You'd think it would be more effective to support working from home like they do in Japan instead of spending all this money on more cars to transport your face to your boss. Guess cars are more important to some people.
I'll be the first concert without any lights, with half the orchestra shifted off the stage, with everything always out of focus, & with only 1 note you can actually hear.
Have had several SD cards fail in a custom board & 1 fail in a commercial product. In all cases, they got into some safe mode where they wouldn't accept write commands but would accept read commands. The problem may be static electricity, too many invalid write commands, or just flaky manufacturing.
Unfortunately, for whatever reason, it's really hard to find failures of SD cards on Google, or failures of any commercial product for that matter.
Surely there is a way to make Java even less readable than Groovy. Maybe make the entire language pure regular expressions or allow every character including the . to be an object.
One outcome of Sun's future liquidation is that no-one is around to promote the 1 Jesus language & Java ends up fragmenting into thousands of derivatives like Linux or Fortran.
It's not like you're any freer to criticize Mike Doogan.
It's going to be a 320x240 version of HD, with the word HD in a small button in the lower right. When you click it, it expands to 400x300, wow!
All the movies transferred to Goo Ray are going to be defocused, underexposed, shaken, & the audio muffled for the Goo Tube look you've come to expect.
Last month's battery which could recharge in 2 seconds was way better than this.
Remember when Napster sold itself to the music industry. That was originally an April fool's story, before it became real. Then there was the April fool's story about taxpayers paying off all the mortgages in the world.
Democracy is a 2 way street when information is unlimited. Your politicians can vote you out just as easily as you vote your politicians out. Had the same thing happen with Keith Cowing. If U don't support the right agenda, don't be surprised if you're unemployed the next day.
Redhat once paid people to write crazy programs like Enlightenment. Then they focused on a little less crazy ideas like web servers. Now they'll take the next step & become even more boring. Wonder if anyone is still there from the glory days of 1997?
Most people in consumer electronics do their own software & their own hardware. There aren't big companies with dedicated job functions like there were.
In the old days before before spanhaus, you could send mail with your own personal sendmail server. It delayed it 15 minutes so if U changed your mind you could kill sendmail & delete the queue. Of course Goog stock is worth a lot more than sendmail stock so yeah, the official first 5 second rule would be now.
The internet concentrated the jobs instead of spreading them out. Now if you're not geographically in Silicon Valley, your job can be done in Taiwan, so all the job seekers come to Silicon Valley. In the old days, you could have gotten a job in Nebraska. Not anymore. No-one even knows what Nebraska is anymore.
It is a business with no competition. The customers can't just stop paying for it. That would be called tax evasion.
A garage in Calif* costs $2 million. That would make a garage solar panel a bit more expensive than buying a solar panel from China.
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
