IIRC, older android editions on the Nexus7 used to automount USB-sticks added via an adaptor cable. Google disabled this (fuckers).

Becaause you never recharge your battery on travels, right?

Drop those full size USB ports, and add a (micro) SD card slot.

It is totally ridiculous that all NEXUS devices are missing that one, even the new Nexus 10.I want to watch movies in a plane, or review my pictures away from my PC (where a 2560x1600 screen really would help). So fuck the cloud and fuck the tiered pricing system that askes for $100 more for adding $20 worth of flash - while STILL limiting the total capacity to amounts that are ridiculously low for a device of that cost.

Full sized USB I can understand for missing : Those plugs are huge. They would literally be the thickest thing in the tablet.

If you like your fenix, you would be blown away by something like a Quark Mini CR2, or a Jetbeam RRT-01 with 18350 cells (0.001 lumen to 800 lumen with seamless control via a dimmer ring).

Also, yes, those LEDs are getting cheaper, quickly. 5 Years ago you had to pay $15-20 for a led that put out 150 lumen at 50 lumen/W. Now you can get a led that puts out >1000 lumen at >100 lumen/W for $6.

Sorry, but that is NOT an "maximum for the existing technology". The value you give is like saying "lightspeed is the maximum speed for a Space Shuttle".

When I was there is was raining. Quite disappointing.

Sorry, mail analogy is wrong.

http:/// == postcard, nothing to open there.

Sorry, Nokia managed that very well on their own...

Thats more than misleading!

Intel HD3000 has less than 4%! Its just that that ATI and Nvidea are distributed over scores of indidual card types that each have a couple % that this ends up on top.

I never could get into planescape, because of the amount of text (dialogue and other) you had to work yourself through.

I like to read, but not 100ks of words in low-res fonts in a small part of a VGA window.

The masks alone would cost more.

Why would he want it to last a decade?

He wants to rip his collection NOW. If it fails in 3 years it would not matter, especially since he will never let such a huge queue of to-be-ripped discs pile up (making the ripping speed of any replacement less important)

USB is plenty much faster than any drive on the planet can read CD-Roms

Back in 2007, there were an estimate of 1 billion Windows PCs in the world. I am pretty sure with 200 million Notebooks being sold each year (not to mention desktops, etc), this number has ince increased.

Also, if you look at the raw stats:
http://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=11&qpaf=&qpcustom=Windows+8&qpcustomb=0
There is quite a curvature upwards, so maybe there is some sale to use latency?

Well, the APS is not THAT helpfull for stuff like that, and companies also rent time at facilities like Spring 8 or ESRF for this kind of research.
Supercomputers are nice, but you are not going to be able to skip the peer review just because you are from a new insitute.

Nanotech research center of course helps.

But you miss the point. Of course its a good thing to push that money into research, as public research can have more freedom in its options than corporate research.

But the goal is just a sad joke. 120 million over 5 years. For a factor 5 improvement in power and a factor 5 improvement in price. Over 5 years.

Thats so ridiculously idiotic, because it is impossible. Even if it was not even a 1% of the current R&D spending on batteries, it would still be a setup for failure.

Why not give it realistic goal, like 50% improvement in power at half price?

120 million is just a crapshot, especially on that short notice.