I'm going to really miss it

......he said. "We're now going to solve ignorance with the internet."

I'm really going to really miss it,

- its entertaining

- its great for business

- it make politics and religion really soar.

We are going to be so screwed when its gone.

Not running Windows

So I suggest we have a whip around, and send Eadon to go and plug a new flash chip in.

Elon will probably be happy to send a certain NYT reporter along with him for free ....

Pixel Qi Display

I love my Samsung N145/150 netbooks - got about 20 for work use, a couple for the kids at home.

Cost nothing.

Run for ever.

Weigh nothing. (well theres no bloody metal in there for sure)

Runs Matlab, LOffice, etc.

Don't really care when the missus stands on it and smashes the display.

Don't care if a dirt bag flogs it when I'm travelling, or I fill it with beach sand, or drop it in the sea.

Get a pixel Qi display. Costs a couple of hundred $, but you can read the screen in full sunlight, and the battery life is even longer. Piece of p**s to change screens in my Samsung N150's

And Windows 7 Home - brilliant.

Natural Mercury levels

When I was gold prospecting, mercury was an indicator for the systems we wanted. One farmers paddocks were around 1% mercury by weight in the topsoil samples.

He offered us a couple of sheep for the freezer. We politely declined.

I know quite a number of clean, natural streams with undrinkable arsenic levels.

Naturally occurring levels in pristine evvironments can well beyond what you want to be exposed to.

That'll be the final nail in Sony's coffin then

Of course being covered with linen it would be low carbon, and you could get juicy hi-tech subsidies _and_ agriculture subsidies when you base it in Ireland.

(Disclaimer: I'm from NZ, and we plan to get rich on the ludicrously thick sheepskin coats the passengers will have to wear)

Seems a tad low.

My house uses ~10,000kWh p.a. = 10MWh, or 1/26th of a google.

I feel a new Reg unit of energy coming on....

Defense applications

I presume this steerable acoustic tech can be used by the Reg Special Projects Bureau for tracking and avoidance of PMS (Paper Missiles from Space)