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Comment Re:Just something else for Sony to fuck up. (Score 1) 22

We just have to hope they are willing to invest, and to fire the current show runners

Fixed that for you. ;)

Also, on a more serious note, I know it runs counter to modern day TV, but I would argue the very last thing Trek needs to be is a franchise. TNG was novel because it was all that was on the air at the time. By the time they got to ENT the franchise was burned out and ratings reflected it. I have a lot of issues with NuTrek, but I do really enjoy SNW, can find redeeming things about DSC, but if they try to make it into the Trek version of the Marvel Universe or copy what Disney has done with Star Wars they're going to burn it the fuck out.

Star Trek has been franchised and Multi-Versed and Alternate-Timelined to death. It's all dreck now. Paramount needs reminding that the well can go dry.

Cancel everything and let the fields lay fallow for a few years.

Then start one new series. ONE. Set it on a new Enterprise (it always has to be the Enterprise), with a new crew. And don't fuck it up by choosing a crew based on The Current Thing. Shoot for a 5 year mission, and thus five seasons. End it after 5. No movies. Lather. Rinse. Repeat every decade or so.

Comment Re:AND IN "NO SHIT, SHERLOCK" NEWS.... (Score 0) 46

Wait you think that if he was influencing them they would be better? What in the 40+ year history of Microsoft makes you think that?

Uh, most of Microsoft's history under his watch?

There's a good reason why most OS's generally follow the Win 95/98 GUI paradigm. They got it right. And when they went to all-NT based systems, they got even better. They've certainly had their issues over the years, but if I had a dollar for everytime I've heard someone go "I miss Win 95/98/2K/XP, I'd still be using them today if I could", I'd be a comfortably wealthy man.

When did Microsoft customers scream the loudest and rebel? When Win 8 tried to do away with that paradigm and make PC's a tablet.

Comment Re: Healthcare should not be a profit center (Score 2) 237

No one expects them to work for free.

Doctors get paid in the UK, for example.

Not much. Which is why they have such a shortage of them. The more a medical system is socialized, the shittier the pay. And just as bad, where healthcare is a "human right", patients treat the workers like shit, because it's human nature to feel entitled and arrogant when this happens:

Thomas Brockwell, a junior doctor who did his training at Oxford University, is just finishing his first year of postgraduate clinical work in the UK in hopes of becoming a pediatrician. He describes his office as a three-meter-squared room that he shares with two other doctors. Between them, they have two “usable” computers and not a single unbroken chair. From midday, when the senior doctor leaves, this trio will run the ward; outside the hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., they will oversee 11 wards, or some 250 patients.

“I have been spat at, punched, leered at and groped,” says Brockwell, who takes home £35,000 ($43,456) before tax, less when his “Sisyphean graduation present” of £100,000 of student debt and living expenses from six years of training are deducted.

That's shit compensation for a middling white collar office worker, let alone an MD that takes years of training. No public mandated system is ever going to attract enough doctors and nurses when they can go elsewhere for more money.

Comment Re:Healthcare should not be a profit center (Score 1) 237

Healthcare should be a human right

I don't know what the answer to the US healthcare expense problem is, but I do know that this sure as shit isn't it. Healthcare should not be a right in the US, nor should housing or food. A "right" to a material good means that you're taking away the rights of those that service those goods. That you are, in effect, impressing them into public servitude.

The last thing I want is a system where doctors, home builders, farmers, etc, are essentially told "You'll give your product and service to us, on demand, at prices that we'll set, or you wont practice your trade at all".

Comment AR is dead on arrival (Score 3, Insightful) 148

Nobody wants to work 8 hours a day with something strapped to their face. Are people nuts?

I have three big, very expensive monitors that are about as good a work experience as I need, and I don't need to sweat into a headset. Even more expensive than that vision pro, although their usable lifespan is much more.

AR is DOA. VR has applications in entertainment and simulation.

This is painfully obvious to anyone.

Comment Re:They have no choice (Score 1) 137

Numerous US states are going to ban new ICE sales , eg california by 2035. Ditto in the EU and UK also by 2035.

If it wasn't for the political intervention EVs would still be a very niche purchase and Tesla wouldn't be anything like the size of the company it is now.

You can argue whether its good or bad but its the way it is now.

You're being modded down because someone disagrees with you politically, but at its root, Honda's decision to build these factories IS an inherently political one. EV adoption is largely being driven by mandate, not by choice. Honda is making a calculated gamble: that the mandates will stay in place, and people will HAVE to buy an EV one day. This will make EV's profitable eventually... as long as the mandates stay in place.

Time will tell if this pays off for them.

Comment Re:FreeDOS? (Score 2) 82

As you seems you need something more modern and with source available:
Have you given FreeDOS a try?

Most companies wont touch anything in production without corporate support and support contracts. The words "Community Support" fills them with dread. They want a phone number they can dial if things go sideways.

Comment Re:surprisngly easy to compile (Score 1) 82

the binaries fit on a single 3 1/2" HD disk

If you were installing it to a hard drive. Back in the day, some people still ran everything on their floppy drives. There's a link somewhere below showing the install menu, giving you the option to install a floppy-only option across multiple floppy drives. Which meant that when you wanted to run different built-in DOS programs, you had to swap to a different floppy on the fly.

Steve Jobs apparently liked this way of doing things all the way into his early NeXT products, where everything ran from the optical drive, OS and applications included. It fit his idea of "elegant".

Comment Re:Anecdote (Score 2) 59

Just compare a Samsung S8 or S9 Ultra tablet to an iPad pro 10th gen and you will see what I am talking about.

I suspect it has far more to do with price than anything. iPhones are just too damned expensive, even on the low end. You can get a decently built, solidly performing Android phone for $200 or less. If you're not an iTunes user, or iMessage devotee, there just isn't any real reason to pick an Apple phone over an Android phone.

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