One thing to remember, is that alot of operating systems allow you to adjust the display DPI setting. Windows by default uses 96DPI, but you can easily bump it to 120 (even in xp). Also , windows 7 supports changing the display settings from "smaller" to "medium" (125%) and large (150%), though i've never tried them myself

on the 'large display' side, one of my colleagues just picked up a sony 32" lcd tv for $399 USD from amazon, that's 720p (i assume 1280x720 or 1366x768) for his home, second tv, but this would easily work for those the desiring large screens with higher resolutions. Also consider the low end/off brand LCD tv's too, as those are getting even cheaper.

dw.

I agree with chk6 - rather than try to bring it back to earth (i assume it they are not going to attempt to actually bring it back intact), can it not be sent to the moon? The lesser gravity to minimize impact and lack of atmosphere to avoid entry burnup, might allow it to land in somewhat of a useful state. Not that I want to see humanity start littering the moon, but I would think having -some- sort of spare parts on the moon would be more beneficial than just crashing it back to earth.

i actually thought that the portal travel method seemed more like wormhole travel, something liek stargates in Stargate, than teleportation, as we are accustomed to in the startrek generation (geek reference).

Wormholes create a direction connection between two points in space/time that allow energy and matter to pass through directly. In the case of the portal game, you can actually see through the wormhole in both directions (rather than what looks like a 'water' event horizon", even to the point of looking at your self in both sides of the event horizon.

As I understand the physics of teleportation, the device would deconstruct the matter into energy, sends it from point a to point b along a 'path', and recontructs it at point b.

thoughts? :)

dwight.