I had a garmin etrex connected to a toshiba e740 my first satelite navigation setup. Anyway on one journey from Leicester to Lincoln I was on a roundabout and my car went into a spin doing a 180 in the road. Initially I thought a tyre had blown but it was diesel on the road. No damage and I was able to get out of the situation not nice facing the wrong direction on a roundabout. When I got home I downloaded the data and plotted it both on a map and the data in a spreadsheet and even graphed it.
My speed on the roundabout was recorded at about 22mph and there was a neat little circle in the track where it had plotted the spin I even played it back in a map view and saw the spin. So yes the GPS can be very accurate. I have also been sat in traffic and had the speed shown as 4000 mph so it can also be wildly inaccurate too.
where I live the main road runs parallel to mine and often isn't shown on many gps maps there is just a small embankment with a line of trees along the top separating the 2 roads often people listen to the satnav turn left down the little country road instead of on to the dual carriageway and it is not till the road turns 90 degree's left that the satnav admits it is wrong and moves them into a field and off the dual carriageway it happens less these days since i mapped a lot of minor roads in open street map added the road in googlemaps and the google streetview team found the road and added it. We still get the occasional lorry which is forced to turn around in our carpark (its either that or reverse half a mile back to the junction). Brings in a few lost tourists too who pop in for coffee and directions.
Buying hardware from outside the EU will attract customs duty, below a value of around 25 euro Customs will not bother with enforcing the duty. So in practical terms you will pay more even if you could find a grey import.
I guess if Apple wrote into their licence agreement for OSX you could get a refund then you could take similar action I believe Linux can run on Apple hardware without needing OSX present. I don't think that option exists with phones yet.
Here a phone carrier has to unlock a phone without charge if the customer requests they do so, however my carrier charges a 25 euro admin fee when they process the request. There are any number of companies which offer phone unlocking for around half that. Surprised that an admin fee wasn't charged for processing the refund and removal in this case too.
When I first heard about this tablet I was a bit disappointed especially with the price being so much more than the android version.
I am getting a bit more interested mainly because Linux has pretty good support for usb peripherals, where android is pretty much mass storage and hid devices only. Cups should be available which will mean you can print without going through Google.
Ok the chrome browser has a server component which lets you share your printer so for example I could take a photo on my android phone select my printer shared via the cloud google would push the print job to my netbook which will then pass it to my nas to serve to my printer and print the thing.
Other devices will be supported Cd/ dvd drives tv cards hardware video encoders, a usb to serial port real barcode readers and other devices that most people will have no interest in but could be kind of useful in specialised situations.
The screen resolution is a bit low for general use but its the first implementation, later models will be better.
Chances are it will be dual booting android and linux not long after initial release so maybe this could be a nice tablet to have with the best of both worlds.
wonder how well the kde tablet edition would work on the raspberry pie boards...
Wonder where you live since the uk has a pretty huge range admittedly some supermarkets would have you believe they are all forms of chedder, mild,mature , farmhouse, Coloured...
I think it's a term originating from the military. Long time back I once upset a German developer by using that term about some documentation he construed it as an insult to the quality of his documentation. Took a number of people of various nationalities to calm the guy down, I think that was on Usenet, on my Amiga.
http://stopsopaireland.com/ Trying to stop Irelands version of sopa being written in to law next week with not even a debate in the house just a junior ministers signature. Recent news suggests there may be a debate since pressure has been building all this week.
Both petitions need a lot more signatures if they are going to influence the respective politicians.
I'm personally not a fan of Blackberry smart phones (android for me) but from what I see around day to day are blackberry's android phones (mainly Samsung variants) and iPhones.
Blackberry's seem to be very popular with people who are under 30 and not geeks.
Blackberrys are easy to use with web pages and have a physical keyboard which is easier than most on screen keyboards to type with and they are a reasonable price and do what most people want them to do.
The other interesting thing about blackberrys is that a lot of owners had iPhones and Android phones previously and chose blackberry for their upgrade. Maybe it is a fashion thing, iPhone and Android were cool to have last year I really don't know.
DLNA is a lot more than just file names you get the tag data straight away, depending on how the server is configured you might just have track artist album and genre which is very crap if your rendering device can't filter my old buffalo linktheatre is like that however a more advanced config will have options such as search by folder or index artist which splits into abc def ghi.. so if you don't need to scroll from acdc to get to zztop.
note for more advanced config i had to make a new ini file for twonky and start it in rc.local easy with ssh access to my nas.
secondly you can specify users with a username password for access. Generally your doing this on your home lan so not that much of a worry any way.
finally your cifs solution is slow hours and hours slow as say rhythmbox has to read each and every media file it finds and log to it's db the file metadata, and if you change paths it has to do it all again. if your friend comes over it might take 4 hours before all the media files are available to him.
video is a funny one on my buffalo link station it greys out video files that it is certain it can't play divx seems fine on that but any video recorded on my camera is no good.
Android devices have different specs and my dual core tablet works well with mx player to play most of my video files. On a single core mostly failure.
Hopefully there may be some new packages coming out because of this daap seems broken on ubuntu least ways I can't connect via daap to my media on my nas , that may be due to a bad file name for a media file. Tried several media players and failed each time.
DLNA does work with Totem and XBMC but Totem doesn't filter and XBMC takes over the whole session meaning you can't just set music playing and get on and do something else. rhythmbox is supposed to support DLNA but the media servers don't show up.
The other issue which exists is DRM somehow there has to be some decoding of drm in order to use a lot of feeds and what content provider is going to give keys to decode content without some certainty that their content isn't going to become part of somebodies library for the price of a rental
lucky for me three of my android devices use wifi and 3g indirectly, but it seems the premium sms trojans are wrappers for popular paid applications.
So by applying a bit of common sense they are easy to avoid. For example Angrybirds is made and sold by Rovio so anyone selling Angrybirds who isn't Rovio is almost certainly untrustworthy and probably a good reason to flag the seller to Google.
cut the rope is by ZeptoLab and not by Lagostrod or Miriada so it's obvious the later two stink.
you can never be 100% safe but how do you benefit from an antivirus which identifies malware which has already been identified and outlets neutered?
Archos 101 g9 at 279 euro for 1 ghz model isn't bad but it runs honeycomb there is an 8 inch version for around 40 euro less. There are 1.2 and 1.5 ghz versions around now.
To be honest if HP have done the hardwork building the hardware why not flash android on the devices and sell them at a fair price, about 300 euro would be enough.
If they are open then debian webos and android could all be choices for 0S
They don't really have anything else in this space so surely they can make money from this.
your ac point of view is probably flamebait but truth is most people have a limited budget and what isn't spent on games will be spent on utilities rent mortgingage food clothing ect.
There is no real cost to people playing pirated games v bought games if they couldn't buy them in the first place. In practical terms what is the difference to going to see a film at first release, buying it on dvd or waiting for your local broadcaster to broadcast it. makes no odds some people will pay for the privilege, some will not.
if some content comes via file sharing does it matter, really?
There is a difference between a media player and a media manager and songbird has some capability in that direction which i'm hoping Nightingale might improve on.
Here is my problem which maybe addressed by Songbird/Nightingale. I have a Nas with a 2 TB drive with assorted files on some of which are music files some have correct tagging data (under various tag schemes) and some do not.
I'd like to put all the Mp3 files under artist/album/track separated from the rest of the mess
To be honest I'd Like to organise my photo's video's pdf's ebooks, iso files ect similarly so i'm more than willing to hear any good strategies for pulling these together as well as any method for removing duplicates.
Songbird has an option to copy and organise songs under a single directory with the artist/album/track structure unfortunately the last time i tried it wanted to put everything under unknown artist unknown album, making a bad situation worse.
I'd love to go further and be able to separate out podcasts and audio books and English music from other language music.
I'd like to be able to correctly catalogue some of my music which i ripped from cd over a decade ago with correct meta data. I'd love to just have playlists naturally generated for an album. I d like to be able to easily pull tracks together for my portable players too.
Maybe when my music is organised then i will only need just a media player playing a music track has never been a problem even banshee manages to play the video's i record on my camera now with the audio track.
I think some of what i want can be done with shell scripts. If anyone has some good examples please post them!
so what you are suggesting that the users pay to ask the questions and provide the answers, can't see why that wouldn't work... oh yeah that's right you go from providing useful info to being exploited by some jerk who thinks he can make a buck off your back.
See how dumb that is , you want people to pay to post the interesting stuff and hope that no one will pay to troll or just make moronic posts. who would stick around for that.
sounds a lot like the model bluegriffin uses. its a html editor and not a bad one at that, it is based on kompozer which was based off nvu which i think had its roots in netscape.
problem with kompozer is it is currently unusable if you load a page into kompozer to make changes it turns the page to garbage.
bluegriffin actually works but its stripped out a lot of the useful extra's such as the site manager not a major issue since you can just ftp your pages outside of bluegriffin.
I guess i could grumble that a lot has been left out, but the guy has spent 2 years working to produce this editor, and it's only â35 to get all the plugins. It's not essential for me so I have a niced basic editor to work with. Kompozer is broken at this stage.
you make it sound like plugging in a keyboard is hard or something, as long as you have usb host you can plug in a keyboard even a wireless keyboard and mouse i tried a logitech i had lying around.
Also the chrome browser is bundled with a server that can be enabled to allow you to print via whatever you run it on so for example i was able to take a photo in the middle of nowhere select one of the printers connected to my nas and used my netbook at home as the print server for android. so free printing via google if you have a printer driver for your printer on the machine you use as a 'cloud' print server. while it may be some time before openoffice is ported to android libreoffice for android is actively being developed.
android could still be an option anyway even if now is a bit too soon
i believe this tool hides the dns query from being logged by the isp. However I'm unsure if that helps the enduser that much.
If i was to ask for say piratebay.org it will send back the ip address without my ISP knowing i have the piratebay.org ip address from opendns but then the next step would be to request a page from that ip and wouldn't that be logged or blocked by the ISP?
Mint 11 is a pretty good alternative, I customised it moving to an osx like configuration with Docky which smart hides and the menu bar moved from the bottom to the top and autohiding. It gives me maximum desk space for running applications and access to the OS when I want to do something different. I've also added in moving an application to top or to the side edge makes the window full screen or half screen. a menu bar click can roll a window up to just the menu bar.
It is visually pleasing but a little inconsistent some applications like firefox will put menus on the top bar others like office put them on a window border.
Another minor annoyance returning from the screen saver, displays a login window with the mint default desktop image.
Other than that I have recent builds of applications often drawn from ubuntu repositories which gives me a pretty much up to date system without the horrible unity or the ubuntuone sync daemon which is a waste of cpu cycles. It's pretty much the Ubuntu that i wanted. I was reluctant to change but after i had converted one system to mint, the rest quickly followed.
photoshop can run in wine , there is a paintshop portable app which works perfectly in wine or on windows. It's not legal of course. Although there is no reason you couldn't buy a legal version with a licence....
Interesting post are you using a wifi connection to connect the dvd writer, are the transfer speeds reasonable? I've got an iomega Iconnect which could be running debian rather than the stock firmware. I ran into a bit of a brick wall with that as it needed faster ethernet to configure it and there was no default wifi address set up in the installation which left me needing to buy a ethernet card or fast router.
Having a writer and a more complete os could be very handy and economical.
In European countries where socialist parties have had large majorities, human rights and freedoms have been seriously curtailed -- e.g. in the UK between 1997 and 2009. The most surveiled country in the world, with no right to free speech, which has the most severe "equality" laws in the world.
I regret to inform you the previous years were worse,much worse times to live in the UK for a good number of people and human rights and freedoms were being curtailed left right and centre. Where the only option to sitting on your arse on the dole slowly starving was the employment training scheme or extra tenner as it was widely known. Of course being on ET meant you disappeared off the dole queue figures. It was a crappy time to live in the UK for millions when the Conservative Government finally got the boot, millions gained hope after years of despair.
It was the Labour government which introduced the minimum wage which at least gave hope that if you could get a job it would be enough to live on with some quality of life. It wasn't a utopian paradise but it was an improvement compared to conservative rule. Labour wasn't perfect and they made poorer decisions as the years went by.
The conservatives are back in power now with a minority government supported by the lib-dems (who have reneged on their policies and betrayed their supporters) and things are getting tougher and peoples quality of life is going down hill.
I've done the best thing for me i've emigrated and my brother and his family have too. You only get one life, you have to make the best of it you can. Both of us have a quality of life now that far exceeds what we would have if we stayed in the UK.
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I had a garmin etrex connected to a toshiba e740 my first satelite navigation setup. Anyway on one journey from Leicester to Lincoln I was on a roundabout and my car went into a spin doing a 180 in the road. Initially I thought a tyre had blown but it was diesel on the road. No damage and I was able to get out of the situation not nice facing the wrong direction on a roundabout.
When I got home I downloaded the data and plotted it both on a map and the data in a spreadsheet and even graphed it.
My speed on the roundabout was recorded at about 22mph and there was a neat little circle in the track where it had plotted the spin I even played it back in a map view and saw the spin. So yes the GPS can be very accurate. I have also been sat in traffic and had the speed shown as 4000 mph so it can also be wildly inaccurate too.
where I live the main road runs parallel to mine and often isn't shown on many gps maps there is just a small embankment with a line of trees along the top separating the 2 roads often people listen to the satnav turn left down the little country road instead of on to the dual carriageway and it is not till the road turns 90 degree's left that the satnav admits it is wrong and moves them into a field and off the dual carriageway it happens less these days since i mapped a lot of minor roads in open street map added the road in googlemaps and the google streetview team found the road and added it. We still get the occasional lorry which is forced to turn around in our carpark (its either that or reverse half a mile back to the junction). Brings in a few lost tourists too who pop in for coffee and directions.
Buying hardware from outside the EU will attract customs duty, below a value of around 25 euro Customs will not bother with enforcing the duty. So in practical terms you will pay more even if you could find a grey import.
I guess if Apple wrote into their licence agreement for OSX you could get a refund then you could take similar action I believe Linux can run on Apple hardware without needing OSX present. I don't think that option exists with phones yet.
Here a phone carrier has to unlock a phone without charge if the customer requests they do so, however my carrier charges a 25 euro admin fee when they process the request. There are any number of companies which offer phone unlocking for around half that. Surprised that an admin fee wasn't charged for processing the refund and removal in this case too.
he said horizontal stripes and ones you are thinking of are vertical
When I first heard about this tablet I was a bit disappointed especially with the price being so much more than the android version.
I am getting a bit more interested mainly because Linux has pretty good support for usb peripherals, where android is pretty much mass storage and hid devices only. Cups should be available which will mean you can print without going through Google.
Ok the chrome browser has a server component which lets you share your printer so for example I could take a photo on my android phone select my printer shared via the cloud google would push the print job to my netbook which will then pass it to my nas to serve to my printer and print the thing.
Other devices will be supported Cd/ dvd drives tv cards hardware video encoders, a usb to serial port real barcode readers and other devices that most people will have no interest in but could be kind of useful in specialised situations.
The screen resolution is a bit low for general use but its the first implementation, later models will be better.
Chances are it will be dual booting android and linux not long after initial release so maybe this could be a nice tablet to have with the best of both worlds.
wonder how well the kde tablet edition would work on the raspberry pie boards ...
If indeed Irish Wikipedia disagrees
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_cheeses
58 or so producers and a much longer cheese list.
Wonder where you live since the uk has a pretty huge range admittedly some supermarkets would have you believe they are all forms of chedder, mild ,mature , farmhouse, Coloured ...
The word is bumf short for bum fodder
I think it's a term originating from the military. Long time back I once upset a German developer by using that term about some documentation he construed it as an insult to the quality of his documentation. Took a number of people of various nationalities to calm the guy down, I think that was on Usenet, on my Amiga.
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/
Acta petition to the EU with over 600,000 people signing up and growing fast.
http://stopsopaireland.com/ Trying to stop Irelands version of sopa being written in to law next week with not even a debate in the house just a junior ministers signature. Recent news suggests there may be a debate since pressure has been building all this week.
Both petitions need a lot more signatures if they are going to influence the respective politicians.
I'm personally not a fan of Blackberry smart phones (android for me) but from what I see around day to day are blackberry's android phones (mainly Samsung variants) and iPhones.
Blackberry's seem to be very popular with people who are under 30 and not geeks.
Blackberrys are easy to use with web pages and have a physical keyboard which is easier than most on screen keyboards to type with and they are a reasonable price and do what most people want them to do.
The other interesting thing about blackberrys is that a lot of owners had iPhones and Android phones previously and chose blackberry for their upgrade. Maybe it is a fashion thing, iPhone and Android were cool to have last year I really don't know.
direct your annoyance at the uk government which taxes components being imported, but not completed devices.
chances are they would tax completed devices as well thou..
DLNA is a lot more than just file names you get the tag data straight away, depending on how the server is configured you might just have track artist album and genre which is very crap if your rendering device can't filter my old buffalo linktheatre is like that however a more advanced config will have options such as search by folder or index artist which splits into abc def ghi .. so if you don't need to scroll from acdc to get to zztop.
note for more advanced config i had to make a new ini file for twonky and start it in rc.local easy with ssh access to my nas.
secondly you can specify users with a username password for access. Generally your doing this on your home lan so not that much of a worry any way.
finally your cifs solution is slow hours and hours slow as say rhythmbox has to read each and every media file it finds and log to it's db the file metadata, and if you change paths it has to do it all again. if your friend comes over it might take 4 hours before all the media files are available to him.
video is a funny one on my buffalo link station it greys out video files that it is certain it can't play
divx seems fine on that but any video recorded on my camera is no good.
Android devices have different specs and my dual core tablet works well with mx player to play most of my video files. On a single core mostly failure.
Hopefully there may be some new packages coming out because of this
daap seems broken on ubuntu
least ways I can't connect via daap to my media on my nas , that may be due to a bad file name for a media file. Tried several media players and failed each time.
DLNA does work with Totem and XBMC but Totem doesn't filter and XBMC takes over the whole session meaning you can't just set music playing and get on and do something else.
rhythmbox is supposed to support DLNA but the media servers don't show up.
The other issue which exists is DRM somehow there has to be some decoding of drm in order to use a lot of feeds and what content provider is going to give keys to decode content without some certainty that their content isn't going to become part of somebodies library for the price of a rental
lucky for me three of my android devices use wifi and 3g indirectly, but it seems the premium sms trojans are wrappers for popular paid applications.
So by applying a bit of common sense they are easy to avoid. For example Angrybirds is made and sold by Rovio so anyone selling Angrybirds who isn't Rovio is almost certainly untrustworthy and probably a good reason to flag the seller to Google.
cut the rope is by ZeptoLab and not by Lagostrod or Miriada so it's obvious the later two stink.
you can never be 100% safe but how do you benefit from an antivirus which identifies malware which has already been identified and outlets neutered?
Archos 101 g9 at 279 euro for 1 ghz model isn't bad but it runs honeycomb there is an 8 inch version for around 40 euro less. There are 1.2 and 1.5 ghz versions around now.
To be honest if HP have done the hardwork building the hardware why not flash android on the devices and sell them at a fair price, about 300 euro would be enough.
If they are open then debian webos and android could all be choices for 0S
They don't really have anything else in this space so surely they can make money from this.
your ac point of view is probably flamebait but
truth is most people have a limited budget and what isn't spent on games will be spent on utilities rent mortgingage food clothing ect.
There is no real cost to people playing pirated games v bought games if they couldn't buy them in the first place. In practical terms what is the difference to going to see a film at first release, buying it on dvd or waiting for your local broadcaster to broadcast it. makes no odds some people will pay for the privilege, some will not.
if some content comes via file sharing does it matter, really?
maybe not for a few months.
People are interested in this console but knowing it can easily be used to play psp rips will be a major factor in deciding to buy one or not.
If Sony leave this open for a few months it could sell a lot of units. Fix it and there's a bunch of people now having to buy games...
sure slashdot will have regular updates ...
There is a difference between a media player and a media manager and songbird has some capability in that direction which i'm hoping Nightingale might improve on.
Here is my problem which maybe addressed by Songbird/Nightingale.
I have a Nas with a 2 TB drive with assorted files on some of which are music files some have correct tagging data (under various tag schemes) and some do not.
I'd like to put all the Mp3 files under artist/album/track separated from the rest of the mess
To be honest I'd Like to organise my photo's video's pdf's ebooks, iso files ect similarly so i'm more than willing to hear any good strategies for pulling these together as well as any method for removing duplicates.
Songbird has an option to copy and organise songs under a single directory
with the artist/album/track structure unfortunately the last time i tried it wanted to put everything under unknown artist unknown album, making a bad situation worse.
I'd love to go further and be able to separate out podcasts and audio books and English music from other language music.
I'd like to be able to correctly catalogue some of my music which i ripped from cd over a decade ago
with correct meta data.
I'd love to just have playlists naturally generated for an album.
I d like to be able to easily pull tracks together for my portable players too.
Maybe when my music is organised then i will only need just a media player
playing a music track has never been a problem even banshee manages to play the video's i record on my camera now with the audio track.
I think some of what i want can be done with shell scripts. If anyone has some good examples please post them!
so what you are suggesting that the users pay to ask the questions and provide the answers, can't see why that wouldn't work... oh yeah that's right you go from providing useful info to being exploited by some jerk who thinks he can make a buck off your back.
See how dumb that is , you want people to pay to post the interesting stuff and hope that no one will pay to troll or just make moronic posts. who would stick around for that.
sounds a lot like the model bluegriffin uses.
its a html editor and not a bad one at that, it is based on kompozer which was based off nvu which i think had its roots in netscape.
problem with kompozer is it is currently unusable if you load a page into kompozer to make changes it turns the page to garbage.
bluegriffin actually works but its stripped out a lot of the useful extra's such as the site manager not a major issue since you can just ftp your pages outside of bluegriffin.
I guess i could grumble that a lot has been left out, but the guy has spent 2 years working to produce this editor, and it's only â35 to get all the plugins. It's not essential for me so I have a niced basic editor to work with. Kompozer is broken at this stage.
you make it sound like plugging in a keyboard is hard or something, as long as you have usb host you can plug in a keyboard even a wireless keyboard and mouse i tried a logitech i had lying around.
Also the chrome browser is bundled with a server that can be enabled to allow you to print via whatever you run it on so for example i was able to take a photo in the middle of nowhere select one of the printers connected to my nas and used my netbook at home as the print server for android.
so free printing via google if you have a printer driver for your printer on the machine you use as a 'cloud' print server.
while it may be some time before openoffice is ported to android libreoffice for android is actively being developed.
android could still be an option anyway even if now is a bit too soon
i believe this tool hides the dns query from being logged by the isp.
However I'm unsure if that helps the enduser that much.
If i was to ask for say piratebay.org it will send back the ip address without my ISP knowing i have the piratebay.org ip address from opendns but then the next step would be to request a page from that ip and wouldn't that be logged or blocked by the ISP?
Can someone with a clue clarify the matter?
Mint 11 is a pretty good alternative, I customised it moving to an osx like configuration with Docky which smart hides and the menu bar moved from the bottom to the top and autohiding. It gives me maximum desk space for running applications and access to the OS when I want to do something different. I've also added in moving an application to top or to the side edge makes the window full screen or half screen.
a menu bar click can roll a window up to just the menu bar.
It is visually pleasing but a little inconsistent some applications like firefox will put menus on the top bar others like office put them on a window border.
Another minor annoyance returning from the screen saver, displays a login window with the mint default desktop image.
Other than that I have recent builds of applications often drawn from ubuntu repositories which gives me a pretty much up to date system without the horrible unity or the ubuntuone sync daemon which is a waste of cpu cycles. It's pretty much the Ubuntu that i wanted. I was reluctant to change but after i had converted one system to mint, the rest quickly followed.
photoshop can run in wine , there is a paintshop portable app which works perfectly in wine or on windows. It's not legal of course. Although there is no reason you couldn't buy a legal version with a licence. ...
Interesting post are you using a wifi connection to connect the dvd writer, are the transfer speeds reasonable? I've got an iomega Iconnect which could be running debian rather than the stock firmware.
I ran into a bit of a brick wall with that as it needed faster ethernet to configure it and there was no default wifi address set up in the installation which left me needing to buy a ethernet card or fast router.
Having a writer and a more complete os could be very handy and economical.
In European countries where socialist parties have had large majorities, human rights and freedoms have been seriously curtailed -- e.g. in the UK between 1997 and 2009. The most surveiled country in the world, with no right to free speech, which has the most severe "equality" laws in the world.
I regret to inform you the previous years were worse ,much worse times to live in the UK for a good number of people and human rights and freedoms were being curtailed left right and centre. Where the only option to sitting on your arse on the dole slowly starving was the employment training scheme or extra tenner as it was widely known. Of course being on ET meant you disappeared off the dole queue figures. It was a crappy time to live in the UK for millions when the Conservative Government finally got the boot, millions gained hope after years of despair.
It was the Labour government which introduced the minimum wage which at least gave hope that if you could get a job it would be enough to live on with some quality of life. It wasn't a utopian paradise but it was an improvement compared to conservative rule. Labour wasn't perfect and they made poorer decisions as the years went by.
The conservatives are back in power now with a minority government supported by the lib-dems (who have reneged on their policies and betrayed their supporters) and things are getting tougher and peoples quality of life is going down hill.
I've done the best thing for me i've emigrated and my brother and his family have too. You only get one life, you have to make the best of it you can. Both of us have a quality of life now that far exceeds what we would have if we stayed in the UK.