Yep on dial-up Europe was behind. It was always expensive & per minute and 2000 and yeah broadband would have only been starting off around that time. I believe NTL would been just offering cable internet in villages outside of Cambridge. But one thing they did was invest heavily and grew quite quickly.
I think Europe benefits by having more competition. Had things been left to only BT the UK would probably still be on 1 mb broadband and the reason there is more competition because the government steps in and ensures it exists. The US is lacking any sort of controls to enforce competition.
~There's always some excuse. Europe had copper lines shoved down in old tight passages and they managed. Oh of course there will be the excuse that European countries are so tiny!. But if you compare states with similar densities they still come up short against a lot of European countries. The US just isn't interested in being the best at anything and seems quite happy with companies maximising profits at the consumer's expense.
Sorry but even Dell hardware when you compare something that is actually the same isn't that far off. I want to see how you found a 'similar' laptop that was £1,000 cheaper than the Apple equivalent.
If every book was a sequel with little to no difference between the previous title and its competitors then people would likely claim books are too long but that's not the case. Perhaps gamers just give up after they realise it's the same old rubbish and isn't worth pushing onwards.
I just checked and it's off by default. "Show photo geo location information in newly uploaded albums and photos." is what it says so it may very well show her but that doesn't mean it's public.
I suspect MS is trying to do the same thing as Apple and release smaller more frequent releases but what are the odds they'll not be priced £30 like an Apple update and instead be more like ranging anywhere between £100 and £200 depending on whether you get the real version or some handicapped version.
I'm sure they'd love to say it's just how tabloid journalism in the UK works but that's not the case. One quick look into Fox News and you find them doing all sorts of questionable things like photo manipulation, wikipedia edits and being in bed with Bush. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel_controversies
I would guess there is a whole load more we haven't found out about. I believe this guy thrives on this sort of scum. I hope someone has enough balls to stop his bskyb bid and I hope more people start boycotting news international products. Let the old man die knowing his empire is falling all around him.
True you don't lose your rights but at the same time you should never be naive enough to think your rights are being protected because they're you're rights. Even if you argue the guy should be hung from the highest tree that's all well and good but there will be someone who will turn around and do something similar or worse after him so whether you have the right to something or not you shouldn't assume some public computer is safe to use with personal information. Certainly not one in a computer shop.
To be fair PHP is ugly and if they've written all their own stuff then they'll have all sorts of mysql specific PHP functions, like mysql_connect that, at the very least, need to be replaced with oracle specific methods. It's PHP the language is ugly and in terms of languages it borders on retarded.
Aero
Arc
Conker
Fable
Georgia
Groove
Lips
Natural
Nina
Outlook
Rare
Sidewinder
Surface
Windows
Postbox (http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4001:3q4qmv.5.41)
The reason they got those will likely be because they trademarked them for technology specific groups. When you apply for a trademark it doesn't just automatically apply to everything. My trademark for example only applies to one category. To apply to have a trademark cover everything would be insanely expensive and for generic terms like that probably impossible to get granted.
So I'm sure you can find other people with postbox trademarked but it will apply to something else. Apple's problem is they trademarked something generic that is an exact descriptor of the product. If they wanted the trademark 'Corner shop' or even 'App Corner Shop' they would have probably got it no questions asked.
I've never seen a Mac user waste time creating incorrect infographics trying to justify their purchase yet you can find PC users doing it often on reddit. To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if Mac users would say they won't talk to PC users when they say dumb shit like they've wasted their money and should have built their own desktop on a frequent basis.
It's usually windows dicks that do it and it's no surprise they do have to live with the worst OS on the planet. But OS X and Linux, I'd use either of them. I'd probably even use Open Solaris before Windows. The OS bites and the community has definitely got worse since MS grew a legion of xbox fanboys.
All you've done is show you bias. There is loads of evidence of Windows fanboys circle jerking about their superior PCs they've built themselves or their Android phones and calling Mac users brainless fanboys.
Why in the world would you stick with Firefox 3 when Firefox 5 is out and superior in every way? I'd say Firefox 4 was also superior. Firefox 3 wasn't that bad but it's Javascript performance was shit.
It has a dominant position because it's better. If Windows dominant position came about because it was the best OS then I'd have no problem with that.
Google should be able to advertise their other products on their sites and the fact they'll let anyone else advertise their competing products means they're not abusing their position. Win purely by making a superior product is ok in my book because it means all anyone has to do to compete is build a better product. I know that is a nearly impossible task for MS but maybe they shouldn't be in the search or browser market.
They still have to compete against an inferior browser that is pre-installed and can't be removed from the user's machine and still, in some instances, ignores your preferred browser choice. MS also uses this to push their awful search engine.
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Yep on dial-up Europe was behind. It was always expensive & per minute and 2000 and yeah broadband would have only been starting off around that time. I believe NTL would been just offering cable internet in villages outside of Cambridge. But one thing they did was invest heavily and grew quite quickly.
I think Europe benefits by having more competition. Had things been left to only BT the UK would probably still be on 1 mb broadband and the reason there is more competition because the government steps in and ensures it exists. The US is lacking any sort of controls to enforce competition.
But then the job creators won't create all the wonder jobs we have.
~There's always some excuse. Europe had copper lines shoved down in old tight passages and they managed. Oh of course there will be the excuse that European countries are so tiny!. But if you compare states with similar densities they still come up short against a lot of European countries. The US just isn't interested in being the best at anything and seems quite happy with companies maximising profits at the consumer's expense.
Sorry but even Dell hardware when you compare something that is actually the same isn't that far off. I want to see how you found a 'similar' laptop that was £1,000 cheaper than the Apple equivalent.
People have already shared the OS X Lion installs and Apple will give it to you on a USB stick. It's possible to back it up.
It doesn't happen because the vast majority of IT people seem to like to stab each other in the back for a few more pennies.
If every book was a sequel with little to no difference between the previous title and its competitors then people would likely claim books are too long but that's not the case. Perhaps gamers just give up after they realise it's the same old rubbish and isn't worth pushing onwards.
I bought your mom a ticket to come visit me.
So now we're creating a achievements for reading tripe for the likes of news corp?
It would be more well known if they would improve it and code it in Python.
I just checked and it's off by default. "Show photo geo location information in newly uploaded albums and photos." is what it says so it may very well show her but that doesn't mean it's public.
I suspect MS is trying to do the same thing as Apple and release smaller more frequent releases but what are the odds they'll not be priced £30 like an Apple update and instead be more like ranging anywhere between £100 and £200 depending on whether you get the real version or some handicapped version.
I'm sure they'd love to say it's just how tabloid journalism in the UK works but that's not the case. One quick look into Fox News and you find them doing all sorts of questionable things like photo manipulation, wikipedia edits and being in bed with Bush. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel_controversies
I would guess there is a whole load more we haven't found out about. I believe this guy thrives on this sort of scum. I hope someone has enough balls to stop his bskyb bid and I hope more people start boycotting news international products. Let the old man die knowing his empire is falling all around him.
True you don't lose your rights but at the same time you should never be naive enough to think your rights are being protected because they're you're rights. Even if you argue the guy should be hung from the highest tree that's all well and good but there will be someone who will turn around and do something similar or worse after him so whether you have the right to something or not you shouldn't assume some public computer is safe to use with personal information. Certainly not one in a computer shop.
You would be dumb enough to use personal information on a public laptop in a shop?
To be fair PHP is ugly and if they've written all their own stuff then they'll have all sorts of mysql specific PHP functions, like mysql_connect that, at the very least, need to be replaced with oracle specific methods. It's PHP the language is ugly and in terms of languages it borders on retarded.
They were awesome for recording music. I still have mine somewhere I believe. It is sort of a shame to see them die but the disks are a hassle.
MS do have generic terms as trademarks and according to their Trademark page they did trademark "Windows". http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/IntellectualProperty/Trademarks/EN-US.aspx
Aero
Arc
Conker
Fable
Georgia
Groove
Lips
Natural
Nina
Outlook
Rare
Sidewinder
Surface
Windows
Postbox (http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4001:3q4qmv.5.41)
The reason they got those will likely be because they trademarked them for technology specific groups. When you apply for a trademark it doesn't just automatically apply to everything. My trademark for example only applies to one category. To apply to have a trademark cover everything would be insanely expensive and for generic terms like that probably impossible to get granted.
So I'm sure you can find other people with postbox trademarked but it will apply to something else. Apple's problem is they trademarked something generic that is an exact descriptor of the product. If they wanted the trademark 'Corner shop' or even 'App Corner Shop' they would have probably got it no questions asked.
I use Linux much more than OS X.
I've never seen a Mac user waste time creating incorrect infographics trying to justify their purchase yet you can find PC users doing it often on reddit. To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if Mac users would say they won't talk to PC users when they say dumb shit like they've wasted their money and should have built their own desktop on a frequent basis.
It's usually windows dicks that do it and it's no surprise they do have to live with the worst OS on the planet. But OS X and Linux, I'd use either of them. I'd probably even use Open Solaris before Windows. The OS bites and the community has definitely got worse since MS grew a legion of xbox fanboys.
All you've done is show you bias. There is loads of evidence of Windows fanboys circle jerking about their superior PCs they've built themselves or their Android phones and calling Mac users brainless fanboys.
You're not texting your mate so you can spell you properly.
Why in the world would you stick with Firefox 3 when Firefox 5 is out and superior in every way? I'd say Firefox 4 was also superior. Firefox 3 wasn't that bad but it's Javascript performance was shit.
It has a dominant position because it's better. If Windows dominant position came about because it was the best OS then I'd have no problem with that.
Google should be able to advertise their other products on their sites and the fact they'll let anyone else advertise their competing products means they're not abusing their position. Win purely by making a superior product is ok in my book because it means all anyone has to do to compete is build a better product. I know that is a nearly impossible task for MS but maybe they shouldn't be in the search or browser market.
They still have to compete against an inferior browser that is pre-installed and can't be removed from the user's machine and still, in some instances, ignores your preferred browser choice. MS also uses this to push their awful search engine.