Re: Oh dear

I would of thought (could be wrong I am no engineer, or at least not that kind fo engineer) that as its designed to be 'wind cheating' that the design shown is specifically based around this concept rather than aesthetic tastes.

Really?

I thought people didnt like macs because they are overly expensive for indifferent hardware and insufficiently customisable for certain uses?

Its got to the point where I will use one for work (previously the home of Windows) as cost is largely negated as I wont personally be paying and being able to customise what is essentially just a thin client with storage is irrelevant....thanks to only having to use browser interface apps and RDP.

And I get the shiny!

Both of them are about as realistic to the experience of driving

As call of duty is for firing guns......

Kind of agree

To be honest I do exactly that, use IE for work apps and Chromium or Firefox for personal use.

I dont curse the use of IE though, if only because I've been involved in testing and only having to do regression and UAT testing (internal company apps) against one browser on one particular version is infinitely preferable to trying to do it against an ever changing background.

WSUS and IE make it a doddle to ensure you are consistent across your environment.

'Maybe' IE is not the best browser but its not about 'bad decisions' its about your TCO and aggravation levels...

Going out on a limb here

But I stongly doubt lady gaga has even a passing knowledge of this incident.

No more than any CEO of a multi-million pound organisation is aware of the companies domain name snafu's going on and quite possibly less

'Spend my time trying to outdo the meat dress or talk to a lawyer about domain name ownership...what to do....'

zogthedeniable.com?

Or were you going for something a bit more sweary

It's generally considered..

The functionality and quality of online experience is generally considered to be better on xbl than psn (technically not socially, having to listen to american children complain about 'them arabs' etc is just as heinous on either platform). Better chat functions, better development libraries have generally resulted in a more reliable online experience (black ops release for example) and there is of course the not having your security provided by Mr bean aspect as well.

However I personally use PS3 as that's where my friends are but I'd happily pay as going online to repeatedly shoot your friends is easily worth 40quid a year....

yes and no..

http://www.develop-online.net/news/35319/Sony-regrets-PS3-problems-but-has-Moved-on

So, more of a pig to code (which Sony admit) on but its getting easier.

Also, for online there was better, wider, coherent libraries for online development for XBL rather than PSN making it substantially easier to code for this requirement (I dont know if this is still the case).

Power wise

I believe I remember reading that raw polygon creation Xbox 360 wins but given all the clever stuff in the CELL processor (PS3) means it should always be able to do more onscreen than the 360 can manage, which at the end of the day is what counts.

Apologies for slightly less than definite response but given the level of fanboi feeling on the matter its very difficult to find any 'facts'. A lot of the stuff out there is about as reasonable as a Tea Party activist on Obama.

Man I loved bombjack

I still know the correct routes for the bombs on an unhealthy number of the levels

Tron discs was good, the other ones not so much

Ghost and Goblins also win (if painfully difficult in the arcade)

You missed one thing

The inevitable political trick of adding more scope to justify the increased cost to ensure we are caught in a loop of:

Needing more money > Offering additional scope > This causes further delay/cost > Need more money

Otherwise Kudos, it was like being at work

Galaxy S

had mine over a month now and tbh was also concerned with the build quality, especially the plastic rear.

However so far, unfounded, its got Gorilla glass like everything else and despite 3 drops to the floor (gym floor so not conrete, but not carpet either) and a mauling by my kids not a scrach or mark yet and no wobbly connectors etc........yet

mmmm

Just to be clear here, I play my PS3 more than my 360, so kind of on your side (and my children play the wii).

However Kinect is a truly different feature where as the move is essentially a hi-def wii mote and nun-chuk. If they can make that stick (very arguable at the moment, granted) I think that will push MS further ahead

Also I think they are fairly even on the old exclusive titles (at least in terms of sales). And frankly Im not a fan of the exclusive game thing anyway, its a gain for nobody except the hardware producer.

Extremely accurate header

For the rest of the post you made.

Im going to have to agree

MoH is more fun than BBC2.

I never found the multiplayer feature of BBC2 though, unlocked on newsnight?

Which works great....

For homogenous goods, Paper, printing cartridges and laptops are not.....

You are always going to have to balance the gains of centralisation (economies of scale, leveraging suppliers for loss leaders etc) against the cost (time/money/human resources) of putting an additional step in the procurement process (which centralisation inherently does).

I think there should be a good calculation for this per product

Essentially your variables are:

Percentage advantage of centralised purchasing

Time sensitivity of procured product (how many days do you normally need it in - lead time from supplier)

Complexity of product/chance of incorrect ordering i.e. number of variables per order

Cost and quailty of additional person required for centralised purchasing role (hours required annually/cost of resource)

Total expected expenditure on product annually

Not all details can be known exactly but must businesses that have been running for some length of tile should have an approximation

You should then be able to make a tipping point suitable for your organisation to either centrally purchase or leave regional/departmental.