They literally said "hundreds, if not thousands of electronic books". I'm not sure why you would ever need to be carrying hundreds, if not thousands of books, whether physical or electronic. And, to your final point, if you're in a situation where 'one book is too many to carry' then surely it is equally the case that one kindle (plus charger) is too many to carry, too! I'm not saying there aren't use-cases where a kindle leads to a better real-world experience than carrying the books around, but I think it's neither at the 'one book' end of the scale, nor at the 'hundreds and thousands of books' end, but somewhere in the 4-15 range, for nearly all practical purposes.

How many hundreds of books are you planning to take on holiday!?

He should have called the act Shut The Flock Up.

Interestingly, the left think the BBC has been taken over by the right.

Tell me you've never been to the big city without telling me you've never been to the big city.

Someone from McDonald's is referring to "other restaurants". In that context, they could easily be referring to "other McDonald's restaurants". Context cues lead towards that interpretation, but I agree it is ambiguous.

You guys are talking at cross purposes. One of you is taking "nearby restaurants" to mean "nearby McDonald's restaurants" and the other is taking it to mean "nearby competitors restaurants". It's not completely clear from the summary, but my interpretation is that it means the former.

No, but there are reports of TVs scanning for unprotected WiFi networks and connecting automatically using those, if available. Nowadays, I also wouldn't be surprised if the unit contains a 4G transmitter to send data over the mobile network.

Ah - the age old story...

1. Geek is annoyed that family is unable to manage their collective diaries.
2. Geek builds awesome shared calendar tool to solve problem.
3. Geek's family fails to adopt said tool because, turns out, problem wasn't the lack of good tooling; rather that rest of family has no interest in managing diaries, period.

This is why we can't have nice things.

I come here for the dupes. Repetition is the key to retention!

s/your point/this point/

> Citation needed.

You're responding to a thread that literally has 4 citations in support of your point, already. What more do you want?

Phone reception was not the issue in this case. They had printed the instructions and were working off paper copies. The issue was trusting the estimated journey time, which was waaaay off.

Any analogy that attempts to equate digital content with physical property is an automatic fail.