Many thanks. That was it.

Orig: "What the OP means is their(0) dropping it because of legal issues around GPLv3,(1) on Windows 8 approved hardware they won't be able to keep the private signing key,(2) private which would result in their certificates being revoked."

(0) debatably incorrect use of "their" (possessive) vs "they're" (contraction). Can be argued to be intended but it probably wasn't

(1) comma splice - two sentences that can stand alone joined together incorrectly. The correct punctuation here would be a semicolon

(2) this comma just doesn't belong here. They want to keep the private signing key private.

Offtopic: but I can no longer even compose using HTML. Any tags I put in just get <i>passed through</i>. Anyone know why?

YMMV

I'm not a costume wearing Trekkie, but I was pretty hardcore in the Whedonverse fandom for a few years, especially when Serenity came out, and my wife really couldn't give two hoots for anything in the 'verse. She just doesn't get it. Didn't matter - she never stopped me travelling to meet other Browncoats or seeing the film in the cinema a bunch of times. So we just don't watch it together. It's not a big deal. She's mad for CSI and the like and I don't like it, so she watches it when I'm out.

We both agree Game of Thrones is pretty awesome, so we watch that together.

Just because you don't share someone's passion doesn't mean you inherently want to stop them indulging it.

Bracknell

I don't know whether the audio is better than the S3 but it is almost certainly better than the Note. In fact my (positively prehistoric) HTC Desire's audio was significantly better than the Note.

My thinkpad and dell laptops have always had a scroll modifier for the nub, which I like more than any other control system I've tried. The only time I reach for the mouse is for graphic related work.

It saddens me that even the corporate laptops are locking the nub these days.

"You can be the bigger man. Even if you get the short end of the stick, somebody will probably notice your conduct and recognize it for the right way to behave. Sometimes you might end up working for them 5 years down the line."

In addition to being good business practise, this is good advice for pretty much everything in life in my experience including but not limited to driving, relationships, friendships.

My experience with cheap Toshibas has been overwhelmingly terrible. Cheap nasty buggy parts, highly prone to failure and falling apart and loaded to the eyeballs with crapware.

The old Satellite Pro and Portege models used to be very solid and reliable, but have not had much experience with the newer ones. A Satellite I bought for me a couple of years ago was nothing but trouble. However it has continued to not work very well for a couple of years under my wife's use, and she's death to laptops, so maybe that's a point in their favour.

Oh, and once the keys come off the keyboard it's almost impossible to get them back on, and this has been true with every Tosh I've ever owned.

"What can a child do with an iPad at that age?"

Loads of stuff. Loads and loads of stuff.

There's been a recent pilot scheme based around introducing ipads into schools in the UK. I think generallly for 8-10 year olds. They create "books" on them, make animations, have a ton of educational games (more than edubuntu could offer, I believe) and stuff I don't even know about.

We bought one under the scheme, and in addition to the above the older children use it for their homework, instead of using one of our laptops, and email it in to their teacher.

Watching our smallest children* use it, you really do realise how intuitive they are. My 20 month old can navigate around the OS quite easily, and that's without us teacher her, she's learned from watching us and figuring stuff out herself.

* yes, I have a bunch of children

It's not just Hollywood, either. There have been a few segments on Top Gear (UK) that are blatantly just recruitment drives for the Army.

Not really.

Leia: "If you do this bad thing, you probably won't get what you want"
Tarkin: ignores the advice, does the bad thing anyway
(some time later)
Tarkin doesn't have what he wants. He's also dead.