I use Firefox to design websites and imagine a web with a multitude of CSS and PNG transparency...
Then of course comes the time when I open it in IE 6...
And I start hating making webpages again.
Thank you Microsoft, really.
Well, im belgian, and this eID is actually a great advance for us, we will be able to fill out tax forms and other administrative forms, maybe vote and in the future us this eID as authentification for buying prescription drugs (yeah we get most of our medical costs paid for). It also solves a lot of problems between the different language communities we have around here, since a frenchman in flanders (where they speak dutch) could fill out his forms in french. This might seem a stupid problem but it has been a pretty huge on in belgium the last couple of years.
As for M$ using this to authenticate on their services? why not, as long as anyone can use our eID to guarantee some kind of secure log-in/transaction im 100% for it. I very much doubt Belium would let a foreign company take the monopoly of their eID market, im sure all they are trying to do is develop some kind of platform onto which outside companies could use our system.
Indeed this will mean that with time, you could make sure your Credit card could only be used by you (or anyone who stole your card, has an untracable card reader device AND has your 4 digit pin code). This of course makes online transactions much safer.
The only reason i see that Bill gates decided to integrate this to MSN messenger is because thats exactly the type of product that Billy loves (hence his introduction of similar cards in his company.)
So anyways, eID is great, that MS endorses it is not bad at all, as long as the procedure to endorse our future system will not be an MS product.
Well the ID card in belgium would be to allow online paperwork like taxes and maybe even voting, we've had normal ID cards for longer then ive lived and the idea behind this was to be able to identify yourself to authorities if necessary (not only cops but for banks, administrations, voting, etc..). Now my guess is that they talked to microsoft to find a way to secure these online transactions, quite frankly as long as its secure and works i don't care who writes the protocol.
Being belgian i can quite frankly say this I see this as a benefit, seeing how wonderfully brilliant our administrations are a little automation can only do us good.
Oh and it would solve a lot of communautary problems aswell, since as you probably know (ok you probably don't) about half of belgium speaks dutch , the other half speaks french (and we have a small german community). SO thats 3 official languages, and theres a lot of problems regarding people wanting to fill in forms in their native language while living in another region.
Oh and belgium has always been keen on electronic gadgets, we have for example a little electronic chip in our bank cards that act as cash, so we can fill them in any phone booth or ATM free of charge and use them in stores in much the same way as cash.
So anyways, this eID card is good news, and hopefully they'll extend it to the whole country as soon as possible.
- Enter Market
- Make loses on low priced products
- Kill competition because They cannot afford in long term to keep in business at current price.
- When Competition is killed stop development while instauring barriers.
- Stop development
- Profit repays "investement" of market dumping.
- Pure Profit.
Happened to Netscape, Happened to Word Perfect, tried with WMP, tried with XBoX. This is just typical figure manipulation.
So Microsoft just realised that competition gets the prices down? What they don't talk about is how their monopoly in other sectors does just the exact opposite. This is probably the most simple notion in economy, where theres competition, the prices go down and the innovation goes up. Microsoft is good for innovation? Explain to me why IE hasn't changed a bit since a couple of years then?
I call bullshit on this one, what drives innovation is competition, not microsoft, but their anti-competitive approach to the market is not AT ALL a benefit to innovation and prices, because as soon as they have the market share that suits them (usually around 90%) they basically halt development while putting strategic barriers to possible rival entry by forcing their propriety standards onto the whole industry.
The only reason the prices go down when microsoft enters a market is because they practice market dumping using their huge financial power.
Basically the Microsoft strategy goes like this:
- Enter Market
- Make loses on low priced products
- Kill competition because They cannot afford in long term to keep in business at current price.
- When Competition is killed stop development while instauring barriers.
- Stop development
- Profit repays "investement" of market dumping.
- Pure Profit.
Happened to Netscape, Happened to Word Perfect, tried with WMP, tried with XBoX.
This is just typical figure manipulation.
Well a margin of error would be caused by an inacuracy of the measurements, now i don't see how those measurements could be innacurate. But i guess if you want to be happy you can interpret those figures as being the growth rate of firefox for THOSE sites only. But as far as details i don't see how they could possibly give you more details about the study then which site they monitored. Personally i think those websites weren't at all badly chosen, i would however start wondering about the results if slashdot or msn.com were included in the monitored websites.
Im sorry but over the last couple of month i realised professors tend to speak more and more bullshit. You don't have to be rocket scientist to know that games overall are more appealing to kids, instead on focusing on this maybe they should try and develop more recreative ways of teaching, which in many cases are allready applied in schools. It seems recently professors are more devoted to bringing controversial statements/findings to the public rather then trying to find something usefull for the developpment of our society. Maybe I should ask a professor of my University to do a study on the useless study that professors undertake?
Not bad not bad, the most i brought back was in septembre, i brought back an iPod 40 gigs, and iPod Mini, a LaCie 160 GB external HD, an eMachines M6811 laptop, a Linksys Wireless G PCMIA card, a Fuji Camera and about a $1000 of Abercrombie and Fitch apparel. Oh yeah and 3 I LOVE NYC mugs;-). Passed customs without a glitch.
well for the same HP catridge (the Number 28) you pay $21.99 in the US (http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.as p?product_code=294030&pfp=BROWSE) while I pay 26.99 euros ($36.16) in Belgium
(http://www.exell.be/website_fr.lasso?sess=D5F6CE2 402ee51EB30NYV2AA0814&module=Products_Detail2&PIid =130&cat1=ACCE&cat2=INK&ModelName=Deskjet%203520)
So its a LOT more.
Yeah Regional coding is nothing but single-market protectionism, not only is it bad for the consumer but its bad for the whole economy's well-being overall. The reason this happens in the first place is the Oligopolly in which printer manufacturers evolve at the moment, they compete hardly when it comes to buying the printer then fuck us up when we need to put ink in them. As for the EU controlling that? How could they, they're not forcing the consumer to buy HP, hence the EU has no legal ground to counter-act these new measures. Funny that you mention price discrimination because that kind of business plan usually only appears in monopolies, where they can easily rip the consumer off to maximise their profits.
There seems to be a trend going on here, basically everything computer related is less expensive in the States then in Europe. No wonder everytime i go to the US i have to bring back 5 iPods, 3 wireless routers, 5 wifi PCMIA cards, 2 cameras and even DVD-RW's! Yes, DVD-RWs are hugely expensive here (at least in Belgium) because we have to pay a 0.49 euros tax on each and every single one of them! I love Europe and all, but why are our governements intentionnally restricting their citizens of technological advancement? I mean OK HP is playing a dirty trick here, but cartridges were ALWAYS much more expensive in Europe, this is nothing new and wont change a damn thing. It about time the european parliament stops worrying about wether or not to put the Catholic dogma in the constitution and start doing something constructive for the EU.
Hopefully they'll understand sometimes in this millenium that taxing Technology will only make us trail behind behind the US. They are so obsessed with debating on useless details over the constitution that they forgot what the EU was all about: CREATING A STRONG ECONOMIC UNION!
Phones get outdated much too quickly for the N-Gage to stay attractive long enough to create a market. Quite frankly ive never been interested in buying one, its big , unhandy and there are much cooler phones out there. Now the gameplay might not be bad, i never tried it so i wouldn't know, i think the problem was that there never was a market for such a gadget.
Well Actually, the Gendarmerie Nationale is the French counter-part of the FBI and the State troopers combined. And no they are not the Military police, since france has their own MP corp. The fact that they are part of the military is really just a historical tradition.
Even more troubling is that Philip Morris would be allowed to sell a product that proves to be harmfull in all cases but P2P developpers should be fined for making a product that can be harmfull if not employed lawfully? Well not that im surprised, but this shows to be nothing but another proof that laws aren't there to protect people but money... God Bless America!
wasn't it that mental capabilities mwere passed on by the X chromosome? Hence making the curve of intelligence flatter for men, hence it is more probable for a man to be a genious but aswell more probable for a man to be mentally retarded? I remember reading somewhere that since women had 2 X chromosomes it made them statistically more likely to be average. Anyone had any insight on this?
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I use Firefox to design websites and imagine a web with a multitude of CSS and PNG transparency... Then of course comes the time when I open it in IE 6... And I start hating making webpages again. Thank you Microsoft, really.
you n00b, we had ASCII art way before KDE!
Man, ever heard about GPS? Its been quite a while since anything has relied on compasses to position itself!
I thought most of us slashdotters were taking care of our home PCs... and mom's... and dad's... and grandma's...
...and girlfriends... Wait... Nevermind.
"for a lot of people Windows actually is the best choice."
I wonder, out of all the windows customers, how many actually "chose" windows over another option...
Imagine if McDonalds was the standard food in every restaurant, then your comparison would make any sense.
Well, im belgian, and this eID is actually a great advance for us, we will be able to fill out tax forms and other administrative forms, maybe vote and in the future us this eID as authentification for buying prescription drugs (yeah we get most of our medical costs paid for). It also solves a lot of problems between the different language communities we have around here, since a frenchman in flanders (where they speak dutch) could fill out his forms in french. This might seem a stupid problem but it has been a pretty huge on in belgium the last couple of years.
As for M$ using this to authenticate on their services? why not, as long as anyone can use our eID to guarantee some kind of secure log-in/transaction im 100% for it. I very much doubt Belium would let a foreign company take the monopoly of their eID market, im sure all they are trying to do is develop some kind of platform onto which outside companies could use our system.
Indeed this will mean that with time, you could make sure your Credit card could only be used by you (or anyone who stole your card, has an untracable card reader device AND has your 4 digit pin code). This of course makes online transactions much safer.
The only reason i see that Bill gates decided to integrate this to MSN messenger is because thats exactly the type of product that Billy loves (hence his introduction of similar cards in his company.)
So anyways, eID is great, that MS endorses it is not bad at all, as long as the procedure to endorse our future system will not be an MS product.
Well the ID card in belgium would be to allow online paperwork like taxes and maybe even voting, we've had normal ID cards for longer then ive lived and the idea behind this was to be able to identify yourself to authorities if necessary (not only cops but for banks, administrations, voting, etc..). Now my guess is that they talked to microsoft to find a way to secure these online transactions, quite frankly as long as its secure and works i don't care who writes the protocol.
Being belgian i can quite frankly say this I see this as a benefit, seeing how wonderfully brilliant our administrations are a little automation can only do us good.
Oh and it would solve a lot of communautary problems aswell, since as you probably know (ok you probably don't) about half of belgium speaks dutch , the other half speaks french (and we have a small german community). SO thats 3 official languages, and theres a lot of problems regarding people wanting to fill in forms in their native language while living in another region.
Oh and belgium has always been keen on electronic gadgets, we have for example a little electronic chip in our bank cards that act as cash, so we can fill them in any phone booth or ATM free of charge and use them in stores in much the same way as cash.
So anyways, this eID card is good news, and hopefully they'll extend it to the whole country as soon as possible.
Basically the Microsoft strategy goes like this:
- Enter Market
- Make loses on low priced products
- Kill competition because They cannot afford in long term to keep in business at current price.
- When Competition is killed stop development while instauring barriers.
- Stop development
- Profit repays "investement" of market dumping.
- Pure Profit.
Happened to Netscape, Happened to Word Perfect, tried with WMP, tried with XBoX. This is just typical figure manipulation.
So Microsoft just realised that competition gets the prices down? What they don't talk about is how their monopoly in other sectors does just the exact opposite. This is probably the most simple notion in economy, where theres competition, the prices go down and the innovation goes up. Microsoft is good for innovation? Explain to me why IE hasn't changed a bit since a couple of years then? I call bullshit on this one, what drives innovation is competition, not microsoft, but their anti-competitive approach to the market is not AT ALL a benefit to innovation and prices, because as soon as they have the market share that suits them (usually around 90%) they basically halt development while putting strategic barriers to possible rival entry by forcing their propriety standards onto the whole industry. The only reason the prices go down when microsoft enters a market is because they practice market dumping using their huge financial power. Basically the Microsoft strategy goes like this: - Enter Market - Make loses on low priced products - Kill competition because They cannot afford in long term to keep in business at current price. - When Competition is killed stop development while instauring barriers. - Stop development - Profit repays "investement" of market dumping. - Pure Profit. Happened to Netscape, Happened to Word Perfect, tried with WMP, tried with XBoX. This is just typical figure manipulation.
Well a margin of error would be caused by an inacuracy of the measurements, now i don't see how those measurements could be innacurate. But i guess if you want to be happy you can interpret those figures as being the growth rate of firefox for THOSE sites only. But as far as details i don't see how they could possibly give you more details about the study then which site they monitored. Personally i think those websites weren't at all badly chosen, i would however start wondering about the results if slashdot or msn.com were included in the monitored websites.
Solitaire! ;-P
Maybe they should turn a London Telephone booth in a cell phone next!
Im sorry but over the last couple of month i realised professors tend to speak more and more bullshit. You don't have to be rocket scientist to know that games overall are more appealing to kids, instead on focusing on this maybe they should try and develop more recreative ways of teaching, which in many cases are allready applied in schools. It seems recently professors are more devoted to bringing controversial statements/findings to the public rather then trying to find something usefull for the developpment of our society. Maybe I should ask a professor of my University to do a study on the useless study that professors undertake?
Now tht could solve the Social Security problem.
Not bad not bad, the most i brought back was in septembre, i brought back an iPod 40 gigs, and iPod Mini, a LaCie 160 GB external HD, an eMachines M6811 laptop, a Linksys Wireless G PCMIA card, a Fuji Camera and about a $1000 of Abercrombie and Fitch apparel. Oh yeah and 3 I LOVE NYC mugs ;-). Passed customs without a glitch.
well for the same HP catridge (the Number 28) you pay $21.99 in the USs p?product_code=294030&pfp=BROWSE)2 402ee51EB30NYV2AA0814&module=Products_Detail2&PIid =130&cat1=ACCE&cat2=INK&ModelName=Deskjet%203520)
(http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.a
while I pay 26.99 euros ($36.16) in Belgium
(http://www.exell.be/website_fr.lasso?sess=D5F6CE
So its a LOT more.
Yeah Regional coding is nothing but single-market protectionism, not only is it bad for the consumer but its bad for the whole economy's well-being overall. The reason this happens in the first place is the Oligopolly in which printer manufacturers evolve at the moment, they compete hardly when it comes to buying the printer then fuck us up when we need to put ink in them. As for the EU controlling that? How could they, they're not forcing the consumer to buy HP, hence the EU has no legal ground to counter-act these new measures. Funny that you mention price discrimination because that kind of business plan usually only appears in monopolies, where they can easily rip the consumer off to maximise their profits.
There seems to be a trend going on here, basically everything computer related is less expensive in the States then in Europe. No wonder everytime i go to the US i have to bring back 5 iPods, 3 wireless routers, 5 wifi PCMIA cards, 2 cameras and even DVD-RW's! Yes, DVD-RWs are hugely expensive here (at least in Belgium) because we have to pay a 0.49 euros tax on each and every single one of them! I love Europe and all, but why are our governements intentionnally restricting their citizens of technological advancement? I mean OK HP is playing a dirty trick here, but cartridges were ALWAYS much more expensive in Europe, this is nothing new and wont change a damn thing. It about time the european parliament stops worrying about wether or not to put the Catholic dogma in the constitution and start doing something constructive for the EU.
Hopefully they'll understand sometimes in this millenium that taxing Technology will only make us trail behind behind the US. They are so obsessed with debating on useless details over the constitution that they forgot what the EU was all about: CREATING A STRONG ECONOMIC UNION!
Phones get outdated much too quickly for the N-Gage to stay attractive long enough to create a market. Quite frankly ive never been interested in buying one, its big , unhandy and there are much cooler phones out there. Now the gameplay might not be bad, i never tried it so i wouldn't know, i think the problem was that there never was a market for such a gadget.
Well Actually, the Gendarmerie Nationale is the French counter-part of the FBI and the State troopers combined. And no they are not the Military police, since france has their own MP corp. The fact that they are part of the military is really just a historical tradition.
Even more troubling is that Philip Morris would be allowed to sell a product that proves to be harmfull in all cases but P2P developpers should be fined for making a product that can be harmfull if not employed lawfully? Well not that im surprised, but this shows to be nothing but another proof that laws aren't there to protect people but money... God Bless America!
9 pages? Ok, if all goes well i should be able to reply by tomorrow noon.
Till then...
They shud call it Sony P-SP2
;-)
Was Sony bought by Microsoft or Something?
wasn't it that mental capabilities mwere passed on by the X chromosome? Hence making the curve of intelligence flatter for men, hence it is more probable for a man to be a genious but aswell more probable for a man to be mentally retarded? I remember reading somewhere that since women had 2 X chromosomes it made them statistically more likely to be average. Anyone had any insight on this?