"user buttons, pressure sensors and LEDs " Why would you want to interface this way? This will obsolete very quickly. Its direct brain interfacing you need. This is when it gets truly useful.

no because with hypoxia (see other comments), you can no longer do simple maths, and so the maths of the drag won't affect anything.

You are doing ONE drive of only 300 miles in 5 months time and that's your excuse for wasting petrol? That's barely a commute here in Aus. And yes, we would love to replace petrol usage for these trips, that's where the investment should be happening. And yeah, you sound like an Aussie WRX driver too, WRX is short for wanker (does that translate?)

Stapleton: Last and First Men and Starmaker are possibly two of the best books ever, but I would have been surprised to see them on the list. Just read them and consider the concepts he is presenting and the timeframes he is covering.

Precisely, its not the first to read, but its one of the greatest. And very deserving of being on the list.

actually Fosters is the waste product after making beer.

I really wish Civ V could have been delayed in Australia by an extra week and then I could have seen the reviews and not wasted my money. (Yes, firaxis are now on the don't buy for a month after release list now, as is the Total War series, 2 weeks of reviews to go before I consider Shogun 2)

There's lots of things we can find out by experimenting on live human bodies. We should at least do the research. Starting on you.

Of course Spearmen can destroy a tank. Didn't you watch Avatar? Use your imagination, if you had a spear and there was a tank you wanted to destroy, I'm sure you could work out several ways of doing it (knock on the hatch, spear the commander when he opens, ...).

A hammer resets every calculator in existence. But seriously - why are there calculators in these exams anyway? What are they teaching you?

no, Australia has emus. This must be Austrian. Eggs are harder since they have further to fall.

I've never ever read such rubbish. will this discussion ever finish?

wrong band. Peter Garrett was Midnight Oil.

granary? you're not playing it right. Barracks and units is all you need.

Enough with the fools. Everyone is a fool. HP (now) is from HP (then). Agilent (now) is from HP (then). HP (now) could quite easily have been given the name change. The HP instrumentation division, which is what we are talking about, is essentially the same division with a company name change. Of course, half of it is now closed off or sold off anyway.