Who says we aren't already?

muahahahah! .. seriously look through some of this guys endless hours of image and "fossil" comparing .. wacky.

If Slashdot has to then Fox News has to as well! ;)

Has everybody forgotten this Slashdot Article, where SpaceX & Orbital have pending contracts to resupply the Space Station once their much further progressed vehicles are ready?

Exactly! .. To me this is a bogus article and story. If you are going to compare something, at least try to stay in the same genre of software/services. Oh, and maybe add a few more of the well qualified choices. Hey let me give it a try!

Media Center Software:

• Boxee/XBMC
• Windows Media Center
• Media Portal (I'm using now, may switch to Boxee 4 Windows)
• Zinc
• Beyond TV
• MythTV
• SageTV
• Freevo
• GeexBox
• VDR
• Cyberlink PowerCinema
• Nero Home
• WinDVD Media Center
• xHub
• Media Central
• Centerstage
• The list goes on and on...

Streaming Content Services:

• Netflix
• Hulu
• CBS
• BBC
• CNN
• Comedy Central
• YouTube
• etc..etc..etc..

so .. apples to apples next time?

In the words of Peter Griffin: "Why are we not funding this?!" he asks after walking out of the stem cell research facility, completely cured.

Next, he will be coming after those of us who have taken advantage of the Google Android branding rights.

Some defense contractors already offer special encrypted Blackberry phones for their employees. How is this device so different? Just a different set of proprietary encryption software?

Nope, we can monitor the other side of the sun, they are not there either.

This is done with Helioseismic Holography. Though there is apparently a new method being developed.

New Jersey has 30Mb/5Mb Cable (Optimum Online) for $55/mo, and 20Mb/20Mb FIOS $65. I have Optimum Online, it also include a domain name, web space, and open port 25 & 80 options. I find it quite satisfactory.

I always find it interesting how local events, lore, and legends end up affecting future thoughts and research. I have no doubt that events like the Red Rain in Kerala lead researchers to come up with these ideas and projects.

I'm sure if I had more coffee this morning, I would list a few other examples I have come across in the past.

I completely agree, have we already forgotten about tongue based soldier senses?

Yeah, I have a 43 Watt CFL FLOOD LIGHT over my driveway. It has 4 tubes, is about the size of a normal flood light bulb, and take about 30 seconds to warm up in the cold.

Let me know when MRAM gets to gigabyte sizes. With unlimited writes and running at SRAM speeds, it could be the future.

And I switched to the open-source MediaPortal for Windows and haven't looked back since.

Slap it on an old XP machine in a decent media center ATX case, and you have a great media pc. No hassles with linux makes, XP media center BS, or compatibility. Throw in a blowout on an Logitech media center remote package with the Setpoint Uberoptions driver to open up all the button options, and you are set. Just share all your media folders on your home network for any other media you want to show.

Which Android Apps are you talking about? The Marketplace Apps? The web browser/GMail apps? The YouTube app?

First, Google doesn't take a cut off of the Android Marketplace apps, and they are all actually free right now. Second, the only real ad revenue they are seeing is from people getting on the browser and using the google search engine (given that there is a google search widget on part of the screen, although it is easily removed).

The only real thing the G1 is doing for Google is brand awareness, getting more GMail accounts, and putting a web browser in more peoples' hands (which assumabley they will use google.com to search with and click on ads).

Again, there is no direct revenue for Google here, they are aiming for the horizon and trying to change the game with this device. It is this humble observer's opinion that they are well on their way.