CNN is still the trusted US news outlet in the rest of the world.
When it comes to news BBC is great but they are not US.
Yes a few years ago a large group of Americans were fooled by Trump but they are finally starting to see through his lies and bluster, Americans that woke up to Trump can and will start to return to the CNN way of coverage.
There is a reason MAGA tries to shut down this channel.

Well spoken.

Pay the poor a living wage and the problem is gone.

Sure it raises prices, it raises them to the prior price plus tip.
In other words, no-one looses, delivery people will finally get the pay they earn.

Now another thing is Trump wants to free tips from tax, that won't happen with the raised salaries.

Your comment subject seems to imply a homogeneity in North American English which is non-existent. For example, for Canadians a cheque is a financial instrument; a check is an inspection or process of confirmation. Nite and lite are merely misspellings of night and light. Also, the last letter of the alphabet is and always will be zed and not zee.

Colour, flavour, and valour are usually spelled with the 'u' here in Elbows Up land, whereas in the US I'm pretty sure the 'u' almost never appears in those words.

And of course, in America the word meter may refer to either a unit of measure or an instrument for measuring. Here in Canuckistan, the unit of measure is the metre.

It should be noted that English is a language that evolved. The biggest fork happened between the Colonies in the New World and the British way back when - North American English kept using words that ended up being deprecated in England.

Noah Webster (yes, of dictionary fame) wrote his dictionary where, as dictionary writer, he got to choose the spellings, and decided the "u" was redundant. So that is the origin of the u-less versions of colour, flavour and other words.

At the same time, all the Englishes adopted new words from other languages and the forks of English grow and separate.

And words like "Utilize" Canadian English adopted from US spelling (hence the scandal because the UK uses "utilise"). But also failed to adopt other US spellings like "donut", keeping the original doughnut. I still cringe at the shortened spelling. (Interestingly, Krispy Kreme used to use doughnut before shortening down to Krispy Kreme).

And "metre" is the official way the unit of length is spelled per the SI. Another Canadianism is the use of the term "hydro" to mean the power utility - we don't say power bill, we say hydro bill. We don't say electric or power company, we just say hydro company.

It's always the little things which makes UK and US English spelling dictionaries not quite Canadian English.

A good tally.

You forgot this little thing called The Great Vowel Change.
It really fucked up the pronunciation.

I'd rather play on PC....

Steam Machine timed exclusive? Shut Up And Take My Money!!!!!!!!!!!

Which is why it's likely false. First, Valve doesn't do exclusives - if it's on Steam Machine, it'll be on Steam. Now, it's entirely possible that it will only run on Linux, but that just means you install Steam on Linux and play it.

It can be a launch title, but it would really mean it launches the same day as Steam Machine. Just like Aperture Desk Job

But honestly, I give it a 0% chance of it actually happening. The writers have left years ago, the latest thing was Alyx which gave us the critical missing piece of story between Episodes 1 and 2 (/s), and even Valve announced that a while in advance. It would also have to be one of the biggest secrets they've managed to keep secret for years

The same route you use to receive programs?

Those hot-lamp bulbs cost $500 every time they burn out, and they generate a LOT of heat. Other than that, the projectors are pretty cool.

They cost that much from the manufacturer. But if you can find the original source for the lamps, you'll find they are pretty much just the lamp with a fancy custom housing around it so you can avoid damaging the lamp during handling.

But all lamps are made by a third party, you can buy those lamps, but you have to be careful when changing them out because you have to disassemble the housing to get at it.

And you'll find many projectors use exactly the same lamp, just a different housing around it.

And if I find the AppleTV device I have is doing this sceenshooting business, it'll find out real quick how an Apple TV makes like a hockey puck. No ice, just concrete and blacktop.

All AppleTVs currently out there do not. They lack any sort of hardware for doing content matching so Apple couldn't do it even if they wanted to. They'd have to screenshot and upload it to Apple HQ, and researchers would've discovered it by now if it did because such news would be perfect to ruin Apple's reputation.

An alternate (although mathematically similar) approach would be:

Select a unit of time: let's say five seconds. Call that the Trade Time Slice. Within each Trade Time Slice, all trades are settled equally. If you happen to arrive a nanosecond sooner than the next guy, but you're both within the same 5-s interval (Trade Time Slice), both trades get the same timestamp and price, rather than the strictly FIFO behavior we have now.

Except whether it's one second, 5 seconds, 60 seocnds, or whatever, that doesn't work.

Here's the situation - you put in an order for 100 shares of ABC for $100. 2 seconds later, your friend puts in an order for 100 shares of ABC for $100.. So now there's 2 orders for ABC both for 100 shares at $100.

But, at that point in the timeslice, there were people selling ABC - perhaps 50 shares at $95, and 100 shares at $100, and after that, it's 100 shares at $105.

How do you fulfill the order?

The stock market is a market - people come together and agree on a price.

Someone will buy 50 shares of ABC for $95. Who is it - you or your friend? They're going to save $250. Meanwhile, there's 150 shares for $100 that need fulfilling, but only 100 shares are being sold at $100. Who gets it?

Timeslicing doesn't work - it's just like a store selling this year's hottest Christmas gift. They have 100 units of the item, and 150 people are the door. If you timeslice it, 150 people are going after 100 units. Who gets the toy?

As bad as FIFO is, it's really the only way to determine who gets the shares. Every other way is going to be unfair in some situations, unworkable in others and just bog the market down.

E.g., if you split it 50-50 so you and your friend each get 25 shares at $95, and 50 shares each at $100. But what if your order was one where you will not accept a short order and you must have all 100 units? Who now gets the shares? Because your order could be fulfilled fully otherwise - either 50 shares at $95 and 50 at $100, or all 100 at $100.

That is the real problem with doing it this way because you're going to have an imbalance in supply and demand - either too many people are wanting it, or too little people are wanting it so who gets their sales done?

A better proposal is simply to do jittering. Every order is randomly jittered 0-5 seconds. If you pay 1 cent per share, you will get 0-4 seconds. 10 cents might get you 0-1 second. A dollar and you get it done instantly. Basically if you're trying to arbitrage it, the jitter can kill any potential profits by simply making it so you don't get your shares you bought.

It sucks not having laws to protect your privacy.
But at least they don't send a picture every half-second, apparently they use a build-in Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technology.
Which to me means they 'only' collect the name of the content.
Makes me wonder how they would name your private recordings of you doing the neighbors wife.

iRobot was not about Roombas. That's what their consumer robots were known for, but it was more of a side project.

They're main moneymakers were robots for the military - bomb defusing robots were something they were known for.

Their random walk consumer robots were good because they were cheap - and they worked well enough. We set a bunch up when we had dogs and they kept the shedding down.Basically we just set them up and let them vacuum while we left for work. it made the weekly vacuum much easier when they handled the daily vacuuming.

The room mapping robots were always way more expensive - a Roomba could be had for $200. The first ones with room mapping started at $600+, even the Samsung ones with cameras and all that were pricey. Then the Roombas got more and more expensive.

But in the end, one really wonders what happened to their military robots, because that's where the profits were...

230 prevents sites from being prosecuted. So, right now, they do b all moderation of any kind (except to eliminate speech for the other side).

Remove 230 and sites become liable for most of the abuses. Those sites don't have anything like the pockets of those abusing them. The sites have two options - risk a lot of lawsuits (as they're softer targets) or become "private" (which avoids any liability as nobody who would be bothered would be bothered spending money on them). Both of these deal with the issue - the first by getting rid of the abusers, the second by getting rid of the easily-swayed.