You're wrong. A railgun uses a magnetic field as the *source* of the kinetic energy instead of gunpowder. you could, feasably, have a railgun slug that carries an explosive payload. after a railgun projectile leaves the gun, it behaves just like any other projectile. parabolic trajectory, affected by gravity and aerodynamic drag, etc.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/re... -- resource for the above quote.

"run assays on disposable plastic cassettes with pre-loaded reagents"

There is some material cost to actually *using* the thing. It's unclear what that cost is, but there are disposable materials involved.

I've lived in a suburb of NYC, had friends live in DC, and currently live in Pittsburgh. I have experience with all three. Pittsburgh is the worst place to drive and navigate (geography-wise), with DC as a close second.

That said, NYC has worse traffic than either of the other two contenders.

I bet the refresh rate is terrible...

AI and Autonomy are two (very) different goals. Autonomy is very feasable in the next ~10 years. AI is not. Luckily, AI is not a prerequisite to autonomy.

I'm just curious here, what damage have these companies done to the internet?

The non-google, non-facebook, non-twitter internet is still there, and it's bigger then it's ever been! we're having a discussion on it right now!

I think it's incredibly naive to think that this has nothing to do with North Korea. It's extremely likely that this group of attackers is North Korean, and just as likely that they are under the North Korean government's employ. Also, they threatened attacks on movie theaters on american soil. The fact that the movie playing would be (distantly) owned by a Japanese company is irrelevant, the American moviegoers are the ones that would suffer.

That said, I think canceling showings of the film sends a shitty message, and sets a bad precedent.

Or render at that resolution, the input doesn't have to be video :)

The 'off the grid' answer is 'generator'.

Yea, Mine still works, got it at launch.

Is there a *successful* handheld gaming platform that isn't proprietary and closed source? Do we have an option?

This depends highly on
1) the reqiurements of the position
and
2) your hiring budget.

Do you need someone to run msi installers and register users on a *windows* system? you'll probably save some money hiring an MS cert. do you need database design or some complicated distributed server farm built? and IST degree is probably what you're looking for? Need some application code written? You probably want someone with a CS degree. Need device drivers/firmware/hardware designed? Go for someone with a Computer Engineering or even an Electrical Engineering degree.

All of these degrees/certifications don't fit the same niche...

I absolutely can prove it.

Right now, you can buy the IOS development kit, which compiles objective-C code to run on the iPad. Objective-C is a Turing-complete language, and can therefore only be implemented in a language that is also Turing complete. the LLVM compiler that ships with the IOS developement kit compiles Objective-c to the instruction set on the iPad. Therefore, the instruction set of the iPad is Turing complete.

QED.

I mean that the instruction set implemented on the iPad is Turing complete, which is true. i did not mean that the iPad is a Turing machine, which is not true.

sorry for the ambiguity.