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Comment "talking into"? (Score 1) 67

"Microsoft, tactically admitting it has failed at talking all the Windows 10 PC users into moving to Windows 11 after all..." Sheesh, I am WAITING for the CHANCE to upgrade to Windows 11! I keep my ASUS laptop fully updated via Windows Update all the time. At the top there is a colorful invitation to upgrade to 11. I try it regularly, I've gone down the "see if you system can support Windows 11" path, the answer is yes, but finally I must wait until "Windows 11 update is ready for your model". When, WHEN, I ask! Will it be before the Windows 10 support ends??

Comment An indication.. (Score 1) 286

Culture tends to pervade an organization.. and usually flows down from the top. As the discussion reported in the article is centered on the competent management of details, I think it is relevant that I found this typo while reading the front page of the bcachefs web site: "...bcache already has a reasonably good track record for reliability Starting from there...." Just a proofreading would have caught that. So I imagine there may very well be such oversights in the code as well.

Comment morphing (Score 1) 56

In the end, as paradigm shift does ruin some lives and expectations, don't there end up new industries and new work? I think it requires two things: entrepreneurship (unboxed creativity) to get out of your sinking boat and be able to see new value niches, and retargeted education for the workforce (with an associated delay). Both are education issues. If the education system is too workforce focused, without enough practise and preparation for broader thinking, that's where you've (as a society) put yourself in a problem spot. Because paradigms are always going to shift...

Comment Not what it seems (Score 1) 151

This is *NOT* offering employees "unlimited time off". My company has this, we call it "balanced time away". Instead this is a flexible policy where managers work with their underlings to decide what is an appropriate time off and when.

Ideally, it could be quite beneficial, for instance, if you work really extra hard for a few weeks to make a delivery, and the manager can recognize that and reward it by agreeing to some additional time off to celebrate and recover. Or if family stress outside of work mounts, a manager can encourage some time away to help avoid a breakdown.

BUT, there are two major problems. 1) Because this is not a system, there is no tracking, and no seniority. If you've been with the company many years, and you are accustomed to an extra week and a half of annual vacation, it is easy for that to be trimmed away. Even if you deserve your 2 weeks as a new hire, it's easy for that to be trimmed down. 2) What if you have a nice manager, good with people who believes in reward, but your friend and colleague has a mean, parsimonious manager who believes in the strength of fear? Will there be fair and even treatment across the organization?

These are two *HUGE* problems, and it entirely depends on your corporate culture how it's going to come out. I hear Microsoft maybe doesn't have the nicest culture in the first place.

P.S. I avoided the term "bullsh--" in my post, but I sure did want to use it!

Comment Depends how heavy (Score 5, Informative) 81

I work for a $250+M/yr corporation specializing in audio/video stream processing for television and online streaming industries. We use ffmpeg, but not for our "heavy lifting". Our core codec products still undergo continuous improvement by a staff of specialists, and it is the difference we can make w/respect to our competitors that keeps us in business. And frankly, when it comes to achieving a quality compression at challenging bitrates, ffmpeg isn't even on the playing field. That said, we do use a couple of ffmpeg's capabilities in products, and ffmpeg is all over the laboratories to help with analysis and monitoring. Ffmpeg is indeed indispensible. But as far as "completely eradicating proprientary software in its niche"? Our customers say otherwise.

Comment A million times larger is probably reasonable. (Score 1) 61

Today we have a hard time building a quantum arithmetic device with 137 qbits (thanks IBM!). That is an experimental machine. I think that once we have a really workable technology for building qbit machinery, our quantum machines will immediately be a million times larger.

Comment Bad Reporting Here (Score 5, Informative) 118

The report, as quoted, does not deny that energy weapons could have caused the medical problems. The report only denys that energy weapons caused BOTH the medical problems AND the sounds TOGETHER. That's a very easy statement to make, as it says nothing about the actual issue at hand.

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