So, the upshot is that LibreOffice is great, as long as you rarely have to use it?

A month is 1/12th of a solar cycle, a week is 1/4 of a lunar cycle.

The argument about silence space combat is not that people on either ship wouldn't be able to hear sound, but that from the viewer's perspective, outside the ships, no sound would be heard. I'm always inclined not to worry about it, because the point is to portray the experience of the protagonists from an outside viewpoint, rather than being a detached documentary.

That's somewhat missing the point expressed. There are real threats, and there are threats that are imagined without substance. It's important to keep enough perspective to be able to distinguish between the two.

It think it's worth pointing out, for anyone who might be confused, that's it's only Opera *Mini* (on any platform) that does this, not Opera Mobile (which isn't available on iOS anyway). I know it's pedantic, but I've seen plenty of people confused about this in the past, so I wanted to clarify in case anyone got the wrong end of the stick. Also to be pedantic, it doesn't return an image of the page, it returns a compressed binary format of the content - it still renders using the browser's own fonts, etc. That allows it to save the heavy lifting of page processing, but still reflow and resize the page once downloaded.

Just because it's not obscured, doesn't make it open source. The author retains copyright, and still has the right to place it under any licensing terms he/she likes.

Good song. But not written by them. http://tmbw.net/wiki/Hy_Zaret_And_Lou_Singer On the other hand, "Why Does the Sun Really Shine? (The Sun Is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma)" was. "The sun is a miasma Of incandescent plasma The sun's not simply made out of gas The sun is a quagmire It's not made of fire Forget what you've been told in the past"

The sonic screwdriver has not been written out of the plot, although he does seem to use it more sparingly this series. Like a good magic wand, it's job is to exert the will of the user. In other words, it doesn't change what genius idea the Doctor comes up with, it just provides a useful conduit to make it happen without minutes of exposition and digging around in computer banks. Generally, for everything the screwdriver does, another method exists that would take twice as long - and not make a difference to the plot either way.

Historic perspective is all very well, but presenting it as an alternative theory is inappropriate. You wouldn't find a chemistry classroom discussing the atomic structure of wood and also offering the perspective that it might be made up of fire and earth.

Microsoft haven't been active in developing the latest version of HTML5, while the others have. That's all they mean - it's no reflection of the size of the company or their reach to customers, but in their work on the standard.

Touchscreens are great for devices that are either sitting in your lap, or you're only using for short bursts, or both. Having trialled touchscreens in an office settings, I can say that they are not comfortable.

Paedophilia is an attraction to children, it doesn't necessarily imply any actual physical acts, or any criminal behaviour. Safest to keep this one in proportion.

What's insensitive about saying that I used to be friends with a Jehovah's Witness? Are you not allowed to have friends or something?!

That's nothing. I used to play D&D with a Jehovah's Witness.

Maybe... http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/climate-change-a-consensus-among-scientists/ "In fact, when you adjust the PetitionProject’s odd categorisation – they filed ‘chemical engineers’ as chemists and physical engineers as ‘physicists’ – the total number of engineers who signed the petition, by our reckoning, jumps to 49%"