Are you suggesting handwriting recognition? As soon as I see anything that can read my handwriting consistently I will give this a slight chance at replacing the keyboard in some situations, but I cant even read my handwriting consistently. I haven't written written anything but my name in cursive since the 6th grade because it was absolutely eligible. There are some of us out here that are not capable of writing legibly. Using computers more would have made my primary school career much much simpler, and they made me do more on computers than anybody else in the mid 80's.

Actualy you can get the latency on satellite down low enough to make very good voice calls, but you have to spend the money on it. On a daily basis I deal with satellite remotes that have latencies less than 500 ms and phone calls are very clear. A provider with a iDirect system implemented with voice as high priority will see these low latencies.

Almost all of the big oil companies have no Internet connection to mission critical parts of the rig. They have there own rack of equipment at the earth station with a dedicated line back to there offices. This rack of equipment is isolated from all equipment in a locked cabinet. If they want Internet on the oil platform it requires a completely different modem but that is a luxury item on these platforms. I see every day just how strict these companies are on security. Unless you have a key to get into the equipment room and then a key to git into there own locked rack or are at there offices with there massive amounts of security you cant even ping a modem that runs this mission critical data.

Even if this is found legal and they try to use it the parents are going to raise hell. In the school system my mother works in they tried to ban the kids from being able to bring cell phones into the school and the parents wouldn't let that fly. Parents see it as a long leash they can put on their children. Some of these parents are so paranoid that even the idea of not being able to call there children directly frightens them.

Some of us don't need battery life over half an hour. We use laptops at work for portability. The only time I use the battery on mine is to reprogram a piece of equipment that is on the work bench.

I knew it was a scam when I asked them if they could insure my 10 yr old truck with 175k miles and a blown cylinder and they said they could...

Because he is a friend and he sees him pissing his opportunity away over a stupid game. Go ahead and flame me for calling a game stupid, but compared to what he is missing out on it is stupid. Is he failing? if so talk to his professors, tell them your concern. They can give you some advice that may just kick his ass into gear. If he has to make good grades on the rest of his exams to pass let him know. If he is a freshman and is not on a scholarship and who ever is funding his schooling isnt going to cut him off if he fails you may have to let him fail to get the picture. Thats what happened to me. If he is on a scholarship, will lose it if he fails and has no other way of paying for school explain to him that if he fails he will have no more university. Do not drag yourself down trying to help him. If he is not taking this help there is probably nothing you can do. I am guessing he is a freshman, Some of us have to get kicked out of school before we realize just how bad we are screwing up.

Really, 2.0, I would have thought that cities had been through way more major revisions than that. probably be more in the ballpark calling it city 3589654782.0

They said microsoft would release an open source project with some value when pigs fly......Swine flu

Most of the dell latitude notebooks dont have cameras on them.

We heated the tech shop where I work all winter with our server rack. Of course I do live in south Louisiana where you can count the below freezing days on your fingers but the shop is also pretty large. We finally got our blower to vent the hot air outside installed last week so now the server closet does not stay at a constant 90F now.

I work in a shop cleaning repairing and checking out communications systems for oil rigs and boats. Some of the crap that comes back is ridiculous. Thick layers of crude oil and deisel, the rotten smell of crew boats and the occasional dead rodent make the day go by. But hey, I get to play with robots to so it makes it all good.

If they shut off the internet, they will be shutting off most peoples phones. This causes safety concerns and is probably beyond what the idiot who came up with this ideas sight.

So if you put a tin foil hat on a chimps head it will be completely lost?

But does it work as a phone? Sure touch screens and app stores are nice but I want mine to work as a phone to.