At the end of the day, corporations are a group of people. As people go, they replace them with other people, but that doesn't stop them being a group of people.
Evading taxes is not paying taxes in ways which are illegal. Avoiding taxes is not paying taxes in ways which are legal. There is a very important distinction.
A surprisingly large number of US corporations are headquartered in the tiny state of Delaware. Could that possibly be in some way related to very low state income taxes?
If you use a logarithmic scale, they had as much of a bump as anyone else.
On the linear scale it looks flatter because of the huge pre-dot.com slump when they lost their market leading position to Microsoft and the PC manufacturers.
Removing support for USB mass storage devices would make it more secure, but that wouldn't be much use for the general population.
Security for the military means things like preventing people from copying classified information. Even Open BSD would score very poorly in that respect.
Apple did manage to overtake its dot.com peak. I believe it was the only tech company that did. I guess that is because it was a pretty lousy company back in 2000, and in a much better shape now.
This situation existed up until the printing press was invented. Before then, everything had to be copied by hand and a distributed system was the most effective way of doing this.
The temporary monopoly was to encourage people to invest in printing equipment and printing plates so they could mass produce copies cheaply.
The economics of the Gutenberg Press don't apply to the HP Laserjets of today though.
There has also got to be an intention to form a contract. If you are playing a computer game, there probably isn't the expectation that such an intention exists.
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People who bought XP just before the Vista launch date were entitled to a free copy of Vista.
They have to do that, otherwise people would defer their purchase until the next version comes out.
Windows 2003 is 5.2
Most of the tax havens are British, so I'm not terribly in favour of that idea.
At the end of the day, corporations are a group of people. As people go, they replace them with other people, but that doesn't stop them being a group of people.
The government doesn't have any control over overseas tax. That's up the the government of the cayman islands or whatever to decide.
Evading taxes is not paying taxes in ways which are illegal. Avoiding taxes is not paying taxes in ways which are legal. There is a very important distinction.
A surprisingly large number of US corporations are headquartered in the tiny state of Delaware. Could that possibly be in some way related to very low state income taxes?
The Telegraph is often called the Torygraph, because it supports the Conservative Party.
The Daily Mail is sometimes called the Daily Wail or the Daily Heil, and its political leanings are more towards the BNP.
You have a right to political free speech, but you do not have a right to commercial free speech. You also don't have a right to tell lies.
That would be like suing HP for selling the Laserjets that were used to print it.
That clearly is going too far, but going after the hosting provider does happen.
The ability to run 16 bit programs. Yes, there's still lots of them around.
The ability to provide read/write access to c:\Program Files\ and c:\Windows\ or whatever they are called in Windows 7.
Or OSX with Parallels Desktop.
It stands for Digital Restrictions Management.
It manages the Restrictions that copyright owners and publishers place on the use of their content.
If you use a logarithmic scale, they had as much of a bump as anyone else.
On the linear scale it looks flatter because of the huge pre-dot.com slump when they lost their market leading position to Microsoft and the PC manufacturers.
Removing support for USB mass storage devices would make it more secure, but that wouldn't be much use for the general population.
Security for the military means things like preventing people from copying classified information. Even Open BSD would score very poorly in that respect.
Apple did manage to overtake its dot.com peak. I believe it was the only tech company that did. I guess that is because it was a pretty lousy company back in 2000, and in a much better shape now.
Joking aside, the plates were expensive as they had to be engraved by hand. The ink was probably relatively cheap.
Whereas, now you can get a Laserjet for not much more than the price of a toner cartridge.
For a large building with thousands, or even tens of thousands of people in it? I'm not there would be enough bandwidth to cope with it.
You are still going to need ethernet to connect all the wireless access points together.
This situation existed up until the printing press was invented. Before then, everything had to be copied by hand and a distributed system was the most effective way of doing this.
The temporary monopoly was to encourage people to invest in printing equipment and printing plates so they could mass produce copies cheaply.
The economics of the Gutenberg Press don't apply to the HP Laserjets of today though.
You don't need IPv6 to do that. If you are controlling it by email, you don't even need a publically routeable IP address.
There has also got to be an intention to form a contract. If you are playing a computer game, there probably isn't the expectation that such an intention exists.
The idea that you could be sued in the real world for something you do while playing a computer game isn't going to appeal to most people.
The other difference is that there is one extra key on en-GB and all other European keyboards vs en-US.
Shift 3 gets you a # symbol on en-US keyboards. On en-GB it gets you a £ symbol. The # is on the extra key next to the Enter key.
Alt-Gr 4 gets you a € symbol on en-GB keyboards. I don't think it does anything on en-US keyboards.
You need a Web 2.0 paradigm in there somewhere.