I liked the transparency very much. Had it enabled in Windows7 for all of the 14 years. Until software incompatibility forced me to install Windows 10.
If the US would use a direct voting system, where any party gets a proportional number of seats depending on the number of votes, this two-party-system wouldn't have developed.
But now the system serves exactly these two parties, so they will not ever change it. And the citizens will only ever have the option between them. Except if some really really rich people found a new party and win over at least 25% of all people to vote for them on the first try.
Not everywhere is a library.
Today I visited the main city library of Bremen, and it has only media search terminals in kiosk mode. But there is of course free Wi-Fi, so if you have a smartphone, there should be no problem. There are also some libraries with open access 24/7 using a membership card.
Cities have a lot of free wi-fi locations, but outside of urban areas you would need some kind of mobile or landline rate. The latter has relatively cheap flatrates (as little as 20€ including phone flatrate). Mobile access can be much cheaper, but then if your traffic volume is emptied you only get 64 kbit/s.
The GSM spec is some years older, because you need time to built networks and phones based on it.
In Germany GSM started 1992, and we already had a decent state-wide analog mobile phone network (mostly car phones because of the hardware requirements), called "C net" This was popular since the 80ies and only shutdown in 2000, when GSM was widely established with three private networks (and also cheaper then).
Gotta love the German creativity in naming. It's called "C Net" because that came after "B Net", which came after "A Net". While "A" apparently stood for "Autotelefon" (car phone).
And when D-Net came, T-Mobile called their service D1, and Vodafone called theirs... D2.
Yes because BeOS was way ahead of its time. A complete new OS, doing all system things so much more efficiently, that it could allow wasting cpu time on high level actions, like moving windows in real-time while they were playing videos.
On 1993s hardware, impossible with Windows or OS/2.
The PTB (national metrology institute of Germany) provides a similar clock for decades. It is one of the few displaying the real time, not your computer’s time. The difference (if any) can be shown.
