"Tablets are also in used on the ISS, but they are not as useful as here on Earth since, according to NASA, the accelerometers don't work in zero G."

Surely the accelerometers do work in "zero G". They do exactly what they were designed to do.

You Sir....

Are an engineer!

Re: Will they release a new version?

"Now just imagine Windows XP was free software, or you would at least get the source code with it. You could then hire a programmer to maintain it for you. You wouldn't need to care whether Microsoft still supports it or not. If there's a bug you could just pay someone to backport the bugfix to your version. Or you could even "mix" your own Windows version gradually swapping components so you are still compatible with your old software."

That's a brilliant idea, now what could you call it, something rhyming with 'ix perhaps?

:-)

Re: same old story ...

' Sorry, but sulphur, phosphorus, carbon, "it was probably wet, maybe with water" and "could have" are scientific proof of nothing.

Still no direct, or indirect, evidence of complex hydrocarbons, which could prove the existence of a more complex chemical process, which, in turn, could be circumstantially associated with metabolic processes normally associated here on planet Earth with life.

In other words, nothing new that we didn't already know last week.'

You are quite right, but....

Statements like these make more funding available

Re: multiple cursor feature

> One word: BRIEF

Ohhhh, the first REAL editor I used, I loved it.

To this day the only way I can remember how to spell the word 'brief' is to mutter Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing Facility under my breath.

Re: Do you find...

There was a frog left in the living room this morning. Yes my cat is rather strange.

CECIL?

Point of order...

I'm sure it was CESIL (Computer Education In Schools Instructional Language)

It involved filling out coding forms and sending them off to the local authority to be typed in then run overnight on a mainframe.

Most of the time the printout came back with 'Syntax Error at line 10'. Ahhhhhhhhh, those were the days....

I'll get me (very old) coat

I'm trying to write about swimming pools and you want a title?

Given that there are only 2 measurements defined and the 3rd is ambiguous really destroys this as a unit of volume.

Unless of course you make it at least as deep as 2 elephants, half fill it, then submerge aforesaid elephant in it and measure the water displacement to find the volume of an elephant!

Thus we can use the same descriptor as a measure of either volume or weight depending on the context :-)

OK, I'll get my coat.......

PMSL!

I'm sending you the bill for getting my cocoa and hobnobs out of my keyboard!