I reckon they should instead funnel the cr@p and hot air that George Bush emits from his pie-hole into channels for processing. That'll provide more than enough energy for the world and we won't have to 'rape' the earth.

I've managed a Computer Lab at an IT college, who's prime users are pesky students with an interest in downloading MP3's, warez and porn. I can confirm the above-said about Avast. Avast is now THE only antivirus tool I use. If you cant purchase it, I think they also have a free tool for cleaning (not the Avast Home version) which works well for support.

In my books it's either Avast, or Linux.

After reading many comments in this feed, I decided to get over to http://www.bing.com/ to search for something I use regularly (eclipse rcp) and compare it to Google's results on that same topic. But, I got this error when I hit [Enter]. In the 5 years I've been using Google, this sort of error has *never* happened [to me]. That was my cue to get off slashdot, stop wasting time with Bing and start some work.

ASSERT: *** Search: _installLocation: engine has no file!

Stack Trace:

0:ENSURE_WARN(false,_installLocation: engine has no file!,2147500037)

1:()

2:()

3:()

4:epsGetAttr([object Object],alias)

5:()

6:SRCH_SVC_getEngineByAlias(http://www.bing.com)

7:getEngineByAlias(http://www.bing.com)

8:getShortcutOrURI(http://www.bing.com,[object Object])

9:canonizeUrl([object KeyboardEvent],[object Object])

10:handleURLBarCommand([object KeyboardEvent])

11:anonymous(textentered,[object KeyboardEvent])

12:fireEvent(textentered,[object KeyboardEvent])

13:onTextEntered()

14:handleEnter(false)

15:onKeyPress([object KeyboardEvent])

16:onxblkeypress([object KeyboardEvent])

I'd be interested in seeing how you play Quake/Prince of Persia (Climbing walls and jumping around) on it......probably have to run around the room - get a lot exercise that way - but what if you don't have the space? I like not having to move much to get things done.

What I like more is not the gaming aspect, but the VR aspect. I'd love to see the first networked virtual worlds that come out of this system...

All jokes aside now... what on earth is the use of such a super-heavy element? And why did they strive to create it - just to prove they could?

I'm just thinking.... how would you plug a usb drive into a sheet of paper?

Currently stereoscopic glasses are needed to view the 3D content. Stereoscopic glasses [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy] work by exposing a "left" image to the left eye and a "right" image to the right eye - so that the brain puts the two together and it appears 3D.

How on earth is Acer planning to replace the stereoscopic glasses? Divide the screen in two and display the images in corresponding halves? Might be more possible if the images were replaced by interlaced panels with some sort of curved refractive screen sending the "left" and "right" images out at slight angles so that the right eye sees the right image and the left eye sees the left image. Of course that'd be highly specific to your head location, and if viewed at the wrong angle wont appear 3D. Maybe I'm just talking rubbish..

I think it CAN be done.... I'd Love to see it!

What is with all of you suggesting "the cloud - the cloud - the cloud" all the time. I don't trust you. Why should I? Why should I trust my colleague who wants to borrow my 16Gb flash drive because his doesn't have space, with my "classified" company information that I store on it? And now everyone's suggesting "the cloud - the cloud - the cloud" with GoogleDocs and OpenIDs.

The cloud is NOT secure. Heck, not even passworded PDFs and DOCs are secure - forget about uploading it onto someone ELSES server and *hoping* that one nosy-parker low level administrator who doesn't have enough to do isn't snooping where he shouldn't be.

I need proof that the cloud is secure before I'll upload "secret" files to it. I'd much rather password protect the document, then zip it up two or three times in a passworded zip file, then hide it in the hidden folder on my micro SD card, and then embed it under my little fingernail before I trust that frikken' cloud!

Are the keywords here "Perch and grip" ? Don't we already have unmanned airborne spy hover vehicles? heck I'm sure I could build a mini-hot-air-balloon-with-steering-fans-type drone that transmits surveillance for under $1M. From what I saw on National Geographic channel, it'd be very easy to build a hot-air-balloon with "perch and grip" technology if we just emulate birds...

What I'd like to know is this: has building a UAV become easier than building a UGV (unmanned ground vehicle)?

Is it really that difficult to build a R2D2-type droid with a useful amount of functionality at a reasonable price? Sure we don't have hologram tech yet, but we DO have relatively cheap projector tech - and texture and plane scanning...

"R2, PROJECT ANNUAL BUSINESS REPORT 2004 PAGE TWENTY SIX"
surely this has been done by now?

Old news. robocode!

robot.rotate(90);
robot.rotateGun(-45);
robot.fire(3);
robot.doVictoryDance();

there's something about non-IT professionals that just make them *dumb* in front of a computer.

In Soviet Russia.... robots build humans with OFF switches.