such extreme developpements, the US should not think that this kind of action could go without any backlash. It may be a short term benefit, but now doubt a long term loss.
...people will then say, "I now have a right to download the music, and I don't have to worry about buying the CD, as I have supported them through the tariff!"
This should be modded up insightfull : As stated in another post, in France we pay such a tax on blank media, and the above is exactly what I think (and believe me I'm not the only one)
First off, it's Linux with no hassle (and I know many of us actually enjoy this hassle, but some of us don't...anymore at least
That's exactly the point. Although I never hacked inside Linux C code, I think I'm not far from beeing a power user, having linux at home and also using it everyday at work (with no support from the company, essentially they tell me "use it at own risk or use NT") And I really like Mandrake. I used to have slackware, which was OK but I spent countless hours configuring, loading additional stuff from the net, configuring again etc... It was challenging, but now I've learned my way. I can help myself when there's some detail going wrong. The point is, I'm tired of struggling and I really appreciate having a nice installer doing most of the job for me in minutes. Then, when I want to learn something more, I still have the choice of diving in config files when i feel so ! So I'm a happy club member, spending a few Euros to spare a lot of time isn't a bad idea !
Sources are on the 3rd ISO, which includes mostly packages that are not as "mainstream" as the 1st and 2nd ISOs. So people sometime do not bother to download it. The installer allows you to have only 2 CDs, and if you run a standard (default) install it almost never asks for the 3rd disk. So did you have the 3 CDs ? did you look at CD 3 ? I know I have the source RPM on disk 3 !
Very roughly put, you can achieve a bandwith between 1/20 to 1/100 of your carrier frequency (economically, that is) so around 10MHz you could expect around 100Kbps. And thats without considering regulations limiting it to much less, in order to accomodate more channels : If you modulate 10MHz with 100KHz you will effectively use the whole band between 9.9 MHz and 10.1 MHz. You will prevent others from using the same part of the spectrum halfway around the globe, because these frequencies reflect on the atmosphere and ground and therefore can travel way beyond the horizon. If you go higher in frequency, not only is it easyer to get a greater troughput (ie. passband), but you also find that higher frequency do not reflect on the atmosphere and ground, thereby are limited to line of sight. Moreover, directive antennas are manageable (60 or 80cm dish) while a dish for 10MHz would be well over 100 meters. So the band you use at 2.4 GHz can be re-employed by many other users without or minimal interference.
That's sh*t ! To get a.fr it's the same. Now as a french citizen I may get www.myname.com (in fact no because it's already owned by some N.Y. law firm) or at least I had a chance to get it. But I can't get www.myname.fr, which my wonderful country reserves for corporations only : If you ain't making money, internet is not for you. And then they say americans are greedy!
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This is why you will find that PAL copies of American films usually run for several minutes less, as they play around 4% faster.
BTW this is also true for TV broadcast, where movies run at 25 fps while in theaters they play at 24 fps.
You're probably both right. Recent movies get first sold in something like a "premium edition" with bonus and the like. These have DSS, prices are 15-25 Euros.
Older movies get reprinted, without any bonus and often no more CSS, in cheap DVDs sold for prices under Eur 10, sometimes as low as Eur 3.
B series movies, even recent ones, can regularly be found at promotional sales for Eur 1-5, mostly without CSS.
Of course this suffers exceptions, stores and editors have some more rules when fixing their prices!
The market is not so small: Most DVDs here are either French soundtrack only (for french movies), or french+english for US movies, or french+english+original language for other origins.
We sometimes also get French+English+Dutch as this allows a common DVD for Belgium/ France/ Luxemburg/ Nerderlands. DVDs with more languages do exist but are unfrequent.
When I go to Germany, which I do quite often, DVDs are generally with German/English sound, so they do not get the same edition as France.
Man that's really expensive ! The price for a passport here is aroud 75 Euro, all inclusive. And moreover most countries accept our ID card in lieu of the pass, and this card is for free : Most people here don't have a passport. (except those who travel to the US ;-)
Don't really know how it is at the US/Canada border, but I lived at the german/french border for years. As long as I had a local license plate on my car, I was almost never even stopped ! The officers, both german and french, kept waving me to drive on. When I tried it with Parisian license plates they were more inclined to check my ID card, which on one occasion I had forgotten. I had to follow the officer in the office, where my drivers license was examined (does not mention citizenship here but has postal address on it). The man then asked me a few questions about my parents, and some local details he must have tought a foreigner would not be aware of, and then told me I could go !
That's years ago, nowadays the two countries are inside the "Schengen treaty territory" and there isn't anything more than a road sign at the border, although at some crossovers a slowly decaying building still stands as a reminder of past times.
Funny how things evolve in opposite directions in different places.
How about Corsica and the resistance to French colonialism there? The Corsican resistance periodically explodes bombs to try to drive the French out.
You forget a small detail : We have a democracy, here, and the Corsican nationalists are engaged in every election. At their VERY BEST they get about 20% votes. So what ? Should we flatly ignore the 80% ppl wanting to stay french in favor of those 20% ?
New Caledonia voted for an independance plan. It will vote again (I don't remember when) and if they want independance they'll get it.
French Gaullist Nationalism - It makes the French feel big and important *snip* That's why De Gaulle pulled out of active NATO involvement
No, he simply did not want us to go on war towards the Warsaw pact under US command, without having the faintest say. Can you perhaps see a similarity with much more recent events ?
- Don't go on thinking we have illusions about our "power", that's utterly wrong. But we do not accept anything for the sole reason it is proposed by a more powerful country
- As for muslims, especially Algerians, I must say they feel real bad here, as is proven by them fleeing this land everyday... oh wait...
- I was more than once in our former North-African colonies and as a french I was often especially welcomed. Damn, these people must be masochists... BTW The Algerian independance war was a disaster most french disaproved, and De Gaulle put an end to it.
- The current US governement thinks it can use brute force to get a better Irak. We'll see, it might as well provide us with a brand new Islamic republic...
... And I insist on working only 35 hours a week with 9 weeks off each year !
I am 42, with a little girl to raise and a decent income. I actually prefer trading a bigger paycheck for more time with my kid. Like parent poster said, there's more to life than much money, big house and heavy car. Is it someway indecent to claim that, having a decent life standard, I do not care to enhance it by any means ?
just FYI, in France the (major) chain "Carrefour" began recently to sell inexpensive linux PCs. And the machines sold much better than what they had predicted, so it's currently difficult to get one...
You got this wrong :
- I'm not sure the US of the 40's and the US of today are really the same country. The first was a country with strong principles, and applied them, well better than we applied ours. I can't count how many times I was admirative. The last, well, leaves somewhat to desire. Speaking of 4th reich like a previous post is of course BS, but what I admired in the 40's US is for the best part gone with the years...
- We (the whole EU) have as high standards as the US for delivering IDs and passports. The US administration today has full acces to all data from the airlines, comprising passport data and even credit card numbers, so why take it again if it isn't for not trusting us ?
- If you consider my post is "anti-american rethoric", please listen to Gaza or Tehran or a couple of other places in the third world for an example of what "anti-american rethoric" means. Or is it no longer allowable to write the faintest criticism against any US policy without being considered and enemy ?
- If we did the same at Paris airport with US citizens, how would you feel ? honestly ? I too got fingerprints and picture taken for my job, but until now we do not take them from US tourists and I did not hear we plan to do it. Altough some kind of "retaliation" could now emerge.
- About being there when we need you : We sure had an absolute need to join against Irak in 1991. We sure had a deep need to follow to Kabul en 2002. In both cases the reason for going to war were obvious and we followed you. For Irak in 2003 the reasons were, let's say, not so obvious.
I know where the ennemies of my country are, and I do NOT think they're in the US. If you look for someone "spewing anti-american rethoric" you're wrong, but I'm not willing to blindly applause on every american decision, and I can and will "vote with my feet" against this one.
I agree totally. Prentending you have allies, and then treating their citizens as criminals...
I know french people are already seen as supporting terrorists by some US people, but this goes definitively too far. I always thought I would visit the states one day, but for as long as this crap goes on I'll certainly not go : There are sufficient interesting places in the world to visit without me being considered as a criminal right at the arrival !
French enterprises are some of the most horribly corrupt entities buying entrance into third world markets (its a de-facto practice for them and their congress allows it) ;-)
Just FYI, the french IRS allowed bussinesses to deduce the money used on bribery in designated third world countries from their revenues. No longer true, that allowance was revoked years ago : Now at least they have to hide the dirty tricks
Nor can I. I always wondered how the judges in the US handle the fact that rightfull court rulings are not so rarely opposed to the public's preference.
For month now everything written in english, except when coming from a whitelist of know expeditors, gets trashed. Very efficient against spam, but of course not applicable in either US or UK ! Sometimes it's better to be european...
Agreed, but over here some older Nokia models (3310, 3410...) , which were just plain cell phones with no frill, did sell years long, and not even at a very low price. Then recently, Nokia offered a new model with color screen & musical ringtone download, at almost the same price. The remarkable thing is, the look, ergonomy and default settings "clones" the older model : Most people buying one keep these settings. Needless to say, the default ringtone is just that : A "phone ringing" sound
You're right, the images are the early versions put out by the ECB before introducing the currency. They were deliberately grossly unaccurate, in order to complicate counterfeiters life and thus delay the appearance of counterfeit Euros. In particular, the colours are totally false.
The pictures you pointed to, have also somewhat faulty colours, but they are very closer to the real thing
That's the same I recently said in a discussion about spam. Recently spammmers try to evade my mail filter by writing crap like for example v1agra for viagra: Do they really think that by telling me "No matter you put a filter to avoid our ad, YOU'RE GONNA READ THIS !!!" they will have me buy their product? This seems almost exactly the same bad reasoning applied to pop-ups.
I currently try 9.2 : Xine has been replaced by Totem (which uses a xine engine). To play encrypted DVDs I just added libdvdcss from plf. This is becoming very easy, I remember I had a few things to find/download/install to get xine to play encrypted DVDs on Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1. And getting it to correctly handle DVD menus was not so simple either, while now totem does well out of the box.
On my laptop, I use an Archos MiniHD USB2 external hardrive. Mandrake 9.1 (and now 9.2) configure it and it's just a matter of mount to use it. Knoppix, which I tried also, readily puts an icon on the desktop. If I remove it and plug a USB key at the same place, the latter works identically. I feel USB in Linux is now as easy as in Windows.
My country once sold Exocet missiles to Argentina. Those where then fired at english ships during the Falkland war : The UK did not have the key to disable them and we had to urgently explain how to do it. Not something we should be proud of, I believe.
Are you suggesting that an attack on EU satelites would result in the EU collapsing and degenerating into an Islamic Theocracy?
Have you ever counted how much muslims live here in Europe ? So take care rejecting this kind of hypothesis : The chances of that happening may be very low, but they are not nil. And chances are high that there would be serious unrests.
And even without such extreme developpements, the US should not think that this kind of action could go without any backlash. It may be a short term benefit, but now doubt a long term loss.
...people will then say, "I now have a right to download the music, and I don't have to worry about buying the CD, as I have supported them through the tariff!"
This should be modded up insightfull : As stated in another post, in France we pay such a tax on blank media, and the above is exactly what I think (and believe me I'm not the only one)
First off, it's Linux with no hassle (and I know many of us actually enjoy this hassle, but some of us don't...anymore at least
That's exactly the point. Although I never hacked inside Linux C code, I think I'm not far from beeing a power user, having linux at home and also using it everyday at work (with no support from the company, essentially they tell me "use it at own risk or use NT")
And I really like Mandrake. I used to have slackware, which was OK but I spent countless hours configuring, loading additional stuff from the net, configuring again etc... It was challenging, but now I've learned my way. I can help myself when there's some detail going wrong. The point is, I'm tired of struggling and I really appreciate having a nice installer doing most of the job for me in minutes. Then, when I want to learn something more, I still have the choice of diving in config files when i feel so !
So I'm a happy club member, spending a few Euros to spare a lot of time isn't a bad idea !
Sources are on the 3rd ISO, which includes mostly packages that are not as "mainstream" as the 1st and 2nd ISOs. So people sometime do not bother to download it. The installer allows you to have only 2 CDs, and if you run a standard (default) install it almost never asks for the 3rd disk. So did you have the 3 CDs ? did you look at CD 3 ? I know I have the source RPM on disk 3 !
Very roughly put, you can achieve a bandwith between 1/20 to 1/100 of your carrier frequency (economically, that is) so around 10MHz you could expect around 100Kbps. And thats without considering regulations limiting it to much less, in order to accomodate more channels : If you modulate 10MHz with 100KHz you will effectively use the whole band between 9.9 MHz and 10.1 MHz. You will prevent others from using the same part of the spectrum halfway around the globe, because these frequencies reflect on the atmosphere and ground and therefore can travel way beyond the horizon.
If you go higher in frequency, not only is it easyer to get a greater troughput (ie. passband), but you also find that higher frequency do not reflect on the atmosphere and ground, thereby are limited to line of sight. Moreover, directive antennas are manageable (60 or 80cm dish) while a dish for 10MHz would be well over 100 meters. So the band you use at 2.4 GHz can be re-employed by many other users without or minimal interference.
That's sh*t ! To get a .fr it's the same. Now as a french citizen I may get www.myname.com (in fact no because it's already owned by some N.Y. law firm) or at least I had a chance to get it. But I can't get www.myname.fr, which my wonderful country reserves for corporations only : If you ain't making money, internet is not for you. And then they say americans are greedy!