Which one of those lets me start an application on one machine and then continue using it on another machine like Windows has been able to do for well over a decade?

With all the praise that X gets for its network transparency, it's mostly unusable except on the highest bandwidth links because its synchronous calls and uber-chattiness make it unusable without adding a wrapper around it, like NX does. That's the irony. Pretty much any protocol can be called "network transparent" as long as that includes writing a suitably complicated wrapper for it. In this regard, X is no more network transparent than any other display technology.

Alright. Now when we can have the same desktop span multiple cards we'll have caught up to windows of 12 years ago.

The Beatles' use of drugs is epic and is regarded by the band members and others as a huge contributing factor to their work.

There seems to be a lot of evidence that the brain's ability to be logical and to be creative are actually competing functions. You can have both, but an expansion of one is often a contraction of the other. That drugs seem to diminish rational thinking and promote creativity is not exactly controversial.

For jobs that require a lot of both creativity and rational thought (e.g. software development) people report getting a bit stoned during the creative aspects, then doing the rational thought parts sober.

By mentioning "Atlas Shrugged" in your post, you have invalidated your invalidation. Original post stands.

You didn't fix "falicy"?

You must also be from the U.S. ;)

What is stopping them from doing that now?

The estimate on Kickstarter is not a promise. You estimate how long it might take. The reason you estimate is because it hasn't been done before. If it had... there wouldn't be a Kickstarter.

I had assumed this was posted from an alternative universe where "fall by 300%" makes sense.

So what was the bad experience you had with a first gen SSD besides not having one?

Why would this be unmentionable? One party wants to make it easier to get these guns. The other party has said over and over that this will make things like school shootings worse and more common. We now have another school shooting. It's the worst we've had. Why are we pretending to not notice the relevancy? What would be the appropriate time to notice that what they said would happen happened?

What about rain? I am not sure I want my new shirt to turn back into slime if it gets wet.

P.S. This post was NOT a joke.

Yes.

The only thing YOU can do with dollars is trade them with other people according to arbitrary exchange rates based on fluctuating speculative value. To others they have real value because they can pay taxes with them.

The aphelion of Earth: 152,098,232 km.

The aphelion of Mars: 249,209,300 km.

Maximum distance: 152,098,232 + 249,209,300 = 401,307,532 km.

Speed of light: 300000 km/sec = 1338 light seconds = 22 light minutes.

22 light minutes represents worst case one way if the orbits were perfectly opposing, but they aren't. The actual figure is closer to 21 light minutes. Round trip therefore is 42 minutes latency.

I'll take your seriousness seriously for a moment.

So guns are not as dangerous to innocent bystanders as RPGs. You know what's even less dangerous to innocent bystanders than guns? Knives.

My question is why is there a right to own guns? Because there is some imaginary line of acceptable danger to innocent bystanders?

In fact, I think you'll find that you'll find the opposite is true anyway. You'd never fire an RPG for "cover" like you would a gun because of reload and ammunition costs. Thus RPGs tend to be much more accurately deployed. Chaotic and unaimed firing of guns, however, is common and leads to way more innocent bystander casualties.

No... it is 21 minutes for each packet each way. I've already thought of that, of course. 42 minutes is the round trip time. I've also assumed that TCP/IP is not being used, but some other protocol. Doesn't matter how good that protocol is, though, because you'll never beat 42 minutes during the time Mars is at its farthest from earth. This is why I say "best case"

You can have a proxy on earth for all the TCP/IP, arping, and nameserver I/O. You just need a way to send data to that proxy when you click a link, and a way to get all the data to construct the web page back from the proxy so that you can reassemble the page on Mars.

There are of course other considerations. Data from Mars will have to be error tolerant because any retransmission would add another 42 minutes, so redundancy will have to be built in, thus reducing bandwidth. Ditto for the return trip. That's all very fascinating but my point is just that this idea that you can browse the internet for the rest of your life doesn't seem so great when everything you do takes 42 minutes to be actualized.