I thought that was one of the worst casting decisions in history.

I like Patrick Stewart as an actor, but he was about as wrong a Gurney Halleck as possible (and that includes casting a five year old girl for the part).

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Gurney_Halleck

High Five! A Covid and Computer Security reference in one line!

There fixed it for you.

Only a real man with balls of titanium would fly into space dressed like that.

I'm sure they keep track of many different measurements of viewers' habits and the 2 minute one is probably the one that gives them the best bragging rights on "Squid Games".

What's interesting is that all the people I know who gave up and didn't want to see any more, did so at around episode 7. So by using your 50% duration criterion, they'd all be considered as having "watched".

I think the best metric will be how many will watch season 2.

Sorry, you're right I meant the 407.

If I want to go across Toronto in anything other than the dead of night, chances are I'm going to be caught in construction or traffic and I'm going to be spending a lot of my time sitting in my car waiting. Probably the most gas efficient route is to use the 427 toll highway but that's not cheap (which is why it's not heavily loaded and avoids sitting in your car with the engine running) - using it will add at least $10 to the cost of the trip. To use it from my house in the west end of the city to my father's (23.5km), just east of the middle will cost $12.16 according to the online cost calculator. I know a lot of other cities in North America have exactly the same options.

So, I can't think that very many people will use this tool if the answer results in a higher pocketbook cost even though you are saving putting a bit of carbon in the atmosphere.

He was well and truly mourned - take a look at the /. archives.

$10k was very crazy for a computer - the average wage in 1983 was $15,239.24 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_Indexed_Monthly_Earnings).

I don't know where you got the idea "Apple sold so many of them" - the Lisa was widely regarded as a sales failure and one of the reasons why Jobs was fired from Apple (https://medium.com/macoclock/why-steve-jobs-was-fired-from-apple-81484f0d514a).

Yet another thing Musk is better at than Bezos?

Is there anything about people's lives that Amazon doesn't want to monitor?

I was working for IBM at the time (spring 1983) as a student and got roped into doing a product announce presentation for the PC XT (basically a PC with a harddrive). Honestly, the IBM announcement was a big yawn with some new features but nothing revolutionary, but they wanted to make a big splash of it and Apple horned in on the event.

Jobs managed to get Apple up first and started out by saying that Apple was the future and you could see it in the casual clothes they wore - not the blue pin stripes of the old generation (I remember feeling relieved because I wore a camel hair sports jacket). He went on to trash the PC XT as nothing to see there. He did do a good introduction of the Lisa but things really fell flat for him when he announced the price ($9,995 USD) and you could see him get irritated at the rumblings from the audience.

After the presentations everybody got a chance to try out the computers. IBM had a really nice demo showing how the XT really changed the PC experience - I knew the XT wasn't that great but there was a regular PC with floppies and an XT both running Lotus 1-2-3 and XT really showed off well. I think IBM announced an IBM branded 80x25 character colour display (for the CGA adapter) at the time as well as coax terminal adapter cards which really gave the impression that the XT was ready to be at people's desks.

I remember trying out the Lisa and it was fun bringing up windows and moving them around. There were no applications other than a drawing program and a basic editor and any time the disk was accessed it was slow, deadly slow. I was talking about my thoughts to another IBMer which included stating that the Lisa cost as much as a new Porsche 924 and from what I saw I'd rather have the car. Jobs was behind me and called me an asshole who couldn't see that the future was the Lisa - he was pulled away by Apple salesman and nobody saw him again. I did get an apology from some Apple guys and was told "Steve gets like that".

If you have to change one part unexpectedly (which is where we are today), you have to requalify the entire subsystem. This will involved some kind of testing, often the full qualification.

Generally, because qualification testing is expensive and long, you test multiple builds of the subsystem with various replacement parts from different manufacturers so that you minimize the problems if a "jelly bean" part becomes unavailable.

The problem is now that even the most basic of silicon isn't available (ie we're looking for 3.3V LDOs) and car companies have to decide whether to get creative or wait for the qualified parts to become available as the lead time to redesign a board and run it through the life testing takes just about the same amount of time.

Why would you assume less "QA testing is required if you use fewer chips"? Do you have any idea what's involved in automotive testing? If you're qualifying a box for use in the car, why would you assume that it would take less work Qualifying it for use in the vehicle if the box has one chip in it rather than 50? The same number of production representative prototypes will have to go through the same environmental tests, for the same amount of time, with the same variations in temperature, humidity, moisture (with and without salt), changing power levels, vibration and possibly G-Levels. The automotive environment is really challenging and testing electronics to work in it is not trivial nor can it be minimized by sweeping everything up in one chip.

Your "guarantee" isn't worth the bits used to store the statement. Why don't you count up how many chips are in the seven devices you've quoted? You'll find that each device has at least 500. Each one has a processor and a support chip, but there are a myriad of power management, driver (especially for LCD displays), communications, buffer and logic on the PCBs in the different devices. You probably don't think of them as "chips" but they're silicon and they're using the same technology as used in cars (although the versions used in cars are built to higher standards).

I'll stop here because you're clearly making demands towards multiple industries and disciplines you don't know anything about.

Why weren't executive bonuses (as well as any form of compensation over and beyond their salaries) suspended for companies that received these funds?

I know that people will cry "It's the free market" but I suspect that with many of companies, although it isn't spelled out in TFA, that the customers that were shut off didn't have the opportunity to shop around for electricity providers. So they had a government mandated monopoly and still did this.

At the very least, the governments that provided these funds should claw them back and really should be dropping the CEOs of these companies in Fairbanks Alaska in February in buildings without electricity.