Comment Re:AI killed desktop Linux (Score 1) 44
It is 10% of gamers in English speaking countries.
It is 10% of gamers in English speaking countries.
How is this profitable to them? They sell the same TV all over the world. AFAIK the US is the only company with a monopolist controlling TV listing guides. This monopolist changes them a monthly fee for every active TV, Sony getting no further revenues. I haven't looked in a while but you as a consumer, can also subscribe to this service. I think they want $3/mth from retail customers. I haven't dealt with this in over ten years so I am forgetting the details.
It is because the directory info comes from a US company with a monopoly and they charge exorbitant amounts of money for it and then use copyright to shutout competitors. Tribune Corp used to own it (Chicago Tribune the Wriggly family, those monopolists).
Booking was also been taking over by American private equity around then. Who doesnt care about long term health or data security.
If it can not do the exact same equally good for closed software projects IT IS NOT CLEAN ROOM.
We were talking about naked shorts. Which even the corrupt US market made illegal 20 years ago
No it is not necessary. Most stock markets don't even allow it. Just the ones in corrupt failing countries
Is it disrespectful liking your own home? I guess you lot are very disrespectful then.
No pre 9/11 they had a stupid questionary, but were always upbeat, and kept repeating "welcome to the greatest country on Eath" even as you rolled your eyes at them.
I was told he invented quicksort in college while learning about bubblesort and being told that was the fastest known way, though lower bound should be possible, but no such algorithm had been found. Then he suggested quicksort to the professor..
No it means a buggy product not yet ready for production.
Well, they have way more security bugs after moving from 6 week releases to 4 week releases, so they are trying to fix it by moving to 2 week releases
The original native greenlanders were wiped out by the current greenlanders 600 years ago. Not by Europeans
Last year, Trump was in power. If you meant two years ago, that was when all big US IT firms had their post-covid hiring freezes..
You don't buy cables in big box electronics stores they have ~1000% markup. You need to buy online or in the early 2000s in small electronics store, or hobby electronics stores. If he was paying close to the cheapest option in Best Buy he was still paying 10x more than he should.
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.