I wanted a weekend driver and got myself a 2014 Boxster, no way in hell that would have been an automatic, that car is for fun and has nothing to do with any 'retro' crap. I wouldn't be caught dead driving an EV though.

Even if the history of Russian 'import substitution' weren't littered with farces where someone gets a gold star for domestically producing tractors...from imported Polish kits with the serial numbers filed off...or the like; "game console" seems like a strikingly hard target, especially relative to its value.

It's a consumer product, rather than the state or state owned or heavily influenced companies being the customer, so there's a lot less leverage in terms of just making 'domestically produced' patriotic and mandatory; and it's a toy that only some people are even interested in, so it's even more difficult to distinguish between people who don't buy Super Motherland 3 because they just don't play video games and ones who don't buy it because they are playing Genshin Impact on something imported from China or a cracked copy of CoD on the wintel they say they use for work. Obviously possible, if you wanted to divert even more statesec guys from keeping an eye on planned terrorist attacks in order to do traffic analysis to look for game pirates; but not obviously worth the trouble.

It's also a pretty demanding category: customers tend to be pretty cost-sensitive and tend to expect frankly remarkable levels of hardware and software punch that are deliverable only thanks to mass production at all levels(whether you are talking ICs, game engines, asset packs, or very large numbers of sales of the final product). This isn't some military thing where you'd like more; but it's workable, and arguably worth it, to be able to reliably deliver domestic clones of some 20-year-old TI DSP even at twice the market price. Unless you are running a crackdown on the alternatives that would make North Korea blink that's not going to work on the gaming side: expectations are high and prices are low; and 'good enough' is defined in large part relative to what other people have, rather than to specific requirements.

I run a number of companies, I am not under illusion that my companies are here forever, however I also am against government bailing out my companies should they fail. They should be then restructured or shut down, whatever. I haven't worked for someone permanently since 2000, so I don't understand this idea that there shouldn't be unemployment or emoyment should be at 100% and I am against government setting that up as well, as it means unnecessary money spent on jobs that shouldn't exist. Yes, I am against government bailing out anyone, I am against government taxing work, income of any kind, preventing businesses from making their own decisions What exactly do you think a government drone knows about running any business, mine or yours or whatever business? However they can bail it out and create amazing amounts of waste dojng it.

It is completely unnecessary to spend tax money to support any company, be it a bank, a hospital, a private rocket launcher, a farm or a software company. Of course all of this is done, all of this is wrong and all of this just breeds incompetence, corruption and graft. Governments shouldn't decide what business lives or dies, it should be exclusively done by competing in the open markets. Imagine how much money is wasted maintaining things that shouldn't even exist, money that could be spent productively, on things people actually need.... money is time measured in life hours.

Instead we should turn everything into indestructible plastic instead, because biodegradable plastic will release CO2.

At least on initial inspection "bespoke teams" and "long-term collaboration" sounds like they will be at odds with one another:

I'm curious whether the assumption is just that people who aren't the author are fungible cogs to be picked up and discarded with as much 'agility' as possible; or if they believe that first-time authors getting decent sized advances is an inefficiency and they seek to rectify that by ensuring that authors who don't sell can be discarded at minimal cost; just with a less-depressing focus on the part where authors who do sell do get paid.

DOT.... they should talk, after doing what they have done that raised the number of deaths due to commercial trucks now operating at maximum speed with completely tired drivers due to all the stuff they did since the 2019... the results were as expected, which means 'nobody could have seen it coming' in political speak. They would never admit to being complete idiots, now they want more control over other stuff. They are going to get it.

ERP systems typically don't fail because of their databases or frontends(and, when they do, they tend to be big, huge, must-talk-to-all-the-legacy-systems-and-support-analysis-and-reporting-at-nontrivial-scale situations that isn't a trivial matter to handle with just some basic web experience). They fail because the process of capturing(and where necessary taking a hard look at and changing) all the business processes so that the dev side can implement them or make sure that they are handled by the product they've chosen is ugly and complex.

Similarly; nobody picks excel because of confusion about its power and capabilities: overwrought-but-inadequate excel is what happens when there is no effort, or no successful one, to get business practices codified into requirements that can be shoved over to the devs and implemented; so you get ad-hoc development of local bandaid tools; typically bolted together by a fair amount of manual copy-paste and futzing; implemented in whatever the people who are familiar with the processes are familiar with. Not uncommonly excel ends up being that; as it's at a pretty favorable intersection between "power" and "number of basically nontechnical users at least partially qualified to work with it".

You don't know me, so it doesn't matter. I fly maybe 50 times a year, seriously. I drive a few cars, I do drive quite a bit in some days, and I have to 'charge' (buy gas at a pump) somewhere in the middle of a day, I have to do this fast and keep going because of business and because of many personal things I have to do. This entire thing doesn't work for me at all. I buy plane tickets without long planning, I mean I buy them and fly the next day most of the time, I purchase them on the way back (I don't know from where I will be flying back), basically this is what I consider normal life and what I consider necessities of life. There is no chance I would have time in my day to plan my day around charging my work car, which is just a mode of transportation and it has to be ready in the moment's notice at any time. I also have a car, that I drive for fun for example, it's not an electric, it's a fun car, I like it. I don't actually like electric cars, I get sick in them, I could get one when they get good but just as a curiosity.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs... what improvement in air quality though?

and this is without a significant number of EVs on the roads. How about actually doing something useful, like building nuclear power plants and shutting down coal and oil and gas ones before attacking individual freedoms, which is obviously what this move to subsidize EVs at the expense of freedoms is?

You are mistaken, this is not progress, this is pure dictatorship. There is nothing progressive about Lithium Ion batteries for example. Just because green or white paint is used on some battery pack, doesn't make it any more green in a country where most electricity is produced by natural gas and coal.

if you are the dictator.
Government has legitimacy due to the silent agreement of the governed. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is itâ(TM)s natural manure.

Certainly there will be EVs, maybe I will own a few, who knows. It is not the cost of it that stops me, I like to enjoy my freedom to drive whatever I can purchase and I am not going to be slowed down by charge times. I am just curious which will be the straw that will break the back of this, very patient camel?

shouldn't you have to prove such accusations? All /. comments are open for everyone to see, provide proof of your accusations. The fact that I am at -1 here is the result of multiple votes by whatever moderators, who disagree with opinions, however you have to provide some sort of proof for the accusations you are throwing around.

It's like a business card in some circles I think, they exchange those for contact purposes somehow.

5 and a half years for showing the world that he has... he is a dick, that's a curious amount of time though. I don't fully understand the sentencing for this act, not that it is excessive, it's just unclear how anyone arrives at that number? Also if everyone, with their dick out is going to be jailed, we will probably have to build more jails.