The full adjudication can be found on the
ASA website.
The complaint had nothing to do with the description as "high speed", although removing those words and adding some qualifying text will fix the situation.
Keep in mind that an Operating System is NOT a GUI.
However, can the average user tell the difference? Should the average user be able to tell the difference?
A desktop operating system must now come with a GUI. For the average user the GUI that comes with the OS will be what they use. I would say it is a reasonable point that the default GUI should be "quick and responsive".
Sorry, but there is a very good reason not to switch off analogue. Receiving digital-terrestrial TV requires separate equipment, currently costing about £100. Until most/all of the population can afford this it will not happen.
"Over the past several hundred years we have replaced the rule of the mob with free markets, which ensure an equitable price for both buyer and seller through the natural interactions of supply and demand."
Alternatively:
We now have a situation where large, multi-national companies set extortionate prices for goods simply because customers have no other choice. This is not an equitable price.
Is providing different style sheets to different browsers actually a bad thing?
Isn't one of the purposes of style sheets to separate content from formatting? So as different browsers interpret style sheets differently, does it not make sense to provide IE with a style sheet that it can correctly display, and provide Opera with a style sheet it can correctly display, and provide Mozilla with a style sheet it can correctly display, and provide screen readers with a style sheet that interprets things correctly?
Huh? If everything can be said in plain text then why bother with HTML at all? CSS provide a way of formatting web pages differently on different types of client. Style sheets are a good thing.
What rubbish. We are not monitored everywhere we go. In fact, most places are CCTV free. It is only a few cities that have extensive CCTV monitoring, and then only in the main shopping areas.
You make it sound like the government can track our every move and that is simply not the case.
The shuttles are 30 year old technology with an immense amount of development time gone into it. Replacing the shuttles completely will take many, many years to develop systems and software.
30 year old technology is often still in use because it works.
You seem to mis-understand Marxism. A Marxist would suggest that "to the victor go the spoils", not "to the share holders of the multi-national company go the spoils".
Would you rather the author got the credit or the shareholders of the publisher?
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The full adjudication can be found on the ASA website.
The complaint had nothing to do with the description as "high speed", although removing those words and adding some qualifying text will fix the situation.
All except for the steering wheel...
Bullshit, there are BIOSs that are written in C. Actually, my bootloader is written in C++. There.
A bootloader is not a BIOS.
In windows... I guess I could use windowblinds or desktopX or whatever its called, but they just change the way it *looks*...
Indeed, you could look at DesktopX. It does far more than just change the way Windows looks.
Keep in mind that an Operating System is NOT a GUI.
However, can the average user tell the difference? Should the average user be able to tell the difference?
A desktop operating system must now come with a GUI. For the average user the GUI that comes with the OS will be what they use. I would say it is a reasonable point that the default GUI should be "quick and responsive".
Sorry, but there is a very good reason not to switch off analogue. Receiving digital-terrestrial TV requires separate equipment, currently costing about £100. Until most/all of the population can afford this it will not happen.
"Over the past several hundred years we have replaced the rule of the mob with free markets, which ensure an equitable price for both buyer and seller through the natural interactions of supply and demand." Alternatively: We now have a situation where large, multi-national companies set extortionate prices for goods simply because customers have no other choice. This is not an equitable price.
Is providing different style sheets to different browsers actually a bad thing?
Isn't one of the purposes of style sheets to separate content from formatting? So as different browsers interpret style sheets differently, does it not make sense to provide IE with a style sheet that it can correctly display, and provide Opera with a style sheet it can correctly display, and provide Mozilla with a style sheet it can correctly display, and provide screen readers with a style sheet that interprets things correctly?
Huh? If everything can be said in plain text then why bother with HTML at all? CSS provide a way of formatting web pages differently on different types of client. Style sheets are a good thing.
Not exactly. When set to identify as another browser the identification string still contains "Opera". Examples:
Identifying as IE:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows XP) Opera 7.0 [en]
Identifying as Mozilla:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows XP; U) Opera 7.0 [en]
Identifying as Opera:
Opera/7.0 (Windows XP; U) [en]
You make it sound like the government can track our every move and that is simply not the case.
The shuttles are 30 year old technology with an immense amount of development time gone into it. Replacing the shuttles completely will take many, many years to develop systems and software. 30 year old technology is often still in use because it works.
You seem to mis-understand Marxism. A Marxist would suggest that "to the victor go the spoils", not "to the share holders of the multi-national company go the spoils". Would you rather the author got the credit or the shareholders of the publisher?