I read it in its entirety. Im also more willing to recognize sexism than most people in tech it seems. Im not sure why everyone in these comments that disagrees with him is getting modded with "troll". Did slashdot turn into r/TD while I was away?

Im not sure why you got mod pointed as a troll because that was actually a great point. I havent been on slashdot in a few weeks, did it suddenly get hyper conservative or something? I mean theres always been the occasional right wing fanatic, with the majority being pretty moderate either direction, but this whole comment section is ridiculous.

Not employing someone who passes around sexist memos under some guise of "bettering the workplace" doesn't mean they single you out. And not being sexist or being pro-diversity are not political positions. It just so happens that the sexist, racist, and otherwise negatively prejudiced people tend to be conservative. As you should always do when making a statement like that, remember: Correlation does not equal Causation.

Correct me if I am wrong, but didnt we find pretty compelling evidence of bacteria on Mars? Doesn't that make everyone who voted "no" pretty much wrong?

I think a lot of the commenters here are speculating a little too hard. As someone who's met him, Newell isn't one to go ceo-marketspeak on everyone. It seems to me that he is simply stating that they want to innovate for innovations sake, and innovation fails sometimes. We all know they are raking in the money with steam, so they don't NEED this to be successful. Outside of that, they are turning a profit on a high ticket item where most of their target audience cant afford it. Gotta give them props for that. And anyone who knows a thing or two about how development of a new product goes (I'm sure most on this site have a decent idea), the early adopters are there to get the train moving so the next version can be cheaper. And because most of their target audience cant afford it until its cheaper, once it gets there sales will go up with it (vive sales in november were 140,000 Msrp $799, PSVR sales were around 2 million Msrp $399). Its unlikely to be anything as big as the home computer, but it will certainly have staying power, and definitely has a demand.

I'm not sure where you live, but I'm in the northwest, and houses here are being sold at nearly the same, or more than they were between 06-08. Sometimes drastically so (sold 2008 for 425k sold last week for 700k.), but the majority are within a few thousand. (sold 2007 245, on the market now for 250). I realize that list price is different than what its worth, but these are still very similar to prices at the height of the bubble.

Anyone else want to check my math, but assuming the average email address is 20 characters long (that's on the low side from what I can find), the list of recipients on each email should be about 24 Megabytes? That's a lot of bandwidth even without these ridiculous quantities. Or is it just a mailing list name on the "TO" line and the mail-server looks up all 1.2 million addresses from its own table?

Now all they need is insecure wireless access!

With default passwords of course.

http://www.whois.com/whois/tru...

Appearantly some Billionaire who runs trumps main website would employ someone who uses GoDaddy...

I wasn't necessarily tying the VW scandal to global warming. I was literally surprised that no one had made such a comment after 14 minutes, knowing how often such a comment appears on slashdot. Especially where one might assume the two are connected.

Yet VW themselves designed a car that gets over 250 miles per gallon 2 years ago. Its not unrealistic, that's just what you've been taught. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Nobody is regulating anybody out of business. Go look at VW's stock performance up until this broke. There's just such a thing as too much coming from your tailpipe. If you ever lived in LA during the 60's, or hell, even up through the 90s then you'd understand.

Ill drink to that.

No, it will choke the performance. The code selectively caused the engine to run cleaner which held back performance and mpg, etc. The fix will have to cause the car to run like that all the time, lest it not pass emissions.

I'm genuinely surprised this story has been on the front page this long: a) without a comment, and b) without a comment from someone making a snarky remark about global warming being fake and how its killing businesses. Good on you Slashdot.