The message is clear: once people find a UI that works for them, they dont want some other shite forced on them

Disclaimer: I use MediaTomb and a Samsung Note 3 for my music. Its not great! I can believe there is better, but I am not buying Apple or Sony

You need more gaffer tape.

Is there intelligent life in Texas?

Intelligent life in a radically different environment, might be radially different:

Maybe at 100K it is based on reactions we known nothing about, on a time scale so slow we cannot communicate with it, because they consider two bits per decade data rate to be a speeding offence.

Maybe there is life at a density close to that of intergalactic dust, and its all around us. However, the lifeforms are so huge that we are like stomach bacteria to them?

Maybe you should subscribe to my complete science fiction works on Kindle Direct?

Or, then again, maybe not!

For some really wierd definitions of efficient, perhaps. Supply and demand ensure there is a market that can be manipulated by anyone with the tools to do so (which includes taxes), and quite possibly others too.

Automation makes the owner of the machine richer. The man with no machine is stuffed. It is not just a law of economics, its the truth!

We in the UK think you are a moron. The Government is the people, and companies exist on our terms. We are quite willing to let them exist, if they make a fair contribution to society. If they don't, well they have no right to incorporation here.

There is a precedent:

King Charles the first said "I am King, God made me King, and I will do what I want.

The people say "You are King cos we let you be king. We can stop you if you won't behave!

The King replied "I am King, God made me King, and I will do what I want.

So the people put an end to him.

You Americans might want to have a word with Robert Johnson on the subject or cross-roads.

I think it is very likely the same percentage of the population that was writing BASIC when you were 13 is doing strange things with js and CSS today, and probably hacking into the router for fun.

However, its not a very big percentage of the population compared to boys playing FPS and girls into My Little Pony, regardless of politixcal correctness.

Was Pokemon written by girls? Were Hanna and Barbera girls? Is Pooh Bear secretly a transexual? Soemtimes people ask too many damn questions!

Don't mention the lawn!

From Euro 4, these have been met by running the engine very hot, which creates masses of oxides of Nitrogen, and then neutralising the NOx by squirting ammonia into the exhaust pipe. his works fine in a laboratory environment. Unfortunately, a truck can go from buring 20 ccs of fuel per hour to burning 2 litres a second* in two turns of the crank shaft, and there's not a bat's chance in hell of getting the ammonia to match the NOx during the transition. These engines produce very fine particulates that can go strait through the skin - and enter the blood through the lungs very easily. Real life pollution is very bad. Unfortunately, the option of running the engines cooler and filtering out the lumps of carbon mechanically, was ruled out, because the people selling the Ammonia (pig's piss, sold as "Ad-Blue") paid vast bribes to the European comissioners. MAN Diesel demonstrated an engine that could do this but did not put it into production "for commercial reasons".

Manging the supply of, and carrying expensive 5% Ammonia solution around with them is something truck owners and drivers would go a long way to avoid - though whether that goes as far as buying auto-transmission trucks (which is MAN's product) is another question. They are really difficult to reverse into a loading bay with potholes near where the rear axles come to rest (ie most loading bays). We are talking up to FIVE rear axles here.

* Think: reaches bottom of hill in fully loaded 44 ton truck at just over 56MPH (truck speed limit for Europe) and stamps on the throttle pedal of a 16 litre turbo-charged engine as he hits the incline of the upward hill.

It has been standard practice for at least 10,000 years to hold eggs up to the light and look through them to see if they are fertile. To aid this, you hold them over an egg shaped aperture with a light behind it. In the 1960's when I was taught to do it, it was called "candelling" although we used a 60W bulb (for turkey eggs). Candles are not very bright.

I undertand that the key feature here is to collect multiple, random, scattered rays, and then use "simultaneous equations" to create a 3-D image with a computer instead of a human brain. Most people here (/.) have been pissing on "with a computer" patents for a good ten years.

Only if it is completely Unity-Free and WIfi survives a re-boot, even if with static IPs.

Actually, there are real people still alive who remember it.