That's two reasons. How about also the fact that more dry land runways were built as time went on.

You also need to consider the imperial background of the Great Powers. The British Empire (and the French and US Empires too) included large numbers of small islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific, each with a post office, a local government official, a bit of trade, sea around them, a jetty, and no airstrip. The flying boats were ideal for carrying the post and lighter trade items which got there faster than by the monthly (if you were lucky) cargo steam ship.

Once these places got their independence, typically in the 1950's, they were no longer an Imperial responsibility but neither could they support a commercial air service of any sort at the time. End of flying boats.

What is the difference? I'm interested.

My daughter (aged 10 at the time) filled in a paper-based marketing survey on the promise that you would get rewarded with 1000 GBP (but I'll use $$) in vouchers. Seemed too good to be true, but they were true to their word! A thick wad of vouchers came. The vouchers were something like :

.. $100 off a new Rolls Royce
.. $100 off a new house
.. $50 off recarpeting my whole house
.. $50 off having a swimming pool installed
...$50 off a world cruise
.. $5 off some hotel in Singapore
.. $5 off at some restaurant in the North of Scotland
.. $1 off beauty treatment at some place in Northern Ireland
.. $1 off a life subscription to a church magazine
.. One penny off budgerigar food
.. and so on

I had the last laugh though. Everything my daughter put down was a joke, like saying (in my name) I kept weasels (some people do). I got free copies of a quarterly Weasel magazine for the next two years

Sounds like a rabbit hutch to me. Maybe fine if a computer is the only thing you need room for, but some people have other parts to their lives.

Correlation != Causation, always. When a company does an advertising campaign they very often persuade shopkeepers to stock more of their stuff "Because there is going to be a big demand for it when the public see our advertising". Therefore, someone buying at random, like I buy soap for example, is more likely to pick up the item in question just by chance.

OK, you could say the advertising does have an effect as its existence is a lever to get shopkeepers to stock more of the stuff, and I don't doubt that some buyers are influenced, but IMHO the effect is not as great as the admen like to assume.

That's in the USA. Adverts are confined to their own time slot in the UK, and when that comes around it is generally clearly recognisable. It is the point at which I flip through some other channels and watch the BBC news for a few minutes, or even cat videos (anything is better than ads, and there is a channel that's mostly pets doing funny things).

Funny, but in the UK soap operas are still called soap operas, but most people don't realise how the term originated.

FTFA :- "Everyone gets that advertising is what powers the internet, and that our favorite sites wouldn't exist without it"

Wrong. My favourite web sites are my own ones, and they have no advertising.

What if the GP had not heard of this case until now? Regard it as predicting and warning for future cases.

I believe that early versions of W95 did respond with "DOS 7", and I wrote that on the basis of a review I read in a PC mag when it first came out. Perhaps they were reviewing a beta. Must admit I never used W95, but I do have W98 in a VM, just tried it, and it does indeed respond with something like you say :-)

I don't believe that MS gave a shit about the compatability of legacy 3rd party apps with new versions of Windows. It was the 3rd parties' problem, as likewise compatible drivers were the hardware makers' problem. With the MS monopoly, the 3rd parties had to keep up or die.

Windows 95/98/ME were basically DOS architecture plastered with layers of cruft to get over the memory limitations and to get them to run some stuff in a half-arsed 32-bit way, and a GUI. If you opened a CLI in W95 and typed "ver" it would reply "DOS 7". They were Windows for DOS, and a train wreck.

They were swept away by NT/XP, which were a new and separate pedigree, long after Windows for DOS should have had its life support switched off.

I wish

Much as I dislike Gates, I have to point out that it is generally accepted that he never said that particular gaffe.

It was still stupid, even if it was enough for apps at that time, because it was an architectural limit. The architecture put stuff like display memory and BIOS extensions in fixed areas above the 640k instead of leaving it open ended. The tacky XT/AT addressing scheme was 20-bit and could actually reach 1024k, but only the lower 640k was working RAM, with that fixed stuff above it.

Would not have been so bad if the PC makers and Microsoft had not been so slow to abandon this primitive architecture.

I did not comment about the food or service. In my "review" I asked people to boycott the place because of the fact that they had sued a critic. So whether I had ever tried eating there is irrelevant. Seems clear to me.

I must say though that some of the other negative comments, which were clearly also triggered by this sueball issue, were along the lines of "the food is shit" etc. I would not do that : that is dishonest.

I've just left a negative review on Tripadvisor, and see that many others are doing the same. Join in!