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Comment Re:KEE-kad? (Score 1) 69

by aitikin (#66142023) Attached to: CERN Open Sources Its KiCad Component Libraries

I think you missed the part of my post where I said you should say hi to people. Or do you go into work in the morning and say "hee boss how was your weekend. ;-)"

How do you pronounce the Muslim head covering, "Hijab"? Why would a Frenchman (Jean-Pierre Charras) be expected to pronounce 'i' like we do in English?

I go into my boss's office to yell about stupid customers and stupid company policies. ;-D

Comment Re:Best map app? (Score 1) 79

by aitikin (#66109236) Attached to: Tim Cook Calls Apple Maps Launch His 'First Really Big Mistake' as CEO

I have an iPhone, and I have tried using Apple Maps on multiple occasions - although admittedly not for a couple of years now.

I want to like it, because I do think its prompts and descriptions are better than Waze's / Google's, but it has consistently shown itself to be quirky and unreliable. For example - I was using it during a (~ 1 hour) commute from the Tacoma area to Seattle, and 75% of the way there it suddenly changed the route and told me I had 22 hours to go and now I needed to take a ferry (apparently I had to leave Seattle and then double back?). Or, when I tried it out going from my mom's house to my own (~ 30 minutes), it told me it was going to take 6 hours to get there - despite no significant traffic or construction between the two locations.

My parents had similar experiences. They were traveling to Fort Wayne from Indianapolis and, no matter how they prompted Apple Maps, it wanted to take them here not here. Worked out because their routes would always take them through the latter.

Comment Re:Good! (Score 1) 47

by aitikin (#66085682) Attached to: John Deere To Pay $99 Million In Monumental Right-To-Repair Settlement

Now lets bring these requirements into law, permanently, across all industrial and consumer devices.

Any obstacle to repair and maintenance other than the inherent difficulty of the operation is anticonsumerist and in the long run, economically damaging (and many of the inherent difficulties are as well, but we gotta start somewhere).

Settlement != precedent. Court decisions create precedent, settlements avoid them. Ipso facto this is not something that can be relied upon to determine future cases.

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