I read it the same way too, not that I'm bothered about the US vs British spelling (I'm a Brit). I tend to use US spelling nowadays anyway to avoid confusion with the rest of the world...

I had Rainbow Worlds on my old Commodore 64... guess it's already been discovered.

Just in time for the solstice too. Coincidence... I think not.

I drink Vedett like it's Heineken. I've spent about seven years in Antwerp (Belgium, well Flanders) and the same in Amsterdam (Netherlands) and I *still* drink like the Yorkshireman I am.

Or maybe they have an iPod Touch...

Or is it... Hank Scorpio!

I'd suggest this... modern humans in Europe have become more Neanderthal like because of climatic issues. I expect that early Neanderthals, meaning their direct ancestors, were slighter built.

PTF is better... Poor Text Format. You can even read it using a disk sector editor...

It does seem to be New York City that gets destroyed in the end. Discovery Channel seem to love to crash asteroids into NYC. Glad I don't live there!

This is incorrect. The BBC is not free of charge. That's where the compulsory licence fee goes. Sure, it's not protected by a smart card but it's no different IMO. Now as for itv, channel 4 and, recently on satellite, channel 5, they are free in that to the best of my knowledge, they receive no revenue from the forced licence fee and generate revenue from adverts. Sorry for the huge paragraph, /. isn't iPhone friendly.

This is incorrect. If you have a telly you have to pay the licence or risk the fine.

I'd have to disagree. I've lived in other countries - Holland, Belgium and the USA. I might add that I can follow Dutch language tv. I resent been forced to pay a licence for the BBC and the adverts in the USA are too frequent, which is why I had TiVo there. Got one here too. I'd happily pay a subscription via a card for the beeb, Virgin Media (unfortunately) in my case. If I didn't want the channels, I could cancel them. There's not a lot I watch on BBC other than mock the week. I mostly watch sky 1, sky movies and the various documentary channels. Okay, so many of the documentaries are BBC sourced - I even live near BBC Bristol - but I'm paying for those a different way. Oh, I absolutely never listen to radio from any station.

No, they'll be on the third ship. We'll send the phone sanitisers first.

You might recall that NeXTSTEP and OpenStep ran on Intel based hardware. Before the switch to Intel, NeXTSTEP ran on Motorola 68K based CPUs. It's a pretty portable OS though the move from 68K to Intel took a long time as I recall.

Apple took OpenStep and made it run (slowly) on PowerPC hardware with a replacement for display postscript so it was no great surprise when they switched to Intel.

Their main effort, I feel, was really getting the legacy Carbon APIs ported across to Intel for large developers like Microsoft and Adobe/Macromedia as well as assisting them to move onto the GNU toolchain from CodeWarrior.

I've seen code that worked on CodeWarrior and Visual Studio 6 that fell apart on g++ (v-table fun). Apple updated their g++ release to accomodate.

Why not make it a hotel for those with the funds... perhaps Virgin might be interested?