Oh great, Youtube will be even more choppy on a Mac...

Why does Youtube Flash use 100% or more of my brand new Macbook Pro?

HTML5 cannot come fast enough.

FYI: Plasma is not made up of molecules.

It's not really any different than what we've been doing for a hundred years or more; dump mass in one direction to move in the opposite.

It's just that this version is much, much more efficient than the old "explosively expanding gas".

@LondonConsultant

What are you talking about? Human brains don't work like computer memory.

We recreate our memories every time we think of them. That's why courts consider eye-witness one of the worst kind of evidence. All human memories are fabricated and change over time.

It's much more like hallucinating past experiences than reading a disk.

It's like our vision. You think you have HD vision, when in fact only a tiny fraction of your retina has any real density of resolution. Your eye constantly scans a scene and the brain hallucinates the view you perceive.

Like a sailboat?

They've been around a few thousand years, and we've been ok.

"The dots are microscopic particles that filter light into different colors depending on their size"

Really? I've read that quantum dots are in fact hockey-rink shaped holes. when you dump electrons into them they behave like pseudo atoms. Put 1 electron into a quantum dot and it behaves a lot like hydrogen. Put 6e- in there and it's a pseudo carbon atom.

I would guess that these lights have arrays of a variety of sized holes, and when the array is charged, some holes act like elements that reflect or emit redder or bluer spectrums of light. Think of the different colours that different metals give off when they are burned. The combined effect of these would be a nice wide spectrum light source.

Anyone know for sure?

Not available yet in Canada.

There are many micro-four-thirds lenses coming out, including a 20mm f1.4 pancake lens (~50mm 35mm equivalent)

Traveling with the pancake lens would be perfect for me.

"it's difficult to coordinate motors that have no mechanical connection to each other"

Really?!? I have a hard time believing that.

I would have figured computers would be very, very good at that.

@ Nilay Patel

True, but today the balancing of creative incentives and resulting societal wealth is totally out of whak. I personally think oppressive copyright and patents are why we have only seen phantom GDP increases over the last 30 years.

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/549822/?sc=dwhn

A monopoly by any other name (patent) is still a monopoly.