microsoft says they are the world expert in user interfaces and yet they are always going back to square zero as if they don't have a clue
Given how many Linux desktops ape one version of Windows desktop or another, even the light ones apeing Windows 95, I'd say Microsoft seems to have a point.
Indeed. GNOME has had this for roughly two geologic eras now. Good to see that Windows has finally come up to 2002 UI standards.;)
Start button leading to menu system, taskbar, system tray, remind me who released that first again? Oh that's right, Microsoft. Certainly wasn't Gnome as that project didn't even start until after Windows 98 was well into its second year.
Don't Linux distros already have tabs in their file explorers? Ah, but of course, Windows users aren't likely to know that, so i guess it's something new to them.
I'd keep quiet if I were you given how Linux desktops have copied the look and feel of Windows for decades complete with "start button", menu system, taskbar and system tray and doing things like showing live previews on taskbar active app icons.
Yeah, it's not like the UK does most of its trade with the EU...
You're right, we don't. 44% of our exports are to the EU and its a percentage that has been dropping for several years now. Once free of the EU and able to make our own trade deals that percentage of our exports that are to the EU are likely to fall even further.
They are 5th because mostly of the City and its banks. But has a bunch of big banks said they will move to Paris to stay in the European market, this hit could be really huge...
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No they didn't. They'll open satellite offices in say Paris or Frankfurt if they need EU passporting. 90% of business the City of London financial centre does is UK domestic markets and non-EU trade. There is actually a question as to whether you actually need to be in the EU to do Euro clearing given that Wall St does Euro transaction clearing.
One question I have is: At what point does global warming become so evident that there is no more argument as to whether it is occurring, and the argument becomes what do we do about it? I'm pretty sure we should already be there, but we aren't.
Harldy anyone disputes the fact there is global warming. The dispute is over how much of it we're causing and whether or not its actually abnormal given that in the history of the planet it has been far warmer many many times over the millennia. Then there's what we should do about it and given how almost every other month something new is being found out about our climate and what affects it I hardly think we're in a position to be deliberately messing about with it. Sure reduce/eliminate what we put in the air etc but when you start doing things like schemes to reflect the sun, artificially forcing rain etc then we may find we're doing more harm than good.
The manufacturer configures the maximum number of acceptable dead pixels in the software.
For a premium machine from a company like nintendo that number should be 0
Not for the price you're paying. LCDs come in different grades and a certain percentage of dead and stuck pixels is allowable without a panel being declared defective depending on its grading. The only LCD screens that come with a guarantee of zero dead/stuck pixels are ultra high end grade typically used in medical and critical applications and you'll pay several times the price you'd pay for a consumer grade panel.
http://www.magictouch.com/Lcd_...
Nobody in the US has ever been sued or charged for downloading. The media organizations have lied and called prosecuting a bittorrent uploader "a downloader" while prosecuting solely for the act of uploading. This is a deliberate lie to convince people that downloading is illegal, when it isn't. The proof of this is the fact that nobody ever has been prosecuted or persecuted solely for downloading.
How would someone upload on bittorrent if they've not downloaded first?
It's a good deal because the customer will have to buy another one after 3 or 4 years due to burn in or the blue wearing out. It's a great deal for the vendor.
(Continues to lament that we can't have both true black and a display technology that won't burn in or wear out quickly).
I had to check the date because that ceased to be an issue a couple of years ago. My LG OLED gets around 70-80hrs a week of use due to me working nights and the wife working days and its now almost 2 years old with no sign of burn in and the blue is still where it should be, maybe because I had my TV calibrated which resulted in blue being reduced by between 8% and 10% from 20 IRE to 100 IRE. It went from this to this after calibration.
For me to buy the several hundred films in the cultural canon on Bluray or DVD, it would take me years and so much money that I also wouldn't have anything left over for purchasing culturally important recordings or books. Torrent sites are just as important as Sci-Hub in bringing important information to the average person who doesn't enjoy a huge salary or well-stocked library.
No excuse. VPN and Netflix/Spotify. At least you're paying for it.
I drive a DAF CF Euro 6 with this fitted. It will slam the brakes on hard. Unfortunately it currently suffers from too many false positives, for example if there is a car stationary in a central reservation waiting to turn into a side road on the outside of a sharp bend the truck will decide you're going to hit it even though you're going round the bend and slam on the brakes.
Those who voted Remain have a vision of the big international banks in the City fleeing the nation, that is the image they were sold by Project Fear. The reality is that less than 10% of London City trading requires us to be in the EU. More than 90% of it is UK domestic and non-EU trade. EU passporting could be maintained merely by having a satellite office in Dublin with a couple of dozen staff.
The EU didn't impose a punishment on Apple, they imposed one on Ireland. The EU basically calculated what the tax bill should have been if all Irish corporate tax rules had been applied the same as they would to any other company in Ireland and told Ireland they had to charge Apple the difference.
For 25 years there wasn't a peep from the EU that Ireland's tax laws constituted illegal state aid. Then they change their interpretation--towards a single US company--and now they want that company to pay years of back-taxes.
There wasn't a peep because the tax rates were applied fairly to all companies. Apple then negotiated a special "Apple only" deal which applied only to them which the Irish were happy to do to have Apple's EU HQ in the country. That deal constituted being state aid of the type which is illegal in the EU for all member states.
These are pretty much the main reason piracy even exists: a simple lack of service issue.
What a load of crap. People do it because they can get stuff for free with little chance of being caught, plain and simple. If it was a lack of service issue then why is piracy of movies available on Netflix/Amazon still as rampant as ever? If it was about DRM why is piracy of stuff on iTunes etc which is DRM free still as rampant as ever? Stop trying to come up with ever more tenuous reasons as to why people do it and just be honest. Trying to claim that X million people pirated a track that is both available DRM free on iTunes or Spotify free "because of service issues" just makes you look retarded.
Given that you have to have physical access to the machine to do this then this being an exploit is the least of your worries and your security failed long before the keyboard was touched.
Not a problem in the rest of the first world and even places like Cuba because we're not scared of Social Healthcare. As such we can't be held to ransom using our children's medical care as a weapon.
When was the last time there was a mass bombing or mass violence in the UK?
The American funded IRA ran a 20 odd year bombing campaign in mainland Britain that only ended in the late 1990s. Then there were the 7/7 bombings in London on 7th July 2005 by Islamic Terrorists who blew up buses and tube trains..
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Gnome only started as a project FOUR YEARS after Microsoft released Windows 95 and Gnome desktops have been mimicking Windows desktops for decades.
You can. You've been able to forever. You don't actually use Excel do you?
microsoft says they are the world expert in user interfaces and yet they are always going back to square zero as if they don't have a clue
Given how many Linux desktops ape one version of Windows desktop or another, even the light ones apeing Windows 95, I'd say Microsoft seems to have a point.
Indeed. GNOME has had this for roughly two geologic eras now. Good to see that Windows has finally come up to 2002 UI standards. ;)
Start button leading to menu system, taskbar, system tray, remind me who released that first again? Oh that's right, Microsoft. Certainly wasn't Gnome as that project didn't even start until after Windows 98 was well into its second year.
Microsoft has done nothing first.
Really? Then why do most Linux desktops look like Windows?
Don't Linux distros already have tabs in their file explorers? Ah, but of course, Windows users aren't likely to know that, so i guess it's something new to them.
I'd keep quiet if I were you given how Linux desktops have copied the look and feel of Windows for decades complete with "start button", menu system, taskbar and system tray and doing things like showing live previews on taskbar active app icons.
When you say "work", do you mean "Gather up my information and sell it to the highest bidder?"
May I remind you of Ubuntu's less than honourable past? https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
Yeah, it's not like the UK does most of its trade with the EU...
You're right, we don't. 44% of our exports are to the EU and its a percentage that has been dropping for several years now. Once free of the EU and able to make our own trade deals that percentage of our exports that are to the EU are likely to fall even further.
They are 5th because mostly of the City and its banks. But has a bunch of big banks said they will move to Paris to stay in the European market, this hit could be really huge...
(posting anonymously to keep moderations)
No they didn't. They'll open satellite offices in say Paris or Frankfurt if they need EU passporting. 90% of business the City of London financial centre does is UK domestic markets and non-EU trade. There is actually a question as to whether you actually need to be in the EU to do Euro clearing given that Wall St does Euro transaction clearing.
One question I have is: At what point does global warming become so evident that there is no more argument as to whether it is occurring, and the argument becomes what do we do about it? I'm pretty sure we should already be there, but we aren't.
Harldy anyone disputes the fact there is global warming. The dispute is over how much of it we're causing and whether or not its actually abnormal given that in the history of the planet it has been far warmer many many times over the millennia. Then there's what we should do about it and given how almost every other month something new is being found out about our climate and what affects it I hardly think we're in a position to be deliberately messing about with it. Sure reduce/eliminate what we put in the air etc but when you start doing things like schemes to reflect the sun, artificially forcing rain etc then we may find we're doing more harm than good.
The manufacturer configures the maximum number of acceptable dead pixels in the software.
For a premium machine from a company like nintendo that number should be 0
Not for the price you're paying. LCDs come in different grades and a certain percentage of dead and stuck pixels is allowable without a panel being declared defective depending on its grading. The only LCD screens that come with a guarantee of zero dead/stuck pixels are ultra high end grade typically used in medical and critical applications and you'll pay several times the price you'd pay for a consumer grade panel. http://www.magictouch.com/Lcd_...
Nobody in the US has ever been sued or charged for downloading. The media organizations have lied and called prosecuting a bittorrent uploader "a downloader" while prosecuting solely for the act of uploading. This is a deliberate lie to convince people that downloading is illegal, when it isn't. The proof of this is the fact that nobody ever has been prosecuted or persecuted solely for downloading.
How would someone upload on bittorrent if they've not downloaded first?
It's a good deal because the customer will have to buy another one after 3 or 4 years due to burn in or the blue wearing out. It's a great deal for the vendor.
(Continues to lament that we can't have both true black and a display technology that won't burn in or wear out quickly).
I had to check the date because that ceased to be an issue a couple of years ago. My LG OLED gets around 70-80hrs a week of use due to me working nights and the wife working days and its now almost 2 years old with no sign of burn in and the blue is still where it should be, maybe because I had my TV calibrated which resulted in blue being reduced by between 8% and 10% from 20 IRE to 100 IRE. It went from this to this after calibration.
For me to buy the several hundred films in the cultural canon on Bluray or DVD, it would take me years and so much money that I also wouldn't have anything left over for purchasing culturally important recordings or books. Torrent sites are just as important as Sci-Hub in bringing important information to the average person who doesn't enjoy a huge salary or well-stocked library.
No excuse. VPN and Netflix/Spotify. At least you're paying for it.
I drive a DAF CF Euro 6 with this fitted. It will slam the brakes on hard. Unfortunately it currently suffers from too many false positives, for example if there is a car stationary in a central reservation waiting to turn into a side road on the outside of a sharp bend the truck will decide you're going to hit it even though you're going round the bend and slam on the brakes.
Those who voted Remain have a vision of the big international banks in the City fleeing the nation, that is the image they were sold by Project Fear. The reality is that less than 10% of London City trading requires us to be in the EU. More than 90% of it is UK domestic and non-EU trade. EU passporting could be maintained merely by having a satellite office in Dublin with a couple of dozen staff.
In the meantime the Dutch bank ING is actually moving staff INTO the City from Belgium in case Brexit stops it being able to trade in the UK.
The EU didn't impose a punishment on Apple, they imposed one on Ireland. The EU basically calculated what the tax bill should have been if all Irish corporate tax rules had been applied the same as they would to any other company in Ireland and told Ireland they had to charge Apple the difference.
For 25 years there wasn't a peep from the EU that Ireland's tax laws constituted illegal state aid. Then they change their interpretation--towards a single US company--and now they want that company to pay years of back-taxes.
There wasn't a peep because the tax rates were applied fairly to all companies. Apple then negotiated a special "Apple only" deal which applied only to them which the Irish were happy to do to have Apple's EU HQ in the country. That deal constituted being state aid of the type which is illegal in the EU for all member states.
...but can apparently predict the time it takes to charge to full. Just updated to 10.10.2 and it is showing the time taken to charge to full.
..you're only now 19 weeks behind Statutory Maternity Pay in the UK.
These are pretty much the main reason piracy even exists: a simple lack of service issue.
What a load of crap. People do it because they can get stuff for free with little chance of being caught, plain and simple. If it was a lack of service issue then why is piracy of movies available on Netflix/Amazon still as rampant as ever? If it was about DRM why is piracy of stuff on iTunes etc which is DRM free still as rampant as ever? Stop trying to come up with ever more tenuous reasons as to why people do it and just be honest. Trying to claim that X million people pirated a track that is both available DRM free on iTunes or Spotify free "because of service issues" just makes you look retarded.
Given that you have to have physical access to the machine to do this then this being an exploit is the least of your worries and your security failed long before the keyboard was touched.
My kids? MEDICAL!
Not a problem in the rest of the first world and even places like Cuba because we're not scared of Social Healthcare. As such we can't be held to ransom using our children's medical care as a weapon.
Don't run your OLED at full blast. It will burn in..
Is it 2013 again?
When was the last time there was a mass bombing or mass violence in the UK?
The American funded IRA ran a 20 odd year bombing campaign in mainland Britain that only ended in the late 1990s. Then there were the 7/7 bombings in London on 7th July 2005 by Islamic Terrorists who blew up buses and tube trains..