Run out of space on your iPhone? Too bad, delete stuff.

Run out of space on your GS3? Shift stuff to the external microSD card. If that gets full, pull the back cover off and swap in another microSD card.

Run out of battery on your iPhone? Too bad, find a power socket to plug your charger into. You brought your charger, right? Hope you weren't planning to go anywhere for the next hour or so!

Run out of battery on your GS3? Pull back cover off, take dead battery out, put charged battery in.

THESE were the features that sold me on the GS3 instead of the iPhone.

There's no way we could go back to that now. Why go to all the cost of producing multi-gigabyte ROM chips when they can pump the games out on BluRay for a few cents per copy, and particularly when the games would still get illegally dumped and distributed anyway! They'd just be going to great expense to put a small bump in the road for the pirates.

You don't have to wait 10+ years if the console was already obsolete when it was released. Case in point: Dolphin was emulating Wii games with a high degree of accuracy and compatibility for a large part of the Wii's active lifespan. Yes, the hardware requirements were a bit steep (though not so much now) to run games perfectly, but it shows how weak the Wii's hardware was (i.e. barely a step beyond the Gamecube) that a very playable emulator was available while Wii games and consoles still sat on store shelves.

Me neither, so I checked out the Wikipedia article and discovered this gem:

HPA can be used by various booting and diagnostic utilities, normally in conjunction with the BIOS. An example of this implementation is the Phoenix FirstBIOS, which uses BEER (Boot Engineering Extension Record) and PARTIES (Protected Area Run Time Interface Extension Services).[3]

Assuming that citation is valid, I have to give props to the Phoenix Technology guys for taking the time to give awesome acronyms to pretty mundane tech.

I know you mean the in-game command console rather than a game console like the xbox, but not everybody is familiar with the game :)

OTOH, the weapon names were changed to be even less similar to their real life counterparts in the original xbox console port (CS not CS:S). Deagle became Night Hawk etc. Obviously the xbox port lacked a command console so I don't think there's a way to see if they changed the actual item names as well as the UI labels.

As an actual Scot living near Glasgow, I'd say...

1. Move to Scotland. Unless you're rich, in which case move to a tax haven.
2. Use any excuse to get drunk. Waking up in the morning, for example, should be properly celebrated.
3. Occasionally wonder what both sides aren't telling us about the Independence question, then give up and drink more.
4. Use the word "cunt" primarily as punctuation.

There's more to it than that, of course (like pretending to enjoy haggis) but start with the items above and you'll be well on your way.

Despite what you may think, I'm fairly sure that women are human life.

I'm not sure you can play the game at all.

Sounds a lot like the description of Italy in this BBC article called "Where vegetarianism is an exotic illness".

FTFY.

The reason for this is simple: out of sight, out of mind. Why would you pay for something so transparent you didn't even know it was there?

If your AV software isn't constantly reminding you of the threat of viruses and malware, are you going to take it seriously when it comes to resubscription time?

The companies pushing paid AV software want the user to cough up again when the user gets the "Resubscribe or face the terrible consequences!" message. They want the user to think "Hm, well this thing bugged me constantly with stupid popups and warnings, but it sure did report finding a lot of 'maliciousy-wormy-trojany-malwares' (read: tracking cookies, false positives and other nonsense) and my computer is still kinda working. I guess I'd better pay up.".

The last thing they want the user thinking is "This thing didn't even report a single virus... so either I didn't get any, in which case I don't need it, or it just didn't detect them, in which case I don't want it."

If one of them has an Android phone and the other has an iPhone, then you fire the one with the iPhone. No real nerd would put up with Apple's walled garden.

If one of them has a Windows phone, you take him out the back and shoot him before he has a chance to breed. Not that it's likely.

The campaign switch to half-litres in UK pubs is unpopular because the UK pint is 568mL, so the fear is the change would result in a smaller serving with no accompanying reduction in price.

If both the US and the UK converted to half-litres instead of pints for beer, UK drinkers would lose 68mL per glass while US drinkers would gain 27mL per glass.

Yes, these are small differences in quantity, but some people do tend to get unreasonably bent out of shape over stuff like this. Being an avid beer drinker myself, I'm not sure I'd welcome the change. I'm all for the metric system, but beer is always a special case. ;)

Nail. Head.

The very MINUTE a celebrity turns 18 (sometimes even earlier), they're hung on the Daily Mail's wall of shame, often with a headline in the vein of: "Ooh! Look! Celebrity X is all grown up! Here's some hawt pix!!!".

You can practically hear the heavy breathing in articles like this where the young age of the actress is the focus of the article. Seems odd for a newspaper that claims to campaign against the sexualization and commercialization of childhood, right?

Then there's the straight up porn stories. I mean.. wtf?

Just have a scroll down the "FEMAIL" column on the right of any page. The "articles" listed there really say it all.

They're hypocritical bastards of the worst kind.

This approach would not work for the other aspects you listed, but we are talking about schoolyard bullying here, not murder or rape.

As has been pointed out so many times here already, people like yourself are under the impression that bullying is trivial when it's clear that the results can be catastrophic. If an adult did to another person, child or adult, what some bullies do to their peers, they'd be locked up.

Its not as simple as saying that some evil kids are being nasty to some innocent child.

Actually, it is. We criminalize antisocial behaviour in adults. We should do everything in our power to stamp it out in children. Adults have supreme power to stop bullying, but society allows it to continue, and people like you just harp about "giving the victims the tools to blah blah..." while in any situation other than the schoolyard, we'd be talking about fines and jail sentences, and the people blaming the victims would be rightly ostracized.

All I am saying is, you are not doing these kids any favors by telling them they are victims powerless to defend themselves from bullying.

Powerless? I never said that. Victims, yes, but victimhood doesn't automatically imply powerlessness. I agree that the victims should stand up for themselves. I just don't think that's where responsibility should begin and end. The bully is to blame. Always. No exceptions.

I don't think I'm going to convince you, so I'll leave you with your belief that the bullying made you stronger. I'm sure it helps.