Pot? Meet Kettle
If you use generic English words as your trading name, in the hope of getting a free ride from Google, you should not be surprised when your competitors try to outrank you by paying Google for advertising their alternatives.
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It's a long time since I've used closed source software, but I seem to recall that if you wanted documentation you had to buy a book that cost almost as much as the software, and was probably two versions out of date. The last time I bought software with proper documentation is was, dare I say it, MS DOS.
I don't understand people who criticise companies for obeying tax law.
If you have a problem with the way tax law works, you should direct your ire at the people who created that law.
And the idiots who voted for them.
I'm off the the pub, which is the proper place to discuss these things.
The NSA has produced a "tool" that has been used as a weapon against the people it is supposed to be defending.
The NSA has failed to protect itself from the inevitable hackers, enabling this tool to be released in the wild.
The agency is clearly unfit for purpose, and counter-productive, and should be dismantled ASAP.
This goes for GCHQ too.
(The icon is intended ironically.)
Using an automated system to find possible copyright infringers is a sensible option. Using that system to initiate legal proceedings without the alleged infringement being checked by a competent human is a huge abuse of the legal process. They should be hit very hard in the wallet for this.
Any such algorithm would produce results similar to those produced certain TV shows, where "music" that is pleasing to the masses is produced by a voting process that eradicates anything that would be pleasing to the musically literate. Such sounds are readily realised by generic mass-produced violins.
Regarding the Strad, the most sensible comment I have heard is by a user who said that it's not so much the sound which is exceptional, but the result from the player of the demands placed by such an instrument on its user, that he should be worthy of such a venerable instrument.
@ Suricou Raven
Netbooks and ultra books are at opposite ends of the market, and do not compete.
MS & Intel killed off netbooks to protect their fatter margins on fatter devices. Netbooks have been replaced by tablets, and the evil duo have lost out completely (PMSL).
Ultrabooks are Mac Airs for people who want to run Windows.
Google is successful because it provides better results than its many rivals. “Better” as perceived by its users.
A key part of this is decoding the garbage that a typical user types, and converting it into something a computer can search for.
Another key part is downgrading the dross that arises from search engine optimisation.
If Google biased its results for any purpose other than that of the users, it would soon be replaced by a competitor that was providing the wanted results.
An unbiased search would simply turn up all 200 million sites that match your query, in random order. This would render the service, and the WWW, useless.
@ sabroni
Google's success amongst a miriad of search engines is a result of providing the best answers to user's queries. If they didn't provide the answers that users want, Bing (is that still going?) and others are only a few clicks away.
Only a moron would fail to distinguish between the ads and the answers.
"but for things like production and studio areas you do not need to be London based."
"Manchester... Its a few hours on a train "
Not everyone who works in production and studio areas is a full time BBC employee. Most producers, engineers and actors are freelance professionals who work for a range of clients and are based in London, where the vast majority of facilites and work are also based.
How would you like the cost and aggravation of a 4-hour plus round journey commute, possibly carrying bulky and/or expensive equipment?
(Former freelance recording engineer.)