Nobody sensible would consider that a meaningful comparison either.
Second the Martian made a profit, and the mars mission hasn't. So the Mars mission actually had a much higher net cost.
I would sincerely hope that any space mission will net a far better return for the entire human race than 2 hours of fictional bullshit on the big screen, so I think we can stop with this rather silly comparison now.
2 hours of tape for which people paid $630,000,000 to watch. Personally I prefer the footage of actual mars missions but even at the price of nothing you still get far fewer eyeballs then the fictional, "human drama" centered bullshit
Too poor? No.
Too stupid? Yes.
Even when toilets are available, many Indians prefer to shit on the ground.
It is a filthy habit, spreads disease, and is one of the main reasons for India's sky high infant mortality rate.
The Indian government has spent billions of rupees to install public toilets in villages, but many of them are used.
Changing the plumbing is easier than changing the culture.
This is a completely ignorant statement made by someone that doesn't have a clue what the reality on the ground is
The truth is that many women still prefer going out in the fields because they fear being ambushed and raped going to the public toilets.
Not only is there little legal protection, to make matters worst, being raped is considered very shameful to the women and her family, victimizing her all over again
I'm wondering when we'll start seeing performance shops offering their own, cheaper unlock/re-flashes for Teslas?
The problem with Teslas software, Apples IOS or any other walled gardens is that to make your own modifications requires giving up on both functionality and security updates
Of course your rant against "free trade" conveniently ignores the fact that the biggest factor for job losses in the industrialized world is actually technology (electronics, automation, robotics). The true bogyman is the computer you are sitting in front and the real culprit is YOU
We are 20 fucking trillion dollars in debt. What the fuck so you want?
The US budget isn't like your household budget. First of all, the federal debt is in dollars and not, say, euros. Do you know where dollars come from? The Federal government is the only source of dollars in the world. The dollar is a fiat currency. The Fed can, and does, create billions of dollars with the stroke of a keyboard. So, imagine that, whenever you were short of money, you could put some in your checking account by typing a number in your computer. Then, your budget would be like the Federal budget.
The long and short of it is, the Federal debt isn't really a big deal. The Right likes to harp on it because it's another way to attack "Big Government", one of their bogeymen. Why? Because it's the Federal government which creates the consumer protections big business hates, a.k.a., regulations.
Yes the Treasury can poof dollars into existence (as other countries can do with their currency) with couple of keyboard strokes but there is a very good reason why the Federal Government "borrows" to fill budget shortfalls. The reason for this is that if they simply create more currency without the GDP expanding accordingly then the "purchasing power" of a unit of currency goes down.and leads to inflation, with the prices of goods and services going up to match the new deflated value of currency. An excellent historic (and pretty recent) example is Zimbabwe where the printing of money to pay salaries, combined with a drop in GDP led to hyperinflation with the Government eventually printing "100 Trillion" banknotes before being forced to abandon the currency altogether as no one would accept it.
I am not saying that borrowing is a bad thing, With the backing of the U.S economy the Treasury can borrow at very long maturity and very low rates which combined with normal inflation means that in the long run the U.S pays little in "real value" interest. An expanding GDP also means that the debt becomes less of a burden. The all time high debt of %113 of GDP incurred for WW2, in today's dollars is an unimpressive $2.87 Trillion
Cutting down or even eliminating a Federal Dept of Education which didn't even exist until 1978, is not defunding public education. Rather it's eliminating needless bureaucracy and returning the funding to where it belongs, the states. Which will result in more money getting into the classrooms, where it does the most good rather than funding ever more bureaocrats.
The 1979 law split the Department of Education from what was until then the "Department of Health, Education, and Welfare."
It has a budget of $68 million which would make practically no difference added to the the 500+ Billions spent every year on Public K12
"The primary functions of the Department of Education are to "establish policy for, administer and coordinate most federal assistance to education, collect data on US schools, and to enforce federal educational laws regarding privacy and civil rights" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Who needs statistics and accountability on State school-systems when you can go on a populist rant against government bureaucrats. Just convert everything to unsupervised block grants so we have no idea what States do with our Federal tax dollars
Children often push their doctors and their elderly parents to go for a "everything and the kitchen sink" approach to healthcare, even when the odds of a good prognosis are minimal and the extended life comes at the coast of great pain and degrading condition. I wonder how much discrepency comes from childless people being free to choose "quality of life" instead of quantity
HDDs will die. If you want something that will last for many decades or even centuries without getting corrupted then you need to stop using a volatile filesystem. The best option is to go with write once media. The best option I know is M-DISC.
M-DISC's design is intended to provide greater archival media longevity.[3][4] Millenniata claims that properly stored M-DISC DVD recordings will last 1000 years.[5] While the exact properties of M-DISC are a trade secret,[6] the patents protecting the M-DISC technology assert that the data layer is a "glassy carbon" and that the material is substantially inert to oxidation and has a melting point between 200 and 1000 C.[7][8] -- Wikipedia
Did you even bother reading the wiki you linked to or did you just copy and paste the first paragraph ?
"However, according to the French National Laboratory of Metrology and Testing at 90 C and 85% humidity the DVD+R with inorganic recording layer such as M-DISC show no longer lifetimes than conventional DVD±R.[11]"
Speaking as a Sysadmin that has been there, nothing compares to the horror of realizing that the split second it took between hitting [Enter] and aborting with [Ctrl-c] was enough to blow up half the production environment.
This is why all potentially very dangerous commands should default to "--dry-run" and only execute with a "--force" switch.
Why would I store an address in Contacts if it's a one-shot? For example I'm going to ${CITY} on business and staying at ${HOTEL}. Why would I want to put ${HOTEL}'s address in contacts?
In my contacts I have a specific "one shot" entry, and when I need something for one-time usage, I just
overwrite with my the latest temporary entry.
Seems to work pretty well...
And isn't that comparable to being able to store in Uber?
It is a horrible workaround at best, and all for the simple reason that Uber really really to wants data-mine your contact list and is willing to leave major functionality out of the app just to force your hand into granting access. Same reason they eliminated the "access location while using the app" option, Now you only have the choice between rendering the app useless or letting Uber data-mine your location 24/7. The truth is that there is no "Uber technology," it is little more then an app running on top of the Google Maps API just like Lyft and dozens of competitors. Even a mediocre programmer could write a basic "ride-sharing" app running on the Google Maps API over the weekend. Uber has been dominated the market by subsidizing the rides, this is not sustainable in the long run. Uber's plan to profits is to turn you into the product and sell your info to advertisers
A concussion that results in the loss of consciences is *extremely* serious. Some Neurological damage is a given and it even increase the risk of (CTE) Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, especially if the person in question suffers another concussion (no-fault accidents do happen).
He didn't simply make a unfortunate mistake, he intentionally broke FAA regulation in a situation in which even common sense tells you is there is high risk of injury to people.
The medallion system has the primary purpose of easing congestion by limiting the number of cabs driving around looking for pick-ups. In today's world having cabs drive around aimlessly looking for someone to put up their hand is just plain stupid. City's need to implement centralized app based hailing systems and create a network of strategically located dispatch points where taxis can wait to be hailed.
Humans can be alert and productive for only so many hours a day, differs by person but it is definitely even less then 8 for most everyone. After that something that would take 1 hours in the morning will instead take 4 hours of overtime. Of course you will not be able to get anything done in a hour in the morning either because all that overtime means that you will not get enough rest. If you are a security guard, simply being there is good enough but if your work involves higher thought processes then quality beats quantity when it come to overall productivity. Something which is unfortunately lost in today's Corporate culture where the most valued personal is often the people responding to emails at 1am, no matter what gibberish
The authorities can easily decide your "harmless" social media account is something doctored up to fool them
Correct. Admission of non-citizens into the US is a judgment call. A doctored-looking social media account may be even worse than no social media account at all. I'm not sure why you consider that a problem.
The traditional way of dealing with visas is to require solid, credible foreign government records (including police reports) and simply refuse admission to anybody who can't provide those. That means no admission from politically unstable countries at all and no admissions from countries whose governments we don't trust. Would you prefer that? Or would you prefer that US immigration officials give people more options for establishing that they might be admissible after all?
Perhaps I was not clear enough. My point is that if you are someone that rarely uses social-media or a professional that keeps it very sanitized authorities might just make the judgment call that it is a doctored account. I was just point out to the OP that a social-media presence is not necessarily in your favor
As if I needed more reason not to share my personal life with the world (and TSA)
A social media account can be used to help you establish that you are harmless; if you don't have one, you simply go back into the "unknown" category.
If how authorities view polygraph results is any indicator then your assessment is wrong. Failing a polygraph test is seen as a strong indicator of guilt (even thou its scientific basis are so shaky they are not even admissible in court) while passing one is seen as a good indicator that you cheated somehow. The authorities can easily decide your "harmless" social media account is something doctored up to fool them
Are you serious? We're talking about legal residents who where prohibited, overnight, to enter the country without any other justification than a whim from Trump. No changed jobs, expired visas, incorrect documentation or lack of vetoes were part of the equation.
The sad part is that the ban seems to be in place only because those 7 countries are mostly Muslim. None of them were involved on any kind of terrorist activity on US soil while other countries which were, notably Saudi Arabia and Turkey, are inexplicably left out of the executive action signed last Friday.
Not that I agree with Trump but to be factually correct 3 of those countries (Sudan, Syria, Iran) are listed by the State Department as "State sponsors of terrorism" and the other 4 are listed as "Terrorist safe havens."
While the "State sponsors of terrorism" list contains only the 3 banned countries, the Terrorist safe havens" list contains many more, including Christian majority countries like Columbia and Venezuela so Trump can't claim in Court that it was purely coincidence that all the States on the list have Muslim majorities.
BTW Neither Turkey nor Saudi Arabia are on the list, in fact they are both considered close allies
CA pays your bills, bitch. We hand over much more money than we receive from the feds. I hope we do succeed and pull the useless fucking bigoted morons in the middle of our country from our overflowing teats.
I'd like to see how you guys end up rationing your energy when you can no longer connect to the grid of neighboring states. You know your state only provides about 60% of its own energy demands, right? Let me guess, you'll just cut the power to all of the poor people's houses so that the industry there can remain intact? May as well because there are so many homeless people (and multiple families crowded into one single family home) there that you may as well just make everybody who isn't making at least $200,000 a year go the rest of the way to destitution.
Perpetual motion machines are allowed by the laws of physics. The galaxy is one for example, it perpetually rotates effectively forever, and by definition beyond what we can measure.
What IS impossible, is to remove energy from the system. If you do that, any machine stops, eventually, unless you add it back in somehow.
You are confiusing perpetual motion with a perpetual motion machine. In the simplest terms a machine is defined as something that does work. However perpetual motion is the simple act of moving through timespace. A simple photon is in perpetual motion. It will move at c until it hits something and it is absorbed. If the space between it and the closest thing that it can hit is expanding faster then c then it will remain in motion for eternity. This is the reason that there are galaxy's very far away that we can't see. Even though their light is in a direct path towards earth, it will never reatch us
"Stop being cheap and buy known certified products from official channels"
Please, there's plenty of UL/CE-listed crap out there where the second you take the power transformer apart you can find violations.
Certification means jack shit in this day and age.
Certification means that a few "samples" of the product were sent for certification and met the requirements. There is no guarantee that what the manufacturer is putting in the retail package is actually the same as the certified samples. Your best bet is to go with well known companies that would have a lot to loose from a tarnished reputation
And just like that we are back to the days of mainframes/dumb terminals except that know we will call it the cloud/thin client. The reason are simple, vendor lock-in, walled gardens and "services" instead of ownership means you can milk your clients for years instead of selling them something once
Go talk to some smokers. Very few consider cigarettes to be "fun". 90% of smokers started before they were 18. The tobacco industry depends on getting children addicted before they have the maturity to make a rational decision. They deserve to be denounced, and we have a moral imperative to do so.
I started smoking in a ex-communist country with no such thing as advertisement or even a tobacco industry. We started smoking because we saw adults that we looked up to doing it. The fact that it was considered "for grownups only" made it even more enticing, after all childhood is simply the process of learning how to act and graduating to adulthood. Vices like smoking were seen as a sort of a right of passage by the the younger generations, I can't image it is all that different in the rest of the world
If you publish the entire season at once this means you were sitting on progressively more unreleased for a period of time. Imagine if one were to instead release this content as it were available instead of making people wait...
This would be true for studio based TV shows which are typically shot sequentially. On location series are typically shot all at once, movie style. The extra wait for the entire series to be finished would be a couple of weeks of post-production
They sell twice as many consoles but have about 1/5 the amount of games as Xbox. This is what happens when people get too dependent on DirectX when OpenGL is soooo much better and available to everyone.
But the Playstation doesn't use OpenGL anyway, one advantage of those high level APIs is they allow abstraction of a vast range of hardware with a cost of overhead for doing so. The Playstation does not have a range of graphics hardware so suffering that overhead would be pointless, they use their own low-level graphics API.
But the Playstation does have a range of hardware with the release of the PS Pro. MS will have the advantage here as the DirectX API originating from the PC was designed from the start to easily develop for a range of hardware. It will be significantly easier for developers to take advantage of the extra power in Project Scorpio then it is for the PS Pro
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Nobody sensible would consider that a meaningful comparison either.
Second the Martian made a profit, and the mars mission hasn't. So the Mars mission actually had a much higher net cost.
I would sincerely hope that any space mission will net a far better return for the entire human race than 2 hours of fictional bullshit on the big screen, so I think we can stop with this rather silly comparison now.
2 hours of tape for which people paid $630,000,000 to watch. Personally I prefer the footage of actual mars missions but even at the price of nothing you still get far fewer eyeballs then the fictional, "human drama" centered bullshit
Too poor? No. Too stupid? Yes. Even when toilets are available, many Indians prefer to shit on the ground. It is a filthy habit, spreads disease, and is one of the main reasons for India's sky high infant mortality rate. The Indian government has spent billions of rupees to install public toilets in villages, but many of them are used. Changing the plumbing is easier than changing the culture.
This is a completely ignorant statement made by someone that doesn't have a clue what the reality on the ground is
The truth is that many women still prefer going out in the fields because they fear being ambushed and raped going to the public toilets. Not only is there little legal protection, to make matters worst, being raped is considered very shameful to the women and her family, victimizing her all over again
I'm wondering when we'll start seeing performance shops offering their own, cheaper unlock/re-flashes for Teslas?
The problem with Teslas software, Apples IOS or any other walled gardens is that to make your own modifications requires giving up on both functionality and security updates
Of course your rant against "free trade" conveniently ignores the fact that the biggest factor for job losses in the industrialized world is actually technology (electronics, automation, robotics). The true bogyman is the computer you are sitting in front and the real culprit is YOU
We are 20 fucking trillion dollars in debt. What the fuck so you want?
The US budget isn't like your household budget. First of all, the federal debt is in dollars and not, say, euros. Do you know where dollars come from? The Federal government is the only source of dollars in the world. The dollar is a fiat currency. The Fed can, and does, create billions of dollars with the stroke of a keyboard. So, imagine that, whenever you were short of money, you could put some in your checking account by typing a number in your computer. Then, your budget would be like the Federal budget.
The long and short of it is, the Federal debt isn't really a big deal. The Right likes to harp on it because it's another way to attack "Big Government", one of their bogeymen. Why? Because it's the Federal government which creates the consumer protections big business hates, a.k.a., regulations.
Yes the Treasury can poof dollars into existence (as other countries can do with their currency) with couple of keyboard strokes but there is a very good reason why the Federal Government "borrows" to fill budget shortfalls. The reason for this is that if they simply create more currency without the GDP expanding accordingly then the "purchasing power" of a unit of currency goes down.and leads to inflation, with the prices of goods and services going up to match the new deflated value of currency. An excellent historic (and pretty recent) example is Zimbabwe where the printing of money to pay salaries, combined with a drop in GDP led to hyperinflation with the Government eventually printing "100 Trillion" banknotes before being forced to abandon the currency altogether as no one would accept it.
I am not saying that borrowing is a bad thing, With the backing of the U.S economy the Treasury can borrow at very long maturity and very low rates which combined with normal inflation means that in the long run the U.S pays little in "real value" interest. An expanding GDP also means that the debt becomes less of a burden. The all time high debt of %113 of GDP incurred for WW2, in today's dollars is an unimpressive $2.87 Trillion
Cutting down or even eliminating a Federal Dept of Education which didn't even exist until 1978, is not defunding public education. Rather it's eliminating needless bureaucracy and returning the funding to where it belongs, the states. Which will result in more money getting into the classrooms, where it does the most good rather than funding ever more bureaocrats.
The 1979 law split the Department of Education from what was until then the "Department of Health, Education, and Welfare." It has a budget of $68 million which would make practically no difference added to the the 500+ Billions spent every year on Public K12
"The primary functions of the Department of Education are to "establish policy for, administer and coordinate most federal assistance to education, collect data on US schools, and to enforce federal educational laws regarding privacy and civil rights" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Who needs statistics and accountability on State school-systems when you can go on a populist rant against government bureaucrats. Just convert everything to unsupervised block grants so we have no idea what States do with our Federal tax dollars
Children often push their doctors and their elderly parents to go for a "everything and the kitchen sink" approach to healthcare, even when the odds of a good prognosis are minimal and the extended life comes at the coast of great pain and degrading condition. I wonder how much discrepency comes from childless people being free to choose "quality of life" instead of quantity
HDDs will die. If you want something that will last for many decades or even centuries without getting corrupted then you need to stop using a volatile filesystem. The best option is to go with write once media. The best option I know is M-DISC.
M-DISC's design is intended to provide greater archival media longevity.[3][4] Millenniata claims that properly stored M-DISC DVD recordings will last 1000 years.[5] While the exact properties of M-DISC are a trade secret,[6] the patents protecting the M-DISC technology assert that the data layer is a "glassy carbon" and that the material is substantially inert to oxidation and has a melting point between 200 and 1000 C.[7][8] -- Wikipedia
Did you even bother reading the wiki you linked to or did you just copy and paste the first paragraph ?
"However, according to the French National Laboratory of Metrology and Testing at 90 C and 85% humidity the DVD+R with inorganic recording layer such as M-DISC show no longer lifetimes than conventional DVD±R.[11]"
Speaking as a Sysadmin that has been there, nothing compares to the horror of realizing that the split second it took between hitting [Enter] and aborting with [Ctrl-c] was enough to blow up half the production environment.
This is why all potentially very dangerous commands should default to "--dry-run" and only execute with a "--force" switch.
Why would I store an address in Contacts if it's a one-shot? For example I'm going to ${CITY} on business and staying at ${HOTEL}. Why would I want to put ${HOTEL}'s address in contacts?
In my contacts I have a specific "one shot" entry, and when I need something for one-time usage, I just overwrite with my the latest temporary entry. Seems to work pretty well...
And isn't that comparable to being able to store in Uber?
It is a horrible workaround at best, and all for the simple reason that Uber really really to wants data-mine your contact list and is willing to leave major functionality out of the app just to force your hand into granting access. Same reason they eliminated the "access location while using the app" option, Now you only have the choice between rendering the app useless or letting Uber data-mine your location 24/7. The truth is that there is no "Uber technology," it is little more then an app running on top of the Google Maps API just like Lyft and dozens of competitors. Even a mediocre programmer could write a basic "ride-sharing" app running on the Google Maps API over the weekend. Uber has been dominated the market by subsidizing the rides, this is not sustainable in the long run. Uber's plan to profits is to turn you into the product and sell your info to advertisers
A concussion that results in the loss of consciences is *extremely* serious. Some Neurological damage is a given and it even increase the risk of (CTE) Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, especially if the person in question suffers another concussion (no-fault accidents do happen). He didn't simply make a unfortunate mistake, he intentionally broke FAA regulation in a situation in which even common sense tells you is there is high risk of injury to people.
This is living very frugallly.
I would say 2 kids and a homemaker wife are quite the luxury
The medallion system has the primary purpose of easing congestion by limiting the number of cabs driving around looking for pick-ups. In today's world having cabs drive around aimlessly looking for someone to put up their hand is just plain stupid. City's need to implement centralized app based hailing systems and create a network of strategically located dispatch points where taxis can wait to be hailed.
Humans can be alert and productive for only so many hours a day, differs by person but it is definitely even less then 8 for most everyone. After that something that would take 1 hours in the morning will instead take 4 hours of overtime. Of course you will not be able to get anything done in a hour in the morning either because all that overtime means that you will not get enough rest. If you are a security guard, simply being there is good enough but if your work involves higher thought processes then quality beats quantity when it come to overall productivity. Something which is unfortunately lost in today's Corporate culture where the most valued personal is often the people responding to emails at 1am, no matter what gibberish
Correct. Admission of non-citizens into the US is a judgment call. A doctored-looking social media account may be even worse than no social media account at all. I'm not sure why you consider that a problem.
The traditional way of dealing with visas is to require solid, credible foreign government records (including police reports) and simply refuse admission to anybody who can't provide those. That means no admission from politically unstable countries at all and no admissions from countries whose governments we don't trust. Would you prefer that? Or would you prefer that US immigration officials give people more options for establishing that they might be admissible after all?
Perhaps I was not clear enough. My point is that if you are someone that rarely uses social-media or a professional that keeps it very sanitized authorities might just make the judgment call that it is a doctored account. I was just point out to the OP that a social-media presence is not necessarily in your favor
A social media account can be used to help you establish that you are harmless; if you don't have one, you simply go back into the "unknown" category.
If how authorities view polygraph results is any indicator then your assessment is wrong. Failing a polygraph test is seen as a strong indicator of guilt (even thou its scientific basis are so shaky they are not even admissible in court) while passing one is seen as a good indicator that you cheated somehow. The authorities can easily decide your "harmless" social media account is something doctored up to fool them
As if I needed more reason not to share my personal life with the world (and TSA)
Are you serious? We're talking about legal residents who where prohibited, overnight, to enter the country without any other justification than a whim from Trump. No changed jobs, expired visas, incorrect documentation or lack of vetoes were part of the equation.
The sad part is that the ban seems to be in place only because those 7 countries are mostly Muslim. None of them were involved on any kind of terrorist activity on US soil while other countries which were, notably Saudi Arabia and Turkey, are inexplicably left out of the executive action signed last Friday.
Not that I agree with Trump but to be factually correct 3 of those countries (Sudan, Syria, Iran) are listed by the State Department as "State sponsors of terrorism" and the other 4 are listed as "Terrorist safe havens."
While the "State sponsors of terrorism" list contains only the 3 banned countries, the Terrorist safe havens" list contains many more, including Christian majority countries like Columbia and Venezuela so Trump can't claim in Court that it was purely coincidence that all the States on the list have Muslim majorities.
BTW Neither Turkey nor Saudi Arabia are on the list, in fact they are both considered close allies
CA pays your bills, bitch. We hand over much more money than we receive from the feds. I hope we do succeed and pull the useless fucking bigoted morons in the middle of our country from our overflowing teats.
I'd like to see how you guys end up rationing your energy when you can no longer connect to the grid of neighboring states. You know your state only provides about 60% of its own energy demands, right? Let me guess, you'll just cut the power to all of the poor people's houses so that the industry there can remain intact? May as well because there are so many homeless people (and multiple families crowded into one single family home) there that you may as well just make everybody who isn't making at least $200,000 a year go the rest of the way to destitution.
They don't get that energy for free. They pay for it you fool. The United States has interconnects and significant energy trade with both Canada and Mexico. Integrating North American Energy Markets - Department of Energy
Perpetual motion machines are allowed by the laws of physics. The galaxy is one for example, it perpetually rotates effectively forever, and by definition beyond what we can measure.
What IS impossible, is to remove energy from the system. If you do that, any machine stops, eventually, unless you add it back in somehow.
You are confiusing perpetual motion with a perpetual motion machine. In the simplest terms a machine is defined as something that does work. However perpetual motion is the simple act of moving through timespace. A simple photon is in perpetual motion. It will move at c until it hits something and it is absorbed. If the space between it and the closest thing that it can hit is expanding faster then c then it will remain in motion for eternity. This is the reason that there are galaxy's very far away that we can't see. Even though their light is in a direct path towards earth, it will never reatch us
"Stop being cheap and buy known certified products from official channels"
Please, there's plenty of UL/CE-listed crap out there where the second you take the power transformer apart you can find violations.
Certification means jack shit in this day and age.
Certification means that a few "samples" of the product were sent for certification and met the requirements. There is no guarantee that what the manufacturer is putting in the retail package is actually the same as the certified samples. Your best bet is to go with well known companies that would have a lot to loose from a tarnished reputation
And just like that we are back to the days of mainframes/dumb terminals except that know we will call it the cloud/thin client. The reason are simple, vendor lock-in, walled gardens and "services" instead of ownership means you can milk your clients for years instead of selling them something once
Go talk to some smokers. Very few consider cigarettes to be "fun". 90% of smokers started before they were 18. The tobacco industry depends on getting children addicted before they have the maturity to make a rational decision. They deserve to be denounced, and we have a moral imperative to do so.
I started smoking in a ex-communist country with no such thing as advertisement or even a tobacco industry. We started smoking because we saw adults that we looked up to doing it. The fact that it was considered "for grownups only" made it even more enticing, after all childhood is simply the process of learning how to act and graduating to adulthood. Vices like smoking were seen as a sort of a right of passage by the the younger generations, I can't image it is all that different in the rest of the world
If you publish the entire season at once this means you were sitting on progressively more unreleased for a period of time. Imagine if one were to instead release this content as it were available instead of making people wait...
This would be true for studio based TV shows which are typically shot sequentially. On location series are typically shot all at once, movie style. The extra wait for the entire series to be finished would be a couple of weeks of post-production
They sell twice as many consoles but have about 1/5 the amount of games as Xbox. This is what happens when people get too dependent on DirectX when OpenGL is soooo much better and available to everyone.
But the Playstation doesn't use OpenGL anyway, one advantage of those high level APIs is they allow abstraction of a vast range of hardware with a cost of overhead for doing so. The Playstation does not have a range of graphics hardware so suffering that overhead would be pointless, they use their own low-level graphics API.
But the Playstation does have a range of hardware with the release of the PS Pro. MS will have the advantage here as the DirectX API originating from the PC was designed from the start to easily develop for a range of hardware. It will be significantly easier for developers to take advantage of the extra power in Project Scorpio then it is for the PS Pro