RIP. You had an early and profound influence on my career.

Errr .. because email was around way before 1994. Maybe not in it's current form, and maybe not as prevalent - but it certainly existed way before then

Read the following threads and petition about their stance on upgrading early SSD customers to TRIM:
http://en.community.dell.com/forums/t/19310219.aspx
(one of the most active threads on their forums - and totally ignored by DELL)

http://www.petitiononline.com/dellssd/
(170 signers to date - that's a lot of unhappy users)

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3514/t/19332633.aspx
(a truly jaw dropping example of DELL's arrogance and ignorance where they try and justify not providing TRIM support to SSD users)

It's hard to fathom that a supposed IT company can blindly ignore the importance of a major feature like SSD Trim to people who ordered early. By definition, SSD buyers are the top end of their customers, so it's not smart to ignore their needs.
I know of several companies (ours included) who took DELL off the supplier list because of this. If you check the petition you'll see Boeing on there too. I doubt any company can afford to lose them as a customer. I'll personally never buy or recommend DELL again after this either. -- Rob

I love this quote:

The star being cooked up in Livermore this summer is expected to die 200 trillionths of a second after it's ignited, Van Wonterghem said.

And if it doesn't?

And don't stars when the collapse create black holes?

History shows us that many new forms of "clean power" have later turned out to have side effects as bad or worse than their predecessors - take Nuclear for example. I have a nagging doubt wind, solar, and wave power may have a nasty sting in the tale too - not on the small scale they are used now. But scale them up to producing large amounts of power, and how much change will you accidentally cause to tides and weather? Physics 101 - Energy cannot be created or destroyed. Take too much energy out of a system and you will change it.

But then I was dumb enough to buy DELL: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/254961-14-warning-careful-ordering-dell-machines-ssds

Google clearly sees potential for African web access then ... but how do you get it to the consumer if many countries don't have infrastructure or PCs. Unless of course you had a handset you could re-package / re-price in a "stripped out" form that could access it direct? In which case you could get voice - data - and web all from one device, all direct from Google? Of course technically it may not be that easy to create an Android device that could do this - but if it were possible, it'd immediately make Google a pan-African MNO