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Exactly!! I don't know that colony is particularly accurate either. When a place is "colonized", you usually go someplace already existing and take it over. There was no internet before America built it.

America built it, then opened it up for others to play. Now the others seem to be complaining because we're still there. Let 'em build their own.

Never could figure out why it didn't catch on better than it did. I think it just lacked proper advertising.

I agree. To argue 5th Amendment in this case makes no sense.

I thought this type of thing was normally argued under "Freedom of the Press". I'm not sure I agree with letting press people not reveal sources. Yes, I realize it makes their job harder, but I don't recall an amendment saying their job is supposed to be easy.

I don't remember Google ever advertising the ability to play local content. Allcast essentially reverse engineered their own, undocumented, API. To the best of my knowledge, the device still does everything Google advertises.

If we force police to wear something like Glass all the time, we might as well just have robots doing the job. This would make things to "black and white" for me, and I suspect most people, once it was actually implemented.

I know a lot of people don't trust police officers, but I think we need to leave an avenue open for making common sense judgement calls.

If they are forced to wear Glass all the time, every step they make will be scrutinized and second guessed, I believe this is more than can be fairly ask of anyone doing any job.

...that anyone a hundred years or so from now would bother awakening them. Probably just use their carcasses for fertilizer. Unless, of course, they need some exhibits for the zoo.

...sound a little bit like what we used to do with fax machines, Fax someone a black piece of paper. As the leading edge of the paper comes out of the machine, scotch tape it to the trailing edge. Recipient's machine runs until it's out of paper or toner.

Everything old is new again...

Microsoft bailed it out in fear of Linux. I don't think Microsoft is in a position to do this again. Not at the moment anyway.

This is along the lines of my 1st thoughts when I saw the original question being posed. Several smaller led lights as opposed to flood & spot. I do think the solar version has it's place too, front walk and driveway for instance.

As for the astronomer...No, this won't eliminate light pollution. I do think it could reduce it significantly though.

Overlap the photos you're taking by 60% & look at them through a Stereoscope... you get 3D.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy

Oops...Rusty math skills. 62.5 x 10^3. I guess I had an available option.

Same here. My 1st was an S-100 base computer w/ 64KB. My current is 4GB. I think that makes 6.25 x 10^6. Unless we want to count my HP29, HP67, or HP41, then it's more yet...

I don't the fragmentation is any worse than what PC manufactures have managed to do with Windows. I can't speak to Apple products as I've never owned one. All PC products come with vendor specific apps we like to call bloat-ware. The average Joe often doesn't realize this is nothing more than bloat-ware or trial-ware and I have seen them get upset when it quits functioning after an upgrade. I saw one guy get real upset when he could no longer access his Sony Media Store app on his desktop. It turned out to be nothing more than a glorified web-link to Sony's media store, which required Internet Explorer to access. He thought it was an actual application installed on his computer. Some come with vendor specific tools required to update the hardware that vendor puts out. Some will run versions of Windows that others won't. Remember AeroGlass? We had hardware that was MS certified, some that was MS compatible, etc. It all meant something different and there were people up-in-arms because they didn't read the fine print in what they were getting.

...of the most embarrassing departments in the world. Assuming, of course, they weren't already on it. http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/07/09/1721229/china-environment-ministry-calls-itself-one-of-four-worst-departments-in-world