wijnands - Slashdot User

Comment grab 'm where it hurts (Score 0) 341

by wijnands on Monday December 17, 2012 @02:15AM (#42311669) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Collect Payments From a Multinational Company?

Sue locally. Get a court order that allows you to impound computer/laptop power cables and coffeemachines. Hire a couple of bailiffs and pay a visit. Alternatively, buy a few share (a dozen should be affordable enough). Speak at the next shareholders meeting

Comment No oracle unless! (Score 2, Insightful) 84

by wijnands on Saturday December 15, 2012 @03:06AM (#42299431) Attached to: Official Doc Reveals Oracle's Cloud Rules

I'm an infrastructure architect. My rule is no oracle unless you can prove to me you really need it and there's no alternative. Oracle always tries to screw you over with their licensing and their pricing.

Comment Re:I'm not British (Score 0) 160

by wijnands on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @05:11AM (#41749751) Attached to: BBC Turns Off CEEFAX Service After 38 Years

So true! It helped me a lot when learning English. Fond memories. Ceefax was glacially slow over here on Dutch cable though, like accessing a BBS with a 1200/75 modem

Comment local tv storage? (Score 0) 687

by wijnands on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @11:27AM (#41607991) Attached to: A Day in Your Life, Fifteen Years From Now

Local storage of a TV episode? The US running on metric? People working in an actual office? Yeah right! In 15 years time there won't be much real offices more, rather dynamically picked meeting offices for ad-hoc work.

Comment Re:mileage (Score 0) 402

by wijnands on Monday October 08, 2012 @03:15PM (#41589145) Attached to: Gas Prices Jump; California Hardest Hit

Well, it's your choice!

Comment mileage (Score 0) 402

by wijnands on Saturday October 06, 2012 @04:16PM (#41570889) Attached to: Gas Prices Jump; California Hardest Hit

Well we do pay about $10 per gallon here but on the other hand 33miles per gallon is pretty normal for a European car. I drive a relatively old car with a horribly inefficient engine which only gets me 26 mpg.

Submission + - Dutch ProjectX derails (google.com)

Submitted by wijnands on Sunday September 23, 2012 @05:18AM

wijnands writes: After a girl's sweet 16 party went to more than 20000 people the Authorities in the small Dutch town Haren responded in a bit of a haphazerd manner. Rumours of an alternative party proved to be wrong. Calls went out via all the media not to come to the town.

A DJ for one of the biggest station called for people to come to Haren and now twitters it was "unwise" to have done so.

Result, a largely destroyed town with most shops either looted or damaged. Millions in property damages and, so far, 25 people arrested.

Comment Also live in Holland (Score 0) 374

by wijnands on Thursday September 06, 2012 @04:40PM (#41253295) Attached to: Dutch Police Ask 8000+ Citizens To Provide Their DNA

People shrug it of where I live.

Comment loss of freedom how? (Score -1) 374

by wijnands on Thursday September 06, 2012 @02:48PM (#41251735) Attached to: Dutch Police Ask 8000+ Citizens To Provide Their DNA

Being asked to supply a sample is a loss of freedom how? American legal rights... like shooting each other, suing each other silly. Enjoying a legal system where the law is whatever you pay a politican to make it?

Comment Superbowl? (Score 1) 368

by wijnands on Friday May 11, 2012 @10:37AM (#39966795) Attached to: The Dutch Repair Cafe Versus the Throwaway Society

Isn't that the same thing?

Comment High, for americans perhaps (Score 1) 288

by wijnands on Friday May 23, 2008 @08:07AM (#23515808) Attached to: Big Rigs Go High Tech

I always have to laugh when I see american trucks. They try so hard to stay a decade behind the rest of the world. They are failing though, that adaptive cruise control and lane change detection are fairly new.

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