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!

A "veritable battery" ...now that is exciting.

That's what the pattern buffer is for.

This isn't as much of a problem now as it was 20 years ago, but for fast typists, WP5.1x for DOS was the easiest and fastest by far. Other software rendered the text too slowly, couldn't keep up, etc. When a person's paycheck was dependent upon the person's line count and turnover time (e.g. in professions such as transcription), speed was essential.

News this evening for those of us whose car batteries remained charged until we got home.

An Aussie, er, not really an Aussie (that is, someone using a fake name in .hk using a .cn address who uses another pseudonym for email at an .au domain which uses a DNS registered in .au under firstname "Private" lastname "Registration" with an .au P.O. Box address) registered a correctly-spelled domain name (missing the extra 'a') for two years starting on 2012-03-20.

Looks like the .in company has owned the misspelled version since Feb 2011 and renewed it a year later in 2012 for one more year. That company (er, comapany) accesses DNS... in Serbia? No! hostingserbia.com is registered to someone claiming to be in India [Vipin Kumar, email harrylora@gmail.com]

Whee.