So what you're saying is that Microsoft had won a decade ago when Apple launched their childish Mac vs PC ads?

As opposed to not doing it at all, like Sony with the PS4? As opposed to doing it poorly, as Nintendo did with the WiiU, or not at all, with the Switch? I'm sorry, I know hating Microsoft is Slashdot tradition, but they're the only ones doing this properly this generation. Sony's farmed it all out to a game streaming service and Nintendo just has you buying Virtual Console games over and over again or, back in the day, they bundled the Wii in the WiiU with all the shitty graphics and poor resolution that implied.

So because a fraction of the population doesn't pollute as much, it's a-ok? I'm sorry but that's a self-serving, egocentric attitude that shouldn't be dictating anything.

Much as that'd have avoided it, I don't think it's fair to call the maintainer "idiot" for what's essentially a problem with the way Github handles project names and URLs. He's no longer maintaining it and he should be able to do whatever the fuck he wants with the account without having to worry about stupid consequences like this.

I'd expect that pressure waves strong enough to cause cell damage would also most likely cause damage to the environment, especially since you can rarely completely eliminate constructive interference everywhere but the targeted location. There'll be other points in the area that would get similarly strong pressure and that'd be enough to shatter fragile glass or cause vibrations. A microwave attack could be more plausible, but I don't know how they'd be able to set all of that up without someone noticing.

You say that like it's a done deal, but that doesn't explain the brain damage, which a sound projection device would be unlikely to be able to cause.

And yet you're missing the biggest actual reason all of these manufacturers are eyeing electric. Hint: it's not global warming. They want to get in on power sources which specifically do not release pollutants because pollution from exhaust pipes is becoming a major issue in just about every large European and Asian city. Synthetic fuels would change fuck all to that, so nobody's investing in it. If you're not going electric, your only other real option is hydrogen, but that's got even more problems.

As a general rule, if you, average Slashdotter, think you've figured out something nobody in the entire world has, you're probably just missing something.

The point is that most of the energy expended when creating the output was transformed into heat rather than directly used to create said output. Thus, all of that energy was wasted. To make a car analogy, it's like the difference in efficiency between a gasoline-fueled car (roughly 20% of the energy content of gasoline is turned into work) and an electric car (80% instead). Sure, both are doing work when expending all of that energy, but one wastes most of it generating heat and sound.

I'll agree that the language could be clearer, but it does show this popup when you try doing this right now. That should be a hint that something bad might happen, I'd say.

It's literally a GUI wrapper over Git. It's as stable or buggy as Git is. There was no bug at play here, merely an incorrect understanding of Git/VSCode terminology, a failure to use a test environment for testing (testing directly on your main project is not smart) and especially a failure to have any sort of backup or SCM.

I know it's hard to read and it's Slashdot tradition not to RTFA, but you didn't even read the fucking title. This is newsworthy in large part because it's not even Disney who filed the claim, it's Warner.

You think the current migrant crisis is bad? Wait until the number of affected people swells to the billion instead of a few millions.

You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. The worst you'll find in the entire US is gonna be around 81F wet bulb temperature, or around 27C, and that's at a yearly occurrence rate of 0.4%. TFA is on another level entirely from that.

Manufacturers are eyeing 400km-500km range in 2020 with 30 minutes to recharge 80%. That means you can do the whole trip in 4 stretches of 4 hours, with an extra 2 hours of breaks between it all. By 2030, we'll probably be at or close to 1000km per charge, which is the tipping point, since you really shouldn't be driving for more than 8 or so hours a day. Every step of the way, though, fewer and fewer people will see the need for more range. Some people are already fine with 200km range.

Clover Trail is an ancient architecture. It's 32-bit only, instruction set support caps out at SSE3/SSSE3, and it's notable for being one of very few Intel CPUs to include a PowerVR GPU.

All those elements mean that supporting Clover Trail is far more trouble than it's worth.