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Women have more accidents on the road than men. They just have less serious ones that cost less to repair.
Men do the job properly and write the car off and few others in the process :)
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You can't have it both ways.
If you want equality with men then you have to have everything equal. You can't pick the things you want and the things you don't want to be equal.
Earning less is more of a cultural problem in the UK, we are very secretive about our pay and so everyone can be on different wages and not know it.
So women are unique in that they are the only ones raising children? tell that to all the single male parents.
Better reproduction? that's a very confusing way of putting it. That suggests one cable would produce a better image than another, but the one which is producing the inferior result will be faulty as it is producing errors.
I would say a better cable reduces the chances of getting errors, but I suspect errors are very few and far between.
All you need to do is get the signal into the TV without errors. An average HDMI cable will do that no problem.
Why spend a fortune on high cables when the internal cabling of the TV is much much cheaper and works perfectly fine.
Compare XP to Windows 7. Quite a difference in operation. That will require retraining for the less confident Windows users.
Microsoft feels the need to change the UI quite a lot between versions now. Apple on the other hand doesn't change things radically. Some Linux UIs don't change much either, although Ubuntu's choice of UI does.
That made me laugh.
So why is this great company that make sharing data possible suing everyone on the planet for patent violations on the FAT filesystem? Why do they not support EXT3, 4 and other filesystems?
Microsoft are king of the file format lock in. Every time an open document format has been proposed by the EU they have knobbled it with their own version.
How much paperwork do you file, mail and fill in these days?
Very little I would hope, many of these databases were about eliminating paper copies of medical records. Every time your records are requested they are mailed around and when you move house and register with a new GP these files are again moved around.
If you want to store data electronically then you need a database.
Isn't this the whole problem? people keep throwing in new languages left right and center just when some of us have begun to master the ones we are using.
It takes quite a while to become proficient in a language and what is needed is refinements to what we have rather than new languages.
Just like the world doesn't really need another human spoken language every five years.
Scaling up a mobile OS and platform was an innovation of sorts. Everyone else was trying to scale down the x86 platform and full desktop OS, remember the UMPC market? that's died a death.
Notice how everyone is now talking about ARM and how x86 isn't so important anymore? that could be due to the realisation that instant on and off devices are what people want now. They want the best of mobile and the best of the desktop combined.
Lack of imagination was the problem. It seems that people in charge at Microsoft are not forward thinkers, they don't seem to have any imagination when it comes creating something new. They are happy to clone other ideas and put their own spin on it once the competition has made a move.
When the tablet PC was being worked on there wasn't anything else to compare it with. So when key people (head of MS Office for example) at Microsoft were asked to adapt software to work with the new tablet input method they refused. It's almost like they can't see the merit of doing something unless someone else is bringing in cash for a similar product.
But this time there is a product they can refer to, they can made things happen as there's plenty of alternatives that are raking in cash.
In some ways they set themselves up for a big fail. They hyped up their iPad killer and it turned out to be a flop both in sales and implementation. While geeks might love that it's QNX behind the scenes, the general public don't care if it's DOS, so long as it works well.
The reason the Playbook doesn't do email is pretty simple. Their services can't handle the situation of two devices synchronising to the same account, doh!.
Erm. Surely you can do anything if you have physical access to a computer on the network?
What was the purpose of the test? if you work at the company and do something illegal you'll get fired. Most organisations rely on goodwill and people being professionals.
If you wanted to cause mayhem you could more than likely just light a fire or turn the electric off.
This is the whole problem with electric cars at present. You may pay for a car now that becomes technologically obsolete shortly after when a better battery is developed, potentially leaving you with a car with no resale market or upgrade potential.
The range is not the problem so much as the recharge time. If you had a really small fuel tank in a conventional car you would just have to stop more often for fuel. But with electric cars you have to factor in an overnight stay.
Talk about reality distortion field. Just because you don't like Apple that doesn't mean you can make up such utter tripe.
Since when has Samsung designed the iPhone software and hardware? erm, never. ARM design the CPU core in processors Apple use and Apple specify the rest of the chips contents. Samsung just manufacture them. Such simple manufacturing to designs means Apple can switch chip maker at any stage.
Apple's industrial design is ahead of the competition, if it was Samsung designing the phone then why would all Samsungs products look like the dull dark grey crap that everyone else puts out?
The one that seems to be the most defensible is the VFAT one. Extensions to the FAT filesystem to allow it to store long filenames.
Tomtom probably kicked this whole Microsoft patent bandwagon off by settling with Microsoft setting a precedent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Patent_infringement_lawsuits
So have they finally realised that too much IP protection equals fewer jobs?
Patents make sense for the little guy building up a business on some new ideas, but too often it is mega corps suing each other. The recent spat of mobile phone patent wars should be enough proof of the problem.
It's funny how it took Microsoft being shafted by a patent to trigger the whole process off. It just shows how much influence they have in the US government.
The point is that it is hard to prove that Facebook would have existed (albeit under a different name) if Zuckerberg hadn't created it.
It's one thing to have an idea and another thing to create a successful implementation of that idea. Not to mention create a business model that works.
What about games consoles?
Why does nobody mind paying for games, online service when you're locked in and can only buy games that have been approved? Games that cost £40 or more!
What about Windows? if you buy software for Windows and want to move to the Mac you don't get a free copy for Mac automatically.
Sun didn't open source Java at they knew it would have broken the whole point of Java. Write once and run anywhere.
But then you can argue with JNI they did that anyway.
Of course, Java is pretty much dead on the desktop. There are some applications running on it but Java's big market is in web applications or database stored procedures (on Oracle).
Has anything fun or exciting has ever come out of the business world?
It brought us x86, DOS, Windows, Office, FAX machines and the Blackberry.
The Blackberry is proof that you can't rely on one killer patented feature and if you do have a killer feature you might at least want to ensure that all your products have it. A tablet without 3G connectivity is of limited appeal to the travelling business man.
Most mobile operators do not like tethering and so tethering your Playbook (rubbish name too) to your Blackberry is likely to cause problems.