I suppose it depends on your field and the nature of the conference, but I think that most of the time you can distill some take home key points and some "things to look up" in just a few short lines. When I attend a conference or lecture, I open my To Do app on my smartphone and just jot a few short items: IE - Newton talk 8/11 - Force=massxaccl. wiki this later or []look through old thruster data - were the forces equal AND opposite?

Adding things to my to do list forces me to attend to them at some point and also forces me to be concise and selective about what I choose to write down - resulting in a good signal to noise ratio.

More importantly we decided to accept the TSA and the cost of housing all of their employees to bump around the airport, airport security upgrades, and the cost of lost time due to increased airport inefficiency. All of these costs get passed on to the airliners too. Cuts are made in your legroom and your tv dinner.

I think that means $50 for the airline to serve a meal to everyone, not $50 a head. Airlines would have stopped serving meals long ago if they were losing that kind of money on feeding you. What is your source?

Did they Roger it?

That's why I'm selling my old car to buy the "good" consumer grade 3d printer. I'll also use my good consumer grade printer to print cheap consumer grade 3d printers that I'll sell to the rest of y'all.

and you'd be wrong!

"and some way to maintain uniform fog distribution in a room."

  I know some college buddies who have actually figured out how to do this- completely inadvertantly mind you. The fog itself in their case also has the added effect of neuromodulation-making a room full of people actually impressed (if not downright giddy) about 10 projectors sitting on the floor showing a cruddy light show.

most of them are bumbling around DC

The change you'd see is you'd be 90days short of stuff you wanted/needed and some of the people that made that stuff that you wanted/needed might not be around anymore to provide it when you were done with your spending hold ended. However, that's assuming everyone drank the koolaid and participated in a spending hold. I'm in full support of you trying to organize this though - if enough people participate I'm going to capitalize on the shift in supply/demand and buy all sorts of stuff on the cheap. I'll sell it back to you at mark-up when your 90 days are over.

If they expect to lose this many customers, they must also expect to gain enough of a profit margin from the price hike that they can afford to lose this many customers. It's not like they're standing under a bridge and expecting it to fall on them - they are electively changing the prices. This is assuming that a rabid monkey hasn't taken over the management of Netflix, which is not an unreasonable hypothesis given their bizarre adherence to their horrendous new interface despite an overwhelming sentiment of repulsion from their user base.

    The idea of even offering plans that are essentially equivalent to cutting a video store in half arbitrarily is so viscerally unappealing - it is just a setup for competitors to step in. The sooner the better - good riddance netflix.

And the Wright brothers crashed planes...
  The advent and adoption of the self driving car will prove to be the single most life saving accomplishment of this century. If the google car went rogue and ran over a group of school children and the steering column punctured straight through the torso of the meatbag driver, I would still champion the development of this project. The technology to achieve the goal of self driving cities and highways has already existed for years. Adequate support and testing is all that is needed to make this a reality. Unfortunately you or someone you love will likely be injured or killed in an automobile accident before self driving vehicles become widely adopted - any critics to projects like google's should bear this in mind.

Yep, you're on to us. We wanted to keep it a total secret etched in the tablets of our elk lodges, but we totally prefer the fat, anti-social, greasy fingered, soda sipping dweeb mold rather than simply trying to look for the most qualified individual for the job. It's completely overt - we are even willing to give up our capitalistic ideals and endure dents in our bottom line to maintain this fraternal tradition.

It's probably okay that you know this now though - we are not frightened of loosing our stronghold. We know that you are incapable of taking overt action because we have evidence that is equally as strong as what you have presented, that you are all spending your time having topless pillow-fights in your sororities.

This all makes total sense if you don't think about it and just assume that a significant majority of people in high places are just filled with hate to the point where they are willing to sacrifice financial and technological gains to consciously perpetuate an arbitrary standard.

Signed CEOs everywhere

Between the hideous new interface and more importantly netflix's complete dismissal of user feedback on it and now this price racketing, I would love nothing more than to cancel my subscription (well, actually I'd really love to leave a bag of flaming poop on their doorstep) and switch to something better. The problem is there currently isn't anything even close to what they offer that I am aware of (please do let me know if you've discovered something). They realize that they have established total dominance of the market (litmus for this is when apple starts advertising access to your content when selling their services) and they are being down right malevolent about it. Jacking up prices is one thing - it's a bummer, but if you can get away with it based on your monopolization of the market, go for it I guess, but ignoring the voice of the vast majority of your subscriber base is the kind of hubris that will lead to netflix's collapse as soon as a smart new startup is ready to tackle the market. Let's hope it happens soon.

Doubt I'm alone when I say, please let us know if you pull this off and have an app that does this.

I hope this isn't just targeted towards firefox. Thunderbird is an unwieldy beast of an email app as well. No good reason that checking my email should involve consuming 200Mb of memory.