i've never really bothered experimenting with any software development with apple devices (you need a mac to do the build, even in visual studio)... but i assumed that ios apps were like android apps in that they are compiled to an abstract hardware agnostic intermediate byte code and then ...

This raid on a Co-op in Bucks has probably helped sort out some of the clashed branding.

Trying to decipher this bizarre rambling story has occupied too much of my morning, and I still have no idea - what. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/ ... t-1.908757

Microsoft are not alone in skipping OS version numbers - skipping to 10 as if it has some kind of significance is a bit of an annoying trend triggered by MacOSX.
What trend exactly - releasing OS X after Mac OS 9?

God forbid me to defend WillPS, but I think he means that OSX made the "10" part ...

WillPS wrote:Microsoft are not alone in skipping OS version numbers - skipping to 10 as if it has some kind of significance is a bit of an annoying trend triggered by MacOSX.

What trend exactly - releasing OS X after Mac OS 9?

ASO wrote:Miliband, Harman and Mr and Mrs Balls are perfectly good politicians.

srsly?

In my experience, if a chip can't be detected, there are capabilities for it to be put through manually using 'the old-fashioned' way. That includes on the Self Service tills. Whether it's actually done or not I'm not sure.

International cards regularly don't have chips so automatically revert to ...

Morrisons - stalls for 10 seconds, asks to re-scan the last item, BSODs.

yawn, this is like tvf levels of boring.

Pete wrote:Are the discount brands making a subtle exit from Tesco? I am seeing less and less of them. In fact apart from the crisps and the... no it's genuinely only the crisps I remember seeing recently.

I bought their fake brand sundried tomatoes the other day.

That was interesting.

Also
http://businesscasestudies.co.uk/safeway/making-shopping-easier/the-customer-offer.html#axzz2i7m2jhGa
For some reason, as a kid I had a "When Harry Met Molly" mug. Did this constitute a reward under ABC? Now I think about it, this is quite odd, because I don't remember the ad when Molly made ...