And not a single 3rd party tweet - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TechweekLA%20Cyborg&src=typd

Given the ground breaking nature of this "technology" you'd expect a "best in show award"

concurrent, or trivial ?

TeamUp - www.getteamup.com - likewise provides a WebGL preview of 3D assets, but is also paired to a realtime production renderer. Disclaimer: I work there.

We're currently in closed beta, but here's a render of the tie fighter with a couple of droids from 3Dtin - http://imgur.com/pHPtI

The model actually comes from here

http://www.blendswap.com/blends/vehicles/vader-tie-fighter/

where it is download-able

Reid Hoffman is neither slim nor athletic looking. Focus on your product, market, and go to market strategy and you should be fine.

Can't help thinking it's a better strategy for everyone to stay open, and use the day's revenue for lobbying. money talks.

Hopper Travel

http://nextmontreal.com/hopper-raises-8m-to-reinvent-travel-...

When calculating the cost of purchasing/ renting, are they including condo fees, property/school taxes. In some areas the tax/condo fees alone exceed typical rents.

This is one of the most overlooked cost for first-time home buyers, all the cost in condo fees and taxes are not going to contribute a cent to your equity either.

Though the taxes are tax deductible, unlike rent. I moved out of a 2br apartment to a large 4br home where my mortgage and taxes are slightly higher than my rent was, but after tax deductions, I'll end up paying less. Being self-employed, I need all the deductions I can get, anyway.

Also, utilities. I only pay for electricity at my apartment, and thanks to some 12" stone walls it's quite low. I talk to people my age who have bought homes and their utility bills can be as much as 40% of my rent.

Maybe it's different in your area, but most areas I have experience with, no utilities are included in the rent. Plus a lot depends on how the place is heated/insulated (or cooled/insulated).

The utility situation really depends on the area, yes.

For example, my experience renting in Chicago is that water, heat and hot water were typically included in the rent. That's most certainly not the case everywhere.

I tried pretty hard to find a house in the New York Metropolitan area this summer. Once you factor in the taxes, HOA fees and mortgage I would be paying roughly 2x in monthly payments to get an apartment similar to the one I rent. When I consider that my house will not return me more than 3-4% pa over a long term I decided it was not worth it to buy. Also houses have a end load of ~5% for agent fees.

Its hard to change "policy" at larger companies, however offering a discount for early payment can help.

> Why thunderbolt interconnect, and not wireless thunderbolt interconnect?

20Gb each way over the air? Good luck with that one. And the latencies are going to be ignominious.

> We already have Wireless HDMI.

WHDMI is not a 2-way data communication, latency matters far less when you're just streaming A/V to your television.

The article was meant to be forward looking -

"You see, we are almost certainly moving towards"

I don't think the vision is practical if you have to continuously plug/unplug your devices. The wirelessHD spec has theoretical data rates up to 25Gb.

Latency matters for user input ( keyboard/mouse) which is already accommodated at much lower bitrates, so I wouldn't expect it to be much of an issue.

> Latency matters for user input ( keyboard/mouse)

Not really, as long as those latencies stay significantly sub-second they're invisible to users. These latencies matter for everything but user input.

" as long as those latencies stay significantly sub-second"

exactly.

You can't really state that something doesn't matter, and then give criteria under which it doesn't matter. That implies that it does matter, and the solution needs to be engineered within spec.

I'd also be interested in some examples of the "everything else" cases in which latency is a big deal ( within the given context).