Couldn't you setup multiple computer fired weapons at the same time and have a few of them aimed near the target but at something harmless (maybe a few metres above the target) by tracking the trajectory of the first few bullets you could predict wind conditions for your kill shot?

Agreed i love when my company sends me to work in France, as the co-workers i work with will invite me out to a long lunch where we just relax and talk about nothing much then we come back and pump out an afternoon of work,. But i find the people i work with are extremly pleasant and easy to get along with and communicate with. Once my French is as good as my German i plan to move ASAP =D

Meanwhile in the rest of the world everything related to construction is specified in millimetres or metres. There is no confusion about it. I have never met a builder or construction worker in Europe or Australia who takes in Centimetres, everything is specified in millimetres. Thought i am working on designs for industrial scale projects which could be why.

Funnily enough Google does quite a good job of linking potential customers up with the correct advertisement. I find myself when in searching for a particular product to buy switching off my ad-block and browsing around at all the different things on offer. And google does such a dam good job i haven't been disappointed with the choices it shows me. Quite often people have money sitting ready to be spent and are just waiting to find the right product. And out of all the advertising companies i can think of Google seems to do a dam good job of linking the two together.

Their main role will be to have sockpuppets on all the major news and social networking sites. When a big Rugby\Cricket match is coming up between Australia and England, Australia and New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, Australia and Wales...... they can spam the sites talking us up.

I know it's been mentioned below but I figured I might as well repeat. There is nothing wrong with a base model Hyundai for what it is designed for which is basically a commuter car. If you took a tricked out Hyundai and your standard sports car around a race track you would know the difference. The Hyundai would feel like it was made of rubber bands because its chassis, suspension, tyres & centre of gravity etc is not designed to handle those kind of forces.

Anyway coming back to your reply, when someone uses the metaphor "you can't polish a turd" they don't literally mean turd, what they mean is to stop 'polishing' the bastard =p

I don't think he was paying out the engineering quality of the Hyundais, mechanically they are good cars. I think he was saying "you can't polish a turd".

I was thinking this gives a nice overlap with Australia and Asia. In the winter in the UK it is terrible to try and organise meetings with Australia, as they go on DST and become 11 hours different.

Nokia has a great brand name. If they came out with a high quality android phone it would sell well. I think their dilemma is that it would kill off their other product lines. But in the long term would probably be one of the best choices for the company for that segment of the market.

1000 people working for a big business means a lot of extra money is being spent by those workers in the local economy.

This is suppose to be news for nerds. Have you seen what the technology differences are between an iPad and most of the new tegra 2 devices...

Exactly and this technology is already being commercialised over her in Europe. The three big challenges are:

* Built low cost offshore platforms. This involves taking a lot of technology from the oil industry and coming up with designs that don't require huge foundations and can be floated into place.

* VSC - Voltage Source Conversion, this is much smaller (Thought slightly less efficient) than normal LCC HVDC schemes, this technology allows you to squeeze a HVDC scheme into an offshore platform.

* Offshore wind turbines. This technology is basically solved already.

I work in these areas of technology and there has been a massive amount of progress over the last 5 years.

Agreed, I currently pay for subscriptions to several newspapers and magazines (hard and soft copies). The only reason I do so is that the writing is consistently good quality. And the writers that are biased are at least biased in a consistent way (like you mentioned e.g. finance articles). I also like that they have access to high quality interesting photographs related to the stories, and most of the comments on the articles tend to be fairly well written, as having to pay seems to instantly filter out all the youtube quality comments.

Xbox & entertainment accounts for something like 20% of their revenue. I don't know many people who would call 20% of 20 Billion chump change. The biggest strategic threat to Microsoft at the moment is the cloud, it has the potential to steal away small business customers, and this is an area where there is a lot of profit.

Or those who are vegetarian for health reasons..