Comment Goat (Score 1) 123
Time to patent my troll fighting goat.....
Comment Re:D.C. (Score 2) 347
Someone had to be the heavy....
Comment D.C. (Score 2) 347
Store it in Washington, D.C. with the rest of the waste.
Comment Re:Neal Asher (Score 1) 1130
I've read most of the Neal Asher books published in the US. I look forward to new releases.
Ian Tregillis's books Bitter Seed and The Coldest War are very good.
Comment Re:prefab windows are a good thing (Score 1) 525
My house just wouldn't be the same without Marvin windows....
One of the carpenters building my house was given the nickname "ol' one board" because (seemingly) he could make one board last all day.
Comment 320 tons of gold? (Score 1) 155
$16 billion will buy 10.11 tons of gold at current prices.
Comment Spiders (Score 1) 152
Whatever the spiders want.
Comment Re:when a dinosaur dies (Score 1) 225
Oh, this will probably have a half-life similar to intelligent design, monkeys too greedy to let go of the banana in the jar- creative works that they couldn't possibly produce by themselves. That hand is never going to let go of the revenue stream willingly.
On the gripping hand, however, creative people now have many more tools to deliver their work directly to the customer.
Comment "deserve to be paid for their work" (Score 1) 188
Creative music artists are at the mercy of the record companies..... The music industry would like to continue the cash stream, but actually paying the artists for their work is another matter.
Comment Re:Spain, Italy and Greece (Score 1) 353
Still cheaper than printing out all that data. I'm sure Apple would love to make a product that would OCR tunes from a paper print out and play them.
Comment Re:Dear Portugal (Score 1) 353
I just voted for a Massachusetts proposal for a constitutional amendment during our annual Town Meeting that would restore the First Amendment rights of citizens that Citizens United v.FEC has eroded. Too bad it will take a decade or two....
Comment Re:And... (Score 3, Interesting) 75
The rest is reserved for the patent trolls.
Comment Re:Buffet? (Score 0) 72
The dog went for it.....
Comment Re:But... (Score 1, Insightful) 72
And it continues to be 6000 years old, no matter how much time passes. God's true believers move the goalpost.
LG Begins Mass Production of First Flexible E-ink Displays 87
MrSeb writes "LG has just announced it has begun mass production of the world's first flexible, plastic e-ink display, with finished devices expected to hit Europe next month. LG says these plastic displays are half the weight (14g) and 30% thinner (0.7mm) than the hard, heavy, prone-to-cracking glass-laminate e-ink displays found in e-book readers like the Kindle and Nook. The press release says the plastic display survives repeated 1.5-meter drop tests and break/scratch tests with a small hammer, and that it's flexible up to 40 degrees from the mid point. Technology-wise, it's not very clear how LG's e-paper actually works. The press release suggests LG is using a conventional TFT process, which hints that they've cracked Electronics on Plastic by Laser Release (EPLaR). EPLaR is basically a technique of embedding electrophoretic ink capsules in a plastic substrate, but using existing TFT manufacturing processes, rather than building a whole new factory (unlike E Ink, which makes displays for the Kindle and other e-book readers). If this is the case, then other LCD manufacturers like Samsung and Sharp could start producing e-ink displays as well, hopefully driving prices down and further improving the display technology."
