I don't dream of a day when war comes to an end, I doubt that day will ever come. I dream of a day when war can be fought and won entirely with powerful machines with no lives lost.

Imagine identifying food! Imagine the Instagram photos!

Similar to how a typical Slashdot user might score amazingly well on the math section and then never score in real life?

Maybe they're planning on imprinting the anti-reflective properties directly on the surface of the glass vs just using a coating? This has been possible with silicon for a few years now.

Publc / Media portrayal of public: meh.

Pack your bags kids! We're going to the moon!

You also have to take how much processing you can accomplish with the same amount of energy. If they're matched evenly in gaming performance, then that 20 watts is great. If Intel is much faster, then it might even out or turn the other way.

I can see the future already: Two lines to the club, one "clean", the other "STD". Scan your medical records directly from your driver's license and you're set. Just imagine how crazy the STD parties must be.

Tobacco is designed to sit near your gum line and cut your gums slightly to distribute the nicotine. There's definite cell damage there.

I was recently put in a position where a UPS failure hosed my Win7 Raid 0 array. I had a Win8 disk lying around, so I figured I would give it a go. Once you get used to the fact that Metro is just a full screen start menu, it's nearly identical to Win7. The file copy dialog is more informative, the "start menu" is really just a list of links from the "all apps" drawer which is really just the start menu folders organized differently. The search is just partitioned off into three areas instead of the whole system, and the metro apps are purely optional (I keep weather and finance.. why not).

It wasn't a terrible transition, even with multiple monitors (just move your mouse all the way up and to the right to lock into a corner without moving to the next screen). It literally took me 2hrs to get accustomed to the changes, and my system functions similarly to my Win7 now. I link all of the OS doc folders to a storage drive so that I can rebuild the OS without much headache, so no big data shift needed.

I was actually contemplating giving Ubuntu a shot before installing Win8, but a lack of a real EventGhost competitor for all of my remote control options didn't bode well.

So long story short.. Win8 wasn't what I was expecting. It's not bad actually...

Hmmm, that seems like a sneaky way to get some investment capital. 1. Print asteroid rich in REM and gold 2. Shoot it into outer space 3. Send ship to mine it 4. Profit

Well that explains why the dinosaurs were so huge...

Take two cases and compare:

Case 1: Poor child grows up to be a poor adult. Lives in welfare housing, uses food stamps, gets free healthcare, government pays, never worked a day in their life.

Case 2: Wealthy child grows up to be a trust fund adult: Lives in family housing, uses trust fund for food, uses trust fund for health, investment growth pays, never worked a day in their life.

Neither case adds any concrete or abstract (assumed) value to society. Case 2 has more money to "drive" the economy, Case 1 has hardly an impact except for raising tax rates. Case 2 "earned" their money from their parents, but is in effect still leeching off of the economy. You can argue that those invested funds help drive businesses, but the individual is no better than a welfare recipient in terms of value.

The only difference here is luck.

You forgot the part about digging a secure bunker 2 miles below the surface.

Completely agree. My coworker was telling me that he had a semi-automatic hunting rifle. He kept the gun, the bolt and the magazine in separate hidden locations. His nephew still managed to find all of the pieces and play with it. This isn't super secure, but it goes to show that any precautions can be bypassed with enough time, effort and planning.