Buying more RAM only makes sense if there is somewhere to put it.

Of three laptops we have, one is limited to 8 GB and the two ultraportables to 2 GB.

That was two years ago. Still waiting for those open specs.

And technically we don't know if the new Hangout will be based on the old G+ Hangouts.

Yes, E-Paper and not eInk. If it was the latter your battery life could perhaps be several weeks.

E-Paper is a clever marketing term for ... a Sharp monochrome LCD display. It still requires a low current to maintain the display, even when the graphic is static.

Oh my, if only I was as informed about visual effects as Mr Pegg.

First, it's not a film term; it comes from photography. Lens flare indicates poor composure highlighting the flaws of the lens.

The first lens flare meme in filmed entertainment that I recall was in Babylon 5's CGI scenes, and we mocked that even though we loved the show and we weren't film students.

So now Mr Abrahms has discovered the technique for emphasising 'immediacy' and no-one may criticise.

Ease off the hyperbole.

1991: The first recorded successful scramjet test, when a modified Russian SAM was used as a booster for an engine which achieved supersonic combustion for 5 seconds.

1992: Another similar test, with French funding, pushed that out to 15 seconds.

2002: HySHot demonstrated the first controlled flight with supersonic combustion ...

2013: A milestone! A breakthrough!

Corporation Tax is, of course, only levied on the profits disclosed by the company's annual return. So only profitable companies have to pay 23% of their net as tax.

But this encourages the Big Boys to simply shift their profit to other, overseas, divisions, through 'franchise payments' and other mechanisms.

Perhaps it's time to say that any company making over 1 million in annual revenue will pay, say, 5% on its revenue above that level. No discussion of profits. It is much easier to determine how much money a company took-in. What money landed in its UK bank accounts is what is taxed.

Reminds me of a line-test number that was available in BT exchanges up until the early 1990s ( wish I could remember the actual number ). It was three digits you dialled for an immediate ring-back-on-hang-up to test the line. However, certain people began to notice consistent delays in the ring-back... in terms of several seconds. Other people on the same exchange at the same time did not encounter such delays.

It was withdrawn soon after and functionally replaced with the 17070 'engineering test' menu.

Which counts for absolutely nothing. It's not as if individuals in the FAA will go to prison for negligence. There is no sanction for the FAA simply signing something off ( after all, they certified the original battery installation ).

In the backward Soviet Union, a new airliner type would be operated on domestic cargo and mail flights for 12 to 18 months before being assessed for carriage of fare-paying passengers. We didn't adopt that practice in the west because it was more important for the bottom line to certificate aircraft with fatal design flaws ( e.g. DC-10's cargo hatches ) and tidy-up afterwards.

Such accounts are very, very rare. Even the most basic debit card account at my local bank has an implicit overdraft 'just in case' I 'overspend'.

Do tell.

Ah, XKCD: making cartoons of memes that have existed for 30 years. How unoriginal.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
-- Andrew Tanenbaum

F-117s and B-2s cruise around the same altitude, 30,000 to 40,000 feet. Not particularly high. Same as commercial airlines.

Incorrect, they had tracked F-117s on the same flight path over the course of several says. The Serbians were also monitoring NATO comms with their AWACS; "At times, they acted like amateurs," said the battery commander.

Which is the primary terminal use-case for SAMs. Very few are designed to hit the target ( Rapier is one such example ).

Mission kill, SAM battery succeded. USAF failed.

Appeasement bought enough time for the UK to rapidly bolster its forces. Just enough.

That site is PR for airlines. In that one article alone there is one half-truth and one lie.

The half-truth is that the pilots / crew are powerless over the work of the aircon system It states: "pilots cannot tinker with a plane’s air-conditioning systems to modify the ratio of fresh to recirculated air". They can and do. For example, on the 737 Classic and NG there are two recirc fans. Disengage the left system and the forward cabin will receive 100% fresh air and this leaks to the aft cabin ( fed from the right-hand pack ).

The lie is that the pilots breathe the same air as the passengers. They do not, there is often a separate aircon feed to the cockpit which runs with a higher fresh air ratio ( in some cases 100% ).

Law is such a huge field that trusting someone's opinion because he is a 'lawyer' is like asking a bus driver about landing an airliner because he is a 'vehicle operator'.

They are many laymen and paralegals who know know about specific points and precendents of law than any lawyer. The lawyer is the advocate that advocates what he has been told about the case.