Re: Bummer
My wife (a confirmed Luddite) wants one! Now. And we're willing to pay for it. I'm sure she will be OK with the logos...
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If Roku actually get this shit patented (quite possible because the US Patent Office is (under-)manned by folks who really can't be arsed to do their jobs properly), then only Roku will be able to do this; everyone else (and there are others, at least currently) won't, and those of us who are not pleased by this can amble off and find another service. This may well be corporate Darwinism at its absolute best.
...from my keyboard to Ghod's ears...
My Roku stick already does that; you hit pause on any one of the apps being serviced by Roku, and a silent, still ad (or promo) pops up on the screen. Now, it is not clear whether that is coming from Roku or from the actual streaming app I'm running via the stick, although since the format of these ads is different (full screen, half screen, half screen with alpha channel gradient to allow you to see the actual paused source underneath) would lend one to believe that the app itself is foisting the ad upon us wearied viewers.
Now if this is indeed the case, and Roku starts overwriting the app's ads with its own, I'm not real sure that the app folks are going to take too kindly to Roku usurping their ha'pennies in revenue.
This could get interesting. Do I smell popcorn?
He will walk away with 1-3 billion leaving everyone else with nothing.
Which was, of course, the plan all along.
As George Dubbayew once mumbled:
"[...] fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”... but that's not true anymore, now, is it? There's a new brand of fool out there that will willingly and actively be taken for ride after ride. (Hint: they tend to wear red baseball caps....)
I dunno, Liam. The Interdata 7/32 that I was familiar with (and did a good bit of programming on) were strictly 32-bit machines. Well, actually they were 24-bit bit-sliced machines, with a good bit of microcode to make them look a bit like IBM 360s, without the dreaded base-register addressing architecture. (PC-relative addressing, FTW!) I suppose it would have been possible for Perkin-Elmer to supply microcode to make that beast a 16-bit machine, but I'm not sure they would have; the main (marketing) point of the Interdata machines of that time was to pack 32-bit computing power into the footprint of a 16-bit PDP-11.
Counterpoint:
I have a 32GB flash drive that I use for my music stash in my car. It's been in use for about 6 years now, where it rests in the USB port of my car's entertainment system. Occasionally removed to add more stuff to it; it's now about 2/3s full. Now this car is in a US Midwestern state, where we do have both SUMMERS and WINTERS (all caps intentional). Seems to run just fine, and has since Day One.
Put a bunch of albums ripped from CDs, Spotify, Tidal (RIP) and even vinyl. Put the selector on "random" and listen. Best damn radio station evah, 'cuz it plays the songs I like by the artists I like, deep tracks and all, and no fackin' commercials!!!
If I were to start a business providing insurance or insurance-like services, but were to call it something else (like, "Mishakaboola"); within 3 years I'd be doing 5-10 in Leavenworth for violating several RICO statutes.
Nice house you got dere. Shame if sumpin was to happ'n to it...
Stop building there, and stop rebuilding the houses that were washed away (again)...
Well, that's a bit of a problem, you see, because when an (American) insurance company pays out for a total (or substantial) loss, they require that you rebuild in the same place. If you want to move to an ostensibly safer or saner location, they won't cover the loss.
A problem of their own making.
Like that surprises anybody...
From the article:
Let's start with Einstein, who said one of the rules of reality is that the further away something is, the longer it will take to get to you.
Brilliant! No, really! The innate simplicity of this rivals that of Fudd's First Law of Opposition, which clearly states:
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.
It almost amazes me sometimes how some of them can even use a computer without having first opened case then reverse engineered the PCBs and chips therein.
I can tell you there are plenty of folks who presume to be able to program a computer without even knowing what a register is.
Prolly a good thing, then, that C and C++ removed the register keyword. Saves much carnage from many heads exploding.
Everybody screws up from time to time. Lack of sleep. Lack of caffeine. And for those of us "on the spectrum", co-workers that won't STFU and let us get on with things (especially management and their pointless status reports where they expect a "percentage completed" because they think writing software is like painting a room or something).
An upvote and one of these for you, my friend - - - ->
As it happens this week after 2 years using Rust I had to return to C++ for a bit. In just 2 days I made one horribly embarrassing integer overflow bug which passed all unit tests - Bjarne Stroustrup might argue the bug was in testing I suppose - of the kind that Rust's compiler would have flagged up immediately and forced me to make the stupidity explicit in the code to easily see, or else fix it.
Wait...wha'?
All this time, the evangelists (read: zealots) were singing hosannas about Rust's memory safety -- that memory safety is all you ever have to worry about to write correct, secure code, yadda, yadda, yadda. I've never heard once that Rust also compiles away integer overflows. When did that become a feature of the language?
I can't enter the logic I want as a stream of consciousness and then tell the editor to indent it for me as a check.
Maybe you might try designing your code first, then entering it. It's called Programming on Purpose; you might try it before complaining that Language X makes you have to think about what you are doing first.
Instead the TLAs will want copies.
Who's to say they didn't already have copies? In fact, who's to say that Fuckerberg & Co. didn't get the idea (and even instructions on how to implement) from the TLAs? I mean, do you really think that Fuckerberg and his merry band of wankers are that astute and clever to come up with this on their own?
Why is it necessary for the US Labor watchdog to remind US companies of the law ? Isn't the law supposed to be known ?
Of course it is known. The question is whether it applies to "me" ("me" being any large US-based megacorp who owns several Congresscritters and/or Regulatory agencies, or the rulers of such corp's; ref. Boeing, Meta, El Muskrat, t'pineapple, etc.).
"One rule for me, another for thee" seems to be written into the bylaws...
Assuming the US doesn't end its over 250-year "experiment" with a representative republic and declare t'pineapple king president, this appears to be a strong foreshadowing of a similar run at Micros~1. All the key elements of the Apple suit are well represented in Micros~1's current behavio(u)r, especially the lock-in element.
SatNav, you listening? You're next....
From the article:
[...] until you get your hands on Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26080 which, as Microsoft today announced, includes "a preview experience of the new, unified Microsoft Teams experience on Windows."
Oh-comma-goodie! We're being offered a preliminary experience of an experience! Or stated another way, a recursive experience. Now hooda thunk that the Micros~1 marketing geniuses even knew what recursion was, much less how to slam several snippets of gibberish together to implement it? Maybe they just got lucky (or, more likely, they managed to cajole Clippy the AI Paperclip to generate it for them).
In either case, this will not end well.
To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. Good luck wi' dat, Micros~1!