Remember the record heat wave this summer over the middle and east of the country? That was it. You're absolutely right. No more global warming. It's over.

The near future likely includes augmented reality glasses linked to our cell phones. Sony just came out with 720p glasses. There's other companies with translucent ones but are limited to 480p. When HD translucent glasses happen there's a lot of very cool possibilities. Phones can stick with smaller screens and save a…

Hah, they didn't include Sony's VR glasses or anything similar. At least one eye having a solid or translucent augmented reality display is eventually coming. The PS4 could ship with the solid style and make the virtual instruments and surgery visible in 3D.

This design is like a cone instead of a propeller. That means the weight of it hangs outward, like if you reach your arm out in front of you instead of reaching up over your head. The reaching outward part requires a lot more strength at the base and that is the challenge to making them for wind farms.

Long before iOS inertia scrolling was in games and also Keyhole, which Google bought and became Google Earth. I'm guessing from you bringing it up that Apple has a patent on it when using a finger, but that doesn't mean people agree that should have been patentable.

Paper is not the future. Music stores and the labels made the mistake of resisting digital instead of jumping on it. It looks like B&N is prepared to make big sacrifices to secure a place in the digital marketplace.

Oooo I just did the math and I see what they're doing. If the screen really is 1280x720, not only will it be 25% higher pixel density than the Nexus One, it'll be the same as the iPhone's 3.5 incher. So even if it is pentile, the subpixels are really, really small.

If the stated resolution is 1280x720, what are the chances you'll truly be bothered by it? The Nexus 1 is stated as 800x480 on a 3.7 inch screen. The new Galaxy is only an inch bigger but fifty percent higher resolution.

I was thinking it's because the company will seesaw between profitability and losses.

Spin the ship along the top-to-bottom axis to create centripetal force. Problem solved.

Just no snorkeling worth doing, all the coral will be dead due to ocean acidification from the carbon going into the ocean. That part is very real.

You're correct, planes fly themselves about as much as they build themselves. Which is to say, no they don't. Autopilot is actually a number of systems that need programming and considerable involvement by pilots in order to work.

Key differences from my memory are the newest one is still compatible with Vista and XP, and no multitouch gestures. I'm primarily interested in the scrolling area of the newest one. No more wheel, just a smooth surface that is also supposed to pick up side-to-side scrolling. Three buttons under that scroll area in…

It's actually been surpassed by the Microsoft Explorer Touch Mouse which just came out this month. I'm interested in a review of that.

Why not change the law to something like approaching railroad tracks or a blind intersection? Slow down to five miles per hour, look, and if there's no cars or cyclists coming, it's legal to jaywalk or ride through? That would be common sense and understanding that in this case bikes have more in common with people…

Fair enough. Maybe I'll move there too, or make my own stickers that say "California Sucks Move To North Carolina." CA would be better with about ten million fewer residents.

The downside is you'd still be in MI. I love CA and many many millions of others do too and annoyingly we all want to live in the most convenient places.

Do you recall if the 4K projection was on a perforated screen so as to allow speakers behind it? I've read the benefits of 4K is lost on such screens. So for theaters, in all but the largest rooms, 2K at 48fps is much more enticing for me. I'm really looking forward to The Hobbit at 48 fps.

You don't have to know where it's shipped from. You're just expected to report and pay sales tax if the slip of paper included in the box said $0.00 for tax. That means you didn't pay tax on it yet.

Which flooded, blown down, scorching-humid summer, or miserably cold winter state do you live in?