Amen to that! I loved RISC OS, fantastic for its time and miles ahead of the competition. I still miss right-clicking on a scroll bar and being able to scroll up and down at the same time.

It's a shame it didn't live on, but it was probably for the best thinking back to my old schools network. When it came to multi-user environments it sucked :o(

...or microwave it! ;o)

I'm with you there, ther only trouble is that manufacturers don't like it because they sell less when their product doesn't break.

I've been required to show ID a few times recently whilst buying alcohol at Sainsburys. Not a problem for me as I have my photo card drivers license in my wallet all the time, but it was a problem for my girlfriend doesn't drive.

I don't need an ID card. I don't want an ID card. I certainly don't want to pay to have one.

By the way, I'm 26 and last time I checked the minimum age for buying booze was 18.

It's like rain on your wedding day.

I've not taken any interest in Blu-Ray, but is it more than just a quality boost?

With the resolution you'd get on an in-car system I wouldn't have thought there would be a lot of drive to do that apart from cost, as you said, but I wouldn't have thought that would drop any time soon. Would there really be a point from a consumers point of view?

I hope they remember to put a grill over the exhaust ducting...

Download caps, speed limits, a flat out limit on the number of files you can download. It wouldn't be the first time an ISP has promised something that's not quite the truth.

Travelling for me would mean in a taxi, bus, train, airplane, or walking. Train and airplane are the most likely long duration methods, and power sockets are increasingly common on them both (Air Canada 777s have sockets in cattle class for example)

My phone holds a charge for around a week if it's not really used, and around two to three days if it's heavily used. If I'm on any one of those methods of transport for more than two days then my phone will be the least of my worries.

If it's really vital to hold a charge then I'll turn it off, but then I can live quite happily without my phone anyway.

On the desk next to me at work, on a cheast of drawers or table at home. I generally only have mine in my pocket if I'm travelling somewhere. If I'm in the car then it gets thrown onto the dash.

Personally it's not a big drama for me to plug it in when it needs charging, it's a Nokia and as they all (at least used to) use the same charger so they're not hard to find.

So please, show me an LED lamp with the same colour temperature as a filament bulb which difuses the light in a simalar pattern and costs about the same as a CFL.

Really, I will happily get them if they exist.

I used to walk around barefoot a lot when I was younger, just around the house and garden. The skin on the bottom of my feet got so tough that I accidentally walked on broken glass a few times and it just felt like a stone. It didn't go anywhere near causing pain, let alone puncturing the skin.

I'd imagine if you regularly run barefoot then you'd have pretty tough skin after a while.

I was merely pointing out that they don't even work on the most basic level as it is, and because of that are totally useless. I've never ever seen anything telling me what a national ID card looks like, so why would they expect anyone to believe one?

If they had a reader then, yes, they would trust it because 'the machine said so'. They would also have been trained to use the reader, and would know what the cards should look like.

Please note, I don't think they're a good idea and certainly don't want one! My drivers licence has always worked for me, and everyone else I know without a drivers license uses their passport/student ID/prettymuch anything if they need to.

It's actually worse than that, because they are so rare no one really knows what they look like!

On two seperate occaisions I've seen someone trying to use national ID cards as proof of age when buying alcohol. Both times they were refused because the staff didn't recognise the card.

The whole thing is a total waste of time and (our) money, all with the goal of filling a void that does not exist!

I know that's a joke, but he was thinking of his children. An his childrens children, etc.