I used Wildfire until Orange discontinued it. It was excellent - a much more usable way to deal with voicemail. It really seemed like the future. Orange used to be pretty bleeding-edge until they were bought by France Telecom.

I paid something like five quid to activate it, but after that it didn't cost any more money, and I was on a very cheap contract for the time (Everday 50).

Wildfire and my StarTAC. It felt like being in Star Trek.

So Gandhi was a coward?

Except that getting doctors to run hospitals is completely stupid. They are massively more expensive than managers, and when you do medicine at university you tend to learn how to treat people, not run businesses. That's not to say that *appropriate* managers aren't doctors (people such as clinical directors), but if you think that doctors are the best people to decide which printer paper supplier to use, or the logistics company that is responsible for transporting samples around the country, or the million other things that running a multi-million pound business (which is what a hospital is), then you are severely misguided.

Only 3% of NHS staff are managers. That is lower than pretty much any company in the oh-so-efficient private sector. The NHS is also the most efficient healthcare system of seven top industrialised nations: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10375877

You, sir, are a right-wing troll. I suggest sticking to facts in your future posts.

That was me. God knows what's up with the Slashdot commenting system these days, but I seem to randomly post as anonymous (when it manages to post at all)...

Did anyone really use 'App Store' in everyday language before the one on the iPhone? Someone says that they used it internally in their company, but I'd suggest that this was the exception - it was not an everyday term.

I'm not being pro-Apple here, but their case is actually stronger than the case for 'Windows'. Maybe they're both bad, but Apple's is still stronger. I certainly referred to 'X Windows' (however incorrect that may be!) before I ever saw Microsoft Windows, so is just 'Windows' a valid trademark?

So people may or may not think that 'app store' is something they said before the iPhone, but the majority of people definitely didn't use it. Also, while I guess it's more likely that people might combine 'app' with the word 'store' in the US, that would never be a natural thing to say in the rest of the world. For example, you'd say 'shop' in the UK, not 'store'. Perhaps 'App Store' is actually far less generic in most of the world than 'Windows' is? Apple should perhaps try to register the trademark in the UK - they'd get far less grief.

Sure... I'm the 'lunatic' for stating some fairly undeniable facts and using them as a basis for an opinion. It's funny how being reasonable is something that the Right can't cope with and respond to with name calling (or worse, as someone in Arizona demonstrated recently).

Really you guys, you need to travel outside the States occasionally and develop a more balanced world view.

So you are arguing that democracy isn't as good as the system where you happen to know what's best for everyone else?

Of course leaders are elected who are bad people, but when it's fairly clear it's what the people want, isn't that how it is meant to work?

I'm not saying he's a nice guy or perfect - far from it. But the fact remains that he got a far larger share of the vote than most western leaders, and extremely popular with most of the population, has ploughed money into education and healthcare, and massively improved the lives of the poor.

Again, the US is on dodgy ground to criticise, with elections of presidents on less than half the votes with results determined by dodgy courts, detention without trial in Cuba, the ever-widening poverty gap, the denial of healthcare to the poor... one could go on. Neither system is perfect, but it seems that Chavez is at least helping the poor rather than the rich. And he's not starting wars responsible for the deaths of thousands. All else being equal, that's probably better.

"dictatorial, murdering thugs like Hugo Chavez", eh? I'm guessing you are American? Chavez actually has a considerably better reputation in most of the world than you might think. He certainly beats your last president on most scoring systems you may come up with.

I don't mean to have a pop at Bush - that's too easy - but you can't just say that about Chavez and and not expect to be called-up on it. Everything is relative, and from an outside point of view, Chavez is a 'better' leader than Bush ever was.

This is nothing to do with the supposed licencing I responded to originally. Not saying it isn't a problem, but it's not the same thing at all.

Oh yes, I'm aware that some police (and security guards) sometimes try to tell people that they can't take photos, but there's a big difference between that and an actual law, which the parent suggested was the case.

I'm not defending overzealous police, but let's not suggest that there is some sort of licencing legislation on the cards.

Really? Not noticed this, and I'd have thought that I would, what with living there and everything.

And where is this place with no taxes? Is it full of your fellow sociopaths?

"Anyone who has been remotely connected with the British civil service..." Really? I work in it, and I disagree with you. People who generalise are always making this sort of mistake!

Yeah, because this is exactly what burglars have been waiting for! Except it isn't. Most people with stuff worth stealing have jobs, so burglars just have to go to your house in office hours. They're not going to be looking at Facebook.

Anyway, it's just your friends who can see this. If you are friends with people who will steal with you then you have other problems.