Flexcube, the software in question, is made by Oracle, FWIW.

I mainly do statistical research using R, Stata, etc. Give me improved single-core and floating-point performance and I'll upgrade every year. Datasets are growing faster than computing power. And honestly I can't stand working in something like AWS' Jupyterlab in the cloud.

Most insightful commentary on the current internet I've seen in a long time.

My homepage is set to apnews.com.

In the US people were told explicitly to avoid going to the ER except for true emergencies, for fear that Chinese coronavirus could spread easily. My father had an emergency in April and called 911 to request an ambulance. The parametecs treated him at his home and told him to stay away from the ER unless his condition worsened.

That looks like it'd be a load of fun if other bikes weren't six inches away from you.

I'd love one assuming the kinks get worked out. Modern phones are often too big to fit comfortably in a pocket, especially jeans. I think folding the phone in half would be much more comfortable. Plus, this way the screen is protected from getting scratched.

Are you sure Lowes uses Linux? I thought they were an AIX shop.

I tried installing a few different versions (Fedora, Gentoo) on my old Surface Pro 1. Getting things like the pen, suspend and resume, the volume buttons, etc. to work properly proved to be too difficult -- things I'd found online for making regular laptops behave didn't seem to work. I use it in my workshop as a PC replacement, but using it as a 2-in-1 laptop/tablet doesn't seem possible with linux.

I've wasted many hours here. The news coverage has changed over the years, not always for the better, but I still keep coming back.

But it's not even a treaty. Obama never submitted it to the Senate for approval. The President cannot unilaterally commit the US to a wide-reaching international agreement. Blame Obama for not having the courage to fight with the Senate to make it a treaty.

You sound like an arrogant, condescending person.

What's missing with all these low-cost printers is a management team that can actually plan ahead, maintain inventory, and ship when you order. I hate the idea of having to pay a deposit, get on the waiting list, then (hopefully) get it a month or two later. Why don't they build inventory before flaunting their wares?

I ordered an Ez3D Phoenix back in May, got asked to pay the remaining half of the invoice in September, and still haven't gotten it. Fortunately it wasn't expensive. Otherwise I'd be tempted to sue for fraud just to make their lives miserable.

Seriously, these outfits need to learn how to run a business.

xboing is my all-time favorite game. I wasted many hours in the late '90's playing it on a Sun workstation and later on linux. It's too bad it doesn't seem to be available any more, and none of the more recent games like it are as good in my opinion.

I'll admit I bought a Nokia 920 when it came out, thinking WP8 along with the supposedly great camera would make for a great phone. Long story short, I'm going to get an Android phone this weekend. WP8 has a lot of nice ideas, but like everything MS, they managed to throw in enough lemons to make it a mediocre product overall.