Comment Re:Where's The Meeting? (Score 1) 33
Meta's had enough of its people logging into meetings remotely from home: they'd prefer to have everyone log in remotely from their on- campus work station.
Comment Re:A troubling trend. (Score 5, Funny) 116
Ya, but once everything is available as cloud-only services, how much RAM and storage will us consumers really need?
640K, of course.
Comment Re:abd if you are in a noisy enviroment (Score 1) 235
No, there are at least two of us. But there are also a shit-ton of tech dweebs with a Star Trek fetish who are going to continue to churn out "innovations" that most people don't give a flying f**k about.
Comment Can't spell (Score 3, Funny) 30
Quote: "We need a reliable supply of the most advanced, high-performance and high-quality semiconductors," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a statement. "That's why we are so excited to work with Intel."
He apparently doesn't know how to spell AMD.
He apparently doesn't know how to spell AMD.
Comment Re:missed opportunity (Score 1) 88
They should have hired "Clippy" to MC the event.
Comment Re:Old school oblig (Score 2) 53
Yes, but Crysis is still a choppy mess.
Comment Re:Funny Letter (Score 1) 95
This is the part that made me laugh the hardest:
Meta needs to re-build confidence with investors, employees and the tech community in order to attract, inspire, and retain the best people in the world.
His plan to attract and retain people is to fire 20% of the current staff. The "best people in the world" will stay far away from any company with that kind of policy.
He's just blurting out strings of buzzwords that sound coherent if you don't examine then too closely: typical for people of his ilk. Maybe Facebook should hire him!
Comment Re:Edgerunners (Score 1) 48
That's a little unfair: the game was indeed a shallow, buggy mess, but most of the major bugs have been solved. It is now simply a shallow mess.
Comment Re:Black Beardless Dwarves (Score 1) 120
Years of exposure to coal dust?
Comment Re: Good for them on that last comment (Score 1) 120
In the novel, the Nazgul was frightened away by an approaching troupe of elves who were heading for the Grey Havens. The hobbits actuallly spent the night with them and continued on their journey the next morning.
Comment Re:Ooooooo, two years!!! (Score 1) 18
Yes, I'd accept that. And also anything else that doesn't imply that two years of subpar VC funding during the height of the pandemic is a prelude to a worldwide financial Armegeddon.
Comment Ooooooo, two years!!! (Score 1) 18
Is anybody else soiling themselves at the thought of a TWO YEAR low in VC capital investment? Definitely time to head for the hills and cannibalism is very much on the table (see what I did there?). /s
Comment CryptoSpeak to English (Score 1) 66
CryptoSpeak: "We want our community to know that our objective continues to be stabilizing our liquidity and operations"
English: "We're broke".
English: "We're broke".
Comment Re:That's 'cos (Score 1) 46
and, because no one has booted Win 1.0 in the last 37 years (OK, maybe it was 36 years ago).
Comment Re:New 'Game-Changing' Technology Removes 99% of C (Score 1) 165
I'm not sure that they will, because the people who will be getting wealthy from this technology won't cease their operations until they have completely depleted the atmosphere of CO2. You know, corporate greed, and all that stuff? The same stuff that got us where we are today.
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