Have you tried? We bought a car which had been cloned - after the clone had crashed into school gates and the driver locked up. We spent more than 6 months dealing with police and local authorities damanding payment for things that happened to the other (clone) car, before we owned the original. The people running this system cold not run a bath, they are so incompetent.I am in favour of compulsory insurance, but only when the same degree of regulation applies to the insurance companies as applies to the insured. (I am also in favour of public lynchings for the people running some of the insurance companies at present).
As for the clown that said "if you can afford a car, you can afford to insure it" you do realise that you can by a perfectly usable three year old car for about £2,500, but the (3rd party) insurance for someone under 25 is likely over £5,000 in London.
Can someone at/. explain why my pounds have mysteriously become Australian or something?
Except that all these companies turn out to be owned by the same scummy banks, and have automated to the extent that if your quote fails on one website because of a typing error, all the others refuse to quote you because you have been refused insurance by another company.
This is the same industry that quotes you £30 less than a competitor, then after you have paid, says "Sorry there was an error, we should have charged £130 more - pay up or your insurance is invalid" and takes money from you, then, months later, says your insurance is invalid due to a clause tthey failed to print on the paperwork. In short, you can put more trust in the mafia.
UK insurance amounts to "demanding money with menaces" the menace being that they will send the plod round to visit you.
Some people write actual words shock, horror. I know its a hard idea to grasp, when most people have been educated to be illiterate by MTV, but you might be able to learn for yourself by using the iNterwebz.
I live/drive in the UK (London) - I often spend more than 15 minutes without moving one car length. I do not think it would be dangerous to send a text in the situation where the car can't move - but there is no chance that the law would distinguish between texting when safe to do so and when not. If we needed to do that, we could charge people who text when it is dangerous to do so would be charged with "driving without due care and attention" - which they are obviously guilty of.
A law against using a phone would just be used to harass people who are cheeky to the police, or because they are black.
There is NO need to consider that option. We ALL hate its guts.
One major problem is the removal of the words under Icons in an interface that is completely icon dependent, yet uses icons which are new, and not recognisable. This effectively disguises your system as a POS.
The fact that, dependent on the situation the icons are either too small to recognise, or so huge you only get 6 on a 2048x 1440 screen definitely does not help.
Lesson 1: Words (and by extension, hierarchical menus) are a great way to interface with people who are literate. Illiterates do not actually need a GUI on a computer at all. (They need an iPhone).
a) Because the Bible was not originally written in English
b) because walled cities were normal in Biblical times
c) because, to pass through the "eye of the needle" a camel would have do bend his neck (show humility) - fits the Bible's emphasis on humility perfectly.
No body is mentioning the fact that they had an image problem - at least here in the UK, they were seen as having started as a low price company, worked their way to raising the prices with improvements in quality, and then ditched the quality while retaining the high prices. Kodak could have done loads of things, but with an image of selling over priced tat, they were probably already doomed. (Like Carly Fiorina and HP).
Meanwhile Samsung has gone from selling cheap tat to top of the range. Who is is making the profit? Is there a lesson here?
*BSDs each have a central Engineering team - managing things like quality control for the entire distro - including all apps. This offers long term stability.
Linux allows a wide range of contributors with, at least for some distros, not much quality control. This allows rapid development.
Licence differences mean that *BSD is more likely to be used commercially - and provides a lot of infrastructure and embedded environments - so by definition it is the standard in many areas.
Linux is more contributor friendly, so has more contributors - some excellent - some not so much.
The main BSDs Open, Free, and Net each have their own speciality. While they share much code, they are not all suited to the same task.
Use OpenBSD for security (at the expense of limited peripheral support)
Use FreeBSD for stability (and wider range of supported peripherals)
Use NetBSD if you are porting so a new environment, or running some bizarre piece of vintage hardware.
The rest of the mob are basically desktop variants of FreeBSD for people with different tastes (KDE, Gnome, Xfce95).
BSD is Real Unix - if you have been using it since 1978, you wont have to keep learning to look in new places for things which are not where you expect them - however, unless you have been using it since 1978, some things can be hard to find!
There is more than one reason to restrict bandwidth for voice calls - it doesn't just keep the cost of the call down (I am sure your network operator wants an excuse to raise the cost of your contract), it also reduces the prospects of sending unwanted noise (the wider you open the window, the more the dirt blow in).
I make a lot of calls from noisy environments (eg on transport), and don't want to pay my network operator more money. I am sure the people I make business calls to would rather hear what I say than appreciate the quality of the audio.
Basically, Apple managed to patent a design invented by someone else and are busy trying to defend that using lawsuits. That's reprehensible behaviour by any standards
Yes - but it is also the American way, and the rest of the world just has to suck it up..
since they never are able to get rid of their wealthy elite..
You evidently do not live in the UK (or maybe do not read beyond the headlines)
We have driven the legitimate wealthy overseas by excessive taxes. Only those who have an illegal income or effective tax scam remain, so we are governed by criminals.
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Have you tried? We bought a car which had been cloned - after the clone had crashed into school gates and the driver locked up. We spent more than 6 months dealing with police and local authorities damanding payment for things that happened to the other (clone) car, before we owned the original. The people running this system cold not run a bath, they are so incompetent.I am in favour of compulsory insurance, but only when the same degree of regulation applies to the insurance companies as applies to the insured. (I am also in favour of public lynchings for the people running some of the insurance companies at present).
As for the clown that said "if you can afford a car, you can afford to insure it" you do realise that you can by a perfectly usable three year old car for about £2,500, but the (3rd party) insurance for someone under 25 is likely over £5,000 in London.
Can someone at /. explain why my pounds have mysteriously become Australian or something?
It is highly disrespectful to the mafia to compare them to the UK insurance industry.
This is the same industry that quotes you £30 less than a competitor, then after you have paid, says "Sorry there was an error, we should have charged £130 more - pay up or your insurance is invalid" and takes money from you, then, months later, says your insurance is invalid due to a clause tthey failed to print on the paperwork. In short, you can put more trust in the mafia.
UK insurance amounts to "demanding money with menaces" the menace being that they will send the plod round to visit you.
Yes, but they werent made by Samsung, so the dont count.
Half a billion people found it was on their PC, not that they had a say in the matter.
Those who had a choice were using Ubuntu, until Unity was foisted on them!
- now we are all stuffed.
I predict users are going to start asking questions about their OS, not they have realised not all OSes are the same.
I, for one, will be shorting shares in MS.
Some people write actual words shock, horror. I know its a hard idea to grasp, when most people have been educated to be illiterate by MTV, but you might be able to learn for yourself by using the iNterwebz.
A law against using a phone would just be used to harass people who are cheeky to the police, or because they are black.
There, that's fixed it for you.
I think the cams were actually on sharks.
News International, apparently!
One major problem is the removal of the words under Icons in an interface that is completely icon dependent, yet uses icons which are new, and not recognisable. This effectively disguises your system as a POS.
The fact that, dependent on the situation the icons are either too small to recognise, or so huge you only get 6 on a 2048x 1440 screen definitely does not help.
Lesson 1: Words (and by extension, hierarchical menus) are a great way to interface with people who are literate. Illiterates do not actually need a GUI on a computer at all. (They need an iPhone).
That is Coca-Cola's job. Don't you watch the adverts at Christmas?
Or perhaps - Face-Palm OS :-}
b) because walled cities were normal in Biblical times
c) because, to pass through the "eye of the needle" a camel would have do bend his neck (show humility) - fits the Bible's emphasis on humility perfectly.
Meanwhile Samsung has gone from selling cheap tat to top of the range. Who is is making the profit? Is there a lesson here?
You really mean all those apps on my Mum's Apple are drugged? Don't tell her she might 'frique out!
BSD is very user friendly - its just kind of selective about who its friends are!
I am a scaly ant-eater, you insensitive clod!
Linux allows a wide range of contributors with, at least for some distros, not much quality control. This allows rapid development.
Licence differences mean that *BSD is more likely to be used commercially - and provides a lot of infrastructure and embedded environments - so by definition it is the standard in many areas.
Linux is more contributor friendly, so has more contributors - some excellent - some not so much.
The main BSDs Open, Free, and Net each have their own speciality. While they share much code, they are not all suited to the same task.
Use OpenBSD for security (at the expense of limited peripheral support)
Use FreeBSD for stability (and wider range of supported peripherals)
Use NetBSD if you are porting so a new environment, or running some bizarre piece of vintage hardware.
The rest of the mob are basically desktop variants of FreeBSD for people with different tastes (KDE, Gnome, Xfce95) .
BSD is Real Unix - if you have been using it since 1978, you wont have to keep learning to look in new places for things which are not where you expect them - however, unless you have been using it since 1978, some things can be hard to find!
almost? I take it you have not attempted to drive around the North Circular any time in the last 3 years?
I make a lot of calls from noisy environments (eg on transport), and don't want to pay my network operator more money. I am sure the people I make business calls to would rather hear what I say than appreciate the quality of the audio.
Its a phone, not a hi-fi!
I have learned LaTeX at least 3 times in the last 20 years, and forgot it immediately afterwards. Arcane does not even begin to describe it, and there is no way any of that effort is needed if its not going to a learned publication I could probably do the job faster setting lead type on a letter press, if you include the learning overhead and the hacking of the various scripts. .
Government departments need to learn to use plain text if they don't want to have the public demanding their pay cut for profligacy.
Can I offer you a complete set of PDP11 schematics and a set of Microsoft OS/2 1.3 installation disks?
Yes - but it is also the American way, and the rest of the world just has to suck it up..
You evidently do not live in the UK (or maybe do not read beyond the headlines)
We have driven the legitimate wealthy overseas by excessive taxes. Only those who have an illegal income or effective tax scam remain, so we are governed by criminals.