That was exactly my thought.

Valve is making a big push into the Linux game space, and is likely putting some pressure on partners to "play nice" with Linux. While Valve isn't likely big enough to cause a complete reversal on their own, I'm guessing that Valve + Shield + success with releasing mobile specs + other internal pressures is causing them to reevaluate their stance in regard to desktop graphics accelerators.

So Machinima with motion capture instead of controllers.

Because it's "Good Enough" performance for most people, and it gives you the ability to go over a full day in battery life with a fanless device.

My wife & mother in law both have Asus Transformer tablets and love them. They are fast, thin, and have great battery life. They love being able to use their android apps across devices.
My wife hates her work laptop as it's a boat anchor and she only gets about 3 hours of unplugged use out of it. ARMs performance is getting better, while Intel's power use is getting lower. It will be interesting to see where the graphs finally cross.

> what about all the new roads that perhaps will need to be built?

They'll be built by automated construction equipment, just like construction equipment has replaced bricklayers, and bulldozers & dump trucks have replaced men with pickaxes and wheelbarrows.

> engineers could make cars MUCH easier to work on

And then a robot can swap out the battery packs in 90 seconds, no human needed! The easier engineers make assembling and disassembling things, the less "human touch" is needed. If you look at companies bringing manufacturing jobs back from China, they're redesigning their products to be machine assemble-able.

I laughed out loud when he talked about food prep being an area "untouched" by automation. Dominoes, Quiznos, etc use an automated feed oven to cook pizza's & subs now. McDonalds has fry machines where you dump fries in the hopper and push a button- it dunks the fries in the oil, pulls them out when done, and dumps them into a hopper for boxing.

The only thing saving jobs from more automation is that the ROI on automation is less than continuing to hire people. As the cost of automation technology drops and the gets better, that ROI point will move.

'Freedom of expression is given to people who stand up for what they’re saying and not hiding behind anonymity,'

Tell that to Silence Dogood.

Unfortunately, if you read the article it's just a lawyer "Cease & Desist" letter, not an actual DMCA take-down notice.

This is like me sending you a letter saying "If you don't take down your post, I'm going to sue you". It's not an actual legal action, just a threat of legal action.

When I got laid off, I got one month notice, plus severance, plus vacation payout. When I've voluntarily changed jobs I've given 2 weeks notice. Note that when you give your 2 weeks, be ready for them to escort you off the property. People used to joke any time someone cleaned their desk and took home excess personal stuff that they were about to give notice.

Layoffs are different than "Terminated with cause". If you're terminated with cause you shouldn't expect to get a reference anyway.

They are already working on machines to take old milk bottles or soda bottles and manufacture the filament needed for a RepRap.

http://www.appropedia.org/Recyclebot_v2.3

Oracle has demonstrated through their Google lawsuit and their (mis) handling of OpenOffice & MySQL that they are not to be trusted and will screw former partners if they think it's financially beneficial.

Let me know when Java enters the real world with an open specification process and the spec is managed by an independent industry group. Until then there is horrible vendor lock-in with a vendor I don't trust to not sue me if I do something they don't like.

I've actually heard that Clinton did this (at least partially) through making Roth IRA's very attractive: Move your retirement money from a "tax differed" 401k to a "tax free growth" account: Pay tax upfront and don't pay it later on the earnings.

Ended up getting a lot of people to move money into Roth IRAs in the late 90's, generating a lot of tax revenue, but reducing the amount of future tax revenue.

It won't. At this point the codebases have incompatible licensing. LibreOffice can continue to pull in code from OpenOffice, but OpenOffice cannot pull back in code from LibreOffice.

As such, LibreOffice will likely continue to have major releases a week after OpenOffice, where all the good stuff from OpenOffice will get pulled in, but none of the good stuff from LibreOffice will be ported to OpenOffice.

Section 2 still stands, allowing states to not recognize same-sex marriages from other states. IMO a state with Same-sex marriage should pass a law where they don't recognize marriages from states that define marriage differently (AKA as "Between a man and a woman") to force the issue. Worst case you get a lot of new marriage license income as couples have to get remarried for tax/legal reasons.

Good point: The Author of the musical RENT, Jonathan Larson, died the night before the off-Broadway premiere.

Injection in the testicle? No thanks. I'll take the injection in the Vas Deferens of Vasalgel, thank you. That is also closer to commercial use (human trials scheduled for this year, release targeted 2015) and has over 10 years worth of human testing in India. It is also reversible (USA rabbit reversal trial in progress right now) with a single injection of baking soda & water.

Seeing as every multifunction machine uses this and the government can't function without them now I feel this would be a good application of "Eminent domain" for the state to seize the patent for public use.