Jon Acheson

@Ethan For the big hundred people in a lecture hall type classes, it wouldn't really matter if you were live or remote. On the other hand, those classes are the very first thing I would eliminate if I was trying to remake higher education, because they vary between "tedious" for rote memorization classes, and "completely useless" for anything that requires you to learn how to actually do something. Really, they're obstacles put in the way of your education by universities that don't want to have to provide expensive facilities for majors like science and engineering.

@wobbles It's not even 3000 MW, if you read the fine print, this farm will only put out 570 MW. Which is kind of pathetic for a billion dollars.

By way of comparison, Grand Coulee Dam puts out an average of 2300 MW, with a peak capacity of 6,800 MW. An average nuclear power plant puts out 1000 MW per reactor.

This would be more tempting if it came with a solution to the awful DRM issues that Blu-Ray has on PCs.

The thing that killed the hobbyist PC market wasn't game consoles, which had existed alongside them the whole time. It was Mom and Dad giving the kids their hand-me-down PC when they upgraded. After that started happening, there was no need for hobbyist PCs like the Ataris or Commodores.

@ashwinkn Or you could buy a cable with headphone jacks on both ends, and just plug your tape player's headphone out into the microphone port on your computer. For like $5. Look for Audio Patch Cable.

@NYPunkGeek Exactly. If I wait for something to go on sale at Wally World, I can undercut that price, and own the DVDs instead of renting them.

How about WebOS on a PDA?

@Mr Itcher The concept of a small ultraportable notebook was great, making it tied to a cellphone was not good.

With color E-Ink rapidly approaching the marketplace, why wouldn't they want to brand themselves with the name of their leading product?

E-Ink has just begun to take off.

What are we waiting for? SERVICE PACK 1.

Seriously, it does not EVER pay to be an early adopter of Microsoft software.