I am generally anti-Apple and think Steve Jobs was a massive cock, but I still think that's true. Look at how ineffectual Apple is without him.

It's often criticized, and over the last few conversations on the subject I'd say that the tone on slashdot has been more muted, with less support for his level of abuse. On the other hand, when has Linus gone off on someone who hadn't definitely earned a less-than-polite brush-off?

Where are those people now? We haven't heard from them basically since... well, you know. Since their argument got taken away.

He was in a position of awesome responsibility and performed his job duties to the best of his ability. That's a fairly useless level of integrity in my opinion, but yeah, a very high level as well. He was only arrested after actually having made arrangements to hand over the passwords, as well.

Oh no, he's both. He's an easy target, but still a target.

Yes, and they should have pressed those charges the first time, rather than dropping them, then raising them again. The whole thing stinks.

ATI has also been dicking around with mantle, anyone could have told them we didn't need another proprietary standard and now they have announced they are not going to be improving it in the future. So hopefully they will return to their core mission of making drivers that people will actually use. They're not very good at it, so I understand why they'd want to work on a research project that no one will use, but I'm sure it's a bit frustrating for the people who haven't learned not to buy ATI graphics cards.

The problem is that the overall experience is more of a PITA than just shoving fuel in the tank. Obviously this assumes you ignore externalities, but that's the norm so it's a safe assumption. Once more of these issues are ironed out then there will be less anxiety and more purchases.

It seems like 2016 is the year of EVs with more than 200 miles of range (more than one or two of them anyway) so perhaps this will be a big uptake year, but more infrastructure will more or less "always" be required.

Because they distract people's time and effort from actually working on worker's rights, and always derail conversations about rights for all workers into how everyone else should unionize. Of course union reps would say that, it creates more jobs for union reps. But it's bullshit.

I'm talking about average models, not massive ones. That one would hurt someone if it just fell on them, so there's already plenty of reason not to permit you to operate it in crowded areas even if it didn't have big fans on it.

You seem to be a coward, so I will not bother insulting you. You already know what you are.

I've suggested before that models capable of illegal flight (basically anything with 500' or more range) should carry a transponder. That would let people keep their kiddy-grade drones that represent little threat to anyone, and also help provide a framework within which more serious hobbyists could operate their drones outside of current legal limits.

Actually, the question is going to be whether VR kills more people, or saves more people, or has no statistical effect. People die at fairly predictable rates, so if you have a given number of people you can assume that a certain number of them will drop dead if you let them sit around long enough. But wait, the kind of people who go to any particular event will skew the results considerably; the death rate at Burning Man is below the national average in spite of it being more dangerous conditions than average, probably due to the particular nature of the people who go. If you're ill and/or infirm, you're less likely to go in the first place.

If VR kills anyone it's going to be because their display crashed or freaked and they walked off a roof or into traffic. Don't play VR games on the roof or near a road unless there's a good fence, railing, etc., problem solved.

So what makes you think yours is? Redditors seem unusually proud that they are a place where people can express total shitbag opinions.

You don't know how quotes work. I didn't say shit about "evil". Don't try to put words in my mouth: the record is right there, and you will fail.

you must be new

...and not just "here"

Yes, all lawyers but two are redundant. You only need two to "shoot all the lawyers".

The only way that can happen is if they represent themselves, which would be way beyond awesome to watch. I'd buy tickets.

Ironically, though, it would be better to release a game which doesn't crash and patch the story later than to release a game which has a complete story and patch the game engine later. If they change the story then I can play it again, and I get another replay out of it. If the game is crap when I get it, I may well take it back and swear off buying their games, too... and at minimum I will swear off preorders. R*, I'm looking at you, if only because I never preordered anything from Ubisoft.

Back when you called them model airplanes they were expensive and you usually had to build them. These days everything's RTR and moreover usually quite inexpensive, at least by comparison.

The reason that 120mm fans are more dangerous than 80mm fans even though they tend to rotate more slowly is their rotating mass. The mass of quadcopter props tends to be minuscule, so I doubt they're any more dangerous than cooling fans.

I'm more worried about taking a drone moving at full speed to the face, or the neck.

yes, just like slashdot. when I clicked on the title to read this story, it just collapsed the summary. I literally had no way to get into this story without middle-clicking the title to open it in a new tab.