They had a better idea. They joined the European community at the beginning and bound the whole Europe into an economic community. What matters is wealth, this is where we all find our interest. I'm want to be rich and you want it too. Once you trade, once you share, once you make projects together, there is no point to attack your source of wealth: your customers. This how Rome secured its vast empire for 500 years by the way, threats were external not internal. Once you trade, you begin to know each other, the "foreigner" becomes a partner and sometimes a friend.
If you see that you are going to lose a fortune in a war, because you are attacking a major business partner (in this case: you attack a major centre of European private banks...Where rich people are hiding their own treasure)you will probably think twice before doing it and you will have a hard time finding allies (typical answer: don't rob my bank you idiot).
Anyway Thank God these imperial/cynical policies have been vanished from Western Europe after we commited two mass suicides during the previous century (WWI and WWII). I guess we learnt our lesson, some may consider us as "from Venus" but I certainly don't want to live what my grand parents did (and told me).
Concerning your idea: it is a bad one.
In a typical modern European war: We do not recognize you as true soldier. Your government surrendered weeks ago. Surrender. They didn't surrender and leave the country? we just settle a puppet government and force them to sign a treaty. This treaty stipulate that you must surrender or you will be considered as irregular force (ie terrorist). You refuse?
A significant part of the population have been kept hostages. One by one each hostage are going to receive a bullet in the head or starved slowy to death while being raped and tortured until you "terrorists, saboteurs, whatever" show up. Do you recognize your teacher? Well say good bye, he has just been murdered.
You attack our invading soldier? 10 hostages of your fellow countrymen will be murdered hanged on town main street and leave there for a week...Or a month. Thanks to some tortures we have been able to locate your family. 4 of them. Your wife is amongst them and your father too. We kept your children for another time.
We still cannot find you, the so called resistants? We will put all your fellow villagers (children included) in a church and burn them alive. We will destroy the whole village and move on. A good example for other rebellious region. Still feeling heroic? Others are not, they are called collaborateurs and they will do whatever they can to find you to avoid this nightmare. You will be catch by your own countrymen, funny isn't it?
This is what a modern European war looks like.
This process will happen hundred of times in your whole country. There will be hundred of thousands of victims. Unidentified corpses that we will hide deep in remote fields. Not because we are ashamed of...Because they start to stink and I don't want my soldier to be sick.
Extremely effective, main tools of the various succesful European invasions. The last one was done in the Balkans and almost succeded. We have used them for centuries and it still works. There are other masters around the world such as the mongols (pyramid of heads) across Eurasia or Muslims in India (killing peaceful hindouist for the fun).
You can't win against such a brute force and if you aren't ready to apply such a brute force sooner or later your unwelcome invasion will fail because there is no nation of cowards and most will fight to protect their liberty and their territory.
Err..The problem is that France doens't pay the bill. The European Union pays it (under the Common Agriculture Policy: CAP). France is a net receiver of European Union subsidies.
Germany and few others such as the Netherlands are actually paying this policy.
I think Agriculture still represents around 40% of the whole European Union budget or something... While new technologies, fundamental researches, etc are at a depressing/ridiculous level. They have tried to reform this policy for decades. France and some other European nations block any significant reform. They simply state that nobody should touch the money they take from somebody else pockets in the name of European culture or...Err European identity or probably European solidarity:-).
It may sound like a good idea until you look closely at its heavy cost: Financially but also politically. France lost a large part of its respect inside the EU because it is considered more and more like a selfish and conversative country (ie: lost somewhere in the 1950s).
Don't get me wrong, I like/love France. But I really don't like this part of it. The only good things I see about their heavy state control is their "grands projets" such as the TGV (high speed train), Airbus, Arianne, etc. They are extremely good, probably the best in Europe. All neighboors have learnt (and gained) from them.
Being an entepeneur was supposed to be the dream? I find that even more depressing. Working extremely long hours, risking bankrupcy every day, insane stress levels, all for money? No thanks, I'd rather put in my 8 hrs a day, make a fair wage, and enjoy my life.
Beeing an entrepreneur for me is:
No boss
Free
No orders
I can do whatever I like.
Did I mention I enjoy my freedom?
Sure you have to be responsible of your own good...There is a loonnng way before you can reach the level of stability (for me it took 10 years) but eh...That's what freedom is all about:-).
I live in Belgium. I downloaded every single episodes through torrents/DIV (except season 1). I know quality sucks, but I'm currently watching the last episodes of season 2:-). It hasn't been officially released yet (except the DVDs for season 1 that I bought, released without the mini serie that I had to download to understand the plot)
Companies are going to lose a lot of money if they don't sync their release date in all western countries, especially when you have such a nice scenario.
when I code server side application and I need a Linux environment, I use KDE. So I've got a Desktop PC, and it runs fine. I prefer a nice UI over a SSH connection with Emacs under development environment.
But when I need to store my pictures, edit my video or simply browse the web I use Windows XP. I mainly use free applications like thunderbird, open office, firefox, GIMP, Putty and all these gems on Windows XP. I don't need to install illegal copies. i've got everything I need for free and legally. I've got an all in one scan-printer (brother), I've got an USB external DVD driver. I don't ever bother trying to configure them with SUSE 9.2. Frankly speaking I've got tons of other things to do than playing around and make it work under Linux.
Sure there are "virus", trojans etc...But well I'm advanced enough to avoid most of these threats and for two years and counting I had no infection. Anyway I've got a One touch Maxtor external HD doing all the backups (another not-Linux friendly hardware).
So why should I migrate?
If you don't want to make a political stand, if you haven't fun anymore while openning various config files, reading dozens of FAQs to install such a simple thing like a printer. There is no reason to migrate. And if me as a computer engineer I see no reason to migrate...Why a lambda user who just wants to share pictures with his family, browsing the web, etc would have a reason to migrate? The question is as simple as that. Desktop Linux needs a killer application, Something that you cannot find on another platform. Mac is known for its User Interface and its simplicity. Windows is known for its compatibility with hardware and well known application. Linux is known as a free environment and that is not enough.
I live in Brussels and I did exactly the same thing. Clearwire is pretty easy to set up. All in all in costs less than a phone line fee + internet subscription. I've got a mobile phone and I don't need a landline. I even share it with my neighboors (a friend of mine). we simply use a WI-FI router. We both work all day long and Internet at home is used sporadically for e-banking and other things like that. Rarely for entertainment. So it costs me less than $US 14 per month.
Wikipedia helped me to select my DIVX in the Stargate Season 10 torrent. I found their summary quite helpful. There are few episodes completly disconnected from the main plot and I didn't want to see them.
I have also used Wikipedia to document myself on Ottoman Invasions in Hungary. And Alliances between Polish and Hungarians crowns to face it.
The great thing about it is that it gives information about anything you wish. And in my case, I prefer it remains that way.
Well I've got a product under development and I face your dilemma.
But I have some hope that I can use our 100% c#.net framework 1.1 code with Mono and their relatively new System.Window.Form. It isn't on the development roadmap but I keep an eye on Mono. I've already tried to pass some of our codes on it, and it works quite well, even with DateTimePicker and other things like that.
In Europe it really depends of your country and the size of your company. I work for a small company and overtime is a neccessity. Nobody complains since it brings some flexibility on the other side.(you are free to leave once the job has been done). Naturally...We are bunch of young guys with no family responsabilities.
The things that has been forbidden is the islamic veil (to hide hair) and only at school. It is only applied in their public school (there are already muslim private schools for those who cannot live without it).
Immigrants in France are from North Africa (Morocco, Algeria and so on) and Turkey. There are no burqas tradition in these countries (Burkas is from Afghanistan I think).
Another questionnable point is the IBM's failure with the PS/2 architecture. OS/2 was branded as the OS for this new architecture (which amongst other things tried to replace the ISA BUS).
IBM tried to force Taiwan manufacturers to adopt its new architecture. There was a small technologic gain over the ISA bus, but nothing that impressive and they failed miserably.
Centuries of experiments were needed before the first light bulb appears. Experiment is the first step to find a solution for your problem. In this case the problem is: - How to get rid of fossil energy.
There is no large city in the project.
Their populations vary between 30000-120000. I seriously doubt it could work in larger cities.
Ostende the only city I know in the list has already a significant part pedestrians only in its centre .
If I'm arrested by British policemen in London, I won't forget to remind them the constitution and its 4th amendment...And if they laugh and I will ask kindly but firmly to talk to their president.
The funny thing is that we had just one television in the house. I had no screen (too expensive) so I ended up with an TV adaptor. I had to argue with my mother to get a full hour each day on my computer.
Sometimes they were all behind me in the sofa waiting to see the news. I was sitting in front of the television busy writing some dumb programs like drawing a polygon or something.
I had the shock of my life the first time that I saw the Amiga Workbench and the little Text To Speech application:-). I thought I would dedicated the rest of my life to make it intelligent, just like HAL:-).
There were dozens of innovation in the Amiga. Workbench, an extremely advanced sound card, the virtual disk...a rich set of command lines (unknown in the micro-computer world). Too bad you missed them.
The things I have implemented so far are form (just remapped your company email address with IDs) and javascript obfuscator.
Pro: bullet proof, no javascript. con: Customer cannot read the email address.
Or obfuscate the email address with Javascript. Pro: Customer can read the email address, and the HTML mailto: feature works. Con: You need to doublecheck your script on every browser on the market, not friendly towards visually impaired people.
Perl or any languages are just tools. You simply choose the appropriate tools for the work. And if you refuse a job on a wonderful project with a funny, full of talents and hardworking team because of the language that is reasonnably well adapted for the task. Well excuse me, but you are an idiot.
Saddam used nerve gas against Kurds before the first gulf war. As far as I know he had never used any chemical weapons after it.
Second, Do you remember the powell show at the UN? I do. he came up with doctored pictures of mobile labs and even nuclear threats (alumnium tubes and Uranium from Africa). Or the UK report based on a student work grabbed over the Internet?
Third, the stock of nerve gas they have found dated from the 80s. I don't believe that the Iraqi regime "forgot it" like some have said. However the stock was extremely limited and certainly not a casus belli that caused thousand of deaths, wounded, orpheans on both sides.
Fourth: President Bush claimed at that time that the Iraqi regime was connected to Al Qaeda. His administration claimed that there were Al Qaeda camps in Iraq before the invasion. He labelled his invasion as a war against terrorism. There were no Al Qaeda camps in Iraq. Al Qaeda arrived soon afterwards...(after the invitation err the invasion...).
The real agenda was IMHO: - Trying to make a stable and peaceful democracy right in the center of the middle-east. Somekind of sunshine policy. He failed. - Trying to secure an oil supplier in the region: to keep oil price down, to have US companies drilling new oil fields. He failed too.
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They had a better idea. They joined the European community at the beginning and bound the whole Europe into an economic community. What matters is wealth, this is where we all find our interest. I'm want to be rich and you want it too. Once you trade, once you share, once you make projects together, there is no point to attack your source of wealth: your customers. This how Rome secured its vast empire for 500 years by the way, threats were external not internal. Once you trade, you begin to know each other, the "foreigner" becomes a partner and sometimes a friend.
If you see that you are going to lose a fortune in a war, because you are attacking a major business partner (in this case: you attack a major centre of European private banks...Where rich people are hiding their own treasure)you will probably think twice before doing it and you will have a hard time finding allies (typical answer: don't rob my bank you idiot).
Anyway Thank God these imperial/cynical policies have been vanished from Western Europe after we commited two mass suicides during the previous century (WWI and WWII). I guess we learnt our lesson, some may consider us as "from Venus" but I certainly don't want to live what my grand parents did (and told me).
Concerning your idea: it is a bad one.
In a typical modern European war:
We do not recognize you as true soldier. Your government surrendered weeks ago. Surrender. They didn't surrender and leave the country? we just settle a puppet government and force them to sign a treaty. This treaty stipulate that you must surrender or you will be considered as irregular force (ie terrorist). You refuse?
A significant part of the population have been kept hostages. One by one each hostage are going to receive a bullet in the head or starved slowy to death while being raped and tortured until you "terrorists, saboteurs, whatever" show up. Do you recognize your teacher? Well say good bye, he has just been murdered.
You attack our invading soldier? 10 hostages of your fellow countrymen will be murdered hanged on town main street and leave there for a week...Or a month. Thanks to some tortures we have been able to locate your family. 4 of them. Your wife is amongst them and your father too. We kept your children for another time.
We still cannot find you, the so called resistants? We will put all your fellow villagers (children included) in a church and burn them alive. We will destroy the whole village and move on. A good example for other rebellious region. Still feeling heroic? Others are not, they are called collaborateurs and they will do whatever they can to find you to avoid this nightmare. You will be catch by your own countrymen, funny isn't it?
This is what a modern European war looks like.
This process will happen hundred of times in your whole country. There will be hundred of thousands of victims. Unidentified corpses that we will hide deep in remote fields. Not because we are ashamed of...Because they start to stink and I don't want my soldier to be sick.
Extremely effective, main tools of the various succesful European invasions. The last one was done in the Balkans and almost succeded. We have used them for centuries and it still works. There are other masters around the world such as the mongols (pyramid of heads) across Eurasia or Muslims in India (killing peaceful hindouist for the fun).
You can't win against such a brute force and if you aren't ready to apply such a brute force sooner or later your unwelcome invasion will fail because there is no nation of cowards and most will fight to protect their liberty and their territory.
War is not a video game. War is hell.
Err..The problem is that France doens't pay the bill. The European Union pays it (under the Common Agriculture Policy: CAP). France is a net receiver of European Union subsidies.
:-).
Germany and few others such as the Netherlands are actually paying this policy.
I think Agriculture still represents around 40% of the whole European Union budget or something...
While new technologies, fundamental researches, etc are at a depressing/ridiculous level. They have tried to reform this policy for decades. France and some other European nations block any significant reform. They simply state that nobody should touch the money they take from somebody else pockets in the name of European culture or...Err European identity or probably European solidarity
It may sound like a good idea until you look closely at its heavy cost: Financially but also politically. France lost a large part of its respect inside the EU because it is considered more and more like a selfish and conversative country (ie: lost somewhere in the 1950s).
Don't get me wrong, I like/love France. But I really don't like this part of it. The only good things I see about their heavy state control is their "grands projets" such as the TGV (high speed train), Airbus, Arianne, etc. They are extremely good, probably the best in Europe. All neighboors have learnt (and gained) from them.
Sure you have to be responsible of your own good...There is a loonnng way before you can reach the level of stability (for me it took 10 years) but eh...That's what freedom is all about :-).
-I live in Belgium. I downloaded every single episodes through torrents/DIV (except season 1). I know quality sucks, but I'm currently watching the last episodes of season 2 :-). It hasn't been officially released yet (except the DVDs for season 1 that I bought, released without the mini serie that I had to download to understand the plot)
Companies are going to lose a lot of money if they don't sync their release date in all western countries, especially when you have such a nice scenario.
when I code server side application and I need a Linux environment, I use KDE.
So I've got a Desktop PC, and it runs fine. I prefer a nice UI over a SSH connection with Emacs under development environment.
But when I need to store my pictures, edit my video or simply browse the web I use Windows XP.
I mainly use free applications like thunderbird, open office, firefox, GIMP, Putty and all these gems on Windows XP. I don't need to install illegal copies. i've got everything I need for free and legally. I've got an all in one scan-printer (brother), I've got an USB external DVD driver. I don't ever bother trying to configure them with SUSE 9.2. Frankly speaking I've got tons of other things to do than playing around and make it work under Linux.
Sure there are "virus", trojans etc...But well I'm advanced enough to avoid most of these threats and for two years and counting I had no infection. Anyway I've got a One touch Maxtor external HD doing all the backups (another not-Linux friendly hardware).
So why should I migrate?
If you don't want to make a political stand, if you haven't fun anymore while openning various config files, reading dozens of FAQs to install such a simple thing like a printer. There is no reason to migrate. And if me as a computer engineer I see no reason to migrate...Why a lambda user who just wants to share pictures with his family, browsing the web, etc would have a reason to migrate? The question is as simple as that. Desktop Linux needs a killer application, Something that you cannot find on another platform. Mac is known for its User Interface and its simplicity. Windows is known for its compatibility with hardware and well known application. Linux is known as a free environment and that is not enough.
I live in Brussels and I did exactly the same thing. Clearwire is pretty easy to set up. All in all in costs less than a phone line fee + internet subscription. I've got a mobile phone and I don't need a landline. I even share it with my neighboors (a friend of mine). we simply use a WI-FI router. We both work all day long and Internet at home is used sporadically for e-banking and other things like that. Rarely for entertainment. So it costs me less than $US 14 per month.
Let's see...How did I use Wikipedia today:
Wikipedia helped me to select my DIVX in the Stargate Season 10 torrent.
I found their summary quite helpful. There are few episodes completly disconnected from the main plot and I didn't want to see them.
I have also used Wikipedia to document myself on Ottoman Invasions in Hungary. And Alliances between Polish and Hungarians crowns to face it.
The great thing about it is that it gives information about anything you wish. And in my case, I prefer it remains that way.
Well I've got a product under development and I face your dilemma.
.net framework 1.1 code with Mono and their relatively new System.Window.Form. It isn't on the development roadmap but I keep an eye on Mono.
But I have some hope that I can use our 100% c#
I've already tried to pass some of our codes on it, and it works quite well, even with DateTimePicker and other things like that.
In Europe it really depends of your country and the size of your company. I work for a small company and overtime is a neccessity. Nobody complains since it brings some flexibility on the other side.(you are free to leave once the job has been done). Naturally...We are bunch of young guys with no family responsabilities.
If you ever wondered why Americans are considered ignorant and arrogant abroad, just read this thread.
Burkas is the whole body (hands and face hidden).
The things that has been forbidden is the islamic veil (to hide hair) and only at school. It is only applied in their public school (there are already muslim private schools for those who cannot live without it).
Immigrants in France are from North Africa (Morocco, Algeria and so on) and Turkey. There are no burqas tradition in these countries (Burkas is from Afghanistan I think).
Another questionnable point is the IBM's failure with the PS/2 architecture. OS/2 was branded as the OS for this new architecture (which amongst other things tried to replace the ISA BUS).
IBM tried to force Taiwan manufacturers to adopt its new architecture. There was a small technologic gain over the ISA bus, but nothing that impressive and they failed miserably.
Centuries of experiments were needed before the first light bulb appears. Experiment is the first step to find a solution for your problem. In this case the problem is:
- How to get rid of fossil energy.
Your question:
"Honestly, what must-have features has Microsoft added to MS Office lately?"
Anwser:
Incompatible formats with previous versions.
Or they were busy doing their own inquisition.
o testants
Read:
http://biblia.com/christianity/inquisition.htm#Pr
or
http://ic.net/~erasmus/RAZ247.HTM
There is no large city in the project. Their populations vary between 30000-120000. I seriously doubt it could work in larger cities. Ostende the only city I know in the list has already a significant part pedestrians only in its centre .
If I'm arrested by British policemen in London, I won't forget to remind them the constitution and its 4th amendment...And if they laugh and I will ask kindly but firmly to talk to their president.
Ah..That famous tic tic :-). The thing I really miss too when I switched to PCs was the quality of the Amiga mouse...So smooth.
Amiga had the best engineers and the worst management.
thank you :-)
By the way how do they recover the hard disk's data?
For example I've heard a story a hard disk fallen into the sea and they managed to recover some data. How do they do?
Amiga 500 gave me a passion for programming.
:-). I thought I would dedicated the rest of my life to make it intelligent, just like HAL :-).
The funny thing is that we had just one television in the house. I had no screen (too expensive) so I ended up with an TV adaptor. I had to argue with my mother to get a full hour each day on my computer.
Sometimes they were all behind me in the sofa waiting to see the news. I was sitting in front of the television busy writing some dumb programs like drawing a polygon or something.
I had the shock of my life the first time that I saw the Amiga Workbench and the little Text To Speech application
There were dozens of innovation in the Amiga. Workbench, an extremely advanced sound card, the virtual disk...a rich set of command lines (unknown in the micro-computer world). Too bad you missed them.
Olivier
What you propose is not customer friendly IMHO.
The things I have implemented so far are form (just remapped your company email address with IDs) and javascript obfuscator.
Pro: bullet proof, no javascript.
con: Customer cannot read the email address.
Or obfuscate the email address with Javascript.
Pro: Customer can read the email address, and the HTML mailto: feature works.
Con: You need to doublecheck your script on every browser on the market, not friendly towards visually impaired people.
Perl or any languages are just tools. You simply choose the appropriate tools for the work.
And if you refuse a job on a wonderful project with a funny, full of talents and hardworking team because of the language that is reasonnably well adapted for the task. Well excuse me, but you are an idiot.
Saddam used nerve gas against Kurds before the first gulf war. As far as I know he had never used any chemical weapons after it.
Second, Do you remember the powell show at the UN? I do. he came up with doctored pictures of mobile labs and even nuclear threats (alumnium tubes and Uranium from Africa). Or the UK report based on a student work grabbed over the Internet?
Third, the stock of nerve gas they have found dated from the 80s. I don't believe that the Iraqi regime "forgot it" like some have said. However the stock was extremely limited and certainly not a casus belli that caused thousand of deaths, wounded, orpheans on both sides.
Fourth: President Bush claimed at that time that the Iraqi regime was connected to Al Qaeda. His administration claimed that there were Al Qaeda camps in Iraq before the invasion. He labelled his invasion as a war against terrorism. There were no Al Qaeda camps in Iraq. Al Qaeda arrived soon afterwards...(after the invitation err the invasion...).
The real agenda was IMHO:
- Trying to make a stable and peaceful democracy right in the center of the middle-east. Somekind of sunshine policy. He failed.
- Trying to secure an oil supplier in the region: to keep oil price down, to have US companies drilling new oil fields. He failed too.
When European kingdoms decided to explore the Oceans, the domestic situation was even worst.
I hope they will succeed. the USA, Russia and Europe are sleeping. Some strong competitions in the space are required to see some innovations.
Once they have reached the moon it will extremely difficult to explain why a village remains inaccessible by car anyway.
I want to see a man walking on the moon and on mars. An Indian, so be it. I want to see it in my lifetime.