I was very impressed when I saw this news item - German factory built especially for an older workforce. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16260315

>It is interesting to see who will gobble up RIM. Personally I was hoping Apple would do it under its previous CEO. A collaboration called RIM Jobs would have been fantastic!

You could pay the fee and get the ad free version, which I did as well. Certainly in the age of dial-up it kicked IE4 and Netscapes bottom. When I was working in the Caribbean at the time it was great as it fitted onto a single floppy disk and you could just press G to stop images from downloading while surfing which made it great for accessing content. It was a browser and a mail client, was fast, had tabbed browsing and mice gestures and just nice to use.

Prognosis not good. The technology is just moving in the wrong direction. It's now commonplace to get PCs without cupholders.

Apple is tough to beat because most of its mistakes are software-based

Apple is tough to beat because most of its mistakes are user based.

Katya is my wife. I don't think I'm allowed to upgrade to Lisa.

He also had a significant role in the Star Trek reboot as well - I thought Spock prime would feature in the next movies as an elder advisor character, though that tramples on Sareks turf.

So when is Cowboys vs Predators coming out?

A few years ago there was a comedy in the UK set in a newsroom where the storyline featured up to the minute news items. After a brainstorming session where they wanted something to reflect a minor news item they called it 'Drop The Dead Donkey' - the relevance to this thread is that the initial favourite title was 'Dead Belgians Don't Count'

Perhaps something to do with the lightpeak/Thunderbolt cable? From what I have read that connector is aimed at being capable of driving displays as well as other peripherals - it may be HDMI guys trying to flex their muscles right from the start on this one.

I believe the Shuttle has a larger cargo bay than standard alternative mechanisms for carrying stuff up to the ISS, which is why this last mission is so mundane in the cargo its carrying.

I wonder if part of the culture of 'we can get by without backup for our IT guy' is down to total length of vacation time that someone has? In the UK its something like 25 days minimum (as opposed to the 10 or so including National holidays that were on offer in the US) and so maybe being able to cope with the systems administrator being away for a couple of weeks at a time is forced upon the organisation.

Hugh Grant did a reverse sting operation on a journalist who stated that Rebekah Brookes was well aware about the phone hacking operations. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/06/phone-hacking-hugh-grant-taped

I'm more than happy using the Opera browser mail client.

It looks like that would be under threat from Chrome.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/jun/15/google-chromebook-os-microsoft-threat