The Fiesta is nowhere near the most efficient vehicle sold in the UK. In the Ford range, Ka will be more efficient.
For fuel efficient vehicles, look at the Toyota Aygo / Citroen C1 / Peugeot 107 (same car, different badges); the new Mini Diesel and the Volkswagen Bluemotion / Skoda Greenline range.
Anyway, the vast majority of new cars sold in Europe these days are Diesels, because of the greater efficiency.
The Prius is not that amazing for fuel economy, and the Smart is not at all good.
Not if it is anything like Vista in that respect. You may see posts elsewhere on this page about people complaining that UAC is very annoying. It is, because a lot of programs still expect to run as root, and because UAC is not that well implemented in terms of user friendliness.
What about for example ARM, which designs chips and licences them to other people to manufacture? They don't make any actual products themselves, but nevertheless their business model is much more agreeable than your average patent troll.
It is very difficult to make rules that target the people you are after without adversely affecting other people.
Not any more. Hell froze over. Steve Jobs allowed an extra button on something. And the mighty mouse is actually an almost reasonable shape to fit in a hand.
Yes, you can have a bash prompt if you really want it. I use it quite frequently. But Macs are still designed for people who don't want to use it. Think back to when Macs first came out. In those days, the average PC user would be greeted with something like
MS DOS v 2.1 Copyright (c) Micro Soft Corporation 1980 - 1984 All rights reserved
Maybe most people don't want to select font sizes and colours in their user interface. Maybe most people just want to use their user interface without being overwhelmed with loads of buttons where they can't figure out which one does what. That's the market Apple caters for.
Microsoft's success is due to its ability to buy small software companies with products that people want and sell those products to vastly more people than they were being sold to previously.
Being able to consistently pick winners when buying companies, and being able to market their products to a much larger customer base are very valuable skills, and it works well for Microsoft.
It is however a very different strategy to Apple, and Apple's strategy works well for Apple.
Bill Gates's approach to business is very different to Steve Jobs's. From a numbers perspective, Bill's clearly worked better, but it wouldn't work at Apple, because Apple sells premium niche products, and Microsoft is a mass market operator. It would be almost as bad as getting a former CEO of Pepsi to head Apple.
The main problem with your argument is that Apple very nearly didn't survive last time he left.
Certainly it is different this time in that he would be leaving on good terms whereas last time he was sacked, but if there is anyone else with the vision and drive that Steve Jobs has, they probably don't work for Steve Jobs, and they probably have set up their own company.
That's absolutely fine. I used to buy such things before broadband was available in my area. The alternative was tying up my phoneline for about 72 hours, and I was very happy to pay £3 or so to have it through my door the following morning and avoid that.
I think the main problem is that American houses are built to the sort of standards that garden sheds are built to elsewhere in the world. My electric bill is around £37 per month - no heating or air conditioning, and my gas bill for heating and hot water is about £20 per year.
If India was cut off, that would be a major problem for all the companies that have outsourced call centre and tech jobs to them, and for their customers.
You can maybe do that between Gibraltar and Morocco, but then you have the problem of getting the Spanish and Gibraltar governments to agree to a cable across their border.
I could probably manage with Google Docs for my wordprocessing requirements, but there is no way I could survive with their spreadsheet and database offerings.
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The Fiesta is nowhere near the most efficient vehicle sold in the UK. In the Ford range, Ka will be more efficient.
For fuel efficient vehicles, look at the Toyota Aygo / Citroen C1 / Peugeot 107 (same car, different badges); the new Mini Diesel and the Volkswagen Bluemotion / Skoda Greenline range.
Anyway, the vast majority of new cars sold in Europe these days are Diesels, because of the greater efficiency.
The Prius is not that amazing for fuel economy, and the Smart is not at all good.
Not if it is anything like Vista in that respect. You may see posts elsewhere on this page about people complaining that UAC is very annoying. It is, because a lot of programs still expect to run as root, and because UAC is not that well implemented in terms of user friendliness.
Polo Bluemotion does 57.6/88.3 mpg city/highway
http://www.vcacarfueldata.org.uk/search/vehicleDetails.asp?id=20690
A 20 year old European car probably runs on leaded petrol, and it is almost impossible to find that in petrol stations these days.
Why buy a hybrid? Diesel cars are much more efficient, and cheaper to buy as well.
My car gets 86mpg on the highway. People in Europe consider anything less than 45mpg to be a gas guzzler.
And the cars that qualify are probably made in France, Czech Republic or Japan, rather than the US, so that isn't going to help Detroit much.
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What about for example ARM, which designs chips and licences them to other people to manufacture? They don't make any actual products themselves, but nevertheless their business model is much more agreeable than your average patent troll.
It is very difficult to make rules that target the people you are after without adversely affecting other people.
The iPhone doesn't have a keyboard because Steve Jobs hates buttons.
You can use two fingers on the trackpad for a right click.
Not any more. Hell froze over. Steve Jobs allowed an extra button on something. And the mighty mouse is actually an almost reasonable shape to fit in a hand.
Yes, you can have a bash prompt if you really want it. I use it quite frequently. But Macs are still designed for people who don't want to use it. Think back to when Macs first came out. In those days, the average PC user would be greeted with something like
MS DOS v 2.1
Copyright (c) Micro Soft Corporation 1980 - 1984
All rights reserved
C:\>_
Compare that to what a Mac did
Maybe most people don't want to select font sizes and colours in their user interface. Maybe most people just want to use their user interface without being overwhelmed with loads of buttons where they can't figure out which one does what. That's the market Apple caters for.
Microsoft's success is due to its ability to buy small software companies with products that people want and sell those products to vastly more people than they were being sold to previously.
Being able to consistently pick winners when buying companies, and being able to market their products to a much larger customer base are very valuable skills, and it works well for Microsoft.
It is however a very different strategy to Apple, and Apple's strategy works well for Apple.
Bill Gates's approach to business is very different to Steve Jobs's. From a numbers perspective, Bill's clearly worked better, but it wouldn't work at Apple, because Apple sells premium niche products, and Microsoft is a mass market operator. It would be almost as bad as getting a former CEO of Pepsi to head Apple.
The main problem with your argument is that Apple very nearly didn't survive last time he left.
Certainly it is different this time in that he would be leaving on good terms whereas last time he was sacked, but if there is anyone else with the vision and drive that Steve Jobs has, they probably don't work for Steve Jobs, and they probably have set up their own company.
That's absolutely fine. I used to buy such things before broadband was available in my area. The alternative was tying up my phoneline for about 72 hours, and I was very happy to pay £3 or so to have it through my door the following morning and avoid that.
I think the main problem is that American houses are built to the sort of standards that garden sheds are built to elsewhere in the world. My electric bill is around £37 per month - no heating or air conditioning, and my gas bill for heating and hot water is about £20 per year.
Not surprisingly, some of the TAs were far better educators than the professors they worked for.
For the pedantic, I've fixed another typo.
If India was cut off, that would be a major problem for all the companies that have outsourced call centre and tech jobs to them, and for their customers.
You can maybe do that between Gibraltar and Morocco, but then you have the problem of getting the Spanish and Gibraltar governments to agree to a cable across their border.
I could probably manage with Google Docs for my wordprocessing requirements, but there is no way I could survive with their spreadsheet and database offerings.
The difference is that you know in advance that they are after you, and you can hire a lawyer to try and stop them. Google probably won't bother.
If you are running Windows as your host OS, Microsoft's offering is free, and good enough compared to VMWare.
If you are running MaxOSX as your host OS, Parallels is better.
That leaves people running Linux as their host OS. Xen is probably better in at least some circumstances.