You gotta love humans. Every time an AI starts to be able to do something that was previously only our domain, it's all "Meh, wake me when..." and "Yeah, but a computer still can't..."

Funny stuff.:)

Fortunately I have a Beowulf of RPis to cut that time down.

Seriously though, I've been using h.264 MKV files for a number of years even before I owned a RPi and I've never had a problem playing videos aside from slight delays on high bitrate BluRay files.

That's the fault of the processor and not the GPU. People care more about the actual playback performance more than the UI (which could be done via a tablet or laptop anyway). Anyway, the faster performance of the RPi 2 makes this a bit of a moot point.

> Let me know when the AI complains about the ending of Mass Effect 3.

BUZZ CLICK WHIRRR... This Game Sucks. Click.

(Side note - I wonder how long before the AI evolves (degenerates?) into comic book guy nerd speak... Are all of our nerdisms really just natural progressions of logic?
BUZZ CLICK WHIRR... Worst Game EVER. Exclamation point. Exclamation point. Exclamation point. Click. )

The first generation Raspberry Pi did SD pretty well and could do HD with a few caveats. The RPi 2 has even more CPU and memory and does quite well with the HD movies I've thrown at it. And it's 1/10 the price of the Intel offering.

Kind of. Exchange's system works great if you are sending mail to someone else on your domain, but send mail to someone on a different domain or even just some guy on the internet and it gets really complicated in a hurry.

I walked right into that one. Well played.

Outside of kids, that's probably true.

Oil Laundering...

Few bills - His first two years was a Democrat controlled congress so anything that reached his desk was something he wanted.

Ever since, until this year, the Republicans controlled the house and the Democrats the Senate and Reid basically played bad cop to Obama's good cop. Reid would block and deflect any legislation that wasn't in the Democrats interest so all legislation was slowed down considerably as most bills originate in the house. (which is why there's been no budget bill for years just continuing resolutions on the one passed years ago, Reid would never act on them). Now the Republicans have control of the congress so legislation Obama doesn't want has reached his desk.

Even though this legislation could be reasonably stated to be a bipartisan bill. There's not enough votes currently to override but it's not an insurmountable number, either.

I do both. 30 minutes to cycle about 5 miles to the nearest metro stop, then another 15-20 minutes to ride into work, followed by a 10 minute hike to the office. The hike is actually the hardest part, as it is all uphill in the morning. Works pretty well, but my wife is less enthusiastic about the extra 30-40 minutes my commute takes since it means less time with the kids in the evening. Also, this winter has not been kind to cyclists with lots of exceptionally cold days and snow.

Get your own blogging platform.

Pfft. Who reads the articles?

Like I said, this might work if the work were short term. Then again we already have consulting companies for that kind of work and the people that run said companies usually take the place of agents.

Writers, performers, singers, boxers all have agents. I'm not sure if the model works for all those groups of people, but that's what's there. On the other hand, that's mostly because they don't have a regular job - they need someone to find and negotiate the pay for them as they're either otherwise busy working or don't have the skills or contacts to get the work. Maybe if the job were per-project and rockstar developers could come in and guarantee some level of performance for some level of pay negotiated by the agent that could work.