So as long as we worship the stock market and quarterly revenues so we can calculate executive bonuses ... the cost of no consumer good will ever go down, because the people selling it will actively just find new ways to justify raising the price.

New PCs used to cost thousands and now cost a few hundred.

It can work if you're rich and don't mind raising world sea levels a few feet to wirelessly charge your electric car.

A star passed within 0.8 light years of Earth during the lifetime of homo sapiens, a mere 70,000 years ago. Our ancestors missed the boat.

Believe it or not, there are a lot of Germans of English descent.

Perhaps to study different geological formations.

Google wasn't trying to kill Firefox with pepper, they made everything Firefox needs to implement pepper available as open source and encouraged Firefox to add support. It's Firefox's choice not to implement it because they consider it "non-standard".

For videos, it's simple. For ads doing different HTML 5 animations, not so simple.

Most terrorists and criminals don't have half a brain, so yes I fully believe they'd be able to spy on more of them. Doesn't mean they should be allowed to.

There are a lot of trips where the time doesn't matter to me and walking a bit at the destination is good, where I'd love to use public transit if it weren't more expensive than gas. I'd still use my car for shopping or for when I'm pressed for time, though.

According to Lucas himself, the neimoidians were speaking with a transylvanian accent. Jar Jar was speaking in an accent Ahmed Best could do. Lucas felt it would make aliens seem more alien if they had accents, and actors only know how to do human language accents so he picked some of those. In retrospect it was a stupid decision, but it wasn't intended racistly.

Oracle's own linux distro is the reference platform. Solaris is dead and Oracle knows it.

$750 laptops can't be aimed at lower-income people, especially in India. I've never paid as much as $750 for a computer in my life, my laptop was around $300 and my desktop around $250.

If you think 100% of a planet's orbit needs to be cleared, roundness doesn't work any better. Earth has mountains, so it's not completely round, so it's not a planet!

If Lucas had been interested in realism, the entire series would've been boring. You want the asteroid chase in a realistic asteroid field where you never see an asteroid the whole time? Several years passing while they try to make it from Hoth to Bespin on sublight engines? Star Wars isn't speculative fiction, it's space opera.

There was already an Ewoks movie, so there's strong precedent and your idea will probably happen at some point.