All they have to do is offer to save money like the loyalty card craze and people will be begging for tv devices to watch them, and make people who hold out look like nuts for not saving money.

none of the webos developers had beards.

Palm Pre was my first smart phone starting in 11/2009. After the two year contract was up, off to join the android herd. It did the job, kept a checkbook, streaming audio, maps and gps, lookup stuff online, played angry birds.

I'm beginning to think that, realistically, just like we put up with (US) 50,000 highway deaths per year because we like our cars, or an airline crash every so often because we like flying, we are going to have to sacrifice a 3 Mile Island or Chernobyl every once in a while for our love of electrical power. It's not a perfect world and never will be, stuff happens, and all you can do is be able to respond to contain and minimize the damage when it does. Like the town in PA that was moved due to an underground fire, towns near nukes that failed will just be closed off and make no man's land for a few hundred million years.

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Plus, once we have moon base workers on a regular payroll with an ATM and a McSpacelys, we will finally be literally 'spending money in space'.

Maybe, but I'm sure the package maintainer at yahoo! definitely had an 'oh shit!' moment.

that why the USA needs to race back to the moon and build a fort around it maned by space marines.

Indeed - the moon would be useful for more capitalist uses, like advertising. Some widespread areas of pigmentation and it'd make a swell Pepsi logo.

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Or just take a bunch of photos yourself and upload them to Autodesk's 123d catch and get a 3d model back. It'll stitch together a scene and make a mesh (or a mess, depending on your photo quality) of it.

There should at least be a sad video of someone walking down an empty, echoing corridor, under a sign that says 'Heathkit - Since 1926', turn and look back, sigh, flick off a light switch and close the door with a boom.

Someday we hope to see mechwarrier style contests for real.

Great book about a massive hedge fund crash in the 90's: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management