International treaty that, if every actually finished, will get ignored by war mongering countries/states.

Presumably, you'll either use a gamepad or you'll connect a keyboard and mouse, like you can with Surface or Android or perhaps iOS for all I know, although I'd guess not and I'm too lazy to look it up.

If you were a shareholder, and did your homework, you would know that the Xbox already runs Windows. The original Xbox OS was derived from Windows 2000, the Xbox 360 OS was derived from the original Xbox OS, and the Xbox 180 OS was derived from the Xbox 360 OS.

It will, kind of, with streaming. The apps which are too big to run on your phone can be streamed.

What killed Sun wasn't just aimless dicking around, it was the endless cycle of purchasing companies that had stuff they were missing, then laying off all of the top-paid employees — the ones who understood the products they'd just bought. Then they failed at an iteration of their Ultrasparc processor, it took them so long that by the time it came to market it would have been old and slow, so they skipped it. They never recovered in the land of single-thread performance, instead optimizing for the kind of workload which was already at the time increasingly being handled by cheap x86 clusters. This was an obvious road to destruction, and many of us pointed this out at the time, not that anyone expected Sun to listen to the people in the trenches by that time when they had proven conclusively that they were interested in no such thing.

Solaris provided only two innovative features probably ever: containers and ZFS. Both were too little too late to save Sun, and ZFS got open-sourced anyway, eliminating any potential competitive advantage.

A man also painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, discovered a vaccine for polio, and invented Cookie Crisp cereal. It's almost as if some people can do good things and some people can do bad things. And sometimes, and this is totally crazy, the same person can do some good things and some bad things!

It wasn't so much that they innovated, because when they added new features they were typically already available in other browsers. It's that they provided a free, open source alternative to IE at a time when one was badly needed. In the early days they made big strides forward with things like tabbed browsing and SVG support. I suppose you could say they were in the right place at the right time.

It's a bit more complex than just needing a mis-match between inner-ear and eyes to make you feel sick. Most people can tolerate their eyes seeing movement but their inner-ear saying they are stationary, unless they are also experiencing vertigo. Vertigo is caused by things like sudden variations in frame rate.

For a VR headset it is therefore important to keep frame rate up, but also to track both the direction that the user is looking and the position of their head. For example, when you look down you lean your head forwards and rotate it. If the simulation just rotates it doesn't match your inner-ear, it has to match the leaning forwards and movement of the head downwards.

They would have to pay roaming fees to the providers who provide the actual network coverage. In practice most of them have some kind of agreement where they simply agree to allow each other's customers to roam without bothering to meter and bill every single megabyte or text message.

The reason why the EU wants to get rid of roaming charges for consumers is not that it costs the networks nothing, it's that the networks charge far more than it costs them and are not motivated to agree reciprocal deals. Some companies have already set these deals up in anticipation of the new rules, or simply to attract customers. For example my rather cheap 3 contract (3 is the name of the network... It made sense when 3G was the latest and greatest thing) allows me to visit many western European countries without any roaming fees already.

You are reading too much into that quote. There are very real concerns about military robots that can decide to kill people autonomously. Right now efforts are under way to create a new international treaty to deal with them. Just referencing a popular movie as a short hand way of explaining the basis of the concern does not make someone crazy.

Smashing stuff up doesn't make the crazy either, just ill informed. It wasn't the best way to achieve their goal, but the goal itself seems to one that many people share. As I say, there are efforts being made to control this technology, which is essentially what these guys were trying to do in a very ham-fisted way.

Contracting it isn't the biggest problem. Paying bottom dollar is. That means that you don't get the best people. Paying people more means they're less motivated to engage in profitable hijinks when someone asks them to plug something into your network, or photograph your documents. That's because happiness stops increasing dramatically with money after you reach middle class. Once your needs are met, bribery is less effective. Obviously not ineffective, of course. That's where loyalty used to come in. Problem is, corporations don't treat you with any, but they still need it from you. Solution? Treat employees like humans and pay them enough to live on.

To be fair, the system's primary role is arguably figuring out where you are without a sextant. They'd have done it even if they couldn't have used it for bombs and cruise missiles because it didn't work at higher speeds or something.

Find ways to avoid taxes (as opposed to evading them) like incorporating and writing everything off. Wars run on taxes.

Also, sneaking in and smashing something that's insured will just delay the inevitable. If you must take direct action, make it meaningful, and not just a fuckoff waste of time.

Everybody run out and incorporate right now. Apparently it's cheap in Oregon. Then you can write everything off, declare losses, and pay no taxes just like the rich. They're apparently terrified that you're going to do this, why else double-downmod this innocuous comment?

Incorporate now if you want the same rights as your corporate masters, or at least a subset of them.