Incorrect, his statement of there being no documented cycle for that amount in that time frame is correct. It is only the implications you could refute.

survey says: PHORM!

The current government are into reduction - reducing the public sector, reducing the size of the statute book so cynicism aside I think their manifesto platform will hold.

Good luck with your fossil fuels mate. You can tell your great grandkids what it was like to have cheap gas, oil and coal.

To be fair I've only visited that site twice and both times I saw a fail whale =(

FTFA
"...freight and metro trains derail"

Only if theres a buffer overflow....

It's not the cost of the disc at issue, its the significantly lower value of the product. The product value is determined by the buyer, and has no connection to the costs involved. A CD I can put in my PC and emulate one day. I can make copies of it. Its a "thing", with a (shrinking) booklet. It's WORM, rather than the nebulous "DLC".

I never had this problem with my 2002 Windows phone! ;)

Yeah good luck and don't forget sometimes simpler is better.

UK Plc is getting into more debt just to pay the interest on the existing debt. There is a massive black hole in the finances for pensions etc. This parliament is focusing on removing that structural deficit. Debt should peak by 2014. Public sector spending has soared this past decade. Notably, duty on booze and cigs hasn't been increased, so consumers will continue to drink their sorrows away. It's a gutsy move, but I think consumer spending in the long term will remain steady.

#1 An open source PDF plugin implementation (with all the benefits that entails) #2 You don't need to install Adobe's plugin #3 Seriously who marked you up?

While I need a desktop for many of the reasons mentioned above, my main reason is for *comfort*. The chair, the spacious desk with room for my legs, keyboard, wrist rest, mouse pad/rest, notepad, programming books, lamp, large perfectly positioned monitor/multi-mon etc. I imagine I'm not alone in finding good posture and setting essential for doing extended work, something I struggle with sat on the sofa. I have no need to sacrifice space to fit in a laptop when I have a perfectly good PC sat underneath my desk. (or above with the shuttle). I'm no laptop hater, and for anyone surfing the web they are ideal - but plenty of us (even non-geeks) find a desktop the better option.

And you apparently don't know user agents very well, they suck for printing. OPs options increase by printing as PDF, or by using XSL-FO to convert to *any number* of other formats, even SWG or PNG.

no, as in XML-FO which is designed for publishing.