What I really want?

I work on the move all the time and am very rarely in an office. My HTC Thunderbolt on Verizon 4G is one of the key factors that allows me to actually work _and_ get out and enjoy society. I've fielded calls and worked issues sitting in my car in a Target parking lot. But, that's what I do. I basically get paid to be available at a moments notice and provide support. I am happy with the trade off. I get great flexibility, and in return, give up some of my personal freedom.

So, here's my biggest issue to date. Smart devices are getting too big to be truly portable. Try dragging a 4.5" device around the gym on an armband. Or find a place for it on a 5 mile run. I need to be connected, but sometimes only really need the old school phone/texting features. What I would love to see is carriers offer a single phone number that will route to multiple SIMs in multiple devices. That way, when i don't need the power and bulk of the Thunderbolt, I can grab a small and pocketable device instead.

Perhaps Google voice can accommodate this? Anybody have any experience with it?

Very little mention of the actual product. Here's the image gallery for, what I assume, are the skimmer.

Doubtful. Current carrier fleet defenses are pretty impressive (forward to 2:30) already. And the Nimitz class carriers now use RIM-116 point defense systems (a carrier never travels alone).

The laser defense is just the last layer of the strategy and part of the overall big dick swinging contest. The Air Force is working on it, the Army is working on it, and the Navy wants its part.

I could see its use for cooking UAVs and other type stuff where you don't want to be wasting $1M missile shots. It's definitely a more economical weapon (sans development cost). It's also more effective against high trajectory fire, similar to MTHEL's capability.

I haven't tried a GIT build recently, but as of my last attempt, multi GPU was still broken. Xorg Bug 25593

The choice of the F-104 is by no accident. It's low altitude performance is well known.

Darryl Greenamyer's Red Baron F-104 did 998 mph (mach 1.30) officially and 1013 mph (mach 1.33) unofficially. At less than 300 ft, back in the '70's. The J79 has to be water/alcohol injected during runs like these, otherwise it will exceed it's maximum inlet operating temps.

Say what you want about the F-104, but it was built to fly straight and fast, intercept and shoot down bombers. Another work or artfrom Kelly Johnson and company IMHO. Especially considering the timeframe.

Gene patents are also big in the agriculture industry. And they actively sue to keep it that way.

Too bad the North American Eagle team are having a hard time raising funding. It's interesting to see a J79 powered 104 go up against all this new radical technology. The F-104 was known for it's low altitude speed ability.

Darryl Greenamyer's Red Baron F-104 did 998 mph (mach 1.30) officially and 1013 mph (mach 1.33) unofficially. At less than 300 ft, back in the '70's. The J79 has to be water/alcohol injected during runs like these, otherwise it will exceed it's maximum inlet operating temps.

The fact sheet [PDF Warning] on the current VHF system in use.

I just posted in the wrong thread. Synopsis:

I made a lot of money back in the 90's repairing NTFS installs. The similarity with it, back then, and EXT4 is they are/were young file systems.

Give Ted and company a break. Let him get the damn thing fixed up (I have plenty of faith in Ted). Hell, I even remember losing an EXT3 file system back when it was fresh out of the gate. And I'm sure there's plenty who could say the same for all those you listed, including ZFS.

And your comment about extended data caching. Is your memory short? Remember "laptop mode", specifically setup this way to keep the hard drive from having to spin up...

And I used to make my living repairing NTFS filesystems back in the 90's. Back then the smart folks had their boot drive formatted FAT for a reason. Of course, NTFS is much more mature now than back then. The same argument applies here, EXT4 was just released for general use. We should all give it, and Ted and company, a break.

I've followed Ted's work for many years on the FOSS front. I fully expect him to make EXT4 work best in both scenarios (data safety and performance optimized).