Myself and almost everyone I play with has a girlfriend, or boyfriend so have you actually met any one who plays EVE?

Compare the rate at which CO2 emission was growing between 1900 and 1990 to the rate at which it's growing now and it's quite an achievement. We've leveled off the production of CO2 whilst still increasing the net amount of Electricty produced since 1990. Or am I reading the post wrong?

They can't all be convinced, there isn't enough money in the world for them to all buy the legal copy hence why the 1 pirate to 1 sale thing doesn't quite work. You can't be sure that if the pirate couldn't pirate they would buy.

The AC above was me neglecting to remember I wasn't logged in at Uni. I had a Pre 2 as well before I dropped it in a bucket of water, I thought the Pre 3 would be better but if I'm completely honest the Pre 2 was a lot more stable in many ways. My Pre 3 has had some odd little errors and issues that I can't seem to fix, I'd have probably swapped to an Android phone by now if any of the manufacturers would be nice enough to release a phone with a physical keyboard here in the UK.

I've still got Palm Zires, Palm IIIs and a Palm Lifedrive knocking about some where, should get them put in display cases or something...

While I'm not entirely certain gorilla arm is a big an issue as it's made to be (if extending your arm repeatedly was really that painful we wouldn't be using white boards would we?) I don't see my self using a vertical touch screen, putting touch that far away seems odd.

However a PC set out like a Nintendo DS (for lack of a better analogous device) would be awesome. Keyboard when you need it, drawing board when you need it, move things up to the top screen to view, type on and read then down to the bottom for in depth manipulation. Probably still with a mouse just to soften the change.

I personally can't stand it when people try to draw in either MS Office or OpenOffice as 90% it's not quite what you want and it only looks the way you drew it on 50% of the computers you try to open it on. OpenOffice has a Drawing Application, MS Office sometimes has Visio... a lot of formatting issues and content going missing would be easily solved if people used a fit for purpose application to do the drawing and then used the Word or Writer to import the graphics in their completed form.

Words and Writer's drawing options are like the tacky extra HTML tags that only certain browsers could understand that were not part of any proper standard. I never expect them to look the same between versions of either. Then again I'm saying this as some one who studies computing rather than someone who just uses them to do work and not unfairly expects them to work as intended.

Am I alone thinking this?

Their website does seem to be something of a "we were here all along doing this for ages, no really" sort of quick knock up... I'm leaning towards troll but then again the patent system is getting ridiculous.

I'll just say, having gotten this far into the comments and no one else having said, that in Britain "tariff" does not mean Tax you are indeed correct. It is broadly applied to anything of a repeat payment nature, usually essential services such as Gas, Electricity, Water and I suppose in today's world Internet Services and Mobile Phone plans.

In fact tariff never means Tax in English technically, but as you said they are applied to goods usually when imported or exported but as a fee not a tax. (Slavishly paraphrased from Wikipedia as I was curious).

Wish I had mod points so bad, Izzard references are always worthy of moding up in my book. If people don't want to read the humorous posts that's what the mod system is for :D

Not me, I had a WiFi lexmark printer that would fall off my network if you left it plugged in for more than 10 minutes at a time (my theory was the the Power Supply was getting so hot it disrupted the Wifi chip right next to it). Few other friends had issues with them which led to use all saying that "Lexmark don't make printers, they make the idea of printers" :D

Apple tries to patent and monopolise all the awesome things, I was already sold on the surface pro being the first tablet I'd buy... strangely I'm now even more certain I'll buy one.

Dictionaries also list the word "quite" as meaning "complete"... as in "quite good" meaning "completely good" and not "some what good" as most people use it. Dictionaries also list a meaning of irony that people get wrong every single day. My point is that languages are living, dictionaries are by their very nature out of date as soon as they are published. They are the be all and end all of a language unless you're playing scrabble.

Gender has in the past decade come more and more to describe a psychological state rather than a state based purely on what set of sexual organs you happen to have been born with.

Sex is the biological difference between two animals and even that's a grey line occasionally. You can have XX chromosomes and still appear Male.

To get the Galaxy Tab banned would they now have to prove that the Tab is cool enough to be confused with an iPad? Not that I think any tablet is particularly cool to be honest, they're all oversized media consumption devices. I prefer the older HP windows running tablets that were actual fully capable computers, but at the the time the price point was not consumer level at all... and as much as I can't stand Microsoft products (if I weren't a heavy PC gamer I wouldn't be using Windows) the Surface Pro might actually be a tablet I'd consider.

Didn't the original Mech Warrior have a proprietary controller (On a side note the new one will have an optional HOTAS controller as well and it looks awesome)? Both the Guitar Hero and Rock band also franchises put a dent in that theory as well.

Why does this remind me of Nightfall? *SPOILERS* The scientists of the day in that book discover the fossil record of previous civilisations just prior to the cycle repeating itself, think I'm going to go build a fall out shelter.