The UK has long since done away with powerful unions. They still go on strike from time to time to howls of 'damn commies' but don't seem to achieve a great deal except annoying the general public and giving ammunition to the right wing press.
There are a terrifyingly large group of posters here who are arguing exactly that point, as if the fight for working conditions that didn't kill or maim and for a wage that actually allowed the worker to eat was laziness.
Is virtualisation not an option? I've recently taken a hard drive with a dual Windows/Linux partition out of a dead laptop and successfully converted it to a Virtual Box VM running on Mac OS X. The Linux partition booted first time, but of course the Windows one required a little bit of fiddling with VBox settings to get working. Wasn't too hard though.
Let's see some citations for this. I'm very tired of Europhobes banging on about how the EU has ruined the country when I'm yet to see a serious problem that cannot easily be attributed elsewhere e.g. poor banking regulation. The HRA is the favourite bogeyman of Europhobes. Please also give a list of the rights that you think people covered by UK law should not have.
All those people insisting he buy an iPad take note. Why Apple think that people shouldn't be able to upgrade their hardware without having to buy a whole new device is, well I suppose clever marketing, since people buy them anyway.
You'll get crucified for saying that on here, at least by one user who won't stop bugging me about how tablets are better without providing a single relevant example, except maybe that some people prefer a touchscreen.
You were the one putting words into my mouth. I never called anyone an idiot but I do believe that the success of the iPad is a triumph of marketing over product. That doesn't make an iPad buyer stupid, it just means that the marketing is very good.
Better is: more storage, more RAM, more applications, more connectivity, more potential to expand the power of the machine.
Better is not: only a touchscreen (well I suppose that's a matter of opinion, granted), a fixed amount of storage, a fixed amount of RAM, an easily damaged screen, a higher price, limited and non-upgradeable connectivity, a lower resolution screen, fewer applications, fewer devices, fewer audio and video codecs, the requirement to pay Apple $99 a year or invalidate your warranty if you want the privilege of installing what you want instead of what Apple decides you can have, no Flash (I hate it too but there are many sites that require it).
That may be subjective to you but those are all reasons why my little netbook is superior to your iPad and most of those reasons apply to Android tablets as well. I did have a look at the eeePad Transformer as it had fewer downsides than the iPad. It's a good machine but it still comes with fuck all storage and any serious increase in the requirements of future software will require me to buy another one.
I wouldn't advise someone to buy one but I wouldn't criticise anyone for owning one, merely for asserting that it's a better machine than my netbook when it isn't. Which is why we keep going round in circles. You have completely failed to make your case, now either give up or come up with a compelling reason why tablets are actually better rather than taking offence at my pretty reasonable points.
They aren't better than NETBOOKS NETBOOKS NETBOOKS NETBOOKS NETBOOKS NOT LAPTOPS. I can see exactly why they could be better than laptops which are heavy to lug around and can't be used one handed. However netbooks weigh about the same and are superior machines. Your only counter argument has been "what if they want touchscreens". You haven't given a single decent advantage that my 200 quid computer has over your 400 quid iPad except it has a less capable interface. If someone feels that a crapper, more easily damaged interface is worth paying an extra 200 quid for than that's up to them but it doesn't make it a BETTER device.
I have never said "don't buy", I've only ever said that the iPad isn't better than my NETBOOK NETBOOK NETBOOK NETBOOK NETBOOK NOT LAPTOP because even a cursory examination of the capabilities and lifespan (i.e. upgradability) of the two would show the iPad to be severely lacking compared to the NETBOOK NETBOOK NETBOOK NETBOOK NETBOOK NOT LAPTOP. I never called anyone an idiot either, else I would be calling myself an idiot since I'm currently typing this on a 27" iMac, so your next argument about me being anti-Apple will also fall on its arse.
It does say owned or regulated i.e. there is some room for private ownership of capital there. Germany is an example of a very successful state that has implemented socialist policies. It amazes me (although I should be more cynical at my age) that British politicians and businessmen believe that the "devil take the hindmost" policies of the USA are the way to go when a highly successful social democracy with strong social protections and strong unions is just a few hundred miles away and could just as easily have been emulated instead.
Hooray for private sector medical insurance! The UK government is trying to get these clowns involved in our system because the US healthcare system is allegedly so much better than ours.
As long as you meet the full cost of cleaning your stupid self off the road I don't give a shit whether you wear a seatbelt or not. If you're not prepared to do that then I am quite happy for you to be charged some money towards defraying the cost of your stupidity.
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The N95 was a great phone as was the N96. Sadly Nokia failed to build on the success of those two products.
Does the US not have monthly download limits on its internet?
The UK has long since done away with powerful unions. They still go on strike from time to time to howls of 'damn commies' but don't seem to achieve a great deal except annoying the general public and giving ammunition to the right wing press.
Perhaps you missed the word combined.
I live in a world where spending $50 so that badly written software can run better isn't going to happen.
Ask if life had been found on Uranus.
There are a terrifyingly large group of posters here who are arguing exactly that point, as if the fight for working conditions that didn't kill or maim and for a wage that actually allowed the worker to eat was laziness.
Do you think Bush was any different or that Romney, Gingrich or Paul will be any different?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20111031/us-sci-climate-skeptic/
Not sure but it sounds like something Judge Dredd would say.
Is virtualisation not an option? I've recently taken a hard drive with a dual Windows/Linux partition out of a dead laptop and successfully converted it to a Virtual Box VM running on Mac OS X. The Linux partition booted first time, but of course the Windows one required a little bit of fiddling with VBox settings to get working. Wasn't too hard though.
Where are these mythical COBOL jobs? They dried up just after Y2K and never came back.
Let's see some citations for this. I'm very tired of Europhobes banging on about how the EU has ruined the country when I'm yet to see a serious problem that cannot easily be attributed elsewhere e.g. poor banking regulation. The HRA is the favourite bogeyman of Europhobes. Please also give a list of the rights that you think people covered by UK law should not have.
Hehe ;-)
They used to in the UK. I don't know why they stopped.
Because it's cheaper to drown out the morons than to throw them out. At least in the short term anyway.
LMFAO
All those people insisting he buy an iPad take note. Why Apple think that people shouldn't be able to upgrade their hardware without having to buy a whole new device is, well I suppose clever marketing, since people buy them anyway.
You'll get crucified for saying that on here, at least by one user who won't stop bugging me about how tablets are better without providing a single relevant example, except maybe that some people prefer a touchscreen.
You were the one putting words into my mouth. I never called anyone an idiot but I do believe that the success of the iPad is a triumph of marketing over product. That doesn't make an iPad buyer stupid, it just means that the marketing is very good.
Better is: more storage, more RAM, more applications, more connectivity, more potential to expand the power of the machine.
Better is not: only a touchscreen (well I suppose that's a matter of opinion, granted), a fixed amount of storage, a fixed amount of RAM, an easily damaged screen, a higher price, limited and non-upgradeable connectivity, a lower resolution screen, fewer applications, fewer devices, fewer audio and video codecs, the requirement to pay Apple $99 a year or invalidate your warranty if you want the privilege of installing what you want instead of what Apple decides you can have, no Flash (I hate it too but there are many sites that require it).
That may be subjective to you but those are all reasons why my little netbook is superior to your iPad and most of those reasons apply to Android tablets as well. I did have a look at the eeePad Transformer as it had fewer downsides than the iPad. It's a good machine but it still comes with fuck all storage and any serious increase in the requirements of future software will require me to buy another one.
I wouldn't advise someone to buy one but I wouldn't criticise anyone for owning one, merely for asserting that it's a better machine than my netbook when it isn't. Which is why we keep going round in circles. You have completely failed to make your case, now either give up or come up with a compelling reason why tablets are actually better rather than taking offence at my pretty reasonable points.
They aren't better than NETBOOKS NETBOOKS NETBOOKS NETBOOKS NETBOOKS NOT LAPTOPS. I can see exactly why they could be better than laptops which are heavy to lug around and can't be used one handed. However netbooks weigh about the same and are superior machines. Your only counter argument has been "what if they want touchscreens". You haven't given a single decent advantage that my 200 quid computer has over your 400 quid iPad except it has a less capable interface. If someone feels that a crapper, more easily damaged interface is worth paying an extra 200 quid for than that's up to them but it doesn't make it a BETTER device.
I have never said "don't buy", I've only ever said that the iPad isn't better than my NETBOOK NETBOOK NETBOOK NETBOOK NETBOOK NOT LAPTOP because even a cursory examination of the capabilities and lifespan (i.e. upgradability) of the two would show the iPad to be severely lacking compared to the NETBOOK NETBOOK NETBOOK NETBOOK NETBOOK NOT LAPTOP. I never called anyone an idiot either, else I would be calling myself an idiot since I'm currently typing this on a 27" iMac, so your next argument about me being anti-Apple will also fall on its arse.
It does say owned or regulated i.e. there is some room for private ownership of capital there. Germany is an example of a very successful state that has implemented socialist policies. It amazes me (although I should be more cynical at my age) that British politicians and businessmen believe that the "devil take the hindmost" policies of the USA are the way to go when a highly successful social democracy with strong social protections and strong unions is just a few hundred miles away and could just as easily have been emulated instead.
Hooray for private sector medical insurance! The UK government is trying to get these clowns involved in our system because the US healthcare system is allegedly so much better than ours.
As long as you meet the full cost of cleaning your stupid self off the road I don't give a shit whether you wear a seatbelt or not. If you're not prepared to do that then I am quite happy for you to be charged some money towards defraying the cost of your stupidity.