This is just getting stupid beyond the point of belief. Next they'll be trying to patent using a battery to power the phone.

What they don't realise though is that shit like this puts people off. Certainly my 3 year old MBP is about ready for replacement whilst it still has some resale value and I am seriously considering whether to give my money to these asshats. Plenty of corporate grade laptops with the same quality for the same money and I'm as happy running Linux as I am OS X.

Are sales of TV an accurate guide anymore? If someone has a computer, they can get a tuner for it assuming it doesn't have one already so does that make sales of TV a good indicator? And then there are those in the age range who will have had a TV when they lived at home with their parents and take it with them when they move out.

Once you've basically turned the computers into dumb terminals managed remotely and the only thing required is a connection to the net, you no longer need a network administrator.

I'm a registered Ubuntu user. I've not used it for over 12 months....

How dare you throw in the performance of the bottlenecking bit of hardware into this? Thats just unfair. Next you'll be blaming hard drives for level loading times.

They can't even release them at 6 months without serious show stopping bugs listed in bugtraq with the words "WE CANNOT RELEASE IT LIKE THIS" and things broken that previously worked just fine. Switching to a monthly release will just exacerbate the situation.

Could be time to jump ship and switch to another distro.

Really? I'd say they were very noticeably shopping website slanted.

Wait until you try to find a review of a laptop or specifications of one. On Google, the first 10 pages of hits will be pretty much exclusively shopping sites.

You've obviously never been to Holland, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan to name a few.

...a multi storey bike park. The Dutch already do reduce car use. I went on holiday to Amsterdam and it is the only place I've ever seen with a multi-storey bicycle park full from top to bottom with bicycles. There are bicycles absolutely everywhere. Traffic in the city center is very light. Here's a picture http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3562/3321534598_c1ac9ce508_b.jpg

It has changed in 10.7. The default now is not to have a white dot underneath to indicate it is running. OTOH, OS X now finally gets the ability to resize a window on all four sides instead of just the right hand corner - you know, like the way every other OS has been doing since the 1990's.

Most of Anon/Lulzsec are whiney kids and would rather be jerking off to pron on the internet than playing bitch in a prison block. Those who aren't deterred are just plain stupid.

And if you asked me that, I'd tell you politely to pay either by the accepted methods or go fuck off and annoy someone else. I am not going to go through the hassle of setting up another payment method that most people haven't heard of and have to wait an age to get my money whilst it is being set up just to cater to some whiney little shit trying to be 733t. By all means go use someone who uses that but don't whinge when it costs you more.

Didn't work the other week when they had to suspend it due to someone hacking the code and generating shitloads as well as stealing others.

We are Anonymous. Here is our bank account number, sort code and address. Fucking morons.