I reckon he's been watchng streethawk.

It's the same thing, probably. My degree was in Computer Science with Information Engineering. Unless you knew every module I did you'd be none the wiser. My first job title was Junior Programmer. Just words.

I bought an Asus Zenbook, as it's all the advantages of a macbook air sized device, but half the price. If travelling very light, I take a Xoom tablet or just my smart phone. There's plenty of choices before you go nuts on pico projectors etc!

It seems to me that modern kids talk to their friends a lot more that. I ever used to! When I was 15, being social was getting you mate to bring his computer around so you could play linked games by serial port. I had maybe 2 or 3 good friends I saw outside of school. Today our kids regularly talk online to many more people, have better grammar and writing skills and enjoy being social online. P.s. I met my wife on icq.

I used to buy the computer mags for Amiga, Atari St, even as far back as BBC micro. It's certainly how I got my first copies of Bryce, Poser, etc. And faster than typing programmes in on the BBC ! Now I just subscribe to New Scientist. I might buy the occasional photography magazine if the cover grabs my attention. Most of what I want to read now is free and online but in the summer there's nothing better than sitting outside with a magazine. I have no idea what US magazines are like for comparison.

They look different probably because Russia have pictures of the other side of the earth, you know, outside of USA.

I was surprised that my HTC phone uses the same quirky connector as my new Sony Reader. Now I find out it's a standard!

I bought my first PC compatible Epson Apex in 1991 with a 40 megabyte hard drive. I had so much data on it I was running Stacker to do real-time compression giving nearly 80 megabytes for DOS 4.01 and Windows 3.0. Floppy disks held 720 A few years later I bought a 300 megabyte drive for my Amiga A1200. I remember clearly costing £300, but being massive! Now I have a network server for mass storage with a two 2 terrabyte drives installed and room for seven more drives. I'll just buy them as I need them, as obviously prices plunge as fast as sizes increase.

I worked for 11 years writing payroll applications in a version of basic. It powered a significant number of payroll systems in the UK and probably accounts for most people's wage slips even today. Now I write web sites in ASP, running VBScript. BASIC lives and will always have a place.

Is the film going to make only profits that look like binary numbers? I still remember watching the original film as a kid. It was amazing. I also thought War Games was amazing, but I saw a sequel to that recently and groaned.

You never bought a film, you just bought a license to watch it. This is why you aren't allowed to play it in public places, prisons and schools. Nothing has changed, just the delivery medium and the fact you can't sell it on when you're done.

I decided to buy an old refurbished server last month, except the RAM I needed is so rare now it costs 4 times as much as the server. If I wanted to fit a graphics card, I'd have to pay over-the-odds to get one suitable. People replace old PC's when they break because new ones are cheaper and faster.

That's one of the most shocking news items I've read in a while! Thanks for posting.

I already have my own hosting though, and if I can't host it elsewhere I am effectively locked in.