Already invented: Speech Jammer.

Any chance it has a way to transmit power via microwave from and to the planet? I have some SimCity style "experiments" i need to run. ;-)

Koss PortaPro. Good since 1980's, and still good. Of course probably not what you need( not noise canceling). My favorite Koss product.

Yeah, we got that as well. I think it's called Aluminium oxynitride. $15 a square inch. Fun stuff. ;-)

Wait until 2.39:1 becomes standard. Eventually we'll be carrying around laptops that look like ironing boards. Won't that be convenient.

Speaking of which, I actually want one those 2.39:1 HDTVs that came out in 2010.

Philips

Vizio

The earth's shape is a geoid [wikipedia.org], which is flattened compared to a sphere [wikipedia.org].

So what you're saying, if i read this like a standard slashdotter, is that the earth is flat? I think there is a society i need to join now.

Oh? They invaded Iraq.

I don't think Iraq was a particulaly innocent party in this matter. The term counter-offensive comes to mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War#1980:_Iraqi_invasion

Question directed at Wine users - how does it stack up against VMware, Virtualbox or the other virtual machine servers?

I can run Photoshop CS4 in wine with no major issues. I had been using Virtuabox before that, and I found the performance to be better with wine. (This was with an Athlon XP 1.4 GHz + 1256 megs of ram with Linux Mint)

We'll just send the Space shuttle up, recover the satellite, bring it back to earth, fix the problem and relaunch it. oh wait... nm.

Mostly I fail. And when after all the explaining the family keeps telling me to do something, I cannot disregard them (I do plan on keeping my license, you know?).
I don't think it's so much that western medicine failed, as it is that layman's expectations of medicine are unrealistic.

And there is the problem. Where you have to listen to the wishes of the family instead of looking out for the best care of your patient. The patient should come first. IMHO of course. A doctor shouldn't have to worry about his or her license getting yanked in these sorts of situations.

What model laptop? (and GPU for that matter) So i can avoid it when looking at used ones.

Ohhh.. I'm pretty sure the monkey is dead.

Did you observe the monkey to know it's dead?

The one thing that is holding me back from purchasing it is the lack of 3g. I realize that with full internet, that there'd need to be a some kind of monthly plan. Make the plan $9.99 a month, and I bet anyone else like me would snap one up.

I don't know if they still offer them, but the replacement plans were always nice. Broken xbox, just bring it in and get an instant replacement. Thats about the only kind of plan I pay into.

Like what kind of music to play on the way up?