Because that's how it's used throughout France and the other European countries I've been to.
Never ever saw a price written with € as a prefix.
The United Kingdom doesn't use Euro and English speakers are more familiar with the prefix usage ($ and £), that would be my guess why this English document is written that way..
Not negating their existence in general, but on the desktop side of things (original post) people running 10 years old computers (e.g. 386 and 486) must be a tiny tiny part of the overall computer park IMO.
I've got nothing against the Power architecture and am not a fanboy of the x86 familly but could you point out why let's say an Opteron platform would be inferior to a Power one? Thought the latter was a well designed one and it's been on the rise the last couple of years.
Microsoft joined the IBM Power PC bandwagon(?) with the Xbox360 and so far I haven't heard people complaining about BSOD or crappy performance. They may be able to pull one right every so often..
I'd rather say that x86 is around because it's now just a common ISA that is well known and that Intel and AMD have both swapped the internals for RISC a long time ago.
There is no absolute freedom, that is called anarchy. There must be rules in place to protect freedom for everyone.
No actually Anarchy doesn't mean no rules, it means a stateless society of free people.
You basically have/need rules everywhere unless you go back to the jungle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy
They didn't even bother asking that high, any official would have been good enough I guess.
I'm not a RMS fanboy, but frankly it's a deliberate "F*ck off" from the French government...
I would have to agree if he just walked there as such.
But as somebody already pointed out they'd written to the French minister's office 15 days beforehand that they didn't even bother to answer to.
When they showed there, they got told by an official that "the decision of not meeting with RMS had been maturely considered".
Then the problem may be that he was denied an appointment in the first place don't you think ?
For they are not just "someone" but 3 individuals quite involved into this DRM saga, thus having points and a petition to be discussed.
Bill Gates is received with all the honors by the President and RMS & Co can't even reach the prime minister or even some random official guy ?
yeah I know how it works and it's the same(ish) in the Euro zone. That's why we often end up with the same prices in $ and Euros even if Euro is stronger. Due to our VAT and sometimes import taxes too. At least true for most computer parts, and electronic in general I think. But then the price is converted from Euros to £, that would be a double rip-off otherwise..
I'm sure you'll find *plenty* of organizations that are in need of money to handle this kind of aid, if you just try to google for it..
This is just a new interesting attempt in another direction, if you don't support it feel free to contribute for something else.
I'd love to use some free software project that allows me to hear & see my friends regardless of their OS, that would be for the best.
But at the same time people have already at least a msn and a skype/yahoo/aol/talk account, can't see them opening another one just "for the geek" (aka me)..
Skype is widespread and close to have fully working clients on the big three Windows/Linux/OSX, maybe not the best but could it be good enough ?
Microsoft may have got their facts wrong in their Windows/Linux comparisons ?
OMG my world is so falling appart !
Sun seems less bright, my coke doesn't taste like it used to, I have suddenly lost interest in the opposite sex... Please give me something else to beleive in !
Are there still many websites that requires a IE around ?
Whichever browser I use I always make it behave not like IE and it's been a while since I've got any trouble...
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Oh well then it's down to the language's conventions, so € written in English as a prefix is alright. Fair enough mate.
:-p
ps: on a side note we all know that the right way of writting one and a half is 1,5 enough with that silly '.'
Because that's how it's used throughout France and the other European countries I've been to.
Never ever saw a price written with € as a prefix.
The United Kingdom doesn't use Euro and English speakers are more familiar with the prefix usage ($ and £), that would be my guess why this English document is written that way..
Well technically it should be 497M€ and 280M€.
For the Euro sign is a suffix not a prefix like $ or £..
Not negating their existence in general, but on the desktop side of things (original post) people running 10 years old computers (e.g. 386 and 486) must be a tiny tiny part of the overall computer park IMO.
Rhaa.. one should read "thought the FORMER" (i.e. Opteron) and not the latter! Need to wake up.. badly.
I've got nothing against the Power architecture and am not a fanboy of the x86 familly but could you point out why let's say an Opteron platform would be inferior to a Power one? Thought the latter was a well designed one and it's been on the rise the last couple of years.
Microsoft joined the IBM Power PC bandwagon(?) with the Xbox360 and so far I haven't heard people complaining about BSOD or crappy performance. They may be able to pull one right every so often..
I'd rather say that x86 is around because it's now just a common ISA that is well known and that Intel and AMD have both swapped the internals for RISC a long time ago.
You basically have/need rules everywhere unless you go back to the jungle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy
big difference coconut-wise mate !
The head of state would be Jacques Chirac http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_France.
They didn't even bother asking that high, any official would have been good enough I guess.
I'm not a RMS fanboy, but frankly it's a deliberate "F*ck off" from the French government...
I would have to agree if he just walked there as such.
But as somebody already pointed out they'd written to the French minister's office 15 days beforehand that they didn't even bother to answer to.
When they showed there, they got told by an official that "the decision of not meeting with RMS had been maturely considered".
Right channels issue ? Don't think so..
Then the problem may be that he was denied an appointment in the first place don't you think ?
For they are not just "someone" but 3 individuals quite involved into this DRM saga, thus having points and a petition to be discussed.
Bill Gates is received with all the honors by the President and RMS & Co can't even reach the prime minister or even some random official guy ?
yeah I know how it works and it's the same(ish) in the Euro zone.
That's why we often end up with the same prices in $ and Euros even if Euro is stronger. Due to our VAT and sometimes import taxes too. At least true for most computer parts, and electronic in general I think.
But then the price is converted from Euros to £, that would be a double rip-off otherwise..
Well I'm not saying it never happens but the usual rule is $ =
Random MacBook : $1,099 | 1.099 Eur | £749
Nintendo DS : $149 | 130 Eur | £98
Not that much of a fact, it's more likely to be (as usual) :
$x = x Euros (incl. taxes) and then you convert to £.
$x = £x would be a massive rip-off!
I'm sure you'll find *plenty* of organizations that are in need of money to handle this kind of aid, if you just try to google for it..
This is just a new interesting attempt in another direction, if you don't support it feel free to contribute for something else.
Don't get me wrong I'm no Skype fanboy.
I'd love to use some free software project that allows me to hear & see my friends regardless of their OS, that would be for the best.
But at the same time people have already at least a msn and a skype/yahoo/aol/talk account, can't see them opening another one just "for the geek" (aka me)..
Skype is widespread and close to have fully working clients on the big three Windows/Linux/OSX, maybe not the best but could it be good enough ?
A multi-platform Video Skype and you got yourself something way cooler than Msn nor Yahoo Messenger largest user base or not.
Real Men don't use comments...
Errr I wasn't Trolling, that was supposed to be funny...
(I haven't really lost interest in the opposite sex either BTW)
Microsoft may have got their facts wrong in their Windows/Linux comparisons ?
OMG my world is so falling appart !
Sun seems less bright, my coke doesn't taste like it used to, I have suddenly lost interest in the opposite sex...
Please give me something else to beleive in !
I've always dreamed to have cool Robots buddies, and now AIM is bringing it to me on a golden plate !!
I for one welcome our new robots overlords
Don't know if you've tried to browse more than 5 minutes with the PSP but it's kind of a pain in the ass...
Are there still many websites that requires a IE around ?
Whichever browser I use I always make it behave not like IE and it's been a while since I've got any trouble...
Is Opera UA still stuck on IE by default ?
Would be nice to be able to monitor Opera market share, especialy since it got Free (as in Beer)...
You have to pay attention son, they just said it was over 'coz OpenStep won :)