> when you flame someone publicly, the apology has to be public too

Absolutely this. Otherwise the public message is "people can flame away and there is no consequence". Potential developers may well think "why should I get involved there technically when I'll be treated that way too".

Ideas and code can be criticized; that's normal. Attacking people is counterproductive in addition to being needlessly hurtful. There is never any excuse for it. Apologize publicly and become a better person.

The market is saturated *at the currently available price points*. A more basic, much less expensive model would boost sales. Many people realize they can do fine with much shorter range and don't have range anxiety, but they can't afford what's out there.

Except Ukraine is not Russia's backyard. It's Ukraine's front yard. They are in the same neighbourhood, but they're not in the same HOA. Russia is the author of all of its own grief at this point.

Except 14T per capita doesnâ(TM)t mean every individual pays $910, because much of that is emitted by industry not individuals. Actual cost per person is much lower than that.

My beef is: If I take photos of anything *in my home or yard*, Google Maps often pops up a prompt suggesting "Would you like to share your photos of your visit to ?"

No, Google, I've never visited that business and my pictures have nothing to do with that business. They were taken inside my own home!

I wouldn't mind buying Intel, but their desktop processors still don't support ECC. I guess I'll stick with AMD.

No, it isn't up to Facebook to shape behaviour. The point is that it does do so anyway, and to the detriment of our society.

The most annoying thing to me is that it *doesn't* sit at 100% for hours. I have a 6-core CPU, and it sits at 16% for hours because the update process, whatever it is doing, is doing it as a single thread. Obviously it can't take advantage of multiple cores.

I use an iPhone 6, and the fixed and small size of the font is annoying. Viewing in landscape mode is no different, and just makes the lines longer. Compare this to IFLScience, where rotating to landscape leaves the line length the same but the text gets bigger. I can't even pinch to zoom on Slashdot!

That assumes the piece of wood is rectangular and you have a straightedge long enough. That's not a "random" piece of wood.

Hand-eye co-ordination is best learned in the real world. Take him outside and play with real objects (I've heard it's called "catch") in a natural (non-human constructed) setting.

As for the other two things, typing skills and UI concepts, they can be trivially learned by him 10 years from now just as easily. He'll pick them up on his own before that, anyway.

How many of these would it take to, say, ray-trace Call of Duty: MW3 in real-time, 60 FPS? Would it cost less than using a modern graphics card to do the usual non-ray-traced rendering? That would be pretty cool.

Generally, three things motivate people:

  1. Autonomy - can they at least sometimes discover something on their own that needs doing/fixing and go ahead and do it without okaying it with management?
  2. Mastery - can they devote enough time to new things (e.g. technology) to feel that they are learning something *and* spending enough time on it to lead to mastery?
  3. Purpose - do they have a sense of belonging to something larger than themselves (as opposed to in name only: "there are six people in this group, therefore they are a team!")

These things drive most people and are completely lacking in my workplace. Search YouTube for "RSA Animate drive" for a better description than I gave.

Woot! Star Raiders rocks! I got introduced to it back in 1982ish (high school) and eventually bought a used Atari 800 *many* years later for $50. I use it a bit, then after being stored for some time I plugged it in and it wouldn't power up. :-( At some point I'll see if I can locate the problem. I have schematics and an old oscilloscope which I might be able to figure out.

All to play Star Raiders again, if I can figure out how to interface it to my LCD TV or projector.

Is that 1 Gb/s symmetric? Can you get close to that when transferring large amounts of data to someone next door or on the same block? That would be worth paying for. Here in Canada, I get 15 MB/s down, 1 MB/s up for C$45/mo. To get around the asymmetry, my neighbour (with whom I have line-of-sight) and I are setting up a 802.11g wireless link. Sad, but at least it's been fun. :)