These would be rejected in the UK for not having industrial applicability.

The main failing of the DS appears to be, from looking at "needs repair" posts on ebay, the hinge breaking. Based on that this seems like a positive step.

Getting the ribbon cable on a replacement screen to pass through the hinge requires persistence and dexterity to the point of nearly ending me a few Christmases back.

>"The screen added nothing of value" //

I'm surprised to hear this: I've only played on WiiU a handful of times just on Nintendoland really and it was very good. Far better than I expected.

This is one of the few cases in which I feel there could be genuine confusion for the UK consumer.

They don't own every word with Sky in it, there are loads of registered marks that have that (Skype, owned by MS, is one). However Sky Drive would be descriptive of a storage product from Sky. Sky do own that mark - Sky - in the relevant Nice class. If drive weren't descriptive then MS would have a hope but I'd still consider it similar enough to deny for a major tech competitor.

The game is first person, the view of the game is third person.

Do you think if Sky (a household name and a known - by consumers - user of the Sky-prefix for products) brought out "Windows TV" or "Bing Broadband" that there wouldn't be trademark confusion?

It's got a market cap of $18 Billion and the controlling stake is held by Fox. I don't see that happening.

Airports are private land aren't they. So why [legally] can't they decide who to allow access to (within the bounds of discrimination laws and such of course)?

Turing was sentenced to 1 year in prison. He was give the option to avoid prison by undergoing hormone therapy.

They already do things like game design - eg using Scratch in ICT programs.

>"Some basic training for all in the fundamentals of programming might very well improve the overall attitude to computer use and security." //

Unfortunately computer _use_ and secure _use_ of computers is not really a part of computer science; that's more ICT really and ICT is what's being killed to make way for computer science.

Yes, rather dishonest to categorise Information [Communication] Technology as only secretarial skills. DBAs, video producers, sound technicians, web designers ... all secretarial positions apparently.

I'm all for encouraging programming and consider that an element of programming can be a great boon to most people. However, this is being done at the expense of ICT which is also a great benefit to people. The majority don't need to be concerned with low level programming, algorithm efficiency and such; they probably don't have the nous for it TBH. However, nearly everyone can benefit from being able to produce a spreadsheet or edit a video or put together a simple web page.

AFAICT, and having talked to an ICT teacher about it, it seems there is a dearth of qualified and motivated teachers to teach computer science too.

IMO if more programming was to be introduced to the curriculum it should have come in with some algorithms in mathematics initially, some simple programming mixed in with ICT for the higher achievers. Then let the A-level Computer Science curriculum pick up those who have decided to take those elements further.

>*Cannon were not mentioned in the 2nd Amendment. Rockets were not mentioned and they were around (if relatively ineffective) when it was drafted as well. That would mean a rocket launcher would not be considered a firearm.* //

Which specific arms were mentioned, not semi-auto pistols surely.

It's called contributory [copyright] infringement.

IME formula fed babies diapers are stinkier. When they hit solids though, man-oh-man, took 2 weeks before I decided we had to start potty training! (It worked to some extent too).