Except these are the people now most likely to survive...
Child born with debilitating condition, to a poor family might survive, but will never get a good job and is unlikely to have children
Child born with debilitating condition, to a rich family will most likely survive, and will have every opportunity to live a normal life, with wife kids etc...
Search.... Why does everyone use Google, pretty logo, Adwords, no it's simply that it finds the information you want most of the time whereas the others don't
Microsoft had their search on every homepage but you had to make a conscious decision to go to Google and they still won, they were simply a better search engine (and in many respects still are)
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Legal arguments, and the law is all about interpretation, nothing is fixed and everything is always open to re-interpretation at a later date
This is like having code that changes what it does depending on what certain people think it should do currently....this is not hackable..
Or conversely it is what lawyers get paid the big bucks to do all day every day...
Professional, or any amateur who shows a professional level of skill
Many of the people who contributed to the Linux Kernel in the early days went on to be professionals, or were professionals at the time, some had a "professional level of skill" some were still learning...
You seem to be saying that they were all of an amateur skill level, except the ones who weren't which seems to be most of them?
Amateurs like Theodore Ts'o, who was an unemployed graduate when he started contributing... and used his work on the Kernel and Linux to get jobs in several major companies...
...actually the Watford Gap, about 50 miles north of Watford the Town, although even that is pushing it for most people who work in London, to them many parts of Outer London are in "the North"!
The new UK, should be the home counties, the Square mile, and docklands... and the the rest of the country would be southern Scotland...
"The problem", is the difference between flying out if the solar system forever, and flying out of the solar system forever at a very slightly slower speed...
Base Distros all mostly work to one standard Desktop Environments are actually similar from the users point of view (as is evidenced by KDE themes for Gnome and vice versa) Window Managers there are quite a few but most are actually quite similar Desktop Environments include a Window Manager (so several of these are repeats) Package managers all work in much the same way now Browsers are mostly available for Windows as well and are again mostly very similar to each other
Windows: Changes the window Manager, Desktop Environment, Browser, Package manager (what there is of one), etc every new version that comes out...But calls it the same name, and yes people do complain and are ignored...
DE's are nice but some people do not use them at all, you don't need one, In Widows it is all or nothing...
Finance : that would be an investment company Marketing : that would be a marketing/PR company Connections in the industry : that would be a specialist PR company
But you can't mix and match it's all or nothing, their studio, their sound engineer, their session musicians, etc... all of which you pay for at the price they want you to pay...
Besides the financing of new bands they do very little that could not be done by separate companies (most PR)...
...I like all the notices on these "for distribution with a new PC only" I did say 'legitimately' these are breaking the licence agreement before I even open it,..
1 : the crimes were reported, as fraud, identity theft, etc... just not categorised as Cyber Crime...
2: People do more on-line now and so the crime that does happen costs them real money, not just inconvenience and so gets reported
Vista was rubbish at security, Microsoft finally woke up to the don't run as root model, then implemented it in a very visible way that annoyed the user into not reading the prompts... so they accepted everything (including the scumware..)
Win7 seems to have implemented it in the right way, ask when it's important, once, so it's unusual to see a prompt and so people actually read it...
Please go out and buy a copy of Windows 95 or 2000 (or in a couple of years time XP).... oh you can't - But I can download and use legitimately a very old version of Linux
I know these will all be insecure but in some cases I just don't care (they will not be connected to the internet) and I have no choice the hardware will not run a later version...
XP is very often used on POS devices (I know from the reboot screens) and many of these are unlikely to be able to be upgraded, what do you suggest people do with these? (I suspect the answer is they will just keep running it until the hardware dies)
Also XP (or at least the core of it) is what the XBOX runs... perhaps people should upgrade these as well?
Printers Scanners and Webcams, are the prime examples of hardware that only ever had Windows drivers, and the manufacturer never even released the driver for later or earlier windows versions....try getting a driver for one of these for a version of Windows that came out after the device and you will have the same issue...no driver and no support from the manufacturer...
Microsoft - a Multinational company based in the USA Google - who wholly owns Motorola - a Multinational company based in the USA
These are not strictly speaking American companies, they are multinationals with offices in many countries, which is why there is a lawsuit in Germany at all...
We 'hate' the USA mainly because of your government, and partly because of your more vocal (and mad sounding) media types, it is difficult to see the picture we get of the USA's foreign policy from within the US, in that same way that I suspect I have a very biased picture of the UK's foreign relations
The people are an entirely different matter, the majority I have met have been lovely people (with the usual small number of exceptions)
Don't worry it is the same the world over, and has very little to do with the US people....
I agree that it was mainly the USA's arms and materiel production that tipped the balance in both wars especially WWII....
China are very good at dealing with Terrorists and drugs....So
Spies : Quite good at this but who isn't...? Communists - Well even they don't think they are, (They are a international socialist state, working toward true communism.... or maybe not)
Free textbooks are the norm in Europe, we have a strange system where textbooks that are mass printed for education are cheaper than regular textbooks, and educational systems negotiate a discount and get it...
Unlike the Free Market system in the USA where the manufacturers make specific books for Education, unsuited to the requirements of the curriculum, massively overcharge for them, and make sure they change from year to year so new ones have to be purchased...
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Except these are the people now most likely to survive ...
Child born with debilitating condition, to a poor family might survive, but will never get a good job and is unlikely to have children
Child born with debilitating condition, to a rich family will most likely survive, and will have every opportunity to live a normal life, with wife kids etc ...
The rich are less likely to evolve ...
Siri gets the result from Wolfram Alpha, This is built in
Google does not have this, but note the top answers are not people looking how to do this, but an article on how cool this is ...
i.e. people are not asking how do I do this, journalists (PR driven) are saying "aint this cool" ...
Encryption keys were lost ...
..One point if the GPLv2 does not cover US Patents in Europe but it does cover US Patents in the US ... what is the problem?
US Software patents are covered in the US - but implicitly granted
US Software patents are meaningless in Europe
Europe does not have Software Patents ...
So this is about Copyright and not Patents ...and nothing was copied?
Search .... Why does everyone use Google, pretty logo, Adwords, no it's simply that it finds the information you want most of the time whereas the others don't
Microsoft had their search on every homepage but you had to make a conscious decision to go to Google and they still won, they were simply a better search engine (and in many respects still are)
Legal arguments, and the law is all about interpretation, nothing is fixed and everything is always open to re-interpretation at a later date
This is like having code that changes what it does depending on what certain people think it should do currently ....this is not hackable ..
Or conversely it is what lawyers get paid the big bucks to do all day every day ...
Professional, or any amateur who shows a professional level of skill
Many of the people who contributed to the Linux Kernel in the early days went on to be professionals, or were professionals at the time, some had a "professional level of skill" some were still learning...
You seem to be saying that they were all of an amateur skill level, except the ones who weren't which seems to be most of them?
Amateurs like Theodore Ts'o, who was an unemployed graduate when he started contributing ... and used his work on the Kernel and Linux to get jobs in several major companies ...
...actually the Watford Gap, about 50 miles north of Watford the Town, although even that is pushing it for most people who work in London, to them many parts of Outer London are in "the North"!
The new UK, should be the home counties, the Square mile, and docklands ... and the the rest of the country would be southern Scotland ...
"The problem", is the difference between flying out if the solar system forever, and flying out of the solar system forever at a very slightly slower speed ...
We do get it on the BBC, there is a "Red button" text service with all the same information as was provided by Ceefax ....
But,
Base Distros all mostly work to one standard
Desktop Environments are actually similar from the users point of view (as is evidenced by KDE themes for Gnome and vice versa)
Window Managers there are quite a few but most are actually quite similar
Desktop Environments include a Window Manager (so several of these are repeats)
Package managers all work in much the same way now
Browsers are mostly available for Windows as well and are again mostly very similar to each other
Windows: Changes the window Manager, Desktop Environment, Browser, Package manager (what there is of one), etc every new version that comes out ...But calls it the same name, and yes people do complain and are ignored ...
DE's are nice but some people do not use them at all, you don't need one, In Widows it is all or nothing...
Finance : that would be an investment company
Marketing : that would be a marketing/PR company
Connections in the industry : that would be a specialist PR company
But you can't mix and match it's all or nothing, their studio, their sound engineer, their session musicians, etc ... all of which you pay for at the price they want you to pay ...
Besides the financing of new bands they do very little that could not be done by separate companies (most PR) ...
...I like all the notices on these "for distribution with a new PC only" I did say 'legitimately' these are breaking the licence agreement before I even open it,..
Two issues:
1 : the crimes were reported, as fraud, identity theft, etc ... just not categorised as Cyber Crime ...
2: People do more on-line now and so the crime that does happen costs them real money, not just inconvenience and so gets reported
Vista was rubbish at security, Microsoft finally woke up to the don't run as root model, then implemented it in a very visible way that annoyed the user into not reading the prompts ... so they accepted everything (including the scumware..)
Win7 seems to have implemented it in the right way, ask when it's important, once, so it's unusual to see a prompt and so people actually read it ...
Please go out and buy a copy of Windows 95 or 2000 (or in a couple of years time XP) .... oh you can't - But I can download and use legitimately a very old version of Linux
I know these will all be insecure but in some cases I just don't care (they will not be connected to the internet) and I have no choice the hardware will not run a later version...
XP is very often used on POS devices (I know from the reboot screens) and many of these are unlikely to be able to be upgraded, what do you suggest people do with these? (I suspect the answer is they will just keep running it until the hardware dies)
Also XP (or at least the core of it) is what the XBOX runs ... perhaps people should upgrade these as well?
Printers Scanners and Webcams, are the prime examples of hardware that only ever had Windows drivers, and the manufacturer never even released the driver for later or earlier windows versions ....try getting a driver for one of these for a version of Windows that came out after the device and you will have the same issue ...no driver and no support from the manufacturer ...
Microsoft - a Multinational company based in the USA
Google - who wholly owns Motorola - a Multinational company based in the USA
These are not strictly speaking American companies, they are multinationals with offices in many countries, which is why there is a lawsuit in Germany at all ...
We 'hate' the USA mainly because of your government, and partly because of your more vocal (and mad sounding) media types, it is difficult to see the picture we get of the USA's foreign policy from within the US, in that same way that I suspect I have a very biased picture of the UK's foreign relations
The people are an entirely different matter, the majority I have met have been lovely people (with the usual small number of exceptions)
Don't worry it is the same the world over, and has very little to do with the US people....
I agree that it was mainly the USA's arms and materiel production that tipped the balance in both wars especially WWII....
1) XP SP3 is only 6 years old...anyone on older version stopped doing automatic updates
2) I can still get older versions on Linux, and more older hardware is still supported by Linux than windows ever supported
3) Win 7 supports far less hardware than any version of Linux, and does not support most "legacy" hardware and a lot of software....
XP may be old but if it is what people still want it does not reflect very well on newer offerings ...
China are very good at dealing with Terrorists and drugs....So
Spies : Quite good at this but who isn't ...? .... or maybe not)
Communists - Well even they don't think they are, (They are a international socialist state, working toward true communism
The simple facts:
China has more people than the USA
China has more raw materiel than the USA
China has more money than the USA
China has more academics than the USA
This is a no win situation, unless you are China
If I were Monsanto I would make sure that the one thing it could not replicate was itself ... and didnt they actually do that?
I thought Monsanto seed was modified so that the plant was not fertile, and so forcing people to buy more seed ..?
Free textbooks are the norm in Europe, we have a strange system where textbooks that are mass printed for education are cheaper than regular textbooks, and educational systems negotiate a discount and get it ...
Unlike the Free Market system in the USA where the manufacturers make specific books for Education, unsuited to the requirements of the curriculum, massively overcharge for them, and make sure they change from year to year so new ones have to be purchased ...
Most Londoners would like to join the new country of Southern Scotland as well please ...they didn't vote for the current Government ...
In the UK they release census data after 1000 years ... we have recently got the 1911 census (we have them every 10 years but started in 1841)
Is this a reflection of expected lifespans in the US and UK ?