I'd hardly call posting on slashdot important :P

a) Americans do it regularly, other countries hardly at all b) I'm not British
c) I always say vacuum for vacuum cleaner
d) Yes I say 'Thermos' but Thermos is closely associated with the function of the device (as i'm sure you're aware, knowing what a thermometer is) and also a shortening of 'thermal flask' which also allows the word to be used for flasks which perform the same function but with solid insulation rather than a vacuum.

That would be the fairly constant 2-3% donkey vote, look it up, it's fairly consistent across all types of election.

Hint: It was from a poll. Admittedly the pizza poll but it's practically the same thing as a location poll. 52% for north america, which would include canada. http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1900&aid=-1 The poll may be slightly slanted to Europe for everyone who went to italy and had expensive pizza but since there are gourmet pizzas on every continent most people will have voted where they live.

52% isn't really an overwhelming majority and likely won't be for much longer as overseas readership continues to grow.

It's ok, we can let you keep thinking that if you really want to :)

And you're obviously not a scientist - gravity is also a theory. Also you seem to think wikipedia is the be all and end all of knowledge when in fact it usually ends up stating conservative theories like this because everyone and their dog can edit the article and they have to compromise to avoid an edit war. You've also missed the point, which was the poster who said alcohol played no role in a hangover - despite the myriad varieties of alcohol all managing to cause one with the common ingredients being ethanol and water.

Your thinking this is a US centric site does not make it a US centric site. This is the Internet - people from everywhere read (and submit) articles from everywhere

I still don't get why you Americans insist on naming things after the most popular brand name when they already have proper names either, to the rest of the world it's like calling all card Fords or all computers IBMs.

Actually it's not - the $350 fee is for 'advanced devices' which is, while certainly not well defined also not EVERY phone.

It's 350 (slightly prorated) to leave early because you paid $200 upfront for a 600-700$ phone. Well the figures vary depending on exactly what phone you have but you get the point.

The HP Mini 311's have Ions so I don't know what they mean by 'firs' netbook which could play older 3D titles respectably.

Just in case that's not clear I'm not seriously stating phones are 93% complete, I'm just giving an example of pulling a number out of my... hat with nothing to back it up.

Facts? That's your opinion and you have no evidence to back it up at all. THE FACTS ARE THAT EVERY MOBILE PHONE TODAY SHIPS DELIVERING 93%!

I'd say provide examples of how it's 50% and you did, but how the hell is active sync 50% of the OS? Also you're going to have to deal with the fact that not every phone comes with every feature in software and the fact they decide to code in those features later does not retroactively make the original release less than complete - when you bought the phone it didn't advertise having Active Sync but you still decided to buy it rather than choose a phone which could sync.