Who on earth thinks drinking coffee while driving could ever be a good idea?

How do you change gear?

I applaud this law.

When you're in the car driving, that's what you should do, drive. *Not* eat sandwiches, drink coffee, play computer games, telephone, etc. etc. Doing so not only puts your stupid life at risk but mine as well.

Hallowe'en is an offense to the eyes of the Lord and those who celebrate it will certainly forfeit their eternal soul to damnation.

I clicked icons and looked through menus. I thought that was the point of windows, that you *didn't* need to know esoteric text commands to get things done.

Re: Networking

I've just tried to get vista to re-request a DHCP address (after I reconfigured our DHCP server) and after 30 minutes I gave up and resorted to rebooting the machine. (It doesn't seem to let you renew unless it has decided that the connection is "broken").

Have they fixed Win 7 enough to perform this simple operation without a full reboot?

The problem isn't discrimination against gays, it's discrimination against single people whether gay or straight. As a divorced straight guy I face the same discrimination as any gay.

No, you don't. Stop trying to conflate separate issues.

Errrr, no. This is the best thing to happen to Android. It's about choice. Different manufacturers competing against each other to produce the "best" Android phone is a "good thing".

Errrr,no. Generally people buy phones on call/usage charges, contract term, phone features and network coverage. There is already a diverse choice of phone os - e.g. symbian, blackberry's os, iphone os, microsoft... - as well as many manufacturers.

This is called "choice" and encourages manufacturers to observe market requirements(e.g. listen to customer) and hopefully drive down prices(unlikely). Whoever get closest to this wins. The main point of Android are these types of "compatibilty" problems (in theory) should go away. When you decide to buy or upgrade to another Android phone you can take all your donwloaded software with you. You do not have to start again and buy your apps all over again.

This is usually called "progress" and "innovation". As devices become more sophisticated people want to do more with them - it's only natural. For example, "Non-smartphones" have smaller screens, no touchscreen and limited cpus - installing extra software is impractical. The iphone was the first mainstream mobile phone to make this easier - by your definition the iphone app store is an epic fail.

Oh and Android is Open-source, shouldn't we support it rather than put it down. Not just because it's open-source but as a product is well implemented and deserves some support.

According to the last issue of Private Eye there are quite a few of these super-injunctions currently being enforced (i.e. injunctions that not only stop you from saying something, but stop you from telling anyone that you've been injuncted).

I'd like a few more of them to be twittered, at least so we know that something's being hidden, even if we don't know what it is.

(and I know injuncted isn't the right word, but I don't know what is)

WTF?

What's next, an executive order prohibiting sleeping whilst driving?

"Copyright 2009. Costis Sideris."

So copyright law is good enough for you, but not for Nintendo?

It sounds like they really are behind the times. I mean, not even PCI compliant, I'd have expected at least AGP or PCI-X as a bare minimum.

Mind you, I wonder if this is an old story as I'm fairly sure S3 stopped making video cards many years ago.

On another point, I too have often turned to the Queensland Swimming Association for all of my questions about All Women Shortlists, I find they are very knowledgeable.

I wouldn't accept a job that required either

Do you have manditory drug testing?

The idea of boot camp has always seemed a bit weird to me.

You pay a massive premium for a computer because that is the only way to get access to a reasonably functional OS, then you decide "I'm going to run this crappy OS that I could have run on a computer half the price"

Why?

If you want to play games -> buy a wii/xbox/ps
If you need to run windows a majority of the time -> buy a Dell
If you need to run windows occasionally -> Buy a Mac, use Virtualbox/parallels

One day in the far future:

"I've finished! The last peice of source recovered. We now know how this ancient artifact called Linux worked"

"Linux, what's linux?"

"Its a very old but staggeringly advanced computing system devised *before* the dark age of Microsoft. Its amazing to think that hundreds of years ago people had the ability to listen to music and watch videos whenever and whereever they wanted without being bound by the draconian licencing schemes, blue screens, poor driver quality and cost we have had to put up with for so many many years"

"Interesting, just think how advanced our technology would be now had Microsoft not had all heretics burned"

"Yes, it's a terrible terrible shame. What were they thinking?"