once you did that, it's not your phone and your life any more.

they want crap apps on a phone, they have to provide the phone. otherwise, you are chattel, like cattle, only not in demand at the supermarket.

indeed

I code in longhand! and where's the punch for the paper tape?

there's no fudging the data if it's a fail this way.

"git a rope." (c) others.

the larger and older the agglomeration of civilization and stuff, the creaker and more wasteful things get. for instance, the 1930s control system for the subways, much of which has yet to be modernized. with oceans rising and hurricanes becoming more destructive in coming years, nature will clear the decks.

it begins with her nearly crashing Lucent during the dotcom boom and Y2K boom. since they were selling the once-Cascade, once-Ascend 8000/9000 frame relay switches that were the backbone of the Internet, that's hard to do in my book.

she almost took down HP also, back when the whole board was playing Spy vs Spy.

lost big in California politics.

thinks mass firings were a good thing.

not what any country needs.

Mordac and his associates as Preventers of IT at my company insists and demands that only an older IE exists on our machines. so half the websites I visit lock the machine up. this is, of course, the usual silliness about keeping creaky old code, as well as the insistance that IE is the only safe choice with all the mayhem out there.

at home, I have given up on resize-happy Firefox and use Chrome exclusively. if Mozilla would fix that freakin' bug, I might reinstall it.

one for a query system (hey, WTF is this?) and a response system (a thing!). I'll take 15% gladly from a patent troll as my share. I believe my language is broad enough that it covers all communications in any mode.

obviously the Apple domos in China and One Infinite Loop didn't have a stable of bikers and wearable art folks availiable to see if the watch worked right with those injected clays, metallics, and inorganic dyes strewn all across the bio-network. I doubt they'd have been able to work around it, either. breast implants are known to fuzz up mammograms and can hide tumors, as well as complicate angioplasty. muck up the network, don't expect clear signals.

or provide a translation engine

"There's too many chiefs and not enough Indians around this place." switch gears, fire 2/3 of the manglement, and get some programmers and hardware engineers actually programming and prototyping, instead of screwing around on pet projects that do absolutely freakin' nothing off their floor in the building.

their space is typically nasty. scultping clay and cement. sand molds, and a furnace to melt old pistons and boat engines to cast aluminum into those molds. flying stone chips from sculpture. gobs of paint all over from "experimental" and "experiential" work. forges and anvils and hammers, oh my.

so there is a "makerspace" of traditional tools. your maintenance and boiler plant folks have similar dungeons that keep the joint operational. go ask them what they'd want to do small projects in.

I'd think a wire flux welder, drill press, cabinet saw and sander table, the usual small power tools, point and SMD soldering stations, possibly a 3D PCB printer or etcher would all find use. 3D printers are no use without 3D scanners and CAD/CAM software design stations.

what's going to eventually happen is dynamic channel switching, a return to the old days when youi "paid" for channel 6 while you watched it (in the 50s, by watching commercials and maybe trying the Swanson's dinner sponsoring the program.) in other words, customers either create their OWN bundles, or from the availiable channels, they pick what they want now, and are post-view billed for the usage. there will be no free rides in the 210-channel bundle for the Disney Outtakes Channel, or ESPN 17: pick-up soccer at Evanston South Elementary School.

at that point, you won't have 210 channels. but of the 100 you do have, they will be one ones that got watched historically, and are not vampires positioned in provider contracts because "I don't want to be the guy with only 6 slots on the satellite, I need 20 to get ads."

I envision Murdoch employees putting a leak an hour into that funnypot.

and blame Gracenote for the song and album cover screwups. that's who Apple uses.