i think the fact that Kramnik offered his hand probably shows that the computer is the most human-like chess player theyve achieved to date (human symbolic gesture)

at the soonest:
lab prototype design and lead modification (now) - 2-5yrs
clinical trials - +5yrs
regulatory approval and marketing - +2yrs

and given at any stage the project could just break down with delays.. hope you'll be holding onto that cold for a while

I don't think it'll look good on paper though, seeing as University nowadays is all about qualifications and so on. Would you really want a course "English - Zombie Studies in the modern arts" on one of your transcripts when you're getting that job?

Vibrations of the solar magnetic field line loops pump energy into the plasma fraction of the gas above the visible "surface", heating it. Reconnection of the lines cause the new loops to expand like released springs, catapulting the entrapped plasma outward.

Discoveries like these really make you wonder and marvel at the incredible physics of the universe. I mean, who makes up all this stuff? It's just incredible to see atoms and molecules self-align themselves according to pre-planned rules like gravity, electromagnetism etc in a seeminly random way to create what is.

you dont know that. a lot of innovation has come through seemingly "useless and wasteful" forays. look at the iphone, netbooks, hybriod cars.. this may lead on to the next big thing: LCD-world here i come!

at least you can remove it, Windows Media Player 11 is infused into Windows Vista, making it impossible to remove. It doesnt make any rational sense to fully force a media application (software), onto an operating system.