Local government has control over local on-street parking management, so access to DVLA is not unreasonable in the first instance...

On the other hand, as I live in Brighton and the local Green council have fucked the parking costs, I'm delighted that B&H have been blocked...

The Babelfish resided in the ear canal, ingested the thought waves created by the process of speaking, and excreted translations...

While the Apple ][ documentation was so complete that it included Woz's annotated 6502 assembler source listings (I still have my copies in storage), the provided documentation was less extensive for the Atari 400/800 and Vic-20/C-64...

However, that's not really the point.

Those old-school bits of tin had no abstraction layers, so for coders to make any use of them beyond the basic (pardon the pun), they needed to address the hardware directly. I still remember having to load assembler routines on the Apple in order to toggle the speaker port sufficiently often to get actual musical tones (as I am equally old-school).

This really is not the case today - you only *need* that level of *hardware* documentation if you're going to write low-level OS drivers, and that's really beyond the scope of the project in question. The documentation of the abstraction platforms that sit on top of this Pi hardware are extensively... extensive, and are more than sufficient for most educational situations.

In addition, part of the learning process is discovering and understanding the limitations of the platform you're using, and deciding if you want to progress your learning further...

...by any means.

WinPho 7 (and above) have explicitly never supported alternative browsers either.

... it was first published in 1925/6.

The 70 year restriction is based on when he died... presuming, of course, that it was actually *his* body in the bunker and he didn't escape to South America as some of his henchmen did.

Concur...

I wonder if Taco had to sign a non-compete clause when he left, and how long it might have left to run...

Thank you, sir - I enjoyed the Apple ][ and Atari ST versions.

Now, please tell these kids to get off your lawn...

Which, as the account sign-up/registration page (when you finally get to it) claims that Farnell offer "free shipping", makes their pricing even more questionable.

Imagine a traditional-type, embossed script gilt-edged invitation on heavy card, but created using an HP DesignJet?

... or is that "error"?

Whichever, thanks and good luck.

I concur that the design was compromised by military requirements, and that they flew some military/secret missions.

This doesn't change the fact that the orbiters were owned & operated by NASA.

By your argument, you might as well claim that due to the involvement of von Braun and others, the Saturn 5 was a Nazi rocket ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law )

Many thanks for your kind words.

By the way, there should be a comma after "point".

...Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and General Dynamics are commercial enterprises, which happen to have lots of contracts with both military and civilian agencies of the USA and other governments.

Last time I looked, NASA was one of those civilian USA government agencies...

Put it this way - when was the last time you could buy shares in NASA (paying taxes doesn't count)?

Surely NASA is a "civilian" space agency, and the shuttle therefore a civilian craft?

Perhaps the correct term should be "non-governmental"...