Wow, people in your country really put up with that? Why should I, the customer, go through so much hassle just to get a discount? Why should I give them my original receipt, thus likely forfeiting any warranty claims (warranty is at least one year by law here)?
It boggles the mind that some people are actually defending mail-in rebetaes. Great consumerism culture you've developed there. I'm amazed that selling your address to hundreds of dubious outfits is fine with you. Not to mention that these schemes (and the corresponding "$20*....... *after $100 mail-in rebate" signs) would be very illegal here and in most other countries.
I find it very ironic that you seem to be against "simplified spelling," yet your post contains a couple (at least two) errors that would have been prevented if English spelling were phonetical.
And yes, I probably misspelled something right now. My defense is, I'm not a native English speaker.
I have to say, I prefer it the way it's right now on Mac OS X. That's because it's very easy to move an entire Opera installation from one platform to another with Opera versions for different platforms being virtually identical to the end user.
Lumping Taiwan in with Sri Lanka, China or Malaysia only shows your ignorance.
Agreed. Except that I fail to see how even Malaysia is anything like China (well, except the fact that many Malaysians speak Chinese dialects). This guy doesn't seem to travel much.
This has nothing at all to do with price. In some fields, every single company has things manufactured in China, whether their products are expensive or not. I challenge you to find a single power supply or television set in your home that is not from China.
As I see it this has a lot in common with politics. What does it matter if a political candidate smoked pot or even if he's into S&M? Isn't his competence the only thing that matters? Yet, when the public learns about those details the would-be politician is automatically done for, even if the voters or political opponents do as bad or even worse than him.
This is mostly an American phenomenon. Politicians campaigning with their families on their side and presidential candidates showing movies about their family life, that just doesn't happen here. I mean, why would I care?
There are many politicians here who are openly or not so openly gay (but nobody cares when they admit to it). And digging up dirt about a politician's past pretty much only happens when he is a hypocrite, e.g. a former pot smoker saying something negative about other former pot smokers.
I live in India, and in the past few years airline security has always been tight because terrorism is very very old over here.
I guess you're kidding. I've been to three Indian airports recently. Before I checked in, I had to have my bag checked at a mobile x-ray station in the terminal. After that, they sometimes put stickers on zippers, sometimes they strapped a plastic ribbon around my bag. After that, the bag was given back to me again and I could check in. The thing is, my bag was a small backpack with about ten pockets that could be opened easily even with all the "seals" they applied. Even if you have a suitcase with just one handle it would be quite easy to get ahold of some of those stickers and plastic ribbons in advance. This is very transparently all just done to make people feel safer, except that I don't believe that anybody is stupid enough to think that it improves security.
Sept. 11, 2001. Just about every news site you can think of was either down or unusably slow. In fact, just after this event the NY Times website (which was unusable on that day) reduced the number of unnecessary images (text for headlines) dramatically.
If I only ever saw ads for performance car parts for cars that I own, deals on new anime releases, and accessories for canon EOS cameras, i'd probably really enjoy advertising.
Now I get it! This whole story is nothing but a ploy to get people to give up valuable information for targeted advertising. Look at what we know about Matthew Evans of Microsoft from just one comment;-).
He's (presumably) talking about disks he buys for entertainment like, you know, games and movies. If there's a fire in my house my last worry is that I just lost a couple of movies.
Haha... they already seem to have changed the motto back from "The nuts and volts of news for nerds." Thank God, because that would be a pretty crappy motto.
This still is and has been for a while the motto of the hardware section, not the main site.
There are 34 pieces of information http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=186977&cid =15428096 that are currently supplied by US-bound EU airlines. Before this ridiculous scheme was enacted I was not asked for most of that when travelling to the US. In fact, look at a standard I-94W (visa waiver) form. That was all the information they got from me, apart from my passport. To ask passengers for all the information the airlines are currently giving to the US government upon entry to the US would be impractical at best, probably impossible.
I could be reading the article incorrectly, but it looks to me that the act of handing over this data to the US government violates the EU Data Protection Directive.
No, up until now it was an automatic thing. The Commission agreed to supply information to the U.S. government and effectively forced the airlines to do it. I'm pretty sure I can authorize anyone to give information about me to anyone if I choose so. Almost every expert on this who was interviewed by the media here says that you'll just have to sign a waiver if you want to fly to the U.S. End of story.
So this doesn't change anything. The U.S. government will continue to destroy tourism in the U.S. and even more conferences will take place outside the U.S. I know I'm not the only one who avoids going to the U.S. The immigration process has just become way too invasive, including everything from the mugshots & fingerprints thing to the very real possibility of spending a night in a nice U.S. jail if you forgot to give them your immigration form stub on your way home (yes, it really does happen regularly and no, you often can't get information about your immigration status from the U.S. government).
It's worse than going to those Middle Eastern 'rogue states' that I hear Bush talk about and much worse than any Communist country I've been to. It's such a shame, seeing such a great country full of incredibly friendly people becoming so oppressive and restrictive. Oh well, there's always Canada...
More to the point, if everybody in Vietnam pirates windows (to run on their Ox?)
Very funny with the ox. Makes me wonder if you've ever been to Vietnam. They're just poor, not terribly backwards or primitive.
Most people in Vietnamese cities don't really use computers at home. They go to giant Internet cafes with very good connections where no doubt every single piece of software is pirated.
You also pay 17.5% in VAT. It's not entirely the hardware companies, it's the legislators as well, so let's give credit where credit is due.
Well, he compared it to Euros as well. We have 20% VAT here and the Euro amount I pay for many hardware components (post-tax) is often the same as the dollar amount in the US (pre-tax). The Euro is worth about 20% more than the US dollar, so it makes sense. Which means that the UK seems to get screwed in that respect and VAT has nothing to do with it.
And to add to that, I still have a couple of dollars in pennies despite not having been to the US in years. In the US I've found it to be all but impossible to predict the post-tax price, so you can't keep the exact amount ready. Which means you end up with lots of pennies if you want to pay quickly.
Aside from the tax variance between states mentioned by sibling posters, there's also philosophical reasons--including the tax in the posted price tends to "hide" it from the taxpyaer, while having the tax as a separate line item on the receipt as we do in America makes it more apparent.
The posted prices include taxes here (Europe), which is convenient because you can keep the exact amount ready. When you get your receipt, however, you always see the total without taxes, which taxes added how much and the total including taxes. Nothing is "hidden", it's not some evil agenda pushed by governments that people hate. It's just a measure to prevent merchants from cheating you. Prices quoted for companies (catalogues, wholesalers etc.) typically don't include VAT because it's not important for them (every time a company buys something that includes VAT, which is pretty much everything, it pays less in taxes -- it's way more complex than that, but that's really the outcome).
The main reason for this is that the scrotum need to be a bit lower in temperature than one's core body temperature for proper gamete production.
Which is my point. My (and probably your) body temperature is around 37 degrees C, most of the time just below that. Now, there are many, many places where the air temperature is way above that. Which means that my body spends energy to stay at around 37 degrees. So, in effect, in very hot weather my scrotum (you meant testicles I guess) is warmer than my body.
My point is, don't worry. If exposing your testicles to high temperatures for months at a time really were a problem as big as some people make it out to be, there would be billions of infertile males on this planet.
They enabled it in OS X for later PPC and Intel models but not for models released prior to the addition of the feature (no reason really, probably so they could tell people it's a reason to upgrade). It's just a driver issue really. Search for "iScroll2" if you have an older iBook/Powerbook. Works beautifully here.
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Wow, people in your country really put up with that? Why should I, the customer, go through so much hassle just to get a discount? Why should I give them my original receipt, thus likely forfeiting any warranty claims (warranty is at least one year by law here)?
....... *after $100 mail-in rebate" signs) would be very illegal here and in most other countries.
It boggles the mind that some people are actually defending mail-in rebetaes. Great consumerism culture you've developed there. I'm amazed that selling your address to hundreds of dubious outfits is fine with you. Not to mention that these schemes (and the corresponding "$20*
I find it very ironic that you seem to be against "simplified spelling," yet your post contains a couple (at least two) errors that would have been prevented if English spelling were phonetical.
And yes, I probably misspelled something right now. My defense is, I'm not a native English speaker.
I have to say, I prefer it the way it's right now on Mac OS X. That's because it's very easy to move an entire Opera installation from one platform to another with Opera versions for different platforms being virtually identical to the end user.
You seem to misunderstand something. Using WINE doesn't involve any emulation.
There are many politicians here who are openly or not so openly gay (but nobody cares when they admit to it). And digging up dirt about a politician's past pretty much only happens when he is a hypocrite, e.g. a former pot smoker saying something negative about other former pot smokers.
Sept. 11, 2001. Just about every news site you can think of was either down or unusably slow. In fact, just after this event the NY Times website (which was unusable on that day) reduced the number of unnecessary images (text for headlines) dramatically.
He's (presumably) talking about disks he buys for entertainment like, you know, games and movies. If there's a fire in my house my last worry is that I just lost a couple of movies.
Yes, that's what I meant. That's a really prude country that you live in. But I didn't know it was so bad. Unbelievable.
You must work in a really prude environment (or country) if that's NSFW. Seriously.
There are 34 pieces of information http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=186977&cid =15428096 that are currently supplied by US-bound EU airlines. Before this ridiculous scheme was enacted I was not asked for most of that when travelling to the US. In fact, look at a standard I-94W (visa waiver) form. That was all the information they got from me, apart from my passport. To ask passengers for all the information the airlines are currently giving to the US government upon entry to the US would be impractical at best, probably impossible.
I could be reading the article incorrectly, but it looks to me that the act of handing over this data to the US government violates the EU Data Protection Directive.
No, up until now it was an automatic thing. The Commission agreed to supply information to the U.S. government and effectively forced the airlines to do it. I'm pretty sure I can authorize anyone to give information about me to anyone if I choose so. Almost every expert on this who was interviewed by the media here says that you'll just have to sign a waiver if you want to fly to the U.S. End of story.So this doesn't change anything. The U.S. government will continue to destroy tourism in the U.S. and even more conferences will take place outside the U.S. I know I'm not the only one who avoids going to the U.S. The immigration process has just become way too invasive, including everything from the mugshots & fingerprints thing to the very real possibility of spending a night in a nice U.S. jail if you forgot to give them your immigration form stub on your way home (yes, it really does happen regularly and no, you often can't get information about your immigration status from the U.S. government).
It's worse than going to those Middle Eastern 'rogue states' that I hear Bush talk about and much worse than any Communist country I've been to. It's such a shame, seeing such a great country full of incredibly friendly people becoming so oppressive and restrictive. Oh well, there's always Canada...
More to the point, if everybody in Vietnam pirates windows (to run on their Ox?)
Very funny with the ox. Makes me wonder if you've ever been to Vietnam. They're just poor, not terribly backwards or primitive.Most people in Vietnamese cities don't really use computers at home. They go to giant Internet cafes with very good connections where no doubt every single piece of software is pirated.
Non-Mini Mac owner here. I have a 12" iBook. Why? Because it is (was) by far the cheapest 12" notebook out there.
You also pay 17.5% in VAT. It's not entirely the hardware companies, it's the legislators as well, so let's give credit where credit is due.
Well, he compared it to Euros as well. We have 20% VAT here and the Euro amount I pay for many hardware components (post-tax) is often the same as the dollar amount in the US (pre-tax). The Euro is worth about 20% more than the US dollar, so it makes sense. Which means that the UK seems to get screwed in that respect and VAT has nothing to do with it.And to add to that, I still have a couple of dollars in pennies despite not having been to the US in years. In the US I've found it to be all but impossible to predict the post-tax price, so you can't keep the exact amount ready. Which means you end up with lots of pennies if you want to pay quickly.
Aside from the tax variance between states mentioned by sibling posters, there's also philosophical reasons--including the tax in the posted price tends to "hide" it from the taxpyaer, while having the tax as a separate line item on the receipt as we do in America makes it more apparent.
The posted prices include taxes here (Europe), which is convenient because you can keep the exact amount ready. When you get your receipt, however, you always see the total without taxes, which taxes added how much and the total including taxes. Nothing is "hidden", it's not some evil agenda pushed by governments that people hate. It's just a measure to prevent merchants from cheating you. Prices quoted for companies (catalogues, wholesalers etc.) typically don't include VAT because it's not important for them (every time a company buys something that includes VAT, which is pretty much everything, it pays less in taxes -- it's way more complex than that, but that's really the outcome)."Eine kleine Nachtmusik." Written in Vienna by Mozart, an Austrian. What does it have to do with Germany?
The main reason for this is that the scrotum need to be a bit lower in temperature than one's core body temperature for proper gamete production.
Which is my point. My (and probably your) body temperature is around 37 degrees C, most of the time just below that. Now, there are many, many places where the air temperature is way above that. Which means that my body spends energy to stay at around 37 degrees. So, in effect, in very hot weather my scrotum (you meant testicles I guess) is warmer than my body.My point is, don't worry. If exposing your testicles to high temperatures for months at a time really were a problem as big as some people make it out to be, there would be billions of infertile males on this planet.
They enabled it in OS X for later PPC and Intel models but not for models released prior to the addition of the feature (no reason really, probably so they could tell people it's a reason to upgrade). It's just a driver issue really. Search for "iScroll2" if you have an older iBook/Powerbook. Works beautifully here.