I don't think I particularly take the numbers into account - once you're used to a car it's much more about where the needle is pointing - you kind of get a feel for it visually on that basis. Thinking of it as a clockface, 6 would be 0mph - if it's in the 9ish range I'm within the limit for town, 12 is about right for out of town, maybe 1, even 2 on the motorway.

There's a surprising amount of wastage there - my speedo goes up to speeds way beyond legal, which wastes space - and therefore precision at lower speeds.

My previous car had a digital speedo, which made it impossible to get that rough glance "am I in the right ballpark" view of speed. On the other hand, the (illusion of) precision probably kept me under the speed limits due to the difference between being able to tell myself I was doing "about 30" and the car telling me I was doing exactly 34...

If you have SAP installed, on Windows at least, it's worth giving "Arial Monospaced for SAP" a whirl - I found it simple and clean but more modern than Courier. I've switched to Consolas now I'm on Windows 7, but it was my monospaced font of choice for years on XP.

Agreed, I installed it to see what it looks like and much prefer the narrower look of Consolas

Why not just throw in a free copy of this and refer to the page numbers!!?

Seriously, I can walk into any local bookshop and browse through any number of books with reproductions of famous artworks, most of which are pretty cheap. They could do worse than picking up a copy of "The Story of Art" by Gombrich.

Failing that, could they not take the position that Wikipedia do: 'The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain, and that claims to the contrary represent an assault on the very concept of a public domain'?

Thank you for saving me the read. Seriously? A single kiss?

I've seen plenty of casual hookups in the office, many of which led to no complications afterwards - it was just a thing at the Christmas party or whatever. The younger people (I'm over 40, so we're talking 20 - 25) do seem to have a more casual attitude to it than most of my generation. In my experience at least - maybe I just had a sheltered 20s, but it was quite a politically correct era when everything seemed to be taken very seriously.

Bring back the red flag laws!!

Price of fuel is a factor.

I've been driving for over 20 years (not continuously - I take breaks every now and then!). In the UK the speed limit on motorways is 70, and when I was first driving you couldn't get into the outside lane at that speed for the solid wall of 90mph+ drivers. I'd regularly drive at 80, and be overtaken constantly.

These days, it seems that fewer drivers are going over the limit and it's far more common to find drivers sitting at 60 - 65. I'm sure this is a cost thing - enforcement hasn't really increased, at least on motorways, and there's next to no chance of getting fined for doing 80. There are still a few "ton up" (100mph+) drivers, but they tend to be in the £40,000+ cars so I guess they can afford the fuel bills.

Which sounds like a physical manifestation of the learned behaviour - i.e. learning increases the neural connections in the same way that lifting weights builds muscle.

The genetic difference would be if some people had more connections to start with.

Eh?

If you're referring to Anglo Saxon languages that formed the root of English, then they're as alive on the continent, in Germany and Scandinavia, as they are in England.

English as we know it - the bastard mix of Anglo Saxon and Latin languages with a sprinkling of Celtic for flavour - very much developed in England.

I've dated some fairly primitive humans, so I'm not so sure about this. Stick Eliza in a Real Doll and that'd do me.

Simple example: wifi printers. I know a Mac user who gave up in frustration and uses her wifi enabled printer via USB. Turned out, as far as I could tell, that her router didn't support the Bonjour protocol. On Windows it just worked. Things like that will be tested on Windows because the majority of purchasers use Windows.

Market share is important if you use actual applications - in other words, do real work with your computer. It also matters if you rely on third party hardware. The effort will go in to making sure they work on the dominant platforms, and the smaller ones will be an afterthought. You're more likely to find advice online relating to running the software on the dominant platform and bugs will get fixed for it first.

That's why I use Windows.