"Hey Paolo! He broke the President!"

I remember many years ago reading an article (probably in Wired; these days, it'd be a blog post) where someone described walking around EPCOT Center while listening to this exact album. Sounds like quite a trip, really.

And then there's this article from several years ago that's also fitting. Apparently Disney was working on their version of the Holy-Grams too..

Firesign Theatre was definitely excellent stuff. "I'm Arty Choke, and we're just a joke. So it's back to the shadows again..."

Yep. I actually don't have Comcast...I had Insight, which was then bought out by Time Warner (service has improved dramatically since TW took over by the way). The modem that was originally provided me was garbage and didn't support any of the higher speeds. Although, when it was Insight, it didn't matter, because they neglected the network for years until TW took over (the fastest speed available was 10mbit until the TW takeover, it took them a year but it's 50mbit now). I just went and bought a Motorola SB6141, not only do I save the $6/month, I have a much better device, so when the 50mbit service was made available all they had to do was upgrade my service.

This is why I don't use ISP provided equipment. I have my own cable modem (which is just a "basic" model without router functionality), and my "router" is a custom built Linux box (it handles the wifi as well with hostapd).

Oy, is that how they're selling it? As if none of these features existed before Apple did it?

Swift code is transformed into optimized native code

As is any other language that passes through an optimizing compiler that outputs native code. They crowed about a 30% speedup above, which in my experience is sometimes achievable just by tweaking your compiler flags.

Indeed...Classic Shell removes all the suck from Windows 8 and makes it act like Windows 7, while keeping the "under the hood" improvements that Windows 8 has for CPU scheduling.

Hasn't made mine hurt.

You realize, of course, that a 26" 1920x1080 monitor is only 85 DPI, so the same font size (in pixels) on a 26" 1920x1080 monitor would actually look about 40% larger. And, you'd get more text on the screen to boot.

1280x720 at 120 DPI makes for a small screen: 10.7" x 6", which is approx 12" diagonal. Do you do all your coding on a subnotebook or MacBook Air or something?

Well, they don't magically get cheaper to build just by building more. They get cheaper to build as the manufacturer refines the process, improves the technology, and scales the production lines to amortize the fixed costs of a production facility over a larger number of vehicles. That is, it takes work to make them cheaper, above and beyond just making more.

As long as there's sufficient demand, producers will have enough reason to scale up the production and work to bring the production cost down. Eventually, if all goes well, this begins a virtuous cycle where decreased price increases demand, and increased demand drives further cost reduction and innovation.

This works great if there's enough demand to kick-start the process. Unfortunately, the price of EVs today is too high to drive sufficient demand. Hence the carrot-and-stick incentives to try to jumpstart the virtuous cycle. On the carrot side are tax breaks and government subsidies / loan guarantees. On the stick side are fleet-wide fuel economy standards, price caps and quotas.

Right now, it seems as if most traditional auto manufacturers treat their electric cars either as halo cars, or as tasks they're required to do by law/regulation/whatever but would rather not. I doubt anyone at GM is staking the quarterly numbers on Chevy Volt sales, for example, but it doesn't stop them advertising it. The only competition at this point, though, is positioning, posturing and establishing a brand. That is, competition on the marketing front. The market's still too small to have meaningful competition driving the product development. At least, that's how it seems to me.

Eventually they'll figure out how to bring the costs down. Meanwhile, the early adopters hopefully help build interest and therefore demand in the future. When that happens, I'd expect the real competition to start. You'll see Toyota or GM or someone get into the mega-battery business, like Tesla is currently. Or some other major, bold move like that.

In the meantime, the carrot-and-stick will push both the supply and demand curves to the right, elevating the total units shipped to a modest number until the market can sustain itself.

Luke (and Leia due to being his twin sister) were supposed to be 19 in ANH. Carrie Fisher was 20, Mark Hamill was 25.

I've always said, if I get wind of a national legalization of marijuana, I am going to buy a ton of stock in Frito-Lay.

I'd love to have a "boring" car like. I detest long drives. I could never handle a 20-hour drive in a normal car, without splitting it up among several days. If I could just sit back and watch movies, or play video games, or sleep, or whatever while the car did the driving for me, that would be the most amazing thing ever.

More Doctor fail. Cybermen are not robots either. They are cyborgs controlled by a human brain. Daleks are creatures that look like a cross between a squid and a brain in what basically amounts to a futuristic tank.

Dehydrated water. Just add water! I actually can't take credit for that, I got it from the "survival kit" from the first Space Quest game which included a can of dehydrated water with those instructions.. But it's still funny.

But it doesn't have less carbon than normal lettuce. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...