The toshiba portege G900 had a simillar resolution.. 310PPI.. release in June 2007!...

@Jackhole: +1

@mricyfire: I though exactly the same! And man.. if they built this in the 60's.. what are they doing these days!

@Yerzriknot: Actually, yes.. in the form of server usage and bandwidth expenses. Minor, I agree, but iPlayer is a huge part of the UK's internet traffic.

@Phlashman: They have a (quite big) problem with the rights to the medie they use to produce the show. Background music, for example: The BBC can use any song it pleases as background music without paying royalties or asking for permission, but only as long as this is broadcast in the UK. Once the shows goes out of…

@EdgesRazor: And then came the Autoxec and [config.sys] "customizations" where you could select different types of startups for different games. What a pain that was!!! Or software like QEMM86 that would optimize the load order of all the drivers so as to maximize your base memory...

@Dr. Evil Genius: Arrest records are not "such" a big deal in europe. You don't have to present them to employees or anything like that... Not sure for Denmark, but I'd guess they'd be pretty open.

@ursa: I agree. The privacy screens are a nice and needed thing, especially if working with any kind of (corporate) sensitive info.

Not to be a PITA, but SMB and Samba are actually the same. Samba is the open source, reverse-engineered version of SMB. The default unix/linux network sharing protocol is NFS. which I guess it also supports.

Mine (Bold on ATT @ San Francisco) seems to be working fine now. Yesterday, though, BIS was out for me the whole afternoon. Very patchy. Let's hope it stays up.

man... those pictures came out ages ago. You can find the whole set here: [picasaweb.google.com]

Thats one biased graph if I ever saw one... putting the "0" axis at 635 certainly makes yahoo look much worse. If your score can go as low as 300, then the scale should show so. We're talking about a difference of less than 10% between Bell South and Yahoo... #creditscores