I started to read tfa, and from what I can tell, there is a paid consultant coming to speak with a group of 25 Doctors. There he makes snap pre-judgments and starts name calling, then publishes a blog about how right he is... What a waste of time and effort...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants
I can't read about synthetic animal parts without thinking about the enormous mass of chicken, referred to as "Chicken Little" that is used in the book as a source of protein by continually slicing off hunks from the always growing mass of chicken heart cells. :)

Not that I think this is a reasonable warp drive, but I don't think you are right about the arrangement leading to the message coming back before it left - there would be plenty of light cones being crossed, but the message would always come back after it was sent, I think.

replying to myself to continue my rant - can't we all agree that it is obvious (in every sense, patent law and otherwise) to connect new peripherals to existing systems... if I invent a new mouse, sure, let me patent the mouse, but don't let me patent every single application where the new mouse is plugged into a computer... it makes me sick.

apparently the "novel" aspect is using a depth sensor (Kinect, for example)... This is just another sign of the increasing worthlessness of patents.

I used to think that software and computers in general would be moving away from typical human interfaces, but I now think that having software/robots perform tasks that humans are also capable of is the future. As a concrete example, I used to think that it would be a bad design to have an application that screen grabs to parse text when it could have the text in a computer readable form, but I see now that a computer that operates a human interface is an advantage. I think that this robot is a step in the direction that we are already heading - our software will augment all of our existing skills - driving, writing, reading, playing games, etc., with a better interface - since it behaves like another human.

I concur - especially when they really should simply be using the phone itself - I don't see how adding an accessory (camera + bluetooth) is any better than holding the phone.
also - I thought it was pretty funny that the only information the guy used to buy a shirt was that it was gray and $27.

This does not sound convincing to me at all - there could be many reasons for the mouse to become defensive, one of the least likely of which is that a specific memory was triggered...

Might there be an efficient way to confine a target group of nuclei for a short interval during which the fusion occurs?
It could potentially require much less energy to reach ignition. It seems to me to be a combination of both inertial confinement and light ignition - for example, a cool jet of expanding gas is exposed to an ultra-short laser pulse, stripping the electrons from the atoms and leaving behind a dense collection of nuclei, ready for fusion. Are there experiments like this?

That doesn't sound like the right way to select art...

I don't think you need to give up yet. I think his title line is more to the point and he has a better summary.

I don't think ChromeOS would work in China - I couldn't access google docs using Chrome.

While I agree with the majority of your post, I think it is evil to require users to opt out. To me that is the same as saying that microsoft wasn't evil to bundle the browser, you could 'opt-out' by deleting it and installing your own browser, after all.

Your post makes sense, but I lose you at John Q public getting shafted. Is he buying stock directly? Or is it perhaps the banks buying it for him in his 401k or something... Sounds like a giant ponzi scheme.

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