Perhaps, I should have put a smiley face on the end of that last bit for those that didn't realise it was throwaway New Years morning sarcasm.

Microsoft have lost their way. However, we all know they can afford to play silly buggers for a while without worrying too much about major damage.

People clung on to XP because Vista was crap, then dived on Win7 and declared it to be the best thing ever. Those same folks aren't going to give up 7 until the hardware support starts to die off, at which point Windows 9 will appear and the cycle will start again.

Assuming Microsoft are still around to make Win9 and we haven't all had to make the choice between OSX or Linux

Yep, my days of sitting up to watch the sun rise are long gone too.

These days, it's a quick drink and an early night. I think 2000 was the last time I bothered go out and celebrate.

You can be sure that 9 times out of 10, the job will go to the guy/gal who does hand over the info.

Seconded. It always looked like it would happen, but there were many naysayers.

Well done Ouya team!

Taking flamethowers on a scientific jaunt just isn't cricket old boy.

For me, the refresh cycle is much longer for TVs than it is for boxes underneath. I try to buy a decent screen with plenty of connectivity once every 5 years, the boxes underneath handle the media and tech and gets replaced or upgraded much more often.

The TV manufacturers want to sell more TVs, so they're trying to shorten the screen's refresh cycle by bundling all the tech in that box so you'll replace more often. Beyond the leap from CRT to LCD/Plasma and HD, I've never NEEDED to replace a working TV.

This already happens in the UK. 'Adult' shops have plain frontage with nothing on display.

Anne Summers stores seem to get away with putting undercrackers in the windows though.

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-survey/

Dec 2012, 55% of web servers run Apache.

The e-Ink display gives insanely long battery life, is viewable in most light conditions and is easy on my ageing eyes. A tablet is heavy and chews through it's battery in a day.

However, web surfing on my e-reader is painful and apps/games are non-existant.

Just because they are similar looking doesn't mean they can (or should) do each other's job. Each has it's strengths and they are cheap enough that there's no need to worry about combining their roles.

Therefore it must be an improved product. This changes everything.

How are they supposed to make obscene profits if people 'illegally export' things?

Yep. On by default, but able to be deactivated by a PIN seems a more sane method for those users who don't have kids and don't need nannying.

Yep, that's one of my pet peeves. A "Back" button up on the top left and a title bar using up 5% of the screen is the usual giveaway. There's a dedicated back button on every Android handset FFS!