They've had 13 years to get a certified replacement.

This was my very first thought reading the article also, there's zero reason to continue using physical floppies on devices that require them when more reliable systems are available.

The word means "nothing" and it's used in other parts of the North besides Yorkshire.
"Owt" means "something".

LOL! English has some of the most irregular spelling of any language. It comes from centuries of trying to force germanic and latin languages together, at the same time as stealing useful new words from all over the world and jamming in some Greek when the Oxford dons felt like it.

Don't like it? Tough. (And try getting a non-native speaker to pronounce just that single one syllable word correctly on the first attempt.)

If you want regular, predictable spelling you need to look over the channel at the likes of Germany. They might have comically long compound words but it's incredibly easy to spell what you hear once you've learned the basics. You might need someone to enunciate a word like "Aktiengesellschaft" a little more slowly than normal while you learn, but figuring out how each sound is spelled is not difficult.

French, on the other hand, goes in its own strange directions (as is their wont), whereby you can have four or more words spelt differently, meaning entirely different things but all pronounced in exactly the same way.

How the fuck would I know?! I thought you were supposed to be the reporter.

You must have a good cinema. Over here if the film start time is given as 6pm there will be adverts - not film trailers, adverts for products, one of which will be for Coke or Pepsi - for 15 minutes, maybe 5 minutes of adverts for the cinema that I'm literally fucking sitting in, then about 10 minutes of trailers. The film won't actually start until 6:30.

If you have reserved seating you can safely turn up twenty minutes after the posted start time, but even then you have to worry about some dickhead deciding that your seat is better than the cheap one they bought.

Going to the cinema just isn't what it was. The only mercy is that the idea of cheering at what happens onscreen hasn't taken hold here yet, much less applauding at the end, which is just plain silly.

Just point out to them that even an army general thought so too. And Captain Kirk, if those people are so inclined.

Do they have good visuals though? Yes, Villeneuve can do âoebigâ but when I saw Part 2 last week I found myself wondering where the opulence of the Emperorâ(TM)s palace was, why he was content with a throne room decked out in bare concrete and why the panning shot of the Harkonnen arena looked like a cutscene from Dune 2000. Speaking of the Emperor, whoever designed his costume needs a kick up the arse if they ever make a Part 3. (Seems likely to me given how they left things with Chani.)

Maybe itâ(TM)s just me put there were a few parts - in both films - that resembled alpha versions of games where most of the map geometry was done but the art department still had half of the assets left to do.

This is life insurance, not health insurance. You absolutely do want a payout, it's just that the money will go to whomever you leave behind.

You don't. You use ECC and read multiple strands. In fact, with a lot of DNA sequencing methods you have to do this anyway, because they only grab fragments of a longer chain and have to be pieced together by matching the ends up where the sequences overlap.

Data density for one. One estimate for DNA storage has been put around 200 PB per gramme.

My question is "why DNA?".
Is there a particular reason why we are looking at DNA?
Is it simply because it's evolved to be a stable (comparatively) way to store information and we've already been experimenting in ways to read and write it for decades, or are there other, simpler, candidate molecules we could be looking at?

As to cost, you only need look at how much easier and cheaper it is to sequence a strand of DNA now compared to when the Human Genome Project first started. There are machines available now that you can fit on a desk!