I get it's given for free, but if a company makes a MASSIVE profit from your generously given free work, you should give 0.00001% of your profits back to the developers that helped you. It would be good manners, and a reason for open source developers to continue their generous work. This should be written into the large companies way of doing business, not exploitation of the free work.

I remember Trillian - is could combine your messaging from various apps like ICQ and MSN Messenger etc. Where's the social one, that combines your social networks into a one stop shop for them?

Greedo never shot.

All countries should agree that these prats are fair game. Find them, and eliminate them.

What's.. the point of it? It's not for carrying groceries realistically. Why would I want one? I would like a robot that lives in my house, appears curious and can interact in an emotional way with me. I might also want a utility robot that can come with me, and carry heavy stuff should I need to but would obviously be large - like a delivery robot. I don't see this filling a use case at all.

Is this an american school by any chance? Having watched popular shows involving american schools from time to time, my impression is that teachers are thought of as general failures and not experts in their fields in the US. This is not the case elsewhere. I teach physics, and while some kids are a pain in the neck, generally teachers are seen as knowledgeable in their fields. It seems to be a cultural thing in the us, and I'm afraid it's not going to stop anytime soon. Education and teachers are not regarded in this way elsewhere. Look to Germany, NZ or Japan for great models of how education should be in tone, philosophy and execution.

If you didn't find it amazing, who's to blame? Did you really need someone to model their own excitement at biology for you to do the same? Typical lazy student - wanting someone else to do all the work for them.

It's the same computing power as a raspberry pi 10 in 2035...

Just needs to pull a 7,000 km diameter radio dish and a nuclear plant to deliver a radio signal back to Earth and it's set to go!

I code (after a fashion), and I've got linux on an old laptop for my kid, as it runs faster than windows, but installing software is usually horrendous. It's the command line argument again. Here's the ideal: Go to a website, click on the software you want, it downloads and then you run it, and it installs. How is this so hard to achieve? In many ways *nix is better than windows, but this puts even me off a bit, not because it's technically scary but because often installing something comes with a list of 10 command line instructions, and usually they don't work somewhere along the chain. Yes, I KNOW it's probably my fault because I don't understand the command completely, or the system I'm installing to, but that's the point. Users need to click on it and install. I know there have been some advances in this area but it's still not right. When every bit of software comes like this, then you're in. Also, every bit of software needs a GUI for settings. No messing with nano or vim to go through a config file and whatnot. I know, that's easy, but just open the software and have settings in there. Linux has the same problem that astrophysics has. Only 0.0001% of people are astrophysicists? Then the subject SUCKS. This is not true, it's the level of entry as well as advertising. Now, there's an easy fix to that one. Advertise, and advertise with ONE idea. Linux has an office suite, graphics suite, 3D modelling suite, etc etc that are all....... free! And, the operating system is also free! Where is the glitzy TV ad that shows this? How much are people paying on office 365 subs? No idea. But giving an alternative for free and showing how slick it is with a desktop the way you want it is easily done. Google have done this a little with chromebook. I believe that when this idea is bootstrapped in children then windows dominance will be adjusted downwards.

They also own the major backbone which is fibre to the local cabinet. It's the last mile that's difficult because it's copper. They also want to upgrade this to fiber to the home while making it free. I can't see them digging up the road to literally every property in the UK in 10 years. I'm ok with my last mile of copper. It's reliable and I get about 6Mb/s actual speeds download which is fine for me.

Why is it all insurgents and killing? The article suggested it could be used for medical purposes. Why not the first use? Imagine having the system in high traffic public places, and allowing for identification, notification that something's up with your heart? Lives saved, right there. Who's not thinking up these systems to help? Come on boffins!

Never happened. Kirk ALWAYS had to use a panel that you pressed a physical button for the ship to hear, or turned a handle in the turbolift to operate. Other instances were a direct communication with the ship initiated by buttons That only happened in TNG and beyond.

I have a vive. I play Elite in it. I'm willing to suffer the loss of resolution from a monitor for the immersive experience. Also, beat sabre is cool. They are expensive things to get and have a narrow use case, but hopefully the options will be wider and cheaper in the future and it will be similar to a joystick for gaming. Not essential, but a good purchase if you're into it.

Yeah, in 20 years. 128TB will be the maximum addressable memory in the spec. By then, the world will be run by a single raspberry PI running MultiVac.