Pancake

For SMTP, read IMAP. Sorry.

i *think* the Hotmail access on the iPhone/iPod is only POP3 rather than SMTP, meaning it sends and receives, but doesnt sync. Exchange, Yahoo, gMail etc are all SMTP on the iPhone IIRC. (awaits Apple nerds telling me Im wrong)

Brand new as in "in the box, not been touched", or "I've used it for a few weeks"

Everything seems a tad slower (5-10%) on IOS 4.x so far, even apps that have been "optimised" for 4. My wife has an older iPod Touch which is still on 3.8 and most things seem much faster.

Fans would "force them out" as it would show we have no ambition and no real money behind us. (not my views)

Old news I think Know anything about who it is?

I think it will be interesting to see how MB runs with being #1, I would hope the BBC are keeping DCs place alongside pinkshirt and whitejeans free so they can swing someone else in and move DC back there if needs be.

Lock it FFS Mods.

And there's the rub, the real article behind the scare-mongering (real word?) article in SIPs post.

Banned? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBHQ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydimethylsiloxane This is my beef (no pun intended) with the internet, people state thins like "the chemicals were banned" when they blatantly were not and others will buy in to it.

Yup, differences in cooking methods mean different coatings in the US. Here is some "debunk" on TBHQ: http://scienceblogs.com/moleculeoftheday/2007/03/tbhq_mixed_feelings.php Dimethylpolysiloxane is e900. http://www.distanthealer.co.uk/enumbers.htm "E900 Dimethyl polysiloxane Anti-foaming agent No adverse effects recorded"

Or, of course, rather than using dodgy Tripod links, you could just use the offical McDonalds one http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/food/nutrition/our-ingredients.mcd?menu_item=1653#dl Chicken (45%), Coating [Vegetable Oil (Rapeseed, Sunflower), Wheat Flour, Water (8%), Maize Flour, Modified Starch, Raising Agents (Disodium Diphosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Whey Powder (from Milk), Flavour Enhancer (Potassium Chloride), Egg Albumen (Free Range Egg), Ground Pepper, Breadcrumb (Wheat Flour, Salt), Salt, Dextrose, Ground Celery], Water (7%), Potato Starch, Vegetable Oil (Rapeseed, Sunflower), Natural Flavouring (from Free Range Egg), Flavour Enhancer (Potassium Chloride). Prepared in the restaurants using a non-hydrogenated vegetable oil The crap about the bun that wont mold, total myth that has been debunked so many times. http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/11/the-burger-lab-revisiting-the-myth-of-the-12-year-old-burger-testing-results.html PLUS, Huffingtonm Post is terrible at not checking anything it posts up.

It's 2011 FFS, does crap like this still get round the internet, even after years and years of debunks? Dont tell me, you have just found out that a ducks quack "doesnt echo" and that you can open a car door via a mobile phone if your keys are at home. FFS, get a ****ing grip people.

Ha ha, you come across like a little boy who has been found out to be a little drama queen.

Weird, just came to post I was listening too Tender Buttons after hearing the news. RIP indeed.

Aye, and MoN was 1/3 to be our manager IIRC.

Say whaaaa? (PS, I do actually understand,just being silly)

Very interesting read. This bit: "Yet, somehow over the last decade we have let the "bonus culture" dominate our discourse and thinking on incentives. We can all see the results are not good." Is of note. I dont think you can say the bonus culture is an ideal borne from itself. The whole ethos of the bonus culture, IMHO, is that of "cash = better quality of life", better quality that has, in recent years at least, come to meant full consumption of latest technological trends (be those electrical, transport etc). The whole "QoL" argument fell out of the mid-90's boom era where we, as a population, were exposed to more "life is better if you can afford it" than every before. [to go off an tangent dune will love, I believe this is due to the move to a "classless" society, but that's another discussion for another time]. To remove the though of that job rewards must be monetary is a huge task, and not one I think will happen within my working life (Im 32 fwiw).

Exactly. An iPhone 4 on an 18 month contract this month will mean you should be first in the queue for the 6th gen in summer 2013. Thats my rationale... maybe. Still torn between Apple and Android...

How can you not be against bankers bonuses when you "want to end" them? I agree that more governance should be put in place, as you say an insurance scheme to provide less tax-payer liability in future downturns is an excellent scheme and one that Im pretty sure was mooted by the BoE advisory panel a couple of years ago. Im not sure you can seperate the longterm/shortterm performance for bonuses though - an interesting idea all the same and I would LOVE to see an example in use elsewhere.

Without being funny... so ****ing what? The UK PLC (I detest that term) dont own any Banks, they have simply bought into them. Many private companies have large loans from Banks or investors; do they not pay hard working staff bonuses? No, of course they pay them, otherwise you risk losing your best staff and ****ing your business up.

Exactly. You cut Bankers bonuses too much (and Im talking proper Bankers here; not counter staff, IT, Admin, HR et al) the UK will simply lose this and the business they generate. It's a fine fine line between proper governance and accountability, and over tightening and suffocation. Which is why I'm bloody glad I don't have to make those decisions and the Government (who-ever they are at the time) do. Im pretty sure, despite what is banded about on here from the far reaches of the left or right, that both major political parties would (and will) deal with Banks in relatively the same way. Both WILL make mistakes, and both will also make well judged decisions.

You do realise that (a) the OP talked about Investment Banking and (b) the cost to the UK of a major Retail banking failing would dwarf the outlay form the Government in keeping them afloat.

Amazingly, you will find that 90% of staff at a well known large retail Bank are capped at less than that (6%). Amazingly, it is these 90% of the staff that are the ones that havent taken risks, lost money, performed badly etc... they are the ones that have worked like ****ers to make sure they keep their jobs when the Bank are binning thousands of staff. The other 10%, lets not go there.

Interesting, but not for me. Why should Doris on the Counter, who has performed above her role not be given a nice 5% bonus? Or Tim in IT, who worked weekends for 3/4 of a year on major projects that have saved the Bank millions not be given some cash for his work? Or Steve the HR rep, he had to deal with a load of **** but still got 100% positive feedback in his reviews... why no bonus for him?