You are a damned idiot if you trust Jane Fonda for information about nuclear reactors. My guess is that he had some unenriched uranium ore (which can be easily bought in the US) and dumped it in some water and possibly with some graphite around it. Even if he had access to enriched uranium, nuclear reactors are by no means simple to build. Just look at the monstrosity of a pile that Fermi had to build for the first one.

NAND memory is built with large arrays of floating gate transistors. The smallest repeated dimension being the process size people always talk about. This size governs how many transistors you can fit on a single chip ie how much memory a single chip can have.

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Dan, if this of all projects concerns you then I think you don't realize how much defense drives federal research funding. About 57% of all government funding research goes to defense applications (http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf06330/tab1.xls), and looking at older data you can see this percentage has been the same +/- 3% even before the war in Iraq and President Bush. As far as defense spending is concerned, it's always been twisted around in this manner to accomplish good things for the wrong reasons. Take the Eisenhower interstate for example. Furthermore, if you look at the source of funding, private investment far outweighs the government (http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf07317/fig1.gif).

I agree more money should be going toward basic energy research, but I don't see why a prosthetic limb would irk you so much when this is not much a surprise looking at it from a historical perspective. If you want better targets to aim your sights at then read "Imaginary Weapons" by Sharon Weinberger.

The Dreamcast was a system that had a lot of extremely creative and fun games which met a lot of critical praise, but never excelled in terms of sales. That's why people still own the system years after the industry giants gave up on it. A few games that I enjoyed include: Ikaruga, Rez, Jet Set Radio, Soul Calibur, Crazy Taxi, Shenmue, Power Stone etc.

Ballmer is singlehandedly Microsoft's worst PR disaster. He may be a competent manager for all I know, but he really should stop talking so damn much.

The size of drive matters very little. In the context of laptop operation it results in a lowered battery life, immunity (more or less) to repetitive shocks that kill normal platter drives, and access time to data that is unbeaten by any normal hard drive. It's not meant for you to store your entire MP3 collection, it's primarily aimed at business users and the small percentage of gamers that demand such high performance to whom 32 GB is sufficient. Solid state isn't really meant to compete for much of the desktop market simply because the power draw and shock protection has next to no relevance. As it stands now, there are larger models already in the pipeline, and I wouldn't be too surprised if SSD could match the size of perpendicular 1.8" drives within a few years.

I wonder what Lenovo will do after they fill the alphabet with uninspired computers.

It may be true that Microsoft is losing money on the Xbox, but it's worthwhile to note that virtually every console loses money for its respective company. Historically, the profit comes from games bought for the systems. Add to that the fact that in this generation there's also the possibility of making money off of digital marketplaces. While, Microsoft's game division lost overall on the Xbox it's reasonable to assume that much of that money was creating the infrastructure for releasing the original Xbox. As to whether they'll do better this time around, and whether Sony will keep their grasp on the console market and profit margin is something we won't know for a while.