Here you go. Testable, duplicatable example of evolution. http://www.newscientist.com/ar...

They're calling it IRA. (Individual Retirement Account). What a stupid choice. I mean its bound to cause some confusion that could have very easily been avoided. I realise the IRA (Irish Republican Army) isn't a global organization but you'd think the American Government would have the brains and foresight to avoid reuse of already long established and very well-known acronyms.

Thats the upgrade. This is the successor.

Viewed from outside America he is incredibly conservative. America seems to get more conservative every year. He is at best, center-right.

The Machine Stops, 1909, E. M. Forster: http://archive.ncsa.illinois.e...

That has food that is just called food and comes in tubes. It also effectively describes the modern world. Its amazingly prescient. Definitely worth reading.

Plenty of long haired hippie looking dudes where I work. My bosses boss is a long haired hippie. The company is a highly successful internet company. I find your comments very strange. Why does appearance matter so much? It's seen as effectively meaningless to us. Dreadlocks, crazy hair, crazy beards, ancient clothes. None of it matters. What matters is the people.

I find this strange. Youtube never needs to buffer for me, no matter the stream or quality.

do you happen to remember what book this was? I love such stories. it sounds kinda like. Charles stross - accelerando?

Galaxies do not expand. They are gravitationally bound structures and the expansion force is much weaker.

Because its clearly pronounced rah-pie? Unless you pronounce pi as pee? and raspberry as ray-spberry?

We have known UI's like that suck since the 80's.

http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html

It was Dijkstra

No information is exchanged though, information still moves slower than light.

That is exactly what currently happens. This is about the fact that they generate more energy than they need sometimes from wind, and could store it for when they do need it for spikes.

Light Peak is the codename for the Thunderbolt interface, you know the one on the iphone 5 and such.