And that's why Nokia is not selling the N9 in their primary EU markets like DE, GB and NL.
I have nothing against them trying to sell a Windows based phone but as an investor I'm really pissed off with them destroying, as the N900, N950 and ultimately the N9 proves, a great investment just to scratch the urge of an ex-MS boss.
We'll have to wait and see how the user experience pans out.
Since Europe is not a democracy (since the unelected commission holds final authority, overriding everyone else's)
You read too many British tabloids.
The EU Commission answers to the governments that appointed the members.
As a matter of fact, many European countries have a government that is not directly elected but governs in the name of the elected parliament.
To make it clear to a UK audience, the members of such a government are appointed by the elected parliament, they are not members of the parliament.
It is an unholy alliance of the French and Brits that veto's any attempts to give such powers to the democratically elected EU parliament.
These are making the public safe online and ensuring the country is one of the best in the world for online business; making the UK more resilient in the face of cyber attack and better able to protect its interests; proving a more "open and vibrant" cyber security environment; and having the knowledge, skills and capability to underpin these.
"Building the most resilient cyber defences in the world will not help if you are suffering from intellectual property theft," he said. "Trusted computing underpins security and can underpin growth, providing confidence in transactions, expanding markets and making them function more efficiently."
The first quoted sentence is the usual self congratulating typical for British politicians, nothing to see here, move along.
The second part of the quote starts with divulging who is sponsoring this 'action'.
It all depends who holds the key, the owner/user or some bureaucratic institution.
I would welcome a system with a strong wall against the installation of malicious software but ultimately the owner of the device should be in control.
And just as much I realise the vast majority of (Windows/ OSX) computer users find it out of their league to decide what is safe or unsafe software, a devilish dilemma!
Yet no more devilish than handing this over to the aforementioned bureaucrats.
The alternative is there, you just need some historical perspective and respect the common man.
I won't say the 70s and 80s of the past century didn't have their own problems but at least in Europe we all had a chance to a decent life without a hazy group of top brass manipulating politics and thus legislation trying to keep it all to themselves.
I respect your opinion that Libre has a negative ring to you.
But your writing doesn't match etymological facts.
Of the languages based on Germanic grammar the English has with in excess of 50% by a good margin incorporated the most vocabulary of Latin origin.
To an extend Europe already has such a privacy bill of rights.
EU nations have their individual ways of incorporating it in law but like in this Austrian case I'm quite sure it sure gives you full rights to your own data.
Yes I know it's quite shocking there are valid laws not passed by the USofA congress.
Oh sorry the story was about Windows but when you get used to KDE that's sooo past tense.
Back on-topic, I feel there'll always be a place for a menu system to access your applications, not all fit in a bar or have been assigned a short cut.
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What makes you think Gnome2 was the only viable Linux desktop?
KDE is much nicer and better integrated from the get-go.
LXDE is much lighter yet has all the clickety-click we expect of a modern GUI.
Considering the story is about older HW we shouldn't even consider a Gnome/Unity or KDE4.
An afterthought, is it the year of the Linux desktop when you have to wonder whether a new computer will run Windows?
So they might have a head start to winning the prize.
I have nothing against them trying to sell a Windows based phone but as an investor I'm really pissed off with them destroying, as the N900, N950 and ultimately the N9 proves, a great investment just to scratch the urge of an ex-MS boss.
We'll have to wait and see how the user experience pans out.
Or they don't want to upset Other Business with MS.
Maybe you should check your arithmetic...
Since Europe is not a democracy (since the unelected commission holds final authority, overriding everyone else's)
You read too many British tabloids.
The EU Commission answers to the governments that appointed the members.
As a matter of fact, many European countries have a government that is not directly elected but governs in the name of the elected parliament.
To make it clear to a UK audience, the members of such a government are appointed by the elected parliament, they are not members of the parliament.
It is an unholy alliance of the French and Brits that veto's any attempts to give such powers to the democratically elected EU parliament.
These are making the public safe online and ensuring the country is one of the best in the world for online business; making the UK more resilient in the face of cyber attack and better able to protect its interests; proving a more "open and vibrant" cyber security environment; and having the knowledge, skills and capability to underpin these.
"Building the most resilient cyber defences in the world will not help if you are suffering from intellectual property theft," he said. "Trusted computing underpins security and can underpin growth, providing confidence in transactions, expanding markets and making them function more efficiently."
The first quoted sentence is the usual self congratulating typical for British politicians, nothing to see here, move along.
The second part of the quote starts with divulging who is sponsoring this 'action'.
Bah!
I would welcome a system with a strong wall against the installation of malicious software but ultimately the owner of the device should be in control.
And just as much I realise the vast majority of (Windows/ OSX) computer users find it out of their league to decide what is safe or unsafe software, a devilish dilemma!
Yet no more devilish than handing this over to the aforementioned bureaucrats.
And a damn nice one :)
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I think I'll call it Evolution.
I won't say the 70s and 80s of the past century didn't have their own problems but at least in Europe we all had a chance to a decent life without a hazy group of top brass manipulating politics and thus legislation trying to keep it all to themselves.
A Wal-Mart, you mean the Chinese got to Mars?
But your writing doesn't match etymological facts. Of the languages based on Germanic grammar the English has with in excess of 50% by a good margin incorporated the most vocabulary of Latin origin.
But Opera is based in Norway, a country that has strong ties to the EU and therefore no doubt has strict consumer protection and privacy laws.
English inherited even more than other European languages words and expressions from Latin and Libre is a widely understood example of such.
Out of curiosity I just tried on the last two versions but sorry to spoil your rant, no crashes.
Really...
EU nations have their individual ways of incorporating it in law but like in this Austrian case I'm quite sure it sure gives you full rights to your own data.
Yes I know it's quite shocking there are valid laws not passed by the USofA congress.
Yes, Britain in a nutshell: self-congratulatory :)
So?
Not everyone likes to share their documents in return for targeted advertisements or has 24/7 net access..
And the QuickAccess browser widget.
Oh sorry the story was about Windows but when you get used to KDE that's sooo past tense.
Back on-topic, I feel there'll always be a place for a menu system to access your applications, not all fit in a bar or have been assigned a short cut.