I was with Be for years. Excellent ISP, no blocking, real unlimited bandwidth and helpful technical support to boot. I jumped ship to Virgin when they were bought out by Sky as I really hate Sky. Who else was I going to go with? BT?

There are no more good ISPs left in the UK. This is a real shame.

p.s. As this is Slashdot, I would love to be corrected on the last point ^_^

There you go ruining someone's rant by applying logic.

Oracle?

Well played sir. I can't tell if you're trolling or being serious.

Really? I've always copied them via the network, either from the phone (loads of decent file browsers out there that support SMB, FTP, SFTP) or from the computer (run an FTP server on your phone). The only time I use the cable is when I have to charge my phone.

Exactly. It's not like nobody could see this coming the last time they raised the debt ceiling. There was a similar crisis earlier this year and they "resolved" it by increasing the debt ceiling. Without structural reforms that bring the annual deficit under control, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that said ceiling will be reached again.

Unless said controls are using WPF which then performs horribly on older machines. They might have improved it since .NET 3.5, but I haven't developed on Windows for quite a few years now so my knowledge could well be out of date. Or just plain wrong. This is the internet after all ;)