Speaking of bringing back digital watches, I really hope Apple makes rumoured device go 'beep' on the hour, every hour. Especially in the middle of the night. I really miss that.

Of course, a simple beep just won't do in this century. Think of the possibilities! It could go 'dong!' or 'cuckoo!', maybe some creepy theremin, or something you paid $2 for on iTunes.

And just think how many times you've gone longer than one hour without remembering to check Facebook. That could be a thing of the past.

Every hen has an 'egg tooth' at birth, so not really that rare. (Not easy to prove it's not from a rooster though, and not strictly a tooth.)

Chicken nipples on the other hand...

Oracle RDBMS - first commercially-available relational database with an SQL interface.

Really? Steve Jobs killed Paul Allen with an axe in the face, and left his body dissolving in a bathtub in Hell's Kitchen?

No wait, as Woz said:

The fact that it didn't happen is unimportant. The important thing is whether the meaning portrayed is correct.

Objection withdrawn.

*stunned silence*

*cough* Who Wants to be a Millionaire *cough*

Are you saying that just to be negative?

Atari certainly did a lot of repacking the same old hardware. I used several XL cartridges on the XE Games System without issue. And to upgrade to a 'real' XE computer, all you needed was a disk drive.

Flight Simulator 2 was bundled and that was awesome - fly under the Golden Gate Bridge and round the Statue of Liberty, then engage in a WWI dogfight, all in 2MHz 8-bit chunkiness.

The light gun was also good for a laugh. Light guns are about the only thing I miss about CRT TVs.

Missile Command came built-in, but unfortunately didn't use the light gun.

Done reminiscing.

Actually did have a detachable keyboard, and closer to the 130XE (actually 65XE) than the 800.

It was pretty lousy compared to the NES. Ironically my favourite game on it was Mario Bros. Yep, a Nintendo game on non-Nintendo hardware ;-)

Yes, that - have kids and then game with them. Give the lady a break to do her own stuff.

Just be sure to pick games that are age-appropriate and don't dwell on them once the educational potential has been extracted. (Pretty much any game has at least *some* educational potential.)

And it should be possible to use a hacked Mega client that lies about the pre-encryption hash.

Why ask what a landline phone is when you could just vote 'What's a Landline Phone?'?

I take it you haven't watched videos of Asimo trying to climb stairs.

I'd say you likely nailed it there, sir.

There may be some mutation that led to the tumor, but the chances of that mutation leading to the same symptoms again could well be miniscule. Even if she were to be cloned, that is.

After all, the biological systems we're talking about here are unfathomably complex, and so are their failure modes.