An array of 1600 of these 8k monitors? Okay...that's really only 163' across and 92' high - barely in the top 20 of the largest screens in the world - but at 156ppi I'd say you're probably sitting too close to the screen if you can see the pixels. ;-)

5.5" phone screens are at 2560x1440, with 4k on the way. 8k on a monitor...what's the hold up?

Phones seem perfectly able to light the screen and drive the pixels at less than 4W TDP. Seems odd that 8k is such a large challenge given volume, mass and power budgets 20-100x that of a phone.

Lawyers don't laugh - it throws them off their count while going through their piles of money.

Yes. Yes it is. In fact, for an airport, support facilities, hangar and maintenance facilities, and proper air traffic control and infrastructure, you'd be hard pressed to get a commercial project for significantly less with the same specifications.

Yeah, of all the Soviet Russia conditions where "your papers, please" could be used to identify the US as a police state, this is NOT one of them.

How can you safely produce your wallet, which usually resides in your pocket? If you're all fired up worried about getting shot, put your hands on the hood of the car and tell them which pocket your phone is in. Having had my share of traffic violations requiring identification, it's never been an issue. Then again, I'm not black, so I get a lot more leeway in what constitutes a threatening move and what doesn't.

A proper implementation should be by the OS maker, though, which automatically locks the phone when the app is accessed - or in which the license/insurance/registration information can only be accessed from the home screen via a special unlock code/access which does not unlock the rest of the phone contents.

While a super-secure app isn't really necessary for police, since they can just call in your license number and verify you're legal/in the system, for things like age verification, you'd have to add some kind of simple challenge/response functionality for people who don't have access to police records (bouncers, cashiers, bartenders).

Not that it matters. Until Apple/Google get the whole NFC payment bullshit worked out and every vendor has an NFC terminal we're going to be carrying around other slabs of plastic to pay for things. Carrying a license isn't really an extra burden.

Yeah, except that 16:9 portrait is way too tall and skinny (I have a Sony Flip, so I've tried it, even at super high res 2880x1620). I actually think 4:3 is good, but I'd be happy with Ax size (1.41:1) or even 3:2.

cue cute black girl shrugging and saying "why not both?".

Monitors are cheap - landscape in the middle and portrait on the sides. And make 'em big (I have 2 decade-old 1600x1200 20" dell monitors flanking a 2560x1600; works perfectly)

Personally, I think monitors for computers should be in the ISO 216 / A series size. 1.41:1 "works" for a lot of content, and doesn't get weird when you shift to portrait (if portrait is your thing, or you're using a convertable laptop in portrait mode).

While that's somewhat true, the mere act of singing properly (extending vowels and turning dipthongs/consonants at the beginning of the "next" word) leads to this quite a bit. I once learned a song mostly from a commercial recording, then found out that the (somewhat odd) words I'd learned in one phrase were different than what I'd learned. Thing was - it didn't matter. The vowel and consonant sounds were identical for all practical purposes, and it didn't matter which "words" were there.

If you're not using RAW, you're doing it wrong. JPGs are for end use, and as such will never really benefit from higher bit depths. It's like being concerned that your music isn't being released in 24bit/192kHz. Those people who can tell - and viewing conditions where - the differences can be seen are so rarified that you may as well use a TIFF at 16 bits and (if you want) lossless compression. It's not as if we're worried about space constraints *in those situations* these days.

You may need to run Windows, but that doesn't mean you have to run an ancient version of it. Win7 doesn't actually need defragging unless you use a spinning drive and tend to fill up the entire capacity of the disk *and* do a lot of random writes (you do have a dedicated scratch disk like Adobe recommends, right?), comes with antivirus built in, software and driver updates are automatic (unless the vendor doesn't support them). As to registry correction software...wtf are you doing with your PC? I've used the registry since NT v3.1 and have never needed "correction software" for the registry hives.

"But, we're able to have coopetition, a new word that we're continuing to learn the exactly what it means and how we are able to create swim lane clarity around."

I'm sorry, but my buzzword bingo card just shit it's pants over that sentence. Coopetition and Swim Lane Clarity. That makes Synergy seem quaint.

" A solid lump of flesh and bone or a solid lump of styrofoam, plastic, and some small bits of metal." FTFY

I would worry more about the "potentially explosive" lithium batteries, but the actual energy involved is likely less than the rated capacity of 57Wh (for a DJI Phantom, a fairly large consumer model), or 205kJ of energy. If you consider they fire multiple chickens (at 3-4kg) at a combined vector of aircraft speed and compressor blade speed of 275m/s, the impact energy is north of 300(+/-)kJ. If you're concerned about high temperatures, remember that this is a jet engine made of high temperature steel and ceramics. Don't forget that they also fire 120+g balls of ice into the engines at hundreds of m/s, so it's not all "soft stuff" they test against these engines.

That's not to say that a large drone might not do damage to an engine, but if you combine the chance of an idiot drone pilot *and* the chance of getting ingested into an engine *and* the chance of actually having an impact which severely damages the engine you're talking very very remote possibilities. You may as well start patrolling the highways to make sure nobody flies above them for fear of the drone losing power and diving into traffic. Current laws cover the conditions well enough for general safety (glide slope and general hobby a/c altitude limits).