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  1. Re:ENDED is not a verb on Galileo Satellites Are Experiencing Multiple Clock Failures (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
  2. It's not. It's pronounced "may too".

  3. Re:We need more 'crashes' like this on Tech Firm Creates Trump Monitor For Stock Markets (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, he also under-spent the budget for his transition. I guess that shows he doesn't understand Governmental budgeting because he's not spending it all? Or some such "failure" by not spending it all...

  4. Re:Not luck at all on Tech Firm Creates Trump Monitor For Stock Markets (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, left-leaning media and supporters of the teacher's unions don't like DeVos. Of course, the current state of public education makes their position untenable... Unless you simply want to push a political agenda, that is.

  5. Re:That's what we call a buying opportunity. on Tech Firm Creates Trump Monitor For Stock Markets (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    He's still using a broker that submits orders via teletype...

  6. Coal out, nuclear in on China Cancels Over 100 Coal-Fired Power Plants (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    China's adding a lot of nuclear capacity instead. Good for China to lead in a reasonable replacement for coal. Not PV or wind, buy nuclear.

  7. Re:It might be something but it isn't anti-trust? on US Appeals Court Revives Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    But, as this is about software - you can only buy iOS apps from Apple's store. Right?

  8. The Samsung Note7 wasn't released until about 2 months AFTER this crash... However, we do know that iPhones have been burning since 2015, well before this crash.

  9. Re:Is more education, better education . . . ? on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    Well now, be honest. After President Obama received his Nobel Peace Prize he did go on to bomb 3 new countries...

  10. Choice isn't allowed - after all, how would you survive if you showed up at the latest free-trade-coffee/quinoa salad hipster hangout and DIDN'T pull out an iPhone? The ostracism would cause the wax on yourhandlebar moustache to drip down on to your skinny jeans and flannel shirt! No, the choice is simply not there - it's either iPhone of social obscurity. Standing out in the crowd is exactly the wrong way to get noticed!

  11. Re:It might be something but it isn't anti-trust? on US Appeals Court Revives Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I can buy Toyota parts at O'Reilly's, Pep Boys, NAPA, and hundreds of other places. And those Toyota parts may be factory original parts or aftermarket parts developed to replace factory parts. How many places can you buy an alternative browser for an iPhone, or an alternative voice agent?

  12. Re:It might be something but it isn't anti-trust? on US Appeals Court Revives Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You can probably buy common memory modules and standard HDDs from Dell and they will work in your HP (it did for me). And you can go to hundreds of other shops to buy parts for your HP. You don't have to buy just HP parts.

  13. Re:Website is already down but... on Trump's Cyber Security Advisor Rudy Giuliani Runs Ancient, Utterly Hackable Website (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Some of the best engineering department leads I've worked for had zero touch with the technology itself but they REALLY understood how teams function, great processes for development, and how to motivate people to work properly. I'd rather the person in charge of a huge effort like this one understand more about how to build and manage great organizations than the intricacies of configuring linux servers...

  14. Re:Death of Uber on Regulators Criticize Banks For Lending Uber $1.15 Billion (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I'm talking riders getting subsidies - via Uber paying more to the drivers than the costs support. Once that subsidy to the rider goes away, either the driver loses money (and Uber loses drivers in droves), or the cost of the ride goes up (and the number of riders plumments). Cut the billions that Uber is spending to buy riders - and you have no more riders.

  15. Re:It might be something but it isn't anti-trust? on US Appeals Court Revives Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No, this is like your local GM dealer requiring you to only buy parts and service for your GM car from them. If you want that Corvette or Suburban, you have no choice to get tires, change your brakes, or buy fuel from anyone other than a GM service station.

  16. Re:It IS hipsterism (if that's a word) on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Try Tidal - redbook audio, streamed.

  17. Re: It IS hipsterism (if that's a word) on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Get an FM modulator and you'll end up with sound better than your cassette, and a way to bypass it altogether (unless you have a cassette player without an FM radio?)...

  18. Re:In this economy? on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Only because people have permanently dropped out of the work force. The labor force participation rate is as low as it has been in 2 generations. And creating McJobs and part-time work doesn't quite make up for the loss in full-time, gainful employment. Thus the push for "living wage" we see popping up all over the place, because people are trapped with either no job, or entry level jobs and cannot climb the ladder - the ladder rungs above are full.

  19. Re:In this economy? on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    To put that in perspective, in the same time period, there were about 240 million streams of Black Beatles by Rae Sremmurd alone. Pandora had 5.4 billion hours streamed in Q3, 2016, which would be about 470,000 times more than the cassettes sold (assuming 60 minute cassettes). And that's just Pandora, not including all the other streaming services.

    Cassettes are a tiny little drop in a thimble used to fill the swimming pool. They are irrelevant. But I get it - hipster! Now get me my mustache wax and we're good to go, as soon as I can pull on my skinny jeans and flannel shirt...

  20. Re:In this economy? on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    SNR, THD, and bandwidth of a CD is way beyond that of an LP or cassette. And I don't know anyone who's not using DAWs for mixing and editing - meaning it's all coming from the same basic source. There may be a few indie folks doing all analog and cutting tape on their 1" reels, but that number is probably in the dozens.

  21. Re:Hippies Lack Fingerprints on Japan Researchers Warn of Fingerprint Theft From 'Peace' Sign (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    So that's YOU that I see every morning at the Hyde street exit of Civic Center stop in San Francisco... Can you code?

  22. Not really. A large 3.5mm TRS jack, with a switch, is around 0.45cc. It's actually quite small. Previous phones are the size of this new HTC, have the same number of hardware features, and kept th 3.5mm jack.

  23. Re:The banks know something, that's why. on Regulators Criticize Banks For Lending Uber $1.15 Billion (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon had enough money to weather the storm and survive; will Uber? Their burn rate is an order of magnitude higher than Amazon - and they have no path towards profitabilty, their assets being not warehouses and physical stock but an app.

  24. Re:The banks know something, that's why. on Regulators Criticize Banks For Lending Uber $1.15 Billion (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    It's hard to call a business model that has thus far lost hundreds of millions of dollars a "good" business model.

    Get your facts straight - they lost $2 BILLION last year alone. If they were losing just hundreds of millions of dollars, they'd be in a much better position than they are. How a company that loses $2 billion in subsidizing it's only "product" (rides) is worth $62 billion is stunning, and a huge warning we're back in an Internet bubble...

  25. Re:Death of Uber on Regulators Criticize Banks For Lending Uber $1.15 Billion (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Because, as Uber's loss of $2+ billion a year shows, you cannot make a profit doing this kind of business. It doesn't work. There's a reason cabs cost what they do - it's kind of what you have to charge to make a profit as a business. Right now, we have billions of dollars given to Uber to use to subsidize (pay) customer's rides. Once that subsidy goes away - Uber's costs will greatly increase to that of a cab, and Uber loses its value.