Surprising to me nobody suggested that one yet. It annoys the crap out of me every time I see our latest purchase from 2007. Optiplex computers together with shiny Ultrasharp displays. Connected analog because someone in purchasing forgot to add the PCI Riser Card together with the DVI Addin Card. His fault maybe but how comes DVI simply isn't standard? Make people pay for the adapter if they really want to screw their eyes by using a analog flatpanel display instead of one with dvi input.
-> http://www.dellideastorm.com/article/show/62483/DV I_incl_DVID_for__everything__please - Vote
Am I the only that notices a difference between analog and digital signal at 1280 * 1024?
I live in Germany, close to the swiss border. Spent some time in Austria too. For these three countries i can say that the price advertised is _the_ price you pay. No strings attached. No coupons. The only way coupons are used is that some businesses print coupons in newspaper as adverts for you to cut out and present at the register to recieve some bucks of instantly.
When i was in the states for six months during an internship i felt more and more lucky to be able to purchase electronics and hardware in germany for a real good price without any mail in rebates. Sending in and waiting for the coupon to be processed is one thing. Having to cash a check with a bank is another. I wonder when the U.S. will adopt the direct cash/debt thingie common in Europe. The HR guy at the company told me like it was a miracle that he could deposit my allowance directly into my current account. Woohooo! Thats the way i'm used to send and recieve money since i opened my account at age 14 here...
The most hilarious thing still was the online banking offered by my bank. You would log in, create a transfer to someone and what they would do is _print_ and _snail mail_ a check. Here you can depend on that a transfer between two accounts with the Euro as currency doesn't take longer than two days. The money disappears from one account and appears on the other. No paper involved.
msi is out for ages and communicated as _the_ way to install software on the windows platform. I see no reason as to why Firefox couldn't or shouldn't be distributed as msi package instead of the current.exe only installer builds.
I would need a script to build a german msi build. Other would need spanish etc etc etc. These 3rd party scripts are a start. Since Firefox ain't distributed as zip file anymore it even got harder to create a MSI own his own. Especially for localized builds.
at companies that run Windows clients. I wouldn't bother to install Firefox more of less by hand on hundreds of desktops myself. The Firefox guys should really get a MSI build ready for easy deployment _and_ update. Firefox is just not 100% enterprise ready like IE is with it's managabilty by group policies.
I wonder how many people check bbc.co.uk from their workplace. They might even have Firefox installed on their home computer.
This news is simply no news. Its a story entirely made up by the biggest german tabloid called Bild. Everyone in Germany with a little education knows that Bild lies in every second line. It's sad to see that even CNN and Reuters fall for stories made up by Bild. I have been in the States for six months and i do have to say that i was amused by the "news" being broadcasted first which soon shifted for me to feel sorry for you guys over there. Unfortunatly there seem too few people having a critical approach to what the news tell them and who inform themselves from really different sources.
This is a link to a german blog by journalists that monitor Bild covering the "cat-fuel" article: http://www.bildblog.de/?p=791 It's german, don't know if babelfish etc will be able to translate it properly.
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Surprising to me nobody suggested that one yet. It annoys the crap out of me every time I see our latest purchase from 2007. Optiplex computers together with shiny Ultrasharp displays. Connected analog because someone in purchasing forgot to add the PCI Riser Card together with the DVI Addin Card. His fault maybe but how comes DVI simply isn't standard? Make people pay for the adapter if they really want to screw their eyes by using a analog flatpanel display instead of one with dvi input. -> http://www.dellideastorm.com/article/show/62483/DV I_incl_DVID_for__everything__please - Vote
Am I the only that notices a difference between analog and digital signal at 1280 * 1024?
I live in Germany, close to the swiss border. Spent some time in Austria too. For these three countries i can say that the price advertised is _the_ price you pay. No strings attached. No coupons. The only way coupons are used is that some businesses print coupons in newspaper as adverts for you to cut out and present at the register to recieve some bucks of instantly.
When i was in the states for six months during an internship i felt more and more lucky to be able to purchase electronics and hardware in germany for a real good price without any mail in rebates. Sending in and waiting for the coupon to be processed is one thing. Having to cash a check with a bank is another. I wonder when the U.S. will adopt the direct cash/debt thingie common in Europe.
The HR guy at the company told me like it was a miracle that he could deposit my allowance directly into my current account. Woohooo! Thats the way i'm used to send and recieve money since i opened my account at age 14 here...
The most hilarious thing still was the online banking offered by my bank. You would log in, create a transfer to someone and what they would do is _print_ and _snail mail_ a check. Here you can depend on that a transfer between two accounts with the Euro as currency doesn't take longer than two days. The money disappears from one account and appears on the other. No paper involved.
msi is out for ages and communicated as _the_ way to install software on the windows platform. I see no reason as to why Firefox couldn't or shouldn't be distributed as msi package instead of the current .exe only installer builds.
Doesn't help me all since i need a localized version of Firefox.
I would need a script to build a german msi build. Other would need spanish etc etc etc. These 3rd party scripts are a start. Since Firefox ain't distributed as zip file anymore it even got harder to create a MSI own his own. Especially for localized builds.
at companies that run Windows clients. I wouldn't bother to install Firefox more of less by hand on hundreds of desktops myself. The Firefox guys should really get a MSI build ready for easy deployment _and_ update. Firefox is just not 100% enterprise ready like IE is with it's managabilty by group policies. I wonder how many people check bbc.co.uk from their workplace. They might even have Firefox installed on their home computer.
This news is simply no news. Its a story entirely made up by the biggest german tabloid called Bild. Everyone in Germany with a little education knows that Bild lies in every second line. It's sad to see that even CNN and Reuters fall for stories made up by Bild. I have been in the States for six months and i do have to say that i was amused by the "news" being broadcasted first which soon shifted for me to feel sorry for you guys over there. Unfortunatly there seem too few people having a critical approach to what the news tell them and who inform themselves from really different sources. This is a link to a german blog by journalists that monitor Bild covering the "cat-fuel" article: http://www.bildblog.de/?p=791 It's german, don't know if babelfish etc will be able to translate it properly.