Some stores have implemented this in several stores in Australia, one line served by a dozen checkouts and it actually is faster. The biggest issue is that they have more room to line the area with impulse items (not an issue for me as I can ignore impulse items, but I understand the point).

Airport check-in does it as well for the same reason. When you're processing 2-500 people which can take 5 to 15 minutes a piece (Oh dear god, she's fumbling through her 16 suitcases for her passport) having a longer line serviced by multiple people is faster and more efficient. However the lines tend to need a little bit of management, but it stops people from jumping from line to line and eliminates confusion. My only issue is with slow pokes... but I just overtake them when they take too long picking up their bags and moving forward.

However this isn't the right approach for a drinks line (who lines up for ice?), it's the opposite of a checkout or airport check in where the transaction is expected to take several minutes. With a drinks line you want people to get in and out as fast as possible, the best way to do this is to have multiple satellite stations rather than one main station to distribute the load but this is difficult and expensive.

To be 100% fair to MS, whilst their drivers may be platform specific, 99% of applications still work from version to version. Few operating systems can claim this kind of backwards compatibility. I can still run most of my DOS and Win 9x programs on a Windows 7 boxen without an emulator. So MS aren't exactly leaving their architecture in the dust.

The problem Apple fanboys have is not that Apple chose a bad font, it's that Apple can do no wrong so they need to defend Apples choice no matter how bad it is.

Primoridal soup?

Luxury.

I still have coalesce these hydrogen and helium atoms into a star...

Erm, you've been able to buy PC monitors with resolutions higher than 1080p for nearly a decade now. Cheap 2560 x 1440 monitors have been available for years. Even Dell sells a 5K monitor today.

Its just Apple that's playing catch-up

If you dont need a computer, a Dell lasts as long as any Mac.

However if you've got real requirements for a computer (I.E. work or gaming) then a Macbook goes out of date faster than a Dell because the dell is both higher speced and upgradeable.

Which "7" are you talking about?

I've got a 2013 Nexus 7 (LTE version) that gets 5 to 7 days on battery (depending on usage) and has never randomly rebooted.

The only time I ever have had less than 2 days battery life was when I watched 8 hours of video in one go when flying on a budget airline.

That's pronounced 'Strayan, ya flamin mongel.

In other words, where land is cheap. DC's dont normally employ that many people.

Too right cobber, you wouldn't know your arse from your elbow if you couldn't half manage a convo here. No wukka's, Bruce.

This x 1000.

The only app store I have seen that doesn't suffer from a large volume of similar crap applications is Steam... but Steam is a special case as video games take a lot of resources to develop so making crap clone games is too expensive to be viable.

It's hard to find a good application on Android or Iphone and trial and error sucks, both figuratively and literally (my battery life).

If you read the article, or even just the summary you'd know it's not about the safety video (which you should pay attention to, even if you've seen it before as things occasionally change)* it's about people not listening to instructions issued by flight attendants in person or over the PA that are not part of the usual safety briefing. This is not uncommon, in fact a flight attendant has to tell several people to put their tray tables and seat backs up every single flight and this is hard enough to do with arrogant and selfish people when they can hear you.

I dont envy their jobs, but I do respect them and listen to them (especially since if I have a medical emergency on a flight, they will be the ones helping me).

* look at how many people in this thread still think cushions are flotation devices, that's why people need to pay attention.

Not really, I've been to many places like this "Curry mile" you speak of. There's a crap-load of them in Asia and I love them (in fact this Curry Mile sounds like a wonderful place). The thing is, they're all selling something different. You dont have 32 stalls selling the same variety of noodles, there's a lot of variety even to someone who has no idea about the culture they're eating in. Everything is cheap and you end up getting 4 or 5 different things but still comes down to less than you'd spend at Burger King.

A better analogy is 32 McDonalds all in a row. All doing the same thing but having slightly different names. Very few app stores dont suffer from this (Steam would be the only one I can think of off the top of my head) the difference is in how they manage it.

What if that passenger is between you and the exit?

Here's the thing, I care about safety (not just mine but yours as well, I'm a nice guy like that) so I dont want to have to deal with people who are too ignorant, arrogant or self-entitled to care about safety putting my life in danger.

I think the No-Fly list needs to be expanded to include idiots that are too ignorant or arrogant about safety.

You haven't seen the terrible video done by Air New Zealand... it's demonstrated by the All Blacks*, the New Zealand national rugby team. That takes cheesy safety videos to a new level of cringeworthyness.

*Yes, they really are called the "All Blacks" and they're not all black.