Does it required the connectors to be gold-plated for faster throughput?

It's fairly straightforward in the UK. Just don't allow smokers to take smoking breaks.

Put it in the contract of employment if you have to.

If they want to smoke at lunch time, or during any legally permitted minimum break, then go for it. But try and leave the building outside of that, and you're sacked.

Why would a 'Power User' move from Android to iOS? They won't be able to do any of their 'power things' any more.

This article makes no sense at all.

I started programming when I was about 4 or 5 on the brand new Sinclair ZX81, moved on to the Commodore 64 doing BASIC and then 6502 assembler, then Amiga 68000 assembler and a bit of C and eventually moving on to Java and C# on PCs.
The key thing, however, is that I never did a single programming course in my life. It was all self-taught and done in my spare time because I enjoyed it. I still program as a career all these years later.

The moral of the story is, you don't need to be taught to code - if you enjoy it, you'll do it anyway.

Why not just capture the video in 320x200 res, and then 'enhance' it back in Washington?

Personally, I LOVE the tabs being right at the top. ok, so it's non-standard, but it gives you that bit extra screen real-estate.

Last time I saw Firefox, you were half way down the screen before you even GOT to the tabs, let alone the page content.

How would Apple's patent on "Multi Touch" have benefited consumers?

Maybe it's for the same reason that Americans write dates in the wrong order?

DD/MM/YY makes perfect sense - you're going from the smallest unit to the largest as you go from left to right.

MM/DD/YY is just a bodge job which causes the rest of us hours of lost time when debugging code!

Has anybody got a version of IE written as a Google App so I can run it in the Chrome OS?

thanks