Man I loved Trade Wars 2002. I played the heck out of that, with {COMMO} macros and a series of BBSes I'd call into every day to manage my empires. It now amuses me that it was set 24 years ago.

My late wife did undergraduate research in photosystem II where there was quantum effects back in 2002. She did her PhD thesis on proton coupled electron transfer (PCET) in soybean lipoxogenase, then had a long career developing models for Fortran code that did quantum simulation of proteins (she was behind Tagdock in Amber MD). This is nothing new; several biological systems have quantum effects that are central to their mechanism.

William Shatner is a classically trained Shakespearean actor who appeared in festivals and on Broadway prior to switching from stage to television. His TOS enunciation and emphasis is due mostly to his experience with radio performances (which were over the top verbally) combined with directors on TOS constantly telling him to increase the astonishment. And in reality, wasn't anywhere near as pervasive or dramatic as the pop culture version that pokes fun at Kirk.

I watched the "Project Turntable" video, and that is unbelievably cool.

To work, the AI has to recognize what the drawing represents, figure out how to reverse-transform the 2D representation into a 3D object, and work out what the hidden parts should look like. It's amazing.

It's only a short step between this and working out walk cycles, matching mouth movements to dialogue, adding facial expressions, etc.

This will revolutionize 2D animation.

That was 12 years ago. A 12 year out of date critique of a web technology that has had ongoing language updates and two entire rewrites in that interval should be viewed with some suspicion. Also, are you really just citing the title of the article and none of the content?

I'm not even defending PHP here, just questioning lazy kneejerk, "but it sucked once, so now I hate it forever" thinking.

I'll disagree a little bit: we have heavy lift rockets bringing mass to orbit at a greater rate than any time in history and new larger and more efficient rockets on the cusp of being brought to use, with next generations planned for the future. Space launch technology -- the actual raw launching of mass to orbit, where it can be useful -- has advanced. And mass to orbit means more fuel -- if we really wanted to get something out there faster.

And that's where our statements arrive at the same conclusion: there's little need to do anything but super efficient deep space probes. While I can quibble with your implied assertion about newer technology not making a difference in ability, in a practical sense given our funding of deep space research, the big tech upgrade has been to data collection devices and communication. We'll have to have way cheaper lift capability before extra fuel to cut time off a project makes any kind of sense. But it is now at least plausible as an option.

(Also, this appears to be the only thread that isn't making Trek or Aliens jokes)

I had to submit to this BS on the 4th, they just gonna delete it and say "oops?" If my info leaks, how will the compensate me? Let me guess: they won't and will claim immunity. Meanwhile, my data will be all out there. Wonderful.

FTA: "The IRS wants to start this extra verification procedure this summer. " I had to do this just last week. So it's already being rolled out.

If you try youtube-dl to download a copy of any random video, it works, but if the video is protected by DRM the download will fail, even if logged in. But it plays just fine in YT's player (on Chrome). So, why doesn't the record industry just demand all their files be DRMed on YT? The ball is in their court. Literally.

How all these dumb-ass "challenges" all originate on TikTok?... That shit should be force-uninstalled from every mobile device in the Western hemisphere.

I give it 6 months after launch before Trump decides to close it down. The man is a miserable failure at damn near everything, and this will follow the way of his "university", his steaks, and everything else. Hell, this dude couldn't even run a profit on a casino! LOL WUT?

A smart phone that all apps that aren't part of the core OS can be completely removed and uninstalled. Not just "deactivated," but literally no longer present...without the need of rooting your phone. Yes, I get it, apps like Facebook (*barf!*) help keep the cost down, but frankly, I could give a rat less. I'd pay more for a phone that didn't have all that crap on it. Also, why is it no matter how much storage I buy on my phone....50% of it is listed as "system"? 32MB phone.... 16 is "system".... 64MB phone....32 is "system." It's like the damn thing grows to accommodate the area it has, and that's annoying.

So, you're saying, an otherwise normal Android tablet isn't supposed to work like one? That's, and forgive me, dumb as fuck. Tablets, branded or not, should do that which tablets do. What all tablets should do. Oh, and their built-in Kindle app sucks too. There's a whole discussion about how crappy they are with local vs. cloud storage...it's a mess.

Every Kindle device I've owned (and there have been several) have been steaming, hot, piles of crap. Slow, crappy interface, terrible app store functionality....just garbage. I don't care how cool they make the interface look. I want the thing to be responsive, I want it to not lock up when trying to play YouTube videos, I want it to...you know...WORK. Amazon Kindle ... you are not welcome in my home. I'll stick with other tablets that actually function. I had a junky RCA tablet that worked better (and was still a POS) than any Kindle. That's orders of magnitude of "sad".

Anime ruins everything it touches, so this will be crap.