That does it. I'm slamming down the receiver on you.

...as long as that guy is in the pit playing the theater organ live while the movie plays, it'll be fine.

There's no way a 'recorded' music & sound effects score playing along with the movie could ever sound as good.

...or if we build it and a sexually ambiguous Jaye Davidson shows up?

Well, that went South quickly.

On X-10, I can go all the way up to 16!

I'm afraid I do not know how she determined the sodium mass increase in the BEC, and I was not in her lab at that time.
She mentioned the mass increase in correspondence.
I just found it interesting because of E=mc^2 implications.

I am aware that, in the case of this article, the stated goal was to create matter; whereas at her lab, it was more of a byproduct.

I was in communication wi. Dr. Hau in 2007, and she indicated that the sodium mass had indeed increased when the probe pulse was stopped.

Light was already turned into matter back in 2001 by Lene Hau at Harvard.
When the light pulse disappeared, the mass of the sodium increased.

http://www.seas.harvard.edu/ha...

They will probably just be frustrated by us:

Marvin: "I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number."
Zem: "Er, five."
Marvin: "Wrong. You see?"

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Not really an issue... You don't have to deliver 4K to everyone now; just like how Youtube lets you screen selective resolutions.

A few alternatives:
In the future (probably not that far off) more of your friends will have 4K.

The 4K still looks better in the sample than the native 1080, even though we were viewing at 1080.

Also in the future, you will have 4K at home (even if you don't now) and you will be able enjoy your memories @ higher resolution. Just like how we can enjoy TV shows shot on film at a higher resolution now, than TV audiences did back when they were first broadcast.

Finally, If you shoot in 4K, you can crop into the video to feature or eliminate things, without losing too much resolution.

This was anticipated in the film "Strange Days" way back in 1995 (produced by James Cameron)
where a VR 'dealer' made a "running on the beach" recording to cheer up a wheelchair bound friend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
(picture only)

Thank you for expressing that... something that was nagging me as I read the article and these comments.

I understand why people cheat in Vegas: they might walk away with real money.

I understand why athletes take steroids: million dollar contracts, fan adoration, groupies.

But, the point of online gaming is pure competition. It's anonymous, you don't even get the adoration of strangers. (and you're losing money, to boot!)

Cheating online just seems like bringing a pistol to a 1-on-1 basketball game, gunning down your opponent, shooting the ball through the hoop a couple of times; and then telling yourself what a great basketball player you are.

If you cheat, your score will always be a zero.
Those numbers in the corner don't mean anything...

They sort of have this model now (in the disc world.)

A DVD costs less than a Blu-Ray of the same movie.

Yeah, cool! I heard there are no cameras in England.