wosat

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I suspect there is at least one engineer who voiced concerns months or years ago, was not listened to, and is now having an "I told you so" moment.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They should re-make Episodes 1-3 and do what they should have done the first time -- reveal Jar Jar as a Sith Lord at the end of the trilogy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Exactly! Back in the day, you had two options: (1) subscribe or (2) buy a single magazine or newspaper. Now, there's no equivalent to the newsstand for digital media.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 months ago (1 children)

To be clear, Google will still be storing copies of the pages they crawl. They just won't be making those copies available to end users.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Microsoft tried to shanghai me to the "new outlook". When I realized the scope of what they were trying to do, under the guise of a simple software update, I was floored. I don't even think Google, with all of their Borg-ish tendencies, would attempt such a blatant hijacking of user data. The privacy implications are profound.

 

A Disturbance in the Force is a documentary unlike any other tailor-made for every and any Star Wars fan. Dealing with the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special, in 1977, "Star Wars" became a cultural phenomenon that single-handedly revitalized a stagnant film industry, and forever changed how films were sold, made, and marketed. In 1978, filmmaker George Lucas was talked into cashing in on the Star Wars craze by producing a holiday variety TV special. What could possibly go wrong? ANSWER: Everything…

A Disturbance in the Force stars Seth Green, Weird Al Yankovic, Paul Scheer, Taran Killam, Patton Oswalt, Donny Osmond, Gilbert Gottfried, Bonnie Burton, Bruce Vilanch, and Steve Binder. The documentary is directed by Jeremy Coon and Steve Kozak with Kyle Newman serving as producers alongside Jeremy Coon and Steve Kozak as producers as well. Adam F. Goldberg is the executive producer of A Disturbance in the Force.

A Disturbance in the Force is releasing on December 5 for Apple TV, Amazon, Google Play, and Vudu with select screenings across the US, UK, and Australia ahead of its digital and home entertainment launch.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This situation seems analogous to when air travel started to take off (pun intended) and existing legal notions of property rights had to be adjusted. IIRC, a farmer sued an airline for trespassing because they were flying over his land. The court ruled against the farmer because to do otherwise would have killed the airline industry.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (13 children)

While this is amazing and all, it's always seemed to me that this approach of using hundreds of laser beams focused on a single point would never scale to be viable for power generation. Can any experts here confirm?

I've always assumed this approach was just useful as a research platform -- to learn things applicable to other approaches, such as tokamaks, or to weapons applications.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago (4 children)

It amazes me that there are so many people who buy a printer, are offered this "pay $x a month for Y pages" type of plan, and say yes. I mean, sure, HP sucks, but they wouldn't be able to get away with such slimy business practices if there weren't so many people willing to pay.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Looking at this, I was sure it was depicting the Sagrada Familia Cathedral in Spain, but after doing some searching, it looks like the resemblance is just a coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Businesses that create custom works should be able to decide what they want to create, but they shouldn't be able to limit who they'll sell to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

You can use a deque as a stack (First In, Last Out) or as a queue (First In, First Out). Lists are especially inefficient when adding/removing from the beginning of the list, but, for deques, it's a O(1) operation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It's like there's an invisible anti-rain force field around DFW. It comes down toward us and just... disappears.

view more: next ›