Don't forget the 4.7" LCD industry. I know a lot of cars have them already, but mandating the camera also mandates a screen.

I've long wanted that button to report bad drivers. Bad drivers could be fined if greater than a certain percentage of drivers they were near in a month tagged them. Of course people would abuse that, tagging people simply because they don't like their car.

I have a single 2TB drive storing video from 4 surveillance cameras at 1280x960. It stores about 12 days of continuous footage from each camera. I'm sure the fast motion of driving would take a bit more space than mostly stationary surveillance cameras, but you can definitely get a good amount of footage on a standard hard drive.

I think Rock Band does this better than Guitar Hero. I can calibrate both games, but Guitar Hero never has the notes on beat, so I have to play by eye rather than by ear. In Rock Band, I look at the notes as they appear rather than when they pass the "hit area," and play them by ear.

Flash is ridiculously poorly written for Mac OS. HTML 5 video typically uses 15% of one core on my Mac Pro, while Flash often uses 100%. It's so poorly written for Mac OS that running flash in Windows in VMWare Fusion can sometimes take less total CPU than running the Mac version.

Except I think the 'e' in "eMac" stood for "education" rather than "electronic." It would be odd if Apple had sold the "internet" Mac for years before building an electronic Mac.

So you're saying that just because the iTunes store doesn't have The Beatles, that people shouldn't buy from there, or if they do, they aren't real music lovers? I guess if you had to get all of your music from a single source, and you needed to have The Beatles, then iTunes wouldn't be for you, but iTunes has tons of stuff that you can't find in any brick and mortar store, and even a lot that Amazon doesn't have. Any real music lover wouldn't limit themselves by not shopping at a store simply because they didn't have one artist. If they did that, they wouldn't shop anywhere, as no store has every artist.

Nothing current? Some of their shows are added just days after airing on TV. Netflix shows that I watched Heroes Season 4: "Once Upon a Time in Texas" on November 8th. That episode aired on November 2nd according to IMDB.

Same here, though mine is 23". It's funny that this was on Slashdot today, because just two days ago I posted on a forum I'm on about the lack of higher resolution monitors, and the fact that the 2048x1152 displays that appeared 18 months or so ago seem to have disappeared, despite getting really good reviews. The Samsung 2343BWX I have got something like 460 reviews on NewEgg in the year it was available, and most of those were 5 eggs. Samsung doesn't have anything to replace it. Most 23 and 24" monitors are 1920x1080 now, while two years ago they were 1920x1200. There are no higher resolution monitors until you get to the 27-30" range now.

I'm in Raleigh, but would never vote to reelect him, even though I would really like Google to bring its network trials here. If he's willing to sell his kid's names to further his career, what other shady things would he be willing to do?

I agree. There have been at least 3 nearly identical experiments posted on Slashdot in the last two years. All of them used weather balloons that got to around 100,000 feet. It's neat, but it's nothing new. There's no way NASA thought this was amazing. If someone from NASA called, it was a janitor or something, not an engineer.

Really? What other PDAs were around in 1989 when Apple started working on the Newton, or in 1992 when Apple's CEO coined the term, "Personal Digital Assistant?" The innovation of the iPod wasn't that it had a bigger hard drive, because it didn't. If I recall correctly, there were 6GB HD based players at the time. The innovation was the interface. The click wheel made scrolling through your 5GB of music so much easier than up and down arrows of other players. The Macintosh was the first widespread use of the mouse, so it's not like they "innovated" a 1 button mouse based on popular 2 button PC mice, as you seem to be implying.

This has been bothering me ever since the PS3 came out. There are so many games that only offer multiplayer online, with no option to play with someone sitting next to you. It might offer what they consider a "better" experience, with no split screen, or being confined to the same screen as with other dungeon crawlers, but they're basically saying that if you want to play it with a family member or room mate, you'll need to buy another console, TV and second copy of the game. That's just stupid.

There already is an iPhone/iPod app for this. It's called SoundAMP, and is $10. So for $210 you can get an iPod touch and SoundAMP, and have way more features than a normal hearing aid (unless the new ones can play music, surf the web, etc). It even has a playback feature in case you missed what someone said (presumably in the case where you can't ask them to repeat it, such as TV, or an announcement or something).

It's not hard to deny. Unless someone is just detached from reality, seeing something in a game or movie does not harden them to seeing it in real life. I played Unreal Tournament for years, with my favorite weapons being the flak cannon, which would blow people into "gibs," and the sniper rifle, which would shoot their heads clean off. I don't think I'm any more hardened to real-life gore than someone who hasn't played violent/gory games. I literally couldn't hurt a bug. I catch them and let them go outside.

Also, if seeing gore is all it takes to be desensitized to it and more likely to inflict it on others, wouldn't surgeons be turning into killers left and right? They see the insides of people on a daily basis.