Head Tracking? Pfft. Eye-Tracking is the future. It helps if you're already tracking the head.

That the Guinness Book of World Records stated that Plutonium 238 was the most expensive stuff in the world.

I guess that's been superseded by Antimatter by now, but $150,000,000 for 11 pounds of the stuff? That works out to be $30,000 per gram! EEK.

I am a Windoze and Mac OSX user. New PC. Older Mac...

Alhtough I have not used BT mouse on the Mac, I have extensive experience with BT mouse/Keyboard on the PC.

I won't get another BT setup. It's that simple.

Because it works most of the time, and when it doesn't it is a cow. This has been with Logitech almost exclusively. So, the fault may be with Logitech itself> I have never ceased to be amazed at how complete and utter shit the Logitech drivers are, juxtaposed against the amazing hardware they make.

For my money, the VX Nano mouse with the world's smallest USB receiver is the single best laptop mouse money can buy. It is superb. Especially on the Mac.

My only complaint is that the VX nano uses the middle click to exclusively switch between free-wheel and notched scrolling mode. This is a dire and severe flaw, and it should be controlled by drivers, not the device! Retards.

The VX Revolution wireless for the main PC is absolutely stunning, but once again the Logitech drivers will, from time to time drop all your settings, forget you exclude ALL applications from the control list - making your buttons go whack when you are in a long list of apps.

Battery life is monumental - espcially for the VX Nano. It has a power button, but you don't need it. 2 x AAA rechargeables run the thing for weeks and weeks of solid use. And the low battery indicator probably shows for longer than most mice will run with a full set.

The VX Revolution battery lasts at least 4 weeks between charges, and that's with full time use.

So, I'd say for get the BT, and just go wireless. The range of mices is better, and you'll end up with more hair on your head.

You're still gonna lose some hair because of the whack drivers - but hey. Nothing's perfect.

When these things are delayed, the true cost escalate massively.

It's mind boggling to me that Obama is shit-eating happy to hemorrhage 2 Billion a week at Iraqistan, for nothing and no one, but the space program gets fucked up the ass.

This isn't about going to the moon at all: it's about retaining the expertise that America paid dearly for in the 60s! The huge sums invested (yes, "invested") in the space program kept US aeronautics and engineering at the top of the world for 50 years.

But now the Euros make better planes, and US engineering is being rapidly eclipsed.

As expertise is lost, so the budgets escalate, and the delays get bigger, further escalating costs.

Pretty soon the USA is an "also ran" in space, and shortly thereafter it becomes an "also ran" on Earth. The writing is on the wall: only massive investment in science, technology and expertise can save the USA from utter collapse under the weight if 53 trillion dollars in entitlements.

While space investment (under NASAs most specific commission - to provide all their data to any US firm) return well in excess of a dollar for every dollar invested, there are a couple of things that the USA simply MUST do in order to avoid total melt down.

1) Don't start any more wars, and finish the ones you got going on now.

2) Invest heavily in space technology

3) Secure the supply of energy to the world for the entire future.

Number 3 can be achieved by singlehandedly getting Fusion power tamed. I'm not talking about that ridiculous ITER thing - because the only thing which will come from that fiasco is a pile of Ph.D.s about 10 metres tall - and most of them won't be 'merkin Ph.D.s!

No, the small-scale, tiny fusion efforts like Focus Fusion and Bussard's Polywell reactor - if practical will yield results for sums under a billion - while the potential payoff is measured in the hundreds of trillions of dollars in this century.

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Oil companies have no business in that space anyway - so good riddance.

However, Shell have developed a system of extracting high quality oil from shale, concentrated in the Green Hills area of Colorado, using a technique which is very environmentally friendly. That deposit alone contains several billions of barrels of oil, and is economic at $35 a barrel.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_4051709,00.html

We won't be running out of oil this century - that's for sure.

All the disadvantages of a car and an aeroplane, with the advantages of neither.

It's nothing but an investor scam.

Frankly, they'll never sell a single one of these. You'd have to be fucking retarded to buy a crappy car AND a crappy plane in one package. Especially when a nice Porsche Carerra and a reliable old Cessna will be cheaper, and better.

OK, I listened and watched, and it started out great, but then he added too much shit to it, so it was very aurally blurry. No good at all in fact.

The guy obviously has talent, like a great chef, but he hasn't learned that "less is more". The chef continues to put things into his dish, but in the end it tastes like crap because everything is competing with everything else.

The 4-way thing had huge potential, but he was mistakenly thinking that "if some is good, more is better".

For goodness sake, Moore's law never specified anything to do with "computing power"!

Moore observed that typically the number of transistors doubled ||on the lowest price process|| around every 2 years.

At least the poster got something right: the cost of the process.

But, it's not a law AT ALL; it's a self-fulfilling prophecy! Manufacturers know the target they have to hit (Moore's!) and they do everything they can to hit it. Anything less would result in company failure.

All the disadvantages of both a car and a plane, and the advantages of neither!

Brilliant!

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a guy carrying a bundle of removable hard drives around the office.

Or a station wagon loaded with hard drives.

Nothing can beat them.

I love fish.

They're delicious.