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People are shallow. The computer is their best friend 95% of the time, but they remember the last 5% and how much it cost them more than anything.

I thought that was kind of obvious. A friend of mine who repairs PCs occasionally finds nothing wrong with them and does the usual "I'll run some maintenance on it" and the client …

I think it has just changed so that the media won't report something and then will try and discredit any amateur reports later. The BBC has many large gaps in its reporting at leas…

I'm really glad that there is an industrial use for them. Blue ones are used, at least around my area, to decorate things.

Thanks for the reply. Interesting theory and one I agree with entirely based on who I know. I'd love to move out of the UK and will do this if we ever drop out of the EU. Perhaps E…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_Revolution ?

You're not interpreting it correctly. Go read it again and my other comments. In summary, perhaps a little more concisely: I'm an outlier. I'm well built but thanks to BMI, I'm cla…

It's spot on: http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm I'm calling up hokum and bad science, nothing more.

I eat a shit ton of straight sugars, fat and carbs and am technically obese if you consider the rather non-scientific BMI system. However, I rode 59 miles from London to Brighton o…

Aware of this. My point was purely derision. A lot of nutritional fads are indistinguishable from religion. Scales are always balanced, not necessarily visibly.

How's your heart? No their problems weren't just the lard. It was derision pointed at the unfounded basis of your analysis and the complexity of the human diet, metabolism and rela…

Not too much. Coronary heart disease wiped out a big chunk of my family and it wasn't because they ate sugar - it was the lard on toast and chips cooked in lard... Everything in mo…

I see a lot of that across Europe. I've been dying to do a road trip out that way (from the UK) but it's difficult with three children. Everyone I've met and spoken to out there ha…

This has been the case in the UK for many years as well. One of my earliest memories at the tender age of 3 (very early 1980s) was wearing one of those blue anoraks with a fuzzy co…

I could say the same about most of the supposed superior replacements. Everything is dangerous in the hands of idiots. The technology is almost entirely irrelevant to the discussio…

Circa 2002-2006 I was quite active in the Linux community I.e. I contributed some code to a few GNU projects and a couple of kernel patches to solve problems that were, quite selfi…

Yes. Even worse than that, I remember when the box contained a pile of bits and you had to sift through piles of manuals to assemble it all first.

The 35S is buggy as hell, poorly designed, the battery lasts too little time and the keys break easily. I owned one and regretted the purchase (I went through an "own every calcula…

That's like comparing a Volvo to a Trabant. FreeBSD is the Volvo for reference.

This. People mustn't expect everything to ever work straight out of the box on anything. Much like you have to install the Lenovo PM driver on windows, you have to config apm on Op…

Try FreeBSD if you want TRIM. Also has LLVM, PF and ZFS out of the box.

Lenovo X201 works well. Not exactly modern but a nice machine and more than adequate.

Horrible calculators despite a major following. I wouldn't buy too much into the HP calculator love. I myself was a follower and had an HP 50G (Nice 205MHz ARM RPL machine, success…

CQRS and event sourcing are separate concepts. I wouldn't introduce event sourcing into any product. It makes consistency very hard and expensive; more so than to ignore it and buy…

From my perspective, foreign keys are important as they are the last guarantee that two bits of data belong to each other. Also they do have a positive performance impact in JOIN s…