PCI express passthrough is the term to search for.

A good writeup:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/2z0evz/gpu_passthrough_or_how_to_play_any_game_at_near/

And it's news because he's got a high profile full time job.

Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff which, ... umm, ok move on folks

um, or just a piece of rope

or the jumper cables in most Mexican cars

But I get it EMP is more interesting

C'mon we're pretty stupid to be here in the first place, but not that stupid. At least put an effort in to deceive us.

Right, I'm off to drop all my other languages and shift everything to Java...

This is such a fundamental step towards answering one of the ultimate questions, I'm surprised this hasn't hit the front page of BBC news

Congratulations and thank-you to Jan, Elio, Piotr and Sijbren, keep up the good work!

Oh, and use this to plan where to go. It has mapped all the cell towers in the US, which is where I assume you are.

http://opensignal.com

I live on a boat and work full time online. There are many of us. We're in the same situation, even though it seems different. There are heaps of resources online. Looking at the quality of the responses here I would encourage you to just go and see what people on boats have been doing. Far too much to cover in a single reply.

However...

- LTE/4g with a high gain antenna is by far your best bet. USB or ethernet, not a hotspot. Don't waste power on local wifi
- Long range WiFi is a pain in the neck
- Forget about satellite. I have it because I have to. It's terrible and obscenely expensive.

You don't have to worry about a bunch of other stuff sailors have to deal with like desalinating water and non-cell based comms. You'll find it really not a problem to pull off what you're trying to do. And you can get really remote with a carbon fibre poll and high gain antenna. Make sure you put the USB modem at the top of the poll so the RF cable to the antenna is short and the USB cable is long.

And as for power generation - spend 95% of your effort trying to reduce power consumption. That means not just what hardware you choose but changing your behaviour and how software is configured. And get a Honda eu1000 generator + lithium battery, with a high efficiency solar panel and MPPT controller. Don't use an inverter to power the power supply for your laptop. Get a DC/DC converter to go from the main storage battery to your computer. Personally i'd not worry about solar if you're only going for a week. The gasoline to run you for a week will be like half a gallon or a gallon.

Oh, and go to a sailors swap-meet. You'll find old charge controllers, solar panels, generators, inverters etc. Also pick up some blocks and rope while you're there, it'll be useful for rigging up your site.

Good luck, I hope you go for it.

"Other countries have produced far more sane regulations"

Thats a big call. I work full time in the drone industry, and it seems to me these are the most sane laws of any country I'm aware of right now.

As an expat kiwi myself, I can predict with some confidence that permission, with certain conditions, will be given to everyone for all public areas. And those conditions will be a good compromise between the drone operator and other users of public land.

And it also means you can basically do whatever you want, with permission, on private land.

How exactly is this 'insane'? For all its pros and cons, New Zealand generally has the most sane laws and regulations I have experienced in the countries I have lived in (living in the US right now, trying to deal with the FAA... what was that about sanity?)

> so even if it is a little healthier, (eg no cholesterol in your mayo) that is a start

  - this is a very specific claim. Can you please provide a link to the best paper available to support this? I have read a number, including very recently, which fail to support this conclusion about dietary cholesterol

> bad for our health (not just nutritionally speaking, but spread disease and allergens)

  - can you please reply with a link to some evidence for modern commercial mayo (of the type your company is producing) spreading disease. Again a very specific claim I have been unable to find evidence for with a few minutes of googling. Also please back up the claim of eggs being bad for our health 'nutritionally speaking' as you say.

It seems to me your research is very worthwhile and could be a big part of the future of food, along with other modern food production research, and can stand on it's own feet without needing to embellish it's benefits, if in fact my suspicions of some of your claims being baseless are correct (looking forward to being corrected).

I'm writing this on a sailboat off the coast of Mexico. I'm writing software full time out here. Rails and Unity right now.

Because all power is from solar and wind, I have to keep a close eye out for processes using too much power as the laptop is the most power hungry device I have.