I so *wish* I had mod points for you right now.

It has been shown that it's nearly impossible to build enough roadway in high traffic areas because as soon as you add more roadway it gets filled to capacity *immediately*.

I think it's even worse than that as it says 30% of the content has to be local for *each* country!

That's insanely ridiculous as if they show their entire catalog in just 3 countries than 90% of their content would have to come from those 3 countries which only leaves 10% from elsewhere.

They will *have* to reduce their catalogs across all of europe and have separate catalogs for each specific country.

I only respond to work communications after hours if I'm on call and it's a priority issue.

Microsoft in Redmond now runs their own fleet of buses that go all over the greater seattle area for their workers. With built in WiFi even if IIRC so you can work on the bus during your commute and have it counted towards your hours or whatever.

I'm in my mid-40's and am one of those people that has never paid for cable TV service.

I didn't even ever own a TV until about 10 years ago.

Bought my first new TV 4 years ago.

Who watches TV with commercial anymore?

How about get a phone that supports wireless charging then physically destroy the usb port.

Lenovo had a laptop that did exactly that at one time - had a 2nd 10" screen that slid out from behind the main display screen.
They don't make it anymore though as far as I know..
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2F2009%2F01%2F...

EIther way what I said still applies - doesn't matter who is calling whom - it is normal practice to generate ringtone back to the caller (no matter who they are or who they are calling) before the called numbers side connects and starts generating their own ringtone.

This is a bit disconcerting - I suppose in this case they were fined because they were doing this in order to cover up their spotty coverage. As in it was malicious.

But still a bit disconcerting as this is very common practice in telecom. I work with telecom VOIP gateways and almost all calls are SIP now and the protocols have methods that allow gateways to generate the ringing you hear before the other end connects and starts to generate the ring from the far side. This is so the caller doesn't just hear empty silence or a series of beeps or whatever while we wait for the far end to connect. Now once the far end does connect we stop and play whatever media we are receiving so it generally doesn't happen for more than a ring or two but it can and has happened for 4-5 rings which is enough for impatient people to just hang up and think the other person is not answering.

My wife has an iPhone and has not been able to update it for several months because she doesn't have enough space on it to install the update.

She can't even update most of her apps (of which she doesn't have that many) due to the limited amount of space she has on her phone.

> And yet the vast majority of the world's email travels though Linux servers.

Actually the vast majority of email travels through end user windows machines infected with botnets.

I don't think you are an outlier at all I just think people tend to have narrow views of what is happening based on what they work on and what they see.

And I happen to agree with you and I'm not a MS fanboi at all...

I work for an IT consulting company and have worked on projects for hundreds of companies and yes often (but not always) their web servers, app servers, etc are linux and they may have a few other linux servers here and there but from what I have seen that usually is only about 10-20% of their servers total. The other 80-90% are Windows servers.

Windows servers running Exchange, IIS, Sharepoint, Lync, Skype for Business, MS SQL, Active Directory, Print servers, File shares, Office Web Apps (or Office Online Server as it's now called), WAP, Azure Sync and now even running Azure.

And with the *huge* increase of companies moving to Office 365 now the number of Windows servers is only growing. MS won't be IBM any time soon with their VERY strong position for cloud services all related to Office. And now as previously mentioned you can now run the Azure stack in house on your very own Windows Servers those numbers will only keep growing.