As far as I know, the government requires the banks to use the ActiveX plugin for banking purposes.
No, the Korean websites aren't really in English. No one uses Google or Yahoo! here. They have their own search (Naver), e-mail (Hanmail), social networks (Don't remember the name), and even office suite (Hangul Office). If it weren't all based on a foreign OS, I'd actually kind of respect their "independence."
I use the "get my ass to the post office method. I'd pay online, but Korea uses an ActiveX plugin instead of SSL. Even if I had ActiveX, there's no way I'd do that.
NZ beef is quite different from US beef as cows in NZ are mainly grass feed (whereas cows in the US are mainly grass feed).
I assume you meant to say that US beef is grain fed, which may be technically true, but gives the wrong impression. As I said before, the land used to graze cattle in the US is over eight times the size of New Zealand. From WP
In the United States, most grass fed cattle are raised for beef production. Dairy cattle are usually supplemented with grain to increase the efficiency of production and reduce the area needed to support the energy requirements of the herd.
This quote doesn't mean that most beef cattle are grass fed, but most beef cattle are grass fed for most of their lives and then grain fed for only a few weeks before slaughter to fatten them and get a better price. (I never really understood why this type is often still called "grain fed.") Because of the large amount of grazing land in the US, this is the most economical way to do it. Most grazing land could not be used for farming, anyway, and corn is much more expensive than free grass.
Up near Illinois, though, where the traditional cattle yards are, they prefer to grain feed their cattle for a longer period, often sixty to a hundred and twenty days, which produces a milder but much better marbled piece of beef. As a result, most of the expensive beef for quality steaks comes from grain-fed cattle from this area. The less expensive grades of beef are almost always grass-fed until they are fattened. It is really hard to get grass-finished beef, though.
I'm still not arguing about the relative quality of NZ vs. US beef. I've eaten NZ beef for eight years now (in Asia) and I love it. There are a huge number of reasons to eat grass-fed beef, including increased CLA.
My father started raising cattle a few years ago, so I've learned a lot about cattle production since then.
South Korea has very little usable land. At all. For any purpose.
I said They don't have enough land here to raise cheap cattle. Cheap cattle doesn't come from importing grain to feed it in stockyards. It comes from getting a calf, letting it go for six months on grazing land, then selling it off to be fatted and slaughtered. That takes a lot of grazing land.
Koreans don't have a shortage of beef. They have a shortage of cheap beef. Cheap beef from the US will affect the industry here, though because of Korea's nationalism and Koreans' desire to buy only Korean products, I'm not really sure if US beef would decimate the Korean cattle industry or not.
I wasn't meaning to imply that NZ beef is unsafe or that US beef was just as safe, but the reason given was absurd. I had to look up the stats for her to show her that grazing land in the US is 8.5 times the size of all of NZ.
Koreans tell me that there are two major news sources here, one in the government camp, and one which is anti-government. Neither source is too concerned about accuracy in reporting, I guess. They say that the anti-government source wanted to spread FUD (not their words) about beef in order to create a lack of confidence in the current administration. They even went so far as to imply that several Americans had died of vCJD contracted through contact with BSE-infected animal.
My personal feeling was that it was always about money (my first thought about everything, really). Korean beef is about twice the price of US beef, so if US beef is seen as safe and desirable, the Korean beef market goes in the shitter. They don't have enough land here to raise cheap cattle.
Oh, and incidentally, last I heard,SK doesn't do any BSE testing at all, ever.
It's really in response to pressure about the FTA. South Korea allowed beef in (despite huge protests) simply because they want the FTA, which will boost their export-dependent economy.
I don't much care about that. I'm just happy that I now get my NY strip for half the price of local beef.
Because I live in S. Korea, this issue was huge just a few months ago. Everyone was talking about it.
Then one of my co-workers tried to convince me that NZ beef was safer than US beef because there was more grass in NZ.
Misinformation from the local media.
Then more told me that the US wants to send SK old beef that Americans are unwilling to eat because it's too dangerous. Only beef over three years, they said. In reality, the trade agreement was exclusively for beef under three years (which has the lowest likelihood of being infected).
Also misinformation from the local media.
Finally, several people I talked to wanted to know if I was brave enough to eat US meat because they had been told that Americans are afraid of their own beef.
I routinely pay more to get mileage on a decent airline, giving me a silver card which allows me a greater baggage allowance, free domestic flights and class upgrades.
Or, if they don't like OSS, they could at least get lower-cost solutions like Sun's StarOffice (USD35 per person, allowing up to five installs for that person's use at the organization or elsewhere) or IBM's Symphony. Those are some pretty big names.
But you can have a single copy of OO.o installed on a file server from which all the clients run the software (ro). In that case, you only need to update the software in one place.
Naturally, preferences and documents are saved on the client.
I think as taxpayers they can sue for damages in the form of increased taxes.
Competitive bidding should be the norm, and exceptions to this rule should be rare. Once a spec is given and bids are in, there'll be an obvious choice.
When time or special circumstance doesn't allow bids, there certainly needs to be a detailed report on the reasons one vendor was chosen over another. Someone needs to put his ass on the line and say "Symphony, StarOffice, Openoffice.org, and Gnome Office don't meet our needs" for reasons a, b, and c. When an accountant comes back to audit the department, he'll back those up or pay the price.
And I just use double-<br>s instead of paragraph tags.
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As far as I know, the government requires the banks to use the ActiveX plugin for banking purposes.
No, the Korean websites aren't really in English. No one uses Google or Yahoo! here. They have their own search (Naver), e-mail (Hanmail), social networks (Don't remember the name), and even office suite (Hangul Office). If it weren't all based on a foreign OS, I'd actually kind of respect their "independence."
New Zealand has a lot of grass. The U.S. doesn't have very much.
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I've seen seven non-Windows machines in four years in this country. They were all owned by foreigners. Four belonged to me.
I use the "get my ass to the post office method. I'd pay online, but Korea uses an ActiveX plugin instead of SSL. Even if I had ActiveX, there's no way I'd do that.
I assume you meant to say that US beef is grain fed, which may be technically true, but gives the wrong impression. As I said before, the land used to graze cattle in the US is over eight times the size of New Zealand. From WP
In the United States, most grass fed cattle are raised for beef production. Dairy cattle are usually supplemented with grain to increase the efficiency of production and reduce the area needed to support the energy requirements of the herd.
This quote doesn't mean that most beef cattle are grass fed, but most beef cattle are grass fed for most of their lives and then grain fed for only a few weeks before slaughter to fatten them and get a better price. (I never really understood why this type is often still called "grain fed.") Because of the large amount of grazing land in the US, this is the most economical way to do it. Most grazing land could not be used for farming, anyway, and corn is much more expensive than free grass.
Up near Illinois, though, where the traditional cattle yards are, they prefer to grain feed their cattle for a longer period, often sixty to a hundred and twenty days, which produces a milder but much better marbled piece of beef. As a result, most of the expensive beef for quality steaks comes from grain-fed cattle from this area. The less expensive grades of beef are almost always grass-fed until they are fattened. It is really hard to get grass-finished beef, though.
I'm still not arguing about the relative quality of NZ vs. US beef. I've eaten NZ beef for eight years now (in Asia) and I love it. There are a huge number of reasons to eat grass-fed beef, including increased CLA.
My father started raising cattle a few years ago, so I've learned a lot about cattle production since then.
You'd better abstain from chicken, too. That stuff is nasty.
Round here, we eat dog, and we hang it upside down, beating it well while slaughtering it slowly to make sure the meat is tender.
My friend refused to eat dog for exactly this reason. Someone else asked him "Ummm... Do you eat pork?"
"Of course."
"We slaughter the pigs the same way."
South Korea has very little usable land. At all. For any purpose.
I said They don't have enough land here to raise cheap cattle. Cheap cattle doesn't come from importing grain to feed it in stockyards. It comes from getting a calf, letting it go for six months on grazing land, then selling it off to be fatted and slaughtered. That takes a lot of grazing land.
Koreans don't have a shortage of beef. They have a shortage of cheap beef. Cheap beef from the US will affect the industry here, though because of Korea's nationalism and Koreans' desire to buy only Korean products, I'm not really sure if US beef would decimate the Korean cattle industry or not.
Just my opinion.
I wasn't meaning to imply that NZ beef is unsafe or that US beef was just as safe, but the reason given was absurd. I had to look up the stats for her to show her that grazing land in the US is 8.5 times the size of all of NZ.
Koreans tell me that there are two major news sources here, one in the government camp, and one which is anti-government. Neither source is too concerned about accuracy in reporting, I guess. They say that the anti-government source wanted to spread FUD (not their words) about beef in order to create a lack of confidence in the current administration. They even went so far as to imply that several Americans had died of vCJD contracted through contact with BSE-infected animal.
My personal feeling was that it was always about money (my first thought about everything, really). Korean beef is about twice the price of US beef, so if US beef is seen as safe and desirable, the Korean beef market goes in the shitter. They don't have enough land here to raise cheap cattle.
Oh, and incidentally, last I heard,SK doesn't do any BSE testing at all, ever.
More than some. Just about all. It's been "proven," too, by real doctors and such. They'll warn you at the clinic.
Oh, yeah, and gimchi cures cancer.
If you knew what South Koreans believed about American beef, causing them this worry, you'd just say "WTF?" and shake your head.
It's really in response to pressure about the FTA. South Korea allowed beef in (despite huge protests) simply because they want the FTA, which will boost their export-dependent economy.
I don't much care about that. I'm just happy that I now get my NY strip for half the price of local beef.
Does is taste like chicken?
Then why is the 1% testing level important at all?
And in South Korea, where the BSE scare is probably the highest, they pump their milk full of everything they can to make the kids develop faster.
Because I live in S. Korea, this issue was huge just a few months ago. Everyone was talking about it.
Then one of my co-workers tried to convince me that NZ beef was safer than US beef because there was more grass in NZ.
Misinformation from the local media.
Then more told me that the US wants to send SK old beef that Americans are unwilling to eat because it's too dangerous. Only beef over three years, they said. In reality, the trade agreement was exclusively for beef under three years (which has the lowest likelihood of being infected).
Also misinformation from the local media.
Finally, several people I talked to wanted to know if I was brave enough to eat US meat because they had been told that Americans are afraid of their own beef.
The media. Meh.
I was just joking about how slow 10.0 and 10.1 were. There was no need for extra stuff to slow it down.
No, they just load it down with the core OS. At least, that's ho it was in the 10.1 days.
I routinely pay more to get mileage on a decent airline, giving me a silver card which allows me a greater baggage allowance, free domestic flights and class upgrades.
So, yeah, some of us pay more for that stuff.
And 1998, and 1999. 2000 sucked pretty badly, though, if I rememeber correctly.
Or, if they don't like OSS, they could at least get lower-cost solutions like Sun's StarOffice (USD35 per person, allowing up to five installs for that person's use at the organization or elsewhere) or IBM's Symphony. Those are some pretty big names.
But you can have a single copy of OO.o installed on a file server from which all the clients run the software (ro). In that case, you only need to update the software in one place.
Naturally, preferences and documents are saved on the client.
If you don't want to lose any formatting, export the PDF and send that to the library printer.
Kids!
I think as taxpayers they can sue for damages in the form of increased taxes.
Competitive bidding should be the norm, and exceptions to this rule should be rare. Once a spec is given and bids are in, there'll be an obvious choice.
When time or special circumstance doesn't allow bids, there certainly needs to be a detailed report on the reasons one vendor was chosen over another. Someone needs to put his ass on the line and say "Symphony, StarOffice, Openoffice.org, and Gnome Office don't meet our needs" for reasons a, b, and c. When an accountant comes back to audit the department, he'll back those up or pay the price.
And I just use double-<br>s instead of paragraph tags.
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