Fourth try? That's a remarkably efficient track record. Thomas Alva Edison took around a thousand more tries to get inventions working. ;-)

"My parents call me Alvie. You can call me DC all the way."

Whoa... I didn't know that. Thanks for the heads up.

My first reaction to the news was, "Frungy!"

I hope the developers can keep it that way.

Maybe so, but that's why /. mandates "Preview" before "Submit". :-)

Several kindles? That's called kindling. ;-) I'll look you up the next time I need to start a fire.

English: "Thick air"
German: "dicke Luft"

Last time I checked, DuckDuckGo's servers were in Panama...

If you're referring to all positive integers by which 12 is divisible, you can't forget 1. :)

Wouldn't they derive more SILICONE than SILICON in that set? (It's really more like the empty set than anything else....)

That was "A Long Time Ago" ...so NOT in the future/'futrue'.

That is what I was imagining, but I couldn't find the words to express that as well as you did.

Limited hardware capability (which meant you had to use every CPU cycle and bit (an on/off state, a computer bit) of RAM optimally) meant that those coding had to be very skilled at telling the computer what to do. Nowadays, bloated and unoptimized code can do the same things faster on modern hardware, but it'd be many times faster yet, have fewer bugs, and be more secure if all programmers were as skilled and creative using modern hardware as those who are currently known as graybeards, who know the importance of using resources and time (processor cycles) skillfully. Some of them probably are, but others probably aren't.

Because then the freezing and boiling point of water wouldn't be 0 and 100 degrees, respectively. They'd be 273.15 and 373.15 degrees, respectively.

Maybe if we had 10.15 fingers (that includes thumbs, natürlich) and 10.15 toes and 2.15 arms and 2.15 legs that would make perfect sense to us. However, that's not the case for most of the people I know. :)

Aren't all well-worded letters superior to or more desirable than less well-worded letters when the recipient reads well the language the letter is written in? :)

I hope they have an army of bots ready to revert vandalism as soon as the data becomes publically-accessible!