My point was more about the narrow-minded thinking of staying where we are--all exploration and leaving of your comfort zone is dangerous with great potential for rewards. I was not attempting to say that the New World is just like Mars. Thanks for your "idiot" comment though, classy opening salvo for a friendly discussion.

"No, Columbus, let's just stay here in Europe instead with the plague and the overcrowding, the racial tensions and all the other problems plaguing us. Because that will be good for the world."

This is all new, I post it only because I just read about it the other day in the local paper. The emphasis with this stuff is on inexpensive, but it's from a guy with a good track record at other local tech companies.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.c...
Here's a snippet:
Smart homes from smart guy
High prices inspired entrepreneur's firm
By: Martin Cash
One of Winnipeg's newest startups can thank sticker shock for its existence.
Salman Qureshi was building a home three years ago in St. Norbert and asked about adding some smart-home features to the project. The answer startled him. And then inspired him.
"I wasn't thinking about anything fancy, just some networking so I wouldn't have to worry about wireless issues," said Qureshi, 44, the former head of product development and manufacturing at Monteris Medical.
"I got a quote for a few thousand dollars. It was unbelievable (how expensive it was)."
It was at that point the seed of the idea was planted in the back of his mind for an all-in-one smart-home device.

All we need to do is add atomic power, and bingo, nuclear bessels!

... is it because I have dirty thoughts?

... but he's taking things too far giving himself a self-inflicted perforated ulcer.

... and a laptop, so I will henceforth be using it on my lap at all times.

Back to the Future 2 *clearly* showed that we were due to have flying cars in 2015.

Of course, they also showed the Cubs winning the World Series, and I can't see that happening in 5 years, either.

So if they hold true to what Bill Gates said (http://www.esato.com/archive/t.php/t-54833,1.html) back when they were just a software company, this device should cost us nothing.

The other thing is Microsoft's last announcement of something like this (the tablet PC, wasn't it?), turned out to be something you couldn't buy. It was a reference platform and a set of specifications that others could build to.

So I'm not holding my breath that we'll be able to buy one of these.

This news just in... reading too many studies in the "American Journal of Epidemiology" will give you stress and kill you.

I intend to fully endorse and support this research, just so I can say "monkeynomics" a lot.

"And figures just released this week show that rear-end collisions at traffic lights skyrocketed in California in 2010. Authorities are baffled as to the causes."

At one extremely busy intersection near me (Fermor & Lagimodiere in Winnipeg, right near the Royal Canadian Mint), the mint has got a huge video screen playing ALL THE TIME visible to southbound and westbound traffic. It's VERY distracting, and I've seen several people drift over a lane (only to violently correct themselves) while heading through the intersection and staring at the billboard.

This in a city where the roads are frequently snow- and ice-covered as well. Nice one, Canadian government.

I'll post links to a bunch of semi-buried things on my blog and then sue Twitter for deep-linking.

Why can't some of my cow-orkers off themselves? Kill two birds with one stone--rid the workplace of annoying, mopey, emo-types *and* score me a sweet raise.

Got 12 here at work for various purposes. Two on one SSID on the corporate network for roaming, and a bunch of others for different departments to run their own isolated test environments.

It gets a bit hairy at times when you want to do testing that requires a noise-free spectrum.

It's normally only 11, but we've got an extra one set up at the moment. Our "show guy" is setting up the environment he's taking to Bingoworld in May.

We also have a number of 900MHz transmitters, but those don't broadcast in a way that can be seen by anything but one of our own handsets.