Who are these lucky people for whom 4G works half the time!?

The only places 4G - or mobile web access at all for that matter - works for me is pretty much inside an O2 shop.

Anywhere else - central London, Greater London, in the country, in my house, in other city and town centres - no chance. On the train - ha, that's a good one.

I'm still not entirely convinced there isn't a problem with the 4G hardware on my iPhone. Been in a O2 shop twice now to check it - as I say, works fine in their shops, but hardly anywhere else.

Discussed it many times with O2 online chat support. Oh boy, what a frustrating experience. ("Support: Please reset your network settings on the phone, then Internet will work. Me: My problem is not that it doesn't work - it's just slow [ bangs head on wall etc ] ")

Never did get round to taking it to an Apple store to get it checked - always felt Apple would say it was O2's problem.

Oculus --> Facebook --> Microsoft, if memory serves...

True hardware wise. They did at least 'fess up to the Maps fiasco, as at least this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... no doubt remembers...

Whichever way you look at it, this isn't a great day for open source software though is it. And I speak as an advocate, i.e. recommending using Linux over Windows for servers, because of, you know, security. Can't help feeling a little bit embarrassed at the moment.

I'm quite partial to your comment there.

That's a very bold statement! Not saying you're wrong, but who knows what networking will look like 100 years from now? Surely networking using quantum entanglement or some other weird physics won't use IP?

Bill Gates will be remembered as a rather splendid philanthropist. Steve Jobs - not so much.

That's a false dichotomy though, isn't it.

Apple didn't actually force me to upgrade my iPad1 to iOS5, but they certainly encouraged me to do so, without any warning of the possible ill effects.

For example, some apps I bought long before iOS5 came out got updates which required updating to iOS5. On the one hand you could argue that it's nice of the developers/Apple to offer free app updates. On the other, updating to iOS5 so I can run that latest versions of some of the apps I bought meant lots of apps started to crash on my iPad1 very frequently.

In my opinion what Apple should have done is at least allow (approved) downgrades to iOS4 - hence avoiding the lose-lose situation. Ok, so some of the apps that require iOS5 would then not work (although iTunes could in principle allow app downgrade from backup as well), but, you know, at least that would be my choice. Choice of course is not something Apple likes its customers to have.

Plus there is the small issue that once your iPad1 is updated to iOS5, apps crash all the time as the iPad1 does not have enough memory any more. And you can't roll back to iOS 4. And if you decide to write your own private apps for your own iPad, you have to buy a Mac, pay Apple $99 a year, and keep provisioning every 3 months. Needless to say, I've also switched to Android.

Yeah, I "see" what they did there

Hmmm, 1 planet out of 9 (sorry, 8) - not that rare.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis

Well, I know for a fact that where extraterrestrial life might live definitely exists.

No, people who make dyslexia screening tool software http://www.dyslexia-check.com/instines01_demo.htm

As with many things with Windows, it seems that the problem of restarts after updates is a problem that Microsoft are aware of, and indeed have provided a solution to...but for some reason people (and Microsoft themselves!) don't seem to use it.

Go straight to what though? If I type something at the command line, what I type *is* the command (you know, hence the name) - it doesn't need to "go" anywhere, what I wanted to happen was achieved by my typing.

At the rate Firefox versions come out these days, I'd say it's a fair comparison.