Disclaimer: I live in Hackney (East London), and this is happening up the road from me right now.
Whilst I understand your reasoning, the line in this case is quite blurred: there are people in Tottenham who have been lucky to escape with their lives from burning buildings, because arsonists have torched shop premises on the ground floor. There is a specific and harrowing case of a (now cruelly destroyed by fire) 1930s building housing a branch of "Carpet-Rite". In interview, a tearful woman describes narrowly escaping with her life whilst seeing upon egress laughing looters removing rugs and carpets from the premise.
London has a historical propensity to combust (read Peter Ackroyd on this subject); if the current activity continues, it is highly likely that someone will be killed in a fire, which will make your thinking non-academic.
Indeed, reportedly a third of young people have Blackberry here.
It makes sense: BBM is the killer app for them, they don't even necessarily use the email functionality.
It offers the functionality of SMS, but free (from their POV) and allows multi-recipient.
This might deserve its 'insightful' tag, if you'd pointed out that Jobs stole 90% of his ideas for MacOS from his visits to Xerox. Apple, like MS, have remarkably few original ideas.
> The uncontrolled environment in Windows is why PCs suck, and Linux offers little to help in that regard.
Sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but I think you fundamentally misunderstand the relationship between an operating system and the hardware upon which it runs. This is a common symptom of advanced cases of Mac-fandom. If you can't use GNU/Linux to create a "controlled environment", then why are such a plethora of embedded devices such as telephones, or kiosk applications using it? It's not an off-the-shelf shrink-wrapped desktop operating system so don't compare it as such.
As for your criticisms of Windows (of which I have millions of my own), they can mostly be levelled at MacOS also. Apple is an insidious purveyor of DRM technologies, they do next to nothing to allow interoperability with open-source projects, and the notion that Apple software is somehow more "resilient" to spyware is frankly laughable.
> They also have no taste and deliver third rate products
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Disclaimer: I live in Hackney (East London), and this is happening up the road from me right now. Whilst I understand your reasoning, the line in this case is quite blurred: there are people in Tottenham who have been lucky to escape with their lives from burning buildings, because arsonists have torched shop premises on the ground floor. There is a specific and harrowing case of a (now cruelly destroyed by fire) 1930s building housing a branch of "Carpet-Rite". In interview, a tearful woman describes narrowly escaping with her life whilst seeing upon egress laughing looters removing rugs and carpets from the premise. London has a historical propensity to combust (read Peter Ackroyd on this subject); if the current activity continues, it is highly likely that someone will be killed in a fire, which will make your thinking non-academic.
Indeed, reportedly a third of young people have Blackberry here. It makes sense: BBM is the killer app for them, they don't even necessarily use the email functionality. It offers the functionality of SMS, but free (from their POV) and allows multi-recipient.
At the bottom, it suggests that "terabytes a second" is denoted by "tbps".
Surely "TB/s" would be terabytes, but they in fact meant terabits?
Then again, it's from The Guardian, this is par for the cause.
> Microsoft ripped off the Mac system software
This might deserve its 'insightful' tag, if you'd pointed out that Jobs stole 90% of his ideas for MacOS from his visits to Xerox. Apple, like MS, have remarkably few original ideas.
> The uncontrolled environment in Windows is why PCs suck, and Linux offers little to help in that regard.
Sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but I think you fundamentally misunderstand the relationship between an operating system and the hardware upon which it runs. This is a common symptom of advanced cases of Mac-fandom. If you can't use GNU/Linux to create a "controlled environment", then why are such a plethora of embedded devices such as telephones, or kiosk applications using it? It's not an off-the-shelf shrink-wrapped desktop operating system so don't compare it as such.
As for your criticisms of Windows (of which I have millions of my own), they can mostly be levelled at MacOS also. Apple is an insidious purveyor of DRM technologies, they do next to nothing to allow interoperability with open-source projects, and the notion that Apple software is somehow more "resilient" to spyware is frankly laughable.
> They also have no taste and deliver third rate products
Yes, well quoted, you get a Gold Star from Steve.