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I love my Pro-ject RPM 1 turntable. It's such a simple design - stripped back to the bare bones of what's needed to play records.

http://www.project-audio.com/main.php?prod=rpm13

I have four Noodler's pens, and have bought them as gifts for others. They're remarkably good value and write beautifully.

Oh no! I've been ogling these since they came out, and only recently convinced myself I really didn't need one. Now it's back on the table...

I upgraded everything in my Snow Leopard-era 13" MBP and it was still running fine until I stupidly spilled water on it last month.

Now replaced by a 2015 13" MBP, which feels almost identical (although that Retina screen is goooood... as is the HDMI port).

And I can still sell most of the 2011 MBP parts on eBay to get some of my investment back!

Yes - anything that doesn't need to be accessing the internet. Plus Google things that phone home. It's fun to watch them get frustrated and light up red in the activity monitor as they desperately try to send back metrics.

Not really anything that equals it, which is a surprise and a shame. The closest thing I've found is Net Limiter 4.

https://www.netlimiter.com/

I have now! :D

I still haven't forgiven them for changing what <Backspace> does in File Explorer (used to go up one level, now goes 'back' in the history). Even though that was undocumented.

You could just run the test software from inside a VM - with all those helpful 'written materials' on your real desktop.

It's certainly not a thing in the UK.

I first heard of it on a radio programme about the Americanisation of Chinese food a few months ago, and I wouldn't know where to find it here.

I'd love to try it though.

The service you experience with Prime definitely depends on where in the UK you live, or rather where the item is going.

I live in a city centre, within 50 miles of an Amazon distribution centre, and it often offers me same day delivery. Like, order at 3am, items arrive at 8pm.

But if I change it to my parents' address (more remote but still in civilisation), it takes them 1-2 days to deliver.

The data that ISPs will be forced to record is just the domain and time of access, not the full URL. The devil is in the metadata.

The government has budgeted a massive £175m for implementation, so I guess the answer is both, but mostly consumers.

The quality of life in Edinburgh is very high.[1] It's a really fantastic place to live.

I think the tech scene is quite strong and growing - as well as the multinationals and start-ups, there are a lot of well-established small/medium tech companies based here, too.

[1] https://www.uswitch.com/media-centre/2015/10/edinburgh-best-...

I knew I had some free space with my Fastmail account but didn't realise how much - or that I could use my own domains. That's pretty cool.

Same here - my 'example.com' was a brand new but very generic domain. I've only used it for email, and never for public email addresses, so it doesn't appear in Google or get any spam. I would recommend this to anyone!

I tried IM and voice calls in Teams today and it's almost perfect. I honestly don't see much of a future for Skype for Business now.

Problem is that there's no association - every flat is owned freehold and there is nobody who manages the building. However, any action that three households agree on becomes legally binding for every occupant. (This is just how it works in Scotland!)

Ha, exactly. My annoyance over their actions isn't nearly big enough yet to overcome British politeness.

I'm in a similar position - I live in a 19th century ten-flat building, all privately owned. We had one flat rented out all summer on Airbnb and it turned me from being 'meh' about the idea to being totally against it.

None of the other owners/residents were consulted or told about the Airbnb, so the first thing I knew was a group of Germans at my door asking me questions about their stay, and whether I could give them a bottle of olive oil. Fortunately for them I was bemused enough to help them out rather than to think "well no, I've been at work all day, and nobody's paying me to be your concierge".

Then there was a family who stood in the communal, enclosed hallway and smoked every night. And the group who partied until 3am all week; and people who slammed the main door rather than closing it gently (it's old and a bit fragile).

I can't blame the visitors, because they were here for a cheap holiday and knew no better. And the people who rented out their flat are really nice (I'm otherwise on good terms with them). So it's hard to blame anyone but Airbnb and their business model.

This isn't what I signed up for when I bought my home; I want to live among a community of neighbours, not in a cheap hotel run for the benefit of others.

And the spectacular TSR-2[1], which would have completely revolutionised things in the air, but the project was cancelled when it was almost finished.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2

It's a slightly different situation to Fannie May, in that RBS was a privately-owned business, and only became government-owned because it ran into so many problems. It's not a 'government institution' as the Bank of England is - the government just took control to stop it collapsing.

Interesting that nobody has mentioned (yet) the social aspect of Twitter, for which it was originally developed - like SMS but on the web.

I use it to stay in touch with people I've worked with, other people in my sector who I've met at events, and with friends and acquaintances who live in other places. There's also people I've met on Twitter who have gone on to become friends 'irl'.

> [We'll] show you more relevant ads if you have an account with them. For example, you might see an ad from a company you already work with, rather than one from someone you've never heard of.

I'm not sure WhatsApp understand why people advertise.

<Backspace> does this, since XP I think - ^↑ doesn't seem to work for me in Win 10.

Holding the Option key when clicking the Full Screen button is part of my muscle memory now.

I never understood the reasoning behind trying to change user behavior to favor 'full screen' over 'maximize' in a multitasking OS.

Exactly. Integration of LinkedIn data with Dynamics and Yammer would be huge.

Imagine this scenario:

- User is logged in to LinkedIn

- User visits your website

- Their visit is logged by some JS to Dynamics CRM

- A record is created/updated in Dynamics CRM, populated with their name, job title and contact details from LinkedIn

Further down the line, I can see LinkedIn fully becoming part of Office 365.

This isn't Microsoft's attempt to get into the social networking game. This is Microsoft wanting accurate data to augment their enterprise collaboration/digital workplace platform.

17,000. The author is from a country that uses . to delimit thousands.

I am using it less and less, not because of a particular technical fault, but because of how it makes me think and act.

First off, instantly seeing see others' half-formed thoughts makes me strongly want to find fault with their views, and the ability to instantly respond with my own half-baked opinions compounds the problem.

Secondly, the character limit means that, when I do have a more considered response to make, I can either:

- split it up into many tweets (and risk the recipient not reading all the parts, or simply risk annoying people)

- spend time creating a blog post, which requires more thinking and a lot more time writing, or

- try in vain to fit it in 140 chars, give up, and keep my views to myself, while stewing in my own annoyance.

To me, this is toxic. It makes me get worked-up over pointless things, wastes time (mine and others'), and generally adds another stressor in my life that I can do without.

It's a shame, as I've found Twitter to be great for actual 'social networking', and made extremely valuable contacts through it.

Another addition to their 'Hall of Flame' might be the British Monarchy. A couple of weeks ago, they broke every existing URI when they moved from www.royal.gov.uk to www.royal.uk. Every URL from the old domain gets redirected to the root of the new site.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Aroyal.gov.uk