I've carried large sums of cash and my passport. Does that make me a murderer on the run?
No but if you plan to pass the Russian borders with a large sum of money, you are crazy person. There are plenty of western banks branches in Russia.
I have worked in Eastern Europe. If you are found with a large amount of cash while passing the customs: Even if the amount isn't over the maximum, you will face problems. You will have to give a good reason. They may suspect an illegal activity. Paying your oversee employees in cash (unregistered job?) is extremely suspicous.
I have never been paid in cash nor I have paid in cash over there.
What Hans Reiser says is possible but it looks weird.
I tend to agree if you have time to reinstall a proper distribution.
I bought a low cost Acer PC (Power F6 or something) with Linux. I need an extra PC for development on linux.
The Linux distribution was a total joke. It was a Taiwanese (not turbolinux) distribution that I haven't seen before.
Then I downloaded Ubuntu and I tried to install it. New problem it couldn't find my HD (some SATA drivers issues). I had to tweak the system in order to make it works with...OpenSuse (because I couldn't do it with Ubuntu).
So beware that an installed Linux OS doesn't mean that installing a proper Distro will be painless.
For centuries the old Romans religions was declining. Various sects referring to old Egyptians/Phoenician Gods were quite popular amongst the Roman's Elites when August became emperor. As usual he tried to use religion as a power tool. He settled statues of him in all major cities of the Roman Empire. He tried to be worshiped as a God.
His strategy worked and even after his death his image was still worshiped by Romans. But again...After years and years, most people get bored of worshipping the successive emperors. Constantine was a general in charge of the northern borders if I remind well. At that time Rome was totally chaotic. Different Generals were trying to get the throne.
Constantine as a general: Constantine was a very pragmatic leader and admired by his troops. His soldiers were poor and uneducated people. On his way to Rome to take the throne, he tried to get as much allies as possible. Christians were part of it. They were well organized, used to undercover activities due to the crimes they have endured for centuries. Constantine knew that a lot of his soldiers were christians.
Before a great battle that I don't remind, he forced his troops to draw on their shield a christian symbol. The goal was to give them strength, to make them feel like they are protected by a powerful God. It works and he won the battle.
Christianity became the official religion Then as an Emperor, he tried to promote Christianity in Rome. The old pagan city was more difficult to convince. he moved the capital to a new capital "Constantinople". The council of Nicea followed and Christianity became the official religion of the Empire.
Because with OS X openenly and eassly available for Standard PC's would kill the Mac Market
I'm not really sure about that. Apple consumers look more like fashionvictims than cold blood consumers. They worship the brand. They will always find a good reason to buy Apple hardware rather than clones IMHO.
It wouldn't take much Marketing know-how, to reinforce that feeling.
What they can get is all these peoples (you can already see plenty on slashdot) who like the OS but they can't stand the prohibitive price of the computer.
Anyway Look at the Iphone, Ipod and their growing PC marketshare...I guess Apple workforce is currently overstreched. This is challenge that needs a lot of investments and dedicated people, otherwise you will follow the path of OS/2, BeOS, and the like.
It comes to a point that a "human" technical support is considered as a VIP treatment. I've won few contracts last months in front of much bigger companies because I simply propose a traditionnal technical support for CMS. I simply propose a technical support by phone and also visiting their office when needed.
Customers get used to be treated like sub humans through HTML forms, tickets and the like. it seems that customers are considered as "pariah". They should be kept as far as possible of the company.
Once you come with a good old way to treat your customers (meeting, phone calls etc.), you are surprised by the positive feedbacks. Beeing "physically" in their office is the huge plus too.
As far as I know (I use Google/Ms/Yahoo with French, Dutch and English), they deal perfectly well with any western characters. Even better they all manage local "mispelling" like forgetting an accent on a letter.
But one of my favorite search engine is www.alltheweb.com . I think it is Norwegian or something. Yahoo Bought them indirectly and I don't know what they plan to do with them.
Mass migration from the Windows plateform is a long term scenario.
A bigger threat to their revenues is the competition around Microsoft Office. If there is no incompatible format such as.doc or xls what is be the real advantage of using Microsoft Word instead of something else...For free?
I do think that the competition isn't ready yet to win over Ms Word, Excel or Powerpoint (and I do use OpenOffice because my latop has only MS word installed and I don't need to buy the whole MS office suite). Whatever you may say, they are relatively good compared to their competitors. But with ODF, and the last news I've read, a real competitive market is on its way.
Personnally I use GIMP twice a week. Mainly for little prof. work (web design stuffs when a web designer isn't available).
I guess don't know the right shortcut (?) When I want to create a new image based on the the clipboard captures, I have to create a new image in GIMP and then I have access to the "paste as a new image" feature. You have no access to paste as a new image in the main window.
Each time you save something it keeps reminding you that this format doesn't support layer, you will loose quality and so on...They should add an option to disable all these alerts for guys like me who have 10 years of experience with all these different formats (gif, jpeg, and all). You always need 3 clicks each time you save something.
You always have to click on "more directories" or something when you have to open/save a file, because it always lost in the default MS directory/images...A directory rarely used by professionals. I don't understand why they need to "over simplify" this part of the process. They should stick to the standard Open/Save window that we all know.
When you screen isn't that big (1024 width), your tools are always hidden behind image windows.
Anyway I don't think it is that bad...It only needs few improvments.
Example 1: I make 100 Euro per month with Google ads on my blog. It means that my blog or web site is "profitable". I guess like anywhere in Europe, you can keep it "as an secondary source of revenue" without any company registration until it reaches a max. turnover. Should I register my web site to this administration?
Example 2: I have a popular video game news web site: It makes a relatively serious turnover, let's say 50.000 Euro. Enough for me to live, not enough to hire a professional journalist. I guess this time I will be forced to register my web site to this administration and to hire in some way a profesional journalist.
In this case it hurts "very badly" entrepreneuship. As usual European European internet small/young entrepreneurs will be "forced" to stay undercover (using various techniques like a paypal account, offshore address etc.) until they reach a decent turnover and when they can face the high burden of running an "official" activity in this highly bureaucratic continent.
The only ones who won't be hurt is the establishment or those who have moved to a more business friendly country (one click away)
IMHO it is classic amongst European politicians. But this example is clearly the worst of all.
They write down law proposition for the Internet without using it. They don't know how it works, all they know about it is what they read in the newspaper or what they heard in their pompeous conferences. They don't use emails, staffs check their mailbox for them..And print the relevant ones. They don't type, they 've got an assistant for that. A computer is a black box for them, like black magic. So they get scared, they need a way to connect this new tool to the old bureaucratic society that they understand.
And when you mix ignorance with the european left tendency to regulate/classify anything crawling on the surface of this planet. You end up with this monstruosity.
"You make the distinction "in classes where there is a significant fraction of immigrants from poor socio-economic backgrounds", so why add the extra disclaimer saying the same thing?"
because I didn't want my comment to be used as an argument by xenophobic people. I failed. Look at the comment below our thread. And most importantly I wrote this comment in few seconds, so I didn't check twice any redundancy.
At what point becomes a generalization lazy? If you find your own description shortcoming to describe something where it becomes too much of a generalization, isn't that a form of lazyness as it's presented too simplistic?
Of course it is. An observation is never the plain restitution of a reality. My description didn't include for example, the way some muslim teens in Europe use their religion as a way to mark their difference. A bit like Punk,Grunge and all, the difference is that they use a religion to define their "tribe" and not western music/subculture. It is "trendy" to say "no" to the dominant culture symbolised by the teacher. So IMHO it isn't just faith, it is certainly more subtile than that.
Disclaimer(sorry I can't help it:-)): It doesn't mean that I support their positions, I try to understand them.
You are lazy once you consider this genralization as a convenient truth. Keeping nuances (such as this modest disclaimer), help you to keep some safeguards, especially on such topics.
"it's horrible to see how we've been conditioned in excusing "
No. I hate overgeneralization. There are roughly speaking 200000/300000 muslims in Belgium. I cannot state that 300000 "human beeings" believe that Darwinism is crap because I have watched a a reporter interviewing 3 ou 4 teachers and a bunch of students.
If you have some respects for science and reason (like Darwinism) don't be lazy and don't simplify everything.
And i still remember that 12 years ago I was in a faculty with muslim students. Just like the rest of us they followed quietly what professors of botanism/organic chemistry/and so on had to say. (and somes succeded where I failed)
Well things are changing in other developped countries as well. I've watched a report concerning Biology classes in Belgium few weeks ago. Some teatchers complain that it is more and more difficult to teach evolution in classes where there is a significant fraction of immigrants from poor socio-economic backgrounds. Qur'an is considered by those folks as the Alpha&Omega. Somes even believe that modern science discoveries can be easily traced back to this holly book. The problem is that it is not simply arguing. Somes students become violent.
Disclaimer: I'm not saying that all muslims think that way.
In my case it is worst than 95%. in four days i've received 1514 spams I guess I have only received 30 or 40 legitimate emails for the same period.
97.5/98% of all my emails are spam. Thunderbird does a pretty good job. I delete/flag manually 5 or 10 spams per day only.
Why do I receive so many spams? I've got 3 different emails. My primary email address didn't change for years. It is available on my company's web site. It is obvious (surname@mycompany.com)
Their equipment is always perfect, and the foreign equipment MUST be the problem.
They had to guess from thousands of KMs away. Computers worked for months if not years. You consider them as "reliable" naturally. The article mentionned that new solar panels have been installed shortly before the computers failed. it is "human" to look at the most simple explanation, because it is the correct one usually.
You consider a part of the system reliable, a new part has been installed...The reliable system failed...Then the conclusion is that the new part may be faulty.
They made a big mistake, sure, but I don't think such a mistake is typically Russian. The only blame I can think of : was not openning the computer box at the beginning of the observations.
The things I find the most important IMHO are insightful variables, methods, functions, classes names...I rather prefer to work on a "simple/non optimised code" but with insightful names than a super smart one where all names are two or three letters.
Like for example:// variable use to store the user's name String n;
instead of a simple String UserName; that doesn't require any additional comment.
Roman language is a Gallo-Romance language, more specifically a Langue d'oïl closely related to the Parisian French (just like all the dialects spoken in Nothern France and Frenchspeaking parts of Belgium who were ruled by Franks). ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_language
The Norman (Men from the north) (Scandinavian origins) have adopted over the centuries the language of the French terriroty they were occupying.
Langues d'oïl are also known as Old French http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_French While langue d'oc (the other Gallo-romance subgroups) is known as Provençal.
The previous message was right. But you are right too. Modern French has also influenced English just like English today is influencing modern French.
httpd.conf can be quite difficult the first time you see it. Somes distributions have even splitted it into different configuration files (OpenSuse). You can understand it if you run dozens of virtual hosts but splitting the default httpd.conf is absurd IMHO.
Don't take it as a critic. I simply wonder why you need an access like application on Linux. You can find gems like MySQL, PostgreSQL and others? Because they are more simple to use for an office application?
Anyway the PDF report writer looks like a very good idea.
From the stockholder perspective, the question is simply, does it result in increased income, and surely the answer will be yes.
It really depends of the stockholder you are. If you are merely speculating then yes, it doesk make sense. If you are investing in Ebay as a long term stockholder...They are destroying values. They are alienating their core customers : pro/semi pro resellers.
If I sell a Nokia mobile phone, I do want to be alone selling it on my product's page. Can you imagine an competitor's advertisement in your own store?
This isn't the first time Ebay makes a big mistake, just remember skype and how far away it was from their core business.
Ebay is ran by financial people. it looks to me that they have no clues about what a customer is and how to respond to his/her need. All they can understand is "easy money". Usually such companies don't exist for long.
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I've carried large sums of cash and my passport. Does that make me a murderer on the run?
No but if you plan to pass the Russian borders with a large sum of money, you are crazy person.
There are plenty of western banks branches in Russia.
I have worked in Eastern Europe. If you are found with a large amount of cash while passing the customs: Even if the amount isn't over the maximum, you will face problems. You will have to give a good reason. They may suspect an illegal activity. Paying your oversee employees in cash (unregistered job?) is extremely suspicous.
I have never been paid in cash nor I have paid in cash over there.
What Hans Reiser says is possible but it looks weird.
I tend to agree if you have time to reinstall a proper distribution.
I bought a low cost Acer PC (Power F6 or something) with Linux. I need an extra PC for development on linux.
The Linux distribution was a total joke. It was a Taiwanese (not turbolinux) distribution that I haven't seen before.
Then I downloaded Ubuntu and I tried to install it. New problem it couldn't find my HD (some SATA drivers issues). I had to tweak the system in order to make it works with...OpenSuse (because I couldn't do it with Ubuntu).
So beware that an installed Linux OS doesn't mean that installing a proper Distro will be painless.
Oh, sure, sure. Your company screws up, blame the Polish. Bunch of racists.
:-)
Kaczynski brothers have lost the elections. They have to find new villains for the video game
Here what I remind from my history class:
The beginning Emperor worshiped as God:
For centuries the old Romans religions was declining. Various sects referring to old Egyptians/Phoenician Gods were quite popular amongst the Roman's Elites when August became emperor. As usual he tried to use religion as a power tool. He settled statues of him in all major cities of the Roman Empire. He tried to be worshiped as a God.
His strategy worked and even after his death his image was still worshiped by Romans. But again...After years and years, most people get bored of worshipping the successive emperors. Constantine was a general in charge of the northern borders if I remind well. At that time Rome was totally chaotic. Different Generals were trying to get the throne.
Constantine as a general:
Constantine was a very pragmatic leader and admired by his troops. His soldiers were poor and uneducated people. On his way to Rome to take the throne, he tried to get as much allies as possible. Christians were part of it. They were well organized, used to undercover activities due to the crimes they have endured for centuries. Constantine knew that a lot of his soldiers were christians.
Before a great battle that I don't remind, he forced his troops to draw on their shield a christian symbol. The goal was to give them strength, to make them feel like they are protected by a powerful God. It works and he won the battle.
Christianity became the official religion
Then as an Emperor, he tried to promote Christianity in Rome. The old pagan city was more difficult to convince. he moved the capital to a new capital "Constantinople". The council of Nicea followed and Christianity became the official religion of the Empire.
Because with OS X openenly and eassly available for Standard PC's would kill the Mac Market
I'm not really sure about that. Apple consumers look more like fashionvictims than cold blood consumers. They worship the brand. They will always find a good reason to buy Apple hardware rather than clones IMHO.
It wouldn't take much Marketing know-how, to reinforce that feeling.
What they can get is all these peoples (you can already see plenty on slashdot) who like the OS but they can't stand the prohibitive price of the computer.
Anyway Look at the Iphone, Ipod and their growing PC marketshare...I guess Apple workforce is currently overstreched. This is challenge that needs a lot of investments and dedicated people, otherwise you will follow the path of OS/2, BeOS, and the like.
It comes to a point that a "human" technical support is considered as a VIP treatment. I've won few contracts last months in front of much bigger companies because I simply propose a traditionnal technical support for CMS. I simply propose a technical support by phone and also visiting their office when needed.
Customers get used to be treated like sub humans through HTML forms, tickets and the like. it seems that customers are considered as "pariah". They should be kept as far as possible of the company.
Once you come with a good old way to treat your customers (meeting, phone calls etc.), you are surprised by the positive feedbacks. Beeing "physically" in their office is the huge plus too.
The video is useless; the guy is doing a demo, but the video only shows the face of the speaker, not the demo.
let's do some semantic here: useless, demo, speaker. Anwser:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bubble
Cool, the good old days are back, time to make some easy money :-).
As far as I know (I use Google/Ms/Yahoo with French, Dutch and English), they deal perfectly well with any western characters. Even better they all manage local "mispelling" like forgetting an accent on a letter.
But one of my favorite search engine is www.alltheweb.com . I think it is Norwegian or something. Yahoo Bought them indirectly and I don't know what they plan to do with them.
Mass migration from the Windows plateform is a long term scenario.
.doc or xls what is be the real advantage of using Microsoft Word instead of something else ...For free?
A bigger threat to their revenues is the competition around Microsoft Office. If there is no incompatible format such as
I do think that the competition isn't ready yet to win over Ms Word, Excel or Powerpoint (and I do use OpenOffice because my latop has only MS word installed and I don't need to buy the whole MS office suite). Whatever you may say, they are relatively good compared to their competitors.
But with ODF, and the last news I've read, a real competitive market is on its way.
Personnally I use GIMP twice a week. Mainly for little prof. work (web design stuffs when a web designer isn't available).
/images...A directory rarely used by professionals. I don't understand why they need to "over simplify" this part of the process. They should stick to the standard Open/Save window that we all know.
I guess don't know the right shortcut (?) When I want to create a new image based on the the clipboard captures, I have to create a new image in GIMP and then I have access to the "paste as a new image" feature. You have no access to paste as a new image in the main window.
Each time you save something it keeps reminding you that this format doesn't support layer, you will loose quality and so on...They should add an option to disable all these alerts for guys like me who have 10 years of experience with all these different formats (gif, jpeg, and all). You always need 3 clicks each time you save something.
You always have to click on "more directories" or something when you have to open/save a file, because it always lost in the default MS directory
When you screen isn't that big (1024 width), your tools are always hidden behind image windows.
Anyway I don't think it is that bad...It only needs few improvments.
Olivier
What is a professional operator?
Example 1:
I make 100 Euro per month with Google ads on my blog. It means that my blog or web site is "profitable". I guess like anywhere in Europe, you can keep it "as an secondary source of revenue" without any company registration until it reaches a max. turnover.
Should I register my web site to this administration?
Example 2:
I have a popular video game news web site: It makes a relatively serious turnover, let's say 50.000 Euro. Enough for me to live, not enough to hire a professional journalist.
I guess this time I will be forced to register my web site to this administration and to hire in some way a profesional journalist.
In this case it hurts "very badly" entrepreneuship. As usual European European internet small/young entrepreneurs will be "forced" to stay undercover (using various techniques like a paypal account, offshore address etc.) until they reach a decent turnover and when they can face the high burden of running an "official" activity in this highly bureaucratic
continent.
The only ones who won't be hurt is the establishment or those who have moved to a more business friendly country (one click away)
IMHO it is classic amongst European politicians. But this example is clearly the worst of all.
They write down law proposition for the Internet without using it.
They don't know how it works, all they know about it is what they read in the newspaper or what they heard in their pompeous conferences. They don't use emails, staffs check their mailbox for them..And print the relevant ones. They don't type, they 've got an assistant for that. A computer is a black box for them, like black magic. So they get scared, they need a way to connect this new tool to the old bureaucratic society that they understand.
And when you mix ignorance with the european left tendency to regulate/classify anything crawling on the surface of this planet. You end up with this monstruosity.
"You make the distinction "in classes where there is a significant fraction of immigrants from poor socio-economic backgrounds", so why add the extra disclaimer saying the same thing?"
:-)): It doesn't mean that I support their positions, I try to understand them.
because I didn't want my comment to be used as an argument by xenophobic people. I failed.
Look at the comment below our thread. And most importantly I wrote this comment in few seconds, so I didn't check twice any redundancy.
At what point becomes a generalization lazy? If you find your own description shortcoming to describe something where it becomes too much of a generalization, isn't that a form of lazyness as it's presented too simplistic?
Of course it is. An observation is never the plain restitution of a reality. My description didn't include for example, the way some muslim teens in Europe use their religion as a way to mark their difference. A bit like Punk,Grunge and all, the difference is that they use a religion to define their "tribe" and not western music/subculture. It is "trendy" to say "no" to the dominant culture symbolised by the teacher. So IMHO it isn't just faith, it is certainly more subtile than that.
Disclaimer(sorry I can't help it
You are lazy once you consider this genralization as a convenient truth. Keeping nuances (such as this modest disclaimer), help you to keep some safeguards, especially on such topics.
Anyway back to work.
"it's horrible to see how we've been conditioned in excusing "
No. I hate overgeneralization. There are roughly speaking 200000/300000 muslims in Belgium.
I cannot state that 300000 "human beeings" believe that Darwinism is crap because I have watched a a reporter interviewing 3 ou 4 teachers and a bunch of students.
If you have some respects for science and reason (like Darwinism) don't be lazy and don't simplify everything.
And i still remember that 12 years ago I was in a faculty with muslim students. Just like the rest of us they followed quietly what professors of botanism/organic chemistry/and so on had to say.
(and somes succeded where I failed)
Hello,
Well things are changing in other developped countries as well. I've watched a report concerning Biology classes in Belgium few weeks ago. Some teatchers complain that it is more and more difficult to teach evolution in classes where there is a significant fraction of immigrants from poor socio-economic backgrounds. Qur'an is considered by those folks as the Alpha&Omega. Somes even believe that modern science discoveries can be easily traced back to this holly book.
The problem is that it is not simply arguing. Somes students become violent.
Disclaimer: I'm not saying that all muslims think that way.
In my case it is worst than 95%.
in four days i've received 1514 spams
I guess I have only received 30 or 40 legitimate emails for the same period.
97.5/98% of all my emails are spam.
Thunderbird does a pretty good job. I delete/flag manually 5 or 10 spams per day only.
Why do I receive so many spams?
I've got 3 different emails.
My primary email address didn't change for years.
It is available on my company's web site.
It is obvious (surname@mycompany.com)
"transportation of obscene materials"? That seems a little archaic and irrelevant nowadays...
If this spam goes to your 10 year old son mailbox. It does not seem irrelevant to me.
Before:
:-)
"A mouse with one button is better than a mouse with two buttons."
Now:
"Edge is better than 3G"
Mac fans look sometimes a bit errr...fanatic
Their equipment is always perfect, and the foreign equipment MUST be the problem.
They had to guess from thousands of KMs away. Computers worked for months if not years. You consider them as "reliable" naturally. The article mentionned that new solar panels have been installed shortly before the computers failed. it is "human" to look at the most simple explanation, because it is the correct one usually.
You consider a part of the system reliable, a new part has been installed...The reliable system failed...Then the conclusion is that the new part may be faulty.
They made a big mistake, sure, but I don't think such a mistake is typically Russian. The only blame I can think of : was not openning the computer box at the beginning of the observations.
The things I find the most important IMHO are insightful variables, methods, functions, classes names...I rather prefer to work on a "simple/non optimised code" but with insightful names than a super smart one where all names are two or three letters.
// variable use to store the user's name
Like for example:
String n;
instead of a simple
String UserName;
that doesn't require any additional comment.
Roman language is a Gallo-Romance language, more specifically a Langue d'oïl closely related to the Parisian French (just like all the dialects spoken in Nothern France and Frenchspeaking parts of Belgium who were ruled by Franks).
ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_language
The Norman (Men from the north) (Scandinavian origins) have adopted over the centuries the language of the French terriroty they were occupying.
Langues d'oïl are also known as Old French http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_French
While langue d'oc (the other Gallo-romance subgroups) is known as Provençal.
The previous message was right.
But you are right too. Modern French has also influenced English just like English today is influencing modern French.
Do you remember This noise while the program was loading from the cassette? :-)).
I have the ZX81 and the spectrum 16K (with an expensive +16K upgrade
Ok let's go back to these impersonal computers...
httpd.conf can be quite difficult the first time you see it. Somes distributions have even splitted it into different configuration files (OpenSuse). You can understand it if you run dozens of virtual hosts but splitting the default httpd.conf is absurd IMHO.
Anyway there are editing tools:
http://kochizz.sourceforge.net/
Looks promising.
But I have never used it (the only one I've tried: YaST HTTP server module was incomplete for taste, I couldn't configure properly webdav through it).
Don't take it as a critic. I simply wonder why you need an access like application on Linux. You can find gems like MySQL, PostgreSQL and others?
Because they are more simple to use for an office application?
Anyway the PDF report writer looks like a very good idea.
It really depends of the stockholder you are. If you are merely speculating then yes, it doesk make sense. If you are investing in Ebay as a long term stockholder...They are destroying values. They are alienating their core customers : pro/semi pro resellers.
If I sell a Nokia mobile phone, I do want to be alone selling it on my product's page. Can you imagine an competitor's advertisement in your own store?
This isn't the first time Ebay makes a big mistake, just remember skype and how far away it was from their core business.
Ebay is ran by financial people. it looks to me that they have no clues about what a customer is and how to respond to his/her need. All they can understand is "easy money". Usually such companies don't exist for long.