Remember that the hardware requirements for the rover were set in 2004, or when the PPC750 was 7 years old and the RAD750 was 3 years old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAD750

The 740/750 models had 6.35 million transistors on a 260 nm process has a die of 67 mm2

The RAD750 has 10.4 million transistors, is manufactured by BAE Systems using either 250 or 150 nm process and has a die area of 130 mm2

My favorite thread was when the US/UK attacked Iraq in '98 and an author posted how bad and illegal it was and closed the thread to comments.

LOL - Oh hell yes.

I work in Special Education technology support and have talked to some Deaf/Hard of Hearing specalists about this.

A big chunk of the Deaf Culture wouldn't do it if it was free.

Many in the deaf community are against technologies that restore hearing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_culture#Values_and_beliefs

A positive attitude toward being deaf is typical in Deaf cultural groups. Deafness is not generally considered a condition that needs to be fixed.

Yes, it's so hard to tell the difference between a 1991 Camaro and a 2012 Camaro, who the hell thought that scheme up?

For people that work on cars/know about cars, they know a 1991 is a 3rd Gen F-Body while a 2012 is a Zeta platform

Yes, Microsoft is the poster boy for bad naming schemes

Windows ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, but at the same time they have Office 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, 2010

But then other suites like VB Studio went 97, 6.0, .NET, .NET 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012

So an advertisement.

I really liked Norton Commander and Norton Desktop back in the day.

Also, MacOS around 7.6-8-8.1 but with right click enabled.

I have to support a piece of software and IBM bought the company a few years ago, so when it came time to move to a new version I got to deal with IBM.

I spent 14 hours on the phone trying to get a price for a piece of software, most of the time I was shuttled around support people in India who couldn't help me, I was told that software prices were "restricted information", searching IBM's site for contact numbers got me developer's desk phones and they didn't know why the hell their numbers were posted on IBM's site.

Then I had months of weekly calls from sales people wanting to get a commission.

Hazmat is required because the vehicle carries hydrogen peroxide and hydrazine as fuels.

They know when you left the US based on Customs records, they send you a form and want to know what you made.

Not really, battery technology isn't getting that good, there are still huge infrastructure problems.

If anything diesel (which can be made from Natural Gas, coal dust, FT process, oil, etc) is the long term winner.

No, the agreement was for two sites, then the 1974 Protocol reduced the number of sites to one per party, largely because neither country had developed a second site.

The Moscow system was a site, the North Dakota system was a site to defend the North and South Dakota missile fields from the polar re-entry window. Had the US continued to develop Safeguard there would have been a site in Maryland/Pennsylvania to defend the DC metro area.

The Moscow ABM defense system is based on:
ABM-3 Gazelle
ABM-4 Gorgon
Apart from the main Moscow deployment, Russia has striven actively for intrinsic ABM capabilities of its late model SAM systems and has deployed them around Moscow and St Petersburg
S-300P (SA-10)
S-300V (SA-12)
S-300PMU-1/2 (SA-20)
S-400 (SA-21 future)
S-500 (future)

The Americans claimed there was development of another site at Sary Shagan, but it remained just a radar and testing facility for the Soviets.

Ocean reconnaissance drones, patrol planes and cargo facilities have radiation detectors.

A ship going 20 knots will have many chances to be detected.

Also, as different nuclear reactors have different radionuclide signatures, if they bust your cargo crate nuke, they'll figure out really fast where your materials came from. Then they'll find you.