Man, I remember when you could buy a Mac emulator on a cartridge for the Atari ST and it would run faster than a Mac Plus, and all for a lot less dough. The Mac was so far out of reach for most of us mere mortals it might as well not have existed. In the UK at least, they barely existed outside publishing houses and university campuses until, ooh, the iMac, probably.

Not that rare, really. A couple of months ago I was trekking through hill country in northern Burma, and several villages that I passed through had teeny tiny hydroelectric schemes on the go that provided the only electricity they had. There was very little of it, so they were careful about how it was apportioned, but they didn't need much, either. And all they needed to do this was the river that passed by and provided them all with their water.

The world's littered with little riverside villages like this, and they could all do the micro-hydro thing. They aren't going to be producing 20kW, probably not even 2kW, but in these cases it's 2kW more than they had before without recourse to generators.

Because of course you're Very Important And In A Hurry, right? Tell me, what were you going to do with those few seconds out of your day that it takes to safely move round a cyclist?

They're entitled to use the road just the same as you are. You have no more right to be on it than them. Share the road.

I mean, making an electric car out of heavy stainless steel is rather missing the point.

I wonder will they remember to design in windows that open this time?

If you think that's good, you should check out Memolane. They've been doing this with Facebook and quite a few other sites for a while.

I remember reading many moons ago that Colossus was able to do code-breaking in a couple of hours that a Pentium II-class machine would take a day and a half to do. The beauty of designing towards a single purpose, I suppose.

To be fair, though, WPP has more arms than a sackful of octpuseseses. You're bound to find patterns in there if you look for them. Also, because it is such a many-headed beast, most WPP agencies have nothing to do with each other, so a multi-pronged attack ranging across them is unlikely.

And make the same stupid mistakes again?

How's about we just learn to be better neighbours where we are?

How the heck would you expect them to post on here saying so?

Durr.

Seriously, who wrote it, Jeremy Clarkson? It just stinks of negative PR by somebody with an axe to grind. Slashdot should really be ashamed of itself for giving such a tirade of obviously biased bullshit such a wide audience.