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Comment Re:He's right... and classy to boot (Score 1) 62

As right as he is, Mr. Faury is very classy to say it.

He just doesn't want to be seen publicly gloating.

Of course, he's delighted with Boeing's blunders.

Worries about "the image of the industry" are nonsense. People won't stop flying.

Doubt it. Boeing is big enough that safety concerns reflect upon air traffic in general. Doors falling off in the middle of the air etc results in fewer passengers and reduces the demand for planes. What he'd want is a gradual decline in the attractiveness of Boeing vs Airbus, corruption scandals, strategic missteps, etc - not scandals related to accidents or quality,

Comment Re:Good ol neo Republic of Gilead. (Score 4, Funny) 292

If they were really serious about this severe problem, they would kick all the people out of their state, so that nobody would ever see anyone else. Until humans are eliminated, Texas' vision cannot be fulfilled. FUCK HUMANS! (Err, I mean that figuratively, of course. You should never literally fuck a human. That's not even a thing, kids, I swear!)

Comment Re:Who'd have thunk it (Score 1) 33

Srsly NOKIA ... this bit of blather only pops up now? And Reddit has been around for HOW LONG out in the web?

3rd rate telecom company (Nokia) turns into 1st rate patent troll (YUCK!). Film at 11.

Nokia is one of the biggest players in telecom - #3, after Huawei and Cisco. If you're building a 5G network and want to avoid Chinese equipment, you have two vendors - Ericsson and Nokia.

Comment Re:apple music does not need to pay the core fee b (Score 3, Insightful) 91

"And what is apple doing for spotify?"

Providing a platform for Spotify to run on.

I, as a customer, paid Apple very well for that platform. This isn't a hardware item sold at a loss like most gaming consoles, this is a premium product sold at a high price with extremely good margins.

Comment Don't remind people (Score 1) 106

No idea on the men-vs-women thing.

But it seems absolutely crazy for the DRMed media sales industry to remind people that their media could Just Work and be normal, instead of requiring specific proprietary players (a different one for each media source). They shouldn't even mention piracy, because that just plants the seed that people could instead have standard format files, where things are much more convenient than the awkward situation with DRMed media.

If we want people to just accept that things are shitty and must always remain shitty, then it's probably best to not encourage people to think about the topic at all. Shhhh! Don't bring it up, and pretend that the idea of a convenient media library, where users have the choice to use whatever player software that they want on whatever device that they want, simply doesn't exist at all.

Comment Re:Makes sense for a high return rate (Score 1) 140

I suspect that even if this thing were the ACTUAL bee's knees, it would have a high return rate. New laptops also have high return rates. There was a rumor that the first M1s had super high return rates at some stores, like 33%+.

Source? That sounds unlikely, for almost all users the new M1s were exactly like the old ones - just with a lot better performance and longer battery life. They didn't change the designs. Unless you ran virtual machines like me, you wouldn't miss out on anything you had either.

Comment Cool, I guess (Score 1) 70

This reminds me of how in the 1980s, things like FPUs and MMUs were separate chips. Do you want an 80387 with your 80386? Do you want a 68851 with your 68020? But then the newer CPUs just came with that stuff.

Even if 90% of the machines sold over the next few years never use it (think of how many 80386 chips were running MS-DOS as a "fast 8086" and never went into protected mode), it's nice that on the software side you'll eventually be able to expect it. In 1988 you couldn't assume floating point was fast for everyone, but by 1998 you could.

Comment Re:Still cheaper than the original Macintosh (Score 1) 57

I was a very young child when the original Mac was released, but I don't remember ever seeing one. Home computers as a mainstream thing really didn't start catching on with anybody I knew until the early 90s, and those were low-end (XT and AT clones) PCs. I remember thinking one of my neighbors was "rich" because they had a 386.

Home computers were pretty common here, but they were VIC 20/CBM 64/Amigas, ZX Spectrums and the like. PCs were crazy expensive, and not nearly as capable in many respects - in particular, graphics and sound.

In 1993 I started university (Norwegian Institute of Technology) and bought a 486 DX33 with a hard drive, 8 MB memory, 512 kB S3 graphics card, and a 15" screen. That cost approx 4000 USD - or more than 8000 USD now. That was a local PC building company, so cheaper than most of the competition. Compared to that, a Mac these days is a bargain.

Even the Vision Pro compares favorably to it, but it's going to be obsoleted by newer, far better versions - and I really fail to find a usecase anyway. "What would I actually use it for?"

Comment Re:Speed isn't the problem.... (Score 1) 362

There's no way to actually quantify whether speed is the "main factor" unless you do a full forensic analysis of every single accident. Unless Norway does that, then it's more likely they are just basing them off checkboxes in a police report.

Even if there was perfect information available, there's a measure of judgment over what the "main" cause was. Most accidents have multiple contributing causes. If a drunk driver kills someone after speeding through a neighborhood at 100mph, is the "main" cause the speed, or is it the drunk driving? They probably would not have been speeding but for the intoxication, but the accident might not have happened if they had merely been drunk.

I was imprecise. I meant 30-40% of traffic deaths, not just accidents. And they do forensic analysis of all of those, as well as those with serious personal injuries. Having fewer of those accidents help, we've got about 1/6th of the death rate per capita compared to the US (about 1/3rd looking at deaths per km).

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