Yes, I'm sure 2014 will be the year where having a second screen off the TV is a gaming essential for the next generation of gamers.

Baloney.

Oh, I'm sure it will eventually be sold that way, but if you're already looking at a 60" mega-screen, what possible advantage is an ipad on the coffee table over a picture-in-picture?

This whole thing sounds suspiciously like a marketer's press release. Somebody's trying to sell something that they weren't able to sell before because nobody wanted it the first time.

By the way, this is another reason why PC gamers are superior: we have ALT-TAB and don't need some extra device to give us additional functionality that we don't want anyway. And even if having a second screen off the TV did gain popularity, it will be very shortlived because it's just dumb. VR head gear like the Oculus Rift will make it obsolete before it comes to market.

Yeah, I knew several kids growing up who I'm pretty sure were somewhere along the autism spectrum, but people just figured they were odd and that there was nothing to be done.

My friendship with a guy with an Asperger's diagnosis has really made me reflect on just how hard it must have been for people from previous generations who suffered with it.

I wish you well friend, and your son.

Of course there are medical conspiracies.

I was just pointing out that the most popular current-day one is being promoted by some very kookie people.

If John Doe decides not to get vaccinated and you get vaccinated, how are you at risk?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...

In this case, herd immunity theory, as proferred by Fox in his Measles paper, uses a Reed-Frost statistical model consisting of a closed population of 1000 hosts.

You say that as if it was a bad thing.

The measles virus, like diptheria, does not follow the herd immunity theory.

But poliomyelitis, pertussis, small pox, and many of the other diseases for which there is an effective vaccine, do.

There are actually several ways unvaccinated children put the entire population at risk.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...

But be careful, you may find the dreaded Reed-Frost statistical model therein.

You're saying "disease outbreaks and dead children" as if it were an evil thing

Libertarians, man. They're a hoot, ain't they?

That pressure should come from the outside, not the inside, or the diversity will suffer and progress with it.

And why should the pressure come from "the outside" and not "the inside"?

I posit that human evolution has already slowed down to a crawl in the first world, due to risk aversion and longer life spans.

"Hey, there's no evolution because I ain't seen none today!"

You are a funny fellow. I bet you're the life of your dorm.

Now who said anything about children "dying in droves due to not being vaccinated"? But there are some very troubling statistics. Like the outbreak in measles in NY, and polio being on the rise. Kids dying of whooping cough which hasn't happened for decades.

I don't know if you're old enough to remember polio. It was a disease that crippled thousands of young kids and because of vaccination was wiped out until these knuckleheads decided they didn't want to vaccinate their kids.

Here's an assignment. Look up "herd immunity". Read about it and come back here and tell us what you've learned. I know you want to be well-informed on this subject, and herd mentality is why refusing to vaccinate your kids is a hostile act toward the rest of us.

I learned recently that the wife of the quarterback of my beloved Chicago Bears is one of these anti-vaccine people, based on the notion that vaccines have "chemicals" in them. So they don't get their kids vaccinated, endangering the lives of others.

Here, if you really want to be scared, is an interview with noted genius Kristin Cavallari, explaining that the reason she doesn't get her kids vaccinated is because she's "read too many books".

No kidding, you've got to see this:

http://youtu.be/7WzE0qO7tzY?t=...

No, it doesn't depend on management, it depends on ownership.

The instructions to management are now, "Get the youngest, cheapest, most scared". The last thing they want is someone experience enough to know when they're getting fucked.

That says it all.

There is nothing better than a Slashdot comments discussion of racial issues. You know you're always in for a dose of thoughtful and intelligent views on race relations.

It always makes me feel so good about my fellow man. The first post (in this case, with the subject line: "Fuck that guy") usually sets the tone and it just gets better from there.

Usually, it's just a matter of time before the first mention of the GNAA and the fact that black people have a "special bone in their foot that prevents them from playing hockey". Look it up.

And it has numbers on it just like a Fluke. Plus, it exists in three dimensions, the same way a Fluke does. Are you kidding me? And they even tried to fool people, but putting a brand name other than Fluke" on it, which shows they're trying to rip off Fluke, because a Fluke has a brand name on it too.

MUST DESTROY!!

Yes, for one, my late Grandfather who was born there and escaped. Otherwise, there are a number of textbooks you can find. I'm not doing the research for you.

Oh, "everybody knows", huh?

You're full of shit. I understand that may be hereditary.

(Yeah, I'm trolling but in good humour. I fully expect the zealots to mod me down regardless though.)

97% of climate research shows global climate change, but you believe they're the zealots?

Maybe we need to clarify the definition of "zealot".

The best thing I learned from that article was the term, "The Colonization of Time". I may not use it the same way as the author, but I love that term.

When you see your working life in terms of the amount of your time it takes to support a basic lifestyle, you can't see our recent economic history as anything but a march toward a new indentured servitude.

I may be part of one of the last generations for whom escape from this slavery on your own terms was possible.