I would point out that Windows 2008 Small Business Edition doesn't install on less than 4GB RAM, so if you want to install that in Xen or KVM, you need a machine with more than 4GB. Probably at least 5GB, but realistically 8GB.
You can reduce the memory allocation after it is installed, and it seems to work fine.
In Britain, Google Transit only tells you about buses, not trains, underground etc. As I live within walking distance of the fourth busiest train station in England, train is an option I sometimes consider.
It is a little different in Britain. There was always competition in the National newspapers market.
You will have a local newspaper which often, but not always has a monopoly on local news. For example the Evening Standard in London. However in Oxford, which is a much smaller city, there is the Oxford Mail and the Oxford Times.
Then there are national papers, such as the Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, Sun, Mirror, Daily Mail, Daily Express which you can get anywhere.
In Scotland, there are Scottish versions of some of the national papers, with slightly different content from their English counterparts, mainly in the sports section, and some Scottish national papers, such as the Herald, Daily Record and Scotsman. The Daily Record and Scotsman can be found in England if you look in the right places. Also there are local papers which follow much the same pattern as in England.
The Financial Times is essentially the British version of the Wall Street Journal. Different publisher, but it covers the same niche in a different geographical market.
At the moment, I get my mainstream media news from timesonline, telegraph, guardian and news.bbc.co.uk. BBC is the most popular site in the country, and I believe the Telegraph is the second most popular.
I expect most timesonline readers are people who like me also read other newspaper sites. If Murdoch starts charging for it, they will just continue to read the other sites and not bother reading the Times.
If you are in the 50% of the UK population that is even remotely rural, cable is not available. I see no reason why availability in cities and large towns in the US should be any different from the availability in cities and large towns here.
Actually, the South East of England is not the most densely populated part of the country. That honour goes to the North West, around Manchester / Liverpool / Leeds etc. For example, go round the M25, it is mostly countryside. Go round the M60, it is mostly built up.
England is actually less densely populated than Germany.
In some cases, eg Bradford & Bingley, a British mortgage bank that went bust last year, the ability to breathe wasn't a requirement. They gave out loans to people who died 30 years ago at the age of 2.
I'd say that Windows 2000 was the most successful release from Microsoft to date.
I had a few problems with it which were fixed in SP1, but even before that, it was much better than Windows 98.
As far as XP goes, the best I can say about it was that there was no particular reason to uninstall it and go back to 2000, and it had a few nice touches like ClearType.
It isn't available on XP Home, but it is on XP Media Centre Edition.
However, Vista Home Premium is equivalent to XP MCE, and it doesn't have Remote Desktop. If you want remote desktop and media centre on Vista, you need the Ultimate edition.
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Justin Frankel, formerly of Winamp, which was taken over by AOL, might not agree with you.
I would point out that Windows 2008 Small Business Edition doesn't install on less than 4GB RAM, so if you want to install that in Xen or KVM, you need a machine with more than 4GB. Probably at least 5GB, but realistically 8GB.
You can reduce the memory allocation after it is installed, and it seems to work fine.
Isn't this the opposite of what Apple did?
You need the more modern type of CPU with virtualisation support to run this, and Windows 7 on older type chips won't work.
In Britain, Google Transit only tells you about buses, not trains, underground etc. As I live within walking distance of the fourth busiest train station in England, train is an option I sometimes consider.
It does have such a bit. That feature has been available since at least Windows 2000.
The only problem is that the bit is turned on by default.
The Vista file manager does that too.
Newspaper websites generally aren't out of date.
The copy of the Times you get on the news stand contains everything that was on timesonline.co.uk yesterday.
It is a little different in Britain. There was always competition in the National newspapers market.
You will have a local newspaper which often, but not always has a monopoly on local news. For example the Evening Standard in London. However in Oxford, which is a much smaller city, there is the Oxford Mail and the Oxford Times.
Then there are national papers, such as the Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, Sun, Mirror, Daily Mail, Daily Express which you can get anywhere.
In Scotland, there are Scottish versions of some of the national papers, with slightly different content from their English counterparts, mainly in the sports section, and some Scottish national papers, such as the Herald, Daily Record and Scotsman. The Daily Record and Scotsman can be found in England if you look in the right places. Also there are local papers which follow much the same pattern as in England.
The Financial Times is essentially the British version of the Wall Street Journal. Different publisher, but it covers the same niche in a different geographical market.
At the moment, I get my mainstream media news from timesonline, telegraph, guardian and news.bbc.co.uk. BBC is the most popular site in the country, and I believe the Telegraph is the second most popular.
I expect most timesonline readers are people who like me also read other newspaper sites. If Murdoch starts charging for it, they will just continue to read the other sites and not bother reading the Times.
Yes, but at least in the UK, you need a TV licence to watch such a stream.
A video recorder is capable of receiving TV programs but not displaying them. It requires a licence.
It also includes things like the live BBC News 24 stream. This link will only work from a UK IP address.
Sky News is a pretty effective competitor.
What about Bremner, Bird & Fortune on Channel 4?
No you don't. The only think you need a licence for is live TV streams, and I'm not sure the Apple TV is capable of displaying those.
You have to pay for your basic cable subscription on top of the TV Licence.
If you are in the 50% of the UK population that is even remotely rural, cable is not available. I see no reason why availability in cities and large towns in the US should be any different from the availability in cities and large towns here.
Actually, the South East of England is not the most densely populated part of the country. That honour goes to the North West, around Manchester / Liverpool / Leeds etc. For example, go round the M25, it is mostly countryside. Go round the M60, it is mostly built up.
England is actually less densely populated than Germany.
At least you don't have Phorm to worry about, or Virgin's exceptionally poor customer service.
Or if you live in Britain, Woothworths is another example.
What IP is there?
Their trademark is a liability. And their reseller contract on Novell's Unix code isn't worth much, if anything.
In some cases, eg Bradford & Bingley, a British mortgage bank that went bust last year, the ability to breathe wasn't a requirement. They gave out loans to people who died 30 years ago at the age of 2.
I'd say that Windows 2000 was the most successful release from Microsoft to date.
I had a few problems with it which were fixed in SP1, but even before that, it was much better than Windows 98.
As far as XP goes, the best I can say about it was that there was no particular reason to uninstall it and go back to 2000, and it had a few nice touches like ClearType.
It isn't available on XP Home, but it is on XP Media Centre Edition.
However, Vista Home Premium is equivalent to XP MCE, and it doesn't have Remote Desktop. If you want remote desktop and media centre on Vista, you need the Ultimate edition.
You can RDP from a Windows 2000 machine. You might have to download and install the RDP client, but that isn't too difficult.