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  1. Re:Meh on Elon Musk's Alleged Email To Employees on Tesla's Big Picture (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Many Apple customers in the 90's were self identified 'apple people' and continued to use what was - at that time - a far inferior and far more expensive product.
    Inferiour to modern Macs? Yes.
    Inferiour to a unix workstation? Arguable, depending on what you wanted to do.
    Inferiour to an Amiga? Probably, again depending on what you wanted to do, much more expensive, yes.
    Inferiour to a Windows PC, most definitely not.

    Macs at those times had Mac OS and Apple/UX (Apples Unix) as operation systems. The development environment was a kind of Cygwin for Macs running a tc-shell and most unix tools (under Mac OS), the environment was called MPW (Macintosh Programmers Workshop): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Inferiour my ass.

    I've been driving BMW's for decades, they are excellent vehicles. Then you are very lucky, BMW had a quality crisis in the 1990s. But it might be it mostly hit the bikes, don't remember, never had an BMW.

  2. So many dumb posts about corruption and debts on Puerto Rico is Experiencing an Island-Wide Blackout (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Well,

    instead of answering to the dumb posts I just make a new post, so you can flame me :D

    9 billion debts are not peanuts, but for a power company that is nothing!

    Puerto Rico has a power production capacity of about 5GW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Building a new power plant costs between 1billion and 2billioin per GW, depending on technology used and other construction hassles: https://www.eia.gov/todayinene...

    So much to: "corruption", "sozialism", "state owned", "burning tax money" ...

    The numbers above btw. do not include grid costs. Puerto Rico us burning a lot of oil, hence they have a relatively high power cost.

  3. Re:Misplaced priorities, solving nonexistent... on One Laptop Per Child's $100 Laptop Was Going To Change the World -- Then it All Went Wrong (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The areas that have no electricity and no water are usually war zones.
    God luck improving them.

    Africa is not as backyard as many people think here ... since 40 or more years.

  4. No, I did not know what it means, idiot.
    And there was no context at all from which you could have deduced it ... arrogant asshole.

    Hackers Stole a Casino's High-Roller Database Through a Thermometer in the Lobby Fish Tank
    Care to point our how that indicates a "high roller" is a "whale" and a "whale" is "a rich person"?????

  5. in english: terrornetwork

  6. In a very small part of the world ...
    Damn american idiots that don't grasp that 80% of the world don't live in the US.
    "High-roller" (or as I have learned today: whale) is not a term you learn in school (where you learn basic english) nor in university, where you 'work' with the english you need for your job. In my case computer science.
    But thank you for your ignorance and implied insult ... Kartoffel!

  7. O'Really!?
    And what do you collect in that database?
    People who are known that they statistically roll more sixes than you?

  8. Re:It's time to user smaller specific social media on Is It Time To Stop Using Social Media? (counterpunch.org) · · Score: 1

    So you do seminars inside of your own dojo.
    Then I would ask the organizer if he uses FB, too.

    I don't organize seminars in my Dojo, I help organizing seminars with 200 people attending, for that we rent halls.
    FB is a good way to reach a lot of people via the network effect. Email has no network effect, unless every recipent has its own adress group and forwards the invitations etc.

    You said you family played banjo, you did not make clear you practice Aikido. My appoligize.

  9. Except your link is not about prosuctivity ...

  10. Or several lifetimes of the universe ...

    (actually you are "kind of wrong" anyway ... if you don't even have a clue how it was encrypted "brute forcing" takes another dimension)

  11. It is most likely an RSA or DH end to end encryption, so: it can't be craccked with todays math and technology.

  12. Beccause that is a protocol and neither a service (server) nor an app/application.

  13. Re:Why is Iran still the bogy man on US Bans American Companies From Selling To Chinese Electronics Maker ZTE (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Did not know you have soldiers in Iran ...

  14. Re:not on servers and not in the EU on Microsoft Windows 10 Gains Linux/WSL Console Copy and Paste Functionality (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    What I was replying to was:
    Well, some of us don't live in the EU and want to run desktop Linux not locked-down Win 10 or MacOS junk

    Then you replied to the wrong post/person.

  15. Thanx :D

  16. If you know the answer it would have been much easier to just answer instead of making a stupid retarded return question.

    "High-Roller" obviously is a slang term. So, no: it is not easy to google or use a dictionary.

    Idiot!

  17. Re:Reminds me of open source software on How the Quakers Became Unlikely Economic Innovators by Inventing the Price Tag (aeon.co) · · Score: 1

    No, it was not.
    You got the source code and could fix and recompile it. But you could not sell it as a product.
    There was actually usually not even a 'license' atached. It was obvious that the source ccode was for personal usage only. If you fixed something and liked to share it, you posted a diff/patch in a newsgroup or sent it to the vendor.

  18. Re: Too bad it failed on How the Quakers Became Unlikely Economic Innovators by Inventing the Price Tag (aeon.co) · · Score: 1

    I tried that, and it is not true.
    The price in Thailand from an Android phone is the same as in Germany on an iPad.

  19. That could be, strange name though.

  20. Depends what you mean with "past".

    People were bad off from roughly 500 till roughly 1700, in europe. Due to the destruction of so much knowledge during the christianization.

    Before that time and afterwards we had medicine, like any other advanced nation on the world (Maya, Inka, Egyptians, Africans, Asians, Australians)

    It is plain ignorant not to know that people used herbs and surgery since 10,000ds of years. Heck there are even documented cases of skull/brain surgery during the 'ice age'.

    P.S. it is pretty hard to get diabetes from a hunter/gatherer diet ...

  21. Re:What is a high-roller database? on Hackers Stole a Casino's High-Roller Database Through a Thermometer in the Lobby Fish Tank (businessinsider.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Obviously you don't. Next question?

  22. Re:It's time to user smaller specific social media on Is It Time To Stop Using Social Media? (counterpunch.org) · · Score: 1

    A seminar is not the same as fixed classes.

    It is at a "random" time/place. Usually there is no sign up fee. You pay the seminar fee when you arrive.

    Clicking like, or even sharing, spreads the message into the network of the perons sharing it, to people I do not have in my network.

    I guess you never have been on a martial arts seminar. How should anouncements and postings in my school reach people in New York, Paris, London, Amsterdam?

  23. Re:It's time to user smaller specific social media on Is It Time To Stop Using Social Media? (counterpunch.org) · · Score: 1

    Obviously you did not get the point ....

    So why answering with such a nonsense post?

    If I sent you an 'email' as 'sozial netzwerk ersatz', you never would get an email anout the 'likes' ... I would get them. Same for 'shares'.

  24. Re:What is a high-roller database? on Hackers Stole a Casino's High-Roller Database Through a Thermometer in the Lobby Fish Tank (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    And what is a high roller then?
    Someone who often frequents casinos?

  25. Re:not on servers and not in the EU on Microsoft Windows 10 Gains Linux/WSL Console Copy and Paste Functionality (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course there is zero need for Mac OS, but the parent claimed linux does not run on Macs or no one is runing Linux on Macs, so what is your point?
    You have no Mac and run Linux on a no Mac? ... Pretty pointless argument.