It's very near the same price and has vastly more RAM and processing power, not to mention I/O.

Vehement agreemsg. The RAM is really the compelling part. I'd like to know if I will need a scan converter or if it will do composite out on the VGA port, though. I actually need composite for my application.

Unfortunately, at the weapons show, more of the attendees were probably interested in ways to keep this product out of the hands of "certain people" than buying it for themselves.

How efficient is the production of natural gas and pumping it to houses?

It really depends how many photos he's taking, and what kind of storage space he has on the laptop. If there's enough for the whole vacation, then great, might as well leave them all on there. If not, you'll have to come up with a scheme for deleting at least some of them. With typical DSLR photos these days being at least 5-10MB each (more if you save them in RAW format), it doesn't take that many to fill up a ~300GB laptop drive. Sure, some 2TB drive can store a lot more, but laptops don't have drives that big; that's a typical size for a large desktop drive now. Just looking at my current laptop (~1 year old), it appears to have a 300GB drive. But if you've got a RAID6 array of 3TB drives at home, then you'll have tons of space back there that you can upload to.

Spend some of the money we'll save landscaping Los Angeles to store water instead of all of it running straight into the ocean, cutting its water import needs in half. Done and done.

Here's the part I like. Thirty years ago we railed on the soviet union for attacking other sovereign governments and forcing their way of government on them, for [many other things]

Yes, but even before that, way back in 1953, the USA overthrew Iran's democratically-elected government and installed a puppet dictator named "the Shah". The USA has been a bunch of hypocrites for a very long time.

When did Hillary Clinton ever champion human rights? She was pissed when Mubarak was forced out of power in Egypt, and now she's working on helping the Myanmar government commit genocide against minority groups there so that American corporations can come in and take advantage of the resources there.

Our national politicians (Republican or Democrat) don't give two shits about human rights, they only care about helping their corporate buddies make more money as the American Empire spirals downhill. Go read about the decline of the Roman Empire; we're repeating much of what happened then.

Huh? How is cable king for local news broadcasts? If you want to watch the local news, just get a rabbit-ears antenna and watch the news on your local channels, for free.

As far as I can tell, the only thing where cable (or satellite TV) is really necessary is sports.

correction, stupid WORLD.

you think its a US problem that governments have 'agreed' to ban pot? last I checked, almost every single country is onboard this stupid WoD.

*not* just the US. its a false morality problem; but mostly there is MONEY to be made by governments, in various ways, by keeping things illegal.

counter-intuitive but its actually true.

then again, the US has a very high population of religious sheep and those are the perfect 'voters' to keep the status quo going. brainwashed believers are a huge part of the problem; the problem being a regressive anti-progress mindset.