Right, it's going to take Jihad.

The line has muddied, as consoles went USB and console accessories started being PC compatible.

Once upon a time, you popped a game cartridge into a purpose built specialty thing with bespoke capabilities to do the things the game companies wanted, with proprietary connectors and instant boot up and what you get is what you have.

On the PC side, you futzed with config.sys/autoexec.bat to have just the right memory layout, depending on if you needed the maximum conventional memory, ems or xms, and environment variables to match your dip switches.

Now a game console is an x86 box that takes some time to boot to an OS then you select an app, which probably is a game, and good chance it's developed with a game engine that pretty much equally supports Nintendo, PS4, and Microsoft ecosystem.

The PC side you just plug in, often the exact same accessory, and things automatically go. The UI of Windows can be obnoxious, but this is a prime mindset for Valve to take advantage launching their PC that's 10-foot optimized out of the box.

Nintendo held on to console-ness longer, with their Wii and Wii-U gimmicks, and their switch admittedly isn't an x86 box, but it's basically a gaming tablet, which is the other big thing eating into the casual gamer market.

False. Free Market is only one kind of Capitalism. Further, there has never actually been a free market of any significant size. It's an ideal which can only be approached, and ironically, it requires regulation to do so.

Sure. Everyone should learn Latin in school. Greek first though. You don't properly apprciate Latin if you don't already have Greek. Then a few modern languages, at least one Romance to follow the Latin plus a Germanic and some form of Chinese. Better throw in Japanese and something with click consonants too. Practical math absolutely, and shop and don't forget home ec. Advanced math too... none of this "choosing" to take calculus. Science classes should cover physics, biology and chemistry for everyone, to an advanced level. Some economics, sociology and anthropology too, and definitely comprehensive history. Every child should graduate knowing how to fix a toilet, maintain their brakes and perform competent Japanese joinery.

You aren't kidding. We just had another windstorm last night. The good part is it blew a lot of leaves from my yard to the neighbors yard. 8^)

I thought we had too many kids taking underwater basket weaving and wanted more of them in the trades where foreign language requirements only makes the cost of education unnecessarily more expensive. Or that was last week. But ... still, foreign language requirements are all over the place in high school and university programs. Or did you mean Latin specifically and not Spanish for some reason.

I can't keep up with right wing "culture" bullshit. It seems so arbitrary, like are we going to do Germanic runes next, or advocate a specific rugged typeface? Fuck indigenous American basket weaving, make kids do math in Roman numerals for "culture" education, seems par for conservative course of things.

When you get control of the money, you get control of the means of production. That's literally what capitalism is for.

Cursive is shit though and people should stop using it. If we're only keeping it around for signatures we should just learn to accept doing them without. They can learn fine motor skills in an art class.

Communications development.

If it doesn't have military applications then it doesn't get funded.

Keeping it going costs peanuts compared to the PR.

Kinetic energy. And it depends on where the sand hits, and how much of it hits. https://hvit.jsc.nasa.gov/impa.... Impacts by things like paint flecks do interesting things, sand is much larger.

But I wasn't trying for a second to say that sand or ball bearings were going to cause a Kessler event. Although a breach of hydrazine propellent with cause impressive destruction if hits thse catalyst bed. My point was that thinking that your satellites are safe is simply wrong. Doesn't take much technology to break a lot of them.

What makes a Kessler event likely is proliferation of satellites, If 2 collide, that starts the chain reaction.n Now we are talking about much larger pieces then sand or ball bearings. Orbital mechanics and energy transfer takes care of the rest. If you think Kessler is wrong (I do not) use your orbital mechanics and energy transfer savvy to support your claim.

So true, I'm not likely to testify in my field, but my employer likes what I do. A lot of experience in different areas, quick on my feet, and very hard to bullshit.

My boss once told a tech guy who was trying to do that with me - "Don't bullshit a bullshitter, you won't win that game with Ol. Do as he tells you." This was in response to a lighting system problem I had diagnosed.

That's not the question.

The question is whether the AI-produced code is a derivative of existing code, and the answer is still not resolved.

In some cases, the answer is a clear YES, because the code is a direct copy of something written by someone else. If something like that ends up in the kernel, it will have to be removed when someone notices.

The thing is that while the heat pipes can work in space and may have been used in satellites and then brought to earth, the issue is with the amount of thermal energy and having radiation as the only way to evict heat.

So while the mechanism for heat pipes started in space, the computers are *way* more wattage than the space based applications.

Insert simpsons meme here: Largest prime number so far. A native English speaker would understand this to be the meaning unless they were trying really hard to be obtuse.