This won't change much in the Netherlands.
The customers get their warrany from the store they bought the product from.
So if I bought a week ago one of their cards, and it breaks in 6 months (when BFG prolly has vanished) I go back to the store, and the store has to provide the warranty.
The fact the company they send it to doesn't exist anymore is not the problem of the end-consumer. It's business risk.
Shop thus has the option to try and repair the card themselves, or they will have to replace it with a similar product.
Of course, stores won't be eager to do this/tell you.
Bottomline, in Netherlands, consumer won't get effected too much by this.
Okay, assuming that a second language like Spanish is being taugh ALL OVER the USA in the public schools (feel free to prove that that is the case), then what is the problem?
If you can read and write spanish, considering the fact that portugese is quite close to spanish, it should be not hard to understand things is it?
That is, if one would bother to put effort in it...
The fact that you seem to insist on that there is no use for any foreign language since you won't be using it, doesn't hold ground. You are on the internet, many languages are being used there.
The time that where you would only get in contact with foreign languages if you would actually go there, is beyond us.
Not to mention the fact that the world is a bigger place than just an english speaking world.
This whole ignorance for foreign languages is exactly the problem with english speaking people visiting a country like France, Germany or The Netherlands.
When someone from France goes to the USA, they expect the French people to speak english. When an American goes to France, they expect the French to speak English. What is wrong in that picture?
How hard is it to buy at least a little book with elementary phrases, so you can order the basic?
Even if you would have to resort to just pointing out phrases, it would make sense.
You're in a foreign culture. (something americans lack seriously, culture, how many building they have over say 300 years old?)
Why bother so much over the fact that people speak portugese among eachother? If you don't like it, leave. It's free to leave.
Instead of complaining, try to understand the foreign cultures. The world is bigger than just the American piece of soil and the english language.
My experience is, that people get annoyed when other people speak a foreign language. They get annoyed with themselves, for not being able to understand it. And instead of trying to understand the foreign language, Americans seem to go the easy way, trying to ban the foreign language.
Let's just look at the economic principle of offer and demand.
If this concept of Orkut is really so great, what's keeping people from starting a similar service, english only? It's a free internet to do whatever you feel like when it comes to that.
But I guess it's easier to whine and complain about things one doesn't understand than to start up their own service.
Ignorance is bliss. Sadly that counts for a lot of people, especially those who refuse their open their eyes and minds for foreign cultures.
As a matter of fact, the German government has made the first step
see
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/mai n/0,14179,2869075,00.html for an interesting article on where the Germans are going these days.
other articles:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,4279,00.asp
and Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Threat
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,857638,00.asp
There is hope:-)
To me it is the same discussion as Microsoft versus UNIX (which seems to be Microsoft versus Linux lately).
I run several NetBSD boxes, and I never have problems with them.
my fileserver runs samba on netbsd, and 150 days uptime is nothing new for me.
When I had to setup a Redhat Linux box some time ago, I was unpleasantly surprised with the fact that the normal config files seemed to be missing, then again, the window like user interface brought help.
It's all about what we're used.
Linux seems to go slowly to what Microsoft once was (and what it was despised for).
Bottomline is, it would be better if people would quit bashing other people's os's. What's the point anyways?
Emm.
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It's redundant! It's redundant!
Woz, what was the worst decision you've made in your life?
This won't change much in the Netherlands. The customers get their warrany from the store they bought the product from. So if I bought a week ago one of their cards, and it breaks in 6 months (when BFG prolly has vanished) I go back to the store, and the store has to provide the warranty. The fact the company they send it to doesn't exist anymore is not the problem of the end-consumer. It's business risk. Shop thus has the option to try and repair the card themselves, or they will have to replace it with a similar product. Of course, stores won't be eager to do this/tell you. Bottomline, in Netherlands, consumer won't get effected too much by this.
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But will it run GEOS? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_%288-bit_operating_system%29)
Now i got time to enter the following (pseudo) code to my website:
Okay, assuming that a second language like Spanish is being taugh ALL OVER the USA in the public schools (feel free to prove that that is the case), then what is the problem? If you can read and write spanish, considering the fact that portugese is quite close to spanish, it should be not hard to understand things is it? That is, if one would bother to put effort in it... The fact that you seem to insist on that there is no use for any foreign language since you won't be using it, doesn't hold ground. You are on the internet, many languages are being used there. The time that where you would only get in contact with foreign languages if you would actually go there, is beyond us. Not to mention the fact that the world is a bigger place than just an english speaking world. This whole ignorance for foreign languages is exactly the problem with english speaking people visiting a country like France, Germany or The Netherlands. When someone from France goes to the USA, they expect the French people to speak english. When an American goes to France, they expect the French to speak English. What is wrong in that picture? How hard is it to buy at least a little book with elementary phrases, so you can order the basic? Even if you would have to resort to just pointing out phrases, it would make sense. You're in a foreign culture. (something americans lack seriously, culture, how many building they have over say 300 years old?) Why bother so much over the fact that people speak portugese among eachother? If you don't like it, leave. It's free to leave. Instead of complaining, try to understand the foreign cultures. The world is bigger than just the American piece of soil and the english language. My experience is, that people get annoyed when other people speak a foreign language. They get annoyed with themselves, for not being able to understand it. And instead of trying to understand the foreign language, Americans seem to go the easy way, trying to ban the foreign language. Let's just look at the economic principle of offer and demand. If this concept of Orkut is really so great, what's keeping people from starting a similar service, english only? It's a free internet to do whatever you feel like when it comes to that. But I guess it's easier to whine and complain about things one doesn't understand than to start up their own service. Ignorance is bliss. Sadly that counts for a lot of people, especially those who refuse their open their eyes and minds for foreign cultures.
As a matter of fact, the German government has made the first stepi n/0,14179,2869075,00.html for an interesting article on where the Germans are going these days.p
There is hope :-)
see
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/ma
other articles: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,4279,00.asp
and Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Threat
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,857638,00.as
And thanks for NetBSD and OpenBSD Let the games begin again, this time among the *BSD groups eheh
To me it is the same discussion as Microsoft versus UNIX (which seems to be Microsoft versus Linux lately). I run several NetBSD boxes, and I never have problems with them. my fileserver runs samba on netbsd, and 150 days uptime is nothing new for me. When I had to setup a Redhat Linux box some time ago, I was unpleasantly surprised with the fact that the normal config files seemed to be missing, then again, the window like user interface brought help. It's all about what we're used. Linux seems to go slowly to what Microsoft once was (and what it was despised for). Bottomline is, it would be better if people would quit bashing other people's os's. What's the point anyways? Emm.