Posts by Gene Cash 5755 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Mar 2007
They won't do it for small businesses because they're SMALL and can't promise (and not deliver) hundreds of jobs and lots of tax payments like the huge mega-corps.
I don't see this as bad. Amazon did a shrewd business move with this "contest" and it's not their fault the cities fell all over themselves with handouts.
I know Orlando only offered $400m and a bit of land and honestly wasn't that interested. We've already got Mauswitz, er, Duckau, um, Disney as the local Boss Tweed.
> report the email as attempted phishing
Yup. This. I see stupid stuff happen all the time, and people just facepalm without telling anyone that can do anything about it.
The amount of "WAIT. WHAT?!" faces and "well that stops now!" I've gotten when I've asked "do you know about [stupid thing]?"
> £300 for a re-gas. Fucking hell what sort of freon are they using? Unobtainium?
That's the new expensive stuff they have to use, since the old cheap stuff is harmful to the ozone layer.
The sticker shock for auto a/c is high for the same reason, and the old incompatible systems need to be completely replaced... where "old" is defined as over 6 years.
This is the exact thing that Bush and Trump have held up as why the US no longer wants to participate in these environmental treaties.
Considering the propaganda China has probably spread about the West... it'd be like asking an American to move to the USSR to work during the Cold War. You would get very few takers.
I'm kind of surprised at his reaction to this attitude.
Well, a slab is a large phone... usually without the phone bit (cell data) and too big to fit in your pocket.
It's not useful as a lappie because it runs a phone OS (Android or iPad) and has no keyboard.
For me, the only upside is it's a nicer way to use Google Maps, but that's a pretty narrow use-case to splash out those kind of bucks. Even a Chromebook is more useful.
AH! So this is NOT the David Levy that used to write for Creative Computing back in the '80s, which was one hell of an awesome computer rag, and which got me started. They talked about object oriented programming back when it was still called "actor languages"
I am no longer quite so confused.
I also see the "Creative Computing" David Levy is not listed by Wikipedia, which is quite an omission in my opinion.
Yup, in the US not only would be be a fine, but it'd bring OSHA (the elfin sarfty folks) on-site to poke about to see what other convenient nooses they could hang us with. There's pretty much always something OSHA can smack you for.
> You don't think that's logical?
Not when the bloke is conflating the OS it's running, with the manufacturer.
It's like saying Linux is shit because my HP computer crashes all the time. Don't blame it on Linux, blame it on the crap HP sells. It does sound like he bought a "landfill" Android phone and reaped the "reward"
> Yay for free markets
The American space program is most definitely NOT anything close to a free market. It is closely controlled by Congress and used as a political football.
For example, the current hoorah over launching American spysats on rockets powered by Russian engines. They'd be powered by American engines, except guess what? Congress cancelled the last FIVE of the NASA engine R&D programs. One of which (FASTRAC) was rescued by that bi-polar stoner Elon Musk and resurrected as Merlin
> NASA being unable to meet any kind of deadlines or cost estimates
See above. This is because Congress has cut the COTS crew program funding by 67% and the BEST thing about it is that the senator responsible for the cuts is now bitching it's behind schedule!
And when you have to punt deadlines and jerk contractors around, of course it all gets more expensive... and I end up footing the bill for all this bullshit, as a taxpayer.
That would be rather difficult. Nuance has been working on DNS for over TWENTY years (1997) and it shows.
I use the Android Swype+Dragon keyboard, and the voice recognition blows anything else out of the water. It understands my (US) Southern accent, and co-workers with strong Welsh, Scottish, Australian, or Indian accents, even in a loud bar. Anything else just falls over 75% of the time. The stupid Google voice "recognition" is statistical garbage.
If you're wandering around and the officer decides it's a burglary tool.
Of course here in the US, they'll just shoot you first.
Edit: I'm really happy to hear about the Bunnie Huang lawsuit. He's a sharp cookie, and I hope he makes it stick.
> But most customers are not brand loyal
My personal experience begs to differ. If Tim Cook announced each iPhone would arrive embedded in 5lbs of shit, people would line up in droves.
I've got about 40 or 50 acquaintances that constantly bitch about either Apple or Microsoft and sometimes both. In 10 years, I've seen one two convert to Android and none to Linux.
Well, with one, you have a building full of high-quality boffins working on it.
With the other, you have a drooling retard without a high-school education running a backhoe, possibly "directed" by another drooling retard who actually might have made it through high-school on his second try. They're cutting through the road that just got resurfaced from the last 30 or 40 cut-throughs.
No contest.
> unless the UK cancels Brexit before March 2019
Er, as far as I know, that's not possible. The UK has given notice, and the EU has set a deadline.
It's like vacating your lease. The landlord lines someone else up for your apartment, and you can't say "oh I changed my mind, I'll stay"
> Why have a google account at all???
Because I refuse to put up with Apple's control-freakery, so about the only other available choice for a phone is Android. And Android pretty much requires a Google account.
Yes, it sucks. So I hope lawsuits like this make a mark.
> you're not allowed to send your screen to China and have it reglassed because when it gets to the border, they'll confiscate it claiming it's a knock off as it has an Apple logo on it.
Not just screens, but batteries as well:
https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/19/apple-repair-policy-critic-vows-to-fight-counterfeit-battery-seizure-by-us-customs
So it's known one of the conical boosters didn't separate properly, and bashed back into the core.
Apparently the techs assembling the upper mounting just "hammered that sumbeech in there" and bent the hell out of it, then sprayed some lube on it "to fix things" and called it a day.
If so, I hope Putin finds the guys responsible and treats them to a long vacation somewhere nice, like say, Northern Siberia.
So some idiot with a hammer could (remotely) result in the international space station going to crap. Boils my blood, it does...
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