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  1. Why was Edge a failure? on Microsoft Launches First Chromium Edge Builds (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and how this will not?

  2. Re:Why do I want this... on Microsoft Launches First Chromium Edge Builds (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    You do not. We do not. Microsoft does. I am sure Windows users will not have a choice as it will come with some future build of windows...

  3. So, Can one use Mac to develop Windows Apps (and which ones? Wpf/C# or?) ...or Mac apps or what to do with it? What are the target architectures?

  4. Android seems to be next big target? Google Chrome OS following? Both replaced by Fuckya,,,ehem...Fuchsia?

  5. Re:Lionair is at fault!! on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They applied "The Recall Coordinator's Formula", based on "it was just a fluke" probability.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  6. how did they keep on flying after initial "save"? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    After a "near crash" accident like this, how come all the plains were not grounded?

    I suppose this "Fight Club" scene may be relevant?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  7. They pulled Microsoft's E^3 strategy on Picasa: they embraced it, they extended it and then they pulled 'google' on it by extinguishing it. Can they at least open it up if they do not care about it? Probably afraid of it becoming a competitor to their on-line fiefdome?

  8. Re:Better be able to run everything Windows does.. on Microsoft is Creating Windows Lite For dual-screen and Chromebook-like Devices, Report Says (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No, no worry. They just remove wordpad, outlook and notepad and add a link to office360.

  9. there may be small advandage over digital media on The Cassette Returns On a Wave of Nostalgia (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The digital media when sustaining some physical damage usually has a catastrophic result. The tape may sound worse for a moment but it will keep playing (well unless it gets chewed up that is).

    Now granted with non-mechanical storage and backup copies you'd be fine for life with your digital library.

  10. it's not for homo sapiens species on Thirty-Million-Page Backup of Humanity Headed To Moon Aboard Israeli Lander (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If we loose all that, we are likely to perish all together. So probably that's a record for another species to discover.

  11. Re:And nothing of value was lost. on Netflix Cancels The Punisher and Jessica Jones, Ending its Marvel Shows (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish they pick up some of the Sanderson's books. Either from Mistborn or Reconers series.

  12. Re:People don't understand what digital music is on Vinyl and Cassette Sales Continued To Grow Last Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, you're up to something but you're barking the wrong tree. It is not magic, but for some a highly sophisticated technology is indistinguishable from magic.

    The 'digital' part of the audio systems has nothing to do with quality, and the Solandri's description is rather accurate, if not too technical for slash dot. In fact analog audio systems have rather limited frequency range and dynamic range, much more so than digital ones. Yes overdriven digital system will create nasty artifacts while analog ones would distort like heavy metal amps...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    However, usually in customer digital systems the compression of audio is removing a lot of information from the original and sometimes also introduces audible artifacts.

    So it's not 'digital' that evil but 'mp3'.

  13. ...and the year of robot service jobs begin on This Was the Year the Robot Takeover of Service Jobs Began (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Somebody will have to maintain the robots....until the new generation of robotic robot maintainers is deployed...

  14. The tech to get us to Mars and help us survive there is nearly available. Weather we pull our will to do so is another issue.

    However, to live and 'thrive' on Mars independently from mother Earth is another matter all together.

    Surviving on Mars does not look like a better choice than to survive on whatever is left on poisoned Earth.

  15. so M3s is overpriced? on Tesla Reports Third-Quarter Profit That Beats Market Expectations (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    TLDR the financial report but if the 25.8% gross margin on M3s is much above car maker standards, does it make M3s overpriced?
    Does this profit margin include R&D and other operational overhead is it it just based on BOM and mfg?

  16. so after all we do need...the wall? on One of the World's Largest Organisms is Shrinking (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    And let's elk and deer pay for it!

  17. ...so what happens to all tech that now depended on them? There must be some future protection, right? How does it work?

  18. and kites? gliders? on FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes As Equals (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    there goes my potato gun and water rocket!

  19. Does this extend to encrypted data stored on such devices?
    So what you can log in if it's all encrypted anyway...

    It appears this could only be effective for an ad-hock searches of hobbyist criminals and would do nothing for professionals?

  20. Python advantages? on Python is a Hit With Hackers, Report Finds (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    or simply popularity?

  21. why not modern language? on Python Joins Movement To Dump 'Offensive' Master, Slave Terms (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    employer employee

  22. >> and realize that the bottom of the mug needs to remain pointing down when the robot picks up the cup to avoid spilling its contents

    So it learnt about gravity and fluid dynamics by itself too?

  23. Re:Only a tiny fraction of the consumer market ... on Linux Turns 27 (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    How quickly does this description of Fuchsia OS jump between kernel and home screen! Just in the space of 2 short paragphs! It remains to be seen what definition of the 'OS' are we going to adapt soon...

  24. affordable living quarters for Bay Area? on It'll Cost $1 Billion To Dismantle America's Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    1) Get the Navy to pay you half of this cost say 500 millions and then tow it to San Francisco,
    2) Build a bridge to the deck, convert and rent out all the space for living quarters.
    3) Profit!

  25. Re:What's wrong with people? on Number of Mobile Calls Drops For the First Time (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So you are an outlier who asks what wrong with majority? They are...normal humans?

    Not that the majority is better off or in the right doing what they do, urban lemmings and all...just they seem to be the norm.