Nice to see I'm not the only one who remembers this. Consider though that they confirmed the information it out from the electron shells and atomic weights since they had already found reasonable guesses for number symbols and "months", the fact that it was arranged as a table was just one of the clues used to decipher it.

(The concept of a periodic table as Rosetta Stone was reused in a Stargate episode and probably elsewhere, but Omnilingual is the oldest one I know of.)

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Shame their web UI is stuck in the 1990's along with their mapping technology.

A lotus that turned into a Submarine! Honestly they could have got away with no plot or actors and just done a documentary about the car. (With a Top Gear voice over of course...)

It's the 80's all over again, Jaws, Star Wars, Rocky, Rambo, Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Give it a few years.

And that's why I spent my early teens reading Heinlein, Asimov and Tolkien (.. among others too numerous to mention) and trying to figure out what was wrong with my classmates who thought that comic books were the bomb.

I respect the medium, but guys... they're comic books...

Oh hell yes. As much as I like Roger Moore, he turned James Bond into a clown.

Try grabbing the demo version of RSA, (Rational Software Architect), it's great for turning Java and C++ code into UML models and has a neat way to explore models through diagrams.

The trial version is free for 30 days.

I am sure there are open source tools out there for this, but nothing so complete.

That's funny since that's almost half of what they do. The NSA used to be Cray's biggest customer for exactly this purpose.

CST was my go-to portable device for eons, but I finally got fed up with the refresh rate and have since followed the expected upgrade path:
Clay Tablet -> Paypyrus -> Paper -> Laptop -> iPad

But they don't KNOW that they suck at it.

I strongly suspect that what these studies are showing us is that most people are far worse at multi-tasking than they think.

I don't. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Way to fail at the take-away message. The point is that anything that distracts you from the act of driving is dangerous.

If your GPS makes it easier for you to drive and pay attention then that's great, if you are constantly taking your eyes off the road to look at the GPS because you're a useless idiot who can't navigate for more than five minutes without one then you shouldn't even have a car, much less a GPS.

Perhaps we're just not restricting driving licenses as much as we should. (Which would probably prevent myself or my Dad from driving....)

I guess you've never heard of easy transfer.

Yes, it really is that easy. I migrated a friend from an xp desktop to a Win7 laptop (refurbished T500) just a month ago. Plug-em-in, fire it up and go drink the wine and laugh.

I'm guessing you've never worked for a military contractor.