I love P+T surplus
They had a recent near-death experience but are back in business.

NeXT computers came with prman, a pretty early version of it: no motion blur for instance. And of course, it was a bit much to expect great results when viewed on a 2-bit gray and white display. It was one of those things thrown into the mix to see if it could fly, like the complete works of Shakespeare, indexed, and NeXTMail, which let you include multimedia in email (predating MIME). Funny that it wasn't bundled with OS X.

The real metric they should have looked at - since it's the main complaint of the managers - was availability. Availability needs are different for different aspects of work. The other half of that is responsiveness: getting the answers and clearances for your work from the stake holders involved.
  Neither of those things have anything to do with location.
In my previous job, a lot of deployments were done in the wee hours of the night, and the fact that most of us were telecommuters meant that communication wasn't any different form a normal work environment.

Yahoo's real problem is that nobody without a legacy attachment to it needs it at all.

Just because it's a piece of curved glass on your wrist, it might not be a watch. I'm thinking of the ring-like projectors in Zardoz. Siri + projected virtual touch interface means lightweight ubiquitous cloud access.

Apple should skip "TV" monitors anyway and go straight to projection.

Also "Dick Tracy" referrers: Detective Tracy was just the end user, the inventor was Diet Smith. http://dicktracy.wikia.com/wiki/Diet_Smith

... as if there were no threat from a comet named "eLenin"!

In NYC it is the other way around. With a large immigrant population , almost 600,000 university students, and 35.6% of over-25 population who have degrees, your average high school graduate from staten island is very much lacking in relevant life experience. At least the PDNY isn't as stupid as the cops in Boston, but still there seems to be an attitude of "anything I don't understand must be illegal".

The NY Times and The New Yorker aren't particularly liberal if you live in NYC, it's about the only way to get reasonably complete movie and show listings without all the ads for transvestite hookers.

If you listed the wall street journal, the national review ,physics today, the cato journal, reason, air and space smithsonian, aviation week, the bulletin of symbolic logic, and the new york review of books , you would get booted just as fast. Any evidence of critical thinking or reading seems to disqualify you for jury duty.

I once saw a guy excused for not watching television.

If you had a PhD. in comparative literature ( I don't BTW ), it would be the prosecutor who would be kicking you out.
In NYC Voir Dire , they always seem to ask what magazines or newspapers you read. Mention the NY Times , Nature , The New Yorker , IEEE Spectrum , or the Economist and you will never be on a jury.

It's true that the Google Wave UI is pretty confusing. But I've been wanting to design an email replacement protocol that sits on XMPP for a while now and was happy to see that happen. That it also attempts to solve other problems, like capturing threading in a sensible way, allowing data to be presented in multiple forms and allowing robots to participate in these conversations, really sums up and simplifies a lot of issues in communication in general.

The way to make this is to crowd source it, like with Star Wars Uncut. Apply 2010s social networking technology to 1980s sci-fi. Make sure the aesthetic is true to the 80s if you can - pixels aplenty, 320x240, and of course, extra credit for making your scene on an Amiga. Or at least LOOK like it.

It was an intriguing design - trying to solve the problem of more information in a small, foldable space. Maybe someone will pick this concept up, patents willing. Then again, there's the roll-out computer design.

ok so you are a troll but assuming you know what free speech is , and you speak english

liberal:
–adjective
1. favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
2. (often initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a political party advocating measures of progressive political reform.
3. of, pertaining to, based on, or advocating liberalism.
4. favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, esp. as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties.
5. favoring or permitting freedom of action, esp. with respect to matters of personal belief or expression: a liberal policy toward dissident artists and writers.
6. of or pertaining to representational forms of government rather than aristocracies and monarchies.
7. free from prejudice or bigotry; tolerant: a liberal attitude toward foreigners.
8. open-minded or tolerant, esp. free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc.
9. characterized by generosity and willingness to give in large amounts: a liberal donor.
10. given freely or abundantly; generous: a liberal donation.
11. not strict or rigorous; free; not literal: a liberal interpretation of a rule.
12. of, pertaining to, or based on the liberal arts.
13. of, pertaining to, or befitting a freeman.
–noun
14. a person of liberal principles or views, esp. in politics or religion.
15. (often initial capital letter) a member of a liberal party in politics, esp. of the Liberal party in Great Britain.
Origin:
1325–75; ME L lberlis of freedom, befitting the free, equiv. to lber free + -lis -al 1

Related forms:
liberally, adverb
liberalness, noun

Synonyms:
1. progressive. 7. broad-minded, unprejudiced. 9. beneficent, charitable, openhanded, munificent, unstinting, lavish. See generous. 10. See ample.

Antonyms:
1. reactionary. 8. intolerant. 9, 10. niggardly.

broad: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant ...
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having political or social views favoring reform and progress
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tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition
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a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
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big: given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"
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a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets
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free: not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem"
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Liberalism is a broad class of political philosophies that considers individual liberty and equality to be the most important political goals.
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The Liberal magazine is a quarterly literary and political publication "devoted to promoting liberalism around the world". ...
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The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the mid 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s ...
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One with liberal views, supporting individual liberty (see Wikipedia on Liberalism for a description of the various and diverging trends of ...
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Of or relating to the Liberal party, its membership, or its platform, policy, or viewpoint; Liberal Party; A member or supporter of a Liberal Party; A member or supporter of the Liberal Pary of Canada, or its predecessors, or provincial equivalents, or their predecessors; A Liberal Democrat ...
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liberally - freely in a nonliteral manner; "he embellished his stories liberally"
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liberally - in a generous manner; "he gave liberally to several charities"
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liberalness - liberality: an inclination to favor progress and individual freedom
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That's an architect or a designer not an engineer , although many architects and designers are also engineers.

Seems like it is the right wing fundamentalists that are trying to attack the liberal 'free speech' societies. The left-wing socialist professors are the ones they are the most angry at.