A number of simple apps available for tablets that let you transfer files over Wifi. Faster than bluetooth, about as simpler or simpler. Not quite as fast as a USB connection (especially USB 3.0), but not bad for such devices. A number of simple apps do the GPS thing without a network connection. Even Google maps does it for limited areas. Navfree USA does it, a number of variants use Open Street Maps and do it. This really is no gripe. Many tablets will work with a USB to HDMI adapter. I suppose the lack of real keyboard is a real gripe though some are available actually. In short, I see nothing in this list of 'wants' that isn't either available, or available in a different form that make his wants in specific forms, like full size USB meaningless. You should look at tablets not only as cloud devices, but wireless devices. The use of ports is just not the right idea. Bluetooth and WIFI wireless accessories is the way things are going.

Because even by age 5, in US culture, the child won't blink an eye at tanks and guns. He has seen hundreds already. Lots of simulated killing too. He, being a sheltered US child, has not seen porn. Therefore the trauma. Maybe porn should be introduced earlier in life when the child hasn't developed enough to do more than soak it all in as normal like is done for war-like behaviors and killing. Yes, I agree it is a messed up situation. No, I don't really think porn should be introduced earlier.

Actually it is a bit under one gig for your DNA.

Seems this comes up every decade or so. There are some advantages in niches. But in the end, the large volume craft, at relatively slow speeds, and relatively less useful when winds are up seem to doom it from becoming a highly useful aircraft.

I'm a librarian, and guns aren't allowed for a reason. Silencers are generally not allowed without undue expense. Libraries as you know have to be quiet. Non-silenced guns are simply unacceptable.

You might want to read a bit about fission reactors. A controlled reaction producing heat to be used. That is what it is. It isn't a pile of hot isotopes. Those have been used in the past. As often the case, reading the article might have helped. Or maybe reading about fission reactors on Wikipedia. Good luck.

Vudu is another good option. More current choices than Netflix. Seems in my area they use less compression or do it better than Amazon. They claim to get new movies the same day as DVD is released. Amazon isn't too far behind though. Either service seems better than Netflix on anything other than old TV shows. Vudu isn't a subscription service. You merely pay for what you watch as a rental. Though on some movies they offer a buy option.

This is the kind of thinking that might work. Obviously, buggy whips is an apt comparison. You do need either your own niche, and unless in a huge market you probably still can't make it work. But creative combinations of a new product or service, only part of which is the DVD is what will work. Pizza and DVD might work as would others. Basically you still are going to morph your business from DVD rental to something else. Either DVD plus something or something altogether different. You might recognize it when you see it. And until you do, you will possibly think,....hmmm I can't think of anything so it cannot be done.

Modern telescopes with the ability to compensate for atmospherics are now so good they can work at higher resolution than even the Hubble could manage above the atmosphere. That is one reason they decided to end the Hubble's service. Better images are possible from the ground now at much reduced cost vs the Hubble. Or in other words they can be almost completely effective to remove the ill effects of the atmosphere. Then the limit to resolution is simply the diameter of the instrument which on the ground can be larger than the Hubble.

In the southeast US, warms temps and high humidity mean you will want to run AC all the time. I am guessing this will probably take out as much range as cool temps in winter up north. In stop and go traffic it might mean AC is where most of your juice gets used. I really like the idea of electric cars. Other than the batteries they can be cheap, reliable and have much longer lifetimes than IC drivetrains. But the batteries as mentioned elsewhere need to get twice as good for half as much. The physics of it make it appear that is doubtful. Take out the batteries and the things would be great. Making me think somewhere down the road when oil gets more scarce we will need a shift to trollies or other devices powered by overhead or in road bed electricity. No batteries needed that way.

A simulation shows that experiments scheduled for next year could work. And if they do work, they would maybe be a breakthrough. Yes, I think the proper answer to the query posed by the headline is clearly....NO! Get back to us with breakthroughs once you have actually done it for real one time.

"For now, the researchers recommend dimming backlit devices such as tablets when using them at night, and they suggest limiting their use at night in the first place." Heck, I have important or fun stuff to do in the daytime when there is plenty of light. Best time for such back lit devices is at night. Sigh.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Day-We-Found-Universe/dp/0307276600/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345962369&sr=8-1&keywords=the+day+we+discovered+the+universe#reader_0307276600 Delightful book about how we came to figure out there was more than the milky way, and just how much more. Details the history of the instruments used, the scientists involved and the ideas that battled it out until we understood how big things were. The Hubble is in the lineage of important instruments helping us learn how big all of space is. All the way back to 13 billion years or so of it.

Well, this guy seems to have an axe to grind. For one thing a more qualified expert than him on the retest results has said they were questionable, but not to the point he was willing to call the test a fail. For another this fellow claims no on has shown muscle efficiency increase ever in training though plenty have looked. Try and google that and in about 30 seconds you will have a couple dozen such cases documenting it. So that rather decreases this guy's credibility.

Actually Hinault and others took a special cocktail. Working from memory it was a bizarre combination, of amphetamines, strichnine, morphine and alcohol. The morphine would be injected into the large muscles of the legs to dull pain, and the alcohol was I believe just a carrier. The injections would be given quickly under cover of sorts from the support car during the ride. In early drug testing when amphetamines were the main abuse, the testing company knew some were using a drug they couldn't detect. At the Giro d'Italia just days before it started they got confirmation of a test that worked on this previously undetectable speed. Assuming the people paying them would want it done they tested for that too without telling anyone. Out of something like 130 riders guess how many were positive? Say like 130 riders or every stinking one of them. So rather than call it off or declare everyone in violation race organizers said since no team doctors or riders knew they would be tested for that substance, they would hold them accountable in the future and let that one go. My guess is Lance doped, and so did very nearly all the other riders. I don't know what will happen, you can't award to someone else not with any legit way. Many of the others doped, some weren't tested as much. Really pitiful to strip Lance and hand it officially to another doper. Merckx, Indurain, Hinault, Fignon, and Anquetil were all known by admission or otherwise have admitted such things. It is a pitiful statement on pro cycling. Seems Lance shouldn't suffer more than these others though. Really messed up situation. And yes, if the rules are we test, and you pass the test, really should leave it at that. Even testing old samples with new technology shouldn't effect old results. Might be useful to see what is going on, but I don't see going back and altering results that way. And the due process in this case seems worse than non-existent.