I don't know because I've not tried it, but I read that Chrome on Android doesn't pause the background tabs. The native browser and Firefox both do.

Ah, cheers. Certainly doesn't work with Boat. And the Amazon app was designed in a rush from a really bad template by the look of it

Why the MOD specced a vehicle like this.

Bond's secretly a Jag man?

Taking Monday off and playing video games all day.

Just heard that an old school friend (who I'm no longer in touch with) has had his father die.
I've really fond memories of eating dinner at their house after school and just enjoying his company.
I haven't spoken to anyone in the family for years, but I feel really sad knowing he's not around any more.

Just reminiscing about the olden days when there were lots of computer companies, largely small name, who are no longer around:

advent - thought they had gone bust but obviously not
apricot - I used to lol about this because it seemed to spin off from apple computers
opus
gateway - used to be on the inside back cover of the Computer Buyer magazine. Had a cow for a mascot at one point. There's a US company but not sure if it's the same.
fountain - we were going to buy this. Had a "multisession" CDROM drive which was state-of-the-art at the time. Was told to hang on for Pentium computers by IT head.
elonex - still around but making tablets now
evesham - went bust fairly recently IIRC. We bought our first computer from them. Pentium 100MHz, 16MB EDO RAM and 1GB HDD.
mesh - still around at the mo.
tiny - used to sell very cheap computers with stacks of software (you'd see it surrounded by boxes of software in the ads)
Time - think they bought out Tiny computers. Also sold cheap and lots of software.
tulip - only recently defunct but don't think I saw their name after c.1997
viglen - these used to adorn the back of almost every Computer Buyer mag I ever had. Surprised to see they're still around though not selling to the public by and large.

I remember having Gateway and tulip products in my youth at home. the others don't ring a bell

I had an Apricot, with twin floppies and no hard drive.

Later on had Tiny and Mesh PC's.

I had an ACT Apricot as well, the one with a 10MB hard drive, yes MB, not GB. It included Visicalc, WordStar, dBase, a GUI, C/C++ compiler, C++ interpreter, BASIC interpreter, BASIC compiler, Pascal compiler, Fortran compiler and 5MB of free space!

Try getting any ONE of those application categories inside 5MB these days!

But then every computer had very little capacity so they had to be very efficient with its use. It did force developers to be efficient with their code. I would imagine that if you ran that code on todays machines it would be lightning fast.

Just booked a posh hotel in London for weekend after next. Very excited. Never stayed in London before even though I've lived here 44 years.

From the BBC:

UK to send armoured vehicles to Syrian opposition



Help save lives, huh? I'll have to read up a bit more.....why are we (the UK) getting involved at all? Apparently we're sending "millions of pounds" of equipment. I thought the country as a whole was skint and our own armed forces budget has been pared to the bone.

More here.

Remember, we aren't going to get militarily involved in Syria. The government was very clear on that. Armoured Cars and body armour are obviously 'humanitarian relief'.

It would load quickly (asuming it actually ran at all!) but...

One of the primary reasons for bloat is that we use GUIs now. All those pretty pictures take up space. Then the software is just so much more refined these days.

I remember running Microsoft C on a single 720KB floppy which included the OS and all other files I needed. However, you edited the program in a text editor and built it from the command line.

These days you often use a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG designer for building the interface, and all the debug tools and everything else you can think of are built into the environment.