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This is linguistic relativity, and used to be called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. I think it has not lived up to its early promise as a tool to understand the relationship between language structure and cognition, but there are times when it is a useful tool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I remember you from about ten years ago. Most of the old admins do. I'm glad you're no longer thinking of harming yourself, and if you do want to return to Wikipedia in the future, I'll do my best to help the process.
In the mid-1980s I had a program called PC-Alien which ran on an MS-Dos machine and which could read almost any undamaged CP/M formatted disk. There is a more recent program which appears to have similar capabilites: OmniFlop, but I have no experience of using this. Such a program means a standard IBM PC, still reasonably commonly available, could read the undamaged disks rather than searching for an even older and rarer CP/M machine.
A third approach is to have a robot independent of the vehicle which can drive it, and presumably can switch from one vehicle to another. The best example of this I'm aware of is Yamaha's motobot which is capable of riding a motorcycle on a track. I'm not sure how much of the article is speculation rather than existing capability. http://pcmag.com/robotics-automation-products/39534/news/this-yamaha-robot-can-drive-a-motorcyle
Alas, there is no free PL/I compiler for Windows or Linux; certainly not one with anything approaching a full feature set and currently maintained. I learned PL/I at technical college in the 1980s and it was certainly better than the other languages taught then (COBOL, BASIC and RPG). I would like to be able to write a few programs in it for nostalgic reasons.
A 6.4 metre wingspan is pretty impressive, but some of the pterosaurs were considerably larger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus had a wingspan of 10-11 metres and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatzegopteryx was about the same size.
For anyone wanting to see the original discussion of this, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bohemian_Rhapsody/Archive_2#Analysis_by_Two_Music_Scholars
If you want to play with a free compiler, try OpenCOBOL at http://www.opencobol.org/.
There is a list of other free COBOL compilers at http://mainframewizard.com/content/free-cobol-compilers but some of them look pretty old.
I don't think we were taught anything about computers in class, but there was a computer programming club. We used PORTRAN, which is a cut-down version of FORTRAN - I think it stands for Port-a-punch FORTRAN. The cards were sent away to a computer a few hundred km away, and a syntax error listing came back by the following week. It wasn't exactly a productive environment, so we competed to see who could get the most different errors in a single program.
Far more countries than that involved. Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Kenya, Zambia, Mauritius and Madagascar will all have dishes too.
Those of us who grew up in areas where there was no electricity. Even in developed nations, electricity wasn't available in some country areas well into the 1960s. In my case, this was Northern Ireland, only a mile or two out from a small city.
New Scientist is possibly the best popular science magazine available. Scientific American is pretty good too, but doesn't have the same coverage because it's monthly, while NS is weekly.
The original Ghost is still produced as Ghost Solution Suite. See http://www.symantec.com/business/ghost-solution-suite. Symantec also produces Norton Ghost which uses a different code base and incompatible image file formats.
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