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I have some shares, and every once in a while, the company appears to generate new shares out of thin air. Which to me, implies my share value will fall.

Admittedly I don't understand what's going on. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/investing/shares/santander-rights...

Yes cyclists in the main have to share the same network. And that network in many places is just overburdened. My fastest route to town is down a country road that has the national speed limit. Local drivers complain about cyclists even using this road - because it 'slows' them down. Anyway the road has become hellish, and I've witnessed enough after/accidents to just bypass the road these days for an inferior, but safer dirt track. The irony of course is that that very same dirt track could make for a very good cycle lane. Build them and they will come. The pedestrians/country side ramblers won't be too impressed mind.

Teeth?

I first encountered tabbed browsing on Opera, and the other browsers later copied. I think it was actually cheaper in terms of resources than another window. So tabs are a hack, that caught on because Window managers on many OSs are so poor. And bookmark UI is so bad, that people prefer tabs. But if you use multiple browsers and multiple tabs, you can easily get discombobulated. I say that, but I can probably cope with about 10 tabs in each, if groups of tabs are related.

I like the idea of a freeze tab/site for later. Like when you shop or are filling in forms. But I'd love to see a better bookmark/history UI - and even have that embedded a bit more into the desktop.

Depends on your plan, in the UK I've only recently shaken off a metered plan. And mobile plans are usually metered at about 1GB per month for something vaguely affordable.

I'm up for net neutrality, but what do you about one or two pigs hogging the network?

This quotes netflix as having 37% of traffic in N.A. http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/01/20/netflix-boasts-37-...

It's like you build an autobahn for everyone, and then one monster haulage company moves in and dominates the road, and the road isn't really as useful as envisaged.

When internet connections were pay per minute, I'd think about what I wanted to look up before I connected. Then I'd go online and used Opera to follow many links to different tabs. I'd have a flurry, then disconnect and read. This worked surprisingly well.

I find I can't really read/comprehend from an LED screen well at all these days. I got into the habit of sending items of interest to my e-reader. Any long form article goes there.

Sadly I sat on my e-reader, and my system went to pot. I've just stacked up my reading list. I have no idea what is there. Going back to scrappy reading, feels like a real time and brain drain.

There are faster 'cheats' such as pre-fetching. I'd have thought that bandwidth management would be the hottest area for improvement/features for mobile users. In the UK, mobile tariffs have about 1GB per month included (and these aren't cheap), and as a regular web user, you could so easily loose track of your use and exceed that. Default blocking of animation, and other media controls could help here. I do like speed improvements though. I had to ditch Firefox for a long period of time because it was too great a resource hog. Wayward and ill considered programming from page authors doesn't help. I still have to dial back to a no-js browser to view many sites.

The best thing about a cold shower is that when you get out, you feel to only get warmer, and it's very pleasing the sensation of thawing through. Whereas hot shower to coldish environment just makes me shiver.

Defo, my Mum's partner had an Atari ST with cubase etc. and a couple of keyboards and he used to have fun and make music. Ever since he bought his first PC, he has made no music whatsoever, he spends his time in the Internet wormhole and optimising his hard drive (no kidding). Very easy to focus on your tool set and not actually use them.

That wasn't my point. Parent said RSS was the only sane way. Wordpress aside - email notifications can also be a 'sane' way.

You could do Facebook over RSS at one time. Requires more effort to rig it all up on your part.

Brother did a holiday blog in wordpress. New posts sent out email pings. That was fine, if you don't mind a torrent of notifications in your inbox.

It could be because many feed readers just aren't that great. If you look at Twitter as a feed, the web interface is okay, but when it comes to reading threads etc, it becomes poor. Filtering, selecting, muting, interleaving, is the hard part. Grokking multiple streams and seeing the wood from the trees is tricky.

I remember the days pre-google when Yahoo was king. And most sites were filed under a topic/category. That was the default way to find a group of somethings. It's also a little suggestive and explorative, whereas keyword based search engines relied more on you being more specific. Crowd stoked search results and AI have bridged the divide these days. What the author failed to mention was web rings. Basically authors with like minded material would link to each other. So once you found something you could hop to something else and bypass the search engine. These days you are almost crippled without the search hand.

Can someone explain what this? Is it a fork of Android with the Google service apps rewritten? Or just the latter? Could I take an old Android OS and install the alternative Gapps? Yours, confused.

Shame the server needs to be there. Would be good if you could do some auto negotiation between two browsers.

Partner 'still' has failed to liberate photos from smartphone.

Mesh fortress.

I agree that packaging needs a rethink.

Our household waste stream is quite low (UK). Less than a small carrier bag per week of what basically boils down to plastic wrapping and lids. Most of which is unnecessary.

All our food wastes, cardboards, poor quality papers, (pretty much anything the worms will eat) ends up in the compost heap. Nature is a good recycler in that regard.

Our recycling bin is mainly full of glass and metal. These packaging materials do feel rather extravagant, but at least they are simple mostly non-composite materials. I still don't understand how and why it's worth recycling a Tetrapak.

While I agree many plastics are probably better burnt for energy rather than shipping them to China; buying into incinerators just perpetuates this rubbish packaging industry.

Simple compostable packaging is certainly a swaying factor for me when buying a food item.

It's not Government funded. There's a mandatory TV tax (for TV viewers), the fee of which is set by Government.

You can still learn from misdeeds. That's a rather clever parable.

I get it, a tree that has had a limb artificially removed is ugly - in my eyes at least. Even trees that are managed can look rough around the edges, whereas the natural shape of trees can be absolutely beautiful. I've tried to tame some large trees that I am stewarding, and to be honest they'd probably look better cut right back to the ground. Thin limb cuts you can get away with, but a severed fat limb looks pretty dreadful.

Partner has a Chromebook, and it's really rough around the edges. 'Simple' things like file management/association is a pain. And it's been pretty buggy. Vanilla OS with no 3rd party plugins. If the OS is neglected and not matured it could easily go the same way.

I'm scared of owning a smartphone, precisely as my self -control is poor. Currently I have a dumb phone and check that a couple of times a day. I'm a member of a Facebook forum - the content of which is interesting. That is the only use I have for Facebook. The notifications are handy as they indicate new and active threads.

I follow only a small number of people on Twitter. I'd love to bulk that number up if I could manage it, but scrolling through my current feed is already quite a time waster.

The web still sucks me in without the reward trinkets mentioned in the article, and it has done for hours a day since I discovered it. I will say I am an addict. It prevents and impedes me from doing things that I really should be doing.

It's very useful but mostly a distraction, but I always assume that's my problem.

As a child (born in the UK mid-seventies), there were about only a dozen or so people that got picked up and dropped off at school (the poshers). Most children walked, the bike sheds were always maxed out.

Is it open source?

Have you ever visited Milton Keynes in the UK. You can get across town without touching a road, as they have a completely separate cycling infrastructure. The red routes. Sadly though as they are out of sight, they are used by hoodlums and gangs at night, to the point people don't want to use them. Shucks, people. They are also used by mobility scooters.

In the UK, you should really treat overtaking a bike as you would a car. This just doesn't happen in reality. I pretty much got bulldozed off the road only two days back. I'm not a fan so much of bike lanes, but do prefer wider roads.

Yeah, bought a Nook (Ereader) in the UK where bookstore was swapped out and then died. So glad I hadn't bought loads of ebooks, because I'd have been fuming.