What, because the Chinese are only interested in subverting the American way of life, and couldn't possibly be looking at it from an investment point of view!

I'm fully aware I'll be modded as a troll, but I find American's suspicion of Chinese investment ironic, considering the amount of American investment, development and exports worldwide in the last century.

I don't have a car. I commute by bus and ferry. There's a Cineworld on my way home that I frequent, but now cannot as I carry my laptop to work every day (I use it to get in a bit of work/browsing on the 2 x 30 minute ferry crossing daily commute).

Cineworld Southampton have therefore just lost my business. This is particularly stupid of them, as quite often (even with newly released films) I can count the audience members on my fingers.

Why? Because you can buy a USB keyboard for five dollars. Where's the profit to be found in that?

Most people I know (non-techies) use Outlook for work communication and Facebook for friend communication. I can't help feeling that if Sharepoint was all that Microsoft promised it would be, we'd be using it for work communication like we use Facebook. But when people have to call IT support to ask how to move a document from one folder to another, it's not going to get that far...

I don't know how relevant this theory would be to America (I know class boundaries are not as evident as in the UK), but here the most obvious cause of this evidence would be class lifestyles. Poor, lower class, under-educated children are more susceptible to criminal influences; while well-educated middle class parents are more likely to obsess over their children's diets. As goes the popular tag, correlation is not causation. You could equally theorise that wearing trainers cause crime, as children who wear Nike trainers are more likely to offend than children who wear Hush Puppies shoes.

I'll admit Sharepoint is a success when it works with browsers other than IE. After evangelising the benefits of alternative browsers around our company, I looked distinctly silly when we started rolling out Sharepoint and had to admit everyone had to revert back to IE.

I would also warn people against believing Microsoft's hype about Sharepoint. It's a good tool for a specific purpose, but it won't solve every problem you have. Make sure YOUR company is suitable for the way Sharepoint works. Don't expect Sharepoint to be flexible to your requirements.

Yes, llamatron was AWESOME. And very, very funny. And very hard. I did manage to complete it (well, get over level 100, where it reverts to level 1) in the 'assist' mode where instead of a second player you have a robot pal. Hard is good though: It keeps you coming back. Not hard as in 'stuck at one particular point and can't go further', which seems to be a problem with modern games (eg. GTA4, there's one mission I can't get past, so I've just stopped playing), but hard as in 'try again, and again, and again, and gradually get better'

What he's essentially saying is that it DOESN'T eat human bodies. However, that doesn't mean it COULDN'T.

Yeah! Ban the characters '0' and '1' from text messages and stop this binary nonsense!

That would be CLINICAL depression. As in, the type caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain; as opposed to the type caused by your wife leaving you.

I took a look at Second Life once and found all kinds of half-finished buildings and stuff!
Oh, wait...

This is exactly why I stuck with my original iPhone for an extra six months, rather than taking the free upgrade to the 3G. It was obvious that Apple were bringing out the next version, and I would rather save money and have a phone I'm happy with than pay through the nose for the latest shiniest very-slightly-better version. Now (hopefully) I can have a free (or greatly reduced price) upgrade to the 3GS.

The big banks really are intent on shooting themselves in the foot. If they hold the auditor liable for security breaches, nobody else will be willing to offer certification services for PCI-DSS. And considering that it's the banks who desperately want everyone to be PCI-DSS compliant (does anybody other than the banks get any benefit from it? Really?), that is particularly stupid.
It's hard enough achieving compliancy as it is - whenever we get near to completing the questionnaire, they change all the questions!

The 'anonymous commentator' in the summary is being a bit thick. Here in the UK there are (generally) two kinds of path, a footpath or a bridleway.

Bicycles are not allowed on footpaths, but they are on bridleways (as well as horses).

If Google really are planning this, they'll be mapping well-maintained bridleways and tracks, which seems logical to me (although they'd better have a fast shutter speed as these tracks are bumpy).

However, you're probably thinking what I'm thinking - why not have horse-mounted Google cameras? That would be AWESOME!