Great movie, still love it(when in the mood), but unfortunately ahead of its times; it seems less like a parody these days.

It appears reminiscent of another of my favourite contenders, E8 mathematics.
Feels like we are almost on the right track; exciting times...

Yeah, I suppose it's the price of computers being mass market consumer devices.

At least they are significantly cheaper these days(laptops), but I do also feel that they all cater to consumers that don't know what's good(i.e. average screen rez is lower these days than 5 years ago)... It's all about churn not innovation.

If you haven't seen the new Fujitsu Lifebook UH90 4k laptops(also HP and one other I think), I suggest you Google it. They are very impressive.

I agree about the high res displays, it's the only thing I'd purchase right now, if there were any products available...

Asus's 30 is a step is the right direction, but I want a(3) quality 4k 24inch lcd at the right price... ...and by that I mean cheaper than a 14inch laptop with a 4k screen.

And I'll buy a new pc when the haswell e5 xeon chips(with DDR4) are out, until then there's no point for me.

Upon reading the title I was expecting a cellular automaton glider.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton

The engineer in me can appreciate the effort though...

As someone who had the honor of meeting Ray, I say, he will be missed.

At the time of meeting him I was a nubie to the effects industry, one that he was instrumental in developing, yet he was as fascinated and inspired with our modern processes as we where by his. His insight, creative vision and pioneering sprite transcended time, and I value every word of advice that he bestowed upon me.

His works(seminal) will ensure that he continues to inspire, an immortal of our modern age.

Also consider that at the event horizon, space-time itself is travelling at the speed of light towards the black hole.

So when the medium light is travelling through is travelling at the speed of light, light can't escape; i.e. the event horizon...
Think swimming upstream when the current is faster than you can swim; the steepness of the hill has little consequence.

Having said that, I'm also not a physicist, but I also came that same conclusion...

I agree, head-tracking is very effective and without all the annoying aspects of stereoscopic - flickering glasses, fixed focus, crosstalk, etc...

Its a shame the Kinect isn't good enough to do this(I assume; where are the games?).

Not in the long term, Nanofabrication and eventually sub-atomic-fabrication, will let us literally re-build lead into gold, all ya need is the right amount of electrons, protons and neutrons to feed into the machine. My point is, there will be a point where the evolution of "3d-Printing", will destabilise the basic premise of economics, haves and have-nots...

But yes I was eluding to the fact that eventually currency will go totally virtual, if there is even a need for money by then; Atomic fabrication has the potential to eliminate poverty and free the world from the devastating effects of global industrialisation, if we let it....

Someone will need to make the first one of these units... ;)

Ultimately all manufacturing will be "3d printed", eventually...

The only question is what is going to stop people from downloading an iPhone from pirateBay, and printing a copy.

And what will happen when the technology matures to the point where you can print out a gold bar?

I hope it happens, Snow Crash is one of my favourite books of all time.

The Diamond Age would also be an incredible film too; if the Syfy Channel miniseries doesn't materialise, or even if...

And to top off a(non-Gibson) cyber-punk trilogy/cycle, I'd vote for a film adaptation of Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith.

There is no reason why Moore's law shouldn't also apply for displays, but there are/where a few stumbling blocks along the way:

-Manufacture collusion - for far too long a good portion of the manufactures where artificially controlling the price, and in turn holding back innovation and competition...
-Cable standards - Getting a sufficient amount of data to the screen is still a problem, current DisplayPort cable are barely capable of 4K...
-OS support - Better that is was a few years ago, but there still seems to be a prevailing view that high-PPI means small text rather than crisp text...
-Changing Markets - Computer where once the realm of tech. heads(who knew what was good and not), but times have changed, computer are largely consumer devices, bought by people who don't realise that FullHD is all probability a lower rez./PPI monitor than the CRT they had ten years ago...
-A change of tides in the management of the IT - Most IT company both hardware and software, are now run by non-technical management types seeking shot term goals to satisfying their myopic bonus objectives, rather than the tradition model of perusing long-term technical-research-development objectives...

As to the article, nice that they mentioned the IBM T220, I don't subscribe to their conclusions(obviously); chances are its just apple astroturfing...

How about AstroBoy, for the kid in all of us...

I would vote for any/all of the BladeRunner characters, but they are Replicants("A genetically engineered creature composed entirely of organic substance"), so don't count...

As for the choices, Bishop is cool, but Ash is so much more sci-fi!

This is just the sort of affirmation GS needs;

So, if code is not a physical object, and therefore stealing it is not theft, what dose that say about the digital currency (also non-physical) they trade every day...
And how about loosing it(the money)?

Back to the point, what if he printed the code...