And that last paragraph is why, I think, most people completely ignore or forget Asians in the whole cultural debate. They're often lumped into the "American white" demographic despite being neither, which is quite amusing.

Yep, and back then, most people didn't even own a car, let alone build one themselves. This isn't about whether 3D printed guns will ever be viable, it's about whether they're of any use for normal people now. Hint: they aren't, and trying to make one yourself can be dangerous.

But thanks for supporting that argument with your comparison!

Hint: you're the exception, not the rule. You can't assume people will shift to mass transit because your mass transit is well above the average.

Chances are that, in an autonomous car, you wouldn't be fast enough to override it when shit happens. Do you honestly believe you'll be ready and aware in a split second when you've been reading or talking or whatever for hours? The wheel is an artifact which doesn't make sense in an autonomous vehicle.

Just like everyone else who posted something similar to this, you're missing the point: you are not the target market. The people that HP's thinking of when they designed this tablet don't know Cube (I don't either and I'm far from the target market). They don't know Allwinner. They don't know stores like PandaWill or DX. They want to get a cheap tablet at Walmart or Best Buy that comes from a brand they recognize.

Simple, no?

That would be all nice and good if the providers had fiber rolled out at Google's speeds and prices in dense urban areas. Hint: they haven't. The fact they have to support other areas doesn't affect their ability to provide a competitive service to Google's own offering in the same or similar areas.

Ignoring the typical Slashdot cynicism (and often lack of understanding disguised as such), this is actually pretty damn neat! Quantum mechanics and quantum computing using the gates model aren't intuitive, especially not for people without a physics background, so this could really help learning the fundamentals of quantum computing. Being able to visualize the state of the qubits at each step of the process as something other than a big formula is a pretty big deal.

As it is right now, QC is pretty much just taught using pen and paper, but I think this deserves some attention too. I don't think many people in the classroom understood what the hell Shor's algorithm was doing when the prof presented it (I know I didn't), but perhaps with a more interactive demo it'd be a bit easier to grasp. Grover's algorithm would also be extremely cool to watch unfold, I think.

Isn't it ironic that a consumer graphics card can simulate more qubits than most actual quantum computers have right now?

A building out of supercapacitors? I guess that could be interesting in a thunderstorm...

Check out Spec Ops: The Line. It may not be perfect, and it's third person, but it's the sort of story you could be doing in an FPS, instead of another hoo-ah Call of Duty.

It's only an id tech game even. It's by MachineGames, who're basically a bunch of ex-Starbreeze developers. Now, Starbreeze did a few good games like The Darkness and both Riddick games, but they also made less than impressive stuff like Syndicate, so it's a bit of a mixed bag.

Even if Carmack were still at id (and he was for the vast majority of this game's development cycle, remember), he probably would've had little involvement. Not that I feel like it matters, though. Carmack is an amazing programmer and engine developer, but he's not very good at designing games from that tech (as can be seen by the fairly middling output id has had since shortly after its early days).

Keep in mind that Baidu and Alibaba are also the sort of corporation to acquire smaller startups...

What continuously surprises me is that those people don't seem to realize that, if they want to keep their current habits, they only have to move to the US! If you want a paranoid, right-wing, discriminatory and constantly foaming at the mouth state, the US is basically the place to be. You even get nationwide surveillance free of charge!

If you think you're such a great programmer that you're never ever going to write bugs into the programs you write, you've probably never written anything larger than a few thousand lines, and you've probably never debugged what you wrote in the first place.

Hint: outside of Hello World, bugs will happen. Debuggers are a great way of determining what the bug is so you can get on with fixing it, instead of acting like the hot programmer who doesn't need them but instead wastes an entire day combing through his code looking for that one error. Deciding that you're "above" some subset of tools available to you is childish at best.

Nah, that'd also punish people who legitimately forgot their ticket or something along those lines. The much better idea is to increase repeat offender fines. If the first fine's only like $50, but the fifth is more like $500, those fare dodgers would very quickly go broke while normal people wouldn't be affected.

It doesn't have to be successful to be considered bribery.