Really, 2.0, I would have thought that cities had been through way more major revisions than that. probably be more in the ballpark calling it city 3589654782.0

They said microsoft would release an open source project with some value when pigs fly......Swine flu

Most of the dell latitude notebooks dont have cameras on them.

We heated the tech shop where I work all winter with our server rack. Of course I do live in south Louisiana where you can count the below freezing days on your fingers but the shop is also pretty large. We finally got our blower to vent the hot air outside installed last week so now the server closet does not stay at a constant 90F now.

I work in a shop cleaning repairing and checking out communications systems for oil rigs and boats. Some of the crap that comes back is ridiculous. Thick layers of crude oil and deisel, the rotten smell of crew boats and the occasional dead rodent make the day go by. But hey, I get to play with robots to so it makes it all good.

If they shut off the internet, they will be shutting off most peoples phones. This causes safety concerns and is probably beyond what the idiot who came up with this ideas sight.

So if you put a tin foil hat on a chimps head it will be completely lost?

But does it work as a phone? Sure touch screens and app stores are nice but I want mine to work as a phone to.

I several times set up my computer to dual boot windows and linux. In the end I would just end up booting into windows and leaving it there. I Knew how things worked and could fix issues, it was comfortable but I hated windows. Finlay one day I took the plunge and formatted my hard drive. I only installed Ubuntu onto my computer. I haven't looked back sense. I love trying to figure little things out and make it work a certain way again. I do keep an old laptop lying around running XP for the odd time when I have to run windows, like setting up my DSL modem but otherwise it stays tucked away in the corner

It wouldn't be just replacing equipment at the ends, you have the repeaters to that would need to be upgraded.

Ok I have heard this a million times now and I just dont see it happening. Cell phones are easily lost, broken, dropped in toilets or stolen. Could you imagine what you would feel if you dropped your pc in the toilet. I can see integrating more tasks into it, but you will still have a need for a base station.

Yes in some areas teachers do make decent money, but in others they make what equates to just above minimum wage. My mother was a teacher in one of these lower paying locations. Growing up we where pretty well on the lower end of lower middle class, where as I had an aunt who taught in one of the higher paying locations and they made out pretty well.

Hold up, if I am not mistaken isnt one of the definitions of engine: A machine that converts energy into mechanical force or motion. So that just leaves drifting with the wind or current. I think a sail might be mutch more practical.

Fairpoint...hmmm how ironic

Prepare for the worst and hope for the best. With projects that cost as much as these and in outer space this reins more true than ever. Over engineer every thing. That is why I am not surprised when these things last past there expected life span. It means the engineers are doing there job.