And If they are more intelligent and accomplished than Earthlings, then our search for signals from within 100 light years should have discovered some of their radio transmissions by now.

14,600 star systems within 100 light years means that probably a majority of them, if they have more intelligent life than here on Earth, might not yet have received a recognizable signal from Earth.

So if we wanted to signal a civilization on the other side of the Milky Way (assuming we could muster the power), We would have to aim the focused radio beam on where that world would be in somewhere 50,000-100,000 years from now and they in turn would have to know the signal is coming and instantly reply to where we would be in another 50,000-100,000 years.

The whole communication thing is a total joke.

Any smart civilization would just want to make their world a nice place to live for as long as they could.

The way you find new solution paradigms is to jump in with both feet.

HP already announced memristor development 5 years ago. My guess is the HP Labs team are going to make all sorts of discoveries as they work through the entire design of the "Machine."

I'll bet HP's OS is a variant of UNIX or Linux to suit the new hardware to get developers on board.

Well, Meg Whitman had the guts to say "Find them some money" when HPLabs proposed the "Machine." I wish HP all the success.

It is about time some corporation stepped up to the plate other than Apple and jump-starts mega-improvement in major devices.

My first time sharing "Mini-computer" (was not mini sized), desktop engineering computer (using mag-strips pre-HP45), & then the HP35-41-45-75 were all incredible computing devices for their day.

2 Things: 90--100 million non-working adults & lowest labor force % in 45 years.

Did TrueCrypt go down because the NSA pulled their programmers off the team?

But this time it will be compromised and costly commercial SW.

Obviously this extends the need to define not only what differences exist between men and women, but between adults, teens, children and infants for anesthesiology and drug doses.

Given the numbers of attack vectors in data centers from social engineering to software to hardware faults, would you trust your company's IT data system ONLY to "cloud suppliers?"

Something like 2/3rds of small businesses that lose their digital data go out of business within 6 months, so it is a real risk issue to not have a totally local backup data system that can be brought up within a day.

Do you totally trust big cloud data centers?

"14% of Windows personal computers were on Windows 8", noted by Tim Cook vs "51% of Macs on Mavericks"

Heavily fractured ecosystems are difficult for both OS & App suppliers. What is "working" in the real world.

Where are we going?

Pay the upgrade or you deal with the "other" costs.

Apple is pushing the envelope: Free OS updates. Works on their hardware back 4-5 years.

My suspicion is MS, likewise, must get into the hardware business & become vertical.

At your device, what else can you do?

Or at least a stock purchase must be held for at least 4 days and then any gains are 100% taxed if sold in under 4 months.

This stops flipping and incentive to do short term ordinary income gains. Stocks after all are about long term investment.

I know, I know, the BIG trading houses and HFT & DARK POOL guys would absolutely go on insane rants, but what we want is a "CAPITAL MARKET", not really a trading market.