No, I am Alex Tapanaris. ...and maybe Spartacus.

I'm not so sure... The problem with Tablets and touchscreen phones is that while you have the freedom of having a custom input (virtual keyboard, handwriting recognition, virtual gamepad...), the input interface and your hands get in the way of what's on the screen.

Most smart phones loose the best part of half the display as soon as the virtual keyboard is visible.

The twin-touchscreens allow you to have the freedom of custom input that can change to be anything you want, but even if you cover the lower screen with a full size keyboard (which might be the first virtual keyboard not to suck), you still have a completely clear upper screen to look at.

Why does this stuff keep making the news?

There are at least five mobile phone manufacturers out there using Android, where as iOS and BlackBerry are used by one manufacturer each.

It's not a straight comparison. Android vs. Windows Mobile is a comparison, because they're both operating systems being used by several OEMs.

But everyone seems to be crowing in triumph that five or more OEMs have collectively sold more phones than one. That's not news.

I have the equation for a qubit on the inside of my right wrist.

It's discrete enough for me not to look like a thug, and it can easily be covered with long sleeves.

Although quantum computing will change dramatically over time, this statement of the qubit will always be true, because it's a logical expression.

The only problem is when a girl sees it and asks what it means- I then have to give a vague answer, or risk boring her with geekdom.

I dream of a girl who will say 'No no, I really want to hear the long version! Maybe you could explain it to me at your place?'

My highly accurate sources (Wikipedia) tell me that in the book, Lastday was indeed 21, but in the film, which I'm more familiar with, the age limit was 30...

So it depends on how tragically geek you are ;)

Look at the bright side, if this was Logan's Run, they'd have been dead for ten years already...

It would be too difficult.

In American GTA, I can drive carefully down the pavement past a cop car so long as I don't kill any pedestrians.

In GTA V: London, the police would randomly start chasing me because one of the following reasons will have been met:

1. I look like a Geezaaaaah.
2. My MOT is out of date.
3. My Tax disc isn't on display because I sold it for the Hot Coffee scene.
4. I didn't pay the congestion charge.

Oh, and every street wider than 10ft in London is a car park of traffic...

I'm not an old man and thus only have about 10 years experience with computers, but in those ten years, components have become more and more complicated.

It used to be that the faster processors had the highest numeral (eg, Pentium 2 Pentium 3) and the highest clock speed tacked to the end of them.

But now we've reached the brick wall of that megahertz race and we're in a new efficiency race, where things are not so simple. The highest numeral isn't always the best, and neither is the highest clock speed- although it still helps.

This would be far less of a problem if the older components died out, like they used to, but even that's not the case anymore.
For example, the Pentium brand is STILL alive, because when Intel get a load of duff C2D chips with bad caches, they dust them off and sell them as Pentiums. This is a lot more economical for them, but it means that the old generations of chips won't die to clean up the market for new ones.

Things would probably be a lot clearer if the older components could some how be killed off once and for all.

You get pretty good downstream speeds with Virgin, but browsing still feels laggy on it. It's like they have really slow DNS or something.
I prefer ADSL to Virgin because then I can at least use my own modem / router, and tinker with my phone line to get some more speed out of it.

It irks me that they bang on about Fibre all the time when you actually have a grubby looking coax cable poking out your wall, but then the false-advertising rules in the UK are a joke at the moment. I was trying to get unlimited internet on my mobile phone a while back, I was offered 'unlimited' internet with a 100MB fair use policy. Not very unlimited at all.

Regarding Neil Berkett's comments about Net Neutrality, he also said that Virgin are simply the only company admitting to peeing all over Net Neutrality. Everyone's guilty of it, they just don't have the stones to stand up and admit it.
I find this very believable, and offer him a consolation prize for at least being honest, if not a little crude about it.

All of the authoritarian stuff going on in the UK is shrouded in a cloak of ulterior motives, it's nice when one of the 'bad guys' is at least being up front with us, so we can make an informed decision.
And yes, my decision will not be Virgin, but when we work out that all ISPs are throttling all traffic anyway, Virgin will probably be the only people providing some data on what gets throttled, in which case they'll suddenly be the good guys.

The Low power consumption isn't all that... When displaying black, they do use a lot less power than LCDs, but when displaying bright, or white colours, they can be using substantially more.
On practical displays like TVs and computers screens, this is a problem, since you've got a lot of bright colour.
On a PC, you've got mostly white for documents and websites- so all of a sudden, you can actually end up using a lot more power.

The other downer, is that OLEDs are rubbish under sunlight, even by LCD standards.

It might be that with proper RnD, these faults can be sorted out, the power consumption can be lowered to what they say it is, reflective brightness improved, etc- but it makes more sense to be on the LCD bandwagon with everyone else right now, than throw money at a technology that's probably going to be obsolete by the time it's matured...

I was at a meeting with my boss a year ago for a presentation from Cerco. There was about a dozen IT professionals in the room, and three guys from Cerco who were pitching an offer to us to be over-flow tech support if they ran out of their own guys.

Me and my boss were only half interested in the presentation (which turned out to be a farce), we were also interested in seeing what other IT competitors were in our area. The thing that stuck out to me, was that all the Serious Looking Professionals wore not a full suit, but smart looking clothes, well presented, and were armed with a leather-bound notepad or something similar.

The other types there were a young married looking couple, or middle aged man, with polo-shirts bearing their company name in machined stitching. They looked like amateurs.

The company that now owns the local repair shop I run offered me company shirts, and I refused, saying that our customers wanted to see a smartly dressed engineer behind the counter, not a guy who's been given some shirts to make him look smart.

If your company wants you to wear shirts and good trousers, that's a good idea, I'm impressed when I see smartly dressed IT pros, but uniforms are not impressive IMHO...