To quote the link: "...Windows 8 Metro UI last year, which was an obvious attempt to move the desktop to a mobile UX"
Granted, I haven't tried 8 in any sense (why bother..), but from my end it looks more the other way around and they're forcing something totally suited to a tablet onto a computer rather than moving the PC direction towards tablet/phone UI; it bears a resemblance to poorly handled game ports from console to PC
From what little i've read, wages went up a lot towards the end. Today, you have below-inflation wage increases, many wages frozen and many taking pay cuts. The only increases are (in some ways debatably) unjustified and decided by the one/s receiving it.
Due to population increases not counteracting the increases in efficiency, there were food shortages. The Office for National Statistics showed between 2004-2007 the population increased by about 1mil. Whereas that's higher than the 19th century, as a % of the total it's far less. Plus, if you haven't noticed...we as a 'developed' nation throw away a LOT of food, so I doubt we'll have mass malnutrition (no more than we already do because people practically live in takeaways..)
In general, I think there are similar knock on effects of jobs vanishing, maybe coupled with the recession and a mass feeling of social dissociation things can and have been grim (e.g. riots), but I wreckon whatever's to come won't compare, and it will only be good if we move away from choking capitalist agendas forcing people to use their lives working when, lets face it, we would GLADLY let a robot do our job if it meant we didn't have to work..
I have few dealings with Paypal, but whenver I think of them, this comes to mind: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/04/paypal-buyer-destroys-violin
Speaking as a Brit, I would gladly stand up against this, like many others no doubt, but since when did Government put something forward for our opinion and actually consider it? They just throw money at advisers to decide for them
Depends where you look, google finds me various cases that win or lose.
I can see the validity in not wanting users to potentially completely circumvent their advertising, knocking off revenue, however don't some sites have advertisements for a discounted, for example, so you go to that product on it's site, have a look, then maybe see what else is on offer?
They are getting free advertising to some extent, and with users these days wanting minimal effort (would you rather copy and paste or search for the content, especially on a phone / tablet? I thought not..) they shouldn't be clamping down on a nation of speed readers..
At least Apple pays taxes. Unlike GE that doesn't may any tax at all.
Three words: One Dollar Salary...
Hope that a judge deems otherwise, since you may as well agree to sacrifice your second child and 5 goats to use their service if they can do this...
As someone mentioned in a similar story (credit to whoever they are) you don''t get such shackles with in-store purchase unless there's ongoing payments!
why didn't they just "charge extra" before the floods?
They didn't have an excuse they could fall back on if they ramped them up with no reason?
Despite their operations returning to normal, it might be a case of demand still not meeting the supply. If people are willing to pay more, how often do you hear "since we've knocked the prices up lately, we'll just slash them anyway"
This gives me a gut feeling all the programs you install could be used for ads more targeted than ever before....
Forget your search history, these could use data from your whole internet history, downloads, desktop, start menu...
Had no idea that it became £50, but I am curious on the reaction with such a request and threat of legal action if it's not complied with.
Legal advice is sound advice, It's no more a standard request than requesting a copy of records from any data controller.. their fault for preventing their own access.. time for them (well, the taxpayer in the end, as always) to pay up
Whereas I probably know even less than you (I know practically nothing), online searches can come up with the odd bit of info on cost to set the thing up, but fact you still have to rent the line (ignoring whether or not you'd even be granted IPs due to the slight....shortage) guessing by your population spread, it would prove difficult to justify the investment.
However, this thread shouldn't be full of people saying "don't do it" as you are theorising it. You will have to check a lot with your local council, also consider the security issues as you would be responsible for policing anyone using it. With regards to cost, though, it can be useful if you contact locals and see if people are willing to invest beforehand.
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
