These days, the UK is almost as much of a melting pot in terms of outside influences on accents.
In an episode of QI on BBC2 (a quiz featuring unusual facts), respected journalist and broadcaster Stephen Fry said that there are more individual, discernible accents in the English county of Yorkshire than in the entire United States.
I don't know where they did their research but it would be interesting to find out!
The Sharp Zaurus PDA is also the first mainstream device to see the return of old friend Amiga to modern computing.
Amiga have been signed by Sharp as a content provider for its new Zuarus platform. The Zaurus ships with Amiga's "AmigaDE", a platform agnostic digital environment which is hosted by the Linux OS.
Sharp demonstrated the Zaurus running AmigaDE applications a while back. Here's the link.
Amiga have also been signed by Psion to provide its AmigaDE system for their NetBook products.
It's distressing the number of uninformed people who feel that they can write off the whole Amiga development effort just because of some (probably equally uninformed) memories of the old Amiga computers.
Not only is the current company an entirely different entity to the old Commodore, Escom and Gateway incarnations of the same name, but more importantly their new product line has very little to do with the old Amiga hardware or operating system either.
So, what I'm trying to say is: give them a chance. Open your minds. Look at their product, find out what it does, and what their plans for the future are. *Then* and only then, pass judgement on what you find.
And quite frankly, I think you might even be a little surprised.
We have a law here in the UK which basically, as far as I know, embodies the points that you have brought up. It's called the Data Protection Act. I'm not sure what its contraints and limitations are though.
Companies that wish to store information about individuals have to register first, and individuals can demand to view all information held by a company about them, for a small administrative charge (maybe five pounds).
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Ataris were always rubbish anyway. Long live the Amiga!
These days, the UK is almost as much of a melting pot in terms of outside influences on accents.
In an episode of QI on BBC2 (a quiz featuring unusual facts), respected journalist and broadcaster Stephen Fry said that there are more individual, discernible accents in the English county of Yorkshire than in the entire United States.
I don't know where they did their research but it would be interesting to find out!
Amiga have been signed by Sharp as a content provider for its new Zuarus platform. The Zaurus ships with Amiga's "AmigaDE", a platform agnostic digital environment which is hosted by the Linux OS.
Sharp demonstrated the Zaurus running AmigaDE applications a while back. Here's the link.
Amiga have also been signed by Psion to provide its AmigaDE system for their NetBook products.
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Ben.
Royal Air Force squadrons are also in the region and the Navy can launch its own aircraft from the carrier HMS Illustrious.
Tony Blair announced that British submarines were involved in tonight's attacks, launching Tomahawk missiles.
It's distressing the number of uninformed people who feel that they can write off the whole Amiga development effort just because of some (probably equally uninformed) memories of the old Amiga computers.
Not only is the current company an entirely different entity to the old Commodore, Escom and Gateway incarnations of the same name, but more importantly their new product line has very little to do with the old Amiga hardware or operating system either.
So, what I'm trying to say is: give them a chance. Open your minds. Look at their product, find out what it does, and what their plans for the future are. *Then* and only then, pass judgement on what you find.
And quite frankly, I think you might even be a little surprised.
We have a law here in the UK which basically, as far as I know, embodies the points that you have brought up. It's called the Data Protection Act. I'm not sure what its contraints and limitations are though.
Companies that wish to store information about individuals have to register first, and individuals can demand to view all information held by a company about them, for a small administrative charge (maybe five pounds).
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Ben.