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Comment Doubt this will b e for everyday deliveries. (Score 1) 110

95% of all the posts I see here pointing out issues with drone delivery seem to be thinking of typical city deliveries like most have today. I would think the first years of this type of delivery will be for special cases. There is possibly a pretty good size rural market in hard to deliver areas that would sign up for weekly or monthly supply deliveries right away cause they pay a ton right now for that kind of service. Think up in the mountains in areas costly to deliver to only one house on many acres.

Comment Re:Just like every store (Score 1) 110

The Grocery Store I shop at, Harris Teeter does the same thing, in fact I notice that it must also watch what sells the most and can be replaced most easily and works with the manufactures to duplicate the items, just cheaper with their own name brand, it is a popular thing to do. It must seem unfair if you are the company it decides to replace.

Comment Re: The New Formula (Score 3, Insightful) 405

The same stuff happens with Democrats.

Not really, it seems to me Republicans hate Government and want to make it smaller, so that it gets out of the way of the companies making money, so they purposely put people in charge that are bad at the position and want it to fail, sometimes these people are even outspoken about not liking the section of government they manage. There is always and will always be corruption in government because money corrupts. But I do not see both sides the same at all.

Comment Re:Sounds Smart (Score 1) 92

I would much rather they spend the next 10-20 years with only robots and getting that worked out completely leaving room for humans in all the designs maybe, so that one day when humans may really need to be in the ship, the robots are so good it makes the job that much easier. There is no reason to have humans along of the ride today, and all the technology that comes from working on putting the robots in space would be much more valuable here on earth as well. They can always work on new designs for humans in space during this time, and some testing, but I would say sending humans to mars for instance should come after we have landed robots there and had them setup shop for us before we ever arrive.

Comment Re:Wireless is not a replacement (Score 1) 108

Exactly, something is always going to be better than nothing, and some places will no doubt be very happy with good wireless access.
But the hope here was for Google fiber to actually compete with the current entrenched infrastructure and give many people a second real choice.
A wired connection that is much faster, not as susceptible to interference and environmental issues, will always be a better option than wireless for most people especially as everyone's internet connection gets more and more important with almost all services being delivered via that one connection.

Comment Re:Smoking gun of theft or go home (Score 1) 136

This has everything to do with when and where Carmack wrote the code for the Rift I think. I am pretty sure Carmack did not have the standard agreement that most of us get when we work for a big company. idsoftware was bought by Zenimax and Carmack came along with it, but even lots of tech companies the head guy might have a very special agreement different than others in the company. Carmack worked of Aerospace and other things on the side not owned by Zenimax at all. As long as he was good at keeping these things seperate, he might have some wording in his contract that will be on his side.

Comment Access to his home! (Score 1) 100

Now we know we can hold a picture from that video of his parents up to his door camera and have access to his house!
Actually I think Mark is smarter than most people of Facebook give him credit for, it is not always the smartest people in the world that make the most money, and money is not the best way to grade people on how smart they are, but that does not make the guy an idiot. I would say he is much more tech savoy than many of the CEO of major tech companies and at least he seem to have a vision of were he wants to take the company even if you do not agree with it.

Comment Re:Why does MS care which browser is used? (Score 1) 123

Easy! Many default features send data to Microsoft to improve your browsing experience. Even if you have Google as the default search provider they have features that offer suggestions, I assume this is sending data to MS. IT ALL ABOUT WHO OWNS THE DATA! INFORMATION IS POWER IS MONEY!

Comment Re:I"m a liberal socialist (Score 1) 805

Can some point to a a statement (An actual link) by Trump where he mentioned H1B? I never heard anything about it, I did hear about people coming to take our jobs, but it always seemed to me he was reaching out to rural areas that are more hurt by Mexican's. Never heard him say anything about people from India coming in on H1B's which I think is an issue.

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