Microsoft supplied €200 million per quarter for 2 years to Nokia to switch to Windows Phone. Listed as "Platform Support Payment" in Nokia's financial reporting. Stephen Elop believed this would give Nokia time to dig itself out of the hole it was in. That revenue stream is probably what sold Windows Phone to Nokia's Board.

Yeah, Reddit's what finally replaced /. as my homepage.

I'm back for at least the next few days now though. Maybe longer...

The problem is there is a huge increase in accidents and as a consequence deaths and serious injury in the days after the time change.

This isn't a theoretical thing, it is something that happens now, every year. Not changing times would largely eliminate these issues as people wouldn't be struggling with the interruption to their sleep schedules. (Both the kids walking and people driving)

Keeping kids safe walking to school is a problem that has already been solved - better road infrastructure that prioritises pedestrians rather than cars, enforced (lower) speed limits, etc.

Legacy G-Suite admins get to opt-out of AdSense so Google has likely not been tracking or showing ads in gmail for those users on the free tier.

I've been (for personal use) using Legacy G-Suite almost since the start. I would say keeping the users they promised free forever even if they are businesses is fair. All those users effectively beta-tested Google Workspace in a way that Google wasn't likely to be able to recreate on their own.

The Google of 2022 is a very different company to the Google of 2007/2008 that created this situation though. Back then Google was keen on doing cool stuff for free. These days the company seems to have grown up and realised that they, like pretty much all other businesses, need to actually return a profit on pretty much everything they do.

There isn't really any proof that Waymo vehicles are driverless, only that the driver isn't in the vehicle. If you compare a dozen dubiously driverless vehicles to a million collecting data every moment and already doing a pretty good job at autonomy, which do you think will succeed?

The fact that the driver is not in the vehicle does not mean that there is no driver.

I believe that this was figured out in the amateur observer community before NASA confirmed it. I saw it go by in my twitter feed. Not sure I can find it now...

Linear Energy Transfer

It's not radioactive. When high-energy particles strike it, they break apart into lower-energy particles that are more harmful. So, you need enough shielding to catch the particles that break apart in the top layer of your shielding.

While radiation mostly results in transient errors, it can also cause latch-ups that blow a gate off of the die. For rad-hard equipment in space this is mitigated by silicon-on-insulator fabrication, so that you can't have a latch-up between the substrate and a silicon feature.

We could have REAL ZOMBIES! YEAH!

:-)

I hear you. Going to be an interesting future, if we live.

Someone who broke their neck and was suffering from paralysis. You can control a chair or exoskeleton. People who can not hear today have cochlear implants, this is not all that different and might (eventually) work better. Or speak, or see. Other people who are disabled in various ways.

Oops. To continue: I'm just not seeing that it is so hard to access. But then, I use a Linux desktop, which has always come with a proper PDF renderer, there has never been a need to download "Acrobat".

Web pages use SVG to render vector graphics. It uses the exact same imaging model as PDF and is implemented in all modern browsers. The web in general has taken a lot of lessons from Adobe because Warnock and Geshke, in the PostScript Red Book, got so much right about how to build an image model that many GUI developers are still learning today. If you start with a PDF, it should be possible to machine-translate it to SVG and present it as a web page.

PDF exists because it is trivial to generate it from the document renderer meant for printing. Although I have once in a while run into an improperly scaled PDF meant to be printed 8-up, I'm just not

Lithium battery fires are in the news because they are new. There are many more gasoline fires every day.