Probably better off in meetings too. Though imagine the embarrassment when you've spent 3 or 4 minutes hooking it all* together and you realise you've forgotten the mouse.

* NUC machine, power brick, screen, hdmi cable, screen power brick, keyboard

More and more cars are reusing braking energy by storing it in batteries. So you're still stealing energy that could be better used by the car itself.

Isn't that even worse? If the car is running inefficiently, it has to generate more gross energy in order to impart the same net energy in the piezo-roadway - more waste.

People seem to forget that when these guys were test pilots, they were dying left right and centre. Then they became astronauts (i.e. in the public eye) and were suddenly indispensable.

I would argue that it's spam only in the case where Amazon send direct messages to people without their consent. If they make it easier for you to do it, but their own servers don't actually get involved, I can't see the problem - then it's the purchaser who's sending the message, regardless who composed it.

I guess with the email option, it must be Amazon's servers that send the message - in which case I fully agree that constitutes spam.

Indeed, many seem to be taking the over-the-top route these days - or at least they're being reported more often as doing so.

Maybe/hopefully, there are still a large majority of unreported well-handled cases.

Imagine if, by ASTRONOMICAL coincidence, New Horizons could do a fly by in a few decades... the conspiracy theorists would go nuts.

Come to think of it, maybe I'd join them.

This is what worries me:

In an ideal (sensible) world, doing this would make the iPhone fail, due to lacking a very important and standard feature in order to achieve something that has no real effect on the user (unnecessary thinness).

But in the real world, the iPhone 7 will sell with or without at 3.5mm jack, and worse than that - others will then do the same, reducing (or at least heavily segmenting) consumer options.

It already happened with micro SD slots.

You're free to read one of the many other stories on Slashdot. Nothing's forcing you to choose this one.

You said it yourself - "may or may not". I'm just arguing that we shouldn't immediately just jump on "may not".

I don't know.

But I'm sure if somebody did research it (which incidentally I think would be really interesting), the first reaction would again be "how obvious, I knew that already!"

Thanks, you've covered this far more eloquently than I did - I just get frustrated with the "And this is news?" style comments that consistently come up on any research articles on Slashdot, no matter what the subject.

And I agree - some, or much, of this kind of research may be useless. But there can often be more subtle and useful conclusions to be drawn than the headline and summary suggest. I'm just more interested in seeing comments which create a good discussion modded up than knee-jerk "everybody knew that already" quips.

There's a difference between anecdotal evidence and properly correlated research data.

Research that confirms an expected answer is not useless.

I agree with you, but most of the world doesn't - which is what really matters if you want to sell games.

Ah, so Gravity wasn't canon then?

The new engines are 100% mandated. It is a hybrid formula now, no exceptions.