The hamsters are good and wonderful and kind. They are fair. I am safe. Do not send help. *looks behind shoulder for approval* Thanks, Sean Ewington CodeProject

I disagree. Microsoft management is extremely bloated. There is a plethora of dead products and wasted efforts. There are plenty of employees who do little. The recruitment office, for example, was noticeably overstaffed. They have satellite offices which have no discernible function. Even engineering teams are bloated. In addition to all of that, due to several recent purchases, including Nokia, there is a duplication of positions. I don't think they're going far enough. (The problems with various products Microsoft has had isn't lack of people, but too many people. Microsoft engineering tends to make the simplest designs more complicated. A "Hello World" written by Microsoft will somehow involve COM, LINQ and use several hundred lines of code.)

As far as I'm concerned it's still the fastest input device around - try telling that to users though, who mostly want 'point and clicky' interfaces... “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” ― Christopher Hitchens

I resign... :sigh:

Look, the live stream spammers are back! Oh wait... :doh:

That's kinda what I said - you can't measure it in any meaningful way, so legal systems take the simplest route and say "Below this age, you are a child, and should be treated as such". If you can fake your age that easily, then that is a problem that you need to sort out before you start trying to mess with the responsible / not responsible bit, I'd have thought! :laugh: In most western countries it is deliberately difficult to get false proof of age - to prevent juveniles buying alcohol, cigarettes, and such like. Any such false proof might get you a few tins of lager if you are lucky, but try to use them to escape a crime and you will drop yourself right in it! ;) This message is manufactured from fully recyclable noughts and ones. To recycle this message, please separate into two tidy piles, and take them to your nearest local recycling centre. Please note that in some areas noughts are always replaced with zeros by law, and many facilities cannot recycle zeroes - in this case, please bury them in your back garden and water frequently.