Some idiocy here: it's not a rebuttal, but recognition that the brain uses multiple strategies. While I may surely recognize tokens (I'll pass on the issue of how that works), it is equally true that when I encounter a new symbol, having been trained early on in phonics, I do decompose the token into its elements, and resolve it in that fashion.

We've seen in so many areas how versatile the brain is, why on earth would we accept a story which posits a single mechanism? That smacks of a belief in the "whole word" teaching theory which has produced millions of functional illiterates.

The better solution than a potentiometer is a shaft encoder, most of which provide two pulses in quadrature, thereby allowing you to sense direction in the lead-lag relation of the two pulses, and avoid the need for an ADC.

Well, as the nanny state has turned our world upside down in the effort to promote this not-ready-for-prime-time "solution", I predict that whatever else they determine, it will be emphasized that these cars are essential to the future of the nation.

God forbid they ever let the market work.

Observing an apparent deficiency in demographics is not proof of bias, it is merely an observation of what is.

What is most impressive is Berners-Lee's utter ignorance of economics. Everything costs money. No one has a "right" to any service, much less to one that costs as much as the Internet to build and maintain. The nearest thing to a right is the right to work, which yields a wage with which services can be purchased. Really, Tim, socialism is idiocy.

The easiest way to stop illicit trade is to remove the huge profits. True for software, true for street drugs, true for pretty much any commodity. Prohibition doesn't work; lack of profit does.

Stallman has always been a nut job, and always will be. Paranoia is a debilitating condition. The fault is not so much in the pervasive technology, but in our own failure to control the power hungry politicians who are rapidly destroying our society.

The ratio of difference between the perceived vs actual focal distance remains a problem, though if the screen size has a finite limit and seating distance does not, your statement contains some truth. ;)

A reasonably correct expression of your assertion would be that you are sufficiently titillated or diverted by the present stereoscopic films being offered. What has been produced is decidedly not 3D.

Murch is right in his analysis of the problem, and that's why the stereoscopic process in use now so closely resembles what you see in a ViewMaster, but does not look like what your eyes see in real life. Whether he's right about a possible solution with holography remains to be seen. It may yield a workable solution for a small audience, but it may also be unworkable in even today's small cinema spaces.

The industry has already learned the reality of Murch's analysis; I've attended engineering presentations on the problems, and the issues which are presented by attempting to cheat the eye on a single focal plane. One thing holography would fix is the problem of people getting sick when an inexperienced -- or foolish -- director tries to force the effect too far.

How pathetic that Zuckerberg is the best they could come up with. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I mean really... with all that is happening in the world, they pick the creator of a social networking site, and one that is possibly most notable for playing fast and loose with people's info which they thought was not for sale. If he's Person of the Year, then we really are swirling in the pot.

Obviously, very few developers study economics, and perhaps of those who did, they bought into the Keynesian theories. Most of the comments here demonstrate massive ignorance of economic reality. The Volt is yet another of those "we do it because it makes us feel virtuous" projects. And the sign of another government bailout to come.

These massive battery packs present massive problems, none of which will be resolved at tolerable cost by forcing production. This is another technology whose time has not yet--and may never--come. Buy high, sell low, and make it up in volume plus government handouts. At this rate, with more and more of our income taken to prop up failures, none of us will be able to afford a Volt anyway.

If even a tenth of those who have developed skills in software would spend a little time on the study of economics, there'd be less nonsense here.

Taxes on corporations are hidden taxes on consumers. End of story.

This is about idiocy. Now, at least, I have excellent cause to shun Rackspace.

I have also learned that expecting competent reasoning from a bunch of software geeks is only going to bring disappointment. Along the same lines as trying to explain to a bunch of coders why English syntax is as important as the syntax of their favorite programming language.

Freedom of speech is a right. Freedom from being offended is not. When Obama pulls the plug on the Internet, you may finally get it.

Well, if the world rose or fell on the status of the Internet, you might have a point. But as his prowess in economics is much less certain (and given his endorsement, open to grave doubt) I'll stay with my own judgment, and not entrust such weighty decisions to those whose expertise is doubtful.