I can't believe...

...that nobody actually tested one !

Whatever else the Romans did for us, they provided this useful advice: Caveat Emptor

The Preferred Business Model

One purchase, one license per user

No restriction on transferring licenses between users and machines

Users have total control over where documents are stored, no cloud required

NO SUBSCRIPTION

Are these concepts too difficult for MS to understand ?

Why is this so difficult for governments to understand ?

High taxes lead to tax avoidance strategies. All of which are completely legal .the same way high rates of duty lead to increased smuggling.

The only viable long term solution is to cut corporation tax to a level which makes it not worth avoiding.

The big problem this raises for politicians, is that they cannot subsequently raise the tax because they are short of revenue to spend on some vanity project.

Lower taxes benefit everybody.

Just a few errors...

The Alien Invasion episode was Quatermass II, where the aliens descend in aerodynamic capsules and take over the population of a small village 6 miles from Carlisle ( actually Hemel Hempstead )

The only acceptable version of War of the Worlds was the 1953 version by George Pal, the 2005 remake had the wrong story, the wrong location and the wrong cast, I'm still waiting for somebody to film this true to the original book.

How you can describe any remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers magnificientis a huge fail, nothing comes close to the original Don Siegel version.

and some you missed, on the basis of actual invasion by aliens...

Village of the Damned

Plan 9 from Outer space

and... To Serve Man by Damon Knight ( Twiglet Zone 1962 )

Disk Failure recovery ?

I would like MS to explain how this works in the event of total disk failure on PCs supplied without install disks.

Simon's Revenge

( BOFH episode 15 )

Who appointed Alcohol Concern as Nanny ?

It's well past time that this self appointed 'charity'? was muzzled, they have no official status and seem to be the worst kind of interfering do - gooding organisation.

If they want to make policy, I suggest they provide candidates for the next general election.

Mines a pint, and Alcohol Concern can FOAD.

Still no pictures

send somebody down to the Playmobil division to wake the operators up

( you could always borrow a cattle prod from the PFY ),

we are overdue for a Friday Reconstruction

Units are nonsense

“Those limits were really plucked out of the air. They were not based on any firm evidence at all. It was a sort of intelligent guess by a committee,”

Source:

Richard Smith, a member of the Royal College of Physicians working party that produced the guidelines.

Time to stop nannying and have another pint ( or six )

Lifting Bodies ?

When do they plan to start work on Zero-X ?

The correct way to design a building

Adequate car parking spaces for all the staff, should be a mandatory requirement for all planning applications is the UK

Protests in the street ?

Are we about to see street protests between placard - waving supporters of The Arthritis Defense League and the European League Against Rheumatism

Superb

Much better than the recent crop of crap "statues" that have appeared in London.

Can we have this as a permanent fixture on the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square

I want one

as a low cost, faster alternative to optical FC

Terpsichorean Muse

The owner of the Cheese shop go shot as well.

Bad idea

I consider the whole App Store concept to be a really bad idea.

The only kind of apps that I want :

have no restriction where they are sold, and who sells them ( or provides them free )

do not require approval of any kind,

can be installed from physical media without any kind of DRM.

do not require a network connection and run entirely on a local machine.

Still the wrong approach

This is still completely the wrong approach, any form of tracking must be on an explicit opt - in basis only.

Protecting privacy is far more important than advertiser's desire for profit, if they consider this data so desirable, I expect to be paid for it.

Punishment for unauthorised tracking should be swift and unforgettable, appointing the PFY as consultant on sanctions should be the first step.

Clearly time for a new Boss...

this one is far too aware of what has been happening, and WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE !

Reconstruction

Whatever the outcome, we deserve a full Playmobil reconstruction.

No problem in Berlin...

...visiting the local equivalent, the Fernsehturm.

Turn up without needing to make an appointment, pay the entry fee, 9.5 euros, submit to a cursory bag search.

Why can't we do this in the UK ?

Failed to Prosecute BT

This self - serving unit should be closed as 'not fit for purpose'.

Their first action should have been to descend on the parts of BT responsible for the Phorm outrage, arrest everybody concerned and prosecute the lot.

He's Baaaack

Somehow I always knew the BOFH wasn't dead

Single Market

There is no case to answer, the single market must apply equally to all goods and services, football 'rights holders' are getting as greedy and obnoxious as the content industries

They still don't

Macs still don't get self installing viruses or any other kind of nastiness that is so common on Windows.

The only way to get malware of any kind on a Mac is to manually install it, and enter your Admin password.

I have no sympathy for idiot users, but Macs are still inherently secure.

Now I need a new password

Curse you all for publicising this volcano, i thought "Eyjafjallaokull" was such a good password

Idiots

Quote: "one in ten used a pet's name. The name of a pet might easily be obtained by browsing on an intended target's social networking profile."

If anybody actually needs a reason to completely avoid the disaster - waiting - to - happen that is social networking, this is it.

Another...

Another pointless, headline - grabbing waste of money initiative by Brown and his gang of idiots

Pointless

Every version since Office 2000 has been a pointless, expensive, resource - hogging disaster. There is nothing in the new version that makes it even a desirable upgrade, certainly not a 'must have'

Seven !!! complaints

Is that all ? Just seven complaints out of a population of > 60 Million. Its time the ASA remit was changed to completely ignore all complaints unless at least half the population complain about the same AD, with stringent checks to ensure that each complaint comes from an individual and not some self - serving pressure group.

The same criteria needs to be applied to all the other bodies that deal with complaints, starting with the BBC.

Useless Fields

You missed the most useless of all - Social Work

Meanwhile in the USA...

Quote "The Department of Defense is enthusiastic about open source software and is increasingly confident that it delivers tangible advantages on the front lines."

Idiot

Looks like Obama is making the same stupid error that Gordon Brown has been making for years.

The solution is very simple, ( but clearly too difficult for politicians to grasp ) , don't condem other countries for their low taxes and the companies who gain an advantage from them....

Cut your own taxes to the same level !

The difficult concept for tax - loving leaders is that by cutting taxes you may get more revenue, not less.

Impartial ?

How likely is the " impartial " BBC to report this current finding in full ?