I live in Westminster, the parking inspectors are a nightmare, but as a resident, I say "go for it": the council makes a lot of money out of the suckers who can't follow the signs, and it helps keep our council tax rates amongst the lowest in the country. As a resident, I can get a parking permit (although we don't own a car: who needs to, public transport and massively available black cabs are far more useful and economic) and there are stacks of resident parking spaces.

That's about the best reply here. I think this year 2007 is too early to see, but at least now we're getting a feel for the dynamics of the market. Next year 2008 will be more of a decider. The prices are starting to come down into the territory where consumers will take the risk. The problem is that most people are reluctant to take a $500 punt and find that in 2 years they have a brick.

Well, blu-ray profile 1.1 becomes mandatory in November, so I wouldn't be buying blu-ray at the moment - probably why the sony 300 is being discounted (is that right?). However, the Toshiba HD-DVD I'm considering seriously: it's cheap enough so I won't feel bad if I have to ditch it in 12 months time. I'm pretty new to this, having just looked in detail at it all in the last couple of weeks, and my gut feel is that blu-ray is going to win out because it has a lot more over HD-DVD on the technical side, the problem is price - HD-DVD looks to have the price edge.

This is why the seating would never make it into an aircraft: not only does it block access to facilities, but in the event of an emergency, the person seated at the window would not be able to exit the plane effectively, and this is a substantial dealbreaker preventing this type of seating from ever taking off.

It probably needs 50gig for the windows install, and 15gig for all the anti-virus, anti-malware and anti-spyware apps. The controlling application probably compiles to less than 1meg. I wouldn't trust this sucker: wifi just means it'll get backdoored and hacker controlled.

What's so suspicious about this? I'm in the UK and I've bought plenty of accessories from china/hongkong ebay sellers - stuff like cases, memory cards, pci cards, usb devices, batteries, etc - the prices are great and tax-free, take about a week to get to the UK. As long as the seller has a lot of good feedback, you're safe: the seller in question has over 5000 feedback. Some of these guys offer products in various currencies to different countries. Never had one problem so far! Saved a tonne in the process.

This is a bad move. There are plenty of third party solutions for this problem, and they're in a far better position to do something better and offer a wider range of solutions than Apple can. In addition, this is only going to sour relationships between Apple and those third parties.

#7, sorry, but these do look very much like the Bravia's - the overall styling is strikingly the same, only the stand is squarish rather than circular -- whether it's gloss or matt black is largely irrelevant given all the other similarities. The good thing about these is dual HDMI and the 42's have native 1080. I recently brought a Bravia, and it's sitting next to me - I can vouch for the similarity.

Although from a technical point of view, the PSP kicks the iPod 5G in terms of innovation/etc; the iPod 5G has to be the gadget of the year for the way that it's brought the reality of downloadable video the market.

Apple - from years away from the limelight, the iPod and iTunes has kicked Apple to the forefront of consumer midset, taking 85% of the download market, and become one of the most tightly watched companies in the marketplace.