Whose to say it wasn't? Maybe some advanced civilisation built it to test just this principal. Maybe we are simply looking over the shoulder of someone else's work. How do they correctly reference that in the eventual paper? :-)

Bob.

Or ....

It's actually a big conspiracy perpetrated by the British government to stop British people emigrating. I get over 120meg down the fibre the cable company kindly laid right to my house. What possible reason would I have for emigrating to Australia or the US if I have to swap my fibre for two cans and a bit of string? :-)

Bob.

Wait till they start stealing your power as well!

Bob.

No need for a points value. Just tell us what they are listening too. :-)

Bob.

There was a time when French was the standard second language across much of Europe. Finance, law, business, diplomacy were all conducted in French. The aristocracy spoke French. The university students were taught in French.

I'm not trying to say English is better but I would be interested to hear your views on why English took over from French when French had such a lead and "some internal fitness" has nothing to do with it.

Thanks,

Bob.

It simply proves that through a process of survival of the fittest, English is evolving at the expense of weaker languages into the perfect language. :-)

Eventually all you will have is English, and all the programming languages derived from it.

Bob.

Obviously.

These are exactly the same reasons that stopped Europe colonising the Americas.

Bob.

Hello,

Any chance of a British English option so "quarter after five" becomes "quarter past five"?

Thanks, Bob.

In shock news, it was revealed the new Samsung Galaxy S 4 phone is actually faster then the previous generation Galaxy S III.

Glad they cleared that one up. :-)

Bob.

I remember getting a Sunos box past 2 years of uptime and that was used every day as my personal desktop machine in the 90's. Those 19inch mono screens are great for xterms.

I suspect in a few years, there will be quite a few Raspberry Pi computers buried in hardware projects happily ticking over. I know I will be using some of the camera boards for long term time lapse photography so I hope they last a few years without reboots. :-)

Bob.

Maybe it was just a hunch.

Bob.

"creatures as different as jellyfish and cheetahs, daisies and bats"

Daisies have heartbeats!

Bob.

Maybe the scientists replayed the Will.i.am and realised it wasn't actually that good.

Bob.