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Differential GPS gets accuracy to up to 10 cm, which is just above 4 inches I think. It seems that it is possible to obtain even sub-millimeter accuracy from GPS, although I gather the techniques used aren't real-time, and as such unsuitable for mobile robotics. :( They work well enough for surveying though.

Indeed, neither pay property taxes, but the apartment rent is higher than the property taxes it's used to pay. This is a "quasi state park". State parks in NY charge for camping less than 25% of what I pay here in property taxes. And far less than what my old apartments' rent included for its share of the building's property taxes.

And this is the latest PDF:

http://www.nxtbook.com/fx/save/dbindex.php?book_id=__NXT__cd8cd2021abc523d1ec51c3a88ec3e9c&pdf=1

Actually, no. This is the current issue.

Or you could always go to ddj.com.

Dr. Dobb's uses the Nxtbook format - a competitor of Zinio.

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cmp/ddj1208/

PDF:
http://www.nxtbook.com/fx/save/dbindex.php?book_id=__NXT__464223b91032bc63c3148f47d139b5d0&pdf=1

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cmp/ddj1208/

PDF:
http://www.nxtbook.com/fx/save/dbindex.php?book_id=__NXT__464223b91032bc63c3148f47d139b5d0&pdf=1

the OP should have a mentioned that 20% market share, and Sony's goal of taking 50% market share with Blu-ray, is only IN JAPAN. It should be noted that the Japanese media market is much smaller; due to higher prices (DVDs cost $30-50, with only bargain titles hitting below $20). Capturing 50% by volume of the Japanese market is dramatically different then the US market, just by the sheer scale and volume difference, hence, titling this post "Sony Thinks Blu-ray Will Sell Like DVDs by Year End" is a disservice to Slashdot readers to the facts.

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Blu-ray-sales-hit-record-in-Japan.html

In the US, Blu-ray consists of 8% of media sales calculated only from the top 20 sellers.

Source, Home Meida Magazine (warning: netbook link):
Chart on Page 3
http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/questex/hom040608/

Blu-Ray: 83% HD-DVD: 17% http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/questex/hom012708/index.php?startpage=36

Get them while you can: http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/conformity/1007/index.php?startpage=10 The FCC doesn't like people breaking the law. Just don't bring jammers onto a plane please. It would be a bad idea.

Target had announced they were only offering a dedicated Blu-Ray player in store?
Well, somebody better tell Target to take this Toshiba HD-DVD player off their website.

You mean the one they sell online only, as in - not "In store"?

Well, 47.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot, do you have links which site those figures (at least)?

Most statstics can be verified quickly with Google. If you'd been following the whole thing at all, you'd know yo look at NPD figures which have been tracking sales week to week...

Well, a single one format may seem attractive, but the price war will bring in High Def Video at an affordable price more quickly than a single format.

That's a common myth from the HD-DVD side. Ad there is makes sense, because with only one hardware maker where would competition come from for pricing?

You forget that on the Blu-Ray side you have Samsung and Sony and Panasonic and a few others (even Denon) all making Blu-Ray players. Why would price competition not be just as fierce if there were one format - and with more dollars buying players, there would be a reason to fight for marketshare.

HD-DVD is really being aggressive in price, and when standards compete, it's usually the one which delivers a lower price who 'wins'.

Almost never is that true. It's usually a mix of features and marketing and price that cause one format to win over another.

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/questex/hom070807/ index.php?startpage=10

The link was given in the forum, don't know why it wasn't put into the /. summary.

Intel's Jones Farm campus uses primarily wireless. Here's an article in Cisco's Packet magazine (free registration and stupid Flash program required).

According to this video, the media can be stored for 50 years, and it also looks more like a replacement for tape backups than hard drives at this point.

Coupled with this article, which says that it's "10 times faster than a normal DVD burner (whatever that means)," and holds about 300GB (278 GBytes formatted) it's clear that they're aiming for removable media.

Apparently each 300GB disk is about the size of a DVD (but thicker due to it having it's own little shell, like a floppy/zip/mini disk). Just like all removable media, it needs its own drive. Unlike most, it needs a HUGE drive, about the size of one of the old tape drives (2xCD-ROM drives but longer).

It's an interesting backup solution, maybe if you got a bunch of these and made a RAID-0 across them, you'd have something really cool.

"Flash has it's uses, but making complete websites isn't one of them."

It is if you don't want people swiping your content.

As demonstrated with this survey posted on slashdot