Well, we all have retroviral genes in our genomes; so in one way there certainly has been "mergings", at least at the genetic level. But the nature of the two organelles being referred to; mitochondria and chloroplasts, in indeed different. Mitochondria originated as free-living Alphaproteobacteria that could, apparently, produce ATP through oxidization. Chloroplasts are the descendants of cyanobacteria, who could produce ATP from photosynthesis.

Both mitochondria and chloroplasts weren't merely enveloped by more primitive eukaryotic cells, they're division and reproduction is timed to that of the host cell, so that when the host cell divides, so do to these organelles. Additionally, both mitochondria and chloroplasts have lost a lot of genes over the 1.5 to 2 billion years that they have been incorporated into eukaryotic cell lines. Another critical aspect of both these types of organelles is that their genomes are not merely honed down to what look like the essentials for producing energy, but that those genomes are very conserved even as compared to the host cells.

If this is the case, even it's early in the evolution of this endosymbiotic relationship, it is a significant discovery.

Sony is segmenting a generation of their console, something no one has ever done before. The refresh isn't good enough to be a new generation, so they're doing this half-assed thing which is going to irritate a lot of people with games targeted at the new version of the system that don't run well on the old one.

Their console is already the sales leader in this generation, they're just screwing with success at this point. You're supposed to ride out the console as long as it's profitable, and take the time to make a greater successor.

Microsoft is trying to keep PC gaming going because it's a big reason why consumers buy computers with their OS on them.

Microsoft needs that to happen so that they can sell "OEMs" (most of them don't design most or all of "their" machines anyway) their OS. Competent corporate users don't want anything to do with a bundled license, only small businesses should be using those at this point.

It's too bad Kinect wasn't more successful, for Microsoft that is. It would have helped them if they could have differentiated their console.

On the other hand if we extrapolate this EU cellphone stuff to other markets, closed game consoles' time is limited anyway.

Games for Xbox being on other platforms surely does hurt it, but it also helps the Xbox that PC gaming is strong and it's easy to make a game that will run on both PC and Xbox. They don't have to do nearly as much to convince developers to make games for their platform.

So your solution is to monetize everyone further? At least you're not hiding your proud fascism.

It's called selfishness, and you will keep it up right until we are all in our graves.

Patching other programs' memory was a feature in those days. It did make the system quite insecure of course, but it was already quite insecure. Meanwhile it let you do fun tricks. The Amiga was another platform where the lack of memory protection was a virtue. On the other hand, it also made it infeasible as a general purpose computing system going forwards. We did have some pretty good virus scanners, but we needed them.

I am running XFCE and Compiz on a system with a 4060. It's lovely. The animations could be a little smoother, but I am absolutely loving the high quality mipmaps that are missing from KDE. You can really see what is going on in the icon hover previews. My CPU is a 1600 AF (Pinnacle Ridge) which is pretty poky by modern standards, but it was replacing a FX-8350.

Now I just need to finish building avant-window-navigator. The XFCE4 dock is pretty meh. The fucking clock stopped updating for over an hour this morning...

I think most people follow brands and don't think. They don't wanna think. It's tiresome. Maybe they have to do it at work and then they wanna let their brain rest, most of them don't seem to think much at work either though.

Japanese cars have been the best on the planet since they first got their shit together in the late eighties, except for this brief moment where Tesla has had the best EVs because they were the first to put together a bunch of available technologies in a convincing way. Anyone who had R/C cars could tell you that it was time to do it. We just didn't all have emeralds in our pockets.

What is your plan for what to do when they aren't able to meet that responsibility? You need to have one, it's all of our responsibility, "Simple as that."

You want to pass judgement, but I'm betting you don't have a plan for how to make things better. I can have respect for ideas, but not for a lack of them.

He was hoping it would work in courts too.

Google is a known member of unconstitutional citizen spying program PRISM operated by the NSA.

Ok, YOU explain why they would rather shut it down and get $0 than sell it and make some money. Remember, your explanation has to make sense, you can't just repeat whatever their PR department is saying.

If you can afford to pay for those crappy, plastic nails or your Friday night beerfest, you can afford to buy stocks. It's all about priorities and personal responsibility

You can't see why a corporation would say things that aren't true?

KDE3 is the one I like to describe as an explosion in a widget factory.

4 had promise but didn't develop it until it became 5.

5 has a bad bug with wine programs, some of them will only run in the background. Haven't tried to see if 6 has the same problem...