Dutch automobile association warns that end of 2G is also end of eCall and there isn't a replacement operational yet. I will say I told you so, because I told you so! :-) www.bnnvara.nl/kassa/artike...
And I take offense to the characterization that Dutch food is only bland or fried. Dutch cooking has come a long way. Dutch families use a variety of vegetables and spices for almost any meal. Go to an Albert Heijn and you will find enough meal packages with all the vegetables and spices
Psychotherapy sessions for individuals, groups, couples and parents and children should be built around the assembly of IKEA furniture..
John? Please tell me what you felt when Peter lacked the emotional maturity to deal with how you screwed BILLY... 😝
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Well still quite a few places do and GIA is making it easier too
I leave that discussion for Nicolas Guillaume formerly of Netalis, who does not seem to have an account here
This is a yearly reminder to the developed world that the USA doesn't even have pre-filled-in online filing of personal income taxes directly with the government
Wouldn't it be nice if you could say goodbye to TurboTax and file your taxes for free, online, and directly with the IRS?
I have a bill to get that done.
What we want is point to point fibre topology with XGS-PON optical layer.
Beer is always a good idea
So strictly speaking it is Deutsche Telekom who is now 45 years underway and still needs another 25 years to complete the Schmidt directive 😝 mind you, DT has many times stated that FTTH isn't necessary... Or before that the Internet was the wrong decision and we needed ISDN and intelligent networks
Well, a new thought I had while driving: Do I read it correctly that Schmidt directs the postal and telecom minister and therefore Deutsche Telekom to invest in fibre? The Schwarz-Schilling decision allows cable but doesn't seem to say anything that blocks Deutsche Telekom to invest in fibre
Just look up when the ITU did fibre standards in the G range, you will see that it took until well into the 90s to get anything that could be used for FTTH
Not in the eighties. ... Even adding empty ducts, like we did in NL in some projects (and Schwarz-Schilling suggested het maybe should have done) didn't deliver any real value, because years later the tubes turned out to be wrong, crunched (bad for fiber not copper) etc etc.
You're aware this is the foundation to promote most favorable image of Helmut Schmidt, regardless of the factual reality ?
You can blame Schwarz-Schilling probably for other things, but in Telecom the man made the right decision on cable. Without Germany would have been even further behind! The Schwarz-Schilling family can also take credit in GSM, netneutrality policy, IP interconnection and some other telecom stuff ;-)
I speak German. Deutsche Telekom called me an idiot when I said the NDIX would bring cheaper Internet to Germany in 2001. It got mad in 2006 when I said I was going to write this paper at the OECD and later when I worked there. The fibre of the 80s wasn't good enough. www.oecd.org/content/dam/...
It's a nice write-up, but it isn't fully correct on the (technical) details, the history nor the reality of other OECD countries. There is a wide variety of models to choose from and having a monopoly isn't always the best. The report below could be a follow up www.oecd.org/content/dam/...
Meanwhile France rolled out FTTH to almost all rural homes in a decade and has some of the highest FTTH penetration and uptake in the EU. French consumers can choose from multiple operators and pays as little as 30 euro for >1Gbps with 200tv channels and unlimited (international) calls.
The German wikipedia page on Schwarz Schilling paints him as the evil genius, but that is not supported by the reality of the technical facts, nor by this interview with him that it also cites. Mind you, he was instrumental in getting the GSM project going ;-) www.wiwo.de/politik/deut...
That Schwarz-Schilling was married to someone whose family had interest in a company making cables was a convenient way to create narrative. If you read the 1983 news articles in Der Spiegel it was more about media policy and not wanting commercial TV www.spiegel.de/politik/lang...
Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium and the USA had some of the highest cable penetrations in the world and none of them invested in fibre to the home in the eighties. There were no standards and no commercially available home optical equipment or enough single mode fibre available
That is fallacy that is popular in German left-wing literature, but isn't based in technological fact. There was no country in the world building fiber to the home or Hybrid fibre cable networks at that time. The socialists didn't want cable TV at all. @robin.berjon.com
In 1994 Twente University started its Campus network. Students got 10Mbps to each dorm room. The university newspaper of Delft wrote about it and wondered if it would be a success at all delta.tudelft.nl/article/inte...
The Dutch vote in a non-transparant wheelie bin. The result of the country suddenly abandoning voting computers in 2006. The group "we don't trust voting computers" showed that those voting computers couldn't be trusted. The wheelie bin was a quick fix.
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I regularly preside over a poll station in France (I did it twice during the latest municipal elections last month), where we have very strict laws to ensure elections are fair and transparent
It's wild to me that the ballot boxes are not transparent
Does Quantum Entanglement explain how God knows your thoughts? Whether you're religious or an atheist, the answer is always no. Would any European "news-y-ish" sites allow this as an opinion piece? www.foxnews.com/opinion/quan...
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I had 10Mbps ethernet in my dorm room at Twente University by end of 1994. The network was upgraded to switched 100Mbps ethernet in 1998. 😜