I wouldn't say "came out of nowhere" in the slightest. TCL's smart TV interface is vastly superior to most brands of TVs I have had experience with. It seems simple enough, but when you press a button on the remote you get an immediate and actual response on the TV, not some stupid slow-ass animation that makes the input feel sluggish like on LG or Samsung. They were smart to partner with Roku, who knows a thing or two about responsive UIs on minimal hardware.

Not just cost of install, but flexibility of install. Theoretically, if the aiming is based on the mirror itself rather than the collector, you could just roll the panels out there and plop them wherever you see fit. It doesn't have to be flat, it doesn't have to be even spacing, and it can be expanded with additional mirrors at any point. You could even add a small battery and mini solar panel to power the onboard computer and actuators.

I'd also attempt to use mesh/positioning networking in order to track bad sensors or mirrors needing repairs. Seems like it would make for extremely rapid deployments and very minimal setup costs.

In a way, Half Life has always been a tech demo. It was more a way to show what the new engine was capable of. Them making it for VR kinda makes sense when you think about it that way.

The only way they could manage this accounting lie is if they don't apportion AppleCare to its various related cost centers.

The amount of money they make on AppleCare is likely quite extreme, the only way they aren't making money on repairs is if they aren't distributing the revenues of that plan among the cost centers. There's a reason every brick and mortar store offers pay extended warranties for everything under the sun.

Which is a problem. I've used the same cooling kit for my CPU for almost a decade without issue. If you're having to review and replace every 3 years, that's a problem and a significant step backwards.

OK, you lost me. I mean, you seriously must live in a bubble or something to say this. The sheer amount of work that is done via Office is incredible. When someone builds a fully functioning alternative, I'm all ears, but that simply hasn't happened. OO/LO are "good enough" for free usage but when you need something that works consistently, you opt for the real thing. I would be surprised if less than 95% of corporate America utilized Outlook for organization and schedule, and 60% of finance/ops professions used excel daily.

I think they are "darlings" of wall street because it's the lesser of two evils. If the brand is shit and has little hope for recovery, the best possible result is a smooth spin-down and redistribution of assets, and the worst possible result is cash shortage and an abrupt shutdown and bankruptcy, tying up assets for years in the courts. When a big brand crashes and burns abruptly, it causes major problems (Lehman Brothers, Enron, etc). When a company dies a slow and miserable death, the damage is spread over time and less likely to cause major economic problems for the greater economy (Yahoo, AOL, etc).

Gymnastics is an outlier in the sports because the events aren't equivalent. Men's gymnastics events focus heavily on strength where women's gymnastics events focus heavily on agility and balance. Women don't do the rings and pommel horse which are all core and arm strength, and men don't do the balance beam or floor event, as an example.

Honestly, if this were applied to other sports it would make them more entertaining or compare more equivalently to men's sports. Field size, hoop height, and so on have been determined from what makes sense in men's sports. As an example, tennis plays completely different for men vs women because the average velocity of the serve is much higher in men's tennis. Women 's tennis thus has more set breaks and more volley action because there's more reaction time on a bigger court to the ball speed. To compensate this and make the playstyle match, you would need to shrink the court to create equivalent reaction times. In some sports, this makes sense and would make them a LOT more entertaining (socccer, basketball). In tennis and gymnastics, not so much because it's entertaining in a different way.

Total power requirements isn't the issue here, it's the distance per mile. You've got your list backwards in this matter. Energy consumed per mile per ton of cargo is lowest on the water then decreases in efficiency in order of train, then truck, then airplane.

Yes, there are some advances in battery tech needed to maintain the requirements of the engines that power large container ships (around 150,000 horsepower), but the size would be replacing the tanks mostly so the size of the battery isn't a major constraint. The bigger issue with battery tech on ships is that there's limited gains in overall energy efficiency, like regenerative braking in trains and cars. That's the overall point of wind/wave capture tech research for these ships.

Hopefully someone comes up with something brilliant that can make this more economical. Right now, installing battery tech on a ship that's going to last 30 years requires an upfront investment that's almost beyond the cost of the entire ship, where fuel allows you to spread that cost over 30+ years. You are then additionally subject to charging logistics and the fact that the power grids and ports aren't yet designed to "fuel" mobile batteries of this size in a short time frame, and the fact that many ships go to third world countries without any hope of this infrastructure any time soon.

Lots of problems to solve! Whoever gets it all neatly wrapped up in one package will be very successful,

One of the biggest issues with large overhead deployments on ships is their configuration requirements. Oil Tankers are optimal because they don't have things sitting on the deck. Container ships move much more cargo worldwide though, and with much more total weight. Problem is the containers are stacked vertically below and above deck, and are also discharged from overhead. Any device like a sail or solar panel would have to be both extremely robust and highly mechanized for storage. These ships dock at container ports as often as every day and would still need the same thrust capabilities without the sail supplement inside ports where space is highly constrained.

It's funny because often the same people who abhor how prison is often used as punishment rather than rehabilitation like it should be are the first to scream from the rooftops for the guillotine on corporate malfeasance. The simple truth is that corporations are full of people, and that excessive corporate punishment disproportionately affects everyone involved in the company and ends up punishing the many for the sins of the few - all the way down to the worker bees and all the middle class folks with an apportionment in their 401k mutual funds for the company. Excessive punishment has the potential to completely sink a company because they are then completely toxic from an investment standpoint and the company can't maintain funding to operate. It's like advocating the US prison system on companies, which often creates net losses to society and high recidivism rates. Maybe it feels good to get that retribution, but it doesn't actually help anyone.

Make sure the punishment fits the crime, definitely, but overdoing it can have disastrous consequences. Reserve excessive punishment for major provable malfeasance like Enron.

The instant they decided not to offer her an equal position upon returning, they broke the law, plain and simple. That's what the FMLA is for - it guarantees you can't be retaliated against by your company for medical leave items covered under this act, one of which is pregnancy.

This outright lie invalidated any point you were trying to make. All you proved is you don't understand taxes at all. Income withholding taxes are pass-through taxes, and if the employer knowingly keeps them from the government they are supposed to deposit them towards, people go to jail and companies go under. Income withholding taxes in no way impact a companies' tax liability or credit against a companies tax liability, it's money employees would have paid the state or fed directly but due to volume is mandated to be withheld and remitted by the employer.

It's great that you got that opportunity, living in Georgia. I wanted to go to Georgia Tech, but out of state it was around $35,000 a year. What I'm getting at with that statement is your option to go to GT as a good school is predicated on your either living in Georgia or having lots of money, both of which adolescents have zero control over. If you're born in Idaho or North Dakota, it really hampers your options, essentially making it education by birthright.

Cargo ship is still significantly more fuel efficient than trains. Its not a case of trains being equal to cargo ships, its that cargo ships are vastly more efficient than any other form of mass goods transportation we use.