Europe doesn't struggle since they're part of the same Currency... Europe struggles (Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Greece) because some greedy bastards in Wall Street traded in the typical American dreamstock: "Get Credit even if you haven't got a dime!". The majority of the other European countries are doing just fine (positive growth,...) and applying pressure on member states to adept Sensible Management. (Read: letting go of socially-inspired but flawed policies, like salary-indexing and early pensioning)
Apparently you don't follow the financial markets, but we Europeans still own our countries and their respective assets...
If the US goes bankrupt (which it should b.t.w., it's enormous dept makes Greece look like a teenager short of few bucks to buy a new console game), I will personally fly over and get me a piece of your American Dream.
Also, let's not forget that Greece LIED (in capitals!, no sugarcoating here) about their fiscal health. And now they will pay the price.
3 years? Sorry buddy, the PowerPC G5 was phased out in August 2006: that makes it 5 years in my book.
And if you really want to the latest stuff, why don't you sell your Mac every 3 to 4 years like I do! This way, i have an actual Cost of Ownership (hardware only) of around 390€ per year!
Sorry to spoil your American Pride: but I as a customer can use the application YELO to watch live Video on my iPad. ONLY with my Telenet account and ONLY at places that have Telenet as their provider. (My Home , Some customers , the Central Train station in Antwerp).
Or even better: my father (+65 and founder of a medium business) took his new MacBook to the office and showed it to the IT guy: "Hey , look how safe this thing is: and it even works with the printer without installing anything...". Now 4 years later there is no sight of Windows...
Again, this is of course only applicable to this situation. Stick to Windows in your environment if it works of course!
By "this" i think you mean the US of A. What about the 'sovereignty' of other countries? Our founding tribes would run amok if they knew their ancestors would bow for the pressure of the US.
Although the ACE2 mod is still in beta (2) , it adds a lot of reality to the combat simulator: - carrying items has an impact on your performance (e.g. you can have a rucksack filled with extra ammo, but it will weigh you down) - night combat (IR-goggles, IR-strobe lights, flares, chemlights,...) - defensive measures (sandbags, portable crewed weaponry, new AAA equipment...) - offensive measures (better ranging-methods, HuntIR camera, Chemical warfare,..)
The closest experience i had , before Ace2, is Project Reality for BF2. (But i think PR is coming to ARMA2 too)
What the fuck is WRONG with you guys at Slashdot. I posted this on Tuesday and my submission get's turned down.
Is it because i am not Anglosaxon?
Whose **** do i need to suck?
As an IT Trainer for the E.C. you are actually very right!
I recently gave a course in HTML5 in English, but also translated ad hoc into French the non technical matter (all terminology is a bit in English).
Afterwards i got some angry comments from French-speaking trainees (France, Belgium, but not the Luxemburg-guy) that i did not translate HTML-terminology ranging from "tables" to "Document Object Model" into French.
The friggin' thing is in friggin' English for f's sake!
(I am a native dutch-speaking Belgian fluent in German, English and French. So don't give me that xenolinguafobic response...)
Of course VOC was Dutch, but they brought Dutch, Belgian and French colonists with them (as paying customers). It's not because I pay KLM to bring me to island X , that KLM is settling on island X...
British, Dutch AND Belgian participants please!
It's not because Kim Clijsters speaks Dutch, she is Dutch.
Also, The Netherlands celebrates 'their' foundation of New York. But apparently, New York was also founded by Belgians (Walloons) and French.
Hoboken for example is also a community near Antwerp.
It's so convenient to leave the others out...
Oh man, don't get me starting about SABAM. I compose my own music for websites (using garagaband!) and EVERY TIME i get a letter from them asking me what source/author i used so they can bill me.
I really really really hate them.
Pathetic,
i can run the 1979 version of VisiCalc on my Mac in an Apple ][ emulator, and it works like gold.
But why in the hell would you try to do that?
I refer to the comments here about cutting the support from legacy OSes in favour of developing a stable, secure, awesome OS.
I agree with that completely: As an Apple user since 1983, I regard the MacOS Classic-era as something that needs to be forgotten fast. Happily, all my customers have migrated to MacOS X and forgot how to use the Classic-option in the System preferences. The Mac then had no reall ace to pull, while now, my Intelmac running OSX/WinXP/Linux/... at the same time is damn killer!
Typical for the American Press is to use the "Freedom of speech"-trumpet to trample all over your legal rights: Privacy, Non-disclosure agreements, R&D Secrecy.
That said, I'm very keen on trying out Tiger Server, with full Access Control Lists (at last!).
I totally agree with that. I am 'in control' of some 40 macos x servers of my customers.
Apple's GUI approach has made me a very very happy admin. Don't get me wrong: a lot of behind-the-curtain-nidpicking is still possible to do, but for the bulk of the work, unnecessary
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Wow, my US bullshit detector goes haywire!
Europe doesn't struggle since they're part of the same Currency... Europe struggles (Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Greece) because some greedy bastards in Wall Street traded in the typical American dreamstock: "Get Credit even if you haven't got a dime!". ...) and applying pressure on member states to adept Sensible Management. (Read: letting go of socially-inspired but flawed policies, like salary-indexing and early pensioning)
The majority of the other European countries are doing just fine (positive growth,
Apparently you don't follow the financial markets, but we Europeans still own our countries and their respective assets...
If the US goes bankrupt (which it should b.t.w., it's enormous dept makes Greece look like a teenager short of few bucks to buy a new console game), I will personally fly over and get me a piece of your American Dream.
Also, let's not forget that Greece LIED (in capitals!, no sugarcoating here) about their fiscal health. And now they will pay the price.
3 years? Sorry buddy, the PowerPC G5 was phased out in August 2006: that makes it 5 years in my book.
And if you really want to the latest stuff, why don't you sell your Mac every 3 to 4 years like I do! This way, i have an actual Cost of Ownership (hardware only) of around 390€ per year!
Otherwise Western Europe would have more Mac users on average than the U.S...
Sorry to spoil your American Pride: but I as a customer can use the application YELO to watch live Video on my iPad. ONLY with my Telenet account and ONLY at places that have Telenet as their provider. (My Home , Some customers , the Central Train station in Antwerp).
(Telenet is one of the Flemish cable companies.)
Is that a quote from the Belgian artist Magritte's painting "Ceci n'est pas une pipe?"
Or even better: my father (+65 and founder of a medium business) took his new MacBook to the office and showed it to the IT guy: "Hey , look how safe this thing is: and it even works with the printer without installing anything...".
Now 4 years later there is no sight of Windows...
Again, this is of course only applicable to this situation. Stick to Windows in your environment if it works of course!
By "this" i think you mean the US of A.
What about the 'sovereignty' of other countries? Our founding tribes would run amok if they knew their ancestors would bow for the pressure of the US.
I agree completely!
Although the ACE2 mod is still in beta (2) , it adds a lot of reality to the combat simulator:
- carrying items has an impact on your performance (e.g. you can have a rucksack filled with extra ammo, but it will weigh you down)
- night combat (IR-goggles, IR-strobe lights, flares, chemlights,...)
- defensive measures (sandbags, portable crewed weaponry, new AAA equipment...)
- offensive measures (better ranging-methods, HuntIR camera, Chemical warfare,..)
The closest experience i had , before Ace2, is Project Reality for BF2. (But i think PR is coming to ARMA2 too)
It was posted on Monday, not Tuesday
What the fuck is WRONG with you guys at Slashdot. I posted this on Tuesday and my submission get's turned down. Is it because i am not Anglosaxon? Whose **** do i need to suck?
You had me there! I almost fell for it.
...eXistenZ.
As an IT Trainer for the E.C. you are actually very right! I recently gave a course in HTML5 in English, but also translated ad hoc into French the non technical matter (all terminology is a bit in English). Afterwards i got some angry comments from French-speaking trainees (France, Belgium, but not the Luxemburg-guy) that i did not translate HTML-terminology ranging from "tables" to "Document Object Model" into French. The friggin' thing is in friggin' English for f's sake! (I am a native dutch-speaking Belgian fluent in German, English and French. So don't give me that xenolinguafobic response...)
A Zune? Never heard of it. Oh it's that brown turd you can only buy in the US and Canada?
Of course VOC was Dutch, but they brought Dutch, Belgian and French colonists with them (as paying customers). It's not because I pay KLM to bring me to island X , that KLM is settling on island X...
British, Dutch AND Belgian participants please! It's not because Kim Clijsters speaks Dutch, she is Dutch. Also, The Netherlands celebrates 'their' foundation of New York. But apparently, New York was also founded by Belgians (Walloons) and French. Hoboken for example is also a community near Antwerp. It's so convenient to leave the others out...
Oh man, don't get me starting about SABAM. I compose my own music for websites (using garagaband!) and EVERY TIME i get a letter from them asking me what source/author i used so they can bill me. I really really really hate them.
I think Clint Eastwood would read this topic and think: "As long as i don't have to launch an item in Firefox in Russian!"
Pathetic, i can run the 1979 version of VisiCalc on my Mac in an Apple ][ emulator, and it works like gold. But why in the hell would you try to do that? I refer to the comments here about cutting the support from legacy OSes in favour of developing a stable, secure, awesome OS.
I agree with that completely: As an Apple user since 1983, I regard the MacOS Classic-era as something that needs to be forgotten fast. Happily, all my customers have migrated to MacOS X and forgot how to use the Classic-option in the System preferences. The Mac then had no reall ace to pull, while now, my Intelmac running OSX/WinXP/Linux/... at the same time is damn killer!
In Dutch, this plant is actually called Penisflower.
I agree!
Typical for the American Press is to use the "Freedom of speech"-trumpet to trample all over your legal rights: Privacy, Non-disclosure agreements, R&D Secrecy.
That said, I'm very keen on trying out Tiger Server, with full Access Control Lists (at last!).
I totally agree with that.
I am 'in control' of some 40 macos x servers of my customers.
Apple's GUI approach has made me a very very happy admin.
Don't get me wrong: a lot of behind-the-curtain-nidpicking is still possible to do, but for the bulk of the work, unnecessary
Late to /., but got an early start with my Apple //e back in 1983.
As a non-native-english speaker, slashdot was a welcome addition to my bookmarks.
Fairly late, i admit.
Oh my god, i am still looking for that G5-spot while using my two fingers...