And don't forget the Green Phosphor Trails that all plasmas suffer from, and ruins every viewing experience I ever had to endure on a plasma. Those trails (or green/yellow flashes) are the only reason I will always pick LCD over plasma.

Very evident in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV_fXCW2rOM
But it's there in all plasma panels, making my head and eyes hurt...

True, and not funny at all.

Take a whole extra gray-scale panel and sandwich in front of the normal panel, feed it the luminance channel. BAM you have instant record deep blacks with double the ability to block out the backlighting with black pixels! I guess... Probably not, or they would have done that already...

The active LED backlight system will only work properly when they do it on a per-pixel basis. Right now it can only do blobs of dark, with lots of bleeding and artifacts - not good for picture quality.

lol, this study reminds me of something my pediatrics professor said during a lecture: "If you look stupid, chances are, you are!"

(reffering to deformed facial features of retarded kids)

Now, it's up to whoever reads this to choose which side looks more stupid :)

I have to agree to this. Especially getting them a microscope seems to be effective (worked on me too). I never found any science heroes - probably because I early on perceived the scientific community as standing together behind the scenes, and leaving the science presentation to other, more capable people.

And anyway - real heroes never die, so just use all the old ones! Start with some of the old Greek ones for basics :)

Exactly, I thought that was common knowledge. Ridges create vibrations when dragged over a surface, that small organelles can sense - not nerves per se, but sensors that translates small vibrations into what we perceive as touching something.

Still, quantifying how much extra grip the fingerprints supply is good basic science, just a shame that the scientist didn't read up on other reasons for us having them.

wow, easy boy! Your post hardly deserves a reply, but I'll elaborate, since you seem to have failed in understanding my exceedingly clear point.

I'll rephrase the analogy so you might be able to relate it to the matter in hand then.

"Let's forcefully ruin the company who are doing the job they were paid to do for the record companies (making them unemployed so their families feel the pain too). And lets NOT do anything to hurt the record companies, who are really responsible for the whole thing"

That it would be done under the cover of being kind and giving them money is besides the case - you'd still get pissed if someone clobbered you over the head with a bat, even is it was hidden in a bouquet of flowers, right?

First, the law-firm would close down the account faster than lightning, only costing them the work to open a new one and sending out (handwritten) letters to their clients.

Second, the morals of this is equal to: "We didn't like the executioner, so lets burn down his house and kill his family, while we ignore the ones who gave the order"

We've had STOP signs and censorship in Scandinavia for a few years, along with logging of all connections made to/from your personal computers, phones and mobile phones.

There has been lots of resistance, but the politician didn't care (in the name of fighting terror).

Now, the people around me almost dont believe when i tell them that the state censors and watches them almost as bad as China...

Problem is that the list is SECRET, and the selecting of offensive sites isn't up for discussion. You have no way of controlling the censorship.

Sorry to hear about your loss. But as you say, 46 years with ALS is unprecedentet. After the first 20 years of survival, they should have canceled the ALS diagnosis, as it evidently wasn't correct... He's amazing because of so many thing he DID inspite of his condition. Not because of his passive survival of a disease he did not have.

Would depend on the orientation of the magnet while it was attached. hmm, maybe you could program animals go in a certain direction by blindfolding them and stroking their heads with magnets in different orientations?! Add lasers and we have homing-sharks!

So, you buy Vista, and for FREE upgrade to Windows 7, dicover its Windows 7 Standard with a 3 app limit, hence forcing you to fork out $$ for Windows 7 Home?

This could fool lots of people into spending money on upgrades they dont need... Oh - that's how this industry works, i forgot.

Automated payment of bills has been the norm here in Denmark for at least 10 years or more. Nobody pays bills manually here anymore, and if they do it's online. Actually it will cost you an extra fee (~ $5) if you don't use automatic withdrawal. You are always warned in advance what will be withdrawn, so you can act on it before it happens - and I have never had any glitches in the system, that wasn't my own fault. I have only paid one or two bills in my life on paper in the bank, and I'm 30 now.

I guess that technology and business innovation in USA is severely hampered by the very small amount of trust that regular folks put in banks and companies...