'Exonate'?

This seems like a bad idea. What is going to happen when Mr and Mrs Singh use this service to have a son named Khan?

If true, this is the modern-day version of a Letter of Marque, with the slight (cough cough) difference that the United States and China are neither technically at war (like N. and S. Korea) nor actually shooting at each other (like the various non-declared wars/hostilities the US has been involved in after WW2).

If the raw materials are all on one continent, the end users are on another, and the finished product is less massive than the raw materials, it's going to require less shipping to build it where the raw materials are then ship it to the customer.

Also, what about things like coffee, that simply don't grow everywhere they are consumed?

If I read this right, ancient seafaring peoples had the same problem, just on a much smaller scale.

Considering you can pretty much take any low-end hardware and emulate a C64, or any other 8 bit system, probably the only real challenge is the keyboard. Ironically a suitable mechanical keyboard is by far the most expensive item, with the price ranging from $100-$200.

The only way to stop this is to entirely cease allowing companies that use contractors and subcontractors on military projects.

Otherwise what is going to happen is the military will sign a contract with Lockheed who will outsource part of it to IBM who will off-shore part of that to India who will outsource part of that work to another subcontractor who uses people in China and Vietnam.

It looks more to me that the GPU resources are under stress and starting to just drop stuff that they would ordinarily process.

Easy solution. Buy more Nvidia cards. Or AMD. Either one as I own stock in both companies.

I've been using LO pretty much constantly for the last two years (even wrote a novel on it). Like any interface, it just takes time to become familiar. In fact, I like the way Writer organizes styles and style configuration far better than Word, and often, even for DOCX files, do initial style set up and layout in Writer and then move to Word if I have to (which is seldom enough).

LO is a damned good office system. Its default UI is older, but since I used MS-Edit and Word pretty extensively back in the 1990s, it feels familiar to me. There is a ribbon interface, but I've only tried it a few times before remembering why it is I actually don't like the Word ribbon.

Fine. DVDs and Blue-ray. Regardless, the point stands. It's a physical medium you own.

It's pretty easy to beat this. Just stop buying from Delta.

Do you have any idea how difficult this is? That's like telling people to stop buying from Amazon because of how awfully they treat their workers and all the fake Chinese stuff they sell.

It's impossible to do. I haven't bought from Amazon in years, that's how difficult it is.

I know there are people who will grumble and whine that DVDs are sooooooo outdated, but this is another example of why they are superior. You never have to worry someone else will take it away from you.

You bought it. You own it. Unless someone breaks into your home and takes it or your home burns down, it is yours forever. You can watch it as many times as you like whenever you want. You are not restricted to someone else's schedule. Nor do you have to worry about it breaking up because the signal got botched.

Further, DVDs don't change. No one can alter the movie with "new and improved" scenes or added "features". Han will always shoot first.

That Microsoft has told users there are no refunds is further justification why DVDs are better than streaming.

"No, you can do the equivalent work of earning a _DEGREE_ (minus the non-technical classes) by on-the-job experience or self-study without earning a degree and still be a good developer."

Sorry about that.

My keyboard dropped out of college shortly before graduation. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

No, you can do the equivalent work of earning a (minus the non-technical classes) by on-the-job experience or self-study without earning a degree and still be a good developer.

"4 year CS degree or equivalent education or experience or combination thereof" is a much more rational hiring criteria than "4 year degree."

We may not have a "trades system" but we do have privately-run certification systems that are separate from university degrees.

Think of an entry-level CompTIA/Microsoft/Cisco/OtherMajorBrand certification as apprentice-level. You can move up from there and specialize without needing to go to a college or university.