They claim about a 92% market share on that basis. 8% or so of OEM sales are macs. About 1% of people wipe windows and put Linux or another operating system on their computer. Probably more than 1% point of Mac buyers put Parallels or Bootcamp on their machine.
If people had stuck with Tiger, and then fell over themselves to get Snow Leopard as soon as it came out, that would suggest that Leopard was rubbish. That didn't happen with OSX, but the equivalent did happen with Windows, which is why we say that it shows that Vista was rubbish.
I disagree. Windows 2000 was MS's best ever release of Windows. The first time you could use a Windows power computer for more than two hours without it crashing.
Dixons Store Group, the largest computer retailer in the UK has been struggling since Vista came out because nobody wanted to buy computers with Vista on it.
This is a self selected sample of people who were stupid enough to get caught. The sophisticated ones generally don't get caught, or at least not so quickly.
I struggle think of countries where I would expect a worse welcome than the USA. Maybe Zimbabwe as Mugabee blames the British for all the problems it is facing at the moment.
Lawyers generally use MS Word's version control system when negotiating new contracts. It may not be as good as CVS or Subversion, but it is at least something.
You don't need to understand the linux kernel source to do some shopping in Konqueror. The kernel developers and GCC understand it perfectly, and that's what matters.
All of use are supposed to understand what the law says. Ignorance is not an excuse. But if Supreme Court judges can't even agree on what the law means, what hope is there for the rest of us?
Which is in Kidlington, and nowhere near London. You have a 35 minute bus journey to Oxford, then a one hour train journey from Oxford to London Paddington. You can get from Birmingham Airport to London in about the same time.
Hybrids are overrated IMO compared to clean diesels, and in any case on an interstate where it drives at a pretty much constant speed, it will perform the same as an equivalent petrol engine, except that more fuel will be used to move the battery pack along.
Cars don't drive at 280mph. At least not safely on a public road. That is where the attraction of rail is.
In Britain, the CrossCountry Voyager (a train) gets only slightly more passenger miles per gallon than a Hummer (a very large American gas guzzling car). But the train does 125 mph, whereas the Hummer's mpg is measured when doing speeds of 62.5 mph (100 km/h). If you drove the Hummer at 125 mph, I think you would find it performed much worse than the Voyager for fuel economy.
Bullet trains are not supposed to be a last mile solution. They are supposed to replace internal flights, and I don't think you find 50 airports in the metro area. Maybe two or three at most if it is a big city. To make this work, you really need to think inter-state travel and have a network to link the main cities in each state.
In Britain for example, the only TGV service we have goes from London to either Paris or Brussels.
Actually, the population density in the US is ideal for a bullet train system, unlike some other countries where the train wouldn't get a chance to get to full speed before it reaches the next city. What you really need is bullet trains going from from the East Coast to the West Coast to take people out of the planes. If China and France can manage it, why can't anyone else?
An interesting fact. In 2008, the Zimbabwean stock market performed better than any other stock market in the world even measured in hard currency terms. It was the only country in the world where you would have had more US$ at the end of the year than the beginning if you had invested in their market.
If you increase the storage density, there will be more bytes per track, which will increase the data transfer speed. However, there will also be more tracks on the disk, and as you can't increase the number of tracks read per minute, it will take longer to read or fill a higher capacity disk.
Yes, but if you put an unprotected Windows 98 machine on the internet, it will probably be OK. That's not because Windows 98 is any more secure than Windows XP, it is a lot less secure, but they are vulnerable to different types of attack, and there aren't enough Windows 98 machines out there now for it to be much of a risk.
The difference is that reading a book doesn't involve an act of copying, so it falls outside the scope of copyright law, but on a computer, everything is a copy, so you have to either rely on fair use provisions, or get permission from the copyright owner.
Moneygram and Western Union are probably better targets. That is the final link in the chain between the victim and the scammer, and is the reason why the "follow the money" approach doesn't work.
Moneygram and Western Union are probably better targets. That is the final link in the chain between the victim and the scammer, and is the reason why the "follow the money" approach doesn't work.
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Is there anything that Linux can do that MacOSX can't do, apart from run on a much wider range of hardware?
They claim about a 92% market share on that basis. 8% or so of OEM sales are macs. About 1% of people wipe windows and put Linux or another operating system on their computer. Probably more than 1% point of Mac buyers put Parallels or Bootcamp on their machine.
If people had stuck with Tiger, and then fell over themselves to get Snow Leopard as soon as it came out, that would suggest that Leopard was rubbish. That didn't happen with OSX, but the equivalent did happen with Windows, which is why we say that it shows that Vista was rubbish.
I disagree. Windows 2000 was MS's best ever release of Windows. The first time you could use a Windows power computer for more than two hours without it crashing.
Dixons Store Group, the largest computer retailer in the UK has been struggling since Vista came out because nobody wanted to buy computers with Vista on it.
It is still on my technet account.
If you are trading on the internet, the EU's E-Commerce directive requires you to publish your contact details on your website.
It has the feature customers want from a portable music player - the ability to play music.
This is a self selected sample of people who were stupid enough to get caught. The sophisticated ones generally don't get caught, or at least not so quickly.
As a matter of fact, yes I do.
I struggle think of countries where I would expect a worse welcome than the USA. Maybe Zimbabwe as Mugabee blames the British for all the problems it is facing at the moment.
I'm pretty sure they agree about what the current release of the kernel does do. If not, it can be determined by experiment.
Of course they may want it to do something different, which is the equivalent of a political matter rather than a legal matter.
Lawyers generally use MS Word's version control system when negotiating new contracts. It may not be as good as CVS or Subversion, but it is at least something.
You don't need to understand the linux kernel source to do some shopping in Konqueror. The kernel developers and GCC understand it perfectly, and that's what matters.
All of use are supposed to understand what the law says. Ignorance is not an excuse. But if Supreme Court judges can't even agree on what the law means, what hope is there for the rest of us?
Which is in Kidlington, and nowhere near London. You have a 35 minute bus journey to Oxford, then a one hour train journey from Oxford to London Paddington. You can get from Birmingham Airport to London in about the same time.
Hybrids are overrated IMO compared to clean diesels, and in any case on an interstate where it drives at a pretty much constant speed, it will perform the same as an equivalent petrol engine, except that more fuel will be used to move the battery pack along.
Cars don't drive at 280mph. At least not safely on a public road. That is where the attraction of rail is.
In Britain, the CrossCountry Voyager (a train) gets only slightly more passenger miles per gallon than a Hummer (a very large American gas guzzling car). But the train does 125 mph, whereas the Hummer's mpg is measured when doing speeds of 62.5 mph (100 km/h). If you drove the Hummer at 125 mph, I think you would find it performed much worse than the Voyager for fuel economy.
Bullet trains are not supposed to be a last mile solution. They are supposed to replace internal flights, and I don't think you find 50 airports in the metro area. Maybe two or three at most if it is a big city. To make this work, you really need to think inter-state travel and have a network to link the main cities in each state.
In Britain for example, the only TGV service we have goes from London to either Paris or Brussels.
Actually, the population density in the US is ideal for a bullet train system, unlike some other countries where the train wouldn't get a chance to get to full speed before it reaches the next city. What you really need is bullet trains going from from the East Coast to the West Coast to take people out of the planes. If China and France can manage it, why can't anyone else?
An interesting fact. In 2008, the Zimbabwean stock market performed better than any other stock market in the world even measured in hard currency terms. It was the only country in the world where you would have had more US$ at the end of the year than the beginning if you had invested in their market.
If you increase the storage density, there will be more bytes per track, which will increase the data transfer speed. However, there will also be more tracks on the disk, and as you can't increase the number of tracks read per minute, it will take longer to read or fill a higher capacity disk.
Yes, but if you put an unprotected Windows 98 machine on the internet, it will probably be OK. That's not because Windows 98 is any more secure than Windows XP, it is a lot less secure, but they are vulnerable to different types of attack, and there aren't enough Windows 98 machines out there now for it to be much of a risk.
We've seen plenty of vapourware claims in the past that have never materialised.
The difference is that reading a book doesn't involve an act of copying, so it falls outside the scope of copyright law, but on a computer, everything is a copy, so you have to either rely on fair use provisions, or get permission from the copyright owner.
Moneygram and Western Union are probably better targets. That is the final link in the chain between the victim and the scammer, and is the reason why the "follow the money" approach doesn't work.
Moneygram and Western Union are probably better targets. That is the final link in the chain between the victim and the scammer, and is the reason why the "follow the money" approach doesn't work.