It might well be narrow and conservative (as in conservation) but it's very real. I you want to posit warp drives, generation ships and unlimited energy, go right ahead.

The rest of us will continue to imbibe caffeine rather than cannabis.

Actually, the Romans technically held out until the Fall of Constantinople, which was a lot further along than 700 years. ;)

Also, considering the world and its mores at that time, the Romans were rather polite indeed. Usually a conquered people would see all the teen/adult males killed, the women dragged off to slavery (if not killed along with everyone else), and everything of value plundered. See also a huge chunk of Exodus and the conquest of Canaan (the Hebrews weren't exactly choir boys when it was they who had the strength and power, no?)

But, no - the Romans (usually) settled for taking a percent as slaves and then proceeding to absorb their culture, religion, and the better parts of what was left. Then they built roads, utilities, entertainment, and a whole shitload of things that were pretty effing amazing - for the time. Yup - they were brutal as fuck at times (see also Caesar's conquest of Gaul), but if the conquered people submitted, it usually went way the hell easier on them than it would at the hands of any other civilization at the time (save for the Greeks, but then the Romans pretty much absorbed most Greek philosophy, mathematics, religion, laws, etc etc...)

Many of us who have owned boats know that BOAT = "Break Out Another Thousand [dollars]"

On the other hand, commercial shipping companies know this too, and diesel/electric ships ain't cheap either (let one sit still for more than a couple hours, and it's like standing in a 'septic tank while ripping up million-dollar bills' (the latter part almost literally).

Sail is tougher not necessarily because of expense, but because winds are gonna be a bitch to predict reliably enough for commerce and timetables.

Kinda proves what AC was saying in a way; I only skimmed it, but it not hit not only the Greek cities, but slammed everyone who depended on them... along, well, trade routes.

I could see, say, a Chinese civil war causing massive shockwaves along logistic lines that pretty much slam the EU and US almost instantly, Russia shortly after, and everyone else in turn after that. If there are no redundancies in place, the whole house collapses globally.

And yeah - we're fast becoming that interconnected, if we're not already.

States someone who obviously has never set foot on a sailboat.

Sailing is akin to standing in a cold shower and ripping up hundred dollar bills.

Not the lower res/graphical fanciness, but the controller. It isn't that much fun to use as a controller because, well, it is fucking huge. It is a tablet. Thing is, if people wanted to play games on a tablet they'd probably do so and on one that could travel around with them.

Also it is pretty expensive. The screen, wireless interface, processor, all that jazz costs quite a bit and pushed up the cost of the Wii U. Part of what made the Wii successful was that it was really cheap compared to the "big 2" consoles. So people got it for kids or got it as an "and a" console along with their favoured of the bigger ones. This time though, the price advantage is not as much. It is still cheaper but not by as much.

So since the gimmick isn't something people are that interested in, and it drives up the price, it really hasn't been a good move. Despite being out a good bit longer than the Xboner and the PS4 it hasn't sold more.

Actually similar issue on the Xboner's side with the Kinect. That is the primary reason is costs more than the PS4, and that cost has been putting a damper on its sales. People just have no fucks to give about the controller gimmick, they wanna play games.

But you are not making $1.2million per release, so you cant afford yet another gold plated Ferarri...

Like how movie studios Deserve financial help from the government and they never make money on a movie so they dont have to pay taxes.

I would feel bad for them if they were not raging scumbags themselves. Just ask Stan-Lee how he was robbed of any money from the Spiderman movies.

You can't reason your way into religion, it has to touch you personally. Someone in 1700 Europe would not be able to reason his way into belief that such things as elephants existed. He's have had to visit Asia or Africa to believe.

God is only invisible to those who choose to ignore him.

At comcast that is how we worked from 1998 to 2007 when I was there. Security breach? I can tell the CEO to fuck himself to his face and yank the plug. And at many times I saw executives escorted out of the data center by guards because they were being idiots demanding we restore internet access. Management are clueless morons, they must be left out of the loop for security.

It's why Cops dont have to call the mayor when they see a guy running into a bank with a gun in his hand and a big sack with a dollar sign painted on it.

"Maybe they're just fucking idiots,"

This describes the management of all large corporation IT departments. IT is an expense, they are not really important like the marketing department.

You can get 10 watts over it, no issue. All the new high end Samsung phones come with a 5v 2a charger that is nothing special. 10 watts is more than plenty for phone devices. That is enough to run the device at full bore and to still have power left over to charge. You wouldn't want a cellphone that could draw more than that, it would have next to no battery life.

I'd be fine with a connector that is better, if someone wants to work up and introduce a standard, meaning an open standard the whole industry can use (like USB). But I'm not buying the bullshit of needing proprietary connectors because of power requirements. No, not for handheld devices. USB is fine. Use it, or introduce a better standard.

Regular USB will do 10 watts, 5 volts 2 amps. My Samsung phone uses just such a charger. Need more? The USB Power Delivery standard, which needs different cables, will handle up to 100 watts, that being 20v 5a.

USB PD was standardized in July 2012 so it has been around for awhile.

...maybe they just had shitty email prioritization and crappy (read: default) alerting configs on their gear? Given that the typical admin in a large corp gets bombarded with a jillion emails daily (ranging from fluff to drop-dead serious, because vendors rarely know the difference), I can see warnings get buried in the pile pretty easily. Mind you this is not to excuse not acting on the warnings, but instead is posited as a way to explain why the warnings got missed in the first place.

All that said, any security admin who doesn't make alerting and prioritization thereof his first priority really shouldn't be employed as a security admin.

On a stock phone without any hacking, rooting or other tricks needed? HTC hero must have been an awesome phone to come fully open like that.