Used to be true. Not recently though.
On Snow Leopard: 1.6.0_15
Currently in testing: 1.6.0_17
For my part, I've been using my Mac for enterprise development for about 18 months now. Slow as Apple used to be at providing JVM updates, they still move faster than most enterprise deployments (where tested stability > version number). Not that this is any defence of their previous abyssmal record at JVM updates.
Did they obtain the images from a British server?
Jurisdiction is a messy topic on the internet. If you want to play silly buggers with it then you can probably expect such websites to be restricted to UK IPs. Shame, but if good faith isn't shown they won't have much choice to protect their rights under local law.
Vote with your feet.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
If you continually vote with your feet, eventually you'll run out of places to walk to.
I live in central London, and - IMHO - I have a better standard of life than when I lived in Wellington, NZ. The only thing I miss is the easy access to shore diving.
Here I have better infrastructure, great access to arts & culture, easy access to all of Europe and I don't need to own a car. And despite the crippling cost of living in London, I'm pretty sure I still have more purchasing power than I did in NZ (although my Wellington flat was bigger).
Each to their own.
You have no idea how gutted I was when, as a child, I discovered that the Jelly involved was not what we call Jelly, but merely jam.
Oh, the mental anguish...
Oddly enough, that's one of my interview questions. If they won't let me manage my workstation, I won't work there.
Both IT and myself have better things to do than fight over why I need CygWin or the like.
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
