I would have thought the requirments of many new computer games are driving PC sales. I used to use windows 95 on an 11yr old thinkpad for college work until last year. Its hardly news that Windows 2000 is good for ordinary everyday mundane tasks.
I dont think many people buy retail versions on windows anyway. So it may well be that people use 2k on old machines because its good for what they want to do.
What about the concept of Self Determination? That a particular nation of people should be allowed to govern themselves.
I am a little concerned about the whole "war on terror". If you consider for a second Ireland, like the US got its independence though what would now be branded as terrorism.
Getting the English to consent to the Irish Free State required a substantial number of bombings and murders. The perpetrators of these acts of terrorism were the 'old' IRA.
The story of the 'provosional' IRA is a longer story than merely catholics v protestants. While bombing places like Canary Wharf was a despicable act, I think the provisional IRA was bred by the human rights abuses suffered by the catholics in the north. Ms Thatchers attitude was not of any assitance.
Thankfully the IRA is pretty much defunct as a terrorist organisation but unfortuantely is morphing into dangerous mafia like organisation. Their cause is largly gone, but those who are little more than criminals remain.
What in the future if we don't like our 'masters'. Will the laws and technology protecting us from "Evil Terrorists" merely maintain the status quo?
It will lead to Dutch people crossing the border into another EU country, and buying whatever goods they please there. And as they are at it they will wave their new iPods at the Customs Officials on the way back.
But it wont lead to illegal importing. One of the "Fundamental Freedoms" of the EU is the free movement of goods. This is half of Europe buys all their electronics in Germany already, so the only effect of any law will be to hurt Dutch retailers.
No, but when a judge decides on how legislation applied to a certain set of facts, he and his successors must follow that decision. Only way that a different conclusion can be reached in an analogous set of circumstances is if the original judge is over-ruled by a superiour court, or if legislation (paid for by?!?) is passed changing the law.
So, if you go to court and are cleared of charged, e.g. if the officer takes down your licence plate wrong, and you are cleared. If on the second occasion, the officer also takes down the number wrong you will also be cleared.
Charlie McCreevy has a habit of being somewhat headstrong and ignoring practically everyone until he realises his position untenable and is forced to back down sharpish.
While Minister for Finance in Ireland he was forced to row back on a number of announcments made in his budgets due to opposition from the general public. He also gave 50m to an equestrian center without going through the correct procedures; for no apparent reason other than he likes horses.
Eventually his tactics were hurting the government party so badly that he was shafted and sent to Europe for retirement.
Whether he can maintain his current position on patents I do not know, but as an Irish person it isn't surprising to see Charlie's tactics remain the same.
Lord Reid in the English Case of S v. McC [1972] AC 24 said:
"We have too often seen freedom disappear in other countries not only by coups d'etat but by gradual erosion; and it is often the first step that counts. So it would be unwise to make even minor concessions"
I wonder what view the good Justice would have of 'democratic' govenments apparant acceptance of obnoxious technologies against the will, or at least without the informed support of many of their citizens
I guess being/. this is like preaching to the converted, but this proposal is surely a stern warning for all those who see ID cards as something benign and useful that cannot impact on their day to day lives.
Why is it for some reason everything, be it national security, convenience for civil servants etc etc etc gets considered before privacy in issues such as National ID cards. Surely, as illustrated by the many valient efforts at DRM the technical ability is there to produce a modern doucment to validate ID and also protect privacy.
When we hear PR speak about DRM its all about how hard it is to crack etc etc etc, why cant the same technology be employed to control access to an ID card, and PREVENT unauthorised access?
The UK (and those who still have time) should resist ID card proposals, if they wish to remain free of these really scary proposals.
The very address (Dallas, TX) was used last year by a company called 'Get moving today', which was basically a get rich quick pyramid scheme.
Fascinating!
I really dont think AMD is any less a 'big evil corporation' that Intel is, or that they need encouragment one way or the other.
If they make a better chip that the Pentium M, thats great, but I dont think anyone will go out of their way to buy a chip because it simply is made by AMD.
I don't think there is any rational reason for a non shareholder to care whether one commodity manufacturer sells more than another. The important thing is that the competition results in lowers prices and greater innovation for the consumer.
However if you really feel the need to adopt an ailing processor manufacturer, may I suggest Transmeta!
Due to the "democratic" nature of Wikipedia it is probably not, nor ever will be as authoratitive a source as let say Britannica. So citing it alone is probably not the best idea.
However that is not to say Wikipedia is not a fantastic research tool. It is, and far more informative in many respects than the more established sources out there. The fact the articles are generally written be people who care is a guarantee of quality, but perhaps those correcting your thesis may not be of the same view.
My Siemens s45 (from about 2001) can play midi files! Nothing very complicated, but at times I swear it almost sounds like the piece of music i uploaded.
In the UK the 'Red Flag Act' was introduced in 1865. The meant that horseless carriages (read automobile) could only travel at 4mph in the country and 2mph in built up areas. They also had to have 3 'drivers' , 2 in the vehince, and one out from carrying a red flag.
Perhaps it is nigh time the Americans do look to their foreign policy, and not take the easy route of saying all terrorists are twisted and there is no point in even considering their motives:
Take Northern Ireland as an example:
a) NI was to protestants what Israel was to the Jewish. Elections were skewed so Catholics could not get in power, while the RUC and B-Specials enforced the law in a way unfair and prejudicial to the catholic minority. The Catholics lived in slums like the Bogside and could only dream of worldly wealth.
b) Catholic civil rights marchers, were attacked at Burntollet Bridge and the 'Battle of the Bogside' ensued.
c)At this point the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA, Provos) found they had enough popular support to exist and cause mayhem.
d)British Government did not yeild, but chanted out the mantra 'Northern Ireland is more British that Finchley' etc.
e)People die
f)Eventually in the 90's (with much help from Bill Clinton) compromises are made on both sides.
g)Catholics and Protestants (or more accurately Unionists and Protestants) are slowly learning to live with one another, and while they have yet to figure out how to share power, at least the IRA are on ceasefire so long that they are considered defunct.
And this will never work for the middle east situation???
The New Toyota Avensis D4D Diesel does 50+ MPG AND has a catalytic converter. Diesel cars also have far more torque than any comparable petrol making everyday driving easier with far less gear changes.
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It is rare for any Linux distro to properly initialise all hardware. I recently have had the plesure of attempting to install SUSE 9.1 Pro on my Dell 8250. I faced the following complications:
a) Had difficulty reading the CD on my Philps DVD+RW without loading ide-scsi drivers (a command which later had to be removed so I could access the drive once I had installed.
b) Manually install drivers for my Radeon 9700 Pro
c) Dell use a bastardised Creative SB Live! Card with a chipset unsupported by ALSA.
d) Winmodem (Drivers for RH 8/9 available, no Kernel 2.6 support)
e) Must convince my Pen drives/Nomad Mp3 player/Digital Camera to work.
All these things *just work* in XP, and very few people have the time, interest or ability to harass their hardware into working. I recognise that much of these problems lie at the feet of hardware manufacturers who do not wish to release drivers, but its not fair to blame windows users for their choice in Hardware.
Interestingly enough everything used to work perfect on my old Dell P2 233.
No I dont need zealots to tell me how bad Dell computers are, I recognise they have their faults, but very often its impossible here (in Ireland) to build a computer anywhere near the price of a Dell.
Canon sold a version of the LJ1100, but it was a windows only printer. They also have a version similar to the LJ1000, and it is quite a bit cheaper than the HP model.
It will take a long time for competitiors to ever quell Nokias dominance, since many users will continue to replace their old Nokias with new ones "because the others are too complicated".
This of course is not true, but the mere fact that sending an SMS is different seems to be enough to put many poeple off. It means that to compete other manufacturers have to offer vastly superior phones and reasonable prices (which they do... especially Sendo). But some people still wont change.
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I would have thought the requirments of many new computer games are driving PC sales. I used to use windows 95 on an 11yr old thinkpad for college work until last year. Its hardly news that Windows 2000 is good for ordinary everyday mundane tasks. I dont think many people buy retail versions on windows anyway. So it may well be that people use 2k on old machines because its good for what they want to do.
I am a little concerned about the whole "war on terror". If you consider for a second Ireland, like the US got its independence though what would now be branded as terrorism.
Getting the English to consent to the Irish Free State required a substantial number of bombings and murders. The perpetrators of these acts of terrorism were the 'old' IRA.
The story of the 'provosional' IRA is a longer story than merely catholics v protestants. While bombing places like Canary Wharf was a despicable act, I think the provisional IRA was bred by the human rights abuses suffered by the catholics in the north. Ms Thatchers attitude was not of any assitance.
Thankfully the IRA is pretty much defunct as a terrorist organisation but unfortuantely is morphing into dangerous mafia like organisation. Their cause is largly gone, but those who are little more than criminals remain.
What in the future if we don't like our 'masters'. Will the laws and technology protecting us from "Evil Terrorists" merely maintain the status quo?
It will lead to Dutch people crossing the border into another EU country, and buying whatever goods they please there. And as they are at it they will wave their new iPods at the Customs Officials on the way back. But it wont lead to illegal importing. One of the "Fundamental Freedoms" of the EU is the free movement of goods. This is half of Europe buys all their electronics in Germany already, so the only effect of any law will be to hurt Dutch retailers.
So, if you go to court and are cleared of charged, e.g. if the officer takes down your licence plate wrong, and you are cleared. If on the second occasion, the officer also takes down the number wrong you will also be cleared.
Thats precendent (or stare decisis if you prefer)
Was someone watching Darby O'Gill and the little people again? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052722/
Is it anything like this: http://www.forbes.com/2002/01/03/0103tentech.html.
While Minister for Finance in Ireland he was forced to row back on a number of announcments made in his budgets due to opposition from the general public. He also gave 50m to an equestrian center without going through the correct procedures; for no apparent reason other than he likes horses.
Eventually his tactics were hurting the government party so badly that he was shafted and sent to Europe for retirement.
Whether he can maintain his current position on patents I do not know, but as an Irish person it isn't surprising to see Charlie's tactics remain the same.
"We have too often seen freedom disappear in other countries not only by coups d'etat but by gradual erosion; and it is often the first step that counts. So it would be unwise to make even minor concessions"
I wonder what view the good Justice would have of 'democratic' govenments apparant acceptance of obnoxious technologies against the will, or at least without the informed support of many of their citizens
Why is it for some reason everything, be it national security, convenience for civil servants etc etc etc gets considered before privacy in issues such as National ID cards. Surely, as illustrated by the many valient efforts at DRM the technical ability is there to produce a modern doucment to validate ID and also protect privacy.
When we hear PR speak about DRM its all about how hard it is to crack etc etc etc, why cant the same technology be employed to control access to an ID card, and PREVENT unauthorised access?
The UK (and those who still have time) should resist ID card proposals, if they wish to remain free of these really scary proposals.
Im off to room 101 now.....
The very address (Dallas, TX) was used last year by a company called 'Get moving today', which was basically a get rich quick pyramid scheme.
Fascinating!
I really dont think AMD is any less a 'big evil corporation' that Intel is, or that they need encouragment one way or the other.
If they make a better chip that the Pentium M, thats great, but I dont think anyone will go out of their way to buy a chip because it simply is made by AMD.
I don't think there is any rational reason for a non shareholder to care whether one commodity manufacturer sells more than another. The important thing is that the competition results in lowers prices and greater innovation for the consumer.
However if you really feel the need to adopt an ailing processor manufacturer, may I suggest Transmeta!
Due to the "democratic" nature of Wikipedia it is probably not, nor ever will be as authoratitive a source as let say Britannica. So citing it alone is probably not the best idea. However that is not to say Wikipedia is not a fantastic research tool. It is, and far more informative in many respects than the more established sources out there. The fact the articles are generally written be people who care is a guarantee of quality, but perhaps those correcting your thesis may not be of the same view.
My Siemens s45 (from about 2001) can play midi files! Nothing very complicated, but at times I swear it almost sounds like the piece of music i uploaded.
In the UK the 'Red Flag Act' was introduced in 1865. The meant that horseless carriages (read automobile) could only travel at 4mph in the country and 2mph in built up areas. They also had to have 3 'drivers' , 2 in the vehince, and one out from carrying a red flag.
The Act remained in force until 1896.
Take Northern Ireland as an example:
a) NI was to protestants what Israel was to the Jewish. Elections were skewed so Catholics could not get in power, while the RUC and B-Specials enforced the law in a way unfair and prejudicial to the catholic minority. The Catholics lived in slums like the Bogside and could only dream of worldly wealth.
b) Catholic civil rights marchers, were attacked at Burntollet Bridge and the 'Battle of the Bogside' ensued.
c)At this point the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA, Provos) found they had enough popular support to exist and cause mayhem.
d)British Government did not yeild, but chanted out the mantra 'Northern Ireland is more British that Finchley' etc.
e)People die
f)Eventually in the 90's (with much help from Bill Clinton) compromises are made on both sides.
g)Catholics and Protestants (or more accurately Unionists and Protestants) are slowly learning to live with one another, and while they have yet to figure out how to share power, at least the IRA are on ceasefire so long that they are considered defunct.
And this will never work for the middle east situation???
Brits make cars that are fun to drive? So there is a british car industry then?!?!?! ... Maybe you meant Germans, or Japanese
The New Toyota Avensis D4D Diesel does 50+ MPG AND has a catalytic converter. Diesel cars also have far more torque than any comparable petrol making everyday driving easier with far less gear changes.
It is rare for any Linux distro to properly initialise all hardware. I recently have had the plesure of attempting to install SUSE 9.1 Pro on my Dell 8250. I faced the following complications:
a) Had difficulty reading the CD on my Philps DVD+RW without loading ide-scsi drivers (a command which later had to be removed so I could access the drive once I had installed.
b) Manually install drivers for my Radeon 9700 Pro
c) Dell use a bastardised Creative SB Live! Card with a chipset unsupported by ALSA.
d) Winmodem (Drivers for RH 8/9 available, no Kernel 2.6 support)
e) Must convince my Pen drives/Nomad Mp3 player/Digital Camera to work.
All these things *just work* in XP, and very few people have the time, interest or ability to harass their hardware into working. I recognise that much of these problems lie at the feet of hardware manufacturers who do not wish to release drivers, but its not fair to blame windows users for their choice in Hardware.
Interestingly enough everything used to work perfect on my old Dell P2 233.
No I dont need zealots to tell me how bad Dell computers are, I recognise they have their faults, but very often its impossible here (in Ireland) to build a computer anywhere near the price of a Dell.
Canon sold a version of the LJ1100, but it was a windows only printer. They also have a version similar to the LJ1000, and it is quite a bit cheaper than the HP model.
How about one without silver paint that doesnt get wrecked within a month of purchase....?
It will take a long time for competitiors to ever quell Nokias dominance, since many users will continue to replace their old Nokias with new ones "because the others are too complicated". This of course is not true, but the mere fact that sending an SMS is different seems to be enough to put many poeple off. It means that to compete other manufacturers have to offer vastly superior phones and reasonable prices (which they do... especially Sendo). But some people still wont change.