Comment Re:Reversible Irreversible ? (Score 1) 54
Since there is monetary value attached to the account, yes they are.
Comment Re:An elegant chip (Score 1) 41
Z80 was also my first assembly language. Perhaps not super important for me, but it's nice to know the Z80 will continue to exist in some recognizable form.
IIRC, LANtastic cards (another relic of the past) had a Z-80 on them. It was socketed, no less.
Comment Also, the deal involved a bribe (Score 4, Informative) 76
While Paramount claims they cancelled Colbert as a cost cutting move, that makes no sense since other late night shows on other networks with smaller audiences continue. They must make some sort of financial sense.
It is widely understood, though not provable, that the move was a bribe to Trump in order to get the merger approved. Trump has had a longstanding dislike of Colbert because of his commentary on Trump as a person and as the President.
Comment Re:The bullwhip effect on supply chains (Score 4, Insightful) 61
When is a hard question. Rationally it should never have blown up this much in the first place (some expansion would be rational, but not like we've seen). Clearly the minds driving this are not rational.
Insanity is notoriously hard to predict. That's why short selling is so risky. The market can clearly remain irrational longer than most people can remain solvent when betting against it.
Comment Re: Firefox + uBlock Origin (Score 2) 81
Comment Re:It took about... (Score 1) 59
Actually, the people who forget that seem to be in the business of marketing and press releases. QC has been the apocalypse that would turn the world on it's head breaking crypto left and right in the next 2 years for at least 10 years now. It still can't do prime factorization better or faster than a sixth grader with a pencil and paper. And the sixth grader won't charge as much.
Perhaps it will be useful one day, but not today. It may well take 100 years. Remember about 3 years ago when the size of quantum computers was going to double overnight? And how it went radio silent shortly after? The problem with QC isn't that it will never get here at all, it's the damned hype machine that promised it would be here now.
It's the same hype machine that told us we would be using crypto currency for all of our everyday transactions by now. The same hype machine that claims AI will replace everyone next year.
Comment Re:How to make an e-Ink display (Score 2) 45
That's not how this works. There are a few ways to send an image to the bare display, but HDMI isn't one of them. If you actually look up the item list from TFS you will see that.
You didn't expect them to actually explain how you could manufacture an e-ink panel starting with sand and some chemicals in your kitchen, did you?
Comment Re: Color me surprised... (Score 1) 216
But it's not just the multi-billionaires. It's the many more multi-millionaires that produce nothing but wedge themselves into every transaction.
Look at any product that can be bought from an American company or direct from China. That HUGE price difference is how much the American company is skimming off the top.
Comment Re:Color me surprised... (Score 4, Informative) 216
It doesn't require nearly as many people working nearly as hard as we have now to provide for everyone.
Comment VW Polo? (Score 1) 135
Is it still Small but tough?
Comment Re:EVs are already better for most non-commercial (Score 1) 135
I'm surprised EREVs are not used in heavy duty pickup trucks, where you need the insane amount of torque at low speed.
Well, Dodge is coming out with one.
Comment Re:Donâ(TM)t smoke (Score 3, Informative) 15
I guess you didn't read very carefully. They found a marker that appears 5 years before a diagnosis and also part of the mechanism of smoking and other things causing lung cancer AND potentially how to interrupt it. That's a good bit more than simply finding a well known correlation.
Comment An old story (Score 1) 92
I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
Comment Fair's fair (Score 1) 190
Since Microsoft doesn't honor their license agreements, why should anyone else?