According to Conan O'Brien, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook will all merge in the ear 3000 and form "YouTwitFace", a super-social networking site.

Isn't it "Monday detail?" With reference to a case of the Mondays.

Quantum physics actually.

AHA! There's the problem-diebold is making these things. They can't even reliably tell which button you press.

Seriously, the banking system is way overcomplicated and ineffective. My IM conversations are more secure than this.

Opensource Financial anyone?

You're all a sad group of people! I, frankly, don't have time to be achievement whoring on /.. That's what WOW is for.

Well, there was a small window of time where he was right, but that's changed probably in the last 1-1.5 years. 4GB config on MBP is $100, you can find it or less than that from newegg and the like, and Dell was selling theirs for only $50.

Can you develop some software that interprets the data inside the doodles? I'm sure they're just coded notes!

It has resizable text; no squinting required.

Ok that's great, but what about keyboard users? They don't see all the sub links. And nav menus are hardly a proof that the net doesn't need javascript. I suppose in 5 years we won't need to do the same things with JS (form validation, rich text editing, zebra striping, animation, etc.), but since we're not in the future, I think it's safe to say that there are some legitimate uses for JS.

Yup, I can make IE7 break layouts 30 times faster, or I can make it crash 30 times faster, all kinds of things IE7 can do WAY faster than safari...

Two words: user stylesheets. If you don't want fonts, it's easy to force all content to render in whatever font you want (from a user standpoint).

Joel at Joel on Software wrote an article I remember reading that said starting over is more often than not a bad idea. For one thing, it's counterproductive as you spend exorbitant amounts of time building things that you've already built at some point. Another thing is that this is probably also a theory that will ultimately lead to "leaky abstraction". This new internet will inevitably run into problems because users do unexpected things. I can't remember who, but someone once said (Perelman perhaps?), that as technology becomes more secure, more technology becomes available to break it.

All that being said though, there are perhaps building new technologies. This is why scientists have been researching internet 2. Faster speeds, better securty, etc.: all good. However, we need to compromise and integrate old and new.

Will the controller rely on the accuracy or efficiency? I don't want my finances calculated rightly 99.9% (or in the case of this chip 99%) of the time.

Ok, so not only do I have to give up efficiency in the chip itself, but now my efficiency suffers because I now have to determine which chips are useful for which applications. I don't want to have to start thinking about whether or not I plan to use my new laptop for anything requiring accuracy greater than such and such a percentage. I suppose this might be effective for niche markets, but it seems messy if you try to make it part of all computing platforms.

According to, "What Color is Your Parachute?" 2009 ed., around 4% of people using solely the internet to search for jobs successfully find employment. The number is up to 7% for tech jobs. There are still much more effective ways to search for jobs, though not necessarily more convenient.