as they get it back. The localization costs are of no real importance either - because most companies use English software anyway. No sane person would use, let's say Visual Studio to take a common example, in Norwegian, even though it's available for some odd reason.
Customs might charge some money but that usually never exceeds 15-25%, depending on which country you are importing into.
So charging 100% more for literally the same product is nothing but greed - and the stupid Europeans are paying the price.
Too bad that this doesn't apply for the power supply. Workaround: Now I have a power supply at home and and at work, so I don't need to worry about it. But that also comes with a side effect: Now I'm quite prone to forget the power supply when I have to go somewhere else but to the office as I usually don't need it... guess I should place a 3rd one in the laptop bag and leave it there.
I'm really astonished about this high percentage. I would not even dream of spying on data. If I access personal data then only by explicit request of the owner for very good reason. I'm the only sysadmin in my company, so I could easily cover whatever I want but yet I don't even feel tempted.
Well, that only works cross platform until your management decides that it needs additional "security" and makes the IT staff install a VPN solution that is not properly working with anything but Windows...
So whenever anyone with a non-Windows laptop wants to access Citrix from outside the company network he'll be doomed. So Citrix is not the solution unless it's embedded into the right environment.
... and the numbers change a lot. I work for a company that belongs to a group with total ~3k employees and the vast majority is using Windows - but XP, not Vista. Every new PC that is ordered and delivered with Vista will be immediately downgraded to XP, except for a couple of test pcs.
It's hilarious to claim that the sales are doing fine if you don't really know what numbers you are talking about Mr. Ballmer.
From my point of view only Ubuntu would benefit from such a synchronized release schedule. Well, I guess then it's best that they change their release cycle to Red Hat's. That's not too difficult to achieve as RH announced its schedules quite early.
So if you want free beer - go and get it yourself!
and never believed that it actually really helped a significant amount of people. If there would be a real reason, some kind of benefit for a larger group of people then I would gladly accept the annoying time shift. But I don't know anyone, never seen anyone that really benefit from it and the majority of the people were at most neutral ("I don't care") or negative ("Screws up my everyday life schedule").
So I'm all for getting rid of this. Sadly in Europe it will take another 200 years before someone will even start thinking about changing back and letting the clocks run the same way all year.
Maybe you take the wrong approach to "charge" a car.
What about standard, pre-charged batteries that you simply swap at the "gas" station instead of really charging the car? This way the whole process can be done in the same amount of time than filling up gasoline. This is not even to complicated. You more or less rent the battery from the respective company and return it when it's empty (just to exchange it for a fully charged one).
The "gas" station has all the time in the world to charge the empty batteries, replace/repair faulty ones, etc.
Isn't that a more logical (and much safer) solution to the problem?
... and partly also here: I really wonder what is making Nerds so selfish and ignorant to expect everyone to know any detail of the system that they are using that comments like "ctrl-w works, no big deal" are popping up like crazy. This is an issue and wether you like it or not - ppl are browsing with Java enabled - because the whole browser configuration is far beyond their horizon and it's difficult enough for a tech supporter to know all tricks and specialties of certain os and browser combinations.
All browsers (like almost all software) are still far to complex for Joe Averageuser and security issues like this explicitely proof that.
I'm kinda certain that it won't be a car driven by a combustion engine (anymore), no matter which type.
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Sadly I have to agree. We was entertaining and fun to see in his shows - but almost everyone knew that one day a news like this would appear. Feeling sorry for his children.
i don't really understand why ppl are so crazy about wow. it's just another mmorpg, introducing nothing spectacularly new, doing nothing really better than any other average mmo... it just had really good marketing and a good brand.
i played it for ~5 or 6 months, had alot of fun 4 months, got bored after this and finally sold my account on ebay - something i wouldn't do with any of my other game-accounts.
it's bugged (one bug that i reported in the open beta is still not fixed), the german "localization" is a joke (it's rather a literal translation instead of a localozation). sozialising is pretty much non-existant, everyone is running up to level 60 as fast as possible and then camps the instances or the battlegrounds, the story is inconsistent, the service is aweful compared to the price that you pay, death losses are not worth to get mentioned (so pvp is pointless)... that's nothing for me.
seriously, the idea is fine, but the implementation is just average.
Sorry, but did they lose their mind, completely? I do not get it. They get more money out of ITMS than they get from their cd sales and still they demand more? Did their greed for money already ate their brains?
How stupid can one be? It's idiotic, they are already digging their own graves and now they literally demand that one of their biggest supporter has to switch sides to help digging?
Every shimp has more intelligence than those managers!
I'm not convinced (yet) that WoW will previal in long term. It's a huge sucess (even financial) for Blizzard/vivendi, no doubt. But I don't think that WoW has the potential to remain the "800 pound gorilla" over the years. Lots of people already leaving (myself included) after only half a year of playing. Remember that games like DaoC, Everquest and Lineage are online for many years already and I don't see WoW to be that strong in 5 years anymore if they do not change the game fundamentally.
Don't get me wrong! It's a great game - for casual gamers. But real hardcore gamers will lack the the real challenge: I've played Tibia (a smaller but very successful mmorpg) for years now. Every time I was facing a really tough situation (a pk trying to kill me, a strong monster,...) I was literally shaking on front of my computer. - In WoW I've never experienced this. It doesn't matter if you die or survive. You simply respawn and try again, over and over. You don't lose anything at all (except a laughable amount of money), so there is no real reason for excitenment in a fight. That's great for casual gamers - but boring for power gamers. Beside this the community in WoW is crappy. A crowd of anonymous nobodies running around doing the same each and every day. There is no space for "super heroes", people that others will look up to.
Those are 2 core points (among alot of others) I really miss in WoW. I'm convinced that they will keep WoW from staying the "800 pound gorilla".
i'm currently playing wow and because of blizzards major problems to keep their servers up and running i was thinking about trying eq2. but a news message like this will certainly stop immediately because that's definitely not what i like.
i can't help it but for me the us legal system just looks idiotic. everyone is sueing someone for really idiotic reasons. sooner or later half of the us jobs will be lawyers to keep the system going.
that's just insane.
it's the parents' job to keep an eye on their children. if they allow them to use the internet then they have to be aware of the fact that they might stumble upon some more or less strange persons. either they are mature enough to handle the situation or the parents have to keep them from using the internet - that easy.
when they sue the person that really wanted to have sex with a child it's perfectly ok. but to sue aol is just idiotic. in my eyes the whole legal system is crap.
What consequences? Having the kernel be way better than it would have been if Linus had listened to you people and not used BitKeeper?
Sure, BitKeeper might be going away--but the things Linus accomplished while it was here will NOT go way.
or you can see it the other way round: for sure bitkeeper did help the development process. but on the other hand it will stop (or slower) the development process now for a certain amount of time until the transition to a new system has been done. beside this something bitkeeper-like would have been developed meanwhile if linux wouldn't have chosen bitkeeper.
i don not question the decision, it's his baby, and if we do not like the way he works we are free to fork. but these are my thoughts and it just depends on how you weight the results.
about google's server farm - one of the biggest linux server parks and argueable the most famous search engine with incredibly great overall-performance.
mind to invite me? I doubt that anyone who wants to already got an account. i tried twice (don't feel like flooding google with requests) and didn't receive an answer yet...
so yes, I'm happy that they finally launch this service even though i cannot find anything related to the news on their webpage (yet).
Sorry for the guys at Troika but I'm everything but astonished. With a publisher like Atari you are doomed to fail. The last game, especially totee were so buggy that they were hardly playable. Wasn't Troika's fault, it was Atari that pushed the games into the market before they were actually finished.
I don't buy any Atari-games anymore which sadly hit Troika as well.
Bad publisher == death for the development team. Sad but true.
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Thanks for the hint, but the article itself doesn't even state that it's Jeopardy!... and that's what I meant.
Slashdot Mirror
as they get it back.
The localization costs are of no real importance either - because most companies use English software anyway. No sane person would use, let's say Visual Studio to take a common example, in Norwegian, even though it's available for some odd reason.
Customs might charge some money but that usually never exceeds 15-25%, depending on which country you are importing into.
So charging 100% more for literally the same product is nothing but greed - and the stupid Europeans are paying the price.
So it's such a routine that I cannot forget it.
Too bad that this doesn't apply for the power supply. Workaround: Now I have a power supply at home and and at work, so I don't need to worry about it. But that also comes with a side effect: Now I'm quite prone to forget the power supply when I have to go somewhere else but to the office as I usually don't need it ... guess I should place a 3rd one in the laptop bag and leave it there.
I'm really astonished about this high percentage. I would not even dream of spying on data. If I access personal data then only by explicit request of the owner for very good reason.
I'm the only sysadmin in my company, so I could easily cover whatever I want but yet I don't even feel tempted.
Well, that only works cross platform until your management decides that it needs additional "security" and makes the IT staff install a VPN solution that is not properly working with anything but Windows ...
So whenever anyone with a non-Windows laptop wants to access Citrix from outside the company network he'll be doomed.
So Citrix is not the solution unless it's embedded into the right environment.
So far there are no proven reports about Google really abusing its position (to my knowledge).
But there are quite some reports where the border guards have taken laptops for more than shady reasons and never given back.
So: Yes, I do trust Google more than the customs.
... and the numbers change a lot.
I work for a company that belongs to a group with total ~3k employees and the vast majority is using Windows - but XP, not Vista. Every new PC that is ordered and delivered with Vista will be immediately downgraded to XP, except for a couple of test pcs.
It's hilarious to claim that the sales are doing fine if you don't really know what numbers you are talking about Mr. Ballmer.
PS: Even my private play pc is downgraded to XP.
From my point of view only Ubuntu would benefit from such a synchronized release schedule. Well, I guess then it's best that they change their release cycle to Red Hat's. That's not too difficult to achieve as RH announced its schedules quite early.
So if you want free beer - go and get it yourself!
and never believed that it actually really helped a significant amount of people.
If there would be a real reason, some kind of benefit for a larger group of people then I would gladly accept the annoying time shift. But I don't know anyone, never seen anyone that really benefit from it and the majority of the people were at most neutral ("I don't care") or negative ("Screws up my everyday life schedule").
So I'm all for getting rid of this. Sadly in Europe it will take another 200 years before someone will even start thinking about changing back and letting the clocks run the same way all year.
Maybe you take the wrong approach to "charge" a car.
What about standard, pre-charged batteries that you simply swap at the "gas" station instead of really charging the car? This way the whole process can be done in the same amount of time than filling up gasoline.
This is not even to complicated. You more or less rent the battery from the respective company and return it when it's empty (just to exchange it for a fully charged one).
The "gas" station has all the time in the world to charge the empty batteries, replace/repair faulty ones, etc.
Isn't that a more logical (and much safer) solution to the problem?
... and partly also here:
I really wonder what is making Nerds so selfish and ignorant to expect everyone to know any detail of the system that they are using that comments like "ctrl-w works, no big deal" are popping up like crazy. This is an issue and wether you like it or not - ppl are browsing with Java enabled - because the whole browser configuration is far beyond their horizon and it's difficult enough for a tech supporter to know all tricks and specialties of certain os and browser combinations.
All browsers (like almost all software) are still far to complex for Joe Averageuser and security issues like this explicitely proof that.
I'm kinda certain that it won't be a car driven by a combustion engine (anymore), no matter which type.
Sadly I have to agree.
We was entertaining and fun to see in his shows - but almost everyone knew that one day a news like this would appear.
Feeling sorry for his children.
how can you measure guild wars? it has no subscribers (which is the base that chart is made on).
i don't really understand why ppl are so crazy about wow. it's just another mmorpg, introducing nothing spectacularly new, doing nothing really better than any other average mmo ... it just had really good marketing and a good brand.
... that's nothing for me.
i played it for ~5 or 6 months, had alot of fun 4 months, got bored after this and finally sold my account on ebay - something i wouldn't do with any of my other game-accounts.
it's bugged (one bug that i reported in the open beta is still not fixed), the german "localization" is a joke (it's rather a literal translation instead of a localozation). sozialising is pretty much non-existant, everyone is running up to level 60 as fast as possible and then camps the instances or the battlegrounds, the story is inconsistent, the service is aweful compared to the price that you pay, death losses are not worth to get mentioned (so pvp is pointless)
seriously, the idea is fine, but the implementation is just average.
:P
currently I still do not get shadow effects, so I see no point in subscribing.
Sorry, but did they lose their mind, completely?
I do not get it. They get more money out of ITMS than they get from their cd sales and still they demand more? Did their greed for money already ate their brains?
How stupid can one be? It's idiotic, they are already digging their own graves and now they literally demand that one of their biggest supporter has to switch sides to help digging?
Every shimp has more intelligence than those managers!
I'm not convinced (yet) that WoW will previal in long term. It's a huge sucess (even financial) for Blizzard/vivendi, no doubt. But I don't think that WoW has the potential to remain the "800 pound gorilla" over the years. Lots of people already leaving (myself included) after only half a year of playing. Remember that games like DaoC, Everquest and Lineage are online for many years already and I don't see WoW to be that strong in 5 years anymore if they do not change the game fundamentally.
...) I was literally shaking on front of my computer. - In WoW I've never experienced this. It doesn't matter if you die or survive. You simply respawn and try again, over and over. You don't lose anything at all (except a laughable amount of money), so there is no real reason for excitenment in a fight.
Don't get me wrong! It's a great game - for casual gamers. But real hardcore gamers will lack the the real challenge:
I've played Tibia (a smaller but very successful mmorpg) for years now. Every time I was facing a really tough situation (a pk trying to kill me, a strong monster,
That's great for casual gamers - but boring for power gamers.
Beside this the community in WoW is crappy. A crowd of anonymous nobodies running around doing the same each and every day. There is no space for "super heroes", people that others will look up to.
Those are 2 core points (among alot of others) I really miss in WoW. I'm convinced that they will keep WoW from staying the "800 pound gorilla".
i'm currently playing wow and because of blizzards major problems to keep their servers up and running i was thinking about trying eq2. but a news message like this will certainly stop immediately because that's definitely not what i like.
i can't help it but for me the us legal system just looks idiotic. everyone is sueing someone for really idiotic reasons. sooner or later half of the us jobs will be lawyers to keep the system going.
that's just insane.
it's the parents' job to keep an eye on their children. if they allow them to use the internet then they have to be aware of the fact that they might stumble upon some more or less strange persons. either they are mature enough to handle the situation or the parents have to keep them from using the internet - that easy.
when they sue the person that really wanted to have sex with a child it's perfectly ok. but to sue aol is just idiotic.
in my eyes the whole legal system is crap.
or you can see it the other way round:
for sure bitkeeper did help the development process. but on the other hand it will stop (or slower) the development process now for a certain amount of time until the transition to a new system has been done. beside this something bitkeeper-like would have been developed meanwhile if linux wouldn't have chosen bitkeeper.
i don not question the decision, it's his baby, and if we do not like the way he works we are free to fork. but these are my thoughts and it just depends on how you weight the results.
Just read the Google-Page provided above:
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---snip---
In Firefox, you can disable prefetching by doing the following:
1. Type "about:config" the address bar.
2. Scroll down to the setting "network.prefetch-next" and set the value to "False".
---snip---
There you go
about google's server farm - one of the biggest linux server parks and argueable the most famous search engine with incredibly great overall-performance.
*rofl*
mind to invite me? ...
I doubt that anyone who wants to already got an account. i tried twice (don't feel like flooding google with requests) and didn't receive an answer yet
so yes, I'm happy that they finally launch this service even though i cannot find anything related to the news on their webpage (yet).
Sorry for the guys at Troika but I'm everything but astonished. With a publisher like Atari you are doomed to fail. The last game, especially totee were so buggy that they were hardly playable. Wasn't Troika's fault, it was Atari that pushed the games into the market before they were actually finished.
I don't buy any Atari-games anymore which sadly hit Troika as well.
Bad publisher == death for the development team. Sad but true.
Thanks for the hint, but the article itself doesn't even state that it's Jeopardy! ... and that's what I meant.