The key, I think, to working at home productively (when you have kids/pets/toys/etc) is to have a completely separated part of your home designated for work.. could even have a separate front door if possible. This is pretty much what the government is expecting of self-employed folks who write off part of their rent/mortgage as a home office anyway. The colocation is a huge time saver and convenience, and is great for the environment. While especially in our line of work, the price of repeated context switches are huge, I'd argue that many workplaces don't do a very good job shielding us from these either. In a perfect world, employers should use half the money saved on monthly office space rent to pay for one-time home office accommodations, and for employee compensation/perks.

I'm sure the military will be a customer, but $125k for any major corporation is negligible. I was going to reply saying the cost of building a concept car, for instance, is peanuts compared with $125k. However, the industry standard, upon further looking into it, is to build a large scale non-working prototype. If they want it functional, they might take the drive train out of an existing car. This is pretty close to the functionality you get out of prototyping with VR, and the majority of the cost is the CAD. The big savings comes with the modifications. The "let's see what it looks like if you did this". The time savings would be immense, to produce a new model for every change. Also, the remote transmission of prototypes. A movie studio in California, and a machine shop in Colorado might want to see what the latest Dalek costume looks like in a new Dr. Who movie, produced by designers in Japan. If this is the best thing out there, $125k seems to be the right price.

I would not underrate the importance of music. Movies depend on music. Much of the advertising industry depends on music. When the iPod was introduced, it was an absolute game changer for the lives of many. Music has the power to define generations. And more importantly, it takes a lot of raw talent to make good music. There's incredible demand for it, and it has a big impact, directly and indirectly, on the economy, so don't undersell it, even if it isn't something that is a basic human need.

Those "western style names" are often very long and extremely hard to type correctly. Take "Volodymyr Krynytskyy" for a typical Russian example. Go with the username.

If you're innocent, in a "perfect" world, with the world a moniker for the US justice system, you'll win the trial, for free, without any undue hardship to appear in court when required.

I think Wikimedia Foundation figured they could do a better job than Wikitravel? Which I suppose is in the spirit of forking. For one thing, I noticed searching for "Charleston, SC" gets me a result in the more intelligent Wikivoyage and just "There were no results matching the query." on Wikitravel. Probably for the better that Wikivoyage is taking over.

What's the difference between this advertisement and all those Dianetics commercials I grew up with? I still see Scientology paying for advertising in all sorts of commonplace venues, including cable TV commercials, the "stress testing" in the middle of malls, and various newspapers and magazines. Is the Atlantic held to a higher standard for whatever reason?

While it is true that 3D has been largely either "poke you in the eye" or "show it in 3D, even though the director refuses to acknowledge it", there are SOME examples to the contrary. The main one that stood out was Coraline, which I made a point of seeing recently. The director, in an interview, confirmed how I took his approach to be:

http://www.studiodaily.com/2009/02/director-henry-selick-on-coraline/

"There was a learning process – mainly not to overuse it. We ultimately used it to help draw the audience into the Other world as Coraline is being drawn into the Other world. The sets in the Other world are actually deeper. In her real world, it’s crushed space with steeply raked floors. For example, the kitchen in her real world is one foot deep. The kitchen in the Other world is four feet deep. I wanted to use 3D in a more subtle way to show what Coraline is going through, that there’s a sense of spaciousness in that Other world. We have a few shots where things poke you in the eye, but when the Other world goes wrong, we crank up the 3D almost to an uncomfortable level to enhance the storytelling."

Great usage of 3D in my book. It's too bad not many good directors are taking 3D seriously.

To be specific, according to Stephen Dole and Isaac Asimov ( Planets for Man ), the max habitable gravity is 1.5g. If I'm 180 pounds, 4g would mean I feel like I'm an unsightly 720 pounds. Get in ma' belleh! :D

The mother's judgement WAS the problem. She not only kept an arsenal of guns around a mentally-challenged individual, but she even trained him with them. If I don't want something knocked over, I'm going to keep it safe from my cat. She wouldn't know any better, so I take precautions. Similar precautions should have been taken here.

Am I missing something here? First off, the biggest platform for iOS, the iPhone, does not suit the creation of MS Office documents very well. The iPad can be hooked up to a keyboard to make it work mostly well, at least on one with a Retina display. The form factor just can't support most of the value MS Office offers. Are you really going to be writing your thesis paper or punching in complex excel formulae on your iPad? I can see MS Outlook and maybe Powerpoint having the most value, if they did it right, but my hopes aren't high.

While Apple generally leans toward uniformity to increase product reliability, this probably has the effect of increasing reliance on single vendors like Samsung, sacrificing the ability to pit one against the other in the event that something they're doing to them is unfavorable.