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Comment Re:German's listening to pop music (Score 5, Interesting) 143

My Neice ended up going to a high school in Germany. She spoke English but quickly picked up German. One of the friends she made asked her one day what it was like actually understanding the lyrics of the songs they listened to. To them it was just a bunch of pleasant-sounding gibberish. So you can enjoy the songs without knowing the words.

Decades ago, there was an Italian music star named Adriano Celentano that came out with a song called "Prisencolinensinainciusol". The lyrics were nonsense. He wanted to make a song that showed how English sounded to the Italian ear. It was his biggest hit.

Comment Re:Just the latest "Invest in me!" scam (Score 1) 51

by Cyberax (#64390998) Attached to: Many AI Products Still Rely on Humans To Fill the Performance Gaps

First there were driverless cars, which are the kind of technology that's easy to get to 90%, damn hard to get to 95%, and impossible to get to 100%, but we all saw the predictions that driverless cars were only 5 years away... what... 10 years ago?

They actually were pretty on-point, with the first driverless taxies being launched in Arizona around 2019. And now you can get fully driverless Waymo taxies in SF.

Comment Re:Oh Brother. (Score 3, Interesting) 116

by CrankyFool (#64389556) Attached to: We Never Agreed To Only Buy HP Ink, Say Printer Owners
Heheh. I finally, two weeks ago, upgraded my parents' printer -- about 20 years ago I had given them an HP Laserjet 4000TN that I had gotten for free from work (because 20 years ago they were already wildly out of date). The 4000TN's worked reasonably well for them all this time, but finally was having some performance issues (some jams, but also problems with bigger docs) and they were tired of having two devices -- the 4000TN for printing B&W, and their canon inkjet that had stopped printing a long time ago they were only using for scanning -- so we upgraded to a Brother color laser MFC. I did literally throw away the 4000TN, but this -- probably close to 30 years old -- printer was still basically working.

Comment Re:Horrible License Terms (Score 1) 60

by DesScorp (#64386426) Attached to: VMS Software Prunes OpenVMS Hobbyist Program

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.

Comment I wouldn't get too excited yet (Score 1) 143

by DesScorp (#64370532) Attached to: German State Moving Tens of Thousands of PCs To Linux and LibreOffice

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.

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