http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anniston,_Alabama#Chemical_cleanup

And in general:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#Environmental_and_health_record

For the record, I've no problem with the theory behind genetic engineering, however this whole corporate filth that's surrounding almost any new technology is simply disgusting.

Wave functions and infinite frequencies aside, the important thing we should reproduce is the response from the rod and cone cells. And maybe we could find a better basis for our color spaces, than RGB or RGBY and whatever specific frequencies are present in TFT displays. (I don't know anything about emission spectra of plamas and CRTs, but I guess they are also very limited in terms of producable gamut.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrGzfhXwdyc

Just searched for "monsanto waste" on youtube, haven't watched it. If it's not legit, then sorry for wasting your time.

Got me on the energy transfer. Haven't even thought about beam spread out.

Regarding nuclear, I'm a big fan of breeders, let's hope governments will come to their senses soon.

We don't have to invent anything for an automated mine-factory as opposed to fusion plants.

Starting fusion is one thing. Sustaining it, injecting fuel, collecting the resulting energy is a common problem for almost all fusion schemes. For ICF figuring out how to fire the lasers 10 times a second, manufacturing pellets, targeting them, keeping them cool, keeping the star chamer clean are very big causes for head ache. For ITER and other tokamak designs keeping the magnets cooled, collecting energy from the resulting neutrons are the big problems.

At the end the episode of BBC's Horizon which deals with the NIF best guesstimates for commercial fusion is 2040.

I'm not saying we shouldn't pursure fusion, but in 30 years we could make quite a few round trips into space and spread out a few square kilometers of thin film PV and support mirror material.

NTP already does this. (Slews the time if the difference is less than 128 ms.)

Joe would need to rent server space next to the NASDAQ data center to get on the same level. Joe would need to pour millions of dollars into hardware and software.

It's a little more than just unfair. This is a completely other side game played on the same exchanges between computers.

Why not go closer to the Sun? At 0.3 AU total energy is about ten times as high.

We could set up a remote factory on Mercury. It probably has the materials. Then it's just a matter of time until we have a nice black body, covered with thin-film PV and a few microwave energy transport towers.

And it's not necessarily more far fetched than a commercial fusion plant.

Honestly, I can't estimate how hard it would be to control two analog devices at once, and one with just one finger.

But this gaming pad looks far more convincing than the Logitech G13.

Valid point, I wasn't too specific. Of course it's either look or lean, or maybe a hybrid of the two, whereas trying to look behind the wall results in leaning. So, while you're holding the "lean button" one axis of the mouse controls leaning, but you're free to look up-down.

Also, it's just a matter of habit, I think. For example: player rushes to a cover, taps Q, leans & semi-aims with mouse, and if more freedom for aiming is required, then just releases Q, and he's free to aim, the character won't move, until he presses WASD.

As far as I can see, the problem is simply the fact, that in some situations our two hands are insufficient to control complex motions of our avatars. Maybe with a headband with two infrared dots and a sensor control of the camera could be moved away from the mouse.

Just make Q a modifier key. While holding Q you control the amount of leaning by your mouse. You can still fire with left mouse button.

Or Control, or Shift, and you can still move around with WASD while maintaining the lean of the body. No need for another analog device.

100Gb? As in 12.5 gigabyte?

What's the point of more than one bathtub anyways? Or are you sleeping in one as well? Most of the day it's just taking up space.

Non Anglo-Saxon here from the EU. We use liberal in the personal, be as gay as you want sense. Coincidentally, the left is associated with it.

Also, there are no major political parties that are truly liberal nowadays, at least around these parts.

Difference between left and right, liberal and conservative is just empty words, like most campaign promises.

(Hurray for elections. Coming to Hungary in just a month! Pff..)