Why haven't Alice and Bob been replaced with Ada and Babbage yet?

They are when you don't have broadband and a game is a 15+ GB download. I'm a big fan of Steam, and while I personally have a nice 25+ connection, I know some people that are stuck on wireless and even satellite internet. It'd be easier if they bought the game, loaned me their library, I download/install the game, copied it to a DVD or USB drive, mailed it to them, and they copy the files over to their machine and install the game (this does actually work for Steam).

Sprint hasn't been a profitable company in years, they've got 27 Billion in debt, and are expected to need an additional 3 Billion this year to cover expected losses. They're net income has been in the negative Billions each year for the past couple of years.

Or a magazine being paid by both the readers and advertisers.... Multiple revenue streams aren't illegal or immoral, it's cost sharing.

So, they had both the watch and the connected phone. I'm not really concerned about this. If this was a remote access thing, I'd be a little worried.

You mean primes on the IDIQ. Only primes on the IDIQ can bid on the task order. There are 16 primes on that particular IDIQ, but only a few (estimates are between 2 and 5) bid the particular task order.

I'm pretty sure Smarttech's SmartBoard can do that. But it's connected to a computer.

They're all working of different things related to the topic. It's not that they're building a consolidated system, they working on technologies related to the problem at hand.

It's 17 teams working on 17 different things. The way these projects work is they've got a bunch of contractors that have ideas they want to pursue that are relevant to DARPAs interests and requirements. DARPA funds them and they all work on their own things and try to create some synergy. Over the life of the contract they continue funding those projects that are most successful.

Like this? http://www.thinkgeek.com/produ...

North Korea has thousands of guns pointed at Seoul, within 5 minutes of a true engagement, they would let loose and while it won't level the city, it would still be a major disaster. http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/... http://www.popularmechanics.co...

Nope, they are not encouraged, they are *required* to report these types of activities.

I think your math is off a bit by a factor of 1000:

600 MB/s and 604,800 sec/wk = 362,880,000 MB/wk = ~362,880 GB/w = ~ 362 TB/w

That's simply not true. While you won't notice it in level of detail, you will notice it due to the increased dithering and smoothness of color gradients. Things will look better at all normal viewing distances. Although my real hope for the future is in ultra-ultra-ultra high definition displays (think something like the equivalent of a 32K 46" monitor). With that new possibilities actually open up, tie that to a Lenticular lens system an you'll have multiple angle high definition viewing. Imagine a tele-conferencing system where they place the monitor and multiple cameras at the edge of the conference table with a similar setup on the other end. The effect would be more like looking through a piece of glass dividing the table than looking at a flat monitor.

And aim for the fat man instead? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...