Unless, of course, your research in them manages to steal the attention of this guy's girlfriend.

And if not, they could save her life.

Lest ye be totally misled: the original article states that the process that led to this discovery was applied in the image domain. That is, with graphical information (pixels?). The MRI is in the Fourier domain and thus benefits differently from this (this has been explained by other posters and frankly I don't clearly understand it), but you must consider that this all goes back to that one guiding principle under discussion: sparsity.

All of which would likely increase activity of which neuro-transmitter? Did anyone say dopamine? And what else increases dopamine activity? More witches! Err, no. Certain classes of drugs, illicit or otherwise. And depression is provably related to imbalances in norepinephrine, serotonin and dopamine. I'd love to get a real biologist's take on this research.

Are you sure you didn't mean to quote this part:

Seems more GaGa to me. YMMV.

Reasons you would place a touch-sensitive device onto a static surface:

• Identification of features (educational purposes)
• Plotting (the vector kind, not the muhahaha kind)
• Security interface?

And there are plenty of other things you could use it for.. this is just a starter list. :)

I agree. IT people should be more in tune with how the business works as well. This is where industry software and hardware often fall apart.

They have one of two things:

1. IT person creating business applications and hardware. They are technically superior, but miss the goals of the business partially, or entirely. Because of this, the business cannot run optimally.

2. A Business person creating business applications and hardware. They are technically inferior...sometimes so much to the point of not working half the time, but the ideas, and the process fit the business model.

Having IT people within the business that can identify what the user is trying to do, and how to do it, can help the IT person come up with better ideas of how to do it. When a user asks to fix a problem, don't just fix it, perhaps there is a better way of doing what they want.

Reminds me of a time when I was called in to fix some scanners and printers. After fixing them, they proceded to print a document, then scan it in, just to email it to a vendor. I politely showed them that CutePDF prints PDFs like a printer, and they can email it, saving a few steps and a lot of time. Now I try to engage the users in asking them what they want to accomplish.

Ever read the Book of French Military Successes? Both pages?

This is not news. Many of us in the A/V community over at AVS Forums knew about this a very long time ago. This is why it is important to research a product before purchasing it.

Read for content. I was criticizing that attitude by saying there's no moral distinction between the suicide bombing and the Air Force bombing.

How many children should one have - simultaneously or consecutively - if one is so poor they are eating stale bread and dirty water soup!? I don't think the year effects the answer...