...welcome our new military robotic overlords, SIR!

Cheers,
Dave

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse after the weekend along comes a space rock to turn your already bad Monday into something even worse.

Cheers,
Dave

Well, since this is slashdot we may as well assume that the people who designed the things completely overlooked the obvious.

Dude, Windows admins are 1/5th the price of a good Unix admin. It is a lot cheaper. you can just hire anyone with a MSFT cert and be done with it at a bargain basement price.

No they will not be competent, not even have a clue about stability and security, but that does not matter.

You mean, like posting to slashdot?

Cheers,
Dave

Taxis are way too expensive for frequent use over longer distances. Rental cars aren't, but they are a pain: you have to go pick them up (and without a car, how are you going to get to the depot) and return them afterwards. Self-driving cars are a game-changer in this market: you could order one on a moment's notice, and have it park itself at your house 15 minutes later. It'll return itself when you're done. And it'll be even better if the company charges by the hour or distance driven.

Besides, people will probably still own cars, just not as many of them. Why drive an SUV or sedan to work every day if it's mostly just yourself in the vehicle? Why own a pickup if you're only using it occasionally to haul stuff? Do you really need 2 cars between you and your spouse if only one of you drives to work every day? If I could easily rent any of those vehicles when the need arises, I might ditch all my cars and get a small EV for my daily commute. But most likely I'd still want to own that car, for practical and economical reasons.

2560X1440 is an upgrade. 1920X1080 is only good for laptops and casual use.

Yes. And he was saying "4x3". As in "put 12 display in an array. 3 row of 4 screens each."
You end up with a giant wall, with 4:3 aspect ratio (as each tile is square).

Then you buy 132 more displays, arrange them in 16 columns of 9 (16x9) and you can cover a building's facade with your very own 16:9 tiled jumbo diplay in LD ("ludicrous definition") and create an open-air cinema with your neightbours

But, as he mentionned, driving 144 display tiles in total is going to be a little bit complicated.
(5 display max per Radeon card. 4 Radeon cards per motherboard. 20 displays per PC Tower. You could probably driver 2 tiles per display port using splitters like matrox is down, so you need 1 PC tower per 40 tiles. So at least 4 bit PC towers to drive all this).

But totally worth so you and your neighbours can together brag about being the first "Ludicruous Definition" cinema of the city (256x the resolution of Ultra HD).

Would have been fun to let the robots shout that out every now and then. Perhaps also a random "Hey baby, wanna kill all humans?".

What does Rand or her followers have to do with this?

I'm no fan of tinfoil apparel, but there are indeed a couple of very fishy things about this case, all pointing to an organised effort to get Assange extradited or otherwise transported to the US. With that said, the court is right in letting the detention order stand from a procedural viewpoint (as far as I can tell, they haven't looked at the case itself, merely at the procedures)

Morally perfect? If they are losing sleep over what fossil fuels and oil companies are doing to the world of future generations, they should stop using oil based products, not sue the school for holding oil stock.

The success of Google and Facebook, as well as the enthusiasm of some for surveillance ("hey, I've got nothing to hide") show us that people don't give a toss about privacy. We care a little bit for security where our credit cards and naked selfies are concerned, and there may be a smallish market for secure, encrypted products and services, but that's doesn't mean corporate interests are aligned with our own when it comes to security. Quite the contrary, in a market where the prevailing business model is to hook as many eyeballs as possible with free stuff, and make money by selling their data.

Telling us to rely on corporations to shield us from an invasive government is like the fox convincing the chicken that it can rely on the wolf for protection. One way or another, you're going to get eaten.

Solar is being improved on all the time, and it's getting to the point where solar can compete with the grid at consumer price levels. Which is good enough, as solar power installations are well suited to be owned and operated by individual households. There are still some technical and economical issues, such as consumers effectively using the grid as an energy store without paying for the infra. it makes sense to continue to improve on solar power. With that said, I think no sane energy policy should focus on one single "way to go". Given the issues around renewables, projected timelines for practical fusion, environmental concerns, dwindling fossil fuel supplies and the questionable safety of existing nuclear plants, we need to bet on several horses here: fusion, safer fission (thorium), better renewables, energy storage, cleaner coal, etc.

I've no idea how Google approached this challenge, but in a lot of companies, innovation consists of clever and novel applications and combinations of existing technologies, or making good use of a couple of incremental improvements. It often does yield results: this is what Google did to reduce power requirements in their data centers. And it's in itself a useful exercise to identify gaps (e.g. "For a practical electric vehicle, we need a battery that is this good"), then focus on closing those gaps with a focused effort (researching new battery tech). It appears that Google either found too many gaps and concluded that the state of the art hadn't advanced far enough, or that they weren't prepared to do such fundamental research.

The problem is NOT funding, The problem is that we have people in charge of the schools that are complete MORONS in regard to technology.

Want to really do some good? design a plan. for the technology backbone in every school and force the schools to adhere to it. Part of the plan is REQUIRED spending on maintenance and replacements. Schools try to use crap forever, I know of TWO schools that still has 10 base T switches in place and Freaking HP routers.

Schools need to be forced to upgrade the gear. All networking gear replaced every 5 years no matter what. Until we get competent people in charge at public schools the technology will continue to be a joke.

Even rich school are running with 10+ year old crap. Honestly VGA for the classroom video to a freaking projector that needed a bulb 2 years ago is shameful.