If anyone from San Francisco (or California, for that matter) is looking to see the bottom of the SF Bay, I can help you. I have plenty of rope and quick-dry concrete, and I'll be happy to help you experience the natural wonders only the sea can offer.
Q: Why should I attend an Anime Class?
A: Simple. If you have an appreciation for Japanese art, animation and Asian culture, you can meet other people with similar interests. And masturbate.
Q: Do I need to be fat or gay to attend?
A: Not necessarrily. Many types of people are eligible to attend, including fat, middle-aged virgins who have a deep-seated fear of pussy, emotionally retarded freaks who want to have sex with freaking pumpkin-headed cartoon girls with dinner plate eyes, and 12 year olds who haven't gotten past the "girls are icky" stage of puberty. Regardless, above all else, you must be fat and/or gay to recieve the "Five-Star Student Discount" which entitles you to a free folding chair and three boxes of Kleenex soft tissues.
Q: I'm afraid of human females.. Is that ok?
A: Yes. You will be in good company. All of your classmates think human women are icky as well. As a courtesy to your classmates, every 30 minutes a bell will ring to remind you to masturbate. This is your signal to find a quiet place, think about two-dimensional women with blue hair and grotesquely oversized, glassy dinner-plate eyes and begin masturbating furiously. You can also pretend you know how to read words in Japanese.
Q: Kids at my school beat me up because I draw pictures of blue haired cartoon girls with grotesquely oversized eyes on my books and folders. Do you offer self-defense classes?
A: Yes. Since you cannot shoot green goo from your head and fly up in the air, Pat Morita we will be offering self-defense classes. You can spend hours with Mr. Miyagi waxing on and waxing off while thinking about Anime.
Q: I'm a Star Trek fan, but I cant wait for the next Trekkie convention to come to town. Can I enroll in your Anime course???
A: Yes. You probably think you're a fucking Klingon or Vulcan, so you will fit right fucking in next to all the suburban zit-faced pale white kids who think theyre Japanese. Making friends in class is easy when you have something in common!
Q: Should I bring my own Kleenex?
A: Yes, however boxes of Kleenex will be provided to all students at the beginning of the semester.
Q: What if I run out of Kleenex?
A: Ask the person next to you if you can borrow his kleenex. If you are lucky, he will be too tired to continue masturbating and wont need his Kleenex any longer.
Q: What kind of kleenex should I buy?
A: Many former students claim that after the first few days, their penises become rough and calloused from excessve wiping with standard, dry Kleenex. Many Anime fans preferthe "Kleenex Coldcare" variety of tissues, while others prefer "Puffs With Aloe". Using a softer brand of kleenex will cut down on chafing. For more information, visit http://www.kleenex.com and read the Kleenex FAQ.
Q: I have a misshapen penis due to excessive masturbation, but I dont feel I can give up watching Anime. What should I do??
A: Switch hands and hope for the best.
Q: Suppose some famous Anime "artist" gives a lecture.. Should I ask a him/her/it's autograph?
A: Yes, but please wash your hands first.
Q: Chirpy cartoon girls with blue hair and gigantic eyeballs make me want to touch myself. Is it ok to masturbate during class?
A: Yes. Masturbation doesn't hurt anyone. You should masturbate because Japanese people masturbate. Giant robots also masturbate. You are Japanese--dont let your parents tell you otherwise. You are Japanese. Masturbate.
Q: I like Anime, but I dont know how to masturbate. What do I do?
A: Attend an Anime class and look for a group of people all facing eachother with their pants down around their knees. Now think about giant robot monsters and blue-haired cartoon women with grotesquely oversized eyeballs. Begin stroking. If you need help, put on a blue wig, secure two glass dinner plates to your face with duct tape and ask the person next to you for directions in Engrish. Chances are he will show you the proper technique. Remember, you are Japanese. Masturbate.
Q: Is tutoring available? Is it ok to ask someone in class for homework help?
A: Yes, but be careful -- They may be masturbating. Many students do not like to be disturbed when they are "studying". Again, you may want to put on a blue wig and tape some glass dinner plates to your face before asking for help. They may appear to be pasty-looking white people who never leave the house, but they are secretly Japanese just like you.
Q: How big are the classes? Will there be enough room for standard classroom seating?
A: Yes. However, many students prefer just passing out in their chairs after masturbating, so, it may get crowded near midterms and finals time. Sleeping in your chair is SUPER O.K. POWER FUN PEACE!! This is how Japanese people sleep. You are Japanese, so you must also sleep this way. Take the money you save on books and use it to buy more Kleenex. Then masturbate.
Q: Can I bring my Lego collection to class?
A: No, unless you have built a GIANT ROBOT out of Lego blocks. Then a big-eyed blue haired cartoon girl can sing a song about in a language we don't understand, but we'll stand around and act like we do. Then we can masturbate.
Q: Why are there no human desu-konnichiwa women at these classes you human speak of sensei because there are no human women at these human classes you speak of, oh? BIG FIRE BLAST ATTACK!!!
A: Human females are disgusting. They are not as attractive as freaky-eyed Japanese cartoon girls who sing about big robots. We do not allow ugly human females to attend classes.
Q: Im sort of shy. Can I masturbate in private?
A: Yes. Many screening rooms will be available at the University's media center for private viewings of new Anime releases. You are Japanese. Bring Kleenex. Masturbate.
For more information or additions to this FAQ, please email me (Rob Malda) at malda@slashdot.org.. I'm Japanese. And I Masturbate. And it's art! Really! Honest, officer!
This idea sounds cool, sure, but it's completely fucking pointless.
The whole point of having a physical keyboard is that your fingers recieve physical feedback. Thats why keys are springloaded. Ever notice how many times your finger misses the target on a normal keyboard, and ends up whacking more than one key? Well, you can feel that when it happens. On a projection keyboard, you can't, which sucks ass, especially in applications where you dont recieve immediate feedback on-screen for what you're typing out (password dialogs, hotkey stuff, etc.)
Well anyway, if you don't agree with me, you're welcome to grab your CueCat, hop on your Segway, and go to work where your projection keyboard sits. Just be sure not to rest your hands on your desk at any time during your 8 hour shift, or let anything fall into the area where your keyboard is projected, like paper. Also, don't subconsciously tap your fingers on your desk out of boredom either. The results could be disisisisisisisisisisisisisisiasrtrtrtrterrrrrrrro oououououououssusssususss.
Summary: Projection keyboards solve a problem that never existed in the first case. Its a great example of an invention that causes more problems than it claims to solve.
The CIA is already spraying villages in Africa with government-synthesized nano. It was meant to be used as a "smart exfoliant"..Rather than run in there with an army of bulldozers and pissing everyone off, we're dropping lumberjack nano in there to clear large areas of dense forest. Why? to lay oil pipelines in West Africa under the guise of improving Africa's economy:
Since the only way to kill the nano is to deprive it of sunlight and dissolve it, theyre packing mud onto all the people who've been afflicted with it in order to kill it off.
Oh well, it was the thought that counts.
PS.. I just made all that shit up on the spot. Ha-ha, gullible, arentcha?
Timothy, it's true what everyone says about you. You're a retard. And you prove it regularly. Wherever Rob and Jeff originally found you, ask them to take you back there and drop you off.
*blink*blink*UFO MAGAZINE WORLD EXCLUSIVE*blink*blink*...
Gimmie a fuckin break. I click on the only link on this page, expecting to see hard scientific data. What do I see? A bloated-ass animated GIF of a poorly rendered flying saucer, and three magazine covers. One magazine cover has a picture of a "grey" superimposed over the white house. Lovely. The second picture suggests the Moon landing was a fraud, which is a slap in the face to the tens of thousands of engineers who made it happen. The third image suggests aliens are abducting us with spooky-dookie glowing tractor beams. Yeah, thats great. Tons of credibility there.
This "news" isn't worth the powder to blow it to hell.
Someone came up with an ingenious way to circumvent the new copy protection scheme. Rumor has it you can buy a strand of copper, and push one end of it in a special socket labelled "Audio Out", and then take the other end of this same strand of copper and connect it up to the "Audio In" socket on the recording device.
Apparently, the theory is, the electrons inside the strand of copper get so excited that they begin to affect neighboring atoms in sort of a cascading fashion.. This happens zillions of times per second, as fluctuations in signal level travel through the copper core of the strand. In order to prevent this power from getting out of hand, they've even got stuff in development right now that uses a vinyl plastic or rubberized outer coating.
Totally fucking awesome. I want one!
No word yet on how much these strange "copper strands" are going to cost (probably hundreds of thousands of dollars considering how difficult it is to create a long, thin, flexible piece of copper in the lab, but, i'm sure the price will go down with time. Regardless, Microsoft aught to be shaking in their boots by now!
Short version: Get the fuck out of my industry, k? thx. Bye.
Long version: If you havent figured it out by now, you probably never will -- Windows people are a dime a dozen. Sure, you can be good at what you do, but guess what..theres a million other spuds out there just like you. No amount of certifications is going to change that. Trying to get a job doing Windows crap is like going to the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still a retard. You'de be smart to reconsider your career objectives. Considering your hit-to-miss ratio, The IT industry may not be for you, thats all.
One of my personal favorites: I got my hands on a 50MB external Sun SCSI enclosure at the local University's surplus auction... Hooked it up to my Linux box, had a look at it with hexedit. It used to belong to some sort of Asian Students Club. The contents of the drive were about 10% emails written in broken Engrish, and 90% of it was uuencoded porn.
"We havent made any decision yet, but we're examining the possibilities."
"I'm haven't decided to eat anything. Just that sandwich over there."
"I'm not going to Dave's house, Dad... So can I borrow the car to go to Dave's house?"
I dont know what to do.. Be disgusted with SCO, or laugh at this, the final death throes of a company on the brink of cartwheeling into Chapter 11. Regardless, i'm sure this is gonna be great for their stock price. Massive shareholder dissent, panic selling..
Supposing this browser performs some sort of read-ahead on pages it's being told to view (i.e. following the links behind the scenes while the meat tube in the chair reads the screen) then its probably possible. The trick is, keep that RX light on the modem as solid as possible. Dont let a single moment go by where that connection is idle. Spider the hell out of a webpage.
To optimize browsing, all you'de have to write is a pretty good filter within the browser engine to identify and exclude non-relevant links from the spider's list of things to look at.... i.e., "don't waste time following a casino-on-net ad. Look for links imbedded within large reigons of text and follow those."
In short, it's feasable. Spend less time knocking this guy, and spend more time using your goddamn head and think about it.
You're like every other monkey. When someone takes your porn away, out comes the poo, and you start flinging it in every direction while you protest the fact you're not being allowed to wank off to pumpkin-headed screamers.
Oh, I get it. Zit-faced twits too afraid of women to get any real action draw up some non-threatening pumpkin headed screamers on scraps of paper, and thats art...?
Last time I checked, art isn't sticky and suffed between a mattress.
Three guys strike up a conversation while riding the escalator up to the Pearly Gates (tm) of Heaven.
The first guy asks, "Hey, what did you do to get up here?", and the second guy says, "I fell out of a tree. How about you?" The first guy says, "Me? Nothing spectacular. Just old age."..At which point, the first guy asks the third guy, "Hey buddy -- How about you? What did you do to get up here?"
"I invented a car that ran on saltwater, and got 500 miles per gallon."
Moral: Companies will milk their "current" technologies until every last penny that can be made from the idea has been made. They'll actively shitcan ideas on the back burner until their current cow dies from exhaustion. Its only when it becomes unprofitable that they move on to better technologies. Take electric cars and ultra-ultra long life lightbulbs. Have been around for damn near a hundred years. Same thing probably goes for efficient solar energy. Whats the point of developing it when you've got billions of people paying good money for coal, natural gas, hydroelectric, and nuclear power?
Slashdot Mirror
If anyone from San Francisco (or California, for that matter) is looking to see the bottom of the SF Bay, I can help you. I have plenty of rope and quick-dry concrete, and I'll be happy to help you experience the natural wonders only the sea can offer.
Cheers,
Q: Why should I attend an Anime Class?
A: Simple. If you have an appreciation for Japanese art, animation and Asian culture, you can meet other people with similar interests. And masturbate.
Q: Do I need to be fat or gay to attend?
A: Not necessarrily. Many types of people are eligible to attend, including fat, middle-aged virgins who have a deep-seated fear of pussy, emotionally retarded freaks who want to have sex with freaking pumpkin-headed cartoon girls with dinner plate eyes, and 12 year olds who haven't gotten past the "girls are icky" stage of puberty. Regardless, above all else, you must be fat and/or gay to recieve the "Five-Star Student Discount" which entitles you to a free folding chair and three boxes of Kleenex soft tissues.
Q: I'm afraid of human females.. Is that ok?
A: Yes. You will be in good company. All of your classmates think human women are icky as well. As a courtesy to your classmates, every 30 minutes a bell will ring to remind you to masturbate. This is your signal to find a quiet place, think about two-dimensional women with blue hair and grotesquely oversized, glassy dinner-plate eyes and begin masturbating furiously. You can also pretend you know how to read words in Japanese.
Q: Kids at my school beat me up because I draw pictures of blue haired cartoon girls with grotesquely oversized eyes on my books and folders. Do you offer self-defense classes?
A: Yes. Since you cannot shoot green goo from your head and fly up in the air, Pat Morita we will be offering self-defense classes. You can spend hours with Mr. Miyagi waxing on and waxing off while thinking about Anime.
Q: I'm a Star Trek fan, but I cant wait for the next Trekkie convention to come to town. Can I enroll in your Anime course???
A: Yes. You probably think you're a fucking Klingon or Vulcan, so you will fit right fucking in next to all the suburban zit-faced pale white kids who think theyre Japanese. Making friends in class is easy when you have something in common!
Q: Should I bring my own Kleenex?
A: Yes, however boxes of Kleenex will be provided to all students at the beginning of the semester.
Q: What if I run out of Kleenex?
A: Ask the person next to you if you can borrow his kleenex. If you are lucky, he will be too tired to continue masturbating and wont need his Kleenex any longer.
Q: What kind of kleenex should I buy?
A: Many former students claim that after the first few days, their penises become rough and calloused from excessve wiping with standard, dry Kleenex. Many Anime fans preferthe "Kleenex Coldcare" variety of tissues, while others prefer "Puffs With Aloe". Using a softer brand of kleenex will cut down on chafing. For more information, visit http://www.kleenex.com and read the Kleenex FAQ.
Q: I have a misshapen penis due to excessive masturbation, but I dont feel I can give up watching Anime. What should I do??
A: Switch hands and hope for the best.
Q: Suppose some famous Anime "artist" gives a lecture.. Should I ask a him/her/it's autograph?
A: Yes, but please wash your hands first.
Q: Chirpy cartoon girls with blue hair and gigantic eyeballs make me want to touch myself. Is it ok to masturbate during class?
A: Yes. Masturbation doesn't hurt anyone. You should masturbate because Japanese people masturbate. Giant robots also masturbate. You are Japanese--dont let your parents tell you otherwise. You are Japanese. Masturbate.
Q: I like Anime, but I dont know how to masturbate. What do I do?
A: Attend an Anime class and look for a group of people all facing eachother with their pants down around their knees. Now think about giant robot monsters and blue-haired cartoon women with grotesquely oversized eyeballs. Begin stroking. If you need help, put on a blue wig, secure two glass dinner plates to your face with duct tape and ask the person next to you for directions in Engrish. Chances are he will show you the proper technique. Remember, you are Japanese. Masturbate.
Q: Is tutoring available? Is it ok to ask someone in class for homework help?
A: Yes, but be careful -- They may be masturbating. Many students do not like to be disturbed when they are "studying". Again, you may want to put on a blue wig and tape some glass dinner plates to your face before asking for help. They may appear to be pasty-looking white people who never leave the house, but they are secretly Japanese just like you.
Q: How big are the classes? Will there be enough room for standard classroom seating?
A: Yes. However, many students prefer just passing out in their chairs after masturbating, so, it may get crowded near midterms and finals time. Sleeping in your chair is SUPER O.K. POWER FUN PEACE!! This is how Japanese people sleep. You are Japanese, so you must also sleep this way. Take the money you save on books and use it to buy more Kleenex. Then masturbate.
Q: Can I bring my Lego collection to class?
A: No, unless you have built a GIANT ROBOT out of Lego blocks. Then a big-eyed blue haired cartoon girl can sing a song about in a language we don't understand, but we'll stand around and act like we do. Then we can masturbate.
Q: Why are there no human desu-konnichiwa women at these classes you human speak of sensei because there are no human women at these human classes you speak of, oh? BIG FIRE BLAST ATTACK!!!
A: Human females are disgusting. They are not as attractive as freaky-eyed Japanese cartoon girls who sing about big robots. We do not allow ugly human females to attend classes.
Q: Im sort of shy. Can I masturbate in private?
A: Yes. Many screening rooms will be available at the University's media center for private viewings of new Anime releases. You are Japanese. Bring Kleenex. Masturbate.
For more information or additions to this FAQ, please email me (Rob Malda) at malda@slashdot.org.. I'm Japanese. And I Masturbate. And it's art! Really! Honest, officer!
Duah.... first case=first place.
This idea sounds cool, sure, but it's completely fucking pointless.
The whole point of having a physical keyboard is that your fingers recieve physical feedback. Thats why keys are springloaded. Ever notice how many times your finger misses the target on a normal keyboard, and ends up whacking more than one key? Well, you can feel that when it happens. On a projection keyboard, you can't, which sucks ass, especially in applications where you dont recieve immediate feedback on-screen for what you're typing out (password dialogs, hotkey stuff, etc.)
Well anyway, if you don't agree with me, you're welcome to grab your CueCat, hop on your Segway, and go to work where your projection keyboard sits. Just be sure not to rest your hands on your desk at any time during your 8 hour shift, or let anything fall into the area where your keyboard is projected, like paper. Also, don't subconsciously tap your fingers on your desk out of boredom either. The results could be disisisisisisisisisisisisisisiasrtrtrtrterrrrrrrr
Summary: Projection keyboards solve a problem that never existed in the first case. Its a great example of an invention that causes more problems than it claims to solve.
The CIA is already spraying villages in Africa with government-synthesized nano. It was meant to be used as a "smart exfoliant"..Rather than run in there with an army of bulldozers and pissing everyone off, we're dropping lumberjack nano in there to clear large areas of dense forest. Why? to lay oil pipelines in West Africa under the guise of improving Africa's economy:
Buruli Busters
Since the only way to kill the nano is to deprive it of sunlight and dissolve it, theyre packing mud onto all the people who've been afflicted with it in order to kill it off.
Oh well, it was the thought that counts.
PS.. I just made all that shit up on the spot. Ha-ha, gullible, arentcha?
...Because its true.
Timothy, it's true what everyone says about you. You're a retard. And you prove it regularly. Wherever Rob and Jeff originally found you, ask them to take you back there and drop you off.
*blink*blink*UFO MAGAZINE WORLD EXCLUSIVE*blink*blink*...
Gimmie a fuckin break. I click on the only link on this page, expecting to see hard scientific data. What do I see? A bloated-ass animated GIF of a poorly rendered flying saucer, and three magazine covers. One magazine cover has a picture of a "grey" superimposed over the white house. Lovely. The second picture suggests the Moon landing was a fraud, which is a slap in the face to the tens of thousands of engineers who made it happen. The third image suggests aliens are abducting us with spooky-dookie glowing tractor beams. Yeah, thats great. Tons of credibility there.
This "news" isn't worth the powder to blow it to hell.
Cheers,
Someone came up with an ingenious way to circumvent the new copy protection scheme. Rumor has it you can buy a strand of copper, and push one end of it in a special socket labelled "Audio Out", and then take the other end of this same strand of copper and connect it up to the "Audio In" socket on the recording device.
Apparently, the theory is, the electrons inside the strand of copper get so excited that they begin to affect neighboring atoms in sort of a cascading fashion.. This happens zillions of times per second, as fluctuations in signal level travel through the copper core of the strand. In order to prevent this power from getting out of hand, they've even got stuff in development right now that uses a vinyl plastic or rubberized outer coating.
Totally fucking awesome. I want one!
No word yet on how much these strange "copper strands" are going to cost (probably hundreds of thousands of dollars considering how difficult it is to create a long, thin, flexible piece of copper in the lab, but, i'm sure the price will go down with time. Regardless, Microsoft aught to be shaking in their boots by now!
Garbage isn't so bad...their lead singer is hawt... Mee-yow!
Cheers,
Celine Dion is deh greatest singar..in deh world!
Psst.. You believe everything you see on the internet, large fat troll?
Last year alone, IBM recieved over 230,000 job applications. Guess how many of those people they hired?
Go on, guess.
100,000?
50,000?
10,000?
Super Colon Blow?
Zero. Infact, its worse than zero. Out of 230,000 job applications, IBM accepted 0. Infact, they cut more than 3000 jobs during the last fiscal year.
Source: Forbes Magazine, last month. Have fun.
Cheers,
Short version: Get the fuck out of my industry, k? thx. Bye.
Long version: If you havent figured it out by now, you probably never will -- Windows people are a dime a dozen. Sure, you can be good at what you do, but guess what..theres a million other spuds out there just like you. No amount of certifications is going to change that. Trying to get a job doing Windows crap is like going to the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still a retard. You'de be smart to reconsider your career objectives. Considering your hit-to-miss ratio, The IT industry may not be for you, thats all.
Cheers,
Bird?
Between the negative publicity, and and sea of middle fingers, i'm sure things can be resolved peacefully.
Oops. I used the letters "p", "c", and "i"... Fuck, time to call a lawyer!
Cheers,
You toddlers need to read more clearly. But, since your mom exercised while she was pregnant with you, and now you have ADHD, i'll explain it for you.
"Welcome to 1979." = People have been doing clandestine data recovery on discarded computer media for decades. This story is nothing new.
My dumpster-diving adventured were limited to about 1996-1999. The 50MB Sun SCSI enclosure was from circa 1990 or so, the data on it was from '94-95.
Happy, girls?
Almost.
Broke, unemployed, and stuck in Tucson, yes..... dead? No.
Welcome to 1979.
One of my personal favorites: I got my hands on a 50MB external Sun SCSI enclosure at the local University's surplus auction... Hooked it up to my Linux box, had a look at it with hexedit. It used to belong to some sort of Asian Students Club. The contents of the drive were about 10% emails written in broken Engrish, and 90% of it was uuencoded porn.
Your tax dollars at work...yeesh.
Dont make me call your house again. I'll leave a message for your mom this time.
Uhm...
"We havent made any decision yet, but we're examining the possibilities."
"I'm haven't decided to eat anything. Just that sandwich over there."
"I'm not going to Dave's house, Dad... So can I borrow the car to go to Dave's house?"
I dont know what to do.. Be disgusted with SCO, or laugh at this, the final death throes of a company on the brink of cartwheeling into Chapter 11. Regardless, i'm sure this is gonna be great for their stock price. Massive shareholder dissent, panic selling..
Cache.
Piggy-backing ontop of a spider.
Supposing this browser performs some sort of read-ahead on pages it's being told to view (i.e. following the links behind the scenes while the meat tube in the chair reads the screen) then its probably possible. The trick is, keep that RX light on the modem as solid as possible. Dont let a single moment go by where that connection is idle. Spider the hell out of a webpage.
To optimize browsing, all you'de have to write is a pretty good filter within the browser engine to identify and exclude non-relevant links from the spider's list of things to look at.... i.e., "don't waste time following a casino-on-net ad. Look for links imbedded within large reigons of text and follow those."
In short, it's feasable. Spend less time knocking this guy, and spend more time using your goddamn head and think about it.
Cheers,
Dont be so defensive.
You're like every other monkey. When someone takes your porn away, out comes the poo, and you start flinging it in every direction while you protest the fact you're not being allowed to wank off to pumpkin-headed screamers.
Please STFU, thanks.
Youre a complete fucking tard.
Lets say you see your neighbor fucking an inflatible goat. Daily.
Youre telling me that you wouldn't look down upon such a thing, since it just doesn't float your boat...but it floats his.
You are a complete fuckin retard.
A shoe company that thinks its something more than a shoe company complains about other people complaining.
Pass the shotgun, please.
Seriously.
If you guys need some porn, just ask. Its not that scary, and your mom doesn't have to know. You really don't need to resort to drawing your own.
Oh, I get it. Zit-faced twits too afraid of women to get any real action draw up some non-threatening pumpkin headed screamers on scraps of paper, and thats art...?
Last time I checked, art isn't sticky and suffed between a mattress.
Yup. Mod me down. Go ahead.
Three guys strike up a conversation while riding the escalator up to the Pearly Gates (tm) of Heaven.
The first guy asks, "Hey, what did you do to get up here?", and the second guy says, "I fell out of a tree. How about you?" The first guy says, "Me? Nothing spectacular. Just old age."
"I invented a car that ran on saltwater, and got 500 miles per gallon."
Moral: Companies will milk their "current" technologies until every last penny that can be made from the idea has been made. They'll actively shitcan ideas on the back burner until their current cow dies from exhaustion. Its only when it becomes unprofitable that they move on to better technologies. Take electric cars and ultra-ultra long life lightbulbs. Have been around for damn near a hundred years. Same thing probably goes for efficient solar energy. Whats the point of developing it when you've got billions of people paying good money for coal, natural gas, hydroelectric, and nuclear power?
See you on the escalator.
Cheers,