We shot a lot of slides when I was a kid. When I first saw kodachrome it blew my mind. I wish there was anything today that could compare. I have a 4k monitor and view 10MP pictures on it but its not even close. I guess i'll have to wait for the 8k projectors.

I think people who don't have vaccinations should have to wear arm bands so the rest of us know to avoid them. They are petri dishes of infectious disease.

I'd like to see whole biofuel process end to end to better understand how green it really is. Biofuel might look pretty growing in the field, but i'll bet the refinery process is as big ugly, industrial as the petro refinery process. There was a 60 minutes show one time where they showed glycerin being dumped from a biofuel refinery into a stream. Glycerin is not toxic but the concentration was so high the fish and everything else in the stream were suffocating.

isn't that called regulation?

I'm also not interested in watching a whole game played but do enjoy great plays. I've often thought about an app that turns a game into a graph. time along the x-axis and score on y. user can select an interval where points are scored and see the video. the x axis can have a lot of things, like yards gained. Even things like volume of crowd roar could be graphed on the y axis. I've brought this up to sports enthusiasts and they generally have no interest. once the game is over they could care less. how it unfolds in realtime is the only thing that is important to them. The other issue is NFL owns the video so I couldn't do anything with the app without working through them. I haven't looked around much lately either, something like that could exist now.

the processes to turn biomass into biofuel are anything but eco-local-natural. when scaled out they will look as bad as the current petro-industry. As far as storage goes, the power grid is a very practical way to store solar power, especially since daytime is peak electrical usage.

I used to call Steve Jobs the computer pimp. I thought woz was the real genius at the early Apple. The whole NeXT computer fiasco seemed to prove it. Then what Steve Jobs did at Pixar really impressed me. then when he went back to Apple the results were just incredible.

I think its a double edge sword that makes Apple double the profit and then some. Also, the technologies advancements that windows hardware manufactures innovate aren't exclusive to Microsoft. Especially since Apple has switched from PowerPC to x86, Apple now can leverage all windows hardware advances.

why would they say it publicly? seems like something you would want to keep to yourself until you have the product in hand. I also think that Apple had been grooming their supply chain system for the mac very effectively and when they decided to make a pocket device they pulled it off very effectively.

The difference as I've seen it is Apple has always worked on both the hardware and os. That gave them the ability to control the end user experience very precisely. Microsoft has farmed out hardware, and that has hurt them and created blind spots. Microsoft has never taken the whole user experience seriously. One big problem is Microsoft has never seriously handled the issue of viruses and that has hurt them immensely. I think the service pack for windows 7 has the message on it during install that says 'Free'. (I think they had conversations about charging for it). Every time I see that message I think how crazy MS is to think that making something work right is something the user should pay for. I think Microsoft's surface is and interesting development although is too expensive for me and most of the home users I know.

I think transportation except for airplanes and hot air balloons will switch to electricity power. I think solar cells have far more potential than biofuels for optimized output as well much lower operating costs. Long term biofuel seems like a waste of time.

I've been suspicious of biofuels for quite a few reasons, but mostly due to efficiency. According to the numbers I saw photosynthetic efficiency is 3-6% but .photovoltaic are 30+%. So covering a field with solar cells would be 10x more efficient than harvesting biofuel from the same field. Don't flame me if I'm comparing apples and oranges, I have done a bit of googling on the subject and not really found much.

its an analogy. sorry for thinking so abstractly. dumping coal tailings in a river is a regional pollution problem. dumping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a global pollution problem. its called an cost externalizing. In the case of the river pollution there were multiple groups suing the polluters and litigation was becoming potentially very expensive. it was one of the causes of the federal government creating the clean water act. Regulation has been very effective at cleaning up the rivers. The poster I was responding to called it 'socialist authoritarian solutions'. I'm just saying that policy is effective sometimes. Its probably what will need to happed with polluting the atmosphere with co2 because private industry will not voluntarily address the problem.

here's a link: http://www.partel.ie/blog/?p=3... there are other effects from CO2 then climate changed. Decreased cognition was detected at 1000ppm. its a problem in air conditioned buildings with high recycle. At some increasing levels needs to be addressed.

I lived near the Susquehanna in central PA before the clean water act (CWA) was passed. the coal mine processors flushed water from the cleaning processes directly in the river at multiple locations. there was so much coal in the river that a new business was created just for dredging it off the river bed. By the 1960s the mine owners were being sued by multiple groups to stop. The Cuyahoga, (OH) river was on fire because many times because refineries were dumping directly in the river. one of the fires damaged a railroad bridge and the railroad was suing the refineries. The clean water act was passed because the court system could have been choked with legal fights so the federal government passed the regulation. I would love to hear how the court system will work in a libertarian dream land without any regulations like CWA, or as you call it like, 'socialist authoritarian solutions'.