I wonder how many carats that is...

Phones are barely big enough to be usable for apps as it is - while I would like to move to a smartwatch to avoid hauling a phone or tablet around, it needs a way to have a large display on demand and simple user interface that isn't audible (for privacy and security reasons). Until we get a neural or perhaps google glass style interface, I don't think it's possible to solve that problem. And all that with a 24hr battery life.

If you have a very little bit of information, it's pretty easy to get around it on the regular website too, but I suppose it's better than nothing...

...sometimes tv, sometimes a book

Exactly the reasons I thought this was going to happen...

This is actually the sort of thing I was afraid was going to happen, sending a message that it's very profitable to be a bigot.

Exactly. Streaming is renting. When I can download unencumbered media, then I'll buy it.

I love the nook hardware; the software is the problem and rooting never worked well enough so that I could get another ereader installed. The builtin reader often silently refuses to open books - it just ignores touches and does nothing. The kindle I had worked great, but I ditched it for the nook to get away from the proprietary format and move to the epub standard. Instead, I'm having to read on the Nexus, which is ok inside, but useless outside in the sun. A nook with functional open software would be great...

Indeed, I would change the subject to "is" rather than "was"...

The vehicle itself is zero emission. The cost, environmentally and otherwise, of fuel and production, while important, are separate issues that need to be addressed separately.

If you try to solve a large, complex, problem in toto, you will likely fail. Breaking it up into manageable pieces is much more likely to succeed, such as starting with the end user product where you get the most bang for the buck and then work up the chain. Transportation is the biggest problem which will take the longest time to effect a transition, so getting started on it is important.

Once you have the transition to electric vehicles underway, then you can work on the dirtiest of the electric supplies and every time you make the supply cleaner, you automatically make everything powered by that supply cleaner, magnifying the effect of that effort.

Trying to claim a zero emission vehicle isn't zero emission is just trying to confuse issues and holds back progress.

The idea that electric vehicles aren't taking off is nonsense - they're being adopted at rate comparable to if not exceeding that of hybrids when they were introduced. The only sense of "failure" is in comparison to the ridiculously optimistic projections issued when the Leaf was introduced. There are a number of technologies in the pipe to take care of the range issue for cross country driving (which, while the issue everyone focuses on, is not an issue at all for a multi-car household, as most are), and I'll bet on those coming to market before affordable fuel cells do.

The web developers I know have more work than they can handle. If you're good at building websites, make a portfolio and start marketing yourself. That gives you a flexible schedule to work around your studies, pays better, if less reliably, and gives you independence.

Like being able to have a remote fileserver replica

"too few ISPs bother with it" [RPKI] because "Cisco Systems is committed[4] to offering this functionality in Cisco IOS. Juniper Networks is working on an implementation[5] for Junos as well", i.e. it doesn't exist yet. DNSSEC exists, but is very challenging to implement and is fragile, though recent BIND implementations have improved that situation considerably. DANE will build on top of that, so there *is* hope for the future, but it is still the future.