Its a bit difficult to say because of the complex nature of the car business, but European sourced cars are generally better than US models due to the realisation that corners are something to be enjoyed.

In Jaguar (yes I know its owned by Tata), Rolls Royce, BMW and Mercedes we have cars that everyone aspires to own, and that's before I get into mentioning Porsche, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Bugatti etc.

On the US side, you have one car manufacturer that is widely admired - Tesla.

There was a game called Apocalypse produced by Games Workshop, also known as Warlord in a more complex form

I suspect that for n dimensions, there is a necessity for the board "size" to be n+1 for a game not to be completely trivial.

e.g. 2d = 3x3 board
            3d = 4x4x4
            4d = 5x5x5x5

More importantly, a lot of rules change from country to country e.g. rights of pedestrians (jaywalking in the USA), implicit rules at junctions (no permission to go right on red in Europe) etc

Supersoaker water pistol (Lonnie G Johnson)
Smoke protection hoods for firefighters & traffic signals (Garrett Morgan)
Electronic components and pacemaker controllers (Otis Boykin)
Carbon filament for lightbulbs (Lewis Latimer)
Various agricultural products - (NOT peanut butter though) (George Washington Carver)

If you're bored, read Wikipedia

I am still missing my Groklaw fix which used to assiduously track and report on such cases with detailed insight.

LibreOffice is fine for most so-called power users too. I would suspect the only problems for Power users would be in areas where Libre/Open Office does things differently from MS Office.

I would possibly agree that Excel is ahead on a few issues, but the type of people affected by this would be those generating complex models within Excel

You have to accept some moderation is done by mouth breathers. I put a full technical explanation of why something would not work in a national newspaper comment and got more downvotes than almost every other comment I had submitted combined.

Only a few short years ago (well about 1000), your average Swede would have been giving their children nice shiny longswords, placing them on a boat and encouraging them to tour the world and kill people....

Instead of polluting the oceans with these huge cables, we should attach fricken lasers to sharks.

At this point you might think I am going to do another tired re run of the Dr Evil comment, but if you had the imagination that he did you would realise that by also fitting optical detectors on sharks you could have a point to point internet mesh across all sharks in the ocean. SharkNet would not have a single point of failure as like the internet is supposed to do it could find another route in the event of the loss of any shark node.

I humbly submit that Dr Evil was a visionary who was simply ahead of his time and should be canonised into the pantheon of saints alongside Saint Steve of Jobs

It's been ages since I read Stroustrup or Kernighan & Ritchie, as I have largely moved on from embedded/Unix programming into Web based systems but I seem to recall one of the arguments for using C++ was that it could always do things as efficiently as C and possibly more so.

C++ is more or less a superset of C (give or take a few minor issues), why has regular C continued to thrive?

It is not how much explosives it takes to blow up a bus, it is how many buses you can take out in one mission. :-)

...carry 8,000lb+ of bombs to target as your typical modern F-16 can. Also I'll take a 20mm Vulcan cannon with LCOS over 8 machine guns any day.

Anyway if you're going to bounce rubble, do it properly with a BUFF and clean up anything left with an A-10!!

The closest thing at a similar stage of development is the PAK-FA T-50, which looks as though it will get flying before the F-35