The fine is about DAMAGE to european consumers. Don't whine about the american consumers. An EU-court cannont punish MS's business practices in other countries.
Neelie Kroes doesn't seem to understand the fundamentals of business. If the EU fines MS $357M, MS can simply raise the price of their European software by $357M. The net effect is that the European consumers pay the fine rather than MS itself.
You think you're soooooo smart don't ya? =)
Go read the fundamentals in economics, then come back and apologize;)
If words are pronounced like they are spelled, then it is easier to learn to read, write and speak that language. It's kinda silly that writing and speech are not more equal. Is written and/or spoken english supposed to be some kind of guessing-game for those who want to learn it? Naturally, if there are to a change, it must be very gradual, to minimize transition complicatons.
As a norwegian, I'm happy that the way we write our words almost always are the way they are spoken. We have three extra letters (æ ø å) that represent some of the sounds within the english language. The english language does not have letters that matches all its sounds. (nor does Norwegian, but we have fewer sound-"holes")
Examples: Written: All = åll. (Spoken) Written: I am = I æm. (Spoken) Written: Love, slang luv = løv (Spoken)
I cant help but question the research. I remember reading an article a few years ago in a norwegian newspaper that stated that the norwegian (or rather the scandinavian) mosquitoes are the most agressive. This was supposed to be because our summer is pretty short and cold... giving the mosquitoes a short time to find a victim.
The really sad part is that judgements like this are the reason windows sells for $300-400 instead of 50-100, as future judgements like this are part of their pricing model
No, the high price is a consequence of a monopolistic situation where the buyer has almost no alternatives.
Eh no. There will be a shift in negotiating power, forcing the retailers to lower they're prices whenever a buying-mob knocks on the door. I'm assuming that the buying-mobs are choosing stores that have alternatives (other stores within a few hundred meters).
If a product in in a store has an optimal quality/price which maximaze sales (sold units) that optimal volume will not change if mob-buyers appear. (which will be pretty seldom per store).
>Sounds interesting but what if you don't get the discount you want? Or maybe the reatiler doesn't gove you a discount at all?
Pick your targets. Choose those retailer shops that are only a few hundred meters from eachothers. Then call both retailers, and let the dicount-bidding begin!
Meeting up in person with money in hand is a "show of power" that beats (almost) all other tries to get discounts...
Call me stupid, but if things are falling off the shuttle and damaging the heat shield, wouldn't a simple solution be to install small nets with many "floors" in order to catch the falling objects as close to the "start-falling-point" as possible? (so the falling objects won't have the opportunity to gain speed, which would increase the chance of damage) Then ditch the nets (and possible catched objects) when reached zero-gravity?
It has nothing to do with which action is more important, or more harmful. People around the world simply take pleasure in ragging on the Americans.
So it's just unfair critism? Hmm, lets see:
- Lied about Iraq being a threat
- Fabricated evidence to fool allies and the world.
- Didn't listen to allied governments saying Iraq was no threat
- Invaded and killed 100.000 (still counting) Iraq citizens
- Lacked plan to organize Iraq after invasion
- Took control over their oil fields
- Torture in Iraqi prisons
- Torture at Guatanomo
- Corruption when granting billion dollar contracts
- Letting private soldier-companies go berserk without being held responsible
- Daily killing Iraqis (not terrorists) trying to kick the invaders out
- Executing 15 innocent women and children in an act of vengance
And all this from a country that claims to be a beacon of freedom, capitalism and democracy. Yes, it's all just SOOOO unfair.
So many people around the world hates USA, have you ever stopped and asked yourself why? You think they hate you (or anything else for that matter) for the joy of it?
AP Reporter: Professor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Hawking: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
I hereby... ehhh.... heroicly voluenteer to one of the many simulation-programs that must be completed before sending out colonies.;o).
But won't such a low ratio of men lead to a too little variation in the genetical material?
Offtopic: The newspaper Aftenposten is not Norway's biggest newspaper. The biggest is Verdens Gang (Short:VG), followed by Dagbladet. Aftenposten is 3rd. Sloppy submitter.
I've created two newspaper layouts from scratch and I'd like to point out that the "headlines" need to be bolder/bigger.
Why you say? Because bolder text (to a certain point) is easier to spot. You should be able to see it instantly. Also, all text should be normal or above normal in size. Remember, many slashdotters are not below 30 and do not have perfect eyesight. Further, the contrast (in colors/text) need to be very big. (All three scores well on contrasts)
It is only logical that the most important text [the headline] has a size that matches it's high importance. Thus, the difference between the headline and the rest of the text should be substancial, and certainly BIGGER than all three "favorites". And the story text (second most important) should be bigger than all the other text, links, comments etc. The layout should always help, guide and prioritze for the reader. The reader should not need to waste time searching for the important information, the reader should know in 0,03 seconds what information to read first, second and last.
I also would like to ask one question: Is the time (posted) and name of poster really that important? Are they more important than the story text? If not, they should be at the end of the "story"-boxes, not at the top. Also, maybe a 50% increase in theme-picture-size be could be smart, easier to see. How about using actual pictures from the stories? (maybe a rights issue, I know, but it must be possible to get free use of a copyrighted picture in many cases). More: The text should not be in italic (ok, a few words are ok), because it is harder to read.
Also, to not alienate the readers, it may be smart to keep the original colors, so that not "everything" changes from one day to another. If wanted, change the color later.
PS: Do you see how much easier it is to spot bold text in my comment? That comfirms my first statement.;)
hahaha, typical american to think that europeans are jealous on something you've got. How many times have I not heard that argument?
Your arguments fail because of this simple fact: Selling some good products that most consumers want, does not mean you can abuse market power to sabotage free competition. Its like : "Microsoft's products are the best, so they can do whatever they want and break the law". Don't think so, pal.
your retorical efforts to create sympathy and stop flaming with statements like "Freedom of speech is an illusion your audiance gives." are just plain stupid. You don't need to defend that you're defending MS, plz.
Traditionally, access to the japaneese market has been extremely hard. Cars, electronics, vacumm cleaners, you name it.
Hence, it is not given that the iPod would prove itself to be a hit there. I guess that extremely good producs always will do good, no matter where the market is Go Apple!
1. Fundamental problem: Extreme Muslim leaders deal in absolutes. It's all black or white. You can not negotiate with such people.
2. Further, violence and lying are accepted within their religion as means to defend and expand their religion. It's a much more aggressive religion than other world religions.
3. They have the anti-human sharia-laws that discriminates woman and punish individuals with methods from the year 1200. Those rules are barberic, and exemplifies the lack of knowledge about the human individual and the society.
Luckily the western world had the industrial revolution before the muslim world. If not, they would have taken over and forced themselves on us. Its within their religion to take over control of areas when they are in the majority, and force sharia laws upon the rest of the population.
Further, since religion is only made up crap, it's insanly offending to a normal intelligent person that others actually believe in allah, buddah, jesus etc. But we accept it, because in a modern democracy tolerance is very important in order to be able to live together.
I'm your main target, come and help me ignite. Make me explode although you know the route to go to sex me slow. No don't get me wrong ain't gonna do you no harm no,
This bomb's made for lovin' and you can't shoot it far
Sexbomb sexbomb you're a sexbomb
You can give it to me when I need to come along
Sexbomb sexbomb you're my sexbomb
And baby you can turn me on turn me on darlin'
Sexbomb sexbomb you're my sexbomb sexbomb
You can give it to me when I need to come along
Sexbomb sexbomb your're my sexbomb
And baby you can turn me on
So what are the key ingredients of a good-looking website? Caudron suggests that the amount of graphics on the page should be strictly limited, perhaps to a single eye-catching image. "It's not about getting as much stuff on the page as possible," he says.
Guessing is always fun, but could get too personal. I agree, and disagree about this guess. I've developed a layout for a magazine from scratch, and made some theories about what's attractive layout. One regulates the number of objects and goes as follows: 1. Nothing beats an incredible picture. So if you have one, make it big and reduce the number of other objects. ("minimalistic"). The expression "a picture tells more than 1000 words" nicely describe this situation.
However, how often do you have a really eyecatching picture? Not very often. So with an minimalistic approach, you've just have a big not-so-interesting picture at the top of your website. Surely, that can't be the best solution. So:
2. If your pictures are medicore, add many objects, that also are interesting. It could be text, other images, arrows, symbols etc. This will not lead to an messy layout, since you've nicly organised the objects in some way. This approach I like to compare to having many "fishhooks in the sea". If just one or two of the objects you've added are interesting to the reader, then that person may starting the text or look at the rest of the objects.
The lasting effect of first impressions is known to psychologists as the 'halo effect': if you can snare people with an attractive design, they are more likely to overlook other minor faults with the site, and may rate its actual content (such as this article, for example) more favourably.
Strangely the halo-effect also applies in human-to-human interaction. Pretty people are thought to have better qualites (smarter, more gifted, funnier, etc.) than the ugly ones. Why? No idea. Maybe deep down in the humans brain we know that the probability for pretty people actually being more intelligent is higher than 50%. So the halo-effect is really nothing more than a primal mate-selection-effect.
*sigh* Another debate with a hint of french in it turns into a flamewar about the Iraq-war.
I don't get it. Now that Bush has admitted that the information that the US based their war on did not hold water, isn't is obvious that the french were right and the bush-administration wrong? (not talking details here, but the whole general direction of the pre- and post- Iraq-war). Kinda feels like the only country the Bush-administration were able to trick was USA. All the others just went along either because they could benefit or because the feared "punishment" or bad relations to the US. All western-Europe countries sure knew Bush lied.
I think the french-bashing Americans owe an apology to the french for giving them a hard time.
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The fine is about DAMAGE to european consumers. Don't whine about the american consumers. An EU-court cannont punish MS's business practices in other countries.
Neelie Kroes doesn't seem to understand the fundamentals of business. If the EU fines MS $357M, MS can simply raise the price of their European software by $357M. The net effect is that the European consumers pay the fine rather than MS itself.
;)
You think you're soooooo smart don't ya? =)
Go read the fundamentals in economics, then come back and apologize
May I be suspended for about 60 years (or whatever) and wake up filthy rich?
oh wait, my friends will all be dead, right?
If words are pronounced like they are spelled, then it is easier to learn to read, write and speak that language. It's kinda silly that writing and speech are not more equal. Is written and/or spoken english supposed to be some kind of guessing-game for those who want to learn it?
Naturally, if there are to a change, it must be very gradual, to minimize transition complicatons.
As a norwegian, I'm happy that the way we write our words almost always are the way they are spoken. We have three extra letters (æ ø å) that represent some of the sounds within the english language. The english language does not have letters that matches all its sounds. (nor does Norwegian, but we have fewer sound-"holes")
Examples:
Written: All = åll. (Spoken)
Written: I am = I æm. (Spoken)
Written: Love, slang luv = løv (Spoken)
I cant help but question the research. I remember reading an article a few years ago in a norwegian newspaper that stated that the norwegian (or rather the scandinavian) mosquitoes are the most agressive. This was supposed to be because our summer is pretty short and cold... giving the mosquitoes a short time to find a victim.
Any commets? I think I smell blood?
>While your point is well taken, I'd like to pick a little nit: Bombs were dropped on people long before the airplane. People used tethered balloons.
...and artillery and canons pretty much had the same effect...
>a slowly increase in prices,
Eh no. There will be a shift in negotiating power, forcing the retailers to lower they're prices whenever a buying-mob knocks on the door. I'm assuming that the buying-mobs are choosing stores that have alternatives (other stores within a few hundred meters).
If a product in in a store has an optimal quality/price which maximaze sales (sold units) that optimal volume will not change if mob-buyers appear. (which will be pretty seldom per store).
Hence:
Regular customer: Regular price
Mob-buyer: Lower prices.(store benefit: larger volumes)
Mod parent down.
>Sounds interesting but what if you don't get the discount you want? Or maybe the reatiler doesn't gove you a discount at all?
Pick your targets. Choose those retailer shops that are only a few hundred meters from eachothers. Then call both retailers, and let the dicount-bidding begin!
Meeting up in person with money in hand is a "show of power" that beats (almost) all other tries to get discounts...
Call me stupid, but if things are falling off the shuttle and damaging the heat shield, wouldn't a simple solution be to install small nets with many "floors" in order to catch the falling objects as close to the "start-falling-point" as possible? (so the falling objects won't have the opportunity to gain speed, which would increase the chance of damage) Then ditch the nets (and possible catched objects) when reached zero-gravity?
It has nothing to do with which action is more important, or more harmful. People around the world simply take pleasure in ragging on the Americans.
So it's just unfair critism? Hmm, lets see:
- Lied about Iraq being a threat
- Fabricated evidence to fool allies and the world.
- Didn't listen to allied governments saying Iraq was no threat
- Invaded and killed 100.000 (still counting) Iraq citizens
- Lacked plan to organize Iraq after invasion
- Took control over their oil fields
- Torture in Iraqi prisons
- Torture at Guatanomo
- Corruption when granting billion dollar contracts
- Letting private soldier-companies go berserk without being held responsible
- Daily killing Iraqis (not terrorists) trying to kick the invaders out
- Executing 15 innocent women and children in an act of vengance
And all this from a country that claims to be a beacon of freedom, capitalism and democracy.
Yes, it's all just SOOOO unfair.
So many people around the world hates USA, have you ever stopped and asked yourself why? You think they hate you (or anything else for that matter) for the joy of it?
I hereby... ehhh.... heroicly voluenteer to one of the many simulation-programs that must be completed before sending out colonies.
But won't such a low ratio of men lead to a too little variation in the genetical material?
Offtopic: The newspaper Aftenposten is not Norway's biggest newspaper. The biggest is Verdens Gang (Short:VG), followed by Dagbladet. Aftenposten is 3rd. Sloppy submitter.
I've created two newspaper layouts from scratch and I'd like to point out that the "headlines" need to be bolder/bigger.
;)
Why you say? Because bolder text (to a certain point) is easier to spot. You should be able to see it instantly. Also, all text should be normal or above normal in size. Remember, many slashdotters are not below 30 and do not have perfect eyesight. Further, the contrast (in colors/text) need to be very big. (All three scores well on contrasts)
It is only logical that the most important text [the headline] has a size that matches it's high importance. Thus, the difference between the headline and the rest of the text should be substancial, and certainly BIGGER than all three "favorites". And the story text (second most important) should be bigger than all the other text, links, comments etc. The layout should always help, guide and prioritze for the reader. The reader should not need to waste time searching for the important information, the reader should know in 0,03 seconds what information to read first, second and last.
I also would like to ask one question: Is the time (posted) and name of poster really that important? Are they more important than the story text? If not, they should be at the end of the "story"-boxes, not at the top. Also, maybe a 50% increase in theme-picture-size be could be smart, easier to see. How about using actual pictures from the stories? (maybe a rights issue, I know, but it must be possible to get free use of a copyrighted picture in many cases). More: The text should not be in italic (ok, a few words are ok), because it is harder to read.
Also, to not alienate the readers, it may be smart to keep the original colors, so that not "everything" changes from one day to another. If wanted, change the color later.
PS: Do you see how much easier it is to spot bold text in my comment? That comfirms my first statement.
Please feel free to comment my comment!
The average japanese citizen eats a lot more fish than the average american. This has a strong health-effect.
hahaha, typical american to think that europeans are jealous on something you've got. How many times have I not heard that argument?
Your arguments fail because of this simple fact: Selling some good products that most consumers want, does not mean you can abuse market power to sabotage free competition. Its like : "Microsoft's products are the best, so they can do whatever they want and break the law". Don't think so, pal.
your retorical efforts to create sympathy and stop flaming with statements like "Freedom of speech is an illusion your audiance gives." are just plain stupid. You don't need to defend that you're defending MS, plz.
Traditionally, access to the japaneese market has been extremely hard. Cars, electronics, vacumm cleaners, you name it.
Hence, it is not given that the iPod would prove itself to be a hit there. I guess that extremely good producs always will do good, no matter where the market is
Go Apple!
Where's my mod points when I need em?
ha ha, that's great. funny guy! :-)
1. Fundamental problem: Extreme Muslim leaders deal in absolutes. It's all black or white. You can not negotiate with such people.
2. Further, violence and lying are accepted within their religion as means to defend and expand their religion. It's a much more aggressive religion than other world religions.
3. They have the anti-human sharia-laws that discriminates woman and punish individuals with methods from the year 1200. Those rules are barberic, and exemplifies the lack of knowledge about the human individual and the society.
Luckily the western world had the industrial revolution before the muslim world. If not, they would have taken over and forced themselves on us. Its within their religion to take over control of areas when they are in the majority, and force sharia laws upon the rest of the population.
Further, since religion is only made up crap, it's insanly offending to a normal intelligent person that others actually believe in allah, buddah, jesus etc. But we accept it, because in a modern democracy tolerance is very important in order to be able to live together.
ALL extremists should be killed!
;-)
ohh, wait...
Sexbomb, sexbomb!
I'm your main target, come and help me ignite.
Make me explode although you know the route to go to sex me slow.
No don't get me wrong ain't gonna do you no harm no,
This bomb's made for lovin' and you can't shoot it far
Sexbomb sexbomb you're a sexbomb
You can give it to me when I need to come along
Sexbomb sexbomb you're my sexbomb
And baby you can turn me on turn me on darlin'
Sexbomb sexbomb you're my sexbomb sexbomb
You can give it to me when I need to come along
Sexbomb sexbomb your're my sexbomb
And baby you can turn me on
So what are the key ingredients of a good-looking website? Caudron suggests that the amount of graphics on the page should be strictly limited, perhaps to a single eye-catching image. "It's not about getting as much stuff on the page as possible," he says.
;-)
Guessing is always fun, but could get too personal. I agree, and disagree about this guess. I've developed a layout for a magazine from scratch, and made some theories about what's attractive layout. One regulates the number of objects and goes as follows:
1. Nothing beats an incredible picture. So if you have one, make it big and reduce the number of other objects. ("minimalistic"). The expression "a picture tells more than 1000 words" nicely describe this situation.
However, how often do you have a really eyecatching picture? Not very often. So with an minimalistic approach, you've just have a big not-so-interesting picture at the top of your website. Surely, that can't be the best solution. So:
2. If your pictures are medicore, add many objects, that also are interesting. It could be text, other images, arrows, symbols etc. This will not lead to an messy layout, since you've nicly organised the objects in some way. This approach I like to compare to having many "fishhooks in the sea". If just one or two of the objects you've added are interesting to the reader, then that person may starting the text or look at the rest of the objects.
The lasting effect of first impressions is known to psychologists as the 'halo effect': if you can snare people with an attractive design, they are more likely to overlook other minor faults with the site, and may rate its actual content (such as this article, for example) more favourably.
Strangely the halo-effect also applies in human-to-human interaction. Pretty people are thought to have better qualites (smarter, more gifted, funnier, etc.) than the ugly ones. Why? No idea. Maybe deep down in the humans brain we know that the probability for pretty people actually being more intelligent is higher than 50%. So the halo-effect is really nothing more than a primal mate-selection-effect.
101 front pages and still counting
*sigh* Another debate with a hint of french in it turns into a flamewar about the Iraq-war.
I don't get it. Now that Bush has admitted that the information that the US based their war on did not hold water, isn't is obvious that the french were right and the bush-administration wrong? (not talking details here, but the whole general direction of the pre- and post- Iraq-war). Kinda feels like the only country the Bush-administration were able to trick was USA. All the others just went along either because they could benefit or because the feared "punishment" or bad relations to the US. All western-Europe countries sure knew Bush lied.
I think the french-bashing Americans owe an apology to the french for giving them a hard time.