I have the EVO 4g, and the 4g is somewhere between worthless, and a handicap. If I leave it on, it sucks down the battery VERY quickly, and turning it on and off gets old quick. I can do everything I need it for with 3g. I have not jail broken it as I don't need tethering. 3g EVDO works just fine. I do know about the 5gig cap on 3g, where as 4g does not have a cap. I got it for the 1ghz, Android, and 4.3 screen to replace my palm pre. The 4g-wimax chip also does the wifi, and has a max power usage of 350ma. Wimax on a phone just can not go through buildings well enough to be a turn it on and forget it without killing a battery. Now at home I have a larger more powerful Wimax modem for home use, and I have 5 hardware computers, along with 10 or so VM's all sharing a single 3Mpbs/1Mbps Wimax connection, and other then ping times in the 100-350ms range, it works just fine.
Did you ever clean the fan? Dirt and dust will add to the electrical load from the fan motor while reducing the the cooling capacity causing it to over heat.
Add another me too to the glossy haters club. I think Apple started it as their form over function design criteria, and when you look at one in the store it would stand out.
Not Entirely. DVI-A can be adapted, but DVI-D can not. Most computers and devices that output DVI-A have the extra analog pins. They are easy to spot as the 2 above and 2 pins below the flat connector. I have seen a LOT of displays that are DVI-D only and are missing the pins. You can see them on a monitor that lacks the capacity.
Overall a dual DVI-A&D is better then a VGA+DVI-AD
I worked at a microwave oven repair place, and a co worker would make it run with the door open, and put his hand in. I never did as I was worried about having a small spot in my hand get super heated due to a poor spread on the microwaves. He stopped when he forgot to take off a wedding ring and got a bad burn.
After training I never worried about a microwave or other RF non-ionizing radiation.
Sorry but a bow tie is not going to help. Here in Las Vegas, I have the most problems with 3 NBC(broadcast on digital 2),8(CBS),10(PBS),& 13(ABC), All VHF. I can get channel 5(Fox) more then 99% of the time. The 2 main UHF 21 and 33 I can receive, but are worthless channels.
I have created a poor signal environment with my computers and servers with clear cases. The antenna is on opposite end of my condo to avoid interferance from the computers, and on INSIDE because of the Home Owners Association. I don't have a lot of options and my HDTV is one with a poor tuner. A good part of the problem is self inflicted, but it DID work better with analog TV. The only broadcast TV I watch is news. Everything else is via the internet.
I also get worse reception. My DTV picks up 1 channel. I tried everything including a 6' outdoor antenna to pick up a signal 35mi away, something that rabbit ears USED to pick up. I eventually settled for a converter box that down converts to 640x480. I get all the old channels at analog quality, with frequent digital freezes and glitches. Slight snow is easy to watch through compared with a digital signal. I do get some new HOME SHOPPING channels that I don't want. Thank %deity% for Hulu, netflix, ect. Is it too late to go back?
The law does not define what is human, other then by the generic description of "homo sapiens" How about a fully artificial set of chromosomes from a computer database created in a lab? Without a VERY clear definition of human, that we currently don't have, these type of laws are useless. Is someone with downs syndrome human? they have a extra whole chromosome. How about someone who gets infected with a retrovirus. They now have a mix of human and virus DNA. How about people who are XXY, XXYY, XYY or other sexual genetic abnormalities? We share a LARGE portion of our DNA with everything from monkeys, dogs, mice, insects and even flowers. First define "Human", and by then many humans will be mixed with "animals" to make the laws worthless and conflict with the bill of rights along with many other laws. People, mostly the very religious, just don't want the understanding that "human" is just another kind of specialized animal.
26/70 Here. My favorite was 11. If I'm sure I'm right about something, I don't waste much time listening to other people's arguments. I am NOT going to waste time arguing that 1+1 is anything other then 2 (except here where it is 10). Usually there is one right answer and a near infinite amount of wrong answers. Yes 11 is less wrong then potato, but both are wrong mathematically speaking.
I gave up my cable for a combination of OTA, BT, Hulu and the library in 2007. In addition to those other sources, SOME cities have a good public library system. Here in Las Vegas, NV you can get almost anything that is available on DVD. Sometimes they don't have a lot of copies of the popular items, but you can get on a waiting list. I am currently catching up on my SG-1, SGA, Star Trek DS9, BSG, Dr. Who & Torchwood.
It's almost a perfect system.
Yea, I WANT one of the new Toshiba 4S reactors in my back yard*.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_4S
A good idea, and I would have no problem living next to/on top of one of those.
*Currently in a condo, I need to get a back yard first.
You will always be able to find one on e-bay. I DON'T foresee drobos as a good solution for more then 10 years, 20 at the outside. The data would need migration after to a new medium. It is a good long term solution where long=10-20 years. I don't know ANY static solution that would work after 20 years. For longer terms periodic migration is a requirement, but there is also the question of computers to read the data, and programs to interpret the raw data. With so many scientific programs having copy protection, having copies of the data, copies of the disk, and no LPT1 port to put the parallel port dongle on, means no access to the data. There are many links in a chain to go from 1's & 0's on a storage medium to USEFUL data. If any link gets broken the data may not be usable or recoverable.
I though that everyone knew that you can eject a group of disks as a disk pack, then reuse the enclosure for the next client. I have a live drobo, and then a backup with 3 SETS of disks, for a total of 4 disk packs, 4 disks per pack, of 1tb each.
Sorry, I made a assumption that he would read up on the drobo and find that out.
You might look at a www.drobo.com as a set of 4,5 and 8 drive enclosures. 1 TB disks gives you 3 TB usable space with a 2 drive failure tolerance. I have the older 4 bay drobo (2 for myself, and 2 at separate clients offices). It is much simpler to use, and will scale to your 2-3tb use and allow mismatched drives that normal raid will not use. Get a enclosure to start with, and then financing permitting, get a 2nd for Drobo redundancy. Not the fastest or cheapest, but reasonably good by both accounts, and simple to use.
What, if any, relationship is there between the SAR and the reception on the phone? Higher is better? Lower is better? I always guessed a high SAR also means a better transciever, but my Palm Pre is LOWER then my old HTC Touch Pro, but it definatly is a better transmitter and reciver. It just might be a better RF design though.
How DID the government come up with a 1.6sar max though? and not the European 2.0?
I have had various cell phones (3w analog to my palm pre) in my shirt pocket for close to 20 years, and in trying to find an answer, I found out the SAR is 1 inch from the body, like on a holster, not in a shirt pocket. I don't care as it is RF non-ionizing though like others have said.
The coverage is the most important item.
IF you get the best phone, and find you have poor coverage it won't matter. I have been with sprint for 10 years, and have good coverage here in Las Vegas, NV. I LOVE my Palm Pre, but in the next few days Verizon is getting a updated version of the Palm pre and Palm Pixi with tethering. This might be the best solution. The Sprint pre does have a unofficial tethering option. I gave up on winmo after having lost too many calls when the phone range, and the telephone app crashed while trying to answer. Winmo is Windows fist, a Phone 2nd. My Pre has been 10x better if you can live with the smaller apps list. Look at www.precentral.net for more info.
I had a mild headache from Avatar Imax 3d with polarized glasses. With the Digital 3d with LCD glasses version, I did not have a headache, but my left eye/visual cortex wigged out and started dropping information. My laser correction surgery changed my eye dominance(from left eye to right eye due to my right being 20/20 and my left being 35/20) and the Dig3d seemed to screw something up in my brain more then my eye. It was truly weird and persisted for 2 days. I went to CES and no system seem to be ok. I tried a few LCD 3d versions, and got sick to my stomach. I stopped looking at LCD, and tried a few direct view, but when you were at the correct distance, it was a small picture. I like to sit CLOSE to a tv, and 3d w/out glasses limits you to a SPECIFIC distance. Also without glasses you see the grating/lenses in front of the image and it is much poorer quality.
I guess that it doesn't help that IN avatar they have perfect flat and curved 3d and the large holographic table that shows what 3d should look like.
It should be doable with a head tracking "display" with a laser putting 2 separate images on the back of each retina kinda like a stereoscopic version of this. http://www.cs.nps.navy.mil/people/faculty/capps/4473/projects/fiambolis/vrd/vrd_full.html
That is only true if you need a PHYSCAL keyboard and display. A small brick the size of a Iphone, with a Laser Keyboard http://www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com/ and Pico Display http://www.microvision.com/pico_projector_displays/ would allow for multiple options. I agree that a non-tactile keyboard is not the best, but for light web surfing/email it would work. It would have 3 modes.
1. An Iphone like slate, with a on a screen (3.5" built in physical screen) keyboard, when there are not a convenient surface.
2. A projection keyboard and display
3. At home/work where you need a full keyboard and a high quality display with a wireless link to both.
I leave getting that into a iphone size for a reasonable amount of money up to the engineers.
While growing up I started reading more and more for enjoyment. As modem technology improved, my reading speed HAD to increase to keep up with the modem, due to my inability to afford a com program with a scroll back buffer, due in part to the various terminal emulations that I wanted. I got to the point where I could read, remember and ace tests with my reading speed up to 14.4. My first slow modem was a 1200, then 2400, 4800, and I skipped 9600 to go to 14.4. After that I could not keep up at a reading speed. I can skim faster then 14.4, but not read and remember. Anyone else's reading speeds influenced by their modem?
Eywa is not so much as a god, but a distributed intelligence, that normally does not get involved in local fights between groups of people. A bit of the prime directive, along with the lack of ability to bond with humans, and being very old, kept it from realizing what is going on. Only after Grace was linked into Eywa and partially uploaded did Eywa have a human reference point necessary, and kick into action. God implies all seeing, Eywa is not. Limited and working at mostly biological speeds, Eywa can not react fast. At the beginning when Jake was sampled by Eywa's floating sensors, that are doing double duty as seeds, that is the start of Eywa's involvement. Genetic samples don't give Eywa the inside knowledge of what the human's plans are. Eywa can't know what goes on in a humans mind and what the intentions are, until Grace dies, and Jake bonds with the soul tree to add addition info of what the humans are planing.
Scholars and artists have been superceeded by Ewya, soul trees, and the planetary infomation network. What do they need to invent?
Planes? no. Better methods of killing other tribes? That is something Eywa is going to suppress. There just is not much reason to invent, especially in a post biological singularly society. What do we semi-modern humans have, that the Na'vi don't and WOULD WANT?
Everyone seems to be making the ASSUMPTION the the Na'vi are preindustrial.
1. The Na'vi can link directly to many other animals that are happy to serve them, and and the Na'vi in return care for them.
2. Planet wide network for storage, upload and download of information, long term store, processing, and on demand local grid processing, including the ability to do a total upload of a person.
3. Unobtainium, a planet wide "natural" super conductor that allows for floating mountains.
4. Eywa, the operating system put in place to regulate everything, including guiding the Na'vi to stay in harmony with everything else.
It seems to me that the Na'vi went though their own singularity, and what we see as primitive is the biotechnology leftovers from a older culture, but they have set themselves and their decedents with a ideal environment, the ability to live, have kids, grow old, then upload when the time is right. Use large off-planet element nuclear synthesis to create the unobtainium, (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability ), and setup the biosphere and the infosphere for long term in habitation by ignorant people. In a head to head comparison of Na'vi vs humans, the Na'vi are superior in almost everyway.
Medicine - Eywa takes care of that much better. Education - A direct mental link for sharing of information. Physical form - not much is explained beyond carbon fiber in the skeleton, but onscreen of what Jake goes though is beyond what a normal human can handle. Information storage, processing & retrieval mostly superior, with the exception of speed given the late start the other animals had in the battle. Long term care of their wold and sustainability - Although the world seems genetically engineered for the Na'vi,over time some drift has occurred as not all animals retain their friendliness, but in times of crises, can revert back.
Given that this is part 1 of 3, and the hints on screen and referenced to, this is my suspicion. Most people have problems thinking about the singularity as it is so encompassing, enabling, and yet compressing. The Na'vi are just one result of who remains after a biological singularity.
Everyone seems to be ASSUMING that PEOPLE are fighting something approximately PEOPLE size, mass, and speed. What good are ships, guns, missiles, lasers, etc, against a post singularity quality enemy. With trillions of dust particles all waiting to start disassembling anything without the right security codes, gray goo is about the worst thing a spacecraft can encounter. Properly setup gray goo will use the lasers for power, missiles, bullets, small ships as a starter material to make more gray goo. How can you defend against that? You can get mutual assured destruction, but that is about it. The cost in energy to send anything more then a starwhisp from one solar system to another quickly goes from bad to impractical. Canned humans in space are just NOT practical outside a solar system. A FTL jump drive makes it eaiser, but between gray goo, Stargate's replicators, the Borg, and things like a T1000, humans are just so much dead meat.
Wil McCarthy started http://ravenbrick.com/ after inventing programmable matter for his Queendom of Sol series, and then realizing that current tech would allow a start with this new kind of matter.
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I have the EVO 4g, and the 4g is somewhere between worthless, and a handicap. If I leave it on, it sucks down the battery VERY quickly, and turning it on and off gets old quick. I can do everything I need it for with 3g. I have not jail broken it as I don't need tethering. 3g EVDO works just fine. I do know about the 5gig cap on 3g, where as 4g does not have a cap. I got it for the 1ghz, Android, and 4.3 screen to replace my palm pre. The 4g-wimax chip also does the wifi, and has a max power usage of 350ma. Wimax on a phone just can not go through buildings well enough to be a turn it on and forget it without killing a battery. Now at home I have a larger more powerful Wimax modem for home use, and I have 5 hardware computers, along with 10 or so VM's all sharing a single 3Mpbs/1Mbps Wimax connection, and other then ping times in the 100-350ms range, it works just fine.
Did you ever clean the fan? Dirt and dust will add to the electrical load from the fan motor while reducing the the cooling capacity causing it to over heat.
Add another me too to the glossy haters club. I think Apple started it as their form over function design criteria, and when you look at one in the store it would stand out.
Not Entirely. DVI-A can be adapted, but DVI-D can not. Most computers and devices that output DVI-A have the extra analog pins. They are easy to spot as the 2 above and 2 pins below the flat connector. I have seen a LOT of displays that are DVI-D only and are missing the pins. You can see them on a monitor that lacks the capacity. Overall a dual DVI-A&D is better then a VGA+DVI-AD
I worked at a microwave oven repair place, and a co worker would make it run with the door open, and put his hand in. I never did as I was worried about having a small spot in my hand get super heated due to a poor spread on the microwaves. He stopped when he forgot to take off a wedding ring and got a bad burn. After training I never worried about a microwave or other RF non-ionizing radiation.
Sorry but a bow tie is not going to help. Here in Las Vegas, I have the most problems with 3 NBC(broadcast on digital 2),8(CBS),10(PBS),& 13(ABC), All VHF. I can get channel 5(Fox) more then 99% of the time. The 2 main UHF 21 and 33 I can receive, but are worthless channels.
I have created a poor signal environment with my computers and servers with clear cases. The antenna is on opposite end of my condo to avoid interferance from the computers, and on INSIDE because of the Home Owners Association. I don't have a lot of options and my HDTV is one with a poor tuner. A good part of the problem is self inflicted, but it DID work better with analog TV. The only broadcast TV I watch is news. Everything else is via the internet.
I also get worse reception. My DTV picks up 1 channel. I tried everything including a 6' outdoor antenna to pick up a signal 35mi away, something that rabbit ears USED to pick up. I eventually settled for a converter box that down converts to 640x480. I get all the old channels at analog quality, with frequent digital freezes and glitches. Slight snow is easy to watch through compared with a digital signal. I do get some new HOME SHOPPING channels that I don't want. Thank %deity% for Hulu, netflix, ect. Is it too late to go back?
For a more entertaining look at a naked black hole see http://www.amazon.com/Compleat-McAndrew-Charles-Sheffield/dp/067157857X "The Compleat McAndrew" by Charles Sheffield Good read on how to use and abuse a black hole for fun and profit.
The law does not define what is human, other then by the generic description of "homo sapiens" How about a fully artificial set of chromosomes from a computer database created in a lab? Without a VERY clear definition of human, that we currently don't have, these type of laws are useless. Is someone with downs syndrome human? they have a extra whole chromosome. How about someone who gets infected with a retrovirus. They now have a mix of human and virus DNA. How about people who are XXY, XXYY, XYY or other sexual genetic abnormalities? We share a LARGE portion of our DNA with everything from monkeys, dogs, mice, insects and even flowers. First define "Human", and by then many humans will be mixed with "animals" to make the laws worthless and conflict with the bill of rights along with many other laws. People, mostly the very religious, just don't want the understanding that "human" is just another kind of specialized animal.
26/70 Here. My favorite was 11. If I'm sure I'm right about something, I don't waste much time listening to other people's arguments. I am NOT going to waste time arguing that 1+1 is anything other then 2 (except here where it is 10). Usually there is one right answer and a near infinite amount of wrong answers. Yes 11 is less wrong then potato, but both are wrong mathematically speaking.
I gave up my cable for a combination of OTA, BT, Hulu and the library in 2007. In addition to those other sources, SOME cities have a good public library system. Here in Las Vegas, NV you can get almost anything that is available on DVD. Sometimes they don't have a lot of copies of the popular items, but you can get on a waiting list. I am currently catching up on my SG-1, SGA, Star Trek DS9, BSG, Dr. Who & Torchwood. It's almost a perfect system.
Yea, I WANT one of the new Toshiba 4S reactors in my back yard*. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_4S A good idea, and I would have no problem living next to/on top of one of those.
*Currently in a condo, I need to get a back yard first.
You will always be able to find one on e-bay. I DON'T foresee drobos as a good solution for more then 10 years, 20 at the outside. The data would need migration after to a new medium. It is a good long term solution where long=10-20 years. I don't know ANY static solution that would work after 20 years. For longer terms periodic migration is a requirement, but there is also the question of computers to read the data, and programs to interpret the raw data. With so many scientific programs having copy protection, having copies of the data, copies of the disk, and no LPT1 port to put the parallel port dongle on, means no access to the data. There are many links in a chain to go from 1's & 0's on a storage medium to USEFUL data. If any link gets broken the data may not be usable or recoverable.
I though that everyone knew that you can eject a group of disks as a disk pack, then reuse the enclosure for the next client. I have a live drobo, and then a backup with 3 SETS of disks, for a total of 4 disk packs, 4 disks per pack, of 1tb each.
Sorry, I made a assumption that he would read up on the drobo and find that out.
You might look at a www.drobo.com as a set of 4,5 and 8 drive enclosures. 1 TB disks gives you 3 TB usable space with a 2 drive failure tolerance. I have the older 4 bay drobo (2 for myself, and 2 at separate clients offices). It is much simpler to use, and will scale to your 2-3tb use and allow mismatched drives that normal raid will not use. Get a enclosure to start with, and then financing permitting, get a 2nd for Drobo redundancy. Not the fastest or cheapest, but reasonably good by both accounts, and simple to use.
What, if any, relationship is there between the SAR and the reception on the phone? Higher is better? Lower is better? I always guessed a high SAR also means a better transciever, but my Palm Pre is LOWER then my old HTC Touch Pro, but it definatly is a better transmitter and reciver. It just might be a better RF design though. How DID the government come up with a 1.6sar max though? and not the European 2.0? I have had various cell phones (3w analog to my palm pre) in my shirt pocket for close to 20 years, and in trying to find an answer, I found out the SAR is 1 inch from the body, like on a holster, not in a shirt pocket. I don't care as it is RF non-ionizing though like others have said.
The coverage is the most important item. IF you get the best phone, and find you have poor coverage it won't matter. I have been with sprint for 10 years, and have good coverage here in Las Vegas, NV. I LOVE my Palm Pre, but in the next few days Verizon is getting a updated version of the Palm pre and Palm Pixi with tethering. This might be the best solution. The Sprint pre does have a unofficial tethering option. I gave up on winmo after having lost too many calls when the phone range, and the telephone app crashed while trying to answer. Winmo is Windows fist, a Phone 2nd. My Pre has been 10x better if you can live with the smaller apps list. Look at www.precentral.net for more info.
I had a mild headache from Avatar Imax 3d with polarized glasses. With the Digital 3d with LCD glasses version, I did not have a headache, but my left eye/visual cortex wigged out and started dropping information. My laser correction surgery changed my eye dominance(from left eye to right eye due to my right being 20/20 and my left being 35/20) and the Dig3d seemed to screw something up in my brain more then my eye. It was truly weird and persisted for 2 days. I went to CES and no system seem to be ok. I tried a few LCD 3d versions, and got sick to my stomach. I stopped looking at LCD, and tried a few direct view, but when you were at the correct distance, it was a small picture. I like to sit CLOSE to a tv, and 3d w/out glasses limits you to a SPECIFIC distance. Also without glasses you see the grating/lenses in front of the image and it is much poorer quality. I guess that it doesn't help that IN avatar they have perfect flat and curved 3d and the large holographic table that shows what 3d should look like. It should be doable with a head tracking "display" with a laser putting 2 separate images on the back of each retina kinda like a stereoscopic version of this. http://www.cs.nps.navy.mil/people/faculty/capps/4473/projects/fiambolis/vrd/vrd_full.html
That is only true if you need a PHYSCAL keyboard and display. A small brick the size of a Iphone, with a Laser Keyboard http://www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com/ and Pico Display http://www.microvision.com/pico_projector_displays/ would allow for multiple options. I agree that a non-tactile keyboard is not the best, but for light web surfing/email it would work. It would have 3 modes.
1. An Iphone like slate, with a on a screen (3.5" built in physical screen) keyboard, when there are not a convenient surface.
2. A projection keyboard and display
3. At home/work where you need a full keyboard and a high quality display with a wireless link to both.
I leave getting that into a iphone size for a reasonable amount of money up to the engineers.
While growing up I started reading more and more for enjoyment. As modem technology improved, my reading speed HAD to increase to keep up with the modem, due to my inability to afford a com program with a scroll back buffer, due in part to the various terminal emulations that I wanted. I got to the point where I could read, remember and ace tests with my reading speed up to 14.4. My first slow modem was a 1200, then 2400, 4800, and I skipped 9600 to go to 14.4. After that I could not keep up at a reading speed. I can skim faster then 14.4, but not read and remember. Anyone else's reading speeds influenced by their modem?
Eywa is not so much as a god, but a distributed intelligence, that normally does not get involved in local fights between groups of people. A bit of the prime directive, along with the lack of ability to bond with humans, and being very old, kept it from realizing what is going on. Only after Grace was linked into Eywa and partially uploaded did Eywa have a human reference point necessary, and kick into action. God implies all seeing, Eywa is not. Limited and working at mostly biological speeds, Eywa can not react fast. At the beginning when Jake was sampled by Eywa's floating sensors, that are doing double duty as seeds, that is the start of Eywa's involvement. Genetic samples don't give Eywa the inside knowledge of what the human's plans are. Eywa can't know what goes on in a humans mind and what the intentions are, until Grace dies, and Jake bonds with the soul tree to add addition info of what the humans are planing. Scholars and artists have been superceeded by Ewya, soul trees, and the planetary infomation network. What do they need to invent? Planes? no. Better methods of killing other tribes? That is something Eywa is going to suppress. There just is not much reason to invent, especially in a post biological singularly society. What do we semi-modern humans have, that the Na'vi don't and WOULD WANT?
Everyone seems to be making the ASSUMPTION the the Na'vi are preindustrial.
1. The Na'vi can link directly to many other animals that are happy to serve them, and and the Na'vi in return care for them.
2. Planet wide network for storage, upload and download of information, long term store, processing, and on demand local grid processing, including the ability to do a total upload of a person.
3. Unobtainium, a planet wide "natural" super conductor that allows for floating mountains.
4. Eywa, the operating system put in place to regulate everything, including guiding the Na'vi to stay in harmony with everything else.
It seems to me that the Na'vi went though their own singularity, and what we see as primitive is the biotechnology leftovers from a older culture, but they have set themselves and their decedents with a ideal environment, the ability to live, have kids, grow old, then upload when the time is right. Use large off-planet element nuclear synthesis to create the unobtainium, (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability ), and setup the biosphere and the infosphere for long term in habitation by ignorant people. In a head to head comparison of Na'vi vs humans, the Na'vi are superior in almost everyway.
Medicine - Eywa takes care of that much better.
Education - A direct mental link for sharing of information.
Physical form - not much is explained beyond carbon fiber in the skeleton, but onscreen of what Jake goes though is beyond what a normal human can handle.
Information storage, processing & retrieval mostly superior, with the exception of speed given the late start the other animals had in the battle.
Long term care of their wold and sustainability - Although the world seems genetically engineered for the Na'vi,over time some drift has occurred as not all animals retain their friendliness, but in times of crises, can revert back.
Given that this is part 1 of 3, and the hints on screen and referenced to, this is my suspicion. Most people have problems thinking about the singularity as it is so encompassing, enabling, and yet compressing. The Na'vi are just one result of who remains after a biological singularity.
Everyone seems to be ASSUMING that PEOPLE are fighting something approximately PEOPLE size, mass, and speed. What good are ships, guns, missiles, lasers, etc, against a post singularity quality enemy. With trillions of dust particles all waiting to start disassembling anything without the right security codes, gray goo is about the worst thing a spacecraft can encounter. Properly setup gray goo will use the lasers for power, missiles, bullets, small ships as a starter material to make more gray goo. How can you defend against that? You can get mutual assured destruction, but that is about it. The cost in energy to send anything more then a starwhisp from one solar system to another quickly goes from bad to impractical. Canned humans in space are just NOT practical outside a solar system. A FTL jump drive makes it eaiser, but between gray goo, Stargate's replicators, the Borg, and things like a T1000, humans are just so much dead meat.
The battles do look good on video though....
Wil McCarthy started http://ravenbrick.com/ after inventing programmable matter for his Queendom of Sol series, and then realizing that current tech would allow a start with this new kind of matter.