2001 reference maybe? Put in subject to isolate it?

re: comment: if manned orbital launch capacity were as easy as buying a car, then I wouldn't have made the comment in the first place.

...without your manned launch ability.

I think it's funny how much touting of past success and distant future goals the present administration seems to do after dismantling the US manned space program by executive order. (Rushed out days before congress could vote on emergency funding.)

operation Barbara Streisand!

As a user of Photoshop since 2.0 on the Mac, a user of most of Adobe's other products since they were owned by other companies I might offer a bit of a different take on this:

Adobe used to be a valued partner both in business and spirit for Apple. Both companies grew. Apple maintained much of its entrepreneurial spirit. Adobe didn't. Since the early days, Apple has transformed numerous times in numerous ways. Apple's newest direction indeed takes it more towards broad consumer 'data ubiquity' devices much like what Ford's did with cars. That doesn't mean they are abandoning the Mac "truck" (to use Steve's analogy) line, but that line is mature.

In the same time, Adobe has done about a millimeter beyond porting their software to different architectures and platforms. I've watched them do nothing year after year. I like the heal brush, and I use it occasionally. I like the increased integration of pdf/illustrator. To be fair, InDesign is nice, but largely unrealized and unpolished. Is that 15 years of development? When Adobe was a bright star, the applications were written by teams in the 2-digit range. Adobe has adopted the Microsoft 4-digit development team strategy, and it shows. Watching Adobe's fit about Apple's (good) decision regarding flash was simply sad to watch, and I knew how bad things must be in SanJose.

Today, I dread launching any Adobe product, especially on anything less than a 8-core Mac Pro. I use it when I must because its the mortar between the bricks.

What Adobe doesn't understand is that today, to write a Photoshop killer, an Illustrator killer, even an InDesign killer is possible and Adobe's monopoly stranglehold on the graphics industry has almost decayed completely from a technical point of view. If the merger happened today, I'm afraid Apple would have (superior) replacements available quickly. I look forward to these. People will migrate easily, and then the inevitable; some Windows-users will actually switch just to get them, and Apple gets stronger. (If this seems like a fanboy fantasy look into the history of Safari/webkit, Final Cut Pro, and Aperture.)

I already miss the old Adobe, I won't miss the current husk that it is now.

Suggestion to Adobe: instead of merging with another bloatware company, consider focusing on efficiency, hiring some imaging-technology innovators and axing the old guard.

Thanks to the Streisand Effect, Plane Finder AR will doubtless skyrocket to the top of the charts by the end of the day.

If this were a legitimate security risk, they just did about a thousand times the damage that it would have been had they ignored it. Pathetic. This is why efforts like the Cyber Command is such an obvious failure to anyone with a lick of Internet-savvy before it was ever launched.

This is exactly where things are going.

Mexico is first because it has the highest tension between those who live like animals, and those who don't. This trend will continue, however.

Point-Picking systems are old-hat at this point, and walking between picked points is equally easy. I'd agree its a training-wheel approach that keeps the processing load much lower, but this is no great hurdle or limitation.

Not coincidentally, this is exactly how a human pilot flies, you are specifically taught to NOT trust your inner ear, but rather only instruments and what you see out the windshield (picked reference points). So what you're calling a weakness is strikingly close to regular old flight school.

Skynet's Very-Aggressive Quadrotor Parody; the video that had to be done...

This is "insightful"? Slashdot is sliding, fast. Mods, this is flamebait. Get a clue.

Big surprise here, if you use a proprietary, closed plugin to deliver video with no regards to performance or user experience, then yes, you'll be able to deliver exactly within the use limits the media creators have demanded.

If YouTube truly thinks this is best long-term for its success, I'm afraid we'll watch a slow death as competitors nibble away market-share, one obscure platform at a time that lacks a flash player but was created to use open standards out of the box.

The half-finished, mostly-paid-for SSC was slated at 20 TeV. You'll forgive my shrug at 1 TeV. This is an embarrassing footnote on the state of physics in modern civilization. Thanks Clinton.

This question/assumption is exactly why this initiative is doomed to fail. Institutions don't get 'hacking' (cracking).

Hacking isn't about computers. Hacking is about a thought process. If you don't have it, you probably never will. Learning to 'think like a hacker' is about saying 'hmmm' when something unexpected happens and letting your mind explore a thousand options instead of shrugging and moving on. The true, scary-smart hacker types do exist, but the average profile is someone without a CS degree (likely no degree at all) very little evening social life (or none that you'd recognize), and they are tickled by finding a goofy little exploit with a piece of technology just because the engineers that created the system never intended it... and they ignore the fact it took them 2 weeks of mercilessly poking at the system to find it. They aren't high-power career types, they don't often look the part. (The few I know are terribly non-stereotypical nerds. One's kind of a gun-nut in fact, one used to work at car-stereo shop during daylight hours, one's married with 2 children.) Music ranges from Bob Dylan to bubblegum rock to hard-core trance.

The 'not quite ripe' profile is the kid who likes to figure out what his christmas presents are before he gets them without opening them, and later the puzzle of trying to read bank statements he gets in the mail through the security envelope without any evidence its been opened... (hint, try different frequencies of light) but doesn't know the first thing about computers.

Put another way, the best 'hacker type' I've seen in fiction recently is Gregory House MD., a man driven by 'the puzzle' above all else. Find a guy like that, sit him with a stack of about 5 O'Reilly books, and *that* is a hacker.

"Crash" used to refer to a specific failure of a drive where the head (meant to fly micrometers above the platter) collides or 'crashes' into the platter with catastrophic results.

As is the case with many edge-of-understanding terms, people (the media is famous for this) fixate on words they feel cool using and repeat them endlessly. (Examples I remember off-hand include; "hacker" (cracker tyvm), "computer virus" (very few true viri remain- mostly worms and trojans now), "stealth fighter" (its a Nighthawk goddammit), etc..)

When people hear techs using the oh-so-satisfying phrase "hard drive crash" reenforced by gesturing to 'the big box' when mentioning a hard drive in the past, its an unstoppable urge to try their hand at using the words so they can demonstrate their newfound technical prowess when their POS Windows install craters on them.

This hasn't been helped by the fact that M$ persists in making an OS that locks up regularly or that the term 'software crash' is so easily shortened to 'crash' which reenforces the clueless user's feeling that they used their newest definition for the word correctly.

This is one of those "amazing advances" that just isn't either.

I'm sorry for the guy dumping all the effort into this, and maybe its just me, but I have 3 dozen of these ideas a day, I spend a fleeting 15 seconds thinking about implementation, and dismiss each for the types of reasons that are already mentioned here (to which I'll add a couple of my own).

clunky- thicker and less elegant than a glass display

non-durable, repeated use and puncture vulnerable

fixed layout, defeats the purpose of touch-screens

visual bumps, not really tactile buttons

just a rewrap of projector technology

use of projector/cameras cannot be made flat

power consumption and noise

Seriously... Look, if you're so sold on solving this "problem" then do it right: Use a variation of existing braile text displays made with translucent plastic and use tri-color LED as the display technology with force-feedback sensors on each 'bank' of pips. The term 'expensive' comes to mind, but 10x the quality solution as this crap.

I applaud the Eve gang supporting its fan base.

Unfortunately, the Eve UI remains the worst I've seen in any game made in the last 20 years. You'd have to pay me to play this thing (see Worst IT Jobs).

Furthermore, while a back-story is nice, its rather difficult to be part of a story with ships and voice-overs. Eve still doesn't let you get out of your spaceship, still doesn't let you even see around your ship, you are your spaceship, its about the most aseptic stage to ever try to create a "story" unless you've got the power of Pixar behind you.