Re: Why Bother?@AceRimmer

> why can't Google make Navigation work properly, when Nokia had this cracked three years ago?

Because they aren't trying hard enough, or intentionally want it to be pants?

Your experience of google navigation matches mine - it can cache the maps/routes, but just doesn't do the full job when it is offline - it won't route for a start (I guess all the route planning is server-based).

Google seem to have done all the hard bits, but fail to go the extra mile (if you excuse the pun) and make it usable offline. Shame, as the nexus 7 would seem to have the makings of a pretty good in-car unit.

There is navfree which is free for android - anyone tried it?

Re: Seriously

> Personally the fact that we left evolution behind millenia ago scares the devil out of me!

I don't think we have left evolution behind.

The greater rate of survivability just means that we're currently in a state where we are building up a wider range of variation through mutation, etc.

When the next sudden environmental change happens (e.g. next Ice Age, Meteor hit, Triffids, etc), only those people/genes lucky enough to be suited to the new environment may survive.

We may find out that genes for, e.g., morbid obesity turn out to be pretty useful in a different-looking world.

Re: 3 laws ?

> I am struggling to see how rule by an AI could be worse than what we have now.

> Especially true if the 3 laws apply.

Ain't you seen that "I Robot" film with William Smith (which is somewhat Asimov-inspired)?

The AI mind decides that it needs to save us from ourselves, and it ends in totalitarianism.

Re: streamed playback?

> Do any of these Humax boxes (freesat or freeview - dont care which) allow you to

> record onto one main box and then stream recordings over a home network to other

> TV connected boxes?

My Freeview Humax T2 does exactly that: I can watch its recordings on other boxes (computers/tablets and also a sony bluray player), but it generally only works with the non-HD recordings (maybe a problem on the player side?). It's called PnP DNLA or something like that.