Possibly shows how little I know of Windows development, but I was surprised to find *.sed files and a grep.exe file in the Word for Windows source. Is it possible that MS employed people... hairy people... with beards.... who had worked with *nix?

Are you using Chrome? 'cos that often tries to translate stuff.... just saying! ;)

Also, if the gap was too big, his foot might get trapped in between, which I'd imagine is more hazardous?

^ This.

Seriously Apple (and Tim Cook) should be called out for this scumbaggery because clearly it ain't in the interests of anyone ('cept Comcast and media providers with deep pockets).

The words they used were worse than Windows 8. That's what really stung! :D

I know it's bad-form replying to my own post, but it does appear that there is some kind of namespacing going on in the OData spec. Does anyone know if this namespacing is part of the JSON standard, or is it just a convention that OASIS are using?

Eitherway, I still prefer XML! :D

Does JSON support namespaces? AFAIK it doesn't, and that would seem to make it suitable only for fairly simple data interchange and not really scalable.

As far as which is best visually... XML is a bit wordy/busy, especially if it uses a lot namespaces, but it's a pretty minor problem given that with both XML and JSON, it's a piece of piss to write a nice visual editor.

The important thing for me is having a solid platform for building applications, and XML has the capability and maturity for that - even if it is a bit ugly!

In July 2012 I was searching for car insurance and found it hilarious that More-Than's (morethan.com) password policy at the time was:

• Be between 8 and 14 characters
• Not include more than 2 repeated characters in a row
• Not include the word 'guest'
• Not contain swear words

Obviously they're storing the password, and at a guess, the reason for no-swear-words is that their call-centre staff confirm your identity with your password... or something? Whatever. But what's up with not including "guest" in there? It must be some kind of magic keyword that makes their system do something different or something!!

I didn't get my insurance with them in the end!

True, but it's worth noting that that Microsoft is well positioned to fill those gaps (assuming we're specifically talking about an app-store, search, email and maps). Whilst I do appreciate that Android without the Google bits and with no alternatives is a bit crap, it seems a bit unfair to blame Google for that. That'd be like if Microsoft open-sourced Windows and gave it away for free, and then complaining that they didn't include MS Office.

This. I recall from my childhood having to "test" both shatter-proof rulers (for some reason when you're aged 8 shatter-proof = indestructible = must test this) and water-resistant watches (when you're 8 years old, water-resistant = completely water-proof).

You're the spirit of Jazz?

Ummmm, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and have those TPS reports for us this afternoon.

I'm surprised this thing is very different to modern viruses given that it's *only* 30K years old. I appreciate these things are always evolving, but I would've thought they'd have done most of their evolving in the previous 3-billion years or whatever. So presumably, being big wasn't a problem for a virus until relatively recently?

Maybe it's a "you didn't make me CEO of MS, so this is what you get" message from Elop?! :D

The hilarious thing about this is that there's someone as MS who has decided that the best way to approach the problem of Android/ChromeOS taking their market share is to... compete on price. Because that's going to work isn't it?