For all their faults, Ma Bell was exceeding five 9's uptime/availability back in the 1970's regardless of any underlying technology or layer of infrastructure. As to your comment, - false dichotomy. There is a wide range in between the two extremes.
More to the point, if they don't collect personally identifiable information, how do they know that you've paid.
That is so true it hurts.
You "win" the internet today for best gem of a quote. I'm stealing that.
Well, this summary is based on a story from someone quoting a story in The Guardian. Not the best way to get accurate news on science.
Funny enough a STB even last decade were using the 6502 in the ACP chip!
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That's an extreme formulation. It does imply that certain efficiencies would be equivalent to perpetual motion, but if the amount of energy required were sufficient to offset the gain in relativistic mass & potential energy I don't believe the argument fails. And it might be able to use half that energy, as the contradiction doesn't occur until it returns to the origin. And there's no thermodynamic reason that staying stable in a gravitational field should require any energy. (Anything in orbit is an example of that.)
I don't believe that this device will work, but I believe that your argument doesn't work either.
It's not a term for which there is a "generally accepted" definition. It's slang, which is widely variable between sub-populations.
The general idea of "drone" is usually someone who's useless.
The general idea of "suit" is someone who dresses excessively formally.
These are both judgements based on the perceptions of the one doing the describing.
Having biometrics is equivalent to having a physical key.
Fingerprints specifically are a password you can never change that you leave copies of everywhere you go. It's the worst possible "security" imaginable. It's just convenient.
Thanks for the update!
I didn't think Circuit City would last when they did their artificially limited play time with their proprietary DIVX set-top players. Looks like CC shutdown in 2009 and got sold/rebranded as TigerDirect.
I see there is a documentary called "A Tale of Two Cities: The Circuit City Story" where the website pokes fun of Collin's "From Good To Great" label by saying it is a tale of two cities:
* from good to great
* from great to gone
Ouch!
> if I threw darts at a wall with a list of companies, I probably could have done just as well in making picks.
I've heard that criticism before. Thanks for confirming that it isn't just a "one-off" opinion.
> So I guess it is a win-win for Collins, either way he gets to write more books?
Yup,
* if the companies stay in business he gets to write another book "See, I was right!", or
* if the companies go out of business he gets to write another book "See, I was right!"
Pretty sweet gig being a pundit. You get to write more books regardless of the success/failure.
> most business leaders are idiots and are terrible at managing their businesses.
Kind of shocking just how many businesses fail in the first X years:
* ~20% fail within the 1st year
* ~30% fail within the 2nd year
* ~40% fail within the 3rd year
* ~50% fail within the 5th year
* ~66% fail by their 10th year
* ~80% fail by their 20th year
Any other good business management books that are worth reading?
Under current policies, public debt in the U.S. is projected to nearly double by 2053. The IMF identified “large fiscal slippages” in the U.S. in 2023, with government spending surpassing revenue by 8.8% of GDP – a 4.1% increase from the previous year, despite strong economic growth.
If this trend continues, the Congressional Budget Office anticipates the national debt will grow to an astonishing $54 trillion in the next decade. Higher interest rates are also compounding the pain of higher debt.
Should that debt materialize, it could risk America’s economic standing in the world.
The IMF is talking down to Washington like we’re a Third World country because that’s the direction Washington is taking us.
Interest payments alone on the current debt is $1.6T/year.
"We have a culture of vibrant, open discussion..."
Except when employees take action against the company's bottom line.
Today it is the executives, tomorrow it will be the workers.
1. Has ANY company tried this and it saved them?
2. How many TOTAL hours per week is this?? I highly doubt this will be 6 2/3 hours x 6 days but the article doesn't say. What happened to the 6 hour workdays ?
Switching to 8 hours x 6 days isn't going to fixing the fundamental problem. Someone in management needs to read "From Good to Great", "Built to Last" among other management books. IMHO Samsung needs to:
* look at their core business,
* look at their entire supply chain costs,
* pivot their (core?) business where it makes sense.
Working even more hours is a "Hail Mary" pass pretty much guaranteed to fail causing more burnout as home-life balance is nonexistent. Don't be surprised if Samsung is out of business in 10 years. I'll miss their NVMe drives.
You are absolutely right 99% of people are too complacent to switch.
However, you are forgetting that over time Linux users AND open source users are growing. i.e. For me 7-Zip killed the commercial file archivers (pkzip, winrar, etc.)
More and more software works on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Switching from proprietary vendor lock-in to open source alternatives (where it makes sense) is how to get people to switch. OpenOffice / LibreOffice, Blender, Krita already provide great alternatives.
The harder MS shoves their agenda down everyone's throats the easier it is to finally come across "the straw that broke the camel's back." Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but maybe next year, or in 5 years, or in 10. Cue "THIS year is the year of the Linux desktop".
For me, games have been the biggest reason I haven't made my daily driver Linux but with the new games coming out there is less and less "need" to stay on Windows. The more and more they add an in-game MTX store to games the less interested I am in them.
Valve is also doing a great job of having more and more games work under Linux. Support them when you can.
The best way to "proselytize" Linux is NOT to say anything but just to use it. Start small: 1 application here, another application there. Suggest open source alternative at work. So who cares if MS wins this battle (Win10) or that battle (win11); eventually they are going to lose the war as more and more people get fed up with SaaS and switch to open-source alternatives. From there is easier to eventually switch to Linux. The best way to "win the war" is 1 application at a time. Time is on our side. Linux already "won" on the Supercomputer and Mobile (Android) space. Desktop is next.
That's awesome you escaped "Microshaft's" tyranny. I mostly agree with you.
1. Affinity Photo is good if you still need to live on Windows. The Affinity suite offers a one-time fee opposed to Adobe nickel and diming. For open source GIMP is OK, Krita is awesome, Blender is awesome. Is there a good alternative to Substance Painter?
2. I don't use Quicken so I'm not locked in.
3. Not all work under Wine / Proton but more and more do which is fantastic.
4. Except us game devs who, you know, have to ship Windows or Console games. =P
5. I'm more a Vim person but Emacs is great too. OpenOffice / LibreOffice is great.
6. Curious what you use? OpenShot, Kdenlive, DaVinci Resolve, something else?
But yeah, Win10 is probably the last MS OS for me. Games are really the only thing holding me from switching my daily driver over to Linux and frankly with the way MTX greed has infected most new games I'm perfectly happy playing older games.
Same for YouTube Red:
"NO I don't want YouTube Red. I said NO the last time and the more you keep harassing me guarantees I never will want it.
STOP asking me every fucking time."
Remember to say hello to your bank teller.
