I know someone who did 162 miles in one go, off road on a mountain bike. It was a 24-hour endurance event.

Pretty much everything on a bicycle is simpler, lighter and more efficient than a car. Although the lifespan of some of the parts can be lower, bearings, chain and so on.

But the biggest advantage is everything is user repairable given some knowledge. Unlike the increasingly complex car engines and ECUs.

Well, it was more that there was no resource tracking on the Amiga. So if an application crashed it would not then deallocate its memory. There was also no memory protection.

But this was down to the CPUs not having memory management units (MMU), even when you did have an MMU the OS wasn't written to use it. It would have required a rewrite of the kernel and applications.

Of course, an MMU was handy for debugging purposes.

Who funded the research?

It does often tend to skew the results in the favour of the person who commissioned the report.

We've looked at similar things in the UK.

Surely this system will track where you are and at what time you drive?

A fuel efficient car isn't efficient if it is sat idling in a traffic jam in the rush hour. Yet a car that is less fuel efficient will be emitting less pollution if it is driven at night on a clear road.

It's about trying to reduce traffic queues by making it more expensive to drive at peak times.

It's for tablets. You simply don't have room inside for big bulky connectors that nobody is ever going to get access to.

Who knows. But really they should be forced to unlock all the music from DRM.

Businesses are almost totally Windows based. It is only when you get into the server room that you'll find Linux. So if you're setting someone up to work with Windows in later life that would be the choice. But there may be a lot more tablet use in 10 years.

But I used an Amiga up until about 1998 and on that I learned how to program C and other things. It's not held back my knowledge of Windows.

Disaffected? that would explain people going out and smashing things up, but these are people who are well organised:

See quote from a Facebook group I'm on about it:

150-200 rioters were involved, armed with crowbars and baseball bats. Smashed windows, about 30 grand worth of stock got nicked from a jewellery shop, £70,000 from an electronics shop.

Sounds more like criminals to me.

Rubbish. These are criminal gangs being organised by a ring leader using phones to alert each other of Police activity. There's a lot of goods being stolen.

The Police used to have the upper hand with their radios but now the rioters have the same sort of capability.

Also, what would you do if you were under attack, give in and hope they go away? of course not, you'd get the biggest gun you could find and fire back.

People who are fanatical gamers but also have a job where they are on the road a lot?

Thing is Google aren't stupid. They'll wait until their market share is really high in mobile then start charging for Android.

Most religions set out rules on what you can't do.

People turn to these religions when they screw up their lives, it's like some sort of spiritual rehab where you have to control yourself to conform to the rules of the religion.

Meanwhile the rest of us are deemed to be amoral because we aren't following such rules.

When you're writing a driver you're working to the specifications provided by the manufacturer. I know from experience these can be correct.

So even if it is Apple's code you can't really blame them if they've written their driver to dodgy specs.

Rubbish, the support period from Apple is longer than from Samsung. Apple supports 2-3 years, the industry average is 1-2 years, usually 12 months.

Flash is a non-Apple standard? it's not even a standard. A standard implies that a specification or protocol is available to 3rd parties which is incorrect. It's closed and proprietary, I find it laughable that people who are normally advocating openness think such proprietary closed source technology is a good thing?

Flash is a web extension, it's not an open standard. It's not part of any HTML specification. So the "whole of the web" is a totally misleading way of putting it.

If it was an open web standard it would be supported, but it's a proprietary closed source standard from Adobe.

I personally don't care about flash and I don't want the web being under the control of Adobe, Microsoft or anyone else.