You missed one thing out of the list of improvements XP has over Win 2k - it has support for IPv6. Quite an important enhancement I would say. A pity Microsoft won't backport it to Win2K, because I prefer using Windows 2000 myself.
Unsuprisingly, the US is way behind again when it comes to mobile technology.
We've had portable numbers in the UK market since the 1st of Jan 1999. See some of the links on Oftel's website (our government telecommunications regulator).
The UK hasn't entirely gone over to using metric. We still measure large distances in miles, and people still usually quote their heights in feet and inches and their own weights in stones and pounds.
Up to a couple of years ago, you could still buy groceries in pounds and ounces, but an EU regulation put paid to that, stating that all weights and measures in shops must be in metric, with the exception of milk and beer, which are still sold in pints (but with the metric equivilent on the packaging).
The car is where is gets confusing. Engine sizes are in litres and petrol is sold in litres but distances are imperial, measured in miles, speed in miles per hour and so is fuel consumption which is in miles per gallon (a UK gallon, which is different to a US gallon).
We quite often use imperial and metric interchangably at home, such as when cooking.
On the subject of the Janet links provided by Teleglobe, about a year ago (Sunday 21/02/1999 to be precise) the links went down to the US and Janet suffered a complete loss of traffic to the America for a couple of days. See http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/ne wsid_284000/284702.stm for details.
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You missed one thing out of the list of improvements XP has over Win 2k - it has support for IPv6. Quite an important enhancement I would say. A pity Microsoft won't backport it to Win2K, because I prefer using Windows 2000 myself.
Unsuprisingly, the US is way behind again when it comes to mobile technology.
We've had portable numbers in the UK market since the 1st of Jan 1999. See some of the links on Oftel's website (our government telecommunications regulator).
The T.V. programme that you were referring to was called "The Big Trip" and was shown on ITV.
The UK hasn't entirely gone over to using metric. We still measure large distances in miles, and people still usually quote their heights in feet and inches and their own weights in stones and pounds. Up to a couple of years ago, you could still buy groceries in pounds and ounces, but an EU regulation put paid to that, stating that all weights and measures in shops must be in metric, with the exception of milk and beer, which are still sold in pints (but with the metric equivilent on the packaging). The car is where is gets confusing. Engine sizes are in litres and petrol is sold in litres but distances are imperial, measured in miles, speed in miles per hour and so is fuel consumption which is in miles per gallon (a UK gallon, which is different to a US gallon). We quite often use imperial and metric interchangably at home, such as when cooking.
On the subject of the Janet links provided by Teleglobe, about a year ago (Sunday 21/02/1999 to be precise) the links went down to the US and Janet suffered a complete loss of traffic to the America for a couple of days. See http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/ne wsid_284000/284702.stm for details.