Mod parent up.

The FA clearly states he's in second year. Normally a general degree is three years and an honours degree is four years; strike one. It's March -- most school years go at least until April; strike two.

Get it right.

I drive standard, so sometimes, when doing city driving, I have my left hand on the wheel at 6 o'clock, with my right hand on the gearshift, ready to change gears if necessary.

Guys, welcome to 2012. Now, about the price on your unit .. way, way too high.

Twenty years ago, a Cadillac PC was three to four thousand bucks. These days you can get an amazing PC for under a grand. I got a used Dell for $600, including tax, with dual core, 16G RAM and a 1T drive.

I don't even care what it does -- it's too much money. So, good luck with that.

Mod parent up.

I used Windows 95 (a step up from 3.11, but took a while to mature) and Windows 98 (fantastic) before I moved to Linux. My parents and friends continued on the bandwagon with Windows ME (disaster), Windows XP (pretty damn good) and Windows Vista (crap). I now have a Windows 7/Debian dual boot system, and it works quite well.

I remember Microsoft just about killed themselves getting Windows 95 done, in reaction to OS/2's stronger than expected showing. They just about had to release something in order to quiet the market down. Early versions were indeed rough, but after 18 months it was much better; who knows what might have happened if they'd waiting that long -- OS/2 might have grabbed significantly more market share.

Windows Vista was the next generation XP .. but missing several of the significant features that ended up going into Windows 7.

If Windows 8 is also going to be used as a mobile platform, it might get some extra testing that will find the Oh, It Broke Out In The Field mistakes. It could be that Microsoft has finally learned their lesson, and won't release according to some Marketdroid's schedule, but rather when the product is cooked and ready for release .. but history suggests otherwise.

What idiots. Any time you use a piece of scientific equipment regularly, you have to be sure you're calibrating it. Even better if you're checking your calibrations multiple different ways.

Buy your own laptop or tablet and use that. It doesn't sound like it's worth it to go to all that trouble just to play some games or watch a movie.

If the ideal solution has lighting vary with the amount of traffic, perhaps the highways should be an integrated system with wires sensing traffic and sensors measuring ambient light so as to produce a target amount of illumination, mostly regardless of the time of day. And if the lights are cut from 100% to 50% in a single step, it's going to be a little startling for anyone on the road. Hopefully they'll design a system intelligent enough to reduce the power gradually.

Politicians are always attempting to be experts at everything. This failure is magnified when they start talking about the Internet, because on the Internet, everyone's an expert.

Right?

As a phone, it's fine.

As a smartphone, it's not fine at all -- the net connection can be awesome one minute, and non-existent the next. The good news is that the battery that initially required recharging daily is now up to lasting two days, which I can live with.

This is on a three year contract with another two years to run. I'll probably get an Android phone when this contract expires, but who knows what the marketplace will look like by then.

There are hydroelectric dams at Niagara, nuclear plants in Pickering, and windmills here and there, so my power comes from a variety of sources.

I also have a smart meter (http://www.torontohydro.com/sites/electricsystem/residential/smartmeters/Pages/SmartMetersFAQs.aspx#whatarethetimeofuseratesgoingtobe) which means that I'm careful to schedule my heavy usage (dishwasher, washer and dryer) on the off-peak times.