Wouldn't it be simpler to get an old Android phone and use google Latitude? It seems you can get old Hero's for around $80, create a google account, install Latitude, add your Bike/Car as a friend to your android phone and your done. Buy a cheap 12v cigarette lighter to usb converter, take it apart and plumb that into the wiring of the bike/car to keep the phone charged. Find somewhere to hide/stash it with good clear access to the sky (so under/inside some plastic trim). Still need to pay for each month for a data connection, or in here Australia there as prepaid mobile internet plans that allow you to buy 1 gig of data that lasts for a year for $15.

Well, if you read Jalopnik, a Japense Mazda top brass has tweeted that they are developing another rotary Engine. So the lack of a rotary in Mazda's lineup should only be a temporary situation.

Its the same or even less complexity as an Apollo mission: Apollo Mission Steps: Launch from Earth, Do a burn for an orbital insertion Do a brake burn to get into lunar orbit Land the Lunar Module Take off from the moon, dock with the command module Do another burn to come back to earth Enter the atmosphere at the correct angle deploy parachutes Hit an ocean Curiosity Mars Mission: Launch from earth Do a burn to Mars Enter mars atmosphere Deploy parachutes Land using a lunar module esk lander. It has quite a few less steps.

Not really, the amount of physical cash (coins and notes) is a small percentage of the worth of an actual currency. All big purchases are done electronically. I don't know what it is for Canada but according to this article: http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Much-Money-is-There-in-Circulation-in-the-UK?&id=4292132 Within the UK there is 44.9 billion pounds of notes and coins, but the total amount of money in circulation is estimated to be 1.9 trillion.

The PPC of the 360 and near identical to the primary processing unit of the cell.
All written up in this book here, from one of the engineers of the cell processor at ibm: http://www.amazon.com/Race-New-Game-Machine-Playstation/dp/0806531010

I have a multimonitor setup for gaming, 3x1280*1024 displays. Using a Triple Head 2 Go. It works pretty well, the other that is not mentioned in the summary is that Directx9 has a back buffer limit of 4096. DirectX10 has a much larger backbuffer support (I think upto 16k), OpenGL I am not sure about.

By utilizing three monitors, games can become roughly 3x more demanding, as the graphics card is required to render an overwhelmingly higher number of pixels

Anyway, the extra pixels is not what stresses the video card, turning AA to 4x or 16x effectively makes the graphics card renders more pixels but does not have the performance impact an increased FOV does. The increased FOV causes more Draw calls, culling overhead etc as you see physically more. That is what really hurts the performance. The extra pixel area of the back buffer is negligible to performance compared to the extra draw call overheads.

But coal powerplants cause up to 13,000 - 30,000 premature deaths per year in the US alone (quick google) and in general emit more radiation over their lifetimes compared to nuclear because of the trace amounts of uranium found in coal.

Even with this accident, Fukushima has killed less people than a coal power plant of equivalent age. Fukushima is 40 years old, things have improved a lot in reactor designs in 40 years. If it was a modern pebble bed based reactor it could not have a meltdown, cannot expose any nuclear fuel as it is physically impossible because of the design. I also find it kinda amusing that Switzerland has put its plan for a new nuclear reactor on hold. A place that was choose as it was stable enough to partly hold the Large Hadron collider, has no coast line so free from Tsunami's, free from almost all common natural disasters (Hurricanes, Cyclones and Tornadoes) but its plans on hold because of a disaster it can never have.

horse power is a misleading gauge of power, torque is what turns the wheels.

That is wrong in soo many ways, power is produce by a combination of torque and rev's. Torque is not a measure of power, it is a measure of force at a distance. A person can produce a lot of torque if you give them a huge lever. The amount of power a person can produce is always the same. Horse power is not a misleading gauge of power, IT IS the gauge of power. When you see an engine described at making x amount of torque @ x RPM, e.g. 350nm at 3500RPM this is actually just giving you how many kilowatts it makes at that point, which is 128kw. (350nm * 3500rpm / 9549 magic number). 350nm is just how much force the firing of the pistons are making at that point.

I was at freeplay, but the game is probably a year away from completion