In the UK, it isn't even Netflix vs. Hulu (as Hulu have never quite worked themselves up to try for an international business model)- we have other services, such as Love Film (now owned by Amazon), and Now TV (owned by BSkyB).
Hulu have missed the chance to be relevant over here completely. I bet that's the same in pretty much every country outside of the US.
And whoever heard of a one-country-only media giant?
I did the maths for my last phone purchase (an HTC One X for my wife), as I do whenever I make a purchase like that. I don't have the figures available to me right now, but the amount extra you pay over the course of a contract was more than if I'd just purchased it on my credit card and paid it back over the same time frame. And credit cards aren't exactly the cheapest loans available...
If people could see how much they were paying on their loan-by-any-other-name, they might be inclined to get the money from a different source even if they can't afford to pay it outright. That's not to say that the carrier-contract model couldn't still be available for those that still wanted to take it up.
Plus, it might inspire carriers to lower their interest rates a little if they were open to more transparent competition.
Most that operate in a highly regulated industry, I suspect. Mine certainly has an "our devices or no devices" attitude, of which Blackberry is the only smartphone.
That would be truly depressing if it were true. Diablo 2 was a staple of many gamers' diets for a decade, and retains a loyal following to this day. If Diablo 3 couldn't survive a year, it would be a terrible fail indeed.
Is there any hope of ReactOS being useful as a general-purpose replacement by then?
Well let's see...XP goes out of support in 6 months. ReactOS released its first version in 2004, and in 9 years has just managed to release 0.3.15 ("The one with USB mouse support!"). So I'm thinking the odds of it being ready for primetime ready for the XP EOS are...not guaranteed?
I hated the first version of Unity I used back on 11.10 or whatever it was. I liked the 12.04 version better, and am pretty used to it now. It's still not my favourite, but there's nothing fundamentally wrong with it; it's not like Metro, for god's sake. My main remaining complaint about it is that it's not very easy to customise- sort of "my way or the highway". Frustrating if you're used to the old Linux "can change everything" attitude, but hardly that big a deal for people using XP (which is also hardly customisation king).
Incorrect. You would be right about earlier LTS releases (where it was 5 years support for server, 3 years for desktop), but 12.04 is 5 years for both. The implication was that this would be true for all LTS releases in the future, but I can't find a link for that at the moment in respect of 14.04.
Canonical already does offer Ubuntu to everyone. You just download it from their website.
The City of Munich, on the other hand, has only a finite budget. Presumably while they consider sending a free CD to people with vulnerable computers a decent use of that money, sending everyone a free CD is probably not. They might want to spend it on public transport or park landscaping or whatever.
Everyone in open source land contributes (whether the voluntary time or money sort) to the bits that matter to them. There aren't many voluntary devs out there working on software that they don't really use.
IBM spending $1b on Linux development is great news. The fact that it'll be spent on those aspects of Linux development that matter most to IBM is hardly a shocker.
If you think that the perpetrator of the massacre in Washington could have killed 12 people with a box knife and a claw hammer, you are crazy.
The fact he killed 12 people is directly attributable to him managing to gain access to guns- one shotgun under his own steam, and two more weapons available at the scene. Him being crazy on its own would not have caused that massacre.
Same can be said of any school shooting or similar that you'd care to mention.
The guy (dead now) who shot up the Navy Yard had previously been in the military. And all he needed was a simple shotgun. The sort of thing that VP Biden says is exactly what people should own for hunting and self defense. He used that simple shotgun to shoot a military guard and gain access to that guard's handgun. He came across the rifle inside the Yard, said the Washington Post.
The US's problem (if you accept it as a problem, which I do, but which you probably don't, but which I don't really want to argue about) is that it is flooded with guns of all sorts, compared to your average EU country.
Today's killer started out with a shotgun, shot a security guard, and took his semi-automatic handgun. Let's compare with the UK- shotguns are fairly readily available here, but not much else is. You can shoot as many policemen or security guards as you like with your shotgun, but you aren't going to be able to take their semi-automatic handgun- because security guards and beat policemen do not carry guns. If you shoot someone with your one-shot-at-a-time shotgun in the UK, the very next gun that you'll see on the scene will be one of the ones in the hands of the heavily armed police assault team who turn up to deal with you. In the meantime, your capacity for damage is limited by your manual shotgun loaded with birdshot.
Britain presumably has exactly the same number of deranged maniac who want to go on killing sprees as America does. The difference is, our deranged maniacs simply cannot get access to heavy weaponry.
Organised crime is obviously a slightly different proposition; but none of the big massacres to hit American headlines in the last few years fall into that category.
Clarify for me (because I appear to have become stupid tonight)- if you were to delay every transaction by let's say 1 hour, how would that help? If every transaction were delayed by exactly the same 1 hour period, there would still be an advantage in being first to put an order in, which means there would be still be an advantage in having the fastest trading machine- see the market information quickly, get the order in fast before anyone else beats you to it. The only difference is that you have to wait an hour before you see the results.
It would add an element of suspense to the system seeing as you won't know if you've cocked up on a trade for an artificially long time, but I don't see how it fixes the problem.
Who knows, in a few billion years when the sun bakes this planet the golden record might be all that's left of us. Kind of like "The Inner Light" episode of Star Trek, but with less flute.
Should be pointed out that this is the first, not the only, man made object on a straight course for interstellar space. It will be joined not only by it's sister Voyager probe, but also the Pioneer 10 & 11 probes with their golden plaques, and the New Horizons mission with its CD. All in all, we're getting pretty good at littering the cosmos with our civilization's mementos.
As a citizen of a foreign country, allow me to be the first to say: fuck you.
Also: I hope you enjoy having every byte of data and second of phone call monitored by the Chinese intelligence services, because you have rather surrendered the moral high-ground and with it any right to complain about your privacy being violated by malicious superpowers.
There are people who pay that here for a daily commute between London and my home town (100 or so miles down the line). It's painful, but people do it. Admittedly these would be well paid contractor types, but there are enough of them around these days; enough to fill a few commuter trains each day, anyway.
Well for a start, USA doesn't have a national language, and if it did entertain such an idea, it would be a State level decision as much as a Federal one. This differs markedly from both China and mandarin, and the UK and english.
Are you implying their finger slipped in just such a way as to write a 10 page policy document, cost the policy, put the correct date on the document, and post the policy to their website completely accidentally? Or are you claiming that this is some sort of absurdly elaborate (and dull) hacker forgery?
At the very best, you can say that this is a policy that they entertained to quite a complete point before abandoning it- and that the almost-complete literature was made public accidentally. But that still implies that this is a policy that senior Liberals were happy to consider. The document is footnoted "authorised by Brian Loughnane", which is the party's Federal Director and Campaign Director; presumably a man who is at least relatively in tune with his party's policy attitudes.
Again, not outside of the US. I've been cooking for decades (UK), I make pies often (I'm British, for god's sake), and have ample access to limes- but I'd never heard of this dessert until the Android-related chatter. But then, I bet you've never made a Bakewell Tart or a Chelsea Bun before either- that's OK, that's how this whole different-cultures thing works.
Hell, even when I did look it up (Wikipedia), I'm told that my new-found understanding of key lime pie (basically a lemon meringue pie with limes) isn't correct (no meringue, I'm told!). So even Wikipedia isn't sure it knows what one is!
On the other hand, I challenge you to find anyone anywhere who doesn't know what a KitKat is...
Not really, if the maxium speed limit is 70mph, which seems odd in the EU since it's supposed to be metric, but if the maximum speed limit is whatever, then setting the sensor to go off when you go above the maximum won't be impacted by side roads or the like. It will only kick in if you go over the maximum speedlimit. In the US, for most states that would be 70mph, although there are a few which allow faster.
Speed limits are still a national, not an EU, issue. 70mph is the maximum speed limit on the fastest UK roads- TFA is from a UK publication, hence why they mention it. The UK is broadly metric, but the road network is one of the few areas which is inexplicably imperial. Some countries have faster roads than 70mph- famously, some German autobahns are not speed limited.
If I understand TFA correctly, this is not a proposal to simply limit cars to 70mph, but instead a proposal to have cars automatically detect what the speed limit is on a particular stretch of road and limit your speed to that. So if you're driving on a 20mph residential street, your car will go no faster than 20mph.
How your car is supposed to know what the speed limit is on every single road on the continent is anyone's guess. Magic technology that can read signposts on overgrown country roads at high speed in the dark, or massive and continuously updated databases- both sound totally plausible...
Have you tried: 1) Writing to your Congressman? 2) Writing directly to the White House? 3) Signing (or set up) a petition? 4) Voting (or intend to vote at the next opportunity) for a privacy-focused political party, such as the Pirate Party? 5) Supporting a privacy-focused political party either with a monetary donation or volunteer time?
All of these are pretty minimal effort steps that you, as a democratic participant, can and should take if you feel strongly about an issue. If you're not willing to do any of these, you probably don't feel that strongly about it after all (and therefore are passively culpable for any blame that we foreigners want to assign to the government who represents you). (And as an inhabitant of the UK, I'm in exactly the same boat, by the way).
Basically, you can sum it all up as: 6) Done anything at all?
Not shown on that page, but I notice that both MSI and Zoostorm have current, new models on the shelves. I've had good experiences with other Zoostorm machines (including most sold with No OS, if you look for it), so I'll definitely be looking them up for my next Netbook purchase.
I don't think it's controversial to say that a slave escaping hurts the slaver. It's just that nobody minds that a slaver gets hurt, as slavers are immoral bastards.
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In the UK, it isn't even Netflix vs. Hulu (as Hulu have never quite worked themselves up to try for an international business model)- we have other services, such as Love Film (now owned by Amazon), and Now TV (owned by BSkyB).
Hulu have missed the chance to be relevant over here completely. I bet that's the same in pretty much every country outside of the US.
And whoever heard of a one-country-only media giant?
Thanks, I was wondering. What a boring new name for it. Let's rename Homeland "CIA" while we're at it...
I did the maths for my last phone purchase (an HTC One X for my wife), as I do whenever I make a purchase like that. I don't have the figures available to me right now, but the amount extra you pay over the course of a contract was more than if I'd just purchased it on my credit card and paid it back over the same time frame. And credit cards aren't exactly the cheapest loans available...
If people could see how much they were paying on their loan-by-any-other-name, they might be inclined to get the money from a different source even if they can't afford to pay it outright. That's not to say that the carrier-contract model couldn't still be available for those that still wanted to take it up.
Plus, it might inspire carriers to lower their interest rates a little if they were open to more transparent competition.
Most that operate in a highly regulated industry, I suspect. Mine certainly has an "our devices or no devices" attitude, of which Blackberry is the only smartphone.
That would be truly depressing if it were true. Diablo 2 was a staple of many gamers' diets for a decade, and retains a loyal following to this day. If Diablo 3 couldn't survive a year, it would be a terrible fail indeed.
Is there any hope of ReactOS being useful as a general-purpose replacement by then?
Well let's see...XP goes out of support in 6 months. ReactOS released its first version in 2004, and in 9 years has just managed to release 0.3.15 ("The one with USB mouse support!"). So I'm thinking the odds of it being ready for primetime ready for the XP EOS are...not guaranteed?
I hated the first version of Unity I used back on 11.10 or whatever it was. I liked the 12.04 version better, and am pretty used to it now. It's still not my favourite, but there's nothing fundamentally wrong with it; it's not like Metro, for god's sake. My main remaining complaint about it is that it's not very easy to customise- sort of "my way or the highway". Frustrating if you're used to the old Linux "can change everything" attitude, but hardly that big a deal for people using XP (which is also hardly customisation king).
Incorrect. You would be right about earlier LTS releases (where it was 5 years support for server, 3 years for desktop), but 12.04 is 5 years for both. The implication was that this would be true for all LTS releases in the future, but I can't find a link for that at the moment in respect of 14.04.
Canonical already does offer Ubuntu to everyone. You just download it from their website.
The City of Munich, on the other hand, has only a finite budget. Presumably while they consider sending a free CD to people with vulnerable computers a decent use of that money, sending everyone a free CD is probably not. They might want to spend it on public transport or park landscaping or whatever.
Everyone in open source land contributes (whether the voluntary time or money sort) to the bits that matter to them. There aren't many voluntary devs out there working on software that they don't really use.
IBM spending $1b on Linux development is great news. The fact that it'll be spent on those aspects of Linux development that matter most to IBM is hardly a shocker.
If you think that the perpetrator of the massacre in Washington could have killed 12 people with a box knife and a claw hammer, you are crazy.
The fact he killed 12 people is directly attributable to him managing to gain access to guns- one shotgun under his own steam, and two more weapons available at the scene. Him being crazy on its own would not have caused that massacre.
Same can be said of any school shooting or similar that you'd care to mention.
The guy (dead now) who shot up the Navy Yard had previously been in the military. And all he needed was a simple shotgun. The sort of thing that VP Biden says is exactly what people should own for hunting and self defense. He used that simple shotgun to shoot a military guard and gain access to that guard's handgun. He came across the rifle inside the Yard, said the Washington Post.
The US's problem (if you accept it as a problem, which I do, but which you probably don't, but which I don't really want to argue about) is that it is flooded with guns of all sorts, compared to your average EU country.
Today's killer started out with a shotgun, shot a security guard, and took his semi-automatic handgun. Let's compare with the UK- shotguns are fairly readily available here, but not much else is. You can shoot as many policemen or security guards as you like with your shotgun, but you aren't going to be able to take their semi-automatic handgun- because security guards and beat policemen do not carry guns. If you shoot someone with your one-shot-at-a-time shotgun in the UK, the very next gun that you'll see on the scene will be one of the ones in the hands of the heavily armed police assault team who turn up to deal with you. In the meantime, your capacity for damage is limited by your manual shotgun loaded with birdshot.
Britain presumably has exactly the same number of deranged maniac who want to go on killing sprees as America does. The difference is, our deranged maniacs simply cannot get access to heavy weaponry.
Organised crime is obviously a slightly different proposition; but none of the big massacres to hit American headlines in the last few years fall into that category.
Clarify for me (because I appear to have become stupid tonight)- if you were to delay every transaction by let's say 1 hour, how would that help? If every transaction were delayed by exactly the same 1 hour period, there would still be an advantage in being first to put an order in, which means there would be still be an advantage in having the fastest trading machine- see the market information quickly, get the order in fast before anyone else beats you to it. The only difference is that you have to wait an hour before you see the results.
It would add an element of suspense to the system seeing as you won't know if you've cocked up on a trade for an artificially long time, but I don't see how it fixes the problem.
Who knows, in a few billion years when the sun bakes this planet the golden record might be all that's left of us. Kind of like "The Inner Light" episode of Star Trek, but with less flute.
Should be pointed out that this is the first, not the only, man made object on a straight course for interstellar space. It will be joined not only by it's sister Voyager probe, but also the Pioneer 10 & 11 probes with their golden plaques, and the New Horizons mission with its CD. All in all, we're getting pretty good at littering the cosmos with our civilization's mementos.
As a citizen of a foreign country, allow me to be the first to say: fuck you.
Also: I hope you enjoy having every byte of data and second of phone call monitored by the Chinese intelligence services, because you have rather surrendered the moral high-ground and with it any right to complain about your privacy being violated by malicious superpowers.
There are people who pay that here for a daily commute between London and my home town (100 or so miles down the line). It's painful, but people do it. Admittedly these would be well paid contractor types, but there are enough of them around these days; enough to fill a few commuter trains each day, anyway.
Well for a start, USA doesn't have a national language, and if it did entertain such an idea, it would be a State level decision as much as a Federal one. This differs markedly from both China and mandarin, and the UK and english.
For something that isn't policy, was never policy, was never going to be policy, and will never be policy, it certainly looks remarkably like an official policy manifesto to me:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/165690692/Coalition-2013-Election-Policy-%E2%80%93-Enhance-Online-Safety-final
Are you implying their finger slipped in just such a way as to write a 10 page policy document, cost the policy, put the correct date on the document, and post the policy to their website completely accidentally? Or are you claiming that this is some sort of absurdly elaborate (and dull) hacker forgery?
At the very best, you can say that this is a policy that they entertained to quite a complete point before abandoning it- and that the almost-complete literature was made public accidentally. But that still implies that this is a policy that senior Liberals were happy to consider. The document is footnoted "authorised by Brian Loughnane", which is the party's Federal Director and Campaign Director; presumably a man who is at least relatively in tune with his party's policy attitudes.
Again, not outside of the US. I've been cooking for decades (UK), I make pies often (I'm British, for god's sake), and have ample access to limes- but I'd never heard of this dessert until the Android-related chatter. But then, I bet you've never made a Bakewell Tart or a Chelsea Bun before either- that's OK, that's how this whole different-cultures thing works.
Hell, even when I did look it up (Wikipedia), I'm told that my new-found understanding of key lime pie (basically a lemon meringue pie with limes) isn't correct (no meringue, I'm told!). So even Wikipedia isn't sure it knows what one is!
On the other hand, I challenge you to find anyone anywhere who doesn't know what a KitKat is...
Not really, if the maxium speed limit is 70mph, which seems odd in the EU since it's supposed to be metric, but if the maximum speed limit is whatever, then setting the sensor to go off when you go above the maximum won't be impacted by side roads or the like. It will only kick in if you go over the maximum speedlimit. In the US, for most states that would be 70mph, although there are a few which allow faster.
Speed limits are still a national, not an EU, issue. 70mph is the maximum speed limit on the fastest UK roads- TFA is from a UK publication, hence why they mention it. The UK is broadly metric, but the road network is one of the few areas which is inexplicably imperial. Some countries have faster roads than 70mph- famously, some German autobahns are not speed limited.
If I understand TFA correctly, this is not a proposal to simply limit cars to 70mph, but instead a proposal to have cars automatically detect what the speed limit is on a particular stretch of road and limit your speed to that. So if you're driving on a 20mph residential street, your car will go no faster than 20mph.
How your car is supposed to know what the speed limit is on every single road on the continent is anyone's guess. Magic technology that can read signposts on overgrown country roads at high speed in the dark, or massive and continuously updated databases- both sound totally plausible...
Have you tried:
1) Writing to your Congressman?
2) Writing directly to the White House?
3) Signing (or set up) a petition?
4) Voting (or intend to vote at the next opportunity) for a privacy-focused political party, such as the Pirate Party?
5) Supporting a privacy-focused political party either with a monetary donation or volunteer time?
All of these are pretty minimal effort steps that you, as a democratic participant, can and should take if you feel strongly about an issue. If you're not willing to do any of these, you probably don't feel that strongly about it after all (and therefore are passively culpable for any blame that we foreigners want to assign to the government who represents you). (And as an inhabitant of the UK, I'm in exactly the same boat, by the way).
Basically, you can sum it all up as:
6) Done anything at all?
Right you are boss:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_nr_n_0?rh=n%3A340831031%2Cn%3A429887031%2Ck%3Anetbook&keywords=netbook&ie=UTF8&qid=1376997870&rnid=340832031
Not shown on that page, but I notice that both MSI and Zoostorm have current, new models on the shelves. I've had good experiences with other Zoostorm machines (including most sold with No OS, if you look for it), so I'll definitely be looking them up for my next Netbook purchase.
I stand heartily corrected.
A system with designed-in scarcity and chronic deflation? Where do I sign up?!
I don't think it's controversial to say that a slave escaping hurts the slaver. It's just that nobody minds that a slaver gets hurt, as slavers are immoral bastards.