Except when it doesn't and goes west off Africa and comes in from the southeast and slams across Florida, Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, South/North Carolina, Virgina, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, etc.. Or when it comes in from the North Atlantic from the northeast....

Windows 8.1 will have a start button because all Microsoft ignored all the usability studies of the '70s and '80s when they first started testing computer interfaces and found that people hated touch screen interfaces for normal computer interactions because a) their arms got tired b) their screens got dirty and c) the interface was not as precise or fast as a mouse pointer for the majority of the tasks. Two of those three are still VERY valid points even today, with the third having only somewhat been partially fixed with better touch screen technology (including multi-touch systems and the newer interface mechanics it allows). People's arms still get tired, and the screens still get very dirty.

The simple matter is that the farmer's recourse is to now sue the seller (operator of the grain elevator), for selling seeds he is not authorized to sell, resulting in damages xzy as stipulated in the costs of the lawsuits the farmer had to defend itself against.

Actually that wasn't the climax... The climax was later /







The climax was Ender realizing that it wasn't a video game simulation, but that it was actually real and he just destroyed the homeworld of another species, killing billions, and more importantly, killing the only ones that had brains.

There is nothing wrong with this. I believed that the whole point of the idea of privatizing it was to allow for this to occur, and force the rules and policies being used to need to conform to local laws. If doing something is sexual assault, then they get prosecuted for such and need to change what they are doing in their screening process.

Except as a private company, the people doing the screening would be private citizens, and as such, subject to local laws and rules. There were quite a few Sheriffs and DA's who wanted to prosecute the people performing the enhanced screens for rape and sexual assault as defined by their districts.

Seriously, when I read the headline, my mind read "Meat Drone Shield" and I thought at first there was some kind of organic meat shield which screwed up with drone targeting systems (like infra-red, etc.) and provided protection.

Lets see:

CIWS ammo 1 second fire: ~$250
Solid State Laser: ~$1

Yeah, no reason at all for the new system....

Yeah. I do have to agree with you here. The games that the teams at LucasArts themselves havn't really put out a decent game in 15 years. To be honest, that is never the fault of the employees who are getting canned, but the management who made bad decisions (either unrealistic deadlines, not enough talent, wrong kinds of talent, poor allocation of talent, bad game pitches/approvals).

Seriously, what other studio has been consistently been in the top 5-10 demands for a sequel and not even considered it (I'm talking about X-Wing/Tie Fighter here)? They didn't even consider it when Episode 1-3 came out. I mean, really? The Star Wars Universe just had a several billion reboot and you didn't take advantage by making a game which you can pilot the most bad-ass, and cool things which exist from it? Seriously? Yeah, the management had no clue, and as a result, it has been dead for a long time.

There once was a great game studio called LucasArts, who made some of the most innovative and cutting edge video games, X-Wing, Tie Fighter, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Manic Mansion, Metal Warriors, Monkey Island, Zombies Ate My Neighbors.... It turned into a Zombie about 15 years ago....

And guess what? AMD just released a BINARY BLOB just like Nvidia does to add this "support". In other words, to get full support like NVidia gives, you need to use the same method if you want to use an AMD card. I for one will continue to use the cards that have full support for the hardware. As much as AMD is trying to release opensupport drivers, I would rather use hardware that actually uses the hardware as intended (NVidia), and not AMD's where at best, I get 2D graphics support with now some hardware accelleration for video formats.

What are you smoking? E8000 Core2 Duos are ancient. These are all 5 year old CPU's. Five years in which Intel has been focusing specifically on better power efficiency which in turn leads to better cooling efficiency all the while improving the number of cores contained in a chip. The 14 E8000 systems which are going to take up 42U of rack space can and should be replaced by a single 1U Dell R620 with 2x E5-2690 processors (8c + hyperthreading), with 8x16GB 1600Mhz ECC DIMMs (which will probably be more memory than you have total in all 14 of those old systems), and if you feel ambitious enough to develop your code to take advantage, 1 or 2 GPUs.

Not only will the 2x E5-2690 completely blow away all 14 E8000 cpu's combined, the single, 1U system will use less than 1/4 of the power and cooling needs of the 14 systems (the R620 without GPU's will only need a 750W power supply. 1100W if you go with the GPU's, but that is still less than the draw of the 14x255W power supplies the Optiplex's use). Given the power savings, some quick numbers on ROI should be done:

Dell R620 power usage 1yr: 6570 kWh
14x Optiplex power usage 1yr: 31273 kWh
R620 will save you approx $2470 assuming $0.10 a kWh utility cost.

So in as little as 3 years the R620 will have paid for itself in power consumption alone, not even factoring in the fact that it is also going to only produce 1/8th the heat, meaning the HVAC in the room will not be using as much power to cool the space either. And you have not even factored in the time you are spending wasted on trying to construct a shelf system to hold those old desktop towers which are going to take up 42U of your precious rack space. All this is manpower time which costs money which could have been used on the R620 which is designed to be rack mounted and will take all of 30 minutes for a single person to pull out of the box and mount into the rack.

You still need your cable box for it to record, but if you get the channel, you can record it, and you can record it DRM free as well. Sadly, you need a cable box for each device as it uses your box itself to decode the video stream and simply captures that decoded stream.

Before Google purchased SageTV, SageTV was actively fighting the fight against the copy flags on cable channels because it was circumventing consumer fair use rights by circumventing copyright law with encryption.

You fail to remember the the lessons learned from the first Virtual Boy. Those lessons include that people will not concede a lot on graphics quality. At best you need to keep the quality to at least as good as the previous generations. The problem now is that 3D isn't a novelty anymore with 3D games already on the previous generation consoles (from Sony and Microsoft) for use on 3D TV's. As a result, you can not concede on graphics quality.

Except for the problem that the pollen of these plants is not contained to the field that they are planted. That pollen will blow on the wind and can travel hundreds of miles on trucks, cars, birds and other animals and could then find its way onto other soybean plants which did not have the terminator gene. What happens then?

Is that pollen never produced on the plants with these seeds (but from my understanding of how these things work, especially when the food substance is the seed itself), you still need to pollinate the plants. I guess you could do it such that you genetically modify the plant to not produce pollen, and then also sell pollen that can be used to pollinate the genetically modified plants, but that is not what is being done here.

Now back to what happens when the pollen from the GM plant with the terminator gene pollinates a plant without that gene? Is it sterile? If so, what stops the owner of that plant from suing the company that made the other plant that now ruined his future livelihood by sterilizing his plants?