To prove this, the Chinese news agency used clips from the movie "Airplane II".

That was highly racist!

Let's waste half a billion. Why not crowdfund for something meaningful and useful to the world? There are people dying and these jerks, anyone who supports this with effort or funding, are masturbating.

Wrong, bucko. Worked for HP during the 90's where this kind of thing went on. Worked for General Dynamics, where this kind of thing went on. I've been dealing with it since the 70's. But...It does not make it right. Don't try to justify it.

So, this will eventually create a class of citizen who doesn't get sun exposures because the rich will get the buildings that move to face the sun.

Boom chicka wow wow.

A huge list of Meh. 80% will be non-starter or failures on Tech Fails of 2011.

Why not put a disclaimer in the discription: "Warning: Contains themes some readers may find objectionable to include descriptions or references of..."

I have a Kindle. I purchase books from Amazon, paper and e. However, I find other books from other sources. I'm leary of Amazon reaching into my Kindle to remove books I've purchased, so I regularly crack the AZW and convert them to MOBI. Calibre is one of the best tools for managing this. Yes, I have found digital copies of every Heinlein book I've ever owned. What is Amazon going to do about "Lord Foul's Bane"?

I'm still waiting for my holographic bubble memory cubes.

Granted, I'm working in a highly secure environment with secure images, so we are all over the VDI for development. It allows my dispersed developers world wide organization of death and destruction to work in a large team environment while being in Europe, Florida, California, Washington, Japan, Hawaii, and Singapore. And yes, I am being completely serious.

It does allow us to provide a central pool of tools that make changes without dealing with the local machine that is controlled by another agency.

I bought a NEC DVD burner a few years ago. There was a flash mod that upgraded it to a DL burner. Worked great. Basically, same hardware, just a BIOS change.

I walked out of Tron Legacy last night. About the point where we started to get more exposition instead of show. The 3D was horrible to non-existant. I found myself hoping the kid would get killed. It was friggin painful to watch. I was awed by the original Tron, even when it was light in areas of story. This was a LOST opportunity, much like the sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean and Matrix. Except this one actually induced me to WALK OUT. The last movie I walked out on was Kevin Costners "The War".

The makers of that wonderful Daylight Savings Time are saying that the next version will include the ability to add hours to the day.

"24 hours should be more than enough for anybody" - God

Or, were you refering to his prioritization?

You're an idiot, but you know that right? You're list shows you have no real critical thinking skills beyond what you learned from apocolyptic comic books, movies, and video games, but that doesn't stop you from trying act like you have deep thoughts.

The reason I am assuming you know you're an idiot is because you post as AC and have that little scrap of pride.

Try this: They've been working on railguns for ages, as a launch system for ballistic missiles, manned spacecrapft, projectiles, and other purposes. Electronics and triggering systems from that research make their ways into other areas.

Also, you always want to make your systems portable, safer on home turf, and easier to handle.

"Safer on home turf." The problem with explosive delivery systems like cannons, rockets, and guns is that their is a risk of blowing yourself to smithereens. If you can eliminate that from projectile delivery, you become more effective.

Do try to use your brain.