I have an iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air. The phone is great for a quick lookup but I cann't do all that much with regular sites unless they are mobile optimised. The MacBook Air gives the full computer experience but it gets quite warm and I have to sit awkwardly in the sofa with it so I rarely use it except for work. The iPad has crazy battery life and I can sit comfortably and browse sites with a decent screen size. Some sites mistake it for a phone but most give the option to use the full site and lack of flash is much less of a problem now than it was when I got it two years ago. All in all, I think it won't replace laptops where you need a proper computer but don't consider them a fad as it really does do most of what I want to do casually. Posted from my iPad using the onscreen keyboard which is actually not all that bad once you get used to it and remember to lift your finger from one key before trying to press another.

Any method that detects an already active infection is no good. Windows PCs have antivirus and it is common for Trojans to reside on a machine for weeks before beng detected. I have AVG and MS SE on my Win 7 box and a Trojan keylogger was on that machine for two weeks before either picked it up.

For the moment, the environment on Macs is sufficiently hostile to malware propagation that nothing beyond staying up to date makes sense. Of course, the antivirus companies know this which is why they're trying to scare Mac users into buying their tools.

As usual, MS is trying to protect their successful product. Windows on tablet won't work, but a tablet just with METRO has no future without Windows so they're trying to protect both by nailing them together. Apple didn't do this with the iPad, they concentrated on making the touch interface king on the iPad while leaving OSX as a full desktop OS. There really isn't anything to like about Windows 8 for desktop users so I'll stick to Windows 7, and for the tablet, why would anyone look past the iPad which has all the apps? Win 8 just looks desperate.

Thanks! It was a little scary but more irritating, especially when my vision got all distorted and I had horrendous double imaging which made even reading difficult. After the membranectomy it improved slowly and only now four years on is the distortion mild enough to not notice any more.

Kiwistan as it happens (New Zealand) hence the crazy long flight from Europe due to an 11 hour stop over in Dubai. The hospital was a specialist eye hospital and they did seriously good work, especially the membranectomy where the surgeon actually waited for a new machine to come in which had 10x the resolution so he was able to remove the scar tissue.

My eyes both had multiple tears and one part was pulled away entirely. The condition I had is called Posterior Vitreous Detachment and I realised I was in trouble after a quick google of my symptoms. Straight to the hospital (thank goodness for socialised medicine) and I was treated immediately. The surgeon said if I had waited any length of time the retinas would both have completely pulled away and blinded me. There was quite a lot of bleeding which I could see in my field of view, literally streams moving around in my eye, not to mention a large chunk of floater which was tissue pulled from around the optic nerve. I had the laser treatment which sorted the left eye stopping the bleeding and holding the tears in place but it wasn't enough for the right which continued to pull away so they opted to do the vitrectomy which is as you describe where they completely empty the eye of the jelly and then cryofroze the retina back. There were some interesting days while my body replaced the vitreous with water and I could see it sloshing about upside down. Eventually, the eye was full and I thought that was that but then the scaring happened which distorted my vision by pulling the retina out of shape soI had to go back in for another surgery which was a membranectomy. Over the last four years the retina has smoothed back out and the extensive distortion had gone but I am still left with less than optimal and uncorrectable vision in my right eye which can never be as clear as my left.

Grateful to have any vision at all though and it is related to myopia but only mild and it happens just after a 36 hour flight from Europe so I may have been very dehydrated and that could have triggered it since its odd that for PVD to happen to both eyes at the same time.

I had a double retinal detachment which resulted in debris in my eye. The left detachment was fixed by laser, but the right was so bad that they had to do a vitrectomy and cryofreeze the retina back in place which also meant they removed the debris from my eye. The end result is I now have no vitreous in one eye but actually the vision isn't too bad so as scary as it sounds, it isn't a terrible thing to have happen. It is possible that your bleeding is due to the age related process of the vitreous detaching from the retina which happens to everyone as the age, My problem was traumatic detachment which pulled chunks of the retina off. Amazing they were able to save my sight as just 20 years back I would have had a high chance of losing sight in at least one eye.

The remastered TOS Blu ray has the new SFX but you can also switch to original effects and sound if you just want the best quality old school feel. I like the new FX because I think it improves the shots and you don't just keep getting the same stock footage but e fact tha the original version is there but in 1080p makes this the he's set to have. I hope they can do the same with the Next Gen release but I suspect because it was all edited on film they're limited to going back to the film and reediting and recompositing so you won't be able to have the original versions in HD, but SD would be good enough for purists.

I've had TiVo for 12 years now and I wouldn't go back. The guide does exactly what you want and because it learns what I like and does season passes, there is always something to watch. Here in NZ, the Freeview HD TiVo doesn't even require a subscription. I've added that to the old series 1 UK TiVo I hacked to work with Sky TV in NZ. Three tuners and no subscription works for me. Nothing else comes close for ease of use.

"Yup. It's been called the "dollhouse effect", or, more on-point to what you said, the "puppet theater effect"."

Very apt and quite disturbing.