I only have a lightweight understanding of how the internet works, but is it possible a some future date that the providers could offer both net-neutral and net-freedom (my name for the a Comcast, Verizon optimized package). I suppose it would only be really feasible if there could be one hardware solution for the ISP that both packages could run in since a lot of people might start out with the net-neutral package but quickly switch to the net-freedom package when they see how awesome it is.

if I point my viewmaster at an electric light is that a problem? guess I stick to my kerosene lamp then.

I was aware of ms 'support' for node.js. I tried to use it about a year ago and it was buggy enough that I decided I couldn't trust it for anything associated with a paycheck. I think MS is 'embracing' it because they are scared of it and don't know what else to do. If node does gain in popularity, MS will just be one of many vendors for it and the profit margins they are used to will no longer be there. And I'm still waiting for MS to support JSON in MSSQL (just had to get that off my chest). As for your comment about DHTML and DOM being 20 yrs old, JQuery came out in 2007-2008 because of the failures to fix browser compatibility problems. And I never said node had anything to do with fixing browser compatibility, its just Node is not worth much without it. I think the whole stack, javascript + html5 browser, node.js server has great potential for CS education. they just need to improve some of the object oriented capabilities in javascript.

I think node.js has Microsoft scared. .net is setup to allow mostly server side code spit out bland, minimal html and work on any browser. but browsers are becoming standardized so javascript acting on the DOM is portable across browsers. node.js on the server, javascript and html on the client has the potential to make .net irrelevant. I'm surprised node.js didn't come along awhile ago, but it would have been useless without html 5 and cross browser support for javascript.

i think the kin lasted about 2 months. total investment by ms was 1 billion. i remember seeing the first ads (the first time i knew of it), i got a really good laugh. this thing will last about as long.

I have a 7yr old dell e6500 laptop with a 1920x1200 screen. cpu is only a c2d 2.93 but with a SSD its pretty good. between this laptop and smartphones with slide out keyboards i think things have gone nothing but downhill since.

I agree with parent. 720 projectors are great. I have both a lcd tv and projector in my basement. I can pull the screen down infront of the tv and watch the projector instead. I greatly prefer the projector for movies. partly the bigger screen, but also the 'mat' look of the projector screen looks more realistic than the 'glossy' or I call it 'wet' look of an lcd. Often with the projector I have to go back in a movie and watch scenes again because I was so lost in the picture. never happened on the lcd tv (Samsung).

I know people that spend ridiculous amounts on audiophile equipment. I generally just tell them to hire a house band 24x7, it would be cheaper.

We shot a lot of slides when I was a kid. When I first saw kodachrome it blew my mind. I wish there was anything today that could compare. I have a 4k monitor and view 10MP pictures on it but its not even close. I guess i'll have to wait for the 8k projectors.

I think people who don't have vaccinations should have to wear arm bands so the rest of us know to avoid them. They are petri dishes of infectious disease.

I'd like to see whole biofuel process end to end to better understand how green it really is. Biofuel might look pretty growing in the field, but i'll bet the refinery process is as big ugly, industrial as the petro refinery process. There was a 60 minutes show one time where they showed glycerin being dumped from a biofuel refinery into a stream. Glycerin is not toxic but the concentration was so high the fish and everything else in the stream were suffocating.

isn't that called regulation?

I'm also not interested in watching a whole game played but do enjoy great plays. I've often thought about an app that turns a game into a graph. time along the x-axis and score on y. user can select an interval where points are scored and see the video. the x axis can have a lot of things, like yards gained. Even things like volume of crowd roar could be graphed on the y axis. I've brought this up to sports enthusiasts and they generally have no interest. once the game is over they could care less. how it unfolds in realtime is the only thing that is important to them. The other issue is NFL owns the video so I couldn't do anything with the app without working through them. I haven't looked around much lately either, something like that could exist now.

the processes to turn biomass into biofuel are anything but eco-local-natural. when scaled out they will look as bad as the current petro-industry. As far as storage goes, the power grid is a very practical way to store solar power, especially since daytime is peak electrical usage.

I used to call Steve Jobs the computer pimp. I thought woz was the real genius at the early Apple. The whole NeXT computer fiasco seemed to prove it. Then what Steve Jobs did at Pixar really impressed me. then when he went back to Apple the results were just incredible.