Sony never actually made "Compact Flash" cards. They made XDQ, CFexpress Type A and Type B cards. Compact Flash is effectively a legacy format and that market very much is dominated by Sandisk.

in the XDQ and CFexpress space there were a lot of new entrants into the market. Among some of the best are OWC and Angelbird, both of which can punch above Lexar's weight. Sandisk is effectively not competing in this space. They produce only bottom tier cards with their Extreme Pro being about 1/4 of the speed of the heavy weights, and their Pro Cinema line being better but not great. Lexar can match performance but get dominated by OWC on price (historically, not sure about now). Sony are competitive with the high end in this space but nothing to write home about.

No one here is talking about memory sticks. The memory stick was abandoned 7 years ago. We're talking CF express cards and SD cards in Sony's Tough line.

I mean it's a nice guess, but back in reality land a quick google search could have shown that they are price competitive with other CFexpress cards in their class. Yeah you'll find cheaper, but pair that with slower. Many people need memory cards that actually meet performance criteria. For "nobody buying them" they certainly had a very complete product catalogue spanning many different types, mid end to the high end, from last decades capacity, to current cutting edge.

If no one was buying them then they would consolidate their product line, not cancel every possible related storage device type. Your theory doesn't just fail occam's razor, it fails the drunken pub test. It makes no sense.

Then you make the claim and use discover to prove. Your "more likely" case still demonstrates complete negligence.

https://www.ibm.com/history/th...
"An ad hoc lecture [from 1915] from IBMâ(TM)s future CEO spawned a slogan to guide the company through a century and beyond"

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"And we must study through reading, listening, discussing, observing and thinking. We must not neglect any one of those ways of study. The trouble with most of us is that we fall down on the latter -- thinking -- because it's hard work for people to think. And, as Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler said recently, 'all of the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.' (Thomas Watson, IBM)"

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"All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. (Nicholas Murray Butler, often misattributed to Thomas J. Watson)"

So, yeah, echoing your point, make programmers do the hardest parts of their job all the time -- especially reviewing code from inconsistent-to-put-it-politely AI contributors -- and no wonder they feel "fried".

Does AI support for programming need to be this way? I might hope not, but we are also mainly hearing about AI used within a short-term-profit-maximizing hyper-competitive corporate social context. Like I say in my sig: "The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity."

"The Spoils of War" by Andrew Cockburn. Goes way back to American soldiers having to steal boots off dead Chinese soldiers in Korea to get decent boots, their feet were freezing off.

"The Pentagon Wars" by Col. James F Burton. Burton was part of the 1980s "Fighter Mafia" who got the F-16 built, against Pentagon tendencies for every new plane to be twice the weight and twice the cost of the last one. (The F-35 continues the tradition.) They were the ones who publicized the $400 hammer and $600 toilet seat.

Cockburn laments that people thought it only applied to some things, when their point was that every $1 lightbulb on the console was $25 to replace.

Burton notes that one Army logistics guy got the price of a single uranium bullet down from $80 to $4 by whipsawing two suppliers into real competition, another reduction every purchasing round, for years. That guy gave a presentation to a roomful of Stars on it, and came back to his desk to find retirement papers waiting. Or a transfer to Thule. His choice.

Maybe in the book. In the movie there is no science.

Although I don't think I can come up with ANY plausible explanation for the magical bugs.

Those are both the same stalker troll, I've seen it post over a dozen replies to a single post of mine, pretty much all pro-US propaganda. A lot of its post are just bot-like, and may be a poorly programmed bot, but the rest indicate a truly pitiful life. It may be the same one who stalks rsilvergun, although not quite as fanatically.

The 'Business Ethics' classes are what taught the up and coming execs that ROI, share price, and quarterly results are the only thing that matters.

Hate me? Motherfucker if I caught my children smoking they'd be out on the street, disowned, and I'd be in the bedroom making a replacement for their sorry asses. Parenting isn't about letting young idiots (which they universally are) who are incapable of making good choices do whatever they want. That's "bad parenting". It's the reason we don't treat kids as adults in the first place (and one of the reasons selling this stuff to them is already illegal).

You're missed the biggest benefit: You can quickly identify those people who make poor life decisions.

That's a misnomer, you still should bring cash. It's not that plastic isn't widely accepted. For a long time it's actually been more widely used in Western Europe than it has been in the USA. It is *CREDIT CARDS* that are not widely accepted (and still not in much of Europe). Most of Europe runs on debit transactions. Yes it can be confusing to see two overlapping circles and confuse the Mastercard logo (red and yellow) with the Maestro symbol (red and blue) or the Cirrus symbol (light blue and blue).

Come here with your fancy Mastercard / Visas and you may not even be able to buy something at a major supermarket even in a very digital country. And god help you if you have an Amex card.

That said things are changing Mastercard has announced it will discontinue Maestro and that is forcing countries to massively rollout card readers capable of reading Debit MasterCards and VisaDebit cards, and since they have the same underlying technology as credit transactions, that will mean credit cards will very soon become far more widely accepted.

This is a case of a captive audience. If in general machines don't accept credit cards then the complaints will fall on deaf ears. What are you doing to do, drive to a different supercharger and hope for the best? Call roadside assistance when your battery runs out? It's one of the situations where you get to force your customers to do what you want.

That is coming. Quite a few cars on the market support auto-negotiation of the charging. It does work for Tesla... at Tesla chargers. Great if you have a monoculture, not so much if you live in Europe where there are literally close to 100 different companies offering charging infrastructure.

That said most of them offer "network" style subscriptions, which is to say you apply for something like a Shell Charge card and you can tap and go literally anywhere. Yeah it would be nicer for the car to do that automatically, but really you need to stand next to the charger to plug the cable in anyway so it's not like tapping your charge card at an RFID reader is a hassle. So far I've yet to find a single charger that didn't work in my "network" of allowed chargers.

Says who? Not me... are you reading the right thread? Maybe we should ban Slashdotting under the influence of alcohol or whatever hallucinogen made you come up with that post as well, save you from yourself.

You'd be very wrong. Sony hasn't made camera sensors in a decade. They spun off Sony Semiconductor Solutions as an independent company back in 2016. Also Sony makes a loss on Playstation, but you are close to correct there, 60% of their profit is gaming. A lot of the rest is music and film, followed by professional gear.

Most of the storage / memory business is neither designed nor manufactured in China. There's nothing to design here. It's a chip bought from *Korea* or Taiwan slapped into a small plastic case.

Literally everyone other than you from the looks of things. Certainly everyone who has a Sony video camera professional or amateur, or a Sony mirrorless professional or amateur all of which I wonder if you know about...

I guess that answers that question. This sounds like a *you* problem.

Yeah the company that made $81billion selling products you don't know nothing about about is "dead". Gotchya buddy.