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Or textpad. I regularly edit 400Mb files in that no problems at all, running macros and all sorts. Shame it is unicode challenged though :(

Am I the only one that doesn't like anything that Dolby has been near? Sounds 'wrong'.

Exactly that. Only some of the mechanisms need to be destroyed.

It's the arse end of the ranking but the rate of growth is scary and that's what matters.

That is merely human nature. Humans in quantities more than one aren't trustworthy even if their initial intentions are good. Bad solutions attract bad people eventually. That's wh…

No I mean nationalise as in transfer from private to state ownership or control. Most of the UK was nationalised at some point in time but I had a stab at how successful centrally …

Those two points are 100% factual. The benefits cap reduction paid for people who are working to have their personal tax-free allowance raised and decreased the reward for not work…

I'm playing "with the big boys" i.e. 500 million market cap enterprise financial. I'm not sure why I do this other than it's easy to disappear into the noise occasionally and put m…

Agree. After 15 years of using smart phones right back to Palm Treo things WP is the only platform that is depressingly boring and entirely uneventful. And you know what, that's wh…

Powerpoint doesn't kill people. People kill people.

Fair point! I'd forgotten about Netscape 4 and eternal Bus Errors on the SPARCstation 20 I had back then :(

For once, it appears Microsoft are the only browser vendor moving in the right direction and that is scary.

Got a Tassimo here which is a barista in a box I.e. similar. The killer for me isn't the quality which is 90% as good as my local shop but the lack of hassle - it requires virtuall…

Yeah that was where I started with the idea and then decided to see if I could dope some silicon to make a diode then move up to transistor level, then a simple IC. You could knock…

Indeed. I tried to make a transistor with the reverse side of a pile of 74LS IC dies I extracted with solvents, household chemicals and a blow torch. I managed to make an acceptabl…

Neither. Just get a job at GCHQ and proudly do a bad job.

You're right. However don't expect any sympathy from those of us who do understand and have fought against it where possible any more. The citizens of the UK have hanged themselves…