It has just been done. Funcom's "Dune Awakening" was released about a year ago, 100% online multiplayer. With the recent updates they added BOTH offline single-player mode for any owner of the game, AND private servers that anyone can run (with good enough hardware). I expect Funcom will keep their servers running for quite a while, but when the time comes to drop support, the game is completely ready for independent use by anyone who has purchased it.

These exchanges need to be regulated, and behave, like the banks that they are. You don't hear about a major bank getting hacked and having millions stolen. Why? Because they are held to incredibly high standards for IT security and redundancy, with complex multi-layer security systems, hardware tokens, and isolated core ledgers.

Um, yes it did.

Aren't "rock" and "ice" fundamentally the same thing, the solid state of a material or element? Both will melt, or sublimate at a certain temperature into their liquid or gaseous state.

Minimum Basic Income is the only way.

I now conservatives will squirm at the very thought of giving a living wage to someone who doesn't work for it. But that's where we are headed when more and more of us will be unable to find reasonable employment due to robots destroying the blue collar and AI destroying the white collar jobs.

We use Oracle DB. Yes, there are many free databases, and several commercial ones that are cheaper. But the richness of Oracle's feature set is unmatched by all of them. Plus we develop our many web applications using Oracle's Application express (APEX) platform. It makes DB web app development extremely quick and easy.

We do get their academic discount though, so are not being robbed quite as much as a company might be.

BF6 is just the same thing over and over again for me. I got bored after a few hours. Spawn into a map, run like hell to a location, hopefully shoot a couple of players, get killed, repeat. I did play through the short single player story mode though, that was pretty interesting with great voice acting.

I'm sure Microsoft will be more than happy to let Copilot drive the Department of War's Terminators.

There is open source support for older models, of which I have two. There were some great Roomba deals going on this winter. I was tempted but held off because if their servers go bye-bye, there is no open source support for newer iRobot models.

The US auto industry provides over 10 million good paying, middle class jobs. It is government's job to balance the needs of one group of citizens against the needs of others. They have clearly decided that those 10 million families who would be devastated by a wholesale collapse of the US auto industry are more important than US consumers getting access to cheaper (in price) Chinese cars.

I drive an EV and would LOVE to be able to buy one of those cool, inexpensive Chinese vehicles, but I also understand our government's position. I just wish, instead of an outright ban, they would (I can't believe I'm saying this) impose tariffs on Chinese vehicles to bring them up to price parity with comparable US models. That way the competition would be on features and quality and not on an artificially lower price tag.

This sounds like it is striving for a capitalist utopia: All the innovation and production, and none of those pesky workers to pay. Very on-brand for Trump and his buddies.

I'm trying to work and it seems like Atlassian is still having problems recovering. "Put it in the cloud!", they said. "It'll be more reliable!", they said.

You can get audio via HDMI or through one of the USB ports (with a dongle if you want 3.5mm analog)

I see Lenard, Sheldon, and Howard's invention is finally getting a real world test!

There are plenty of places to put solar panels that don't cover farm fields or forests. Floating panels on reservoirs and aqueducts generates power and help reduce evaporation. Putting them over parking lots lets people park in the shade. There are designs to put them in highway medians too, and of course there are residential and commercial roofs.