Where's Jimmy?

What is holographic storage and how does it work?

I've been fascinated by holograms for decades and read a couple of pseudo-scientific books on the subject but that was many years ago. Is there a future for holography or have we moved beyond the umbrella concept into more application-specific development?

Thank you Dr. Bad (or BA?)

"Coal is a disaster for air quality" is a generalization but is generally true.
There is a definite cost/benefit analysis and at some point coal will fall below the threshold. I propose that nuclear be the tipper some day but I may be dreaming. America had two entire generations grow up believing that we would be either vaporized or mutated by anything radioactive. Meanwhile the damn Frogs are making most of their power from the stuff.

I will grant that I may be up to 1.1% wrong in my statement.
The linked chart HERE indicates that up to 1.1% of electricity is generated by "Petrolium".
Graph data is represented as such:
Coal 48.2%
Petroleum 1.1%
Natural Gas 21.4%
Other Gases 0.3%
Nuclear 19.6%
Hydroelectric Conventional 6.0%
Other Renewables 3.1%
Other 0.3%

It is true that you CAN produce fuel oil with which to heat a home, and thereby supplant the need for electricity in that home, from crude oil. This is, however, one of the lowest ROI products of a commodity that you've gone to all the trouble of carting around the globe (or at least across the border).
I submit that little or none of that 1.1% of electricity generated by petroleum was imported. The cost factor simply nets out better when you sell whatever commodity you produce to the highest-paying consumer, which would mean you're going to be selling that imported commodity to a wholesaler at markup, not a power station. My understanding is that natural gas plants use petroleum as a primer. If someone has a link regarding this hit us up. Otherwise I'm betting that this petroleum that is being consumed is byproduct and made in the USA my friends.

I love the suggestion that these turbines somehow reduce our dependence on foreign oil. We don't use any foreign oil whatsoever to generate electricity. Sorry Mr. Salazar.

Imagine all the money! Awesome that future technologies like wind energy only cost gobs more than all those technologies of the past. Even the article suggests that cost/kwh will go up for consumers. These are being built on subsidized contracts, of course, because the only thing that would make THIS project (not all wind projects) doable is massive cash injections from the feds. Still, with the low cost of "fossil" fuel and the billions of other products (you can't make plastics out of air power) that rely on oil, there is no way that wind and oil even exist in the same product category. Salazar's claim that this will contribute to "America's energy independence" is an empty claim since the energy that is generated by these windfarms will replace exactly zero percent of imported energy! Also, the article lauds this as a green jobs boon which, of course, has been repeatedly disproven a-la Spain's booming "Green/d" economy.

Just to have internet access for my DSi or PSP.

FYI, you can do the same thing with any WM6 cell phone AND you don't pay for the service, assuming you already have a data plan. Do the math!

xda-developers.com

To preserve battery you can also use bluetooth to tether your devices... or just use USB. Bluetooth SHOULD save battery life. Not the highest performance for local file transfers but your internet connection is still the choke point, not the BT.

I don't believe that phones are artificially slowed but can tell you that the data should be limited only by the bandwidth of the connection technology (GPRS/Edge/HSPA/Etc.) If you were to aggregate multiple devices/data streams (make the cell you're connected to THINK that you were multiple devices) you could increase your bandwidth... theoretically.

Simply maintaining a HSDPA connection is hard on a battery. You can configure your cellular radio software for optimal data transport, don't know how effective that is either or what it does to the voice signal.

I'm not saying "don't use WMWiFiRouter"... it's a cool product that manages several features of WM.