Microsoft have long wanted to get into Wall St., so years ago they started working on improving algorithms, but then decided to hedge their bets, and that resulted in background processes trying to kill each other, some being idle for a long time, others short, so in financial terms, it formed a bubble... and that's why windows performance is sub-prime!

duh...they're vampires. they glamm'd the innocent folk into buying DVDs :)

they practically invented packaged food...all the illiterate folk starved, or ate the insanely hot green colored funny rabbit sticks, and never came back :)

I could see a slight advantage to having a wrist band that changed color according to the urgency of the call/email/message, but that requires AI to function properly. Having moved away from wearing a blackberry on my belt, towards hiding my smartphone in a pocket, the smart-wrist thing is useful only to free up some of the time spent to pull your phone out to read it (yes, I drink lattes and am burdened by first world problems), only the cheaper models would fit within a profile of "don't want this taken from me on the subway".

maybe it's the lack of sleep, but things seem to be flying over my head today.

If your drive-in has 2K, maybe upgradeable to 4k projectors, then 8K comes out in a few years...what a difference to having 40 odd years of 35mm projectors!

still better than the other end of the trail, where it's more like: "bite me" !

I carry my phone in my pocket, in my pants next to some important things. YMMV !

given that your example: "includes four synchronous electric motors", I like the analogy of having a 4 core vehicle!

sometimes /. lets you read the same story twice!

what about huge outdoor screens of tablets, each one pixel ? (and a lot left over for spares)

"Blythe Masters"....what an excellent name for a bankster!

Things used to be "written in stone", and laws and behaviour took appreciable periods of time to develop. In the computer age, we simply edit/overwrite and modify with much faster cultural impact. Society reacts quicker; corrects or makes mistakes in much shorter time periods. We may do well from this sooner than we think.

If you were a government office, and stuck with old crap, this makes perfect sense as a means to get new equipment!

facebook sees itself in a mirror, and goes into infinite loop. all those affected turn to twitter, which promptly fowls itself. WaPo, while listening to Alanis Morissette, realizes that the internet itself is under attack...and that's when NSA claims credit (IRL) for edge detection.