You're just mad because you can't play the game as a straw man.

You mean this that you can buy now?

On track for the PS9 in 2078.

FTFA

"created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google"
"The more a language tutorial is searched, the more popular the language is assumed to be. It is a leading indicator"

I don't know if I buy that personally.

Maybe our simulation serves a higher purpose we can't know/understand, like finding the cure for god-AIDS for example ...

If you are truly starting at the beginning and need to understand basic concepts like conditionals, loops, variables, etc I recommend Blockly.

By the time you can solve level 10 of this tutorial you'll have a fair grasp of some fundamentals.

The best part is it automatically converts to JavaScript and Python, two good languages to move on to after you've master the basics.

You mean like this?

The pretty mediocre state university I went to had this split. There was a CS and a CIS degree standing for Computer Info Systems. It was considered an applied science degree. It did not force a mandatory math minor like the CS degree and focused more on solving business problems. This was back in the early 2000's.

... use an OS and as many apps that you can fundamentally trust (open source) to not allow unauthorized access to your webcam. Next make sure you buy hardware from a vendor you can trust. Finally practice some good computer use habits like not clicking on every attachment.

Covering your webcam is like closing the barn door after the horses escaped. If someone can monitor your webcam, they can also access all your files and basically do anything else they want to your computer.

You and I might be able to run out of money but society can't run out of money. At this point it's just a electronic ledger controlled by the Federal Reserve. Creating more money is simple as adding some zeroes to a column in some fancy Excel sheet. This happens all the time, but currently it's put into circulation through loans to corporations. A top down approach.

Giving money out to individuals through some sort of UBI system would be a bottom up approach. That money is going to be spent on goods and services from companies anyway. Also taxed the whole way back up. The trick is obviously doing this in a way that doesn't drastically increase the rate of inflation.

Bottom line there needs to be some sort of balance in, not how we redistribute wealth, but in how we distribute the opportunity to gain wealth.

It's not that we don't understand the rules of quantum mechanics, it's likely they are truly unknowable, at least, by beings living in our universe. From our perspective, and that's the only perspective we have, the universe is non-deterministic. Once you accept our universe is non-deterministic then it's not a big leap of logic to accept free will.

Again, this is from our perspective, not some hyper dimensional god/programmer/being who can see the dice being rolled and might think our notion of free will is silly.

The Xindi arc had it's problems (time travel for example) but at it's heart was a good old Star Trek style social commentary. The whole plot was a mirror on the US's reaction to 9/11. I liked how the Enterprise crew left space dock with an idealistic view of the Universe only to have to take less than noble actions when faced with realities. It was good stuff.

The force, not the movie.

I was hoping this would be the first sci-fi movie to get the gravity right on Mars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvnDIDqcfGI

I have no idea how they could have accomplished this from a SFX perspective and maybe it wouldn't have added to the story. I was disappointed with the scene where he was disassembling the MAV and the pieces were falling to the surface at a very Earth-like speed. Seemed like a easy place to add a little SFX magic to mimic Mars gravity.

Great movie overall though!

Yah I call BS on the Xeon claim.

If it's the Atom processor, the math adds up. It has 4 cores and supports 8GB of RAM which matches up with the 88 core / 176 GB RAM numbers.