If you're selling/buying on eBay, you're trusting the same company you aren't trusting with PayPal. eBay originally created PayPal as a more practical means of payment for their customers.
I'm sure your friend doesn't deal much with people out of the United States, but for international payments, PayPal is king. There is no other service that is even remotely comparable in terms of pricing. Try asking your bank about transfering money from/to Norway or any other country other than perhaps Canada. Bring your comb. You'll need it.
I'm a small-time business owner and I sell 43 dollar/year.com hosting domestically and internationally. Domestically, invoices do the job. Norwegian banks transfers funds cheaply in a manner of seconds. Internationally, PayPal is my only option. I don't make a fortune on this. A VISA merchant account would be a waste of money.
That's a pretty general assumption. All you need to know is that English has weaker Rs (you can hear those American R's 10 kilometers away, some of those accents have huge "throaty" sounds, not pretty) and American have stronger ones. Heavy American accents tend to have long wovel sounds and is generally more rythmic and singy. It's pretty easy for us Norwegians to tell apart the british announcers on Discovery from the dude at CNN in Atlanta. I can tell the difference between New York (a la Nanny) accent, southern/black accents, Canadian (Moo, eh?), Indian (Apu), British Mersey area accent, The Queen's English, etc, etc.
I don't think my fellow countrymen/women can name all the accents, but we've all heard and read our share of English; it's mandatory on almost all education system levels.
The immediate impression you get when you hear an American tourist is "They sound just like on TV." and further "I didn't think they actually talked like that for real." Open your mouth as an American, and you're bound to have a few heads turning...
oggdec.exe is *way* too huge to bring along everywhere. And it's just horrible to drag those.ogg's on top of the icon, and wait TWO seconds for the song to decode...... seriously, I've distributed oggs to people like that fairly often. Drag'n'drop decoding to WAV for people without players works surprisingly well, and the decoder is a couple of dousin K's in size. Who can complain?
He posts links to Wikipedia all the time. So what? It didn't even occur to me that Wikipedia would have an article about it. I have never played D&D (never had access to it, and I have too few friends) so that Wikipedia article actually looks interesting. Kudos to this poster. I'd mod him up too. I love Wikipedia.
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I'm from Norway. He probably left because he wanted to see America. I mean, we get pumped with americanisms all the time over here, so after hearing about America all your life, you kind of want to see it sometime. Include the fact that none of the Scandinavian countries have a population of more than about 8 million (i.e. Sweden). Norway has 5 million. Iceland has a few hundred thousand citizens. There isn't much big industry going on, and there aren't too many software houses either. Everything works on a smaller scale. The biggest city in Norway is Oslo, our capitol, with 800 000 citizens. I think maybe Linus likes to be where he's needed the most, and with Americas rather large IT industry, many probably want him nearby there.
I envy Finland because of Nokia and Sweden because of Ericsson. Norway barely has an electronics industry. We're kind of dull. We invented the GSM system and then sold it. I wish people in Norway would be more interested in innovation.
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If you're selling/buying on eBay, you're trusting the same company you aren't trusting with PayPal. eBay originally created PayPal as a more practical means of payment for their customers. I'm sure your friend doesn't deal much with people out of the United States, but for international payments, PayPal is king. There is no other service that is even remotely comparable in terms of pricing. Try asking your bank about transfering money from/to Norway or any other country other than perhaps Canada. Bring your comb. You'll need it. I'm a small-time business owner and I sell 43 dollar/year .com hosting domestically and internationally. Domestically, invoices do the job. Norwegian banks transfers funds cheaply in a manner of seconds. Internationally, PayPal is my only option. I don't make a fortune on this. A VISA merchant account would be a waste of money.
That's a pretty general assumption. All you need to know is that English has weaker Rs (you can hear those American R's 10 kilometers away, some of those accents have huge "throaty" sounds, not pretty) and American have stronger ones. Heavy American accents tend to have long wovel sounds and is generally more rythmic and singy. It's pretty easy for us Norwegians to tell apart the british announcers on Discovery from the dude at CNN in Atlanta. I can tell the difference between New York (a la Nanny) accent, southern/black accents, Canadian (Moo, eh?), Indian (Apu), British Mersey area accent, The Queen's English, etc, etc. I don't think my fellow countrymen/women can name all the accents, but we've all heard and read our share of English; it's mandatory on almost all education system levels. The immediate impression you get when you hear an American tourist is "They sound just like on TV." and further "I didn't think they actually talked like that for real." Open your mouth as an American, and you're bound to have a few heads turning...
Oooh... This is new. Microsoft top ranks my site for the search "thj paintchat". *suddenly starts liking them*
oggdec.exe is *way* too huge to bring along everywhere. And it's just horrible to drag those .ogg's on top of the icon, and wait TWO seconds for the song to decode... ... seriously, I've distributed oggs to people like that fairly often. Drag'n'drop decoding to WAV for people without players works surprisingly well, and the decoder is a couple of dousin K's in size. Who can complain?
Mod parent up! XD
You must be mistaken. An RPG in which your sole goal is slaying innocent monsters to collect points? That's Ragnorok Online! :O
He posts links to Wikipedia all the time. So what? It didn't even occur to me that Wikipedia would have an article about it. I have never played D&D (never had access to it, and I have too few friends) so that Wikipedia article actually looks interesting. Kudos to this poster. I'd mod him up too. I love Wikipedia.
I'm from Norway. He probably left because he wanted to see America. I mean, we get pumped with americanisms all the time over here, so after hearing about America all your life, you kind of want to see it sometime. Include the fact that none of the Scandinavian countries have a population of more than about 8 million (i.e. Sweden). Norway has 5 million. Iceland has a few hundred thousand citizens. There isn't much big industry going on, and there aren't too many software houses either. Everything works on a smaller scale. The biggest city in Norway is Oslo, our capitol, with 800 000 citizens. I think maybe Linus likes to be where he's needed the most, and with Americas rather large IT industry, many probably want him nearby there. I envy Finland because of Nokia and Sweden because of Ericsson. Norway barely has an electronics industry. We're kind of dull. We invented the GSM system and then sold it. I wish people in Norway would be more interested in innovation.
Ah. I didn't actually bother to go read the page. They actually have Windows apps on SourceForge? o.O
Mod parent up! XD
What I meant is that the vast majority of *good* computer graphic designers know how to draw.
I assume that latter statement was sarcasm... Because... Y'know... That's actually... true.
When I think about it, "Inkulator 9000" sounds like a Futurama device.
UNIX is famous for one trick ponys. UNIX consists solely of millions of little one trick ponys, forming one huge-ass million trick pony with four million legs. As a Slashdotter, realize that in the UNIX world, tools are made to do one thing, and do that one thing well.