I notice he talks about controlling the book forever, so he would also like a copyright term of infinity?

Isn't it true that the judge these cases often comes to has a son that works for a law firm that often represents the patent trolls

An author/artist who got an iPad as part payment for his job has had his RSI confirmed, he doesn't find the iPad that wonderful as far as the RSI goes, though he loves it apart from that

Yes beebs usually used ordinary cassettes, which I didn't specify, but they could use microcassettes (as could the Sinclair QL) and disks. The disks needed an extra ROM, not just a drive.

Note the bit where I said I worked with the bloody things

I was using them at college when they were new.

My first job was writing software that controlled scientific instruments and their was an awful lot of eductaional software written for them because they were designed to be used in schools. The Basic was more structuured and it could use microcassettes or 5 1/4 flopies with its own DOS.

In short, if you are going to use a dinosaur, it is the best dinosaur to choose

I was with Demon from 1996, hen I connected to Newsnet and email on my Amiga 1200, until three years ago when I got 75,000 + emails in a morning in a Joe Job attack

Their response is why I am no longer with Demon, I would not now touch them with a barge pole

David Coultard was about to race at Monaco, but he had never raced there before, so he fired up the Microprose F1 Grand Prix to get used to the course, and won it too!

I like Brewdog beer, but this is just attention seking.

They can go and take a running jump

With FM we have more han one radio on in the house, so we walk through a cloud of radio

With DAB the signals are out of sync, much less satisactory

The LDs supported Labour in the Scottish parliament and abandonded most of their principles to do so.

THey didn't support the SNP because the SNP want a referendum on Independence, despite havign this principle of referenda and indeed havign a history of Home Rule

IT is what they do

I love my Sony book reader, for novels, but I spotted straight away that for rules for wargames and RPGs it was not suited, for exactly the same reason as the students with their textbooks.

I am amazed that Amazon did not spot it right from day 1

It makes sense

I have been using another distro on my main machine for a little while, Archlinux, but I had a look at 10.4 on my testing machine and it has a slick look about it, and so far, on an evening's writing work, does the basic stuff.

I'll give it a proper hammering over the next week

Not only that, there is no such thing as the UK NHS, in Scotland the NHS is separate and responds to different priorities

I bought a second hand Acer Aspire 3694, shoved a bigger HDD in it and installed MacPup, a Puppy Linux Puplet that has Englightenment as its Window Manager

It is smooth, pretty and fast.
i'd licke to see it actively continue, it is a great way to get decent eye candy on older machines

No need to buy a $50 book. If the place sells that book it will sell a cheaper magazine