Hildon? Seriously? I guess maemo-leste technically still exists, and no one can stop you from getting it up and running, but you won't have a good time.

Phosh ain't bad though, and squeakboard is adequate.

Plasma Mobile tries too hard to feel like Android. I heard they're using a new OSK, but I haven't tried it. The old one was inadequate (no tab, ctrl, alt, super, f-keys, arrow keys, etc).

Solar-powered LPR cameras ain't exactly inconspicuous.

Replacing customer service reps with a chatbot is a great way to get rid of customers.

They've had a spell-check feature since the first release. They added "enhanced" spell-check in v28.

A canvas and drawing API. A native JIT compiler. A WASM VM.

Yeah. Stuff users actually want their browser to be able to do. Again, (other than the WASM VM) stuff that's been there since the first release.

And of course, none of that crap is four gigabytes per user.

And they silently install additional software Y a decade after you installed software X. You installed software X many years before software Y even existed.

I installed a web browser 15 years ago, and now it's doing crazy shit.

My office has horse parking. The law requiring businesses to provide it is still on the books in my state. However, nobody parks their horse there, but some folks chain their bicycles to it. There's no trough.

If they stop the movie halfway through to run ads, I'll burn down the fucking theater.

Does anyone remember when the US State of Massachusetts went to switch to OpenOffice and the ODF file formats? The MS-MiBs were all over the place making sure MA senators got trips to One Microsoft Way for a bit of the 'flashy thing'. Then the MS-MiB sent out worldwide to MS-ISVs with checks and scripts in hand to flood the ISO in order to vote MS-OOMXL( MS-Office Open XML ) format as an international standard so the Massachusetts government could vote it as their open standards format for public documents.

The MS-MiB were sent out worldwide to shut down the One Laptop Per Child initiative so that poor children around the world wouldn't be forced to use a Linux based laptop which could operate for 8 hours on a charge, be charged with a hand crank and was readable in full sun besides having built-in mesh networking. The MS-MiB have been instrumental in other things too. Like when school districts across the US were getting notices of required district wide licensing audits costing many $10s of thousands of dollars or sign new license agreements with the MS-MiB folks. When a couple of districts rescinded their licenses and switched everything over to Linux and started to show other school districts how they too could do it. Did the MS-MiB get recalled back to One Microsoft Way.

Tucked neatly under the MS-Marketing department lives the MS-MiB offices and if they've been reduced over the recent years, surely France has given them reason to throw a few hundreds of millions of dollars into upgrading the offices.

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Oh... How will Hubble do, since it runs a 486 DX 4 ? :)

Why would they build a machine which just does what humans do in the field instead of building a stationary machine in a factory which builds 20' long sections which fit on a Semi trailer( 2 sections end to end and 2 sections side by side ) and then just have a standard crane on wheels run the sections out onto pre-installed posts? They are talking about "utility scale" installations so the ground has been leveled and prepped so it's not like the custom layouts needed for root-top distributed solar installations.

It seems short sighted when companies build robots which just mimic what humans do with our limited 2 short arms and 5 digit hands.

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Including DOB goes above and beyond what the state of California is demanding. They just demand to report that I'm over 18.

Were the product key labels fake? That wasn't stated in the brief, only that she was said to have "illegally trafficked MS product key labels".
It's more like someone purchasing a case of valid store product coupons for cheap, finding a way to market them to the public selling them for a bit more than she paid. Just look at what she was charged with, ie not providing the software with the product key labels.

This reminds me of when Microsoft send their goons after school districts across the US threatening license verification processes costing 10s of thousands of dollars or else relicense the latest versions of Microsoft software. They only stopped when a couple of school districts removed Windows and Microsoft software and installed Linux and open source software AND did a presentation at the annual schools IT conference on how they saved 100s of thousands of dollars annually by dumping Microsoft.

Hopefully she finds some lawyers willing to take up the appeal and expose how this is a corporate policy failure, not a criminal action.
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That's what a Dell salesman told me when I complained that BIOS takes forever. But... as a sysadmin, part of my job is to setup servers. So I do waste a large amount of my time waiting for servers to boot up, even though later on they never do need to (re)boot. I wish coreboot gained adoption on the server space. But no, we keep getting stupid Dell and HPe slow boot. And don't even get me started on AMI BIOS: these are a no-go for us.

That's "Rocksmith +" which is a different product.

They still sell the old RS2014, but it doesn't come with any songs, as they only had licenses to sell songs for 10 years.

They still sell some of the newer DLC. The last DLC (Opeth, fuck yeah!) was released in 2020, so that will likely be available until May 2030. Of course, there is little reason to bother with official DLC for RS2014, as there is a mountain of unofficial goodies over on Customsforge.

Really, the only good thing about Rocksmith+ is that it has a regular guitar tab view as an option.