If the order is fulfilled from the servers that reside in Eire then you pay the VAT applicable for Eire. There is a space on the VAT form to record the VAT you have collected on behalf of other EU countries. I have the same gripe with Adobe. Buy a DVD and you pay 20% because it is shipped from Scotland(I'm in the UK). Download it and you pay 23% because their servers are in Eire.
There is competition ALL over the UK. There are basically TWO levels. Nationwide using the BT infrastructure to the ISP Then there is what we call LLU (Local Loop Unbundling) This give the right for an ISP to put their kit inside a BT exchange and take over the operation of your phone + internet completely. If the line between your home and the exchange goes wrong then your ISP calls BT to fix it under contract. This is all regulated. I live in a town of some 50K people. I can choose between at 6 different LLU providers and one Cable (Virgin Media). BT have put Fibre into the local distribution cabinet so I get
80Mbits down/20Mbits up/250Gb per month 08:00-23:59, unlimited for the rest of the day + phone with all calls for approx $50/month including 20% VAT. Most of the people who live near me are on Virgin Cable so I downloaded Window 8.1 the other evening at 5.5Mbytes/sec. I can't complain really.
How to you reconcile the many, many intermediate transactions that one banknote could go through between its exit from a bank/atm and its re-entry once more?
You can't. Pure and simple.
Are you saying that if I pay in $50.00 at a bank the teller scans each note so that the S/N is read before the next person in line can receive any of the notes I deposited?
One can't wonder if you have been drinking a little too much of the conspiracy theory cool-aid over the weekend.
you mean the ones who use 'Anonymous Coward' as their sig? (like you perhaps?)
I've disagreed with PJ over many things but I've always respected her argument and I've never been censored when I've put forward differing views to hers.
Her research into a topic is excellent and puts many lawyers to shame.
suspect woke up at 06:55. Alarm played I'm Free by the Who suspect entered bathroom at 06:56 suspect farted suspect got dressed Jeans (faded levi's) and white T shirt at 07:04 suspect descended stairs at 07:05 and yawned suspect said good morning to
etc etc etc
He must have been a 'very naughty boy' (with homage to Monty Python) to have made the feds take that level of interest in him. It is a pity that in doing do, they took their eyes off of other even badder people in the Boston Area. joking apart and honestly, I can't see what was so serious/life threatening/treasonable that caused the Feds to take that level on interest in him. However, I do suspect that having done so, they saw that this pretty innocious charge of copying was the foot in the door and they needed to show the bosses in DC that there was some return on their investment so they put the squeeze on the DA to throw the book at him. no proof but why else would she keep saying we are going to press for the maximum sentence? If found guilty, he could well have spent more time in jail than a murderer. How can his crime be regarded as being more serious than that? The US Justice is IMHO anything but Just.
Back in the dark distant days of the past, the Guinness adverts on British TV were works of art. They never mentioned the product yet you knew what the product was. No 'in your face' branding here. They were subtle and actually required a modicum of brains to appreciate them
Sadly with everything being dumbed down to lower than even below average intelligence these days are long past. The result is as far as I am concerned 1) I never buy anything that is advertised to me ( Cold Callers and Virgin Media especially ) 2) I never watch TV stations that have adverts live. It all goes on my PVR 3) When watching 'stuff' on my PVR I skip over the adverts. If I can no longer skip the adverts, I will just stop watching.
Yet I still go out and buy 'stuff' but it is what I really 'need' rather than some advertiser telling me what I 'want'.
Where in my post did I talk about wanting full Virtualization and Max performance? I didn't so please stop trying to read something that is clearly not there.
The question is
Do MS system require rebooting when applying patches?
Yes Do other Operating System apply patches without the need for reboots?
Yes
ergo,
If MS is going to a continuious update cycle then they really need to reduce the number of reboots required after applying patches. If they don't they are going to piss off a lot of users with the increased reboot frequency.
Please enlighten me as to why you think I don't know what I'm talking about. I just patched a clean Win 7 build and it took four patch/reboot cycles before I got everything uptodate. Whereas my Linux Systems patch the lot in one go and only need to reboot when there is a kernel update. IIRC and I was running SLES I wouldn't even need to do that.
Or did I dream that I had to reboot my system so often in the patching process?
I don't tweet or use FB and any other social network. I have a tablet for reading books. If I want to take video or stills, I have a decent POS camera with me most of the time or if I want to get really serious, I'll use my D800. Plus many of the places I in work won't allow Camera Phones as well.
So FOR ME and ONLY ME, a device that makes calls, send/received texts and has an alarm clock is just about all I need.
This race for 'features' on smartphones is IMHO much like about 50% of the 'features' MS puts into Office. Great headlines but very few people really used them Convert that to phones, great to brag to your mates, 'my phone can do this' but then quickly gets forgotten and pur into the 'Oh yeah, I used that once...' category
There is code written by a newbie and there is code written by someone with years of experience. Now which is going to be
1) more usable 2) more maintainable
etc etc etc
If you are a programmer and you doubt this then you are clearly in the wrong profession. Like a Surgeon, Mechanic, Photographer, your skills develop over time and your success rate goes up. If it does not then you are a hacker IMHO should not be let anywhere near a computer. I picked up a project last May from someone who had worked on it for some time. They called themselves a professional and were charging appropriate rates as a contractor for it. I took one look at his code and wept. It was pure and utter crap. Not a comment in sight. One great monolithic block including repeated lumps of error handling. Needless to say, that person's contract was terminated on the spot and legal moves were taken to reclaim most if not all of the fees paid to him. Since then I have re-written the whole thing and brought some structure to the project. I could have done better if I'd had more time but it needed to go live by a certain date. Yes Coding is hard. Good coding is even harder.
Frankly I do not want to see more people develp apps past the prototype stage. There is a huge cavernous gap the size of the Grany Canyon between cobbling together a prototype and making some worthy of being put into production.. And yes I have quit a job where the boss said, 'Use the prototype. It works doesn't it?'. That company went bust less than a year later.
Debian has remained pure whilst Canonical has taken the good work done by the Debian guys/gals and hacked it around an awful lot. A good number of people I know who were Ubuntu users have gone back to Debian, moved sideways to Mint or even leapt into the Fedora world. I don't use Ubuntu or Debian (I'm more of a RH guy) but I will stick up for the principles that Debian stands for any day of the week.
In most cities on Europe there is a comprehensive network of public transport. This negates the need to drive for a lot of us. I don't drive all the way to work. I drive 4km to the station and take the train. Then it is a sub 5 minute walk to the office. Only when I got to the USA do I have to drive everywhere. I have a ticket for jaywalking between shopping malls in Fla. when I should have driven the 200yds. That takes us into another whole argument/debate
For the N.E of the US and certainly for SF/Sac->LA->SanDiego and Van->Sea->Portland there should be IMHO a high speed rail link. It will cut the gas miles/Jet-A miles between the cities at a stroke. Proper park/Ride stations coupled with swiss style interval services would tranform the daily commue for many thousands if not millions of Americans.
Don't forget that it was big oil that bribed the local Gov in LA to get rid of its extensive tram network in the late 1940's/early 1950's. If they had kept it then there would be a need for far less miles of freeway in LA than we have today.
Oh, I have travelled around the US by Grehound Bus. I always remember getting on a Bus to Elizabeth City in NYC and being the only whie face on it. I was introduced to the delight that is 'grits' at a stop in Dover De. I met someone really special to me whilst waiting for a bus in Butte. Two years later we rode coast to coast on my Triumph. 48 States down two to go.
sigh. There are hundreds of thousands of miles of train miles covered each day in Europe at speeds like these. Oh, and they have a pretty good safety record. There has been only one fatal crash on High speed lines in Europe and that was in Germany and wasn't down to a track defect.
The completion of the high speed line from London to Paris (including 36km under the Channel) has captured the majority of the passenger traffic between the two capital cities. Two hours and a bit for City-Centre to City-Centre makes most airline travel simply untennable.
Once you travel by high speed train you will be hooked. It is a far better way to travel than by air especially in Cattle Class. I'm going to Madagascar next April. The Flight to Tana leaves from Paris. I won't be flying to Paris, I'll be taking the train right to the Airport in Paris from London. The wonders of a semi integrated transport system. Something that the USA has never really enjoyed. It is far too 'socialist/commie' for most of the Americans I know. (Oh, I spent three years living in N.H and working in taxacheusetts).
What saddens me is that Canonical's roots are in Africa. A huge place where there is sporadic 3G connection. I'd really like someone to explain to me how their vision of 'the Cloud' can work when there is no universal 3G data connection available to the majority of the people. Perhaps they have forgotten what Ubuntu originally meant?
Then there is the cost of 3G. Don't even get me started on 4G (EE is a joke) data plans. Until they become IMHO an order of magnitude cheaper then frankly you can forget universal cloud adoption. Cloud afficitionados seem to forget (or have a blind spot) this (insignificant in their eyes at least) essential feature.
I run my own private cloud but I am under no illusions about the sort of connectivity I will have to it from the parts of the world where I do most of my business namely, the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa.
My mother is 90. She's currently somewhere in Sri Lanka on holiday. She also does the Times (UK) crossword pretty well every day, lives alone and does keep fit three times a week. No bad for someone who has had both her hips and knees replaced.
I can only wish that I'm as active as her if I get to her age.
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No tax evasion here.
If the order is fulfilled from the servers that reside in Eire then you pay the VAT applicable for Eire.
There is a space on the VAT form to record the VAT you have collected on behalf of other EU countries.
I have the same gripe with Adobe. Buy a DVD and you pay 20% because it is shipped from Scotland(I'm in the UK). Download it and you pay 23% because their servers are in Eire.
There is competition ALL over the UK. There are basically TWO levels. Nationwide using the BT infrastructure to the ISP
Then there is what we call LLU (Local Loop Unbundling)
This give the right for an ISP to put their kit inside a BT exchange and take over the operation of your phone + internet completely. If the line between your home and the exchange goes wrong then your ISP calls BT to fix it under contract. This is all regulated.
I live in a town of some 50K people. I can choose between at 6 different LLU providers and one Cable (Virgin Media).
BT have put Fibre into the local distribution cabinet so I get
80Mbits down/20Mbits up/250Gb per month 08:00-23:59, unlimited for the rest of the day + phone with all calls for approx $50/month including 20% VAT.
Most of the people who live near me are on Virgin Cable so I downloaded Window 8.1 the other evening at 5.5Mbytes/sec.
I can't complain really.
Welcome to the 1970's.
Seriously 7-bit Ascii?
Hard Wrap at 72? Are you still using punched cards? I stopped using them in 1974!
Get with in MAN. Use UTF-8.
How to you reconcile the many, many intermediate transactions that one banknote could go through between its exit from a bank/atm and its re-entry once more?
You can't. Pure and simple.
Are you saying that if I pay in $50.00 at a bank the teller scans each note so that the S/N is read before the next person in line can receive any of the notes I deposited?
One can't wonder if you have been drinking a little too much of the conspiracy theory cool-aid over the weekend.
Balmer is that you?
you mean the ones who use 'Anonymous Coward' as their sig? (like you perhaps?)
I've disagreed with PJ over many things but I've always respected her argument and I've never been censored when I've put forward differing views to hers.
Her research into a topic is excellent and puts many lawyers to shame.
I for one will miss her and Groklaw.
I suspect there will be page after page of
suspect woke up at 06:55. Alarm played I'm Free by the Who
suspect entered bathroom at 06:56
suspect farted
suspect got dressed Jeans (faded levi's) and white T shirt at 07:04
suspect descended stairs at 07:05 and yawned
suspect said good morning to
etc etc etc
He must have been a 'very naughty boy' (with homage to Monty Python) to have made the feds take that level of interest in him. It is a pity that in doing do, they took their eyes off of other even badder people in the Boston Area.
joking apart and honestly,
I can't see what was so serious/life threatening/treasonable that caused the Feds to take that level on interest in him. However, I do suspect that having done so, they saw that this pretty innocious charge of copying was the foot in the door and they needed to show the bosses in DC that there was some return on their investment so they put the squeeze on the DA to throw the book at him.
no proof but why else would she keep saying we are going to press for the maximum sentence?
If found guilty, he could well have spent more time in jail than a murderer. How can his crime be regarded as being more serious than that? The US Justice is IMHO anything but Just.
Well said.
Back in the dark distant days of the past, the Guinness adverts on British TV were works of art. They never mentioned the product yet you knew what the product was. No 'in your face' branding here. They were subtle and actually required a modicum of brains to appreciate them
Sadly with everything being dumbed down to lower than even below average intelligence these days are long past.
The result is as far as I am concerned
1) I never buy anything that is advertised to me ( Cold Callers and Virgin Media especially )
2) I never watch TV stations that have adverts live. It all goes on my PVR
3) When watching 'stuff' on my PVR I skip over the adverts. If I can no longer skip the adverts, I will just stop watching.
Yet I still go out and buy 'stuff' but it is what I really 'need' rather than some advertiser telling me what I 'want'.
Yeah but....
I've now come upon two separate Windows 7 systems where the \windows\system32\drivers\etc (the etc) bit was suddenly now a hidden directory.
WTF??????
Is this MS getting into bed with the Gov and hiding the very place where you can 'fix' your system to bypass the filters....?
Funny that, all my Mac's can write NTFS....
It can be done you know.
Try this
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57588773-263/how-to-manually-enable-ntfs-read-and-write-in-os-x/
Doh,
This is the BBC we are talking about. They don't simply cancel a show because a few advertisers pull their Ads....
For those who don't know, the BBC has no AD breaks. Perhaps a few of the US readers might like to ponder a world without TV advertising...
Heretic!
~But you aren't far from the truth :)
Where in my post did I talk about wanting full Virtualization and Max performance? I didn't so please stop trying to read something that is clearly not there.
The question is
Do MS system require rebooting when applying patches?
Yes
Do other Operating System apply patches without the need for reboots?
Yes
ergo,
If MS is going to a continuious update cycle then they really need to reduce the number of reboots required after applying patches.
If they don't they are going to piss off a lot of users with the increased reboot frequency.
not that hard really is it?
Please enlighten me as to why you think I don't know what I'm talking about.
I just patched a clean Win 7 build and it took four patch/reboot cycles before I got everything uptodate.
Whereas my Linux Systems patch the lot in one go and only need to reboot when there is a kernel update. IIRC and I was running SLES I wouldn't even need to do that.
Or did I dream that I had to reboot my system so often in the patching process?
If they don't then IMHO, this is a dead duck. They have a wonderful opportunity to stop the patch/reboot/patch/reboot cycle here
or the Patches on top of patches shell game.
If they don't grasp this then they are merely fiddling while the City of Redmond burns to the ground.
for me and my use of a mobile device.
I don't tweet or use FB and any other social network.
I have a tablet for reading books.
If I want to take video or stills, I have a decent POS camera with me most of the time or if I want to get really serious, I'll use my D800.
Plus many of the places I in work won't allow Camera Phones as well.
So FOR ME and ONLY ME, a device that makes calls, send/received texts and has an alarm clock is just about all I need.
This race for 'features' on smartphones is IMHO much like about 50% of the 'features' MS puts into Office. Great headlines but very few people really used them
Convert that to phones, great to brag to your mates, 'my phone can do this' but then quickly gets forgotten and pur into the 'Oh yeah, I used that once...'
category
There is code written by a newbie and there is code written by someone with years of experience. Now which is going to be
1) more usable
2) more maintainable
etc etc etc
If you are a programmer and you doubt this then you are clearly in the wrong profession. Like a Surgeon, Mechanic, Photographer, your skills develop over time and your success rate goes up.
If it does not then you are a hacker IMHO should not be let anywhere near a computer. I picked up a project last May from someone who had worked on it for some time. They called themselves a professional and were charging appropriate rates as a contractor for it. I took one look at his code and wept. It was pure and utter crap. Not a comment in sight. One great monolithic block including repeated lumps of error handling. Needless to say, that person's contract was terminated on the spot and legal moves were taken to reclaim most if not all of the fees paid to him.
Since then I have re-written the whole thing and brought some structure to the project. I could have done better if I'd had more time but it needed to go live by a certain date.
Yes Coding is hard. Good coding is even harder.
Frankly I do not want to see more people develp apps past the prototype stage. There is a huge cavernous gap the size of the Grany Canyon between cobbling together a prototype and making some worthy of being put into production..
And yes I have quit a job where the boss said, 'Use the prototype. It works doesn't it?'. That company went bust less than a year later.
No, not the disney Movie but the SF novel from 1952.
The Space Merchants, by Frederik Pohl (w/CM Kornbluth).
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?bnum=1002
Bollocks
Debian has remained pure whilst Canonical has taken the good work done by the Debian guys/gals and hacked it around an awful lot.
A good number of people I know who were Ubuntu users have gone back to Debian, moved sideways to Mint or even leapt into the Fedora world.
I don't use Ubuntu or Debian (I'm more of a RH guy) but I will stick up for the principles that Debian stands for any day of the week.
In most cities on Europe there is a comprehensive network of public transport. This negates the need to drive for a lot of us.
I don't drive all the way to work. I drive 4km to the station and take the train. Then it is a sub 5 minute walk to the office.
Only when I got to the USA do I have to drive everywhere. I have a ticket for jaywalking between shopping malls in Fla. when I should have driven the 200yds.
That takes us into another whole argument/debate
For the N.E of the US and certainly for SF/Sac->LA->SanDiego and Van->Sea->Portland there should be IMHO a high speed rail link. It will cut the gas miles/Jet-A miles between the cities at a stroke. Proper park/Ride stations coupled with swiss style interval services would tranform the daily commue for many thousands if not millions of Americans.
Don't forget that it was big oil that bribed the local Gov in LA to get rid of its extensive tram network in the late 1940's/early 1950's. If they had kept it then there would be a need for far less miles of freeway in LA than we have today.
Oh, I have travelled around the US by Grehound Bus. I always remember getting on a Bus to Elizabeth City in NYC and being the only whie face on it. I was introduced to the delight that is 'grits' at a stop in Dover De. I met someone really special to me whilst waiting for a bus in Butte. Two years later we rode coast to coast on my Triumph. 48 States down two to go.
South Africa is NOT representative of the whole continent. Try getting 2G network access even 10km outside Kigale.
sigh.
There are hundreds of thousands of miles of train miles covered each day in Europe at speeds like these. Oh, and they have a pretty good safety record. There has been only one fatal crash on High speed lines in Europe and that was in Germany and wasn't down to a track defect.
The completion of the high speed line from London to Paris (including 36km under the Channel) has captured the majority of the passenger traffic between the two capital cities. Two hours and a bit for City-Centre to City-Centre makes most airline travel simply untennable.
Once you travel by high speed train you will be hooked. It is a far better way to travel than by air especially in Cattle Class.
I'm going to Madagascar next April. The Flight to Tana leaves from Paris. I won't be flying to Paris, I'll be taking the train right to the Airport in Paris from London. The wonders of a semi integrated transport system. Something that the USA has never really enjoyed. It is far too 'socialist/commie' for most of the Americans I know. (Oh, I spent three years living in N.H and working in taxacheusetts).
What saddens me is that Canonical's roots are in Africa. A huge place where there is sporadic 3G connection.
I'd really like someone to explain to me how their vision of 'the Cloud' can work when there is no universal 3G data connection available to the majority of the people. Perhaps they have forgotten what Ubuntu originally meant?
Then there is the cost of 3G. Don't even get me started on 4G (EE is a joke) data plans.
Until they become IMHO an order of magnitude cheaper then frankly you can forget universal cloud adoption.
Cloud afficitionados seem to forget (or have a blind spot) this (insignificant in their eyes at least) essential feature.
I run my own private cloud but I am under no illusions about the sort of connectivity I will have to it from the parts of the world where I do most of my business namely, the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa.
nothing wrong with them whatsoever especially for the cold winter days ahead.
both mentally any physically.
My mother is 90. She's currently somewhere in Sri Lanka on holiday. She also does the Times (UK) crossword pretty well every day, lives alone and does keep fit three times a week. No bad for someone who has had both her hips and knees replaced.
I can only wish that I'm as active as her if I get to her age.