Specifically legal DRM-free files. I'll be all over them. My GoG library can attest to that.
*crickets*

... it's Math education that needs to get better!

This seems to be a good starting point :
http://betterexplained.com/
(Something similar to his "intuitive" explanation of the exponential function and of imaginary numbers should be taught in all schools!)

But then, we have to ask ourselves, how can a teacher properly teach (the most important aspect of which is to transmit the passion for learning) a class of 30+ children (or worse, teenagers)?

Or you need a display being able to replicate the whole of a light field, like an hologram.
(I'm talking about *real* holograms here, not fictional Star Wars volumetric display "holograms")

Significant progress has been done in recent years in creating actual holographic displays on which the image can be changed :
(as compared to non-changing holographic "prints" like this one : https://www.youtube.com/watch?... )

http://phys.org/news/2013-06-c...
http://phys.org/news/2015-02-f...
http://phys.org/news/2015-02-h...
(though you'd need a mighty good graphic card to push 45 billion pixels per second?)

That doesn't nearly carry the rage that some people have for having black borders on the side of the screen.
(Thankfully for them it's the smaller UHD-1 that seems to become widespread in consumer screens, rather than the larger 4k, and the 4k source sides will probably just end up being cut on UHD-1 screens, rather than the 4k source being scaled down, which would result in (some) blurriness...)

Harmonic press release (submitted by an AC below) mentions "4k UHD" and "2160p60" (and never 4096x2160), so it's UHD-1, not 4k.
http://harmonicinc.com/news/na...
It's NASA's press release that used a confusing picture... (and the Slashdot summary then re-used the wrong information)

I fear that the power requirements to broadcast a 8Mpx/s signal from Mars towards Earth might be a bit steep?

Except that the NASA page has this picture :
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/defa...

Showing SD, HD, FullHD, and "4k 4096x2160" sizes and "4k is Four Times the resolution of Full HD", which is technically wrong (see my comment below).

4k and UltraHD are not the same format!
http://www.extremetech.com/ext...

(Digital Cinema Initiative) 4k resolution means 4*1024=4096 columns, and generally 2*1080=2160 lines (with a resulting aspect ratio of ~17:9). It has been used for several years in movie projectors.

UHD-1 means 3840x2160 (16:9), which is 4 times the "Full HD" of 1920x1080 (or, as it's often abbreviated, 1080p, with 1080 for the number of lines, and p for progressive, 16:9 ratio implied)
(While there's also UHD-2, which is 4 times UHD-1 at the gigantic 7680x4320.)

Most screens sold as "4k" are in fact only "UHD-1", except some specific ones, generally used for very high-end video editing, now usually advertised as "True 4k" (which includes a larger color gamut, among other things).

There's also an issue that if you run at 4096x2160, 60Hz, 12-bit JPEG2000 colors, the overwhelming majority of HDMI and DisplayPort cables won't be able to carry the signal due to insufficient bandwidth (it would seem that some monitors can use two cables as a workaround).

We've had flying cars for decades now...
They are called "helicopters".

I like this one!

So, how well does this finding fit with the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

Well, of course! Don't forget, I'm an extremist after all!

Hey, I never said that if you _were_ part of the USA' "Military-Industrial Complex", you couldn't be a terrorist as well! Don't underestimate their paranoia...

At this point, I think I'm not going to be too far away from the mark by saying that if you're not part of the USA' "Military-Industrial Complex", then you're a terrorist.

BTW, there are many browser plugins that allow you to download youtube videos (and watch as you download), and it's about to be made easy for torrents too (search for "Popcorn Time"). If I'm not mistaken, newsgroups are direct downloads anyway, so they already have this feature.