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Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 33

He's the CEO of a company whose value comes entirely from being a meme. Who do you think is going to run it? Also, he can't legally answer a lot of the questions they were asking him.

What questions that they asked, for which he said the answers were on the web site, can he not legally answer?

He clearly had an axe to grind with CNBC, given his multiple passive-aggressive mentions of how they predicted his downfall.

The one interviewer appeared to strike a body blow when she asked if his motivations were tied to a performance-based compensation package. All of GameStop's flailing malarky makes sense through that lens: the CEO was trying a hail mary, 'cause otherwise he gets didly-squat. Part of that malarky is claiming to own 5% of eBay when, as the main interviewer pointed out, most of that so-called ownership was through derivatives. This guy's a fraud. Time to short GameStop.

Comment Wow (Score 4, Informative) 33

The interview shows the CEO is kind of a jerk. He probably shouldn't be put in situations where communication is a requirement, like public interviews that are intended to help achieve an aggressive goal.

It's like he didn't understand he was on air during the conversation, despite the host clearly calling out that there was an audience listening.

The stark response from eBay is certainly understandable, having seen the interview.

Comment Re:Market forces at work (Score 1) 214

Agreed that the Mach-E is a terrible name. But how did they screw up such a guaranteed out-of-the-park home run with an electric Mustang? I mean the whole image of the Mustang is a sporty performance vehicle for the young and stupidly lead-footed. Mustangs are classically known for acceleration and EVs are wickedly good at that. I mean, if Ford were to create a 1965-styled electric Mustang, I shudder to think how many boomers would buy them. They were the dream car of an entire generation.

Ford, are you listening?

Comment Re:Wordpress and cPanel are awesome (Score 5, Interesting) 43

Each LMS has some amazing features and some features that make you want to go back to stone tablets.
Canvas was the first LMS we used. They always spoke about report card creation, but we got tired of waiting.
So another platform after a decade. Which swore they could import standard LMS exported content, but nope.
Back then it was a choice between roll-your-own Moodle, branded/hosted Moodle, Blackboard - experienced users said please no - and Canvas.
We were impressed by the test and backup instances, and that they were willing to try moving into K-12.
And that Canvas was built as a project after gauging dissatisfaction with existing platforms. Mostly Blackboard.
Problem? Invoke your backup instance. Not sure how something is going to fly? Try the test instance.
Working with others who have had Google Classroom - still no test instance, backups are third party, no student view.
Yes, the core of GC is free, but you're still getting mission-critical software from an ad company.
I've not kept up since we switched, but as bad as this is, this is an impressively long time to go without a crippling event.

Comment and an exploit will be published in 3, 2, 1 ... (Score 1) 89

As a friend of mine in an uncharacteristic fit of insight once said, as long as there is a decision point that can be discovered, yes and the code goes this way, no and the code goes that way, it is in principle possible to write a patch to circumvent any DRM.

Here, there is a timeout test.

Need I say more?

Comment Good to see Adobe is in the loop for this transiti (Score 1) 89

WWDC 2005. Jobs reminds devs that working in XCode has real benefits, in this case hitting the âoelittle toggle switchâ to build the Intel version of your PPC app. Theo Gray and his lead Mac dev Rob take the stage to show how Mathematica got ported in minutes. Very cool clip. Then they have Adobe exec come out and say how excited they are for Mac on Intel, thanks, gotta run. Alas, Adobe rolled their own, and in fact it was a year before they had Photoshop running on Intel.

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