So I suppose a Quantum Fireball is out of the question then?

However, the paradox remains that the Olympus turbojets fitted to Concorde remain the most fuel-efficient jet engines ever fitted to an aircraft, though of course turbojets are probably better suited for supersonic cruise than high-bypass turbofans.

You forgot the rest of the joke:

Bono : "Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies."
Audience member shouts: "Well stop fucking clapping then!"

Well I'd trust the mainstream tech media to give some reliable numbers on Lumia sales rather than an MS astroturfing site.

Let's see: El Reg, Grauniad, Gizmodo, and many others..

Merck was a single German company prior to WWI, their North American assets were seized by the US government in 1917 and is now Merck & Co. What remained in Germany is now Merck KGaA.

Is his excess bulk a service problem or a food pricing problem?

Sadly for AMD I feel their time has come and gone, for a number of years they were well ahead of Intel but we all know why they could never press home their dominance. A billion euro fine; despite being a record, was chump change for Intel and in reality they profited greatly by shutting AMD out of the market.

It's fine until a pediatrician has her home attacked, like what happened in the UK. We may well complain about injustice at the hands of the authorities, but vigilantes are far more likely to target the innocent.

Yes I believe that service pack was called Windows 7, and Microsoft had the nerve to charge for it.

If you hate having multiple RDP, SSH, Telnet etc windows all over your desktop you should look at mRemote NG.

I've always liked O&O Defrag, with lots of options available to arrange files on the disk in the way you want. To be honest though I can't remember the last time I've even felt the need to defrag a production server. It seems that the performance penalty for fragmentation has become more or less irrelevent with today's systems.

Tell that to the 20% of lung cancer patients who have never smoked.

Agreed. Quake II (the game resposible for the loss of 2 years of my life) took quite a bit of flak for the dirty brown look but I loved it. Stroggos was supposed to be a dirty, opressive environment and the color scheme helped captured it perfectly.

The intrusion into Gordon Brown's bank account revealed that he had a massive overdraft and had sold all his family's gold at the bottom of the market. So it wasn't really newsworthy.

You're right in that for most people, the processor speed doesn't matter. Quantity and speed of RAM, HD density and rotation speed and graphics performance have far more influence on how the user perceives the speed of a system. Sadly Intel are still brainwashing people into thinking they need the latest and greatest Core iWhatever for browsing Facebook.

Dell's advertising also used to play heavily on this when they were deeply wedded with Intel. I remember when the 3 GHz P4s first came out. Dell would offer them in systems with 128 MB of RAM and a 20GB 5400 RPM HD coupled with the then dire Intel integrated graphics and people would wonder why the hell their system was so sluggish.