The whole thing is so confused I don't think we even have the subject of CS in the Netherlands. At least, I'm pretty sure I studied IT.

Because the UK is really underdeveloped in this respect. Their current definition of "IT" is learning how to use MS Word, and that's how the curriculum is.

The Raspberry Pi guys can explain this one a lot better than I can. It's their mission statement to improve the poor state of IT in the UK, after all.

SSD will probably completely replace regular drives at the consumer level in about 5 years. Though external backup systems for the consumer market will probably still use regular drives for 5-8 years. Memristors, mram, etc have been touted as the Next Big Thing for years now and nothing has come up yet.

For historic value the USSR's stuff was there first.

That is a neat little list, i love the number of missions that where intentional crashes.

not true, Russia put stuff up there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_2

it's not a law - but a lot of companies have a policy to that tune.

first thing i think about is skill wires from SR

while this is true - it would seriously screw apple until they could find another supplier that could get production up to suitable levels, this isn't exactly a quick process.

because there are several levels of refinement that has to happen to get sand to the point to make clear/colored glass of the quality people are accustomed to today. It is cheaper to take glass that is already at that purity level and remelt it than it is to refine raw sand and then have to do the same melt & mold process.

go to any and i mean ANY global product producer and tell them you have a way increase their revenue by one percent at nearly zero cost and they will be all ears.

go to them with a product that will cost them money to implement and will lower revenues by one percent, they will ignore you.