You should start the British Tea Party (aka. BTP not to be confused with the BNP in any way, shape, or form of course). Kick out all the immigrants, isolate England from the EU (Scotland is having none of that), never mind the economy tanking when we lose our biggest export partner (the EU) - we'll do fine cuz all the black people are gone!!
Seriously now.. Sometimes I wonder how some people are so indoctrinated to the point that they seem to have lost all critical thinking abilities. What's causing your woes aren't black people, it's the rich white folks that are closing down the mines and factories, sending the jobs overseas, importing cheap tat from countries with poor labour protection and dodgy political systems (and getting filthy rich from this), prompting the government to spend more and more while cutting their own tax bill, the list of travesties goes on and on and on. And all you complain about is Brussels and black people... seriously...
You only need to pay if you have a laptop AND access the live stream on the BBC website, or use a DVB card/dongle to receive live broadcasts.
If you only use the iplayer catchup service, you don't have to pay, but I can see that changing soon...
I pay because I have a TV and FreeSat - so no escape for me.
However, the BBC is really a very good broadcaster. The amount of good stuff on the telly that comes from the BBC - Planet Earth/Human Planet, Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes, Merlin, Doctor Who, Panorama, Proms, News, F1, Olympics, and the list goes on and one - is more than worth the small fee I have to pay. Best of all - no commercials and no pandering to advertisers!
I dread going back to the world of 500 cable channels with nothing on apart from sitcoms and re-runs of "World's Toughest Trucker".
FTFA - 'Daley retweeted a message that said: "You let your dad down i hope you know that."... Abusive remarks on Twitter by a user had triggered protests from others before Daley responded: "After giving it my all... you get idiots sending me this..." and retweeted the message.'
He retweeted the (harrassing) messages that were sent to him. So no, he did directly harass him, and through twitter as well.
Actually the start bar/gnome menu metaphor was really showing its age. It took me a while to get used to but the Gnome 3 layout is so natural. It tries to help you along with the small task - like managing virtual desktops, open windows, etc. I find that I do a lot less time messing around with fining the right applets for my bar, messing around with where to place it, setting the right number of virtual desktops etc.
People love complaining about Gnome Shell. I'm sure that the number of people that have been converted to Linux because of Gnome Shell greatly outnumber the gnome/start menu diehards from the 1990. What is actually preventing you from using Gnome Shell with a mouse? I do it everyday on 2 computers and 4 screens. Controls are logical and the default settings customise the desktop to you - virtual desktops are created automatically, you can drag and drop windows between desktops in the windows screen, and so on. Animations are smooth and the whole design works around the lack of support for minimized composite windows in X.
Outlook is a absolutely terrible mail client that no-one should be paying for. The most important feature in email clients nowadays is search. Outlook search is terrible - finding the message you want is almost impossible in the default search and is worse yet in the advanced search. Gmail has been doing this for properly for years - it just works, so why do I have to set up an exchange environment to get an email service which is worse than gmail (or Google Apps)? It's not like it's any cheaper!
Hong Kong is different to the mainland and freedom of expression is guaranteed in the Basic Law, the mini-constitution that took effect in 1997 after the handover when it transitioned from British colonial rule to Chinese rule. The worse the government does is to erect sound-proof barriers between demonstrators and visiting communist party leaders to keep them in their little bubble.
Whether there are repercussions (i.e. travel restrictions then they attempt to go into the mainland) for the researchers remain to be seen - but in HK, they can pretty much do as they like.
Actually the best paid computing work in Finance is still to do with the analysis and programming around trading. There are hard problems to be solved. Whether that is happening in HK (compared to London and New York) is debatable. IT in finance is well paid, but doesn't hold a candle to what geeks can make in algorithmic trading. The FGPA developments are interesting, but what they are actually doing is basically reimplement the the software in the FGPA (including the networking stack!), and the FGPA doesn't just program itself - you need people to do that!
I'm guessing not all of the money in the software development budget so to the software developers salaries - you have the overhead of hiring the employees, including desk space, HR, etc. You have expenses related to software development including test infrastructure, external testing, etc. Furthermore, you would also have parts of it going to any contractors that would not be counted in the headcount.
For me, I use Firefox a lot and I'm glad that they are financially healthy. Mozilla is tiny compared to the behemoths and it's nice to know that it's not going away soon because of mismanaged finances.
Which is way more than what your cookies gives away, including your complete list of software installed, MS specific information on licensing, and other bits of information which gives Microsoft the ability to track you via the IP address used to contact the Windows Update servers.
So how much of this is being kept, and for how long? Would you care to share?
The biggest problem with WP7 is those tiles. If you have a moderately busy smartphone with lots of apps, you'll discover that the tiles don't actually help you in using the phone at all, and the application menu, because of the way they had to position the text in a list with too much line spacing, requires endless amounts of scrolling.
They should have called it the "I like flicking my smartphone" phone because that's basically what you need to do in order to accomplish anything on WP7.
Why would a police officer spend time to get a warrant on finding out who somebody is for you to file a *civil* suit for defamation? It doesn't make any sense.
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You should start the British Tea Party (aka. BTP not to be confused with the BNP in any way, shape, or form of course). Kick out all the immigrants, isolate England from the EU (Scotland is having none of that), never mind the economy tanking when we lose our biggest export partner (the EU) - we'll do fine cuz all the black people are gone!!
Seriously now.. Sometimes I wonder how some people are so indoctrinated to the point that they seem to have lost all critical thinking abilities. What's causing your woes aren't black people, it's the rich white folks that are closing down the mines and factories, sending the jobs overseas, importing cheap tat from countries with poor labour protection and dodgy political systems (and getting filthy rich from this), prompting the government to spend more and more while cutting their own tax bill, the list of travesties goes on and on and on. And all you complain about is Brussels and black people... seriously...
Maximum trollage.. Do you even live in the UK?
You only need to pay if you have a laptop AND access the live stream on the BBC website, or use a DVB card/dongle to receive live broadcasts.
If you only use the iplayer catchup service, you don't have to pay, but I can see that changing soon...
I pay because I have a TV and FreeSat - so no escape for me.
However, the BBC is really a very good broadcaster. The amount of good stuff on the telly that comes from the BBC - Planet Earth/Human Planet, Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes, Merlin, Doctor Who, Panorama, Proms, News, F1, Olympics, and the list goes on and one - is more than worth the small fee I have to pay. Best of all - no commercials and no pandering to advertisers!
I dread going back to the world of 500 cable channels with nothing on apart from sitcoms and re-runs of "World's Toughest Trucker".
That message is just one a in whole collection of direct messages to Daley from different people, some of which threatened violence...
FTFA - 'Daley retweeted a message that said: "You let your dad down i hope you know that." ... Abusive remarks on Twitter by a user had triggered protests from others before Daley responded: "After giving it my all... you get idiots sending me this..." and retweeted the message.'
He retweeted the (harrassing) messages that were sent to him. So no, he did directly harass him, and through twitter as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Megan_Meier
No, because you criticized him, not harassed him as he did with Daley.
Not everybody... it's just that the people that hate Gnome 3 are very vocal... //looks around //hum....
Actually the start bar/gnome menu metaphor was really showing its age. It took me a while to get used to but the Gnome 3 layout is so natural. It tries to help you along with the small task - like managing virtual desktops, open windows, etc. I find that I do a lot less time messing around with fining the right applets for my bar, messing around with where to place it, setting the right number of virtual desktops etc.
Have you even tried Gnome3 and Gnome Shell? It is not slow, nor broken.
People love complaining about Gnome Shell. I'm sure that the number of people that have been converted to Linux because of Gnome Shell greatly outnumber the gnome/start menu diehards from the 1990. What is actually preventing you from using Gnome Shell with a mouse? I do it everyday on 2 computers and 4 screens. Controls are logical and the default settings customise the desktop to you - virtual desktops are created automatically, you can drag and drop windows between desktops in the windows screen, and so on. Animations are smooth and the whole design works around the lack of support for minimized composite windows in X.
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You should try that in gmail. Works a treat.
Outlook is a absolutely terrible mail client that no-one should be paying for. The most important feature in email clients nowadays is search. Outlook search is terrible - finding the message you want is almost impossible in the default search and is worse yet in the advanced search. Gmail has been doing this for properly for years - it just works, so why do I have to set up an exchange environment to get an email service which is worse than gmail (or Google Apps)? It's not like it's any cheaper!
Hong Kong is different to the mainland and freedom of expression is guaranteed in the Basic Law, the mini-constitution that took effect in 1997 after the handover when it transitioned from British colonial rule to Chinese rule. The worse the government does is to erect sound-proof barriers between demonstrators and visiting communist party leaders to keep them in their little bubble.
Whether there are repercussions (i.e. travel restrictions then they attempt to go into the mainland) for the researchers remain to be seen - but in HK, they can pretty much do as they like.
UK has the same range in terms of wages in tech - depends on the Euro/Sterling exchange rate.
Actually the best paid computing work in Finance is still to do with the analysis and programming around trading. There are hard problems to be solved. Whether that is happening in HK (compared to London and New York) is debatable. IT in finance is well paid, but doesn't hold a candle to what geeks can make in algorithmic trading. The FGPA developments are interesting, but what they are actually doing is basically reimplement the the software in the FGPA (including the networking stack!), and the FGPA doesn't just program itself - you need people to do that!
I'm guessing not all of the money in the software development budget so to the software developers salaries - you have the overhead of hiring the employees, including desk space, HR, etc. You have expenses related to software development including test infrastructure, external testing, etc. Furthermore, you would also have parts of it going to any contractors that would not be counted in the headcount.
For me, I use Firefox a lot and I'm glad that they are financially healthy. Mozilla is tiny compared to the behemoths and it's nice to know that it's not going away soon because of mismanaged finances.
So why can't I have Do Not Track as default for that as well?
Which is way more than what your cookies gives away, including your complete list of software installed, MS specific information on licensing, and other bits of information which gives Microsoft the ability to track you via the IP address used to contact the Windows Update servers.
So how much of this is being kept, and for how long? Would you care to share?
Re-read my post. It's not what is being sent, it is what's being kept and tracked.
Maybe MS can disclose just how much tracking they do everytime a Windows installation phones home for Windows Update.
Then you don't really need a smartphone do you?
The biggest problem with WP7 is those tiles. If you have a moderately busy smartphone with lots of apps, you'll discover that the tiles don't actually help you in using the phone at all, and the application menu, because of the way they had to position the text in a list with too much line spacing, requires endless amounts of scrolling.
They should have called it the "I like flicking my smartphone" phone because that's basically what you need to do in order to accomplish anything on WP7.
The court usually accepts a economic value placed on reputation. Remember civil, not criminal.
Why would a police officer spend time to get a warrant on finding out who somebody is for you to file a *civil* suit for defamation? It doesn't make any sense.