I care so much, I checked - actually, it's 95. Try putting anything else on a Libretto 30! It runs Scrabble perfectly from a CD image, and has all her recipes to hand. Two others dual-boot Mint, which is fun and upgrades free and nicely (so far), but people here with things to do click on familiar applications intuitively so they always boot XP instead.

No real choice here. 6 computers in this house run XP,. the offline kitchen Libretto won't go beyond 98 and there's a netbook that came with Win7 that nobody wants to use, not even visitors. What's my upgrade-path supposed to be? Is it free? So I bought some spare OEM XP keys, which should cover any junk replacements I may need to get, that will 'just work' well enough. 'Singer Sewing Machine' was a great case study at business school (qv).

Just admit that you can't even *give* it away.

So we went on an expensive Oldies holiday ['vacation'] in very foreign parts. The hotel wanted us to wear yuckie plastic adolescent wristbands to prove our right to unlimited 24-hour booze. Did I hell? - some of us have principles. (Yeah, but it made a great waterproof watchstrap when cut, and the bouncers respected that.)

Exemplified by BBC's own programme years ago, if you look up 'The Dirty Fork Sketch'. (Original).

The more interesting fact is that the programme did NOT name the suspect. Its editor trailed an unwise hint on Twitter, and the blogsphere guessed many names, most of them (probably...) wrong. You had to search quite hard to deduce that the unfortunate Peer was in the frame. Now the media politics is overwhelming some scandals that do need reviewing.

I had two 1-bit 6-lead toroid memories in clear epoxy. Made them into neat cufflinks. They were stolen in Amsterdam (shouldn't have taken them off)..

Are you saying 'the religion of Peace' is not coercive to it's believers? And if you should wish to leave? Back to the IT mode, how long can superstions last against an internet full of facts? I'd guess no more than a century, in which things will get much worse before they get better.

Would that be the 'Philippe Starck' who turned the Eurostar lounges into barbers' salons? All aboard for the Skylark, Starck!

Six PCs with licensed XP in this house which couldn't now run Win7. One more offline Libretto with 98 (kitchen, favourite game only) and one putrid netbook with extra memory and mysterious Win7. Several have Linux on Wubi for fun, but it's not much fun you know. XP is here to stay, whatever Microsoft prefers. Win8 is surely for laughs only.

And for any 'mass market', the 'Apache' tag is really strange. In this country, most people see some kind of aggressive (defensive?), er, 'Native American'. Just about as silly as 'Adobe', where people ask about the connection with mud huts. Could try raising brand awareness, or just something sensible, or meaningless, instead.

Should have used the green paint trick. Just spread it on the water, when the periscope comes up, all green - so they keep rising. As the sub gets to 500 feet, you shoot it down with ack-ack.

I thought the speed of light was 'instant', for an observer sitting on the photon. The photon has no mass, which is why it's at c. And being at c, time dilation means there is no 'time' between departure and arrival (for that observer only). How do you go faster than that? (Or, what's wrong with my oversimplification?0

Missed a step? "They had 1 out of 36 engines that have failed... If that is fully representative of the risk of failure, ...That's a 2.78% chance of an engine failing." Might feel it's too small a sample to base a safety case.

Sounds like a politician who has helped constituents oppose the closure of a much-loved local hospital, and then can't admit he knows the treatments are nonsense. Note his dodge that if doctors and patients agree, they should have it: bring back leeches? [Disclosure: I dealt with him on health issues years ago, and he's not like that - but he *is* a politician].