Well, what should we call them then? Lexicomrades?

Or #2.

We cannot do #1 or #2... in space.

which is inexorably dependent on it's host planet for resupplying oxygen, fuel, food and crew (who get muscle fatigue from microgravity after lengthy periods there)

We cannot do #1.

Maybe we need a corollory: Any headline that can be answered in one word likely heads a stupid article. Whether that be "Yes", "No" or "Bananas"

and what do you think happened before computers?

Those nice banks took your money and put it in a safe with your name on it?

No, they wrote down how much you put in on a piece of paper and filed it.

As soon as the records of its wherabouts are destroyed, it qualifies as virtual, not physical. Even if the money you put in still physically existed, it wouldn't be yours.

and by the same standards, 2^10 is a KiB

and yes, why is this geek news when anyone with either a passing interest, or who has ever done a wiki crawl, will know this?

Off cuts of wall paper! Oooh we'd have killed for off. cuts. of. wall. paper.

We had to use sandpaper!

And we didn't have rucksacks so we had to keep our jotters in our underpants!

Posh bastard!

We used brown wrapping paper and had to like it.

Oh what I would have given for some sticky back plastic to cover our books with!

No, Sticky-back plastic was something entirely different from Sticky-tape (which is what they called Sellotape)

Sticky-back plastic was like a large sheet of plastic (normally A4 size) with one side sticky.

Actually, back then the Gorbals were half shit half nice. The area around the Citizens Theatre was always reasonable, and the regeneration of the shit end had already begun back in '85 (or talks of atleast) and the first tower blocks (pretty much the source of all the gang culture) came down in 1993 (which shows you how long it takes to rehouse a tower block). As of 2011, most of the Tower Blocks have been demolished, and the area's bounced back quite a bit. The article talks about it like it's still a violence fuelled shithole.

Red Dwarf wasn't so much as a prediction as just putting their faith in Glasgow City Council... Actually, in that case it's even more amazing that it came true :)

Disclaimer: I'm a West-end Weegie, although from the less-rich end of the West End. We never had gang violence, just running street battles on Dumbarton Road between Old Firm supporters (and even that's been gone for the last decade) :P

Minecraft can be the new Logo/Turtle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)#Turtle_and_graphics

Upchucking UNIVAC?

The way the OP is going on about it, I imagine him writing C# code in the style of Javascript...

In the UK, one of the biggest cinema chains in the country - CineWorld - already do a subscription pass that lets you in to any film any number of times, while still using the old distribution model for normal customers.

The problem is that, while yes, you can get in to see any film any time, you still have queue to get a ticket from the desk, and you *cannot* purchase on line ahead of time. Normal paying customers can, so for big blockbuster films on opening night (or opening week depending on how popular it is) it can be nigh on impossible to actually get in for a card holder without having to pay *anyway* just to book ahead.

My mum runs a film group and about 60% of their members have this card, and they're pretty much always treated like second class citizens, with one cashier even outright stating that they don't really care about card holders because they don't bring in any money for them. That card holders tend to be more money savvy and as such won't buy the overprices drinks and popcorn from the stalls.

Then, down the road, there's the smaller, more indie, cinema. Doesn't show as many blockbusters, quite a few indie films, focuses on the smaller, but popular films. Like Life of Pi, Mostly the focus on really good events. I went to see the original cut of Alien and Aliens in there, using the original reels. I missed it, but they also had James Earl Jones taking a Q&A once. They're showing Spirited Away later this month, and I think February is shaping up to be Studio Ghibli month.
It has a really nice bar area (that you wouldn't mind visiting outside of watching a film), and they let you take alcohol into the showing (in plastic glasses), infact, all the smaller cinemas around here do that kind of thing. They don't have over-priced stalls, but they will offer you popcorn from behind the bar. And they're doing quite well.

It's not the pricing model that's failing, it's knowing your core audience and catering for them. If your in a city you can pick and choose your core audience (as exampled above by a giant conglomorate cinema company co-existing 4 streets away from one of the oldest cinemas in the city), however if you're in a small town, or the middle of nowhere, if your core audience doesn't want to go see films, no alternate pricing models are going to fix that. What you need to do is remind them there's a cinema there. Throw some events. Find out what films your patrons want to see and put those films on, even if they're 20 or 30 years old, hell, even if it's from before there was sound, if they want to see it, get a hold of it and put it on.

There seems to be this crazy notion that people only go to the cinema to see new films.

Bullshit. People go to see films in the cinema because watching films in the cinema is fun.

Also, Sing-along Grease night

This has been a standard for Mobile internet for a long time.
I remember getting a Pay-as-you-go 3G dongle that was opt-out filtering, but it filtered a hell of a lot more than just pornography.

It filtered Reddit, it filtered 4chan, it filtered b3ta, it filtered a fair few web comics too. And they wouldn't unlock it over the phone unless you had a credit card (I only had a debit card and they wouldn't accept it, go figure), so you had to take the dongle into the store and ask them to unlock it, and take proof of age with you.

If the proposed filter is in any way similer to the current mobile one - and it's opt out - expect there to be a right shitstorm regardless of the ethics of the filter in the first place.