I like the idea but I would prefer some external vat to grow my replacement organs.

Who knows. But it's better then it was before him. And quite normal. So he has benefit of doubt.

Yes. If it's not Putin then it will be communists. Liberals never get close enough.

> But word gets around, be it in the "main stream media", the blogs, or whatever In Russia we have several opposition radio stations, blog activity concentrated at livejournal.com and this site is in the hands of opposition if it is in anybody hands. Television is whole another story, but who watch TV's nowadays. The level of discussion sometimes quite low, I can get banned by people who says that there is no free speech in Russia, only for comment where I say that I voted for Putin. We don't have any kind of Great Firewall and my 30Mb/s for $20/m is quite good on global scale and I am not even in Moscow. There are several sites access to which are blocked, but this list is public, and sites go there after court decision, and most of them are child pornography, or sites calling for coup d'état and organization of new shariat law state on part territory of Russia and several nearby countries. Freedom of speech is not so bad in Russia as it's portrayed in some western media.

USB keyboards are cheap. USB OTG adapters are dirt cheap. And tablets under $50 that can be used as usb hosts for exist. What's the problem again?

Keyboard could be replaced by thing that translates muscle electric signals to keystokes. Microsoft tried to do something similar. And feedback could be different vibration types on fingertips by some kind of glove. Real gaming of future would be outside of buildings. Vuzix already sells see through augmented reality glasses.

There will be no big monitor - augmented reality glasses. Check vuzix they already selling see through glasses.

Post PC 1. See Through augmented reality glasses (Vuzix selling them now $5000 apiece) 2. Small box that transfers image from Cloud to glasses. OnLive showed it's possible (hardcore gamers sorry) 3. Some analog of virtual keyboard. For casuals kinect like recognition of hand would be enough, and programmers would buy keyboards that read signals from hand muscles and translates into keystrokes.

Because if something could absorb light of particular wavelength it can radiate light of particular wavelength. So hotter body radiates more energy than it absorbs from colder body and energy flow from hotter body to colder one. Second law of thermodynamics yeah. There is quantum magic during absorption and conversion of photons to electric current but it did n't violate energy conserving.