I can't help but think that the current series of Reith Lectures presented by the Professor Neil Ferguson is pertinent here.

The lectures are quite long at about an hour each, and there are only three of the final four available so far, but it is worth the taking the time to listen to what he has to say. If you are short of time, skip to the third episode where he explains that the rule of law has become the rule of lawyers and why this is bad for the economy.

The beatings, as they say, will continue until moral improves.

Summer? What is this 'summer' that you speak of?

We know of no such things in England!

Its not an intractable problem to run proprietary desktop software via remote desktop to VMs. It might even help cut down on licensing and support costs.

We can't... that's why we have a half finished air craft carrier and no aircraft to put on it, at least not for the next decade.

But, hey, we've still got nuclear submarines so we can claim to be sitting at the top table.

Why shameless? After all, they are there to represent the will of the people, so changing policy to match popular opinion seems not only sensible but a morally good thing to do.

I'm sorry, but I take those phone operator web sites with a large pinch of salt. For all I know, Microsoft or Nokia paid to get the Lumia listed as 'best sellers'. In any case, given the amount of astro-turfing these days, I certainly wouldn't pay any attention to the approval ratings or reviews.

I think it would make more sense for them to license ARM and make a competitor for Tegra. I'd certainly be interested in a netbook/pad based around that technology.

The people with the biggest guns win, and trust me your poxy little pea shooter is nothing compared to a tooled up marine. You'll hit the dirt before you so much as see the guy piloting the drone that killed you, let alone get to actually shoot the damn thing at a government official.

They didn't take your guns away because they were scared of you, they took them away because too many people were going postal with them.

Actually, we invented them during the Boar war

I don't deny your figures, but I suspect that cause may not be so much that Obama likes drones more, rather the fact that drone technology finally went from mediocre to very good over the last few years. It is understandable that under such circumstances their use would increase.

I agree - if we must have software patents, they should only be granted when pseudo code or real code is supplied with the patent. Anything with less than a few hundred lines of code (excluding comments) gets instantly discarded as obvious.

Speak for yourself, but while I hoped it would change with Blair, but I have no delusions about Cameron.

You do realise this is HP we are talking about here?

Ummmm... no, they've cheated in that screen shot by removing the (admittedly pointless) header above the list of files to compensate for the extra space taken up by the ribbon bar. We don't know whether the header is gone completely or if they changed a configuration option, but either way this is not a like-for-like comparison: there is less available space for the application.