Comment Re: Like so many others... (Score 1) 94
Is everyone at CNN as so self-centered as Jim Acosta?
Yes
Is everyone at CNN as so self-centered as Jim Acosta?
Yes
Its license runs for a year, after which you will get a fresh copy. This means you won't be able to configure your own system and keep it alive -- you'll have to recreate it, from scratch, annually.
Annual license that is a complete pain-in-the-A$$
In other words How To Make Something Seriously Restricted Without Actually Saying So
Yeah, it sounds like they're intentionally driving away anyone but paying customers at this point.
Remember Munich, with much fanfare, adopted Linux in 2003 only to abandon it for Windows 10:
The plan was prompted by gripes about both the complexity of the current setup and compatibility headaches. According to Mayor Dieter Reiter, having two operating systems on municipal PCs is "completely uneconomic" -- it'd make more financial sense to simplify. And unfortunately for Linux advocates, Windows was more likely to win out in this case. Munich's council has had to keep a minority of Windows PCs around for apps and hardware that absolutely needed Microsoft's platform to run, and those were destined to stay.
Reiter also pointed to complaints about IT performance, although there are disputes as to whether or not reverting to Windows is the solution.
In addition to politics and cost, the issue of having to work in a Microsoft-centric world are likely to kill this.
I just can't see why a parent would think that missing a day of school is acceptable.
Because COVID taught them that
A) their kids can learn anywhere, anytime, with a variety of methods
B) they saw just how much of their kids school days had been taken up by crap that had nothing to do with academics
C) it's not necessary to be stuck in a concrete box 9 hours a day to learn, or even study 5 days every week to learn
Most of us are beginning to see what the late Michel Foucaultt meant when he said that "schools resemble prisons because they serve a similar function".
Sadly those who own the robots are the ones who benefit the most. I seem to recall something about owning the means of production, but my American public education didn't seem to cover that subject.
With 70+ years of examples of how collective economies work, are you seriously arguing for Marxism?
First world problems: we have all the guns, money, and influence but our country is "in decline" because the price of chicken nuggets is up this week and someone has purple hair.
In case you haven't been to a grocery store, car dealership, realtor, college bursar, etc lately, the price of pretty much everything is up. Maybe you're making so much money that you hadn't noticed.
We have more guns than everyone else.
It's not even that so much as "Do as we say or we cut off trade/investment/loans/grants".
America may be in decline, but it still has a lot of influence, money-wise.
Is there a way to opt out of this protection racket?
Sure. Declare strict neutrality, and pay for your own defense.
It would be more accurate to say that POTS technology is being phased out. "Landlines" are simply transitioning from POTS to VOIP. Fewer people have home phones, but they'll always exist, and they're simply being moved to ATA adapters.
Link to the Boeing announcement
Quick summary
There's a link to a letter from the CEO, but both my ad-blocker and my pi-hole object to it. Great job, Boeing, where the heck did you put that letter? Right next to the door-plug removal documentation?
None of this matters, because they're being replaced by people within Boeing that worked very close with them. It's not like they're bringing in fresh blood. This is the appearance of "doing something".
Boeing's problems have very little to do with DEI. The primary problems came from when Boeing merged with the then struggling McDonnel Douglas and somehow the MD management ended up almost completely in charge. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/boeing-737-max-corporate-culture/677120/. They even moved the corporate headquarters to be deliberately further away from the factories and engineers. So what was once one of the most engineering focused of businesses became completely business focused.
Oh not this again.
From the article:
But in 1997, Boeing bought another aircraft manufacturer, McDonnell Douglas, in what turned out to be a kind of reverse acquisition—executives from McDonnell Douglas ended up dominating and remaking Boeing. They turned it from a company that was relentlessly focused on product to one more focused on profit.
As if Boeing wasn't ruthlessly focused on profit before the merger, like all large companies.
Most of this whining comes from legacy Boeing employees that lost out come promotion time to MD employees in the merger. The legacy Boeing people have been the source for many of these articles, like your source in the Atlantic, and they've been out of the company a long time. Most of them have no idea what's going on inside today.
Boeing's problem, like all other large corporations, is the culture of outsourcing. This is not unique to Boeing in any way. Witness the horrific problems Lockheed Martin has in producing the F-35, where an audit found that some aircraft had parts installed backwards. Lockheed spread production out across most of the Continental US, helping to ensure political survival of the project, but raising the cost and spreading production out among an unmanageable web of subcontractors.
Every large corporation in the world has these problems because every large corporation in the world is now essentially just a logo slapped on a product assembled by a third party in a low cost country or area. Apple's reputation for quality is due to their zeal in controlling every step in production, and even they are slipping here.
Ask any appliance repairman how much you should spend on a new refrigerator, washing machine, etc. He'll tell you to buy cheap, because none of it lasts anymore anyway. We all have that grandpa or uncle with a refrigerator in his garage that's been running for 50 years. And yet I can't get one to last more than 6 or 7 these days. The issue of quality is worldwide, and Airbus has them too, they're just not in the news as much. Airbus just settled a lawsuit last year over fuselage quality issues.
From the article:
This 900-square-foot home will cost roughly $300,000 - about $100,000 less than a similar custom-built home...
It will rent for $2,000 a month.
I understand that this is a Proof of Concept, but I have to wonder if anyone involved has an idea as to what "affordable" means.
There's no way in hell that over a quarter-million bucks for a pre-fab home is reasonable. This experiment is gonna fall on its face.
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