There seems to be a lot of confusion here.

LHD = left hand drive = steering wheel on the left, driving on the right of the road (Europe, US, etc)

RHD = right hand drive = steering wheel on the right, driving on the left of the road (UK, Japan, etc)

No, he's dreaming he is piloting one of these, and you are the one doing the running...

.co is short for COmpany or COmmercial depending on your viewpoint. The purpose of DNS is to organise things neatly. So, in the correct spirit of this the UK name space has a nice organised set of sub-domains (see above or below for someone posting the Wikipedia list of them). Because people are stupid/lazy they don't want to learn to understand why this is good, and someone proposed flattening the layout for DNS at-large (the proposed .apple .microsoft etc.) and Nominet thought maybe they should do the same with their bit of it.

I believe you mean JANet and the NRS, which used names along the lines of UK.AC.

Or possibly, if you read the consultation documents and responses, Nominet asked it's members and listened to what they had to say.

If you think that is more readable than C, then you don't know how to write decent C.

The XP mode is still running x86 programs on an x86 processor though. To do it with ARM you have to emulate the entire x86 cpu and instruction set.

English is beautiful in part because it is a mongrel collection of other languages and is never afraid to borrow a word or idea from somewhere else if it is needed. Part of the beauty is in the lack of stupid restrictions, and the fact that you can write the same sentence in more than one way, changing around word order, syntax, choosing from several different words with the same meaning etc.

Considering I had a commercially available, off the shelf java development environment in 1998/1999, I think you might like to reconsider - Java may not be 30 years old, but it's older than 10.

In this case nanospook is correct. The plural of a normal mouse is mice, the plural of a computer mouse is also mouses.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/mouse

" (plural mice or mouses) a small handheld device which is moved across a mat or flat surface to move the cursor on a computer screen:"

I guess you have a dictionary available but don't use it.

We do.

Come join the civilised world:

https://www.gov.uk/alcohol-young-people-law

"However if you’re 16 or 17 and accompanied by an adult, you can drink (but not buy) beer, wine or cider with a meal."

"It’s illegal to give alcohol to children under 5."

I read it on teh interwebs, so it must be

It's also because, with a gift card they get your money now, and have to give you goods at some later date. To look at it another way, it's the opposite of a credit card, you are lending the supplier your money, but you don't get interest or a handling fee.