Now, I think this is just as cool as the next guy, but this isn't all that new. There is the Wordpress CLI, and others I'm sure.

You mean F-zero? Yeah that game was pretty rad!

Ricky Bobby: We? No, we are not French. We're American, because you're in America, okay? Greatest country on the planet
Jean Girard: Well, what have you given the world apart from George Bush, Cheerios, and the ThighMaster?
Ricky Bobby: Chinese food?
Cal Naughton, Jr.: Chinese food.
Jean Girard: That's from China.
Ricky Bobby: Pizza.
Jean Girard: Italy.
Cal Naughton, Jr.: Chimichanga.
Jean Girard: Mexico.
Ricky Bobby: Really, smarty-pants? What did French land give us?
Jean Girard: We invented democracy, existentialism, and the Ménage à Trois.
Cal Naughton, Jr.: Those are three pretty good things.

The latest gens of macs are already using something like this. I can manage apps/windows with four fingers, use three fingers for navigation, two for contextual menus and document manipulation. It's not fully customizable, and it isn't entirely native (not all apps make use of gestures), but I think it is clear evidence that technology is moving this way anyhow.

Personally, I'd like an agnostic input surface that can be used for keyboard input and multitouch gestures. That way, I don't have to move my hands anywhere to change from one function to another.

I'm hoping we'll see calculation times down to a grand quantum tick before I die.

p.s. for the life of me I can't remember the name of that valley of time you enter if you slice thin enough. Pratchett fans?

Holy cow I just had an idea! What if we made a way for news agencies to post little "abstracts" of their articles in one central "page" Then we could link these abstracts to a full-fledged article. This way, people could browse all of the articles at once. No more flipping pages looking for flipping articles.

Genius Google, pure GENIUS!

Other than a generic "hire a lawyer!", are there practical steps a software author can do here?

Hire two lawyers!?

OT: I thought of a riddle: how many faces do two sh*t faced lawyers have if they're two-faced?

The same goes for movies projected in 3D using polarized light: as long as you wear the glasses, your sighted eye will only see one picture and you won't be able to tell the difference (it'll look just like a normal movie to you).

That's my problem with this tech-it looks just like any other 3D to me, it's nothing special. At least this is one area in which I won't be overcome by my obsession with new tech. Hopefully by the time this tech becomes commonplace they'll have figured out a way to stop this from inducing headaches in those of us who cannot process the effect.

I'd love to give you my ideas on the matter, but I'm worried you might steal them. Maybe if you email me your ideas I can tell you whether they're worth getting an expert opinion on.

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.