to drive more eyeballs to facebook so those creeps that run it can sell your data to marketing droids.

fuck off. stooges.

For what it's worth, which isn't much, Denton was involved in the greatest piece of television in the history of the world, but it was in 1988 and mostly he's be farting through his mouth ever since.

I refer of course to the Great Lubricated Goat Episode of Blah Blah Blah. It shall not be forgotten. I thought at the time, "Finally, television is going to be good", but it was not to be.

Sigh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubricated_Goat

I agree whole-heartedly. I don't see what's wrong with the interface to iTunes. You're dealing with a moderately complicated data base of stuff, all sorts of stuff. There's always a tension between simplicity and functionality and iTunes gets it pretty much right as far as I can see.

Also, contra much whinging in ./land, iTunes on windows 7 works fine. I have not had any problems with it at all. I run it on mac and windows, and while the windows version doesn't look windows-like, that's not an issue (I wish all windows software looked mac-like).

Now if there was a linux version, Apple would rise inestimably in my opinion...

that's acetone and acetone will etch PVC plastics quite nicely.

Turps works for all glues used in labelling. Then you might want a little soapy water on a cloth to wipe away the turps ;)

What chrome needs is the the thing I like about firefox the most - mandating font usage. With firefox, I can tick a settings box and all pages will be rendered with the fonts I choose, not the often shitty fonts some web designer hack wants me to use. It is possible to get chrome to do this but it requires dicking around with style sheets and it's also not 100% effective (ditto for safari). While only firfox has this feature it will be my #1 browser.

most of those can be set to manual update, or at least a notification that an update is ready to download. i know that's got it's downside too.

You know that's complete bullshit, or are you so hopelessly in the ass of the right wing noise machine?

Actually, it means he's got the primary qualifications for a job on Fox News! You seem to have a very odd view of how journalism works. Here's a clue: all journalists are pigs. It's deep, deep down in the culture and it won't be going away.

With respect, can you quote an example of someone saying down with civilisation, etc? That sounds like the sort of hokey characterization that the denialists make of people who think global warming is man made. I have never met or even heard someone say that we must unravel civilisation as we know it back to something far far more simpler. A lot of technologies are massive net energy savers and require considerable infrastructure to maintain, so I don't see that being unwound.

Not relevant. The period between the Roman subjugation of Hispania and the Reconquista was over 1000 years. The population changed radically in that time, with North African populations moving in from the south, and Visigoths (originally from parts of eastern Europe) moving in in very large numbers. As a rule, the present populations of the countries of Europe as we know them today (or for the last thousand years) are very different from the people who live in those lands in Roman times, owing to massive migration shifts from the third to the seventh centuires CE.

Took the Romans two centuries to pacify the Iberian peninsula (present day Spain and Portugal). And that was without outside meddling (after they took it from the Carthaginians).

Good.

Antenna positioning in all mobile phones is driven by the testing procedure used by the FCC to measure RF power coupled into a user's head.

From memory BTX came out somewhat after micro-ATX, but never took off. None of the Taiwanese name-brand mobo makers went for it. It was meant to have better cool-ability (ie, air flow over the board and CPU). Don't most Dell designs use BTX or something very similar?