MTV is to TV as slashdot.org is to the internet. So saying the internet is like MTV is like saying TV is like slashdot.org.
Media have nothing in common with the data they display and don't usually become outdated if there isn't a more technologically advanced alternative. At this point in time there isn't an advanced alternative to the internet, but there are plenty of things to replace MTV.

Because Egyptian hieroglyphics actually meant something to the Egyptian people. The symbols they used were in context with how they lived and what they saw around them and I suppose they were more self explanatory to the people back then than they are to us today. If you look at the iConji symbols, you'll see that you can understand the meaning of a lot of them just by looking at them, because they are based on symbols from our every day lives, thus making them easier for us to understand. I'm sure if you invented a time machine and gave these to an ancient Egyptian scientists without an explanation or context, they'd have a hard time understanding them.

Excuse me memeing, but...

Yo dawg, we heard you like flying so we put a cockpit in your cockpit so you can fly while you fly! :D

I was thinking more along the lines of Little Bobby Tables.

I'm impressed! Flash has pretty much become an integral part of the web, yet you always had to download and install an extra plugin to be able to view flash content. Having an implementation of the flashplayer written in a language that can be executed by every major browser reguardless of the operating system is an incredibly useful thing to have.
And now with ever faster Processors and better implementations of JavaScript interpreters, I think its far from a bad thing to put more work into the hands of interpreted languages.

you are playing Left 4 Dead and suddenly you see your mother in law appear among the zombies.

Imagine having one of those patients who think they know everything better.

"Don't saw my rib bones like that! I'm sure they didn't do it like that on the Discovery Channel! Be careful where you poke that thing! You almost punctured my pancreas!"

Haha, that was incredibly fast. I wonder what they will offer! :3

That would make a pretty good name for a startup company.

And the NASA can just say: "Sorry, rest of the world, shows over in 2016."? Don't the ESA, JAXA, RKA...etc have a say in this?

Hasn't this pretty much already been used in a physics engine? The Octave Engine, for instance, can simulate quite a few different small particle system with very similar results.

I was reading about this dude who was building a single wind turbine in some rural area in the Swabian Alps in Germany. There was a huge protest against it, because a windmill like that would "spoil the countryside"...it ended with him having to cancel his plans, no windmill was allowed to be built.
So yeah, I really like the idea of this article, but a lot of people are way too conservative to tolerate placing these things everywhere.

to harvest the wave energy as well as the wind energy with something similar to this? I guess you could also slap some solar cells on it. =)

I agree wholeheartedly. The homebrew community has released a huge amount of incredibly useful software to enhance the whole PSP experience. Filemanagers, VNC clients, Emulators, Infrared Remotes....etc. Actually, the Homebrew community is the only reason I bought a PSP in the first place. I own every single game I have for the PSP, I actually bought every UMD. They definitely didn't lose any sales on me.

is made by artists who don't do it for money and fame, but for the pleasure it gives people, or for the need to express themselves freely, to spread their message.
Its as one of my favorite street poets, Mr Lif said: "Poetry ends when money contends."

Good examples are:
The artists on Jamendo, Deviant Art, Youtube, and of course the funny, intelligent people posting on /., entertaining me with their awesome comments! =)

What I'm trying to say is...I can entertain myself pretty well legally without having to pay big corporations. Free alternatives keep the competition high forcing competitors, be they commercial or not, to produce quality stuff =)