That's honestly a good idea, but the brain works differently from computers. The brain recalls memory differently. Each time we recall something it isn't exact. Instead of copying the memory from the long-term to the short term the brain moves it gets rid of the origonial copy then remakes the memory after your done remembering. End result each time you remember something it changes sometimes ever subtly, but phsycologists have been able to manipulate peoples memories like this for a while now. Just by saying the right things at the right time they can get you to insert say a person or object into a memory. I think the most common artificial memory is when they can get you to believe you got sick eating a food when you were a child when in truth you never did. Are we going to emulate that behavior in a machine or are we going to change ourselves and make us better when we transfer?

I don't believe we know enough about drugs lke lsd for them to be used in the public like that.

I might consider getting one of these things if someone can get a linux distribution running on it. It would be kinda neat. Hook up an external hardrive through one of the usb ports and use it as a dvr or something. You'd need to hook up some sort of video in for dvr use though.

aren't those sailing ships faster than what the container ships are running at now?

what about people who live in the middle of nowhere? like me. Although it would be sweet to have passenger rail even at normal speed in the city i'm 7 mi away from. Theres nothing to do there but there is a larger city one hour away and we have a freight line that goes striaght through both of them.

I live in "Small Town America" (TM) and anyway no corporate workers here, but a lot of the field workers go to the bar for lunch and some (mostly the ones who oversee the workers) will have a beer with lunch. That being said. They'll go to the bar later that Friday night and get piss ass drunk.

I don't know about that, but really this would have been no big deal if MS would have shot the proposal down in the planning stages. If they really didn't want it what took so long?

from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.

I remember my flash drive a cheap 2gb pny. It survived hard smacks against walls. (The plastic casing broke, so I wrapped it in duct tape) It went through the washing machine and dryer multiple times. It never broke. I lent it to my sister and she lost it. Now I just use sd cards. there are readers on almost every new computer now so most of the computers in my school and my laptop have sd card readers. The plus side o using an sd card is that you can stick it somewhere in you wallet.

but, if anybody is using ubuntu or any other distribution of linux, then even if they don't know a lot about coding (like me) they still know how to use a computer well and how to research for solutions to the problems you encounter.

Hey If, your usig ubuntu just cahnge the sound preferences to make sure everything's using alsa.

I know that diplomats cannot accept gifts from the leaders of other nations, but what about the president. All the other gifts given to federal officials are turned over to the government. This includes diamonds and gold given to diplomats from middle eastern oil states.

yeah I agree with you, but the problem is that that is not the way it will be taught.

I thought I was teh only one who does that. Works in progress are on the desktop and the launchers for my applications are on the gnome-panel or in the avant window manager.

There is one problem with vista though. On my brother's machine It only uses half the ram, but it has the swap file full and is swapping in and out like crazy. Any suggestions as to what the hell is wrong?