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  1. Re:lol know nothings on Are App Sizes Out of Control? · · Score: 1

    Okay, no app developer is going to use assembly, because their app will be on a range of hardware from different manufacturers. Portability is mandatory in the app world.

    And because apps need features to sell, assembly isn't one. At least not here.

  2. Cars as a distribution platform on Tesla Is Talking To the Music Labels About Creating Its Own Streaming Service (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    The bigger question: Why doesn't Tesla simply integrate existing services, like Spotify or Apple Music, into all of its cars from the start

    Because they need to boost their projections and streaming ads didn't make it out of committee. For once.

  3. Re: Ham on We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    ...meaning it would remain a niche technology for decades, only able to serve deep-pocketed people/organizations, until better technologies such as digital cellphones came along.

    Deep pocketed people that could carry 6lbs of disposable batteries.

  4. Re: It's all in a slogan on Hillary Clinton Rips 'Bankrupt' DNC Data Operation (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    It's never someones "turn" and nobody "deserves to be POTUS". Trumps ego isn't a reason she lost, her ego is. I think one could argue that enough of the other articulable reasons she stem from this one weakness that her ego might be considered the major reason she is not president.
    Going back to this "it's her turn" thing, she seemed to firmly beleive it and her speech and manner oozed this self perception as she seems to maintain to this day. A notion that is very provably false. It really isn't her turn, is it?
    A bit more exposition of her understanding of the honor and responsibility of the position she was asking us to elect her to, presented with a bit more humility, just might have swayed voters.
    At this point she is turning on everyone in a hopeless effort to preserve her self image. She is spending what credibility she has left leaving nothing to pass to Chelsea but millions of dollars. I don't think we will hear much from the Clintons once she is done burning down their infrastructure.
    I suspect a case could be made that her ego is costing her everything. Except a fortune in politics money I mean.

  5. Re:Proud of their work on New OS/2 Warp Operating System 'ArcaOS' 5.0 Released (arcanoae.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting that OS/2 is cheaper to operate than Windows because you dont have to upgrade it very often? Like you only just now need to go upgrade from DB9 mouse to USB because it is just now supported?

    If so I would mod you up. You may not be a tax accountant but you are clearly a CTO.

    They release updates so infrequently that $99 doesn't seem like a big deal. Cheaper than a movie box set, and will probably consume more hours of my time.

    And if you're a contractor you can probably write off the $229 version as a business expense, and possibly apply depreciation on it. (I'm not a tax accountant)

  6. No problem. The projected expense of supporting the product til "much later" can be built right into the price tag.
    Now your image loader costs 3 times as much and everyone is happy.

  7. It seems this is another implication they may want to consider when deciding which patches they want to put off applying until too late.
    Or maybe move to a system that isn't so brittle that changes have to be evaluated for months.

  8. Fine. Your not crazy, hippie.

  9. Re: Uh, why? on A 21st-Century Version Of OS/2 Warp May Be Released Soon (arcanoae.com) · · Score: 1

    Iirc OS/2 had a lot of ATM installs but Windows had more.

  10. the iTunes gift cards are probably marked.

  11. Re: Vault 7 on Notepad++ Update Fixes 'CIA Hacking' Issue (archive.org) · · Score: 1

    They are all differently corrupt.

  12. Re:Interesting timing re Trump's claims on WikiLeaks Reveals CIA's Secret Hacking Tools and Spy Operations (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair: If James Clapper says they didn't, then they did. Not with the white house's knowledge, mind, but that guy's credibility is right down there with POTUS45 himself.

    This leaves us with a time-destroying paradox: Clapper says they didn't, but Trump says that they did. Therefore they absolutely did so, and absolutely cannot have done so. Both possibilities both did and could not have occurred, and our primitive technology does not yet allow us to see the havoc we have wreaked upon our poor continuum.

    I think it would be best to open the box and put this cat out of its missery.

  13. Re: tabs4lyf on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    You might want a white space between your case statement and loop end, I suggest a tab for clarity.

  14. Re: Celcius to Fahrenheit converter failed? on New Research Suggests Earth's Mantle Might Be Hotter Than Anyone Expected (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    They still make sense, you just don't use them in practical ways. It's the same with you still using metric when everything is base 8 now.

  15. One boat is bigger than the other.

  16. Re: IMPOSSIBLE on Malwarebytes Discovers 'First Mac Malware of 2017' (securityweek.com) · · Score: 0

    And would certainly ask "Are you really, really sure you want to infect this machine?"

  17. While the phishing attack may have originated in Russia, I find it disingenious to portray everything as state sponsored when the evidence is weak at best. To me its something akin to suggesting we need to retaliate against Australia every time Julian Assange takes a leak.

  18. Worked for Gateway 2000

  19. Re: The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune on 2016 MacBook Pro Fails To Receive a Recommendation From Consumer Reports (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    You have a non-disposable computer? I mean besides that Kaypro in the closet.

  20. Re: "Suggesting" ... on White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The CIA charter doesn't have much to do with arming the public with truth.

  21. Re: Could that apply to GAG orders on settlements? on It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The question that floats to the top in my mind is: Would it apply to your Oracle use agreement?

  22. Re: side effects of truthiness on Google Search Results Have Liberal Bias, Study Finds (thedenverchannel.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    And yet the people who assume that the study agrees with their world views are quick to accept it as some sort of reflection truth.

    It is a well known fact reality is distorted.

  23. Re:I think the actual root of the problem is on Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    american's are incredibly gullible and stupid

    And I think the liberals were blindsided because the rampant social intimidation scewed the poll results making the Clinton campain blind to the truth.

  24. Depends, what do you do now when things stop working? Do you cry to the heavens "If only I had less advanced technology!", or do you replace it like the rest of us?

  25. Re: First lesson on Amid Major Internet Outages, Affected Websites Have Lessons To Learn (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    If your app can find the right server for the service, so can the attacking software.