@Simon Harris

Now I need to get rid of the badge!

@Anonymous IV

My 5 year old Dell M65 has a 15" screen at 1920x1200

unfortunately laptops sporting that sort of definition are a rare beast

Re: I miss the humour

The humour these days is still there but not as in your face as some games were back then.

The problem with in game jokes is that the jokes can get tiring quickly when replaying so they need to remain subtle to both reward the player for noticing and be ignorable once the joke has been acknowledged by the player.

Re: Don't touch!

AFAIK

As long as the phone is attached to the windscreen then you are ok

Similarly, if a proper sat-nav is not attached to the windscreen or dash then you fall foul of the same laws

Re: Why Bother?

Google Navigation is a proper "sat-nav" navigation application. It is NOT Google maps, although the two are joined at the hip.

I'm also quite happy with Google Navigation for now and I'm running an S3 so TomTom isn't an option

Re: scroogled is microsoft

You could have just read the article instead

Re: Why use wireless at all?

I didn’t even suggest using the power supply to deliver the network, you seem to have leapt to that conclusion yourself whilst also attaining a strangely high level of anger. Or is asking lots of questions whilst making a point normal for you?

However, to answer you points:

The bus bar won’t be miles long, they’re typically split into discreet sections which can be turned on/off

Spikes and drops are all part of the noise, if the signal to noise ratio is within acceptable limits then data transmission at a suitable bandwidth can occur

Re: Why use wireless at all?

"How do you run a cable to a train moving at 40MPH? Big curly cord like a headphone extension lead from the 70's?"

They've already solved that problem once when they had to figure out how to get electricity on to a train running at 40mph

I'm sure they can do it again

Re: "RAR extraction, an archiving option popular in the Windows world"

ZIP allows you to do that too and has done since the days of floppy drives

The biggest advantage of WinRAR is it's support of files bigger than what WinZIP will handle and slightly better (probably cause it works even with the evaluation version) command line utils

OCR Errors

I've seen similar errors when reading older out of print books on the kindle.

It is annoying but it probably helps keep the cost down whilst they rapidly expand the library of available books.

It would be nice if there was some method for them to automatically accept, review and apply corrections.

Re: Dominant market share?

The graph shows the share that the various mobile OSs have of the CHINESE market

Re: 2k -> 10k credit card

That is indeed how businesses work

Never pay up front if it can be avoided. Especially if you're a big company. If someone is willing to give you 30 days to pay for goods then that's an extra 30 days you've got to put your cash to other uses.

If you can push those payment terms without penalty then even better, 60 days... 90 days?

Also, the people who place an order for someone like Tesco's are not the same people who pay the bills. Stock control and buyers place the orders. The accounts payable department will deal with the invoices as they come in, matching them up to the orders placed and authorising them for payment (and then yet another department will make the actual payment)

Re: Buildings

"Sometimes there are two existing errors cancelling each other out."

An Error and an Anti-Error

Re: Alternatively

But the problem is that if every coder was still careful about every single byte we'd not be able to progress. It would be akin to a house builder worrying about how to manufacture bricks, cure wood, forge steel and make glass.

The fact is modern requirements are a lot more complex as expectations have been pushed up over the years.

Re: just TWO people?

I don't think it quite works like that.

Its probably that having received a complaint the ASA are obliged to investigate and they determined that it broke the rules so had to go.

Re: 'By Royal Appointment' ?

Apple haven't got anywhere, at least according to wikipedia they haven't

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Royal_Warrant_holders_of_the_British_Royal_Family

You can also check here:

http://www.royalwarrant.org/rwha-search

Re: Rain + city = problem

Tokyo has this same concept but on an enormous scale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1VIepfMLbA

Amazing, or as Tony Soprano would say " Bada Bing!"

Re: More importantly..

It's children's cough mixture

Re: Renault

Renault are part of the CRAP network of French car manufacturers