I certainly noticed when Google Chrome would not install on my android 2.3 phone, which LG refuse to provide any further updates for.
In fact Google seem to be the most inclined to produce apps which will only run on the latest version of android and bugger anybody who hasn't thrown out last years tech and bought something new.

Hey did he mention frickin lasers on a ... oh wait, I see what you did there

If he wrote the meaning of the word rote enough times, maybe he would remember how to spell it.

Heh. Money well spent on Health IT innovations.
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sorry, spilt my coffee.

And there I was wondering if I should experiment with the open ada compiler I found in my Linux repository.
Guess it wouldn't boost my chances for getting employed as an ageing developer tho.

How can you say that? At least 50% of the events/effects in each episode are caused by electromagnetic field fluctuations, 25% are something to do with sonic resonance, the remainder of the problems and/or solutions involve the word "quantum", and occasionally they even threw in the word "gravity". Ok, so there was lots of fiction... maybe it should be called Sigh Fi.

"Citation needed. I can't remember the last 'apt-get upgrade' that broke something on my system."

Recently I thought I would try the latest Qt IDE on Ubuntu 12.04. Did the apt installs and tried to use the IDE, got strange error messages and a crashing app just from trying to access some of the tools. After going thru all the obvious steps and finally ending up on the forums with the appropriate authorities on Qt, I get advised that I should uninstall the Ubuntu packages and download and build it all myself, cos the Ubuntu packages are usually borked.

And this after I had just spent several months trying to convince myself that Linux had come a long way towards being a reliable click-and-go desktop solution.
Not a hater, I have been used Linux for fun and a little programming for well over 10 years, I just feel disappointed every time I have to sift thru the crap and read the discussions across several eras of a library or app's evolution to find the solution to a problem, cos I relied on the packaging system of the distro I am using at the time. Its fun and all, at first, but eventually gets tedious. Perhaps I should ditch Ubuntu, but its not like this is the ONLY distro I ever encountered this with.

Too true. The only real statistical proof would come from getting a dowser to flag an equal number of places that DO have water and DO NOT have water below them. If the statistical anomaly is larger than random for both sets of identified locations, then maybe we would have to start believing in something.

Because God knows you will only mod up atheist-oriented posts?

I loved the old-school hard core action in sauerbraten but got put off badly when people started using every hack imaginable, including running around 10 times faster than everybody else while their aim bot shot everybody in range.
This was when I realized that open source multiplayer games are only any fun in closed environments or when there was some effort put into validating that each client was running the same unmodified code.

Yes, I would also like to see some more developers and support people get behind Desura for Linux and get it working properly across multiple Linux distros.
Sadly, last time I looked, Desura had Linux game installers that fail, mainly due to library dependencies, while the Ubuntu software center can install the same game properly. There was no clear indication of which specific distro it was expected to be compliant with.

It would be way cool to have the one app responsible for finding, installing, launching, and also for browsing and adding mods to all those games which can run on Linux, plus hooking in community and support forums. I believe it has a valuable niche for all those games and mods which fall outside of the Steam-for-Linux catalog.

Thanx, that sounds like a likely contender. Last time I was at MOTAT they only had a scale model of a capsule.
Still, nice to know what it was.

Hard to remember exactly what I saw back then, but pics I have found rule out an Apollo, it could have been a Gemini or Mercury module.
Its only curiosity, but I won't be getting close to a space museum in the near future to see anything like it.

Thanx man, but I'm pretty sure I have tried searching on all the terms I could think of.
There does not seem to be a lot of history recorded on what space capsules they hauled over here to New Zealand to show us.

When I was very young a capsule was brought here on tour (New Zealand, sometime around 1970-ish), but I cannot find out which one it was. I assume it was an Apollo re-entry capsule. Would somebody have a history of such things?