You hit the nail on the head. The mouse works precisely because it allows us to make broad strokes with out wrists and then brace the wrist and make fine adjustments with our digits. This is why many digital artists use tablets with pens.

In the long term laws like this will bite the media companies in the ass. People will simply get their media from sources other than in the country and other than legal.

How about this:

Di-hydrogen Monoxide is also formed from the exhaust of internal combustion engines. It has been found in significant quantities in all forms of marine life. It is also in every known form of cancer.

Some of the main patents on SLA recently expired so I expect to see development in this area increase rapidly. Some people are getting near SLA photo resin resolution by using DLP projectors in both commercial and DIY kits. I think they can be had for about $1500 with .5 mm resolution.

Something to note about MCX's "solidarity" amongst the many companies that are participating.

A whole lot actually. Note: I am not educated in the field of microelectronics or their related areas but I do have a fair amount of knowledge.

Yeah, funny thing is that when I re-posted this on Gizmodo when they re-posted the article (re-writen but essentially the same) my post never showed. If you follow the link on my Kinja blog it is there. But if you go to the Gizmodo article it never shows, even with "show pending".

In all truth though Apples are hard to beat for what they are. Spec out a 5K monitor and the insides of the new 5K iMac and try to DIY. You can't build it yourself for that price. A Mac Pro is hard to build for the same cost too. (Source a real Xeon chip, they are not cheap)

As I said when first posted on IO9:

I hate to be Debbie Downer but, from the first line in the DARPA publication linked:

John Cleese on Stupidity:

You sir are the non-believer. Here, have a glass of this apple flavor Kool-Aid.

Satan in Heinlein's Job: A Comedy of Justice was a pretty good guy.

A.I. gone homicidal or even manipulative will not be a problem. We can always pull the plug. That was the big Deus Ex Machina in the Forbin Project. Colossus had to be eternal, with always on power & control of the Nukes.

Speaking of MacGyver.... How many people here have gotten the nick name of MacGyver at their place of work?

The "Stinky Car Myth" from Mythbusters. Nothing out-disgustings a body that decomposed to the point of "hairy greasy pudding".

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Just please show them in the correct order; IV, V, II, III, VI.