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Bad news - this likely won't mean it gets a lock on its position any quicker, due to technical reasons. Essentially, the device has to listen for a few seconds to receive the complete signal.

Worse news - each network will require its own proprietary chip, so increased access to GPS networks will come with increased cost, complexity, heat and power issues.

Good news -- you have been misinformed. Single chip GPS/Galileo IC with sub-1-second acquisition and similar power usage to current GPS-only chips.

Derivatives works are fair use, not an exclusive right of the copyright holder. If that were the case, there would be no remixes.

Oh really?. I remember this quite well, permission was needed from the estate or else nada. So it appears artistic freedom and creativity is actually impaired by overly long copyright terms.

Well, I am sure BMS also paid about taxes which probably comes to around 20% off their sales profit. As an added bonus, they helped countless cancer patients many of whom are Americans.

A round of chemotherapy with Taxol[pdf] costs thousands of dollars while BMS has been able to produce a dose of Taxol for less than a dollar. And what taxes BMS pays the US only comes from US sales, they don't pay US taxes on their worldwide sales. Not that they should but if you limit earning to only the US for US taxes you're cutting how much tax they do pay. The US could have gotten a better deal by requiring BMS to pay a royalty say of 50% then not taxing the income from the sale of Taxol. Many more American would have been saved if the data needed had been open sourced, or allowed anyone who agreed to pay a royalty to use the data. Then you would of had more than one company fighting for market share by lowering costs.

And let's never forget that famous American Alexander Haig...

General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. joins NewsMax.com advisory board

West Palm Beach, Florida - General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. (USA Ret), former US Secretary of State, NATO Commander and White House Chief of Staff, has joined the international advisory board of NewsMax.com, the company announced today.

"We are pleased that such a distinguished American statesman and business leader has joined us," Lord Rees-Mogg, Chairman of NewsMax.com, said.

General Haig has been at the forefront of the new economy. He was one of the founding board members of America Online and played a key role in making AOL the giant it has become. He remains as a director of Compuserve Interactive Services, Inc., an AOL-Time Warner subsidiary. In addition he is a member of the Board of Directors of MGM Mirage, Inc., Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Inc. and Interneuron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=68 003/

I was right on the trend, but not on the numbers. Please see this link for details.

- *IF* your satellite companys has the feature, use only their downlink-- but uplink with a land phone (little to no latency).

- Get a T1.. there not as expensive as the past and I believe the phone company will put them anywhere there are paved roads.

- You probably have enough pots wiring to have at least 4 phone lines at once. Find out if any isp in the area (or any with reasonable 800's which are not in the area) handle: 'Load Balancing', which is a feature that combines your several regular phone lines into one, which can be as fast or faster than isdn.

- There are probably alot of other people frustrated 'out there' as well. Get together with them and start your own little wireless isp..maybe even charge new people a few bux.

- And last but not least, should you get realllly desperate (or board).. Remember this? :) http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=58 383

In the interest of stimulating more informed discussion, here is a link to a press release from Microsoft commending the Turkish and Moroccan authorities, as well as the FBI, for their prompt arrest of the suspects.

The UK's failure to provide enough data for the study was criticised by teachers' representatives and characterised by opposition parties as shocking and even suspicious.