The mid-west is really the only barren area. The rest of the US is more densely populated or close enough to Europe rather this imaginary stereotype where everyone in Europe lives beside everyone else and everyone in the US is 50+ miles away from the nearest person.
According to these images, the US, aside from the mid-west, is pretty close to Europe with a lot of areas exceeding Europe yet no doubt falling behind in broadband penetration.
Take Sweden. The article claims they have 96% per cent broadband penetration. The density of most of Sweden, at best is 24 people per square mile. But for the sake of argument we'll take the highest possible number and assume that applies to the whole country. That gives it 129 people per square mile.
I'll compare that then to Pennsylvania, since I've lived most of my life there. Most of the state ranges from 100 to 7000 people per square mile. Over all there are definitely more people than Sweden per square mile and quite often, from my experience, broadband is a joke in PA.
Pennsylvania apparently has 52.5% broadband penetration and apparently only 35% customer satisfaction. That's awful.
In fact, New Jersey is the only state that comes close to Sweden's stats with NJ having 80.2% broadband penetration.
Yes, the mid-west is sparse and not densely populated but using them as an excuse as to why the rest of the US has piss poor broadband standards is laughable. The New England area, with the exception of Maine, is on par if not more densely populated than most of Europe. Funnily enough, Maine is beating the much more populated Pennsylvania. Which throws the argument that density makes a difference.
People need to quit drinking the corporations' Kool-Aid and realise they're being screwed on pretty much every single new technology like broadband and mobile phones. It's no coincidence these things aren't covered by the Communications Act and people are getting bent over on them.
Europe still has rural areas even to the point of only a handful of people living in an area for miles. For instance just because a place, like London, is severely crowded doesn't mean the rest of the UK is.
Europe generally looks after its people better when it comes to things, like broadband or healthcare. The US managed to roll phones out to virtually everyone. I know people who can get a phone line but can't even get decent plumbing (relying on gravity bringing it off the mountain) and the reason is because the government stepped in and made it happen knowing how important it is for everyone to be able to communicate. The internet is replacing everything from most mail, phone communication, telegraphs and anything esle the 1934 communication act would have considered necessary. So the act needs to be updated to include broadband.
So California is smaller than Sweden and a higher population and California has approximately 96% broadband penetration and they're improving where as the US as a whole is lagging.
The problem is the government needs to do the same thing they did with phones and the Communications act of 1934 which basically made companies roll out phones lines to everyone. Companies may eventually do it on their own time but at a snails pace.
When you're making society more and more reliant on the internet you can sit there and say it's impossible to give everyone broadband when we've rolled out phone lines to everyone with less technology and likely less efficiency.
If you're happy with the US falling behind then stay on course. Otherwise you need to do something about it.
The global mail article cherry picked stats to suit their needs. Like pointing out Canada's 70% penetration rate yet conveniently leaving out the US stats. We already know Canada is doing much better than the US. In fact I would guess their inclusion of Canada is only to boost the over all outlook of the stats.
It doesn't really matter if people have more options in highly concentrated areas which happen to have larger populations than a lot of European areas. If you leave rural people behind then you'll just make jobs like farming even less attractive and become more reliant on other countries for everything including food.
Buy from amazon.co.uk and hook an ubuntu machine up to play your dvds from anywhere if there isn't a windows alternative. I buy US dvds all the time with no worry about it playing on Linux.
Luckily that's not the case. I built the computer and it uses a separate nVidia card rather than something built into the mobo and same goes for the sound card with is an SB card.
The nVidia card has been awesome with each new release. I do think Pulse audio was a bit of a problem but one that should be resolved now.
My only issue now is why it will go ape shit and grind to a halt if something is left open for days. I'm not entirely sure what it is but I suspect it's Firefox while Flash is running on a page.
I'm not too bothered about that but if I forget and I connect to my machine to startup tomcat for some of my apps then I'm well aware if I've left whatever it is running.
All in all they are minor problems but it's just annoying that I've had zero problems with the last two releases and this one was a bit of pain to get up and running perfectly.
While I can drive and hold a US license,I find it unnecessary to drive where I live in the UK especially when costs more and would take longer to get to work thanks to awful traffic. So I don't have a car. Which, for the reason you mentioned, not needing one comes in real handy when co-workers want to go out drinking.
Agreed, I actually do better with stronger beers because I know it's more powerful. I won't be driving. I'm just looking to avoid puking and hang overs and something stronger will do it for me.
My desktop has had the same hardware since I've been using 6.06, I feel I've had more struggles getting 9.10 set up. In the end I think it's fine and sorting it out wasn't rocket science but it wasn't as smooth as the previous release. Audio has been the biggest issue.
Considering its address bar acts as a search box, you can sync your bookmarks on their server, it checks for updates, etc. It's no surprise. I'm not bothered about any of those things but for those who are they can get one of the source ports that focus on removing communication with Google. Google rather have people on browsers that run their apps much better than have you use another browser so it's in their interest to offer up the source code and increase security in Chrome itself.
But that compatibility exists because of Microsoft tying the browser to Windows. Sure they will break shit loads of things removing it and realistically it can't be done any time soon if at all. That's why they shouldn't have been allowed to do it and why people should be concerned when they start adding in anti-virus software amongst other things people make a living off of.
Before anyone mentions it, I am aware it is nice to have zipping software, anti-virus, a browser, etc out of the box. That's fine but if I opt for an alternative I should have the right to remove the software that I will never use.
I did mention the suggestions though and there were numerous blogs that documented their biased suggestions. In fact I think it was mentioned here. TBH, I'm sure it's been fixed after all the talk of it but even at a launch of a brand new search engine it shouldn't be suggesting Windows related items for Linux.
K&R brace placement (open brace at end of line of code instead of on a new line) must be used because otherwise semicolon insertion will add a semicolon to the end of the line before the open brace and the code in the braces will be ignored.
As I remember this isn't something that comes up often which is why most people don't notice it if they do it the other way but if you run into it I think it can be a pain to discover. TBH, I can't remember if the error is obvious because I've only ever heard it once in the video and never saw it happen since I don't code with the brace on its own line.
They include firewall, zip archiving, anti-virus, browser, email and messenger software which all have a knock-on effect for companies in those areas and some of which can't be removed and they have the nerve to cry because they can't monopolise search?
I still use Yahoo and even Alta Vista on occasion just for a change. The "problem" is that Google is better. Google doesn't lock you into anything unlike Microsoft. Anyone is free to change. They don't because there is no good reason to.
Everyone knows it's the lack of search data that caused Bing to initially suggest (and probably still does) Windows when typing in something related to Ubuntu or Linux. I mean seriously, how are they supposed to know what you want from terms like Linux or Ubuntu. What do those even mean?
You're not tied into Google in any way and can easily block them for good by pointing their domain to 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file. Can you tell me how to remove IE from my XP or Vista? Hell you can't even really truly remove it from Windows 7 and that's only in the EU. Or maybe why some MS apps, like MSN Messenger choose to ignore my browser choice and open something in IE. I've never had such a thing happen to me with Google.
The way they've implemented their analytics software makes it dead easy to block. Google even lets me use Bing as my search engine in Chrome. It's 3rd on the list, just after Yahoo and not hidden away further down like Google is on IE if you want to pick a new search provider. This only covers the tip of the iceberg and doesn't go into the efforts MS has made, up until recently, to lock in documents to Windows or trying to break Java to make their version different or all the other shit they've done.
Google is by no means perfect but they have a long way to go before catching up to Microsoft in the shitty tactics department.
So by being good Google gets more results and therefore can make a better product quicker and easier?
Hell, by that logic Yahoo should be even better. They were in that position and have been around much longer. They should have perfected search to the point that no one can beat them. They haven't because they didn't do search good enough and the same applies to Microsoft. Microsoft's claim is just a case of sour apples that there is one area they can't manage to use their monopoly to dominate.
I'd say they're all about the same. If you're making applets then you'll have more problems with Java but for webapps, it's not that hard to get things working across the board. It may not be flawless in some instances but that's where it pays to hire developers that have a lot of experience in the language you want to use.
If you must do so in Go and in JavaScript you should always put the bracket on the same line to guarantee to avoid problems (even if rare) then that's two languages where you should do it. Might as well do it for all of them rather than switching. Besides, it is the superior way of doing it.
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Pennsylvania is much more densely populated than Maine yet Maine beats Pennsylvania. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335740,00.asp
The mid-west is really the only barren area. The rest of the US is more densely populated or close enough to Europe rather this imaginary stereotype where everyone in Europe lives beside everyone else and everyone in the US is 50+ miles away from the nearest person.
US: http://maps.unomaha.edu/Peterson/funda/MapLinks/NAmerica/USpop1990.gif
Europe: http://www.roebuckclasses.com/maps/placemap/europe/europepop.JPG
If density matters then less dense states shouldn't be beating more densely populated states but they do.
According to these images, the US, aside from the mid-west, is pretty close to Europe with a lot of areas exceeding Europe yet no doubt falling behind in broadband penetration.
US: http://maps.unomaha.edu/Peterson/funda/MapLinks/NAmerica/USpop1990.gif
Europe: http://www.roebuckclasses.com/maps/placemap/europe/europepop.JPG
Take Sweden. The article claims they have 96% per cent broadband penetration. The density of most of Sweden, at best is 24 people per square mile. But for the sake of argument we'll take the highest possible number and assume that applies to the whole country. That gives it 129 people per square mile.
I'll compare that then to Pennsylvania, since I've lived most of my life there. Most of the state ranges from 100 to 7000 people per square mile. Over all there are definitely more people than Sweden per square mile and quite often, from my experience, broadband is a joke in PA.
In fact this link backs up my experience: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335740,00.asp
Pennsylvania apparently has 52.5% broadband penetration and apparently only 35% customer satisfaction. That's awful.
In fact, New Jersey is the only state that comes close to Sweden's stats with NJ having 80.2% broadband penetration.
Yes, the mid-west is sparse and not densely populated but using them as an excuse as to why the rest of the US has piss poor broadband standards is laughable. The New England area, with the exception of Maine, is on par if not more densely populated than most of Europe. Funnily enough, Maine is beating the much more populated Pennsylvania. Which throws the argument that density makes a difference.
People need to quit drinking the corporations' Kool-Aid and realise they're being screwed on pretty much every single new technology like broadband and mobile phones. It's no coincidence these things aren't covered by the Communications Act and people are getting bent over on them.
Europe still has rural areas even to the point of only a handful of people living in an area for miles. For instance just because a place, like London, is severely crowded doesn't mean the rest of the UK is.
Europe generally looks after its people better when it comes to things, like broadband or healthcare. The US managed to roll phones out to virtually everyone. I know people who can get a phone line but can't even get decent plumbing (relying on gravity bringing it off the mountain) and the reason is because the government stepped in and made it happen knowing how important it is for everyone to be able to communicate. The internet is replacing everything from most mail, phone communication, telegraphs and anything esle the 1934 communication act would have considered necessary. So the act needs to be updated to include broadband.
So California is smaller than Sweden and a higher population and California has approximately 96% broadband penetration and they're improving where as the US as a whole is lagging.
The problem is the government needs to do the same thing they did with phones and the Communications act of 1934 which basically made companies roll out phones lines to everyone. Companies may eventually do it on their own time but at a snails pace.
When you're making society more and more reliant on the internet you can sit there and say it's impossible to give everyone broadband when we've rolled out phone lines to everyone with less technology and likely less efficiency.
If you're happy with the US falling behind then stay on course. Otherwise you need to do something about it.
The global mail article cherry picked stats to suit their needs. Like pointing out Canada's 70% penetration rate yet conveniently leaving out the US stats. We already know Canada is doing much better than the US. In fact I would guess their inclusion of Canada is only to boost the over all outlook of the stats.
It doesn't really matter if people have more options in highly concentrated areas which happen to have larger populations than a lot of European areas. If you leave rural people behind then you'll just make jobs like farming even less attractive and become more reliant on other countries for everything including food.
Buy from amazon.co.uk and hook an ubuntu machine up to play your dvds from anywhere if there isn't a windows alternative. I buy US dvds all the time with no worry about it playing on Linux.
Unless the tax is used to remove Windows and replace it with Linux there is no way I'd ever accept something like that.
Luckily that's not the case. I built the computer and it uses a separate nVidia card rather than something built into the mobo and same goes for the sound card with is an SB card.
The nVidia card has been awesome with each new release. I do think Pulse audio was a bit of a problem but one that should be resolved now.
My only issue now is why it will go ape shit and grind to a halt if something is left open for days. I'm not entirely sure what it is but I suspect it's Firefox while Flash is running on a page.
I'm not too bothered about that but if I forget and I connect to my machine to startup tomcat for some of my apps then I'm well aware if I've left whatever it is running.
All in all they are minor problems but it's just annoying that I've had zero problems with the last two releases and this one was a bit of pain to get up and running perfectly.
While I can drive and hold a US license,I find it unnecessary to drive where I live in the UK especially when costs more and would take longer to get to work thanks to awful traffic. So I don't have a car. Which, for the reason you mentioned, not needing one comes in real handy when co-workers want to go out drinking.
Hey buddy, stick to your sodas and milk if you can't hack waking up in a puddle of your own puke and feces. Leave alcohol to the real men.
Agreed, I actually do better with stronger beers because I know it's more powerful. I won't be driving. I'm just looking to avoid puking and hang overs and something stronger will do it for me.
My desktop has had the same hardware since I've been using 6.06, I feel I've had more struggles getting 9.10 set up. In the end I think it's fine and sorting it out wasn't rocket science but it wasn't as smooth as the previous release. Audio has been the biggest issue.
Other people have done it so use their ports.
Considering its address bar acts as a search box, you can sync your bookmarks on their server, it checks for updates, etc. It's no surprise. I'm not bothered about any of those things but for those who are they can get one of the source ports that focus on removing communication with Google. Google rather have people on browsers that run their apps much better than have you use another browser so it's in their interest to offer up the source code and increase security in Chrome itself.
But that compatibility exists because of Microsoft tying the browser to Windows. Sure they will break shit loads of things removing it and realistically it can't be done any time soon if at all. That's why they shouldn't have been allowed to do it and why people should be concerned when they start adding in anti-virus software amongst other things people make a living off of.
Before anyone mentions it, I am aware it is nice to have zipping software, anti-virus, a browser, etc out of the box. That's fine but if I opt for an alternative I should have the right to remove the software that I will never use.
I did mention the suggestions though and there were numerous blogs that documented their biased suggestions. In fact I think it was mentioned here. TBH, I'm sure it's been fixed after all the talk of it but even at a launch of a brand new search engine it shouldn't be suggesting Windows related items for Linux.
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=crockonjs-3
I think this is the video but to be honest it's probably not so I grabbed a quote from this site:
http://java.ociweb.com/mark/programming/JavaScript.html also mentions it.
Brace Placement
K&R brace placement (open brace at end of line of code instead of on a new line) must be used because otherwise semicolon insertion will add a semicolon to the end of the line before the open brace and the code in the braces will be ignored.
As I remember this isn't something that comes up often which is why most people don't notice it if they do it the other way but if you run into it I think it can be a pain to discover. TBH, I can't remember if the error is obvious because I've only ever heard it once in the video and never saw it happen since I don't code with the brace on its own line.
They include firewall, zip archiving, anti-virus, browser, email and messenger software which all have a knock-on effect for companies in those areas and some of which can't be removed and they have the nerve to cry because they can't monopolise search?
Microsoft and Bing use most, if not all the same tactics. Their problem is that they don't do it as well.
Almost forgot, Alta Vista is owned by Yahoo!
I still use Yahoo and even Alta Vista on occasion just for a change. The "problem" is that Google is better. Google doesn't lock you into anything unlike Microsoft. Anyone is free to change. They don't because there is no good reason to.
Everyone knows it's the lack of search data that caused Bing to initially suggest (and probably still does) Windows when typing in something related to Ubuntu or Linux. I mean seriously, how are they supposed to know what you want from terms like Linux or Ubuntu. What do those even mean?
You're not tied into Google in any way and can easily block them for good by pointing their domain to 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file. Can you tell me how to remove IE from my XP or Vista? Hell you can't even really truly remove it from Windows 7 and that's only in the EU. Or maybe why some MS apps, like MSN Messenger choose to ignore my browser choice and open something in IE. I've never had such a thing happen to me with Google.
The way they've implemented their analytics software makes it dead easy to block. Google even lets me use Bing as my search engine in Chrome. It's 3rd on the list, just after Yahoo and not hidden away further down like Google is on IE if you want to pick a new search provider. This only covers the tip of the iceberg and doesn't go into the efforts MS has made, up until recently, to lock in documents to Windows or trying to break Java to make their version different or all the other shit they've done.
Google is by no means perfect but they have a long way to go before catching up to Microsoft in the shitty tactics department.
So by being good Google gets more results and therefore can make a better product quicker and easier?
Hell, by that logic Yahoo should be even better. They were in that position and have been around much longer. They should have perfected search to the point that no one can beat them. They haven't because they didn't do search good enough and the same applies to Microsoft. Microsoft's claim is just a case of sour apples that there is one area they can't manage to use their monopoly to dominate.
I'd say they're all about the same. If you're making applets then you'll have more problems with Java but for webapps, it's not that hard to get things working across the board. It may not be flawless in some instances but that's where it pays to hire developers that have a lot of experience in the language you want to use.
If you must do so in Go and in JavaScript you should always put the bracket on the same line to guarantee to avoid problems (even if rare) then that's two languages where you should do it. Might as well do it for all of them rather than switching. Besides, it is the superior way of doing it.