Our landfills likely contain more REEs and metals than we can possibly imagine.

Pretty soon, I'll bet on combo energy-producing/recycling/processing area built right atop landfills as we realize just how much of that stuff can be easily reclaimed and re-purposed or utilized for energy.

"And this stuff is important enough that instead of lining up a list of links, we are giving you one link to Google using the search term "rare earths." "

And said search term brings up totally different results depending upon your geographical area, some of which lead you to nothing worth value.

It's like the editors of this once-venerable tech blog have totally forgotten about tech and stories they've covered in the past.

It shows the general poor state of current software development tools, languages, and capabilities of the programmers themselves.

They could've gone with a 32-bit quad core, saved on costs, and still had pretty much the same performance. The RAM is going to be the major bottleneck, here, in a multi-tasking OS.

Multitasking? On a memory-starved 64-bit quad core processor?

Yea, you have fun with that!

And ONLY 2 GB of RAM? What's the fucking point of including a 64-bit processor?

It's idiotic design decisions EXACTLY like this *cough Toshiba Satellite L45 cough* that make me stay away from upgrading hardware.

There's no point to having 64-bit CPU if you don't even give it MINIMUM 4GB RAM. Especially on a QUAD CORE device. Are you trying to memory-starve the damned thing?

"One curious corollary is that if the human brain is a Turing machine, then humans can never decide this issue either, a point that the authors deliberately steer well clear of."

Of course they go away from that, because otherwise their foolishness and hypocrisy would be exposed.

I would sue them and win. They only manage my licenses. I OWN the licenses.

they take my licenses away from me, I file criminal charges on top of the lawsuit, on top of a heavier chargeback for ALL purchases made through that service, and report them for fraud.

I would win here in California, where I would have Jurisdiction.

EA backed down really fast against me. Valve's lawyers don't want to test me, either.

" a power source that's only producing cheap power during periods where demand is lowest?"

Yep, I can tell you don't live anywhere in the southern United States. Especially the southwestern areas.

" In fact, a good inverter can act as the charge controller for your batteries"

Charging a battery off of AC? Surely you mean RECTIFIER.

That's because their solar design SUCKS.

And they vastly over-stated possible power production.

"Money spent on a game that doesn't even exist yet (there is just a hangar and an in-game simulator and the controls are a pain)."

Uhh, I've got much more than that in my current download/install of SC, including five custom ships. Unless you backed it and have a copy, you don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Early Access, as in on Steam?

Uh, yes, you do have recourse. Contact Steam and get to it. Demand a refund for the reason the game is no longer what was advertised.

Or you call your credit card company and chargeback.

"on-line games are far less susceptible to piracy"

PGFFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTTTHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Are you fucking serious?

Because it's exactly what clueless ACs deserve. No less.