Depends if you limit yourself to the United States. During a business trip in Korea, I watched not one, but two channels of Starcraft competitions and those players were simply rock stars, and they made serious bank. If the gaming companies find viable ways to set up sponsored competitions, then sure, the best players could live comfortably, and as you would expect, the average players would get nothing.

I bet with the right marketing there could there be more players than the 1600 professional football players. Maybe they could get Pete Townshend to write a song about it.

I don't think it needs to be a life-long career, if they peak for three years and make seed money for college or something else, it's time well spent. Gaming isn't exactly productive, but in most cases it's not a big time loss, and millions of people spend equivalent time watching TV, knitting, or listening to music, all of which have almost zero potential marketability.

Slightly off topic, regarding the violence of the games in the article, I remember a game where people were watching a guy writhe in pain with his arm broken in half. Wait a minute, that was my arm, when I was playing American football. And that doctor's bill was huge.

Current nuclear sub designs are not refueled. The cores are designed to last the 30 year life of the sub.

The Goods:
1. Say what you want, but J.J. can make actors act to their potential, puts emotions into scenes, and by all accounts is a fan of the Star Wars franchise.
2. At least some attempt at a continuity will be welcome.
3. I've never liked the EU books, so I'm not turned off.

The Bads:
1. Watch out for that LENS FLARE!
2. I went to Disneyland last week with my girls and I saw Mickey Mouse swinging a light saber. How many hidden Mickey's will be in the film, and those that aren't so hidden? The script notes from the executives may kill the chance at a good story.

I'm looking forward to it, fanboys will always complain, but I'll give the creator of LOST his shot.

Boron fusion is a candidate, you'd need a few hundred kilograms instead of the millions of kilograms.

Perhaps I'm guilty of humpty dumpty regarding my quote of Howard Stern (even if there are four synonyms and one heteronym for public company in the link you provided). Yes, I know Mozilla is a NGO, and I can accept your arguments above. No doubt OK Cupid is for profit, so they most likely made their stand for exposure and not ethics.

Meanwhile, Mozilla's revenue is paltry $4M compared to other corporate entities, and Brendan Eich was making about $700K per year where others of his talent get that for an annual bonus (guidestar.org). Their leadership is shaken, which will shake the rest of the company for a while, and losing him will hurt in the long run, he's been CTO for a while.

But the smell in Denmark that bothers me is why they picked him in the first place, why did he accept, and why are they doing such an about face (regarding the recent post by Mitchell)? They knew this storm would come. He's clearly the right technical person, but the baggage was well known. It's like the company was a person that poured honey all over himself and then sat on a fire ant hole.

I did not say publicly traded company. It is a non-profit 501c3 corporation, and I agree it does not have a ticker symbol. It does have a very public presence, so I would guess this nitpick exchange is a draw.

Okay, I'm trying to summarize all of the events and make some sense out of it. In 2008, Eich gives $1,000 for support of Prop 8. I voted against Prop 8, as did 48% of the other Californians who voted that day (remember the measure passed). To my knowledge, he has said nothing otherwise and apparently did not interfere with apparently LGBT friendly policies of the Mozilla Corporation. In 2012, his donation was leaked somehow, and it causes headlines to flare. Two years ago. Late March 2014, the Mozilla board selects him as the CEO (he obviously is qualified for the job based on experience), full well knowing about his donation and the internal opposition. In April 2014, virtual blip on the online dating scene, OkCupid, capitalizes first and makes a glorious stand against the Mozilla browser because of a 6 year old donation. The media puts them on every front page, highlighting their commitment to LGBT rights and providing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of free advertising.

So what do I get out of this? The board saw a win-win, if he can weather the storm of the Prop 8 fiasco then they get one of the most technically competent CEOs available, otherwise, they push him out and get a lot of visibility for doing so (and maybe more converts).

OkCupid was smart to capitalize, and Eich, whom I disagree with, gets the hammer.

I think Howard Stern was right, if you're planning on leading a public company, keep your mouth shut and be everybody's best friend.

Perhaps the object of the carpool lane is to reduce traffic, but the reality of the carpool lane is that it increases traffic. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I see it all the time when the lane enforcement starts at 3 pm, the 4 lane road that can handle 20,000 cars per hour is reduced to three lanes handling 18,000 cars per hour and 2,000 cars in the under used carpool lane. Those three lanes get congested, mean distance between cars decreases, accidents increase, and the CHP has the chance to give more tickets to those who see if they can make it in the carpool lane for just a few miles. In theory everything works in practice, in government regulations it doesn't.

I hadn't heard of this until this article, but I am impressed by the brilliance of this. They'll ride this wave of media attention from the Fatwa to get funding for the fake colonies that they can put in the desert cheaply, get people living in the fake colonies by 2015 and turn it into a reality show that would dwarf Big Brother using the Mars exploration for the challenges etc. Then if for some reason this pipe dream actually became a reality (which I doubt), everyone would be paying monthly subscriptions waiting for the inevitable series finale (dust storm that breached all of the vacuum seals killing everyone on board).

I'm not an expert in relativity, but I get it well enough. When someone asks how the heck a ball on a rubber mat relates to spacetime curvature, I reference Eddington's experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Eddington#Relativity) and note that the light traveling beside the sun is like a penny rolling on the rubber mat between point A and B tangent to the ball in two dimensions. Then relate that to three dimensions using the tesseract/hypercube-to-cube/cube-to-2D projection shadow analogy that Sagan used in Cosmos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract).

I agree that the article I posted relates to a DVR (should have RTFA a little closer), but I swear that I read that Hitachi had developed a 160GB DVD format. Perhaps I didn't read that FA closer too, but the line item was clear that they thought Blu Ray and HD DVD could be in trouble.