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Comment pretty close to cashless over here (Score 1) 753

The last number I saw published here in Norway said that cash only accounted for about 5% of the daily transaction volume, debit cards are used in 80% of purchases. Published statistics also say that cash is more expensive to handle than electronic transactions.

I can't remember using cash a single time during the last few months.

Comment Norway (Score 1) 386

Here in Norway, the company you work for pays your taxes for you based on a personal tax card. The personal tax-card is distributed electronically from the government to every citizen based on last years income.

When we get our tax return forms, all debts, interests, banksavings, stocks and property is already filled out. Most people only have to make small changes.

Everything you need to change in the forms, are available online.

If you own taxes or you've paid too much through the year, the final balace must be cleared by june.

Seems like the system you guys got over the pond is vastly overcomplicated.

Mozilla

Firefox OS 1.1 Released, Mozilla Prepares For 2nd Round of Device Launches 76

SmartAboutThings writes "Mozilla has officially introduced the first update to its mobile Firefox OS. The very first update to Firefox OS adds some important new features, performance improvements and additional language support. Some of the most important changes include MMS support, Push Notifications API, Contact Management enhancements, Firefox browser downloads, Keyboard improvements and much more. In a separate announcement, Mozilla also said that new launches of Firefox OS smartphones will begin soon with more devices and in more markets around the world."

Comment Re:"They were bound to fail" (Score 1) 375

agreed.

While I think that giving out tablets for school use seems like a daft idea, this is the best possible result. Lots of kids doing their own research into how they can make a device suit their needs.

Might even se some kids learning programming as well... The one item that had the most influence on my careerchoice was probably my HP48 that I spent a great deal of time programming and generally tinkering with.

Comment Re:N900 forever (Score 1) 207

Ditto.

I have two working N900s and one nonworking for spare parts. Not going to swap it out before something better hits the market, if something better comes to market that is.

With the CSSU and some overclocking, it is not _that_ slow compared to other phones/tablets

Comment phase 1 trials (Score 1) 185

Several companies are starting their phase 3 trials about now. I've invested in one of them. If they are successfull I'll retire, but I mostly invested just to make sure someone is working on it.

It takes time to move from "killing viruses in a jar" to actually making something that removes the viruses from people without killing them at the same time.

Comment Didn't even know it started (Score 1) 443

I didn't even know that the show had started up again, before I noticed a new episode automatically downloaded from a RSS feed.

I have access to the show through my cable subscription, but I rarely use my tv for watching stuff. Afterall my computer has a 30" screen, surround speakers and a darker room. I sometimes use my PVR to record stuff from tv, but I rarely turn it on to watch whatever I've recorded.

When you have practically unlimited storage space at home, you sort of like to keep whatever you download as well, just in the rare chance you'll ever want to see it again (or share it with someone).

Torrents are much better than streaming, and the selection of things to watch is MUCH greater than any online service I've found. It's not about the money for me, much more so about the convenience.

Comment Re:ASDFnz is a liar (Score 2) 334

2 moths ago, price was 240. Now it's 120. That's half the size it used to be. I think the trouble is you have trouble seeing the screen with your head up your ass. Enjoy your nerdcoins.

2 months ago bitcoin was at 46, now it is 118 :)

The was a sharp in this period, but overall it has been growing steadily so far.

Comment Re:"35mm DSLR" (Score 1) 316

Now you have a Full Frame camera, you should do all your shooting in RAW mode. Memory is cheap and you can always scale downward with Photoshop at home.

If you have a fullframe dslr and don't already shoot in raw, your pictures probably isn't worth shooting in raw anyways..

Comment Re:Damn Microsoft (Score 1) 176

I forgot, was the the camera where the ads used "simulated images" or something? It was so good that they dare not show it on TV?

If you knew anything whatsover about cameras, you'd notice that Nokia wasn't the first (or last) company to use professional cameras instead of the crappychips in cellphones for their advertising.

Comment Re:Anyone actually does this? (Score 1) 348

If you can retrieve whatever is on them, they are not broken!

Yawn.. please try to keep a disk with a bad motor. You might get it to spin up, you'll get your data - but the disk is still broken.

Looking at one of the shelves here in my home office, I spot 3x1tb, 4x500gb and 2x3tb disks that I can pop in if something breaks. The 3tb disks are spares for my FS.

I'm using the 1tb disks for backups(3x3x1tb) and haven't thrown out the 500gb ones as I don't think they're quite old enough for the trash just yet.

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