I'm not sure if you've really missed the point, or are just trolling (making me an idiot for replying..).

The idea of putting the "most popular" tracks on SSD is to make it more efficient to stream the tracks that are more likely to be requested.

It's optimising the efficient use of their hardware. It doesn't have anything to do with last.fm's suggestions algorithms and does not at all mean last.fm will force these tracks on you.

You're amusingly uninformed considering you're throwing around terms like "sheeple".

Yep the submitter got it wrong. Given that he is posting in English, to an American website, it makes no sense to use the comma as the decimal separator and the period as the thousands separator (unless the idea was to intentionally cause confusion to prove the point).

With a few exceptions (e.g. South Africa), the rule of thumb seems to be that if you're using English, you use "." as the decimal separator.

Wikipedia has a very long article on these things http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator, but most interesting is the diagram showing which countries use which. I found it surprising how many use "," as the decimal point. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DecimalSeparator.png

Absolutely, I did this for my brother's machine, compared to my parents machine it's remained extremely tidy and worry free!

The only issue is Firefox updating. On Windows XP, Firefox cannot update itself when running in a non-admin account. (Bugzilla:407875) Probably means my brother is running a months-old Firefox..

Makes me wonder if Internet Explorer would actually be safer for him, at least it would get updated automatically.

Have you missed the point?

The greater number of comments against the BBC's plans which are included in the BBC article represents the greater number of comments/arguments against the BBC's plans, and goes some way to explaining why its plans were rejected.

Darn kids! Get off my lawn!

On topic... I hate those stickers. They end up stuck to random things. Some people seem to stick them to things (e.g. in a line around the edge of their monitor). I find them a bit disgusting, in a similar way to chewing gum that gets stuck everywhere. Weird and irrational, I know. :)

I was quite entertained once when I noticed this happen to me. Not a sugar pill, just a regular aspirin. I chased the pill with a glug of water, and noticed my headache had disappeared by the time I'd swallowed the water - obviously impossible that it had actually done anything physical to my headache in this time. I was amused that I'd fixed the headache so easily but felt slightly foolish for "unnecessarily" scoffing an aspirin!

tl;dr

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He he.. it certainly makes things a little easier. However, for almost 7 months of the year, the UK actually uses UTC+1, due to "daylight saving time", which we call British Summer Time (abbreviated to BST).

Only for the other 5-ish months do we use UTC+0, which we call Greenwich Mean Time or GMT. (I'm aware that the definition of UTC and GMT is actually subtly different).

I don't know, but I suspect the "duct tape programmer" story might be related somehow..

It is a noun, but it's a noun because it's the name of a company's product group. This product group that includes building bricks.

"Cutlery" is a noun, but you don't say "I need a cutlery". It doesn't make sense to have "cutleries". It's exactly the same for LEGO.

There is no such thing as "a LEGO", so there is no plural either.

Not exactly. LEGO is the name of a product group, like Meccano or Erector.

There's no such thing "a Meccano" or "an Erector", or "a LEGO". Therefore there are no "Meccanos", "Erectors" or "LEGOs".

There are Meccano and Erector sets, pieces, models. There are LEGO sets, bricks, models etc.

Unless you use Windows XP and don't run as administrator.

Updates don't work for non-administrator accounts. This resulted failures where an update had been downloaded but could not be applied.

The Firefox developers "fixed" this issue by not even notifying the user when updates are available.

The AGA was invented by a Swede, Dr. Gustaf Dalén. AGA is an abbreviation of Aktiebolaget Gasaccumulator.

Source.

Pretty much nobody outside the US and Canada uses "Letter" sized paper. Almost everyone else uses A4, which is part of ISO-216

Thus worldwide the most common reason for seeing "PC LOAD LETTER" is probably that some application has defaulted to "Letter" sized paper, whereas the user's printer is full of A4 paper.

In my experience applications often default to Letter paper if they do not know better. In one case I found that a Linux version of a popular document reader would always default to "Letter" paper measurements, even though it claimed that A4 was selected (fixed each time by switching to another paper size and back again).

"A"-series paper sizes are great. All the sizes have the same aspect ratio, so enlarging/reducing to go from one size to another is no work at all. In addition, because of the ratio used, two sheets of one size fit exactly onto the next size up, so fitting multiple small pages onto a larger sheet is also a doddle. This is useful for saving paper when printing long documents, or for example when printing four A6 invitations on a sheet of A4.

That is rather unfair -

The problem only affects certain "knowledgeable" users who changed certain operating system files.

An operating system update can hardly be expected to work-around all the hacks people have made to the operating system's own files.

If different versions of the files were required by the user, they should have been installed in a separate location.