You either pay taxes at the country of origin or the destination country. For VAT to be levvied at the rate of the destination country, the company has to be registered there or the buyer be a VAT registered company.
That is simplifying it a bit, most likely they will charge Danish VAT and get it over with. At 25% it is truly shocking, but it still beats importing stuff from the states.
It actually worked pretty well. What did not work was the backdoor left for normal cds to boot given the proper instructions. Now, had there not been that oversight, the Dreamcast would have been safer from pirates. Then again, it wouldn't be such a good development platform nowadays...
That is EXACTLY the same argument I have been hearing for years and it is ALWAYS invalid. People said that cds would be uncopiable because people would not have the hard disk space, cd recorders are amazingly expensive, so is media, and it takes about a week on an unreliable connection to download a cd. Well, guess what, things moved on. Then came dvds. Exact same arguments. Now it's the same with a blue-ray or whatever it's called. With a 10Mbit connection, something entirely possible during the next 3-4 years, the average consumer will be able to download 54 Gb in more or less 24 hours. Good enough for you?
This is most definitely NOT a problem with the 2.6 kernel since things work fine on both gentoo and Suse with a 2.6 kernel. It is most likely a problem with the implementation of grub or lilo in these distros. And, in my opinion, it is totally unacceptable.
Netscape was NOT first, I guarantee you that, I used Mosaic much before Netscape made a name for itself. Xerox had a GUI project much before Apple, actually, Apple settled with them on that. The Playstation2 vs XBox "argument" is stupid, it proves absolutely nothing.
The ST and Amiga came out considerably later than the ZX and the generation you mentioned - 86 I believe, while the Spectrum came out in 82. While the 68000 based home computers never really achieved the notoriety of the 8-bit computers, they were not really competing with them. Even Amstrad was moving beyond the ZX at the time, by desecrating the Sinclair name by making the horrendous all-in-one PC (it was marketed a Spectrum, wasn't it?). Anyhow, our US friends never really experienced the magic that was the Spectrum, so I thank you for reminding me of those times.
Germany was Atari ST territory. Some of the best software for the 68k architecture was made there including Callamus (sp?), an amazing dtp program, the fastest text editor I have EVER seen, Tempus, and of course Alladin's Mac Classic emulators that ran Mac software FASTER than Macs. Amigas were amazing machines as well, and yes, when I moved to England (1993 I think) I remember seeing Amigas much more than I did STs. The ST had a big presence in the continent...
The Atari ST was by no means a failed computer. In fact, the home computer market was 60% Amiga's and 40% Atari's. Also, due to the inspired move of putting MIDI ports to STs, you could see Ataris in recording studios well after it was abandoned by Atari.
Also, the Dreamcast, even though a failed system had great games of excellent quality. Just because the market decided it didn't like the Dreamcast it doesn't necessarily mean it was a bad console. It was not. Compared to anything else at the time, it was the best console out there.
Well, for what it's worth I gave that figure based on apple's marketing. The dual-core g4s will definitely be fast, but how fast I truly do not know. I actually quite doubt you'll see dual-core G4 powerbooks because they'll have a huge speed difference with the imac. Imho, since apple chose to go g5 for the imac rather than wait for the dual-core g4s, I think they'll do the same with the pbooks. I don't think we'll see the new g5 powerbooks before this time next year (at least), and that is why I am a happy owner of a brand new, full priced 12'' pb:->
I have the latest 12in AlBook and it's not that bad. I played around with an earlier model before settling on the 1.33MHz one. It really was getting too hot after a while, especially after playing a 3d game (neverwinter nights in my case). The 1.33 one gets warm and only gets moderately hot (ie not hotter than a comparable windows laptop) when playing games. The main inconvenience of that is that the tiny fan starts working full time and makes a hell of a noise (for a laptop, that is).
So, to sum it up, the faster G4 PBs run much, much cooler than the past generation.
What in the name of god are you talking about? Have you ever sat in front of a Mac? Almost every single action is accessible through a keyboard shortcut. What's more, Apple's design guidelines keep things similar across different apps, so you'll always use Command-, to access preferences.
I use Linux and Mac about 50% of my time each. Each has its own peculiarities and its own strength but Macs were designed to be operated using keyboard shortcuts.
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Oh my, it's actually funny in this case. This hasn't actually happened since, I think, 2002...
That is simplifying it a bit, most likely they will charge Danish VAT and get it over with. At 25% it is truly shocking, but it still beats importing stuff from the states.
Yes, indeed. The mods are idiots for not remembering a comment, modded -1 I might add, a week ago.
It actually worked pretty well. What did not work was the backdoor left for normal cds to boot given the proper instructions. Now, had there not been that oversight, the Dreamcast would have been safer from pirates. Then again, it wouldn't be such a good development platform nowadays...
That is EXACTLY the same argument I have been hearing for years and it is ALWAYS invalid. People said that cds would be uncopiable because people would not have the hard disk space, cd recorders are amazingly expensive, so is media, and it takes about a week on an unreliable connection to download a cd. Well, guess what, things moved on. Then came dvds. Exact same arguments. Now it's the same with a blue-ray or whatever it's called. With a 10Mbit connection, something entirely possible during the next 3-4 years, the average consumer will be able to download 54 Gb in more or less 24 hours. Good enough for you?
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Just emerge a gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.7 kernel and boot with it until a fixed 2.6.9 one comes out. What is the problem?
This is most definitely NOT a problem with the 2.6 kernel since things work fine on both gentoo and Suse with a 2.6 kernel. It is most likely a problem with the implementation of grub or lilo in these distros. And, in my opinion, it is totally unacceptable.
Netscape was NOT first, I guarantee you that, I used Mosaic much before Netscape made a name for itself. Xerox had a GUI project much before Apple, actually, Apple settled with them on that. The Playstation2 vs XBox "argument" is stupid, it proves absolutely nothing.
The ST and Amiga came out considerably later than the ZX and the generation you mentioned - 86 I believe, while the Spectrum came out in 82. While the 68000 based home computers never really achieved the notoriety of the 8-bit computers, they were not really competing with them. Even Amstrad was moving beyond the ZX at the time, by desecrating the Sinclair name by making the horrendous all-in-one PC (it was marketed a Spectrum, wasn't it?). Anyhow, our US friends never really experienced the magic that was the Spectrum, so I thank you for reminding me of those times.
You have obviously never used ichat.
Germany was Atari ST territory. Some of the best software for the 68k architecture was made there including Callamus (sp?), an amazing dtp program, the fastest text editor I have EVER seen, Tempus, and of course Alladin's Mac Classic emulators that ran Mac software FASTER than Macs. Amigas were amazing machines as well, and yes, when I moved to England (1993 I think) I remember seeing Amigas much more than I did STs. The ST had a big presence in the continent...
Also, the Dreamcast, even though a failed system had great games of excellent quality. Just because the market decided it didn't like the Dreamcast it doesn't necessarily mean it was a bad console. It was not. Compared to anything else at the time, it was the best console out there.
It's "Politics for nerds. Your vote matters", actually.
I think the +5 funny was due to the fact that you think that having a "diverse spectrum of political ideologies" means you will "do a good job".
Well, for what it's worth I gave that figure based on apple's marketing. The dual-core g4s will definitely be fast, but how fast I truly do not know. I actually quite doubt you'll see dual-core G4 powerbooks because they'll have a huge speed difference with the imac. Imho, since apple chose to go g5 for the imac rather than wait for the dual-core g4s, I think they'll do the same with the pbooks. I don't think we'll see the new g5 powerbooks before this time next year (at least), and that is why I am a happy owner of a brand new, full priced 12'' pb :->
Apple does not sell OS, it does not sell hardware. It sells a complete, out of the box solution.
Actually, a 1.6 G5 is a hell of a lot faster than a 1.5 G5. Probably equivalent to a 1.8 G4, I'd say.
So, to sum it up, the faster G4 PBs run much, much cooler than the past generation.
Sun and SGI workstations?
You are, therefore wrong.
I use Linux and Mac about 50% of my time each. Each has its own peculiarities and its own strength but Macs were designed to be operated using keyboard shortcuts.
90% of the people say and write Hopkins's. They are still wrong.