Agreed. I learned about the Gravitational constant and the variability of gravity in high school physics in the US.

One of my proudest moments in high school physics was running a "measure gravity" experiment 3 times, getting to within 0.005 m/s^2 of the right answer all 3 times - for where I was! I thought for sure I was doing it wrong, until the teacher said "and if some of you are getting a number other than a simple 9.8, it's because the local gravity here is actually ." Mine averaged to 0.002 off.

No, that came out after I stopped buying. And the Death Star, and the Star Destroyer...

But I now have permission from my wife to buy TWO of the next similar "ridiculously expensive Ultimate" set. One to keep for myself, one to re-sell three years later.

Okay, give me your mailing address, and I will print out the relevant Wikipedia articles and mail them to you on a postcard.

"...the highest ranked and lowest ranked offerors were separated by a minor amount of total points and other factors were equally comparable."

AKA: "We were bottom, but dammit, not by that much!"

Lining the window sill of my home office. Pretty much every minifig-scale non-collectors set from the launch of LEGO Star Wars through 2003. Original Trilogy only. I also have the "Collectors" TIE Interceptor and the "Destroyer Droid" Technic; plus a smattering of prequel trilogy sets (that were all given to me as gifts by people that knew I had the SW collection, and didn't know better,) on a shelf.

Plus a few (less than a dozen) of my old childhood toys (all smaller ones,) in a "keepsake box" in the attic.

Oh, and on the LEGO front, I have one of each "primary" LEGO Space minifig from the launch of LEGO Space through the discontinuation of the LEGO Space theme. So not the one-offs, but if it appeared as a "generic" Space minifig at some point during the theme's run, it's in there.

Fahrenheit 451 wins because it is directly about the banning of books.

Yup, and I have alternate ROMs for my original iPhone that adds essentially all the features of iOS 7 (obviously excepting things that are missing in hardware, of course.)

Find me an Android from 2010 that can run KitKat.

Find me more than two Android devices that got KitKat on launch day.

Yes, Apple ruthless abandons old devices. But you KNOW it's happening. The iPad 1 was the only "surprise! We discontinued support earlier than you thought!" device, but even then, you knew when iOS 6 was first announced that it was going to happen. And if you get support, you get it on day 1. Today, the iPhone 4S and newer, iPad 2 and newer, and iPod touch 5 all get iOS 8.

Android devices are a complete mixed bag. You may get good support for 2-3 years, you might get screwed with zero updates ever. You might get the update on day 1, you might get it 6 months later.

Android has many ways it is far superior to iOS, but release reliability and long-term device support are *NOT* among them.

I like that he has a six-digit ID... New Here is older than the vast majority of /.ers.

HAHAHAHAHHAHAA!!!!

The negativity of all the quotes bits should have clued you off.

That's exactly what I do. Main screen is for "use it every day" with no folders at all, second screen is for "use very often, divided by theme" such as "financial", "media" (which means media consumption for me, so Netflix, Hulu, etc,) "Photo", "science", "sports". Third screen is games, subdivided by category. Fourth screen is "I almost never use these, but space is cheap, so I'll just stuff them here" - mostly store apps that I only have so that Passbook works right with them, apps that Siri integrates with so that I can tap results and have them launch properly (Yelp, etc,) and other things that when I really want to use them, I end up launching them another way. (Google Doc, Sheet, Slide; which I launch via Drive almost exclusively.)

Yeah, you'd think I ran a small datacenter...

(And while I do like to joke that to friends, I don't actually.)

A couple machines running multiple VMs don't help the count, either.

But the Humpty-Dumpty sense is the best sense!

And, of course, you are completely correct. I should have used i.e., not AKA.

It was a dumb Americansism-abused-grammar mistake. I shall claim "it was written half past midnight in a sleepy stupor" as my excuse. :-P I am normally a spelling/grammar pedant; this just shows that even OCD grammarians screw up once in a while. (In general, if my spelling or grammar is incorrect, it's on purpose for humorous effect.)

agora was. I know because I had it. I know because a friend and I convinced Alan Batie (the owner/operator) to install a SLIP daemon in 1987.

Many years later, I worked at Intel, and looked up Alan. I had to introduce myself to the man that, to me, "gave me the Internet." He remembered me. (Or my user name, anyway.) I was more flattered by that at the time than if a sports star or president had told me they remembered me.