Obviously if a company is buying more of a competitor's products then they're buying less of yours
Okay, I'll try explaining this in easier terms.
Intel to customer: "If you buy 1 of these, it will cost you 100$, if you buy 10, you will get them for 50$ each".
So far, it's fair enough.
Intel to customer: "However, for each product you buy from AMD we will lower our discount. Buy one single item, and our product will cost you 60$, even if you buy 10 of them."
Now, this is unfair, since the customer would buy 10 of whatever it was from Intel nomatter how many he might buy from AMD.
See the difference?
The funny thing is that I used to do tech support for Motorola, and they have a wireless networking technology that is pretty cool.
Are you thinking of the Tetra network? I did a lot of the migration of the managing software from american to european standards for them. It's pretty cool.
One of the more interesting stories I got while working for Motorola is regarding the radios sold to the british police.
As technology is getting cheaper and better it's also getting smaller - which leaves the british police with a problem; they usualy prefer hitting suspects with their radios instead of the clubs they've been issued. Apparantly they don't have to file a report when they hit someone over the head with a radio - thus Motorola keeps making huge-ass radios, with a good punch, for the british police.
In Denmark (and possibly elsewhere, I don't know) they've been pushing the McXimum burger at McDonalds. They keep telling me to pronounce it "Maximum", but it seem obvious you should call it "Mc X Imum".
I guess that's what happens when your PR folks have all graduated from Burger University...
Obviously you are entitled to hold your opinions about Enterprise, however it seems that you haven't really been following the show at all.
There are loads of stuff you can criticise in the series; you however seem to miss those (really, the theme song might suck, but... enough to screw up the show? Theme songs quite often suck. You prefer action to dialogue, fair enough, but you can't be serious on the big breat sthing;-) ).
That said, I admit there were plenty of times I thought the show sucked - I thought the whole Xindy thing as well as the Temporal Cold War thingy, but that aside I have been very happy with the show - and compared to Voyager - or DS9 (which really really sucked!!!) - this has been great!
As for the lack of technical abilities - that is what made it great. There were loads of technical stuff, which I like, but at the same time not too much - which leaves room for an actual plot instead of just solving everythinhg using a gizmo.
Just wanted to say I liked the show and I'm sad to see it go:-(
The rules mean that open-source developers and hobbyists will be shut out of the HDTV loop altogether.
That is, the developers in the US will be shut out. There are no laws permitting developers everywhere else developing the appropriate drivers, and making them available online.
It would probably be illegal for US citizens to download such drivers, so I guess they won't...:-)
Did anyone tried to make a computer newbie on windows to install a new software over phone? Varying the type of software, it can be almost impossible most of times.
So... saying "Insert the CD", or - "Double click the setup.exe" is hard to explain? (Sorry, I know that's not what you mean, but mostly that is all there is to installing something on a Windows-machine).
However telling them to just start a shell and type 'rpm -i whatever' or 'emerge/apt-get whatever' would be alot more easier.
If they've actually managed to get the right files downloaded to begin with, I guess you could be right. But the article is about the ease of use for anyone - not about how easy it is to guide a user through different tasks.
My mom is using Windows, and is able to install drivers and apps, mostly without me helping her out; this is because it has been made easy.
I would love for linux to become the mainstream OS of choice for Joe-user, but installing software on a linux-machine is NOT something my mom (or most moms) would know how to do, and that IS a problem.
That's also what you get for believing in the compete-with-the-US propaganda that got you the EU in the first place.
Well now, there are quite a lot of other reasons for getting the EU - actually the main reason for starting this in the first place, is to prevent future wars.
European countries have been fighting each other for as long as anyone can recall - making the countries depend on each other for sales purposes is a stroke of genius; most wars are about money/power, but nobody as lobbying for war agains a country which is a big customer of whatever product you might be selling.
Actually, I only think the ones doing any encryption will be the ones that the government/police would actually be interested in tracking.
The majority of people don't care about this. All too often have I raised the question of whether society is getting too "big brother"'ish - most responses I get indicate that the average Joe is ready to give up personal freedom in order to feel just a little bit safer.
That's just the way people see it.
LEGO is on eof the best toys ever (and I'm not just saying that because I'm from Denmark) - I just hope they figure out how to keep the business running; as of now LEGO is losing money every day, and soon they might not be there anymore... at least not in the shape or form we seem them now.
As far as I know the number of left-handed in the Middle East (and Asia for that matter) is equivalent to the number in the west, so I don't think this has got anything to do with the direction of writing. Is seems to be mostly a coincidence.
An interesting point is that all people "read" pictures the same way - left to right - no matter how they are used to reading letters.
Think about it. We could have an entire society where everyone speaks perfectly clear, grammatically precise day-to-day English (or whatever language you speak in your country)!
Considering I live in Denmark, which has about 5½ million people - total - who speak several different dialects, I don't expect seeing this anytime soon.
I don't think it would be possible implementing such a system at all - languages change; and even if it was implemented, I think we would see a lot of time being spent h4x0ring the system, trying to get it to accept 1337 5p34k.
Actually we had a poll on the members only section of our local mensa chapters website regarding this exact question - the conclusion being that we didn't have an unusually high (or low for that matter) number of lefties.
>> "Here's a page which talks about Jasper becker's book Hungry Ghosts, which covers how farm collectivization during Mao's "Great Leap Forward" resulted in the death of some 30-60 million of your countrymen."
> We already know. In fact, everyone knows. But what the fuck is anyone going to do about it? The Communist government in China has progress a lot over the last 30 years. Sure, it's not exactly a democracy, but take a good think about American and Europe around the last turn of century.
Does everyone know? Not the chinese I've met. In fact they believe it's a definete lie.
>>"Here's a page which discusses the genocide rsulting from China's invasion of Tibet, where "over 17 percent of the Tibetan people killed, and 6,000 monasteries ruined."
>Did you know that Tibet practises slavery? Which, incidentally, is illegal in China, and has been for well over the century and bit that the corresponding laws have existed in America.
And... that's a good reason to kill more that 17% of the tibetan people?
>The other two points, I'll concede, however, they are not entirely without reason either. China cannot afford to go all democratic right now, or else you'll get another break up of the Soviet Union on the world's hands. Except this time you can have 1.4 billion people instead of a few hundred million.
I'll have to agree on that one.
>This, incidentally, is also why the government is so hard on not allowing Tibet to leave China, and to keep Taiwan -- if one exception is made, where do you stop?
The thing is... why do you want to keep regions of China within the country, if they do not want to? I think you should NOT stop - let regions leave if they want to. Why not? Why does it have to be one big country?
I'm from the EU. I believe we should stick together, all european countries, but if there's a country where the population does not want to - let them. Just like China should get the fuck out of Tibet, and forget about Taiwan. Leave them the fuck alone!!!
>>"Freedom starts with you."
>Freedom is not all that it's cracked up to be. It's all very well for those who have always had food and homes to say that they'd rather starve or die than give up their "freedom". Hunger and poverty can make you see things another way. Until China is strong enough, politically and economically to not be bossed around by America (unlike the rest of the world) don't expect any changes.
Freedom IS all that! And much more! What we've seen in Europe is that we weren't able to get rid of most starvation and poverty before we got rid of the dictators.
>Final word -- people in China know about what the government is doing -- propaganda has kinda been done to death by the old Communist government. Chinese these days are a very cynical and skeptical bunch, but just about everyone agrees that the current state and progression of China is as good as it can be, given historical circumstances and external factors.
I can only judge by the chinese I've talked to myself - and that's not the picture I get. I hope you're right, though.
Thanks for the reminder. I live in the EU, and I must admit it's become a lot harder loving the USA and the american people like I used to. However, I keep reminding myself that I nonetheless have made some good friendships "over there", and that the government doesn't reflect the opinion of everybody.
One thing I think should be on the mind of americans, though, is that it shouldn't be neccessary for the people of the rest of the world to go around reminding themselves that "Some americans are alright." in order not to hate the entire US of A.
Now, start spreading the word: "We need to sign international treaties, we need to pay what we owe the UN, theUSA!=theWorld" and get some decent politicians (not just millionaires, and not just two of them) to run for president.
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I've met lots of people who consider Mensa a group for people who want to feel important.
I've met lots of people who think people who post on slashdot just do so to feel important.
The people you speak of - were they members of Mensa, or just people who held this opinion about a society they know little or nothing about?
"anyone can score in the top 2% on a REAL iq test"
Wow... with those math-skills I'm sure you could easily qualify for a membership.
You should try turning the time spent on the phone with sales-people into something funny.
A small danish company has practiacally turned rejecting salespeople into an artform, as explained on a website of theirs: We Do Not Use...
Okay, I'll try explaining this in easier terms.
Intel to customer: "If you buy 1 of these, it will cost you 100$, if you buy 10, you will get them for 50$ each".
So far, it's fair enough.
Intel to customer: "However, for each product you buy from AMD we will lower our discount. Buy one single item, and our product will cost you 60$, even if you buy 10 of them."
Now, this is unfair, since the customer would buy 10 of whatever it was from Intel nomatter how many he might buy from AMD. See the difference?
Are you thinking of the Tetra network? I did a lot of the migration of the managing software from american to european standards for them. It's pretty cool.
One of the more interesting stories I got while working for Motorola is regarding the radios sold to the british police.
As technology is getting cheaper and better it's also getting smaller - which leaves the british police with a problem; they usualy prefer hitting suspects with their radios instead of the clubs they've been issued. Apparantly they don't have to file a report when they hit someone over the head with a radio - thus Motorola keeps making huge-ass radios, with a good punch, for the british police.
In Denmark you are not allowed to spank your child - you are only allowed to spank other consenting adults :-)
In Denmark (and possibly elsewhere, I don't know) they've been pushing the McXimum burger at McDonalds. They keep telling me to pronounce it "Maximum", but it seem obvious you should call it "Mc X Imum". I guess that's what happens when your PR folks have all graduated from Burger University...
Obviously you are entitled to hold your opinions about Enterprise, however it seems that you haven't really been following the show at all.
;-) ).
:-(
There are loads of stuff you can criticise in the series; you however seem to miss those (really, the theme song might suck, but... enough to screw up the show? Theme songs quite often suck. You prefer action to dialogue, fair enough, but you can't be serious on the big breat sthing
That said, I admit there were plenty of times I thought the show sucked - I thought the whole Xindy thing as well as the Temporal Cold War thingy, but that aside I have been very happy with the show - and compared to Voyager - or DS9 (which really really sucked!!!) - this has been great!
As for the lack of technical abilities - that is what made it great. There were loads of technical stuff, which I like, but at the same time not too much - which leaves room for an actual plot instead of just solving everythinhg using a gizmo.
Just wanted to say I liked the show and I'm sad to see it go
It would probably be illegal for US citizens to download such drivers, so I guess they won't...
Microsoft has patented my DNA???
My mom is using Windows, and is able to install drivers and apps, mostly without me helping her out; this is because it has been made easy.
I would love for linux to become the mainstream OS of choice for Joe-user, but installing software on a linux-machine is NOT something my mom (or most moms) would know how to do, and that IS a problem.
Only a bit harsh?!? I agree that people driving whilst using a cell are a menace, but I do not go around hoping they get cancer and die.
Your statement is totaly out of proportions, and I think you should rethink your argument.
European countries have been fighting each other for as long as anyone can recall - making the countries depend on each other for sales purposes is a stroke of genius; most wars are about money/power, but nobody as lobbying for war agains a country which is a big customer of whatever product you might be selling.
Actually, I only think the ones doing any encryption will be the ones that the government/police would actually be interested in tracking.
The majority of people don't care about this. All too often have I raised the question of whether society is getting too "big brother"'ish - most responses I get indicate that the average Joe is ready to give up personal freedom in order to feel just a little bit safer.
That's just the way people see it.
I couldn't agree more.
LEGO is on eof the best toys ever (and I'm not just saying that because I'm from Denmark) - I just hope they figure out how to keep the business running; as of now LEGO is losing money every day, and soon they might not be there anymore... at least not in the shape or form we seem them now.
As far as I know the number of left-handed in the Middle East (and Asia for that matter) is equivalent to the number in the west, so I don't think this has got anything to do with the direction of writing. Is seems to be mostly a coincidence. An interesting point is that all people "read" pictures the same way - left to right - no matter how they are used to reading letters.
I don't think it would be possible implementing such a system at all - languages change; and even if it was implemented, I think we would see a lot of time being spent h4x0ring the system, trying to get it to accept 1337 5p34k.
nor am I a member of Mensa unforunately
Actually we had a poll on the members only section of our local mensa chapters website regarding this exact question - the conclusion being that we didn't have an unusually high (or low for that matter) number of lefties.
>> "Here's a page which talks about Jasper becker's book Hungry Ghosts, which covers how farm collectivization during Mao's "Great Leap Forward" resulted in the death of some 30-60 million of your countrymen." > We already know. In fact, everyone knows. But what the fuck is anyone going to do about it? The Communist government in China has progress a lot over the last 30 years. Sure, it's not exactly a democracy, but take a good think about American and Europe around the last turn of century. Does everyone know? Not the chinese I've met. In fact they believe it's a definete lie. >>"Here's a page which discusses the genocide rsulting from China's invasion of Tibet, where "over 17 percent of the Tibetan people killed, and 6,000 monasteries ruined." >Did you know that Tibet practises slavery? Which, incidentally, is illegal in China, and has been for well over the century and bit that the corresponding laws have existed in America. And... that's a good reason to kill more that 17% of the tibetan people? >The other two points, I'll concede, however, they are not entirely without reason either. China cannot afford to go all democratic right now, or else you'll get another break up of the Soviet Union on the world's hands. Except this time you can have 1.4 billion people instead of a few hundred million. I'll have to agree on that one. >This, incidentally, is also why the government is so hard on not allowing Tibet to leave China, and to keep Taiwan -- if one exception is made, where do you stop? The thing is... why do you want to keep regions of China within the country, if they do not want to? I think you should NOT stop - let regions leave if they want to. Why not? Why does it have to be one big country? I'm from the EU. I believe we should stick together, all european countries, but if there's a country where the population does not want to - let them. Just like China should get the fuck out of Tibet, and forget about Taiwan. Leave them the fuck alone!!! >>"Freedom starts with you." >Freedom is not all that it's cracked up to be. It's all very well for those who have always had food and homes to say that they'd rather starve or die than give up their "freedom". Hunger and poverty can make you see things another way. Until China is strong enough, politically and economically to not be bossed around by America (unlike the rest of the world) don't expect any changes. Freedom IS all that! And much more! What we've seen in Europe is that we weren't able to get rid of most starvation and poverty before we got rid of the dictators. >Final word -- people in China know about what the government is doing -- propaganda has kinda been done to death by the old Communist government. Chinese these days are a very cynical and skeptical bunch, but just about everyone agrees that the current state and progression of China is as good as it can be, given historical circumstances and external factors. I can only judge by the chinese I've talked to myself - and that's not the picture I get. I hope you're right, though.
'... hello? Am I speaking to our new alien overlords? I greet you!'
Thanks for the reminder.
I live in the EU, and I must admit it's become a lot harder loving the USA and the american people like I used to.
However, I keep reminding myself that I nonetheless have made some good friendships "over there", and that the government doesn't reflect the opinion of everybody.
One thing I think should be on the mind of americans, though, is that it shouldn't be neccessary for the people of the rest of the world to go around reminding themselves that "Some americans are alright." in order not to hate the entire US of A.
Now, start spreading the word: "We need to sign international treaties, we need to pay what we owe the UN, theUSA!=theWorld" and get some decent politicians (not just millionaires, and not just two of them) to run for president.