If you expect Bluray to last 70 years, you are dreaming. CD technology is now on its last legs, and that is roughly only 30 years. DVD will die as soon as Bluray is cheap enough for the average punter. Expect blue-rays successor will last as long as blue-ray has! Technology is still on the exponential curve, therefore the "upgrades" will only come faster than ever before.

Morse isn't even a requirement for a Full Ham Radio license anymore. In another 40 years, it will be totally gone. Perhaps a bit of programming in a real language would be more appropriate. (but i doubt it!)

It's probably MrFusion!

It sounds like it might be very nice, but with Intel working towards a GPU integrated on the same chip as a multicore CPU, I wonder how much longer NVIDIA will remain mainstream. Remember, AMD has absorbed ATI, so both major CPU chip vendors are now obviously targeting the same (integrated) end product.Sure, it will initially be targeted at laptops, but I suspect more laptops are sold per annum now than desktop/server boxes combined!

Absolutely. The most hair brained connector I have ever seen is the one used on IPODs.

USB is popular BECAUSE the connector is A: Simple, B: Robust, C: Did not change between various versions of the standards. (Although ... perhaps it should have, as it is crappy when viewed as a controlled impedance ...)

That's not the point. That kind of fuzzy thinking is what causes mars missions to dissappear before reaching the final destination. I know the French are credited with the Celsius scale, and it is therefore somewhat suspicious, however, it does make a lot more sense than Fahrenheit! (They also created the Statue of Liberty ... Never hear a yank complaining about that :-)

I agree. Recent developments seem to indicate stem cell therapies effectively repair many of the defects that make people blind. This technology will probably never see the light of day as medicine improves in leaps and bounds, making technological solutions crude and ineffective by comparison to "the real thing".

Ha, must be using BLUETOOTH

The program is probably more objective than many of the people grading the papers. I have seen papers receive a fail, when re-presented to a different marker, the paper is graded A+. So, go figure.

Hasn't anyone noticed that on current hardware, this message passing scheme is almost useless, as the memory is still shared on multicore devices. Any large array of devices without shared memory are generally Linux clusters, where the message passing occurs down the ethernet ports, so it sounds like M$ are researching how to compete more than anything else. (Or perhaps they intend to be patent trolls at some time in the future.)

like the old joke.

Question: How do you you hide sixpence in an English Household?

Answer: You put it under the soap!

The problem with all this is that the original claims for the LIGO detector were that it would detect something ... Remember, LIGO's predecessor was a huge iridium bar that also detected nothing. Furthermore, LIGO was significantly improved during its operation, and yet it still found nothing. Now the scientists involved claim they never expected it to find anything? Sounds like the multibillion we have poured into the cure for cancer ... still haven't got that! Take another several billion for the next 10 years.

Perhaps gravity doesn't work exactly the way they think? If so, might explain a lot of questions regarding dark matter/energy.

While its true that the OBD codes can be read by a mechanic using a scan tool, there should be no need for a scan tool! Especially in today's cars, where processors are everywhere, as well as LCD displays. I have a 1991 Toyota that allows me to read all the diagnostic codes THREE different ways. The simple flash flash flash pause flash flash flash, through to a display on the dash as well as the monitor in the console.

The fact that manufacturers essentially hide the codes is due to the revenue earned by their dealerships.

I have repaired two vehicles recently that the dealerships could not (or would not) repair, due to the fact that the computer was NOT throwing error codes. (In one case, they charged 5 hours without doing anything at all! Mechanics these days couldn't diagnose their own arse holes without a computer telling them they have diarrhea!

I used to work for Telstra about 15 years ago and it was thought by most employees at that time that the initial Telstra "split up" was laughable, and was not going to do anything for competition. After all this time, it seems laughable that they are only just considering some bum kicking. This will all become mute should the government implement the national broadband they seem intent on at present as this will spell the death knell for the copper voice/ADSL that most Aussies currently connect via. As it stands, so many let their home phone go, and use their mobiles for everything. (Except for ADSL ... and you dont need the voice once connected!)

That's because the Maori's ate them all. Seriously, the bloody Maori's are the only native race to ever get a treaty from the vicious pommy bastard tribe!