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I can live with those minor grammatical issues, I can live with the frequently incorrect use of the apostrophe, and I can even live with the way USA spells some words such as colour/color.

Where I draw a line is with incorrect selection of commonly used words, such as: lose/loose, your/you're, there/their/they're.

@kettch:Likewise - no Facebook, no Twitter, no need, no interest... no friends... LOL.

I'm a student of life... does that count ?

@Ian:Getting a single pair of progressive lenses to work for general-purpose AND computer/reading is a big ask.

Personally, I have 2 pairs - one that is oriented to general purpose use, with only a relatively small area for reading distance - and the second are specialised to computer-screen distance when looking straight ahead, and keyboard/desk/paper distance when I glance down, but still good enough to allow me to walk around the office without crashing into things.

@Bass: "Actually Linux was one of first UNIX-like OSes that was explicitly designed for PCs"

I seem to recall having an early IBM PC running SCO-Xenix... ?

The JS "limitation" I fall for most often - lack of block-level scoping.

I'll be interested how that gets implemented into the next version, and not "break the web".

@Bass:PDP-11 - and we all know how that is related to Windows...

@Bass:I'll be surprised if MS allow OEMs to pre-load Win7 on new hardware, once Win8 is released. This is a mistake they made with Vista, and it suppressed the Vista sales figures. They will want Win8 to appear as successful as possible, even if the sales numbers are not reflective of installed O/S numbers.

Business buyers (Win8-Pro etc) will have the option of downgrading ofter purchase, to Win7.

Consumers however, will either have to accept any compromises, or consider alternatives, such as Mac.

Forums tend to suffer the 'loudest drunk in the bar' syndrome, and lose audience as a result.

I'd find an 'ignore' feature to be useful.

I could nominate posters I wish to ignore.

Threads started by them would not be displayed to me.

Replies made by them would not be displayed to me.