@Nextweek

Although on the upside your hairy palms are ideal for speed reading Braille.

On 24 November 2000 the Royal Society of Chemistry issued this press release, which accepts sulfur as the standard form, and which is presumably the base for the COD’s recommendation in 2001:

Sulphur or sulfur?

An internationally agreed nomenclature is essential for science. This ensures that scientists can communicate with each other clearly, and consistent nomenclature is increasingly important as scientific information is searched electronically. For chemistry the standards are agreed by IUPAC [International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry]. In 1990 it was recommended by IUPAC that the spelling of sulfur would use ‘f’ instead of ‘ph’ and at the same time the spellings aluminium and caesium were recommended instead of aluminum and cesium (the spellings in common use in the USA). Interestingly, in 18th and 19th century Britain it was commonplace for sulfur to be spelt with either an ‘f’ or ‘ph’.

http://lavengro.typepad.com/peter_harvey_linguist/2007/07/sulphur-or-sulf.html

@FMJ

"This years Nobel Chemistry prize winner..."

So it took some work for him to establish himself but he has done so and precisely because of the scientific review processes. He now has the top dog award. Some of his peers may have been dogmatic but 'science' wasn't.

Now imagine Galileo becoming pope . . .

@Stike Vomit

"get over yourselves, you Apple worshiping bell-ends!"

I don't have an iPhone or any other Apple computer and I have more El Reg downvotes from the tards that do than those that don't - I'd like to think my Apple-worshipping credentials are pretty shoddy.

But it's mad to deny the fact that they have established a brand that people admire.

Pull out an iPhone and people will go "Ooh, is that an iPhone?"

Pull out an Android phone and people will go "Ooh, is that an iPhone?"

Bar a few geeks no one is going to be impressed by you owning one of the alternatives.

That this is true doesn't mean the iPhone's better, just more widely desired.

If they were reading this they probably wouldn't need to rush to a hotspot.

Mode 7

PRINT CHR$(141);"I MISS CEEFAX"

PRINT CHR$(141);"I MISS CEEFAX"

No one said this shouldn't be done - there were just a few jokes about this sort of text and then someone got all sniffy about atheists shoving their views down everyone's throats and that riled those amongst them who are a bit tired of being told that they are the only people who must not do this, especially when they are just having a bit of fun.

I would imagine that all the atheists believe it goes without saying that preserving ancient documents of all sorts is just a Good Thing.

@AC 17:25

"more than 10 [or better: ten] minutes HAVE passed"

Yes, if he meant that the number of minutes that had passed was greater than ten, but his original is fine if he wasn't counting individual minutes and simply meant that a period of time greater than ten minutes in duration had elapsed.

Another Reg reader who could make a very interesting contribution to the site (or is there an existing blog / site for these projects?)

Interesting

That's the sort of thing I'd like to see more of on the Reg.

Apple has boot camp

Which is one of the reasons I would consider one of their PCs even though it's quite possible that after buying one I would use it infrequently if ever.

Surely ageing is an area of interest to all of us who have yet to finish doing it.

@AO

"Only a Guardian reader could think that "the original Guardian article" was actually the primary source for an opinion poll."

I didn't think that - I guessed you might have been alerted to the poll by your colleague at the Guardian who wrote that article earlier in the day and thought mentioning it might, well ... I thought I'd mention it anyway and not just because it was better.

In the OED apparently

Quotes Keats using it in 1818

"“This was architected thus By the great Oceanus.”"

Keyboard schmeeboard.

Some people write letters, I bet some still even use fountain pens.

Have a promotion

No one has ever suggested anything should be 'actively promoted', it's not like there's discount rent boys behind the bike sheds or bonus payments for girls who swear off men.

All that anyone does is mention that some people are gay and that this is perfectly okay.

I can't find that quote in the linked article.

Xperia mini

Has a screen resolution of only 320 x 240, I believe, which may be a factor for some.

Thanks

For the reply, Steve.

I assumed that the Danes have also increased demand so if they have managed to supply that with wind power rather than any other sort then wind for them is working (maybe not well or efficiently but to some extent).

I'm just trying to get a handle on this issue which is nigh on impossible with opinions polarised as they are.

Now, let me ask the Reg readers if I should buy an Apple laptop . . .

Price

Would you still buy and iPad if there was a good enough alternative that was considerably cheaper?

I'd guess Amazon is mainly interested in getting people tied in to their services and so can shove the hardware onto the market below the cost of their competitors.

I will buy a tablet at some point and I am not fussed who from.

Not doubting anyone's figures

But the argument seemed to switch in an instant from 'wind power does not work' to 'the Danes make wind power work for them but their electricity is expensive' which is not quite the same thing.

Is wind power buffered by hydro a workable option? Is it a workable option here given UK geography?

How much would energy prices have to rise to make it economically viable?

@auburnman

"if you gave even the slightest toss about the occupants."

I suspect the next successful manned space programme will give less of a toss about the occupants than NASA has.

We've had good reason on El Reg before about how one-way trips to Mars make sense for example.

Sideways

I paid twenty or thirty quid for a 32k 'sideways' RAM module for my BBC B, guess that will have been my most expensive.

Yep.

Lovely product that just lacked phone / mobile data integration.

Still the best feel of any comparable device; solid and (literally) cool.

Useful comment.

Thanks.

re: 1664 starts making much more sense

I'm an ale man myself but yeah, in trying circumstances even Kronenbourg makes sense - and housework would definitely count.

Rich boy

A proper rich boy would have had a BBC Micro with a 6502 second processor for the ultimate (at the time) Elite experience.

Cheap POS

CM7 is available for the Blade (Orange San Francisco) which is cheap although not exactly a POS.