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AMD also released FreeSync, an open alternative to Gsync, a dynamic refresh-rate interface for monitors. The Nvidia version requires nvidia hardware and licensing and adds significant cost to the monitor, whereas freesync can be implemented in the control boards that already exist for the monitors, and without cost.

I think they're both great graphics cards, but NVidia tries its best to stifle competition.

Jet's going to fail once the VC-subsidized deals go away.

Are they testing other cars beside VW?

because it introduces needless complexity into the system, reduces reliability, and just makes the firearm more expensive.

There's no market for smart guns.

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VW is a giant company and they're sitting on a giant pile of cash. Anyone that thinks this was going to kill VW is not very bright.

This will affect their status perhaps as the world's #1 automaker, but they'll be around for a long time.

Just makes me so very, very glad that the right decisions were made by so many people in those trying times.

I'm sure there are plenty of individual heroes whose small contributions individually and collectively prevented nuclear war that we'll never hear about.

Inaccurate headline.

Not that it was a good idea in the first place, but now most should know never to use these services. Too much potential for abuse.

no. Telecommuting was a pipe dream of the 90s.

Some people do it, but at most companies the "butt in the chair employee is best employee" thing still sticks.

Seems like a common theme in "sharing economy" companies - start off with a great concept and great execution, but once they become popular, some part of them just falls apart.

For uber, it's the way they treat their drivers. The churn is incredible. But as long as they continue to offer cheap rides and can lure new drivers in with empty promises, they'll continue to exist.

40x is likely a massive overstatement. Nobody's actually released any actual numbers or data yet.

the point is, the validity of particular conspiracy theories lends no particular credence to others.

Brings up an interesting thought exercise. Let's say you do start a small mobile game company and your game blows up into a cultural phenomena like Angry Birds.

And like all of these things, you know that one day in the indeterminate future, that phenomena will fade, much like Angry Birds has.

How do you best handle this? Do you sell early and get out quickly? Do you try to build something larger out of the resources you now have?

I'd be tempted to cash out early and just enjoy the fruits of my success.

Can someone tell me, what's the actual BENEFIT to working at Amazon? Do people really go there simply because of the name? It doesn't seem like there's any reason for talent to go there as opposed to somewhere else?

Regular crops certainly won't feed the ever-expanding world population.

No, they haven't.

It's almost as if he's asking for these companies to stop innovating.

Crop research isn't free, and the government can't (or won't) afford to do it. Obviously the solution is to have companies fund the research and be expected to give it away to the world and not protect what they've created.

I wish people stopped the whole "monsanto is evil! GMO is evil!" bullshit, and start lobbying their government to fund public crop genetics research.

because somehow magically an iphone is more secure because reasons?

I agree that iphone's patching model is superior to android, but your statement shows a bit of ignorance.

Just to give everyone a bit of calm, nobody's demonstrated a successful exploit with ASLR bypass.

Meaning that while the vulnerable is technically exploitable, the chance of system compromise is very low on modern android phones (I think post 4.0)

because canbus.

It wasn't a bad design for the 1990s - it's a bad design for now, however.