IIRC, Google even went so far as to not close their body and html tags back then because all the browsers still rendered the page correctly and it saved them a few bytes per page.

Stop spreading FUD about UK hospitals. This is the actual truth, but I guess that doesn't match either your views on Islam or socialised healthcare.

I use a 5 year old Q6600 for my everyday computing and only now starting to feel a little sluggish. I suspect that with more RAM and/or an SSD it could quite happily chug along for another 2 or 3 years.

The Nexus 4 is my first touch-screen phone and I wouldn't want anything larger. I can just stretch my thumb across the whole screen while holding it with one hand; any larger and I would either need to use two hands or be prone to dropping it.

I'm pretty sure the French police have probably thought of that...

With NatWest I have to use a card reader and my PIN to set up a new payee online. Someone who broke into my account could pay my credit card bill or transfer money to my brother but would find it hard to actually gt their hands on my cash.

"Hey tepples, I've just bought an iPhone but can't get iTunes to install on that PC of mine that you fixed. Could you come round and take a look please? I'm also having problems getting Netflix to work; could you take a look at that too, please? "

Just tried it on my Nexus 4; the lag when scrolling makes it completely unusable. I don't get this problem when using any other sites.

I'm amazed that after all these years you are the very first person to think of that joke.

This refers to carrier unlocks, not rooting or jailbreaks.

The plant itself isn't secret but I'm not sure that publicising that it has structural problems is necessarily a good idea.

To suggest that a few evenings learning from a book will mean you're able to do the work itself is laughable, but it does mean you would have a better idea of when you're being spun bullshit by the asshole programmer.

I know nothing about cars, so if I take mine to a mechanic to fix I'm at his mercy - if he bullshits me I have no way of knowing. If I contract a programmer I'm in a position to know whether the work I'm asking for is likely to take a day or a week and whether it really needs the latest fashionable framework.

That's a very simplistic way of looking at things. I suspect that Zynga looked at each game in isolation - the same as you're suggesting - and decided whether it was profitable or not. But how many people playing the games that they are going to close also play other, profitable Zynga games? There's a good chance they will lose them as customers entirely.

Agreed. It also makes a nice change not having to wade through tons of '"funny'" comments before getting to the useful/interesting ones.

It looks like you're going to have to use another browser for your porn^H^H^H^Himages.