Here are some UK and Ireland examples. They are all probably better known in the UK than Steve Jobs
Richard Branson - Virgin Group Brian Souter - Stagecoach Stelios Haji-Ioannou - Easy Group Michael O'Leary - Ryanair Alan Sugar - Amstrad, Viglen etc Roman Abramovich - Chelsea Football Club
Or from somewhere in Florida to Algericas in Southern Spain. Or if the Gibraltar tunnel ever gets built, to somewhere in Africa. Actually, I believe the Chinese are looking at building a rail link to Africa, but going the other way round the Mediterranean.
It is British Guage, but anyway, the trains from France to Spain have adjustable wheels which allow them to convert from British to Spanish Guage at the border, so it can be done.
Elsewhere in the comments, the current provider installed and manages the whole thing and charges the guests to use Wifi. They would prefer to provide their guests with free Wifi, presumably to attract more of them.
I tried one out at Carphone Warehouse today (owned by Best Buy UK). When I tried to read http://news.bbc.co.uk/ it kept refreshing the page every time I tried to scroll up or down, and it took about 15-30 seconds every time to do this, making the browsing experience so frustrating it was virtually unusable. Having tried all the tablets in there, the iPad is the only slab I would buy. I do have an Android phone, the Samsung Galaxy S which I am very happy with, but nobody seems to have an answer to the iPad yet.
I prefer apps to websites on the phone because you only have to download data when you use it, rather than user interface + data, so it is faster on slow connections, and they tend to be better designed for small screen + touch interface. On a tablet which has a bigger screen, and would mostly be used on a fast wifi connection, I'm not so sure that is important.
Microsoft already has two operating systems that run on ARM, Windows CE (aka Windows Mobile) and Windows Phone; so I'm not so sure about that. Besides iOS and Android are the market leaders in the ARM space, that probably isn't likely to change any time soon, and Windows 8 probably won't run on any of those devices.
It also makes it impossible for blind people to enter the PIN, so probably violates Disability Discrimination legislation. Keypads usually have a dimple on the No 5 button, and a blind person can figure out where the other buttons are from that.
I think the idea is that after you leave the machine, four[1] of the keys will be glowing. The brightest one is the number you pressed last, and the dimmest is the one you pressed first.
[1] Assuming your PIN is made up of four unique numbers. If your pin contains repeated numbers, I guess it makes it more difficult to determine the order of them.
Because if you are one of these people that Mozilla doesn't care about, the BOFH of a company with a large number of desktops to administer, you want to have everyone on the same version, and you want to check that updates work with everything before you roll them out.
Then a lot of people like to have the same thing at home as they have at work so they don't have the confusion of switching between two different versions or implementations of the same thing, so if they have Internet Explorer at work, they will have Internet Explorer at home because they know how to use it.
I pay about £40 ($65) for a tank of diesel in my car, and that is with Britain's very expensive petrol taxes. Is $40 without any taxes really that cheap?
The problem is that you would have to put water in it to generate the steam. Steam engines in the past had a range of about 26 miles between refills, and it took about 30 minutes to heat up the boiler before you could set off. With this set-up, the boiler could possibly be a bit smaller than a coal fired one, but the other technical problems still remain.
It is a (rare earth) mineral, not a rare (earth mineral). It means it is an element that is a member of the lanthanide series, not an element that is difficult to find.
The Greater London Authority has similar powers to county councils elsewhere in England, and London has Borough councils (+ 2 city councils). However, US states have much more powers than an English county council. Their powers are equivalent to either the UK government itself (vs those powers held by the EU) or the country level governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Any statements by the police such as the one you have quoted should be treated as being wrong until proven otherwise. The Met has lied far too many times in these situations for anyone to be able to trust them.
The contents of his hard drive are designated as confidential, because they may contain correspondence with his lawyers which is legally privileged, and lots of other information which is not relevant to the case at hand, such as his Internet Explorer favourite sites list and his photo collection.
The computer hard drive may well contain correspondence with his lawyer, which is legally privileged and can't be shown in court. I think that is most likely the issue.
Probably yes. People who were owed money by AIG got their money because the AAA rated US government bailed them out. The concern now is that they US government doesn't have any headroom to raise revenue to pay of Treasury Bills because the Tea Party will block any measures to increase taxation.
Mainly because the probability of default depends on the type of debt. For example, the US government are less likely to default on an overnight bond than on a 25 year bond [1]. Also, they are probably more likely to default on a bond due to the Iranian Government than on a bond due to a US pension fund [2]; and more likely to default on a bond denominated in a foreign currency than one in US dollars [3].
[1] The longer you wait, the more likely a default event is to happen [2] If they do run short of money, then for political reasons they are likely to favour payment to US citizens [3] They can print as many US dollars as they like to repay the debt, but they can't print Euros etc
They won't be able to buy US mortgages any more, because the downgrading of the US government to AA+ means that every entity in the US will be downgraded to at least AA+ - you can't have a better credit rating than the government of the country you are in.
That means that the money will now have to go abroad to one of the other 18 countries that still has a AAA rating. They are UK, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and Canada
The other thing to consider is this. If helicopter Ben keeps printing more and more money, people are not going to want to hold their money in US Dollars any more, and will chose a different currency; probably German Euros [1]. Once that happens, it will be very difficult to get people to lend money to the US government, and that is when a default is likely to take place.
[1] You don't want Greek Euros because you might end up with Drachma, and you don't want Spanish Euros because you might end up with Peseta. Alternatively, holders of German Euros might end up with Marks, and then the Euro won't be quite so attractive.
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Here are some UK and Ireland examples. They are all probably better known in the UK than Steve Jobs
Richard Branson - Virgin Group
Brian Souter - Stagecoach
Stelios Haji-Ioannou - Easy Group
Michael O'Leary - Ryanair
Alan Sugar - Amstrad, Viglen etc
Roman Abramovich - Chelsea Football Club
Or from somewhere in Florida to Algericas in Southern Spain. Or if the Gibraltar tunnel ever gets built, to somewhere in Africa. Actually, I believe the Chinese are looking at building a rail link to Africa, but going the other way round the Mediterranean.
It is British Guage, but anyway, the trains from France to Spain have adjustable wheels which allow them to convert from British to Spanish Guage at the border, so it can be done.
Elsewhere in the comments, the current provider installed and manages the whole thing and charges the guests to use Wifi. They would prefer to provide their guests with free Wifi, presumably to attract more of them.
I tried one out at Carphone Warehouse today (owned by Best Buy UK). When I tried to read http://news.bbc.co.uk/ it kept refreshing the page every time I tried to scroll up or down, and it took about 15-30 seconds every time to do this, making the browsing experience so frustrating it was virtually unusable. Having tried all the tablets in there, the iPad is the only slab I would buy. I do have an Android phone, the Samsung Galaxy S which I am very happy with, but nobody seems to have an answer to the iPad yet.
I prefer apps to websites on the phone because you only have to download data when you use it, rather than user interface + data, so it is faster on slow connections, and they tend to be better designed for small screen + touch interface. On a tablet which has a bigger screen, and would mostly be used on a fast wifi connection, I'm not so sure that is important.
Microsoft already has two operating systems that run on ARM, Windows CE (aka Windows Mobile) and Windows Phone; so I'm not so sure about that. Besides iOS and Android are the market leaders in the ARM space, that probably isn't likely to change any time soon, and Windows 8 probably won't run on any of those devices.
HP's software business is EDS, which is charging governments vast sums of money for IT systems that don't work.
It also makes it impossible for blind people to enter the PIN, so probably violates Disability Discrimination legislation. Keypads usually have a dimple on the No 5 button, and a blind person can figure out where the other buttons are from that.
I think the idea is that after you leave the machine, four[1] of the keys will be glowing. The brightest one is the number you pressed last, and the dimmest is the one you pressed first.
[1] Assuming your PIN is made up of four unique numbers. If your pin contains repeated numbers, I guess it makes it more difficult to determine the order of them.
Because if you are one of these people that Mozilla doesn't care about, the BOFH of a company with a large number of desktops to administer, you want to have everyone on the same version, and you want to check that updates work with everything before you roll them out.
Then a lot of people like to have the same thing at home as they have at work so they don't have the confusion of switching between two different versions or implementations of the same thing, so if they have Internet Explorer at work, they will have Internet Explorer at home because they know how to use it.
Toyota Aygo, 35 litre tank, £1.37 per litre, and my tank usually isn't completely empty when I fill it.
I pay about £40 ($65) for a tank of diesel in my car, and that is with Britain's very expensive petrol taxes. Is $40 without any taxes really that cheap?
The problem is that you would have to put water in it to generate the steam. Steam engines in the past had a range of about 26 miles between refills, and it took about 30 minutes to heat up the boiler before you could set off. With this set-up, the boiler could possibly be a bit smaller than a coal fired one, but the other technical problems still remain.
It is a (rare earth) mineral, not a rare (earth mineral). It means it is an element that is a member of the lanthanide series, not an element that is difficult to find.
The Greater London Authority has similar powers to county councils elsewhere in England, and London has Borough councils (+ 2 city councils). However, US states have much more powers than an English county council. Their powers are equivalent to either the UK government itself (vs those powers held by the EU) or the country level governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Any statements by the police such as the one you have quoted should be treated as being wrong until proven otherwise. The Met has lied far too many times in these situations for anyone to be able to trust them.
The contents of his hard drive are designated as confidential, because they may contain correspondence with his lawyers which is legally privileged, and lots of other information which is not relevant to the case at hand, such as his Internet Explorer favourite sites list and his photo collection.
The computer hard drive may well contain correspondence with his lawyer, which is legally privileged and can't be shown in court. I think that is most likely the issue.
Probably yes. People who were owed money by AIG got their money because the AAA rated US government bailed them out. The concern now is that they US government doesn't have any headroom to raise revenue to pay of Treasury Bills because the Tea Party will block any measures to increase taxation.
Mainly because the probability of default depends on the type of debt. For example, the US government are less likely to default on an overnight bond than on a 25 year bond [1]. Also, they are probably more likely to default on a bond due to the Iranian Government than on a bond due to a US pension fund [2]; and more likely to default on a bond denominated in a foreign currency than one in US dollars [3].
[1] The longer you wait, the more likely a default event is to happen
[2] If they do run short of money, then for political reasons they are likely to favour payment to US citizens
[3] They can print as many US dollars as they like to repay the debt, but they can't print Euros etc
They won't be able to buy US mortgages any more, because the downgrading of the US government to AA+ means that every entity in the US will be downgraded to at least AA+ - you can't have a better credit rating than the government of the country you are in.
That means that the money will now have to go abroad to one of the other 18 countries that still has a AAA rating. They are
UK, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and Canada
The other thing to consider is this. If helicopter Ben keeps printing more and more money, people are not going to want to hold their money in US Dollars any more, and will chose a different currency; probably German Euros [1]. Once that happens, it will be very difficult to get people to lend money to the US government, and that is when a default is likely to take place.
[1] You don't want Greek Euros because you might end up with Drachma, and you don't want Spanish Euros because you might end up with Peseta. Alternatively, holders of German Euros might end up with Marks, and then the Euro won't be quite so attractive.
The US takes in 60% of what it spends, which means it spends 40/60=66.7% more than it takes in.
It would appear that format shifting a DVD to m4v to watch it on an iDevice will be legal, so yes.
Only HMV these days, or a very small number of independent stores. Virgin Megastores disappeared from the UK in 2007.