Start with the current icon, but render the light in a dirty yellow instead of blue, with a crack across the lens, and give the metal bezel some moderate rust and other damage.

It's useful to be able to read cursive the same way it's useful to be able to read an analog clock. But unless you expect people to return to taking notes with pen and paper, there's no meaningful advantage to being able to write in a script that's only marginally faster than ordinary discontinuous writing can be. It's not like there's a doubling or tripling of transcription speed -- for that, you need shorthand or typing. I would much rather see children learn to type than learn to write in cursive.

Do you know the way to leave Safeway?
I've been inside so long,
I may go wrong and pass away.
You can't really leave from this Safeway.
I hope that I will find
Some peace of mind outside Safeway.

Lower prices are the magnet,
They can lure you far away from home.
With a drink in your hand you're never alone.
Hours turn into days, how quick they pass.
And all the thieves that never were
Are noshing grapes and passing gas.

> Solar panels require an accompanying energy storage system

So put a small battery module under each panel. It's not like much can grow there besides grass, and there's plenty of that between rows of panels.

You've got what, a 2x1 meter plot of land for each panel? If you allow for a 1 meter panel height, that's slightly less than 2 cubic meters of volume you could fill with batteries (allowing for some loss of volume for the module's outer casing). That is a LOT of space, even if what you fill it with is little better than a stack of car batteries. The panel would then simply be mounted directly on top of the battery module's outer casing, with an appropriate tilt of course.

Since the panel is already producing DC, you'd only need a beefy diode on its output, which then leads to the master power rail that feeds the inverting station. The battery module would need a regulator circuit on it since the panel's voltage is by definition variable, and a circuit that'll hard-bridge the battery to the primary rail when its voltage exceeds the panel's (that's the reason for the big diode -- some panels will actually emit light and then burn out when excessively back-fed).

Need more storage? Make the battery module 2 meters tall, and either just adapt your maintenance process to deal with the height, or better yet dig a hole and bury the bottom half, and design the module so that it can trivially be raised out of the ground for maintenance. That would naturally mean sacrificing some of the horizontal dimensions for the lift and the hole's retaining walls, but then you can use as much height/depth as you want, up to the load limit of the ground under it.

The inverting station still has to deal with a variable incoming DC rail, but now it'll be less-variable than before, and it merely has to be regulated, inverted, and sent out onto the grid, without the need for a dedicated battery facility or building expansion. The cost savings on that would surely make-up for the increased cost of having all those per-panel modules.

If a battery module goes down, just shut the damn thing off until it can be repaired or replaced. The panel can keep providing juice, and the inverting facility won't even notice either way (sure, I realize you could do something similar with an all-in-one storage facility, but this seems like it would be easier to deal with).

There, that solves the storage problem pretty well, imho.

It has everything to do with the screen. If I take content encoded for 1600x900, the upscaling is going to induce more fuzziness on my 1080p display than it is on my 2160p display.

The more raw pixels your display device has, the better you can upscale lower resolution video onto it. For example, if I watch 720p video on a 1080p display, it has to do a 3:2 upscaling and that means that half the scan lines fall in the cracks and cannot be represented adequately. If I'm using a 2160p display, that's a 3:1 upscaling and every third line can correspond to exactly what was fed in. Thin lines won't disappear, and text will remain legible no matter what size it was in the original image. I could also use Nearest Neighbor scaling and get every pixel replicated 9 times over, but it would remain faithful. Similarly, if I feed in a 480p signal from a retro game rig, higher resolution at the screen level means I have more options on how to best emulate a CRT without having to worry about pixel boundaries on the output end.

I want an 8K display in the range of 50 inches so that I have the choice of sitting two feet away and using it as a monitor, or sitting across the room where I admittedly won't care if it's upscaling 1080p video. I don't want to have to own two separate devices to do these jobs, even if the resolution is overkill much of the time. Right now, I use a 27 inch 4K display as my primary monitor but there are times when I really could use two or even four of them. Do I need an 8K TV? No, I realistically don't even need a 4K TV. 1080p is fine there. But that's not the only thing I would want to use a large display for. I don't have room for a dedicated movie watching screen if I've got a 55 inch monitor mounted to a wall, the one device has to do double duty and that means sometimes it's going to be severe overkill for the purpose.

Is the intent to hand the initiative to China? They have less than zero reason to conform to our demands.

You can. With a browser plugin called "Short Stop".

The irony of course being that they're actually quite good, like Average White Band.

I would have brought up Powergen Italia if it hadn't already been debunked. There is such a company, but they sell batteries. This was documented over 20 years ago.

You just know it will get called the latter, just like Capital One (Cap It Alone), Experts Exchange (put the space before the "s"), Parts Express (same), and Pen Island (do I really have to spell this one out?). In this case (and I suspect in Pen Island's case) this is not by accident. The name was chosen because it can be corrupted in a humorous way.

Carbon fiber is as black as graphite. Have you never seen the stuff for yourself? The epoxy can be clear but the CF cloth is very much not.

I would guess that he'd rather be able to say "they liked it, so they bought it from me" than "I didn't want it back".

It did come apart into three pieces, which could be seen but the seams were made fairly tolerable. From that I'd gather it was hollow with some sort of framework inside and a skin, not a solid chunk of bronze. Moving it would be a project, but not a "had to take out a wall" kind of project like moving a newspaper printing operation.