It's probably optional - on DMR equipment you can turn off the "talk permit" tone which is presumably the same thing. You still get the FAIIIILLLLL beep if it can't associate to the repeater.

You might just be in luck with the 2012 refresh of the Macbook Pro/Macbook Air - all signs are pointing to them switching to resolution independence in OS X on high dpi displays.

DISCLAIMER: yes, yes, Apple are not the first, not revolutionary or innovative, never roller skate in a buffalo herd, never punch a nun after midnight etc etc.

Sorry, but you lose the argument automatically by being 5 years old and it being past your bed time. You also forgot to log in.

The definition includes a qualifier on the sight of the person using it, although it does not mean that everyone will be in that range - people with better vision than the typically 20-20 will likely be able to make out pixels. For you folk, just move it further away :p

Okay, let's say you disagree with everything your government is doing. Imagine you hate that the government isn't just standing back and letting the medical industry force you to buy the managers new Jaguars, and imagine that you hate that the government is letting women go around with their heads uncovered and own property and stuff and even think they have the same rights as men, and allowing schools to teach that evolution is fact and creation is not. Imagine, in short, that you're a pretty typical right-wing "Christian" American.

Now we invade you. Fucking thousands of deeply warlike Scots, and we are going to take your damn country apart - and you know we could. Once we win, we'll let you shape your government any way you damn well please, but we are taking your country now.

Are you going to fight, or lie down?

For a while I lived in a 17-storey tower block that had four postcodes. Each postcode covered four floors, or five for the top floors.

Oh, it's on Wikipedia so it must be true, eh? If there were as many cameras as that then you'd think I'd have actually seen some about.

Really the right-wing are the anti-privacy lot - the previous right-wing government brought in all the really nasty shit about monitoring phones and emails, and the current load of right-wing extremists are just making it worse. But that's what they're all about - high taxes and big government, with lots of expensive public-funded "jobs for the boys" projects.

The publishers aren't the ones footing the bill for a major internet-connected business server operation ...

But it does get cranked into the price. TANSTAAFL: The customer pays for it somehow.