and IPv6 is in use in some countries, including the Netherlands
That is way too generalistic a statement. It is used in a few academic intitutions and I can think of one consumer ISP that hands out IPv6 addresses (www.xs4all.nl) and then only if you ask for it. The rest of us here in teh Netherlands are stil on regular old IPv4.
I thought racial differences such as black or white skin were assumed to take tens of thousands of years to develop. So how can this be true if all ancestors were common 7.000 years ago?
Going to calendar.google.com with Opera gives me the error "your browser is currently not supported" and then a blank page when you open the calendar. Opera claims to be one of the most compliant browser around when it comes to interent standards, so I suppose Google calendar is not very standards compliant here. I would have expected differently from Google.
I think it's politically incorrect to say this because no one should ever hear that they are "doomed to be dumb". I actually agree that no one should hear this
You go on to explain how there are "several kinds" of intelligence, and that people can be good at one and not the other. The painful truth is however, that intelligent people tend te be good at a lot of things but, yes, there are dumb people who will be less succesful than others at anything they try. Life isn't fair. "Different kind of intelligence" may be true, prehaps, and it is a nice story to motivate a slow kid, but let's not try to hide the fact that there are people out there doomed to be bad at just about everything and the education system has to deal with that.
The politically correct attitude makes it almost impossible to discuss dealing with the shallow end of the gene pool because someone always starts the argument that "they must be good at something else" and it's the system at fault for not giving them the right opportunity. This argument speaks to an inate sense of fairness about how the way the world should be, but the world is not fair or unfair, it just is.
I see this primarily as a huge waste of money for me. I want to use Mac OS for my work, but I want to have Windows so I can play games. So I own both platforms, which are now almost identical inside except for the boot rom. If I could dual boot I would spend less money on 1 really nice machine.
I can't help thinking that Microsoft does this just to make life harder for potential switchers.
Most of the time O/S contracts are not negotiated by tech savvy people which results in ridiculous clauses.
I agree but... they are almost always negotiated by the same guys who used to run the IT department. A bad contract can be renegotiated a year or so later, that is still a small price to pay to replace the situation where these same guys actually run the IT department.
Most of the replies to my initial post seem to give examples of outsourcing done badly (for the outsourcer anyway), but that does not invalidate the point that market economics may have a beneficial effect here. If India is really such a bad place to outsource to (I never claimed it was or wasn't), the companies NOT outsourcing to India or not outsourcing at all will have a strategic advantage.
I have been involved in outsourcing deals as a management consultant and I have seen several IT departments going from disfunctional to merely mediocre in a matter of years. (I have seldom seen good IT departments, but hey, they wouldn't need a consultant).
I agree, let market economics do its work. Any outsourcing partner will be more than happy to upgrade your server in a matter of days. Of course outsourcing does land you with a whole new set of interesting problems (cost control!) but the net effect is positive on the whole. Flame me if you will, but there is a reason outsourcing is so popular with managers... most of the time you get a more responsive IT department for less money.
Bt the same line of reasoning wind power would not be passive energy because wind mills slow down the wind. In reality the order of magnitudes are such that slowing down the wind, or changing the temperature of the ocean, is not a problem.
From the link quoted by parent: "Sarah Rowland-Jones, a researcher at Oxford University, described the development of HIV in the [prostitutes]... She added: "This implies that to maintain immunity, you need to have continual exposure."
From the News of the World article: " I had been having unprotected sex with my [infected] partner after the diagnosis, believing we had nothing to lose."
This could explain it! (Imagine what cure the doctors will have to start prescribing if this is true!)
The Acorn Computer models (they were called Atom, BBC and Archimedes RISC PC) all had their OS in Rom, with just a few patches coming from HD. They typicaly started up before your monitor would have a chance to glow on. In the eighties they were pretty far ahead of their time technically, too bad they didn't survive.
I realise you mean this as a joke, but it would actually seem like a very good idea to get media attention. If we mail $1 bills, it would work just as well and we could get people to mail hundreds. Bribing public officials is illegal, but as long as you don't write your name on the envelope I'm sure you can get away with it. A sure way to grab media headlines with a clear message: we bribe 'm back...
Why can't we buy a US version in Europe?
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Perhaps I should ask the publisher instead of Sid Meier, but I'll ask it just to make a point. Whenever a new version of Civilization comes out it takes several months for a localized version to appear in Europe. Localized versions always lose something in the translation and every time there is an update (of which Civ has many) it takes weeks for the update to trickle through to the localized versions. No one I know wants to play a localized civ! People who are intelligent enough to play Civ are probably proficient in english, but at least give people an option.
There is probably a bussiness case to be made for giving people the option to buy a US version: it wouldn't cost much extra and many people are so frustrated by the slow availability and updates that they are compelled to play a pirated copy. I do not condone that unless they also buy a localized copy to show their good intentions (luckily the copy protections are the same in both versions, so you can use a US version off of eMule with a localized copy of civ). My solution is to buy a copy from a US website but that costs $25 extra in shipping and custom fees and has a two week shipping delay.
By the way: I think future generations will look back on the beginning of electronic entertainment and will regard your work as the Rembrandt of this era.
> Building a big dam is hardly the same as stopping a hurricane.
Building dams is only a small part of the battle against the water. It is not feasible to build dams everywhere (at least not in New Orleans nor in the Netherlands) so you need flooding areas: designated walled off spaces where the energy can release. You need wave breakers to take energy out of storm surges, you need movable doors to seal of shipping lanes, etc.
But my point main point was: it is not a given that Nature always wins.
Well, as a Dutchman I can tell we seem to have won our battle with the sea (for now, you could add).
Your message seems to imply that one should not even consider doing something about the hurricane problem. That doesn't sound very American to me. Everyone knows heavier than air machines cannot fly, and all that. If it's the same foolish arrogance that landed people on the moon I'm all for it.
... flooding caused by rivers is equally dangerous, both in New Orleans and in the Netherlands. The article mentions the Dutch Delta works, which are now in place and protect against the sea. But last decade the Netherlands had a pretty close call when flooding of the Rhine almost created a disaster of a scale similar to that in New Orleans.
Interestingly, the answer to river flooding is not building higher dikes. It is prohibitively expensive to build them high enough and you would have an "iron curtain" in your countryside. The Netherlands now has designated certain sparsely populated areas as flood zones, and built dikes around those. In case of another imminent disaster those areas will be flooded draining water form the river. The people that live there will be reimbursed, it's much cheaper than building and maintaining higher dikes.
the US was inhabited by people fleeing religious persicution in Europe and that they really, REALLY did NOT want a country founded on religious principles
It's not quite so clear. There are also cases, including the pelgrims on the Mayflower who moved from Leiden (in the Netherlands) to the UK and then on to the US, because the religious climate was too liberal in their opinion. Note that there was no religious prosecution in The Netherlands at that time (and ever since). There was religious prosecution almost everywhere else though, but also in those cases it was the strongly religious who fled, the moderates just changed their ways. Of course there is more to it, living conditions in crowded Holland were not as good as those in the New World. (Interestingly enough two centuries later most Islamic immigrants think the Netherlands is too liberal and we have similar problems, but I guess almost everyone outside of the Netherlands thinks we are too liberal)
I'm sure that most of that $100,000 current selling price is margin to recover development cost. If this thing is mandated and the total adressable market becomes millions then there will be economies of scale and there will be competing products entering the marketplace.
Perhaps someone will even build an Open Source Poseidon and you will just have the hardware cost: a few cameras, a PC, and installation cost: $5,000 tops.
Sorry, I did mix up HDMI and HDCP, but my original point stands: you should have no trouble finding a converter that removes HDCP. They're more expensive than the ones that do simple HDMI - DVI, but still cheaper than a new Cinema Display. See: http://www.cdfreaks.com/news2.php?ID=12115
I just ordered the mouse through www.apple.nl for EUR 55 (= $67). Including regular shipping and taxes they charge E64.40 (= $79).
Why does Apple insist on charging EU customers so much above the US price of $45? If I buy a new G5 I can pay for a plane ticket AMS - JFK with the price difference.
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Contrary to popular belief, Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)-capable devices, computers, and routers can provide users with virtually all the benefits of IPv6 without having to wait for Internet service provider (ISP) support for native IPv6 connectivity. This is made possible through IPv6 transition technologies that support IPv6 communications over an Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) network infrastructure.
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and IPv6 is in use in some countries, including the Netherlands
That is way too generalistic a statement. It is used in a few academic intitutions and I can think of one consumer ISP that hands out IPv6 addresses (www.xs4all.nl) and then only if you ask for it. The rest of us here in teh Netherlands are stil on regular old IPv4.
I thought racial differences such as black or white skin were assumed to take tens of thousands of years to develop. So how can this be true if all ancestors were common 7.000 years ago?
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You go on to explain how there are "several kinds" of intelligence, and that people can be good at one and not the other. The painful truth is however, that intelligent people tend te be good at a lot of things but, yes, there are dumb people who will be less succesful than others at anything they try. Life isn't fair. "Different kind of intelligence" may be true, prehaps, and it is a nice story to motivate a slow kid, but let's not try to hide the fact that there are people out there doomed to be bad at just about everything and the education system has to deal with that.
The politically correct attitude makes it almost impossible to discuss dealing with the shallow end of the gene pool because someone always starts the argument that "they must be good at something else" and it's the system at fault for not giving them the right opportunity. This argument speaks to an inate sense of fairness about how the way the world should be, but the world is not fair or unfair, it just is.
I can't help thinking that Microsoft does this just to make life harder for potential switchers.
I agree but... they are almost always negotiated by the same guys who used to run the IT department. A bad contract can be renegotiated a year or so later, that is still a small price to pay to replace the situation where these same guys actually run the IT department.
Most of the replies to my initial post seem to give examples of outsourcing done badly (for the outsourcer anyway), but that does not invalidate the point that market economics may have a beneficial effect here. If India is really such a bad place to outsource to (I never claimed it was or wasn't), the companies NOT outsourcing to India or not outsourcing at all will have a strategic advantage.
I have been involved in outsourcing deals as a management consultant and I have seen several IT departments going from disfunctional to merely mediocre in a matter of years. (I have seldom seen good IT departments, but hey, they wouldn't need a consultant).
I agree, let market economics do its work. Any outsourcing partner will be more than happy to upgrade your server in a matter of days. Of course outsourcing does land you with a whole new set of interesting problems (cost control!) but the net effect is positive on the whole. Flame me if you will, but there is a reason outsourcing is so popular with managers... most of the time you get a more responsive IT department for less money.
Bt the same line of reasoning wind power would not be passive energy because wind mills slow down the wind. In reality the order of magnitudes are such that slowing down the wind, or changing the temperature of the ocean, is not a problem.
From the News of the World article: " I had been having unprotected sex with my [infected] partner after the diagnosis, believing we had nothing to lose."
This could explain it! (Imagine what cure the doctors will have to start prescribing if this is true!)
The Acorn Computer models (they were called Atom, BBC and Archimedes RISC PC) all had their OS in Rom, with just a few patches coming from HD. They typicaly started up before your monitor would have a chance to glow on. In the eighties they were pretty far ahead of their time technically, too bad they didn't survive.
I realise you mean this as a joke, but it would actually seem like a very good idea to get media attention. If we mail $1 bills, it would work just as well and we could get people to mail hundreds. Bribing public officials is illegal, but as long as you don't write your name on the envelope I'm sure you can get away with it. A sure way to grab media headlines with a clear message: we bribe 'm back...
There is probably a bussiness case to be made for giving people the option to buy a US version: it wouldn't cost much extra and many people are so frustrated by the slow availability and updates that they are compelled to play a pirated copy. I do not condone that unless they also buy a localized copy to show their good intentions (luckily the copy protections are the same in both versions, so you can use a US version off of eMule with a localized copy of civ). My solution is to buy a copy from a US website but that costs $25 extra in shipping and custom fees and has a two week shipping delay.
By the way: I think future generations will look back on the beginning of electronic entertainment and will regard your work as the Rembrandt of this era.
Which would you rather have:
1. Abuse of the database with a bit of information ending up in the wrong hands, or
2. Abuse of children not being spotted because there is no database at all
I'd rather have a database and trust the Dutch democratic system to put in proper controls (I might think different if I were in the US).
Building dams is only a small part of the battle against the water. It is not feasible to build dams everywhere (at least not in New Orleans nor in the Netherlands) so you need flooding areas: designated walled off spaces where the energy can release. You need wave breakers to take energy out of storm surges, you need movable doors to seal of shipping lanes, etc.
But my point main point was: it is not a given that Nature always wins.
Well, as a Dutchman I can tell we seem to have won our battle with the sea (for now, you could add).
Your message seems to imply that one should not even consider doing something about the hurricane problem. That doesn't sound very American to me. Everyone knows heavier than air machines cannot fly, and all that. If it's the same foolish arrogance that landed people on the moon I'm all for it.
Interestingly, the answer to river flooding is not building higher dikes. It is prohibitively expensive to build them high enough and you would have an "iron curtain" in your countryside. The Netherlands now has designated certain sparsely populated areas as flood zones, and built dikes around those. In case of another imminent disaster those areas will be flooded draining water form the river. The people that live there will be reimbursed, it's much cheaper than building and maintaining higher dikes.
It's not quite so clear. There are also cases, including the pelgrims on the Mayflower who moved from Leiden (in the Netherlands) to the UK and then on to the US, because the religious climate was too liberal in their opinion. Note that there was no religious prosecution in The Netherlands at that time (and ever since). There was religious prosecution almost everywhere else though, but also in those cases it was the strongly religious who fled, the moderates just changed their ways. Of course there is more to it, living conditions in crowded Holland were not as good as those in the New World. (Interestingly enough two centuries later most Islamic immigrants think the Netherlands is too liberal and we have similar problems, but I guess almost everyone outside of the Netherlands thinks we are too liberal)
Perhaps someone will even build an Open Source Poseidon and you will just have the hardware cost: a few cameras, a PC, and installation cost: $5,000 tops.
Sorry, I did mix up HDMI and HDCP, but my original point stands: you should have no trouble finding a converter that removes HDCP. They're more expensive than the ones that do simple HDMI - DVI, but still cheaper than a new Cinema Display. See: http://www.cdfreaks.com/news2.php?ID=12115
If you just google "HDMI DVI converter" you will find several places selling you one for under $50. Cheaper than getting a new monitor.
That partly explains it, but even a high (19%) sales tax explains only half the difference, and there are no import duties on computer mice.
Given the higher per capita purchasing power in the US then the EU, that clearly does not make sense.
Now lube up apple-boy.
I intend to use it on Win XP.
A double faux pas in a post consisting of two statements is quite an accomplishment.
I just ordered the mouse through www.apple.nl for EUR 55 (= $67). Including regular shipping and taxes they charge E64.40 (= $79). Why does Apple insist on charging EU customers so much above the US price of $45? If I buy a new G5 I can pay for a plane ticket AMS - JFK with the price difference.
If you look at the Netherlands and zoom in, at some point the the country name is changed to Belgium. Zoom in further and it's back to normal.
Quote: Contrary to popular belief, Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)-capable devices, computers, and routers can provide users with virtually all the benefits of IPv6 without having to wait for Internet service provider (ISP) support for native IPv6 connectivity. This is made possible through IPv6 transition technologies that support IPv6 communications over an Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) network infrastructure.