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Comment Re: Cui bono? (Score 2) 71

Apple is obviously eating companies and barfing up cash like a corporate NoFace at this point - there was a story here just the other day about calculating location to 1/3 meter using DSP on GPS multipath reflections which is good enough for anything but robotic construction. Iridium reception is going to just add cost - the overwhelming trend is cheaper sensors and more processing power.

Comment Re:and dog eats tail (Score 1) 393

1) Unfunded.

Who cares? None of the Federal mandates on the People are funded. Amtrak can figure out a way to become more efficient and follow the law or the administrators can quit and get out of the way.

They have until the end of this year to get PTC up and running on all trains, or they should be force-marched to Federal prison, like the rest of the hoi-palloi. Live by the sword, die by the run-away train.

Comment Re:Oh please (Score 1) 287

But I want a car that I'm going to keep for 15 years to be obsolete in two! :)

Seriously, why don't we just have an activation code for an e.g. "Toyota App" for Android and iOS and a wifi display protocol as standard features by now? I can understand in 2010 why this wasn't the case, but at this point - people who eschew smartphones in 2015 should certainly be able to buy a $60 Android stick to plug in instead.

Oh, right - here's why the headline is complete nonsense - the PC Revolution was the perfect example of what happens when an industry is unregulated. We get things like the Internet. Thank you, you awful capitalist bastards.

Comment Re: Mad Max? (Score 1) 776

I saw the full trailer last week before Ex Machina - unless the trailer was godawful garbage, to me it looked like the budget was way too high, the action direction cheeky to a fault (e.g the zooms in to childlike sneers) and the color grading was entirely wrong. I like my Mad Max low-budget and gritty - *like the universe its set in*. The vehicles were so overly-elaborate in this one that it broke the suspension of disbelief ("can we get some more spikes on that? Here's another $50K"). Maybe it's full of all kinds of acting brilliance that never made the trailer, but nothing in what I saw made me want to see this installment.

Comment Re: Weak "yea" I guess on this (Score 1) 121

yeah, I turned it off after nine minutes and switched to Adam Savage building a Kirk chair, which was more dramatic and better-shot. The director was both disrespectful of the audience's time and too lazy to use more than one camera on any given scene, or go back and get secondary photography with the one camera he could afford to rent. I was watching his long zooms and imagining all the obvious good shots he was ignoring. Poor UK folk who didn't know to show up 30 minutes late to ESB.

Comment Re: Weak "yea" I guess on this (Score 1) 121

yeah, I turned it off after nine minutes and switched to Adam Savage building a Kirk chair, which was more dramatic and better-shot. The director was both disrespectful of the audience's time and too lazy to use more than one camera on any given scene, or go back and get secondary photography with the o. I was watching his long zooms and imagining all the obvious good shots he was ignoring. Poor UK folk who didn't know to show up 30 minutes late to ESB. The dude was incredibly lucky to get the opportunity and did not put in his best-possible effort.

Comment Re: only i3/i5 (Score 1) 268

I give every company a different email address and my Facebook one doesn't get spam. Just because you can dream up some crazy scenario doesn't prove it, especially in the face of conflicting evidence.

Mostly FB shows me ads for crap I've already decided not to buy at online retailers. If Big Data were any good they'd detect my "this is crap" browsing patterns and not waste their money on it.

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