Comment Re:FUD? (Score 1) 700
It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the real world but I've had enough of playing into your fantasy world.
In my fantasy world, you wouldn't defend a corporation for damaging people's hardware.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the real world but I've had enough of playing into your fantasy world.
In my fantasy world, you wouldn't defend a corporation for damaging people's hardware.
Criminal? Really? What laws are being broken exactly?
They're rendering your device unusable, which they may not do knowingly.
Have you read the license for these drivers?
That is irrelevant. You cannot give yourself rights with shrinkwrap license. The law still wins.
few people are going to spend the money to take FTDI to court over this.
If only one of them does it, they will have lost money over this.
MAY IRRETRIEVABLY DAMAGE THAT COMPONENT
Yes, if they did it by accident. If it can be shown that they did it on purpose, and that is almost certainly the case here, then it doesn't matter what they put in the license.
If there was 137 more working Apple 1, they wouldn't be worth that much.
No, but there's 137 people who can each legitimately say "If I hadn't put my machine in the trash, I'd be $900k-ish richer". And I'm not sure how quick the value drops off but I doubt going from 63 to 200 machines (about 3x) would be worse than inverse square so (1/3)^2 * $900k = $100k/machine, that's also a nice chunk of cash.
If "Utopic Unicorn" is an ambitious name, I'm afraid to see what comes next.
utopia = ideal, perfect state
unicorn = magical, legendary creature
I think you'd roll your eyes too if Apple or Microsoft came out with OS X 10.10 "Magic Perfection" or Windows 10 "Magic Perfection", respectively. It's the kind of name that makes you go "Okaaaaaaaaay, are you overcompensating for something?"
Not a whole lot of people I knew and having your own hosting and domain costs a bit, most used third party blogs and forums anyway. And it all lacks authentication and aggregation. Sure, you could set up users and accounts and manage all that but people wouldn't bother to manage 100 separate accounts the way they have 100 friends on one Facebook login. And unless every site it set up with an RSS feed there's no easy way to aggregate lots of blogs and give you one dashboard of what your friends are doing. Nothing really unsolvable though, you could have self-hosted for yourself and third party hosted nodes for other people but there'd have to be a business model for the hosting companies. People generally won't pay when they can get a "free" account on Facebook so then most are really back to ads or data mining for most people anyway.
Actually, trolls are objectively better than most.
I think you mean "superior to", because "better than" is based on a judgement by others. You could make an objective judgement based on numbers of some sort, there.
And now that GM is controlled by the UAW, whose fault is it?
It's GM's fault that they only have two or three cars worth buying, and that they're not selling an EV.
I have done enough super high mileage trips that it would require a second car permanently on stand by. That means double insurance, tax, storage and depreciation.
it means none of those things but storage cost. The insurance for the second vehicle is reduced, and often the insurance on your primary vehicle is reduced when you add another vehicle to your policy, even if you don't decrease the primary vehicle's mileage. And you get an older vehicle for the second car, and it costs you less to buy, less in depreciation, etc.
It still might not work out, but it doesn't cost twice as much.
What do you do though when they've legislated that cars not bought in the state or that are on some blacklist can't get registered?
Then they definitely get smacked down for dicking with interstate commerce.
As a matter of fact, those states allowing fracking have reaped huge tax benefits and for the most part has helped out ordinary citizens of those states too.
in the short term, sure. But injecting refinery wastes into the ground was illegal before fracking for a reason, and that reason is that it's toxic waste.
Nonsense. Many people are not worth minimum wage. They are not worth anything at all as workers.
If you cannot find workers who are worth something as workers who will work for the wage that you're paying, then you're not paying enough. You don't need to pay less, you need to pay more.
Lunatic. American business is run by a bunch of socialist thugs.
HAHAHAHAHA
It's not socialism, it's oligarchy. Socialism is where the wealth is redistributed to serve the people. The wealth is being redistributed upward in this system, there's nothing socialist about that.
You need to compare the SDC to a fully aware human being, not a fully distracted one.
Why? A fully aware human being can also be aware while the car is driving. But most people drive in a state of at least partial distraction. You're setting the bar awfully high.
If self-driving cars really start to hit the roads, cities would definitely mandate that all traffic lights show up in maps,
So what? they already mandate that the maps be correct, but roads are often shown going through (or not going through) when they don't (or do.)
I live in the sticks. I have a shitty ISP that shits on my interactive sessions in favor of long-running connections like Netflix, and then tells me they don't do any shaping. But obviously they do shaping, because we have bandwidth limits. And it looks like shit. The traffic chart looks like a row of fenceposts because they flood me with packets, then send none, then flood me with more of them in order to limit my rate. This of course means that I can't do any meaningful queueing on my end, because the rate is totally inconstant.
But atop that, they offer me only an "up to 6Mbps" connection. That's not even enough to watch HD video reliably. A page full of images takes ages to load, especially since most people are still just spewing the images onto the page and they all load at once. And if that weren't enough, the connection goes down regularly, I often have to power cycle the CPE...
FTTH is not going to create a new digital divide. We already have one, and the only content lurking in the wings waiting to eat up all the bandwidth is 4k video. Most of us don't have a 4k set, so it's irrelevant.
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