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  1. Is that a fat joke?

  2. People will buy it for looks & bragging rights on Apple Is Making Its Own Modem To Compete With Qualcomm, Report Says (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    I don't know if it will work well, but it will be cool-looking. Maybe a simple orb that's silver, white, translucent, or pearl-esque. Or maybe Saturn-esque.

  3. I suppose this is the Streisand effect of the cartography world.

    Rumor has it Streisand's house was also blurred out. Collusion!

  4. Re:We are falling behind... on Europe -- not the US or China -- Publishes the Most AI Research Papers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    If you look at high impact AI research, the leader is not the US, Europe, or China. It is Canada.

    So South Park was right about Canadians & Mormons taking over the world? Missionary bots with Canadian accents will soon be knocking on your door in the middle of dinner, handing out the Kindle of Mormon.

  5. Re:We are falling behind... on Europe -- not the US or China -- Publishes the Most AI Research Papers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Representatives or fans of other data-structures: Listilizer, Treeilizer, Stackalizer, Hashilizer, Settilizer, Directedgraphilizer, Kleinbottlizer, Breathilizer, Fertilizer...

    You are mocking me...
    And I like it!
      - Tablizer

  6. Re:The failure of Socialism on Europe -- not the US or China -- Publishes the Most AI Research Papers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Socialism is an economic system; communism is a political system. You appear to be mixing them up.

  7. Re:Europe... on Europe -- not the US or China -- Publishes the Most AI Research Papers (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Europe is an entire continent, the US and China are countries.

    Currently the US is incontinent.

  8. Re:We are falling behind... on Europe -- not the US or China -- Publishes the Most AI Research Papers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    ...on publishing AI research papers. Get to work people!

    I did, see my sig. Next!

  9. Re:It's OK, USA on Europe -- not the US or China -- Publishes the Most AI Research Papers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Whaddya mean the US doesn't have flying cars? If you rear-end a Ford Pinto, it has a rocket engine for a split second.

  10. Re:"Stupid" is making the same mistake 3+ times on Verizon Admits Defeat With $4.6 Billion AOL-Yahoo Writedown (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me rework the last sentence: Most of MS-Office and MS Visual Basic came from Microsoft purchasing specific software titles and sometimes the entire company that made them. They were small companies, which doesn't fit my original criteria.

  11. Re: "Stupid" is making the same mistake 3+ times on Verizon Admits Defeat With $4.6 Billion AOL-Yahoo Writedown (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Without that the Mac would be dead.

    We don't know that. That's mere speculation. Perhaps Apple would borrow even more Unix & OSS if Next not around.

  12. Re:"Stupid" is making the same mistake 3+ times on Verizon Admits Defeat With $4.6 Billion AOL-Yahoo Writedown (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Charter / Time Warner

    AT&T / Direct TV?

    Technically, yes, in terms of profits. But it's because those co's get oligopolier when they merge, not better. They essentially were buying away competition. You wouldn't call them "better" after, would you?

    When DirectTV announced they had Internet available in our area, I was ready to jump at the chance because the other 2 ISP/cable co's suck eggs bigly. Then I read about the merger, and said un-family-oriented words.

  13. Re:"Stupid" is making the same mistake 3+ times on Verizon Admits Defeat With $4.6 Billion AOL-Yahoo Writedown (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd argue most of those are not "big", but rather purchased specialists. Most of MS-Office and VB were from purchased smallish companies who mode the original software titles, for example.

  14. Re:"Stupid" is making the same mistake 3+ times on Verizon Admits Defeat With $4.6 Billion AOL-Yahoo Writedown (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    There was more net benefit than you mention. They went from being a dying company to one that has hundreds of billions...

    That's probably because Steve Jobs became the CEO, not because of Next itself.

  15. maybe its the left with their non-rational arguments and patent lies. In fact im pretty sure its the left, because they basically want dumb slaves in their vision for a communist America.

    Without picking sides here, the slippery-slope destination of either side (left/right) is pretty much the same thing but under a different "owner". Full-on progressivism-gone-wrong would be gov't mind-control/slavery, and full-on conservatism-gone-wrong would be corporate and/or mega-church mind-control/slavery.

    Yes, each side thinks the other is sliding into the vortex via brainwashing.

  16. Re:"Stupid" is making the same mistake 3+ times on Verizon Admits Defeat With $4.6 Billion AOL-Yahoo Writedown (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Next arguably wasn't "big". They pretty much had one product. Big companies typically have hundreds of products. And the Next computer was a flop. If there was any net benefit, it was that Steve got a crew he knew and helped pick to work for Apple, and possibly some OS-related IP.

    Okay, I'll compromise and give that example half a credit.

  17. As a warning, never put Comcast on pull-based autopay. They invent every reason under the sun to keep billing you. They probably have large systems & rooms full of lawyers devoted to keeping customers from leaving/cancelling.

  18. "Stupid" is making the same mistake 3+ times on Verizon Admits Defeat With $4.6 Billion AOL-Yahoo Writedown (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Mergers of larger tech-related companies seem to always fail. Can anyone name a success in the last 2 decades?

  19. Re:Only Approved Conspiracy Theories Are Allowed on Google CEO Admits Company Must Better Address the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on YouTube (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Only Approved Conspiracy theories, like...differences between men and women have nothing to do with differing interests or biology

    The third sex is "troll". The key questions are not about biology, but about whether the gov't should regulate and divide by gender. Conservatives say they don't like regulation, but they sure like regulating wankers. Looks like hypocrisy to me.

  20. Make America Gullible Again on Google CEO Admits Company Must Better Address the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on YouTube (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why don't they teach critical thinking in grade school? I don't understand why there are so many gullible people in the USA who want to stay that way. Maybe preachers are spreading it, and people believe their preacher because of family/town habit? I'm very uncomfortable sharing a country with so many idiots. Large quantities of such people are dangerous. They will get us poisoned, nuked, and/or locked up in Comcast Central Prison one of these days.

  21. Re:Sudden stop vs small warnings on Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 1

    do you know how they take a peak in an SSD's memory at a professional service? It didn't occur to me until just now that I had no idea how they'd do it.

    They call their buddy near the Red Square to restore the data from copies.

  22. Re: Don't forget Monopolies on Start-Ups Aren't Cool Anymore (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Too early in the morning for a Trump impression, Bub.

  23. Can I say it here? on Samsung Embarrassingly Partners With Fake Supreme (droid-life.com) · · Score: 1

    Totally fake Supreme, beliebe me! All rigged by Jiiina! So sad.

  24. Bullies made me eat dirt as a kid. I don't remember liking it.

  25. Re: I'm under the weather a bit on At Least One Major Carrier Lied About Its 4G Coverage, FCC Review Finds (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It was intended as joke. I guess it flopped. C'est la vie.