17 more years? I can't wait to see people in their 70's through 90's adventuring through the universe. Are stargates handicap-accessible?
Seriously though dude this is actually interesting science news vastly more important than some cheesy show.
Hmmmm... interesting approach. Is the license "permission" to watch it from sony during the duration of their contract, or do I "own" the movie, but not how it's presented through Sony, in this case.
If it's the latter, copy/rip the media.
A short aside:
I have a fairly large audible account. I noticed about 10 years ago, I still have books in my queue, but I'm unable to download/listen to them. Audible explained the licence to me, told me that it should appear back in my "library" eventually but might take years (and maybe never), but here, have a free "credit" (which is basically, another free book).
Had that happen about 6 times over the last 10 years (the most recent was about a year ago. Each time, I got a credit -- and with the exception of the most recent, the book re-appeared in my library. If the pattern continues, I should have it back in my library within 2 years from when it was removed.
I can live with that.
"an awful lot of DVDs only last a decade or two."
If only there was some way to take the data on a DVD and move it to a computer. Maybe "brute force it". We could use the term "rip"!
Then backups with redundancy would turn a decade or two in to a generation or ten.
"The notion that there is a shortage of physicians is preposterous - the residency programs will continue to be filled every single year."
How on earth are those two things contradictory? The problem is there are too few residencies for how many physicians we need.
The launch pads are not in outer space.
Seems kind of premature, the knuckleheads that are trying to do orbital datacenters have about as much chance of developing a feasible, economic orbital data center as I do in being crowned Miss America.
microwave labotomy
Another poster mentioned that it's actually focussed ultrasound.
Still sounds like breaking a piece of a system by stirring the brain with a knife (lobotomy) or burning it out with heat (cauterization), electricity (electroshock) or mechanical shock (blow to the head) - just carefully focused without (substantial) damage to other parts of the brain or its casing.
Ultrasonic destruction of a piece of the brain's reward/punishment/desire/avoidance mechanism rather than persistent unwanted fat.
Ate a lot of paint chips as a child, eh?
Tesla is already in trouble due to profound incompetence.
Good observations, though I am Gen X so after a childhood of editing config.sys to get retail games to run on the PC I have an incredibly high tolerance for putting up with that nonsense.
I'm a busy man. I'm also a lazy man. Could someone tell me if this is cheaper or more expensive than a desktop gaming PC with the same stats?
Additionally, the way it's phrased, as a "bet," is implicitly skeptical.
There is no question that states are betting on AI.
FDNY life is rough but it is still vastly better than Chinese factor worker life. That 18-hour shift is not constant answering calls, a lot of it is downtime. Also, they get a lot of time off in between. And retire with good benefits years and years before the Chinese worker.
"and where blue collar workers get to retire on a full pension before white collar workers."
Yes, if only I could enjoy the life of a blue collar factor worker in China. Why can't I work 12 hour shifts 6 days a week?!
On the eighth day, God created FORTRAN.
