That's undisputable. However, it's what's dissolved in it that's the problem. Sewage contains pharmaceuticals and hormones - none of which are removed by the treatment process. Generally, recycled water isn't even tested for them.

There's no T-Mobile in this country.

As i understand it, they shut some servers down because they were worried about overheating.

I'm an old(ish) person (56) and i hate old music - i've heard all that old crap far too many times. But i don't live in a city and i don't have internet everywhere and i want mp3s. And i'm quite happy to pay for them - but i won't pay for streaming.

The only Australian mp3 seller (Bigpond Music) has recently stopped operating in favour of a streaming service, which really only leaves Google Play (which is a pain in the arse). Itunes is completely useless if you use Linux, and there's fuck all else as far as i can tell.

As DRM-free mp3s? Because if not, so what?

It's unbelievable that a data centre can't cope with an extra degree or two. What sort of idiot designs these places? Haven't they heard of tolerances?

One of the worst things about OOP is the stupid analogies used to explain it. If the people you're explaining it to can't understand it in abstract, programming terms then they're not worth wasting your time on because they'll be useless programmers anyway. But, of course, it's probably not the audience that's the problem, but the writer - who's incapable of communicating without resorting to stupid analogies.

No they're not. You just can't see the wood for the trees.. It's not the tree that is the carbon sink, it's the forest.

....... and are replaced by new trees. It's not the tree that's the carbon sink, it's the forest.

For the first time in my life, i own a laptop that doesn't have an easily removable battery - a Samsung series 5 ultrabook. Normally i won't buy any device that doesn't have an easily removable battery, but a matt screen is more important and there's not many options when it comes to laptops. It's also the worst laptop i've had (in 20 years of owning them) for battery longevity.

Yeah, mine's lost half its battery life from that. I'm making the effort to run it on the battery as much as i can now. But the problem with doing that is that when you really need to run off battery, the battery's unlikely to be fully charged. That's a serious flaw in laptop battery systems - and one that there's probably no currently forseeable fix for.

Too right! There's a lot of whining on slashdot about this sort of thing. As soon as you see it, you know the writer's just incompetent and blaming their tools.

That's how i feel too. However, i'm a computer nerd and have been for 35 years, and i suspect that makes me a bit different from average users. While Gnome 3 irritates me a lot (as do all other desktops, incidentally), i can see the point of it - and it's not aimed at you or me.

Not any more it's not. And it never was with anyone who had a clue. Flash based web sites always were and always will be shit.

It's wrong if you're lazy or not very smart - because you want a language that saves you having to actually do anything. You've only got to look at the shit that passes for web development on some sites to see that there's no shortage of those sorts of people working in the industry.