I've been using it for 3 years now, it's been great. Disclosure: I get it free because I'm a NatWest customer. As well as monthly payroll submissions to HMRC, it connects directly to banks and PayPal so the accounts are up-to-date. Automatically received transactions are categorised but have to be confirmed. The categorisation learns as it processes more transactions how they should be categorised. It supports the generation and optional submission of self=assessment (the box values can be changed if there is other, additional income to be reported). It also supports the creation and submission of the CoHo annual return. This is the first year I'll be using the CT 600 feature.

In one of his Culture books called 'Matter' a character argues that we are not in a simulation because any entity advanced enough to able to host such a convincing simulation is likely to have an advanced moral ethic and could not be so immoral as to engineer so much suffering.

If you want to find out more about the ideas and overall concepts behind quantum mechanics without being faced with the detailed math, look for John Gribben's Schrodinger's Kittens. He starts with a review of the double-slit experiment bringing the ideas of Feynman, Bell and Aspect which leads into a review of alternative perspectives to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics pushed by Niels Bohr, et al.

Writing as Mark Twain Samuel Clemens did have a plan to fix the language. I can't find a link to the whole article but this will give the jist of his proposal: http://www.plainlanguage.gov/examples/humor/marktwain.cfm[^] His proposal also dealt with pesky details like 'g' being 'guh' and 'gee' arbitarily.

Thanks for the information. So you see the need to find a person with the requisite knowledge. Know anyone in or around London? Why is SBS so picky?

A friend needs some short-term help installing and configuring SBS and upgrading his DC based, Windows 2000/Exchange environment. My suggestion was to find someone with an MCSE qualification (OK, its no guarantee but there's no guarantee when hiring someone with no qualification). We're in the UK and we've not been able to find out how to find anyone with anyone or any company that can supply anyone. Any ideas where we can go to find one of these apparently mythical people?

Agreed. It plays FLV along with most other formats including DVDs. It's a streaming server and client. Just great. We use it to broadcast TV from USB receivers over the wireless network. Though it does have a playlist capability it doesn't have all the great ways you can organize and present playlists in Media Player and isn't as nice to look at.

It seems a laudable motivation but banning posts might be a bit harsh. If it's an issue you're seeing messages about could you make it more obvious to the reader when an article may contained licenced works such as using a different colour for the article or a pop-up window that informs the user of any potential risks?

It's WPF not WPF/E but at the launch of Vista/Office in the UK they had a team from the London Underground show what they've been doing using WPF. It gave me some thoughs for the application of WPF (mainly on XP - still can't see the value of Vista) http://www.microsoft.com/uk/launch2007/dev/review.mspx Skip past the Microsoft speakers until you come across a guy who look more like a developer at about the 3/4 mark. Bill Seddon

This thread is strange because everyone is so accepting of this "licence". You can't patent or copyright UI. Anyone remember Lotus v Microsoft where Lotus went after Microsoft because Excel "stole" its look-and-feel? Lotus lost in part because the whole of the windowing UI concept is predicated on work done by Xerox years ago and because the principle of the spreadsheet was not novel. In my opinion the ribbon is not novel it's an adaptation of the rebar but consumes more screen real estate. Suppose someone asked you to agree to their licence for the air guitar or a set of the emporers new clothes. You wouldn't sign up would you. You would be especially incredulous if they then stipulated that you were not allowed to use the air guitar in the pub or while wearing jeans. However, if you did sign up, voluntarily as an adult, then you could be held to the agreement. So think of this as being an air guitar and ask yourself whether you would still sign up or be enthusistic about it. Without doubt it is great that Microsoft publish guidelines and of course the guidelines themselves are subject to copyright. But the fact that they spent a lot of time thinking about UI does not give them a right to any exclusivity. If they wanted that exclusivity they should have covered that with each of us individually *before* the release the first versions of Office 2007 and has us sign our lives away. But they didn't and that UI is in the public domain.

Have you taken a look at SourceForge Enterprise edition? It's free for upto 15 users and comes packaged as a VMWare virtual machine so you can download and have it running very quickly. Like the the real Sourceforge has a web UI so its good for distrubuted teams. Like SourgeForge it supports CVS and SVN as scc, bug tracking, forums, package release and so on. It doesn't do the continuous integration stuff but we do that anyway using NAnt. It doesn't integrate with VS.NET but we use Tortoise for SVN anyway.