No, they are not. The software can not make up for hardware limitations and the PS/2 spec. While the kernel does detect the keyboard and it "just works", there is no assurance that the hot-plug will not physically damage the motherboard.

Specifically, per the PS/2 spec, there is support for the current transients that can occur during hor plugging, or for the handling of potential static discharged. The first can blow a microfuse on the motherboard, the second can fry the keyboard interface chip or southbridge if it is integrated. Granted, most motherboards these days are more robust, but it is not a requirement. Try it on an actual (ancient!) IBM PS/2 or similar old computer enough times, and you might find you need a motherboard replaced (or surgery on the existing one).

Using your logic, regular PCI cards (not server level PCI-X or PCI-E) and IDE disk drives are also hot pluggable, in that, hey, if you do it quickly (and happen to have the card edge/connector angled just right so the ground lines connect first, etc) it sometimes works!

The Fuel Cells you refer to convert energy. However there are other fuel cells that store energy. Completely different product, similar only in name:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_tank#Racing_fuel_cell

Sequential Gearboxes...? You lose.

Wednesday, November 11 2009, "Microsoft Patents Sudo?!!"

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091111094923390

Replace your profile text with the lyrics of a song you wrote, with pictures of a painting you drew and issue a Takedown notice to Myspace on your behalf. Bingo!

Many PC laptops, and all recent Macbooks (Pros) have TOSLINK optical outputs - I'm surprised the W500 is lacking this feature. Consumer TOSLINK/SPDIF does not enough bandwidth for the uncompressed surround available on some movies, but it is sufficient for DD5.1, DTS, etc.

It is unfortunate that you bought a laptop that didn't meet your needs.

Where we're going we don't need roads^H^H^H^H^Hgoggles. Lenticular 3D displays are currently available, mostly for promo use. They are power hungry, have a small sweet spot, and need a beowulf cluster to drive them. They may get better with time

You mean "the Ukrainian" yahoos. They love that.

Slightly incorrect. Currently the US cycle is enrichment -> LWR -> On-site Pool.
We haven't buried any yet, at least not in mass quantities. Whatever is pulled out of the reactors is stored onsite in spent fuel pools, and perhaps later in dry storage once the shorter-lived isotopes have died down a bit. NIMBY has (thankfully) prevented this still-useful stuff from getting buried.

In other words, when we DO get some reprocessing plants online, we dont have to dig up old stuff - just (basically) pull it out of storage.

This, coming from a user advocating an OS that doesn't even have an SSH client.

How much of that Classical music would remain today, comparatively, if death+90year copyright was enforced on those works? Beethoven's works would have not been available in public domain until the fall of Tsarist Russia, a few months into WWI.

#1 definitely works. What do you think happened at the Medusa Cascade!

Bullwinkle J. Moose: "Hey Rock, watch me pull net energy out of my tokamak"
Rocket J. Squirrel: "Again? That trick never works!"
Bullwinkle J. Moose: "This time for sure!"

Technically, the clock is divided DOWN from a PLL VFO (not multiplied up from a crystal), and locked to the crystal reference.... though the effect is the same.

Try to restore from the Steam backup sometime. You will find that you are unable to do so without first installing Steam, and then logging in to your account to verify that you have purchased the game you are restoring. You may even find that you cannot let someone else, using their own account, restore a game from your account's backup, even if they own that game.

The main benefit of performing the backup is to prevent having to download the game in its entirety again. In my experience at least, it in no way reduces the need for internet access.