"We don't serve their kind here"

Indeed, earlier on in the first movie, it's apparent that droids aren't particularly welcome in many places of the Star Wars universe, even in places which are otherwise "a hive of scum and villainy" like Mos Eisley

For all we know, maybe they have something to do with volcanic activity. Now *that* would fit the model in interesting ways (not good ways for us though).

I think we know what nVidia is using to to power it

I thought the plot seemed familiar but I recall seeing it in colour.

Sure enough, there was a remake in 2003.

Is there any old movie that HASN'T been remade? Maybe some Chaplin films?

It's because those "local moms" are already "making $8000/mo working from home"

Or at least that's what most of the ads tell me.

"just as someone will die of natural causes from watching a VR game"

And how are you going to be sure they died of a heart attack due to fright and now due to an diet of excessive pizza, chips, and Redbull?

I've never heard of somebody *heating* a drive to recover a stuck head, but I've done the opposite.

Many a drive has been recovered by a day or two's stint in the freezer in deflated ziplock bag. I'd imagine the principle is the same.
With cooling, you do have to watch out for condensation build-up as the drive defrosts. With the heating I'd worry about damaging the data on the disk (magnets in general do not like heat, so I'd imagine magnetic storage would similarly be a gamble).

You think Family Guy is bad for that... I'm amazed that the Simpsons is still going!

You told him why he got a crappy review.
Did you post in the review that he owned up and (presumably) made good on fixing the issue?

A cybersquatter is generally somebody who knowingly buys a domain reflecting somebody else's business. In this case - unless he also owns a time machine - he couldn't have done so (the Trademark did not exist for this business when the domain was registered).

A company I used to work at had a *lot* of high-value TLD's that they did use in their primary LOB. However, these domains were often bought from people who picked them up long ago because it was a useful name, and they were generic names (for example, a name like "razors.com" or "shaving.com" rather than corporate "gillette.com", etc).

I don't really see the big deal with this. He picked up a piece of online presence which happens to be a valuable piece of virtual real-estate, and has been paying the fees for re-registration for FIFTEEN YEARS.

Now it's valuable to somebody... and the first thing they try to do is illegally transfer the property to their name (but oh, oops it was a "mistake"). If it were physical property then Office Space Solutions would have had somebody going to jail for this...

I think the females-in-leadership thing is often a regional/occupational issue. In many jobs I've had, middle to upper management has been at worst a 50/50 split, and many of my direct reports were female.

In fact, my better bosses have often been female, but again there seems to be some tie-in between the role and female participation. Often, is the role interesting to a predominantly male or female crowd. Trying to make all roles/positions equally gender-interesting is kinda like trying to get rock musicians interested in becoming climatologists.

This doesn't apply to all cases of course, in some cases the "ol' boys club" is in full effect (and more than just women are getting shut out there).

You mean, kinda like how the article linked off the words "Force Touch" in the blurb does?

For those not familiar with Force Touch, it detects how hard a user presses down on the screen giving an additional type of input

Just like that damn car rental company I used the other week. I totally paid for that rental car for the week I rented, so I should get to keep it or at least get my money back after I wasn't using it anymore, right!? Or those video rental places. Why shouldn't I get my $5 back. I returned the video after all.

Wow, somebody is a little butt-hurt.

The problem is not with rentals, but with the ever-increasing high price of rentals - or purchases, as the article indicates the two are related - which contribute to a debt on the lower-income portion of society. Lower-income rental housing often tends to suffer issues like poor maintenance etc.

What's your alternative? Should the owner just "rent" out the place for free? That doesn't sound like a particularly good idea for him, and many owners aren't exactly rich fat-cats themselves.

This issue can be partially addressed by subsidized "affordable housing", and also some controls on absentee landlords (and taxation).

For real landlords, rentals can be a lot of work. Many tenants aren't exactly "gentle" to the premises, so it involves regular maintenance (both an expense and a time-consumer). When renters move on, the landlord has to fix things up, clean, and interview new perspective renters. Sometimes it's just a little carpet cleaning and some windex. Other times it's patching holes in drywall, replacing flooring that's stained, and other more major stuff.

Generally, the landlord is also the one that has to ensure the functional maintenance of the dwelling and major appliances. If a pipe leaks, a stove dies, or the AC konks out etc, that's the landlord's responsibility.

Note that I am saying landlord. There are also people who are essentially slum-lords. They do a shitty job of maintenance and often ignore tenants pleas. Nobody likes slum-lords, just like nobody likes crappy tenants who wreck the place and often don't pay the rent properly (and are often very hard to get rid of, like the one gal who quit her job to stay home and play online games for a month).

So here's the thing. You're not paying "for my kid to go to college", that's just what I may choose to do with the portion of rent that's left after maintenance and taxes. You're paying for a maintained dwelling and no mortgage, a place where you're not responsible for a $20k bill if the roof needs repair (like the owner), major appliance repairs. You're not paying the property tax, strata fees, special assessments. You're not paying a 5-yr+ mortgage with huge penalties if you have to move and cancel early. That's all on the landlord. If you're poor, well maybe that's not your fault, but as a responsible landlord it's sure as f*** not my fault either.

I don't know about an address, but I've talked to people from Paypal and eBay by phone, and know those who have done so with Steam.

Absolutely true! This isn't just for personal residences either. I've seen business spaces that have been empty for years (usually with an out-of-town number to contact for "leasing/buying opportunities). Hell, there's a restaurant in my old neighbourhood that has been empty for a decade. The old appliances are still in there.

With all those places, the rents are still high, because they'd rather fix the market at a high rate than rent out the empty space. This is stupid because un-used buildings inevitably suffer from age-related maintenance issues, and become a lot harder to sell/lease/rent the longer they're unused without a price-cut.