Hollywood is a business and does what it can to make as much $$$ as possible. You can "go full throttle" with your money any time you like.

"How long until people quit learning programming languages?"

This reminds me of the Office episode where Kevin starts talking in abbreviated English to "save time".

It seems like you are saying batteries are not useful. They take more energy than they produce, yet have been very useful. Power plants and others often produce more power than they need. Perhaps the creation of this could be a way to store that energy for later.

"If a Fortnite gamer creates a Darth Vader and Spider-Man dance that goes viral on YouTube, who owns that dance?"

Easy. Nobody owns it, at least as far as being able to monetize. If I write a Harry Potter sequel using all the standard Harry Potter characters, JKR doesn't own it and can't take it and publish it and keep all the money. I can't publish it and keep the money either. Effectively its similar to contraband.

Slashdot, I'm so disappointed. All these comments about blocking out the sun and not a single reference to Mr Burns?

sad...

What makes Norway any more special than all the other wealthy countries that have so much excess oil/gas they amass wealth faster than they spend it?

At best a laptop could be assembled in America. How many components would be American made? Are monitors, CPUs, hard drives, or RAM made anywhere in America?

I had a coworker ~15 years ago who hated MS to the point he used OpenOffice even though the company provided a license of Office 200x. Invariably, we would need to share documents, presentations, and spreadsheets and all worked fine until he got sent a copy to update. Every single time he touch a doc and sent it to anyone, the formatting and other components would get off. He'd complain MS wasn't following the correct format for Word/Excel/PowerPoint.

When we told him the "format" for their tools is WHATEVER they want it to be he'd argue. Needless to say, he didn't last very long. And ironically, I just looked him up on LinkedIn and he is a senior consultant for Microsoft!!!

"if you aren't actively trying to be promoted, then it is time for you to be dismissed."

I often see that attitude with some I work with. They are literally flabbergasted that some people may both do an excellent job and also be happy and satisfied with their current role. Not everyone wants to get promoted. Everyone likes and would take more money, but that doesn't mean they are willing to do anything at all costs to get it. Many resists management because they don't want to have to deal with other people, but are still excellent employees, highly educated and intelligent. Many also have bigger things in their lives than a job and can't take on more, especially if that includes more hours, travel, responsibilities. All that should be ok, but some "corporate" types will automatically dismiss those people as bad employees.

I thought one of the major appeals of crypto is the lack of regulation and inability of governments to track, have any visibility to, dictate, require, confiscate, etc.

So they "borrowed" someone's unattended phone and used it for a while and noticed some nifty features and shared that via YouTube. And the sharer had no NDA or other agreement with Apple.

Can Apple sue me if I were to "create rendered mockups" of my current iPhone system? Also, I wonder if they will claim he had an agreement with Apple due to having used and agreed to their TOS previously. That tactic didn't work well (publicly) for Disney, but I don't see it going away.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2024%2F08%2F14...

I still don't understand why higher education is so expensive. Nearly every college/university is so old that all their property and buildings are long paid off. I get research is expensive, but tuition shouldn't cover research, grants should. So, other than slightly better paid educators and possibly smaller classes, why does higher education often cost 2 to 10 times as much?

"blocking adults from entering kids games and social apps"

How is this done exactly? Do kids need an ID to show the app to prove they are minors? Where do they get those IDs? Are places now requiring children to have photo IDs other than passports?

Did I say they needed "10 separate connections"?

I said "2-3 of those shared" would likely suffice. Its not perfect, but could be an acceptable solution for some.

I've used a T-Mobile wireless device for nearly 3 years while working from home and often concurrently having 2-3 TVs streaming without issue. Its been $50/month and I've never had an issue with data caps. It it more reliable than wired services I've used including AT&T and Comcast. Its worked fine with my work's VPN , Roku, any anything else I've had a use for.