Please do tell the Australians how to easily desalinate their farmland, they're struggling with it a bit.

If those factories were still in the US they'd use far more automation and employ only a fraction of the labour they use overseas and used in the past in the US.

Maybe, but it would only be a stopgap solution even if it worked. In the end there are REAL resource (ie, not money, not even gold) limits to consumption, there are no limits to labor productivity.

Not looney tunes, she's just letting herself be taken in by the comfortable reality distortion bubble her backers create for her ... it's much easier to tell yourself all those people supporting you can't be wrong than to admit the mistake to yourself and others.

Not very nice, but also not crazy.

The ear is nonlinear, so it can downmix ... not that it's a relevant effect for perceiving music, but just saying.

Didn't Slashdot have another story recently about how pop-science was in love with trying to find power laws in everything? (And producing nothing of value along the way.)

It's a parable, also it's literal truth.

Is there no stegonagraphy chat app using instagram yet? Obsessive selfie taking seems like a good cover.

The use of dual port memory shows just how deeply the NSA has penetrated into the industry ... lets open a huge security hole and put a huge amount of unnecessary load on the widest/fastest bus in the phone and lets tell them we need to do this for performance ... when fucking wlan can easily be put over one relatively slow LVDS pair let alone 4g.

I was downloading mods on the fly in Unreal a long long time ago, needing add-ons is not a problem (other than security wise, need to use something like NCl or I guess Asm.js ... shudder). Properly abstracting the game code and running it all in script is not a problem either (again, Unreal).

It's just that modern developers seem utterly incapable of proper abstraction and lack the mindset to open source any part of their work ... I seriously doubt anyone working on Shards is any different. They'll give people some castrated tools and that's it.

It's not a problem if each server is just it's own persistent world ... let characters from the official servers import into persistent worlds, but not export.

Game code will be properly abstracted from engine code and it will be open source? Sure ....

Unless they give true full source code access the best players will be able to do is turn some near irrelevant dials and connect some blocks together to form a "new" quest, just like all these other MMOs which promise players will be able to develop content.

AOL already has their own video streaming service set up, stream quality seems quite nice too ... no user videos though so no direct competition to youtube.

Lets see what happens on appeal then ... of course if Apple loses it you'll just declare the next judge prejudiced as well.

None of those movies got preachy about misogyny (although Catching Fire preached to the teenage choir about a lot of other stuff of course, like every coming of age story). All pretty white too of course ...

This isn't about games with female protagonists or without damsels in distress, we have those ... and some of them sell fine, mostly to white'ish young men. No, that obviously isn't enough to Heir.