Posts by Steve Davies 3 7142 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
He needs it in order to fund his quest to get elected as Dog Catcher in Sparks, TX. That takes serious mulah.
Lucky for the USA, he can't become POTUS (or maybe not if Cenk Ughur is right) otherwise, he'd be lining up to become VP to Trump, who will mysteriously have a fall out of a White House Window soon after taking office. Putin will be very pleased.
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the GNOME project to go TITSUP for good.
IMHO, they lost the plot with V3 and have only gotten worse since. They (IMHO) seem to be trying to outdo MS in their crazyness.
The devs and more importantly, the management can go suck on this [see icon]
It should have been $29.8T. Apart from clearing almost all the US national debt we, the victims of their stupidity need some payback. Deciding that everyone wanted a tiled UI is worth $10T on its own.
I'm sure others can list out their major foopah's and cost them (in Trillions please)
I've upgraded both my old Macbook Pros. A 2012 model and a 2015 model.
As the article says, it will have a finite life. When the last Intel powered Mac reached EOL then that's it apart from the odd security upgrade.
Both of those laptops run Rocky Linux very well. Other FOSS distros are available.
Kudos to the team behind this operation.
Pity that those canals don't go much farther north than Lancaster/Carnforth area. That canal did once get to Kendal but... the M6 is AFAIK built on top of part of that bit.
Then there is the width and height restrictions. Narrow Boats were named for a reason you know.
Any of that will result in lots of Class Action lawsuits. We saw that with the previous case where slowing thing down to prolong the battery life got a lot of lawyers all hot under the collar and Apple had to pay out LOADSAMONEY over that.
As for blaming the engineering teams, I would put it more down to differences between pre-production and production hardware.
For MAGA to claim that this is a result of the weaponisation of the FTC/DOJ/uncle tom cobbley and all in DC.
Personally, this is long overdue but IANAL and do not play one on TV so what do I know eh?
Amazon are fast becoming just as evil as the likes of Google, Facebook, MS and all the other usual suspects.
They will be hoping that Trumpo gets re-elected because if the Dems take control of both houses and the White House then there may well be many more efforts to get Amazon unionized and with the feds behind them, their anti-union stance may well have to change and fast.
With all these security breaches happening, it is only a matter of when and not IF, Google get's hacked to death and all their data exposed to the world.
If you actively limit your exposure to Google, MS, Amazon and the like then the risks to you are limited and the harm that a release of Google data to the world may not affect you.
One of these days, Google will get exposed. Then the shit really will hit the fan. An awful lot of people will be 'spending more time with their family'.
if it time to nuke MS for good.
To me, the purpose of an OS is to allow the applications to do their job and to NOT get in the way. If MS persist in this then they will drive more and more people away.
Perhaps.... that is their aim? After all, it is the corporate customers that provide them with the big bucks.
I predict that there are some secret registry hack or worse, a PowerShell incantation that will disable this only for the next 'Patch Tuesday' event to change the keys. Just to make it hard you know.
I am just so happy that I gave MS the finger in 2016. They really are fiddling while rome burns.
I'd love to see the evidence that demonstrates that customers have demanded this [cough][cough] feature.
Systems MUST come with BOTH a health and a wealth warning.
The AI generated deep fakes will soon be dominant in Online, phone and TV adverts.
Think of those poor actors who will be starving just so that the Ad company scumbags can buy another Ferrari (other expensive boys toys are available).
Seriously, it is already hard to see the difference. If these AD giants have their way, they will soon be able to generate a whole campaign in seconds including polished ads.
It will trickle down into things that we do or use on a daily basis.
Do I wish that I had an AI servant that could do the washing up or iron my shirts? Of course I do. Would I fork out loadsamoney for an Elon Musk clone Robot that could do it? On yer bike.... Well, ok when I'm 85+ maybe but not at the moment.
Personally, this should happen to ALL AD agencies when their staff are at work --->> see icon
With you switching off the PSTN network and now 3G? It seems to me that you are in danger of shooting yourself in both knees on the eve of your Marathon race.
You (yes you BT) are already hated by a lot of the population. These two moves will make you loathed beyond all recognition if you are not extra, extra, extra careful.
Where is the information programme to prepare users for these quite dramatic changes? {All I hear is crickets}
The needle and thread to fix the sunroof. Other than that they are very repairable.
That is evidenced by the thousands of the things that gather in France (this year, it was in Brittany) for a rally. There were 2CV's in all shapes, colours and configurations.
The advent of an all-new construction 2CV that is also an EV and weighs less than 500kg is a great move to prolong the life of a unique vehicle. Ok, it is speed limited but for around town it is next to perfect.
Back on Topic.
Beemers were once the vehicle of choice for those climbing the corporate ladder and were able to lease them. Then they moved to Audi and now to Tesla. The same idiots who have no idea where their turn signals are or what they are for are behind the wheel.
won't like this 'hiring' thing. They are only interested in asset stripping, pumping the stock and cashing in before the rest of the world finds out.
Activist investors are not really investors. They are scum but the US system promotes this sort of thing so what do you expect eh? Fairy dust?
I see the Google bots/employees are active again downvoting a perfectly reasonable post and not bothering to explain why they disagreed with it.
I only use google for searching via a VM and a VPN. It just makes sense.
Don't get sucked into that vat of molten chocolate... :)
are to diametrically opposed things.
Those of us who are a bit long in the tooth (yes, I still have most of mine) you will have seen this more times than we would wish upon our enemies.
SATNAD and MS needs to be sued into oblivion. Kill them or break them up.
which helps the project develop and preserve its strong visual brand.
Strong visual brand? my [redacted] as a stronger visual brand than this pile of steaming bovine excrement.
Gnome lost it big time when they went to Gnome V3 and since then they have continued to explore their own back passages.
It would be interested to know how many just use the current release just to install another WM subsystem. I do exactly that with XFCE.
Otherwise the Gnome team can go and eat this --> see icon
Many of those huge ICE powered SUV's weigh more than most EV's. The BMW X6 weighs more than a Tesla Model X.
The figure are out there on this thing called the internet.
Perhaps we should all be driving around in electrified 2CV's. They weigh less than 1 Donald Trump (as his Georgia Arrest)
Perhaps they are oil company shills? That is despite BP recently opening up a charger setup at the NEC in Brum that can charge 150+ vehicles at the same time. Ok, most are the same speed as your home charger but if you are there for a conference or and exhibition then you are going to be there for hours anyway.
AKA blackmail. Give us your life and the life of your firstborn and we may continue to supply you with updates.
Oh, and don't you dare piss of the Dear Leader or he may brick your car without warning.
Sorry, that is not what I want at all. A car is for getting me and my passengers/load from A to B. What I do with my life outside driving your box on wheels is none of your damm business.
Amazon might deliver on the day that they say but they often ignore changes to the delivery made on their website. That meant an order that was delivered when I was had to go out unexpectedly was stolen from my doorstep. I did change the deliver instructions before the van left the Depot but it was ignored.
Then DX (Deliver Exactly) left my order at 260 when I live at 160. The order weighed 162kg in six packages, I guess the driver just wanted to get it off the van.
Exact delivery my ass.
At least with Royal Mail, I can toddle along to my local delivery office (1.5 miles) and get my parcel. Parcelforce is 2 miles, Yodel are 30 miles away, Amazon are 25 miles away.
Wants a new LearJet/Megayacht/island retreat
The only thing axing all those people will do is temporarily increase the returns to shareholders. When the service starts to get the attention of the lawyers he'll be 'on his yacht/Plane/Island ' saying 'Suckers'.
We see this all the time.
Even companies who do actually care about their workforce get attacked by the aggressive stockholders and made to lay-off most of their employees just so that aggressive resident of Wall St can bank a few billion for him and his frat buddies.
There was Biden in Colorado to announce the start of construction of what is said to be the 'largest facility in the world to build wind turbine towers'.
Errr.... but isn't the big thrust at the moment towards offshore wind in the USA? Given that CO is smack bang in the middle of the continent, it does not seem to be ideally suited for building off-shore towers now does it?
What congress critter lobbied for CO as the prime location for this project? Follow the money people. It might be ok for onshore wind but even some of those towers are getting too big in diameter to transport by road or rail.
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