No reason why the USA can't beat Canada then. Warmer climate and similar, if not smaller distances. But anyways, USians just have to drive less, or smaller cars. Raising taxes on gas would be a good first step instead of giving inefficient subsidies and hoping people will choose small cars and hybrids.
They have the choice between iOS and Android. Most chose Android for various reasons. Before they could choose Microsoft, Blackberry, PalmOS... choices were there, but most died because of lack of sales.
USACorp is the best in trying to apply US laws in other countries. That's why we are stuck with FBI (which has no juridiction) on DVDs and DMCA take down notices are being sent across the world.
If the EU laws work outside Europe, won't China'a laws work outside of China? Why pay for the big firewall, they could just demand removal of all "objectionable" content! Be careful what you wish for....
They could. And they can. No matter what the EU does.
And that, fellow Slashdotters, is why the iPhone remains popular
Oh sure it's popular. Probably not for the reasons you enumerated (some are just false) but yes it is popular. 15% of the market is quite popular. The rest, about 85%, prefer Android.
When I buy gasoline for my car, I pay a tax which is used for the construction and upkeep of roads. I also pay a fee when I register my vehicle each year which goes to the same purpose. Bicycles don't consume gasoline, nor does one pay a registration fee, yet it does cost money to build and maintain bike paths. Yes, bicycles are more environmentally friendly and their use should be encouraged, but there are costs to supporting cyclists other than air pollution. Why shouldn't bicyclers pay their fair share?
Mass transit is subsidized, and it much worse for the environment and public health than cycling. Also cyclists pay city taxes, and the city is usually spending for most of the bike paths, which are less expensive than roads. Most of gas taxes go to a larger area (state/province/country) and is usually spent on stuff such as highways on which cyclists and pedestrians aren't even allowed to go.
It could be used as an optional, secondary way of adding someone to your list (just like searching by name and city). But it should never be the primary ID. That's just plain stupid. People can have more than one phone, many people can share a phone number, phone numbers are country based, sometimes you can't even keep it when switching provider within the same country. They are also hard to remember. But the main reason is that most internet connected devices don't have a phone number. Telegram sucks so much that you can't use it on a PC unless you also have a cell phone. They do have a desktop web client, but here is what happens when you try to login, you get the following error message:
but incompatible with any internet-connected device made since... forever. The good way to be backward compatible with dumb phones is to provide SMS gateways, such as SMS to email. No reason why we couldn't make SMS to XMPP gateways. But those with Internet access on their phone (most people these days) shouldn't be stuck using SMS, and shouldn't have to suffer phone numbers as identifiers.
It's being used with limited functionality on these devices. Apple wants you to have an iPhone, and your phone number is your main identifier on iMessage, the one people are supposed to use when contacting you, even if the message also gets delivered to your Mac.
Anyways, even without that huge flaw, iMessage still shouldn't be used as it's single-vendor. Who wants a single-vendor messaging protocol? Nobody only has friends with Apple devices.
Looks like you didn't get my sarcasm. I just can't believe people are still using, and even worse, designing protocols based on phone numbers as an identifier. Offenders include iMessage, SMS, Whatsapp and many more crappy protocols designed to reach a SIM card instead of a person.
If the US exited the Paris agreement because it didn't do enough for the environment you might have had a point. But it's the opposite. Trump removed the US signature because it was too much pro-environment.
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No reason why the USA can't beat Canada then. Warmer climate and similar, if not smaller distances.
But anyways, USians just have to drive less, or smaller cars. Raising taxes on gas would be a good first step instead of giving inefficient subsidies and hoping people will choose small cars and hybrids.
No antivirus is enough to protect yourself.
Should I trust Kaspersky more than Microsoft? In both cases it's about trust.
the UK might be the only western country where petrol-fuelled cars are still on the road
No, the USA will be dead last
There is already an antivirus builtin to Windows. Honest question here, why should I install this one instead?
Money is free speech.
Only in the USA. In more democratic countries, political donations are limited / capped.
The rest doesn't have a choice
They have the choice between iOS and Android. Most chose Android for various reasons. Before they could choose Microsoft, Blackberry, PalmOS... choices were there, but most died because of lack of sales.
there are. But surely for a company like Google, they do not want to go that route, or they risk loosing 95% of their sales in the EU
They can do much more than that. They can also block payments.
USACorp is the best in trying to apply US laws in other countries. That's why we are stuck with FBI (which has no juridiction) on DVDs and DMCA take down notices are being sent across the world.
wait, you are sending DMCA (a US law) complains to French and Russian web sites?
There is no such thing as a precedent across different countries.
If the EU laws work outside Europe, won't China'a laws work outside of China? Why pay for the big firewall, they could just demand removal of all "objectionable" content! Be careful what you wish for....
They could. And they can. No matter what the EU does.
They can ban companies not obeying EU laws from the EU. So short answer, yes.
And that, fellow Slashdotters, is why the iPhone remains popular
Oh sure it's popular. Probably not for the reasons you enumerated (some are just false) but yes it is popular. 15% of the market is quite popular. The rest, about 85%, prefer Android.
When I buy gasoline for my car, I pay a tax which is used for the construction and upkeep of roads. I also pay a fee when I register my vehicle each year which goes to the same purpose. Bicycles don't consume gasoline, nor does one pay a registration fee, yet it does cost money to build and maintain bike paths. Yes, bicycles are more environmentally friendly and their use should be encouraged, but there are costs to supporting cyclists other than air pollution. Why shouldn't bicyclers pay their fair share?
Mass transit is subsidized, and it much worse for the environment and public health than cycling.
Also cyclists pay city taxes, and the city is usually spending for most of the bike paths, which are less expensive than roads.
Most of gas taxes go to a larger area (state/province/country) and is usually spent on stuff such as highways on which cyclists and pedestrians aren't even allowed to go.
you mean mandating XMPP?
At least with email your parents could create a second one for free if they wanted to. To get a phone number, you must usually pay.
It could be used as an optional, secondary way of adding someone to your list (just like searching by name and city). But it should never be the primary ID. That's just plain stupid. People can have more than one phone, many people can share a phone number, phone numbers are country based, sometimes you can't even keep it when switching provider within the same country. They are also hard to remember. But the main reason is that most internet connected devices don't have a phone number. Telegram sucks so much that you can't use it on a PC unless you also have a cell phone. They do have a desktop web client, but here is what happens when you try to login, you get the following error message:
sign up with Android / iPhone first
which is a truly ugly, artificial limitation
but incompatible with any internet-connected device made since... forever.
The good way to be backward compatible with dumb phones is to provide SMS gateways, such as SMS to email. No reason why we couldn't make SMS to XMPP gateways. But those with Internet access on their phone (most people these days) shouldn't be stuck using SMS, and shouldn't have to suffer phone numbers as identifiers.
It's being used with limited functionality on these devices.
Apple wants you to have an iPhone, and your phone number is your main identifier on iMessage, the one people are supposed to use when contacting you, even if the message also gets delivered to your Mac.
Anyways, even without that huge flaw, iMessage still shouldn't be used as it's single-vendor. Who wants a single-vendor messaging protocol? Nobody only has friends with Apple devices.
Looks like you didn't get my sarcasm.
I just can't believe people are still using, and even worse, designing protocols based on phone numbers as an identifier.
Offenders include iMessage, SMS, Whatsapp and many more crappy protocols designed to reach a SIM card instead of a person.
it's called XMPP
IRC doesn't suit the same purpose
Good idea. If only someone had it before...
In your Apple-only world Swift might be an option.
For the rest of the world, it's far from being a C++ replacement.
If the US exited the Paris agreement because it didn't do enough for the environment you might have had a point.
But it's the opposite. Trump removed the US signature because it was too much pro-environment.