These UK ISPs have quite a lot of that list covered.

Although the UK's situation, as far as broadband goes, is not perfect, the incumbent telco (BT) is at least forced by the regulator (Ofcom) to act as a wholesaler. Any ISP can provide service over BT's phone lines and backbones.

This is sort of true, although it's a really bad way of putting it.

MySQL the server, is GPL. You don't need to buy a license for it. There are no restrictions on what you use it for. Same as any other GPL software, the only thing you are restricted from doing is distributing non-GPL'd modifications to it. All standard stuff.

The way they get you is via the client library, which is also GPL, and not LGPL, which is very important: In order to use the server you need to link your code against the client library. This means that in GPL land, your code is classed as a derivative work of the client library and must also be released under the GPL. If that's not compatible with your aims, you need to pay for a license of the client library that will allow you to link it as you please.

There is of course nothing to stop you writing your own client library, but really, who's going to bother for a commercial project? It's going to be less risky, and probably cheaper, to just buy the license.

It's a simple but effective way of making sure that FOSS software projects use it under FOSS terms while proprietary projects use it under commercial terms. Fair enough, IMO.

Never put off til tomorrow what you can put off indefinitely.

Yes.

I can't get enough of those fine brews from Fuller's, who definitely aren't northern. London Pride, Discovery, Seafarers...

If it's in good condition I can easily sink 5 pints of the stuff and not feel hung over the next day.

Because Webkit is superior to Gecko - it's faster and it uses less memory. The built in MicroB browser is not very quick. Fennec is even worse. The GUI responses lag behind the input noticeably.

I wasn't aware of Opera being available for the N900 though, I will give it a try.

But the catalog of applications available is dire. Nobody is developing for it. Yes there are a few apps which are really cool, but they're the exception, and they don't have the same level of polish as you'd expect from Android or iPhone apps. And still no decent Webkit browser!

I'm dumping my N900 for an Android device as soon as I'm out of contract. Sad really because the hardware is excellent, and it had a lot of potential.

Currently sat in my office in London with a fan blowing and the windows open. It's a very mild 15C outside, but the building management have decided that just because it's November the heating for the entire building has to be blazing away all day to raise the temperature to levels which in summer we try and counteract with air con. We don't have a thermostat, all we can do is shut off the radiators individually.. but with 10 floors below us and poor insulation we get the accumulated "benefit" of their heating as well.

First impressions on my N900 - slow and unresponsive. The zooming action is not rendered smoothly and it takes a good few seconds to repaint the zoomed-in area at the new zoom level, in the meantime you're left with pixellated text from where the previous image has been scaled up.

It's still a sweetened drink though isn't it? It's as much about the taste as it's about the calorific value as far as I'm concerned.

Vitamin Water is OK but still too sweet for my tastes. And expensive. Can't stand squash, something in it makes my back itch (yes I know, I'm a freak) - probably the artificial additives.

I think there's a niche in the market for a soft drink that's tasty and refreshing but not full of sugar. I can't find one. The closest you can get is fruit juice, and even that's usually concentrated or has added sugar.

You honestly think peoples' wealth is directly proportional to how hard they work? The world isn't that simple. Social injustice is all around us, it's an entirely reasonable thing to be outraged about.

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With America's wealth, it shouldn't need charity to fight disease. Also, the two aren't mutually exclusive. Also, it's not more important.