Comment Re:Out of touch management (Score 1) 124
There's a salesperson at the door saying "I can make sure your employees are saying please" and zero salespeople saying, "I can make sure your buns aren't stale".
Comment The franchisees don't want the machines to work (Score 1) 80
The franchisees don't want the machines to work. The daily clean-up time (and believe me... when dealing with dairy you want it to be VERY clean) takes a long time. They lose money unless they are selling TONS of servings. Nobody could possibly sell enough ice cream to break even.
Let's suppose it is going to take 1 person-hours each day to clean the machine and you make 10 cents profit per serving. Assuming labor cost of $10/hour (these numbers are all fiction). You're going to have to sell 100 servings just to break even. That would mean a TON of advertising and promotion to drive that kind of sales volume. Doing those promotions cost even more money, which requires more sales to make up for.
It is much more profitable to leave the machine broken and have that 1 hour of labor doing something that they know makes money... like grilling burgers.
Of course... this is an excellent opportunity for iFixit and others to advocate for the changes they want. McDonald's can't publicly admit they don't want the machines fixed. It gets good PR for iFixit and friends.
Comment Re:Very Sensible - and Not. (Score 1) 398
What do you recommend eating so that you don't need healthcare related to being pregnant?
I hate to say it this way but only a dude would make a statement like what the CEO said.
Comment Pregnant women need healthcare (Score 1) 398
Last I checked, a more healthy diet doesn't stop you from needing healthcare when you go into labor.
Comment Same plot as The Last Star Fighter??? (Score 3, Funny) 44
I loved that film!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...
Startups, VCs in India Request 'Relief Package' From the Government To Fight Coronavirus Disruption (techcrunch.com) 25
More than six dozen startup founders, venture capitalists and lobby groups in India have requested the government to grant them a "robust relief package" to help combat severe disruptions their businesses face due to the coronavirus outbreak. From a report: In a joint letter to India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, startups requested the government to bankroll 50% of their workforce's salaries for six months, provide interest-free loans from banks, waive rent for three months and offer tax benefits among other things. "Unfortunately, our startup companies across the nation are inherently young, less resilient and most vulnerable. Many of them face likely devastation during this extraordinary economic downturn. At this dire moment, Indian startups need a robust relief package from the government, lest all our collective efforts of the past few years are in vain," they wrote.
As India, where the economy growth has been slowing for several quarters, scrambles to provide for its 1.3 billion citizens, the letter has drawn some criticism from industry figures. "I can't fathom how such a list gets made in a country of more than a billion people who are facing a crisis unlike any they've seen before. A significant majority of them daily wage earners who have no financial cushion or any idea where their next meal is going to come from. Let's not even stray into health and the need for medical emergencies; just putting three square meals on the table a day is proving to be impossible for so many," wrote Ashish K. Mishra in a column on The Morning Context.
As India, where the economy growth has been slowing for several quarters, scrambles to provide for its 1.3 billion citizens, the letter has drawn some criticism from industry figures. "I can't fathom how such a list gets made in a country of more than a billion people who are facing a crisis unlike any they've seen before. A significant majority of them daily wage earners who have no financial cushion or any idea where their next meal is going to come from. Let's not even stray into health and the need for medical emergencies; just putting three square meals on the table a day is proving to be impossible for so many," wrote Ashish K. Mishra in a column on The Morning Context.
Comment Re:SIGGRAPH TPPT is exactly what you asked for! (Score 1) 95
The 2018 edition is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment SIGGRAPH TPPT is exactly what you asked for! (Score 2) 95
SIGGRAPH is the ACM computer graphics research conference. You won't find anything more cutting edge. Each year they produce a video "SIGGRAPH $YEAR : Technical Papers Preview Trailer". This is exactly what the OP was looking for. Here's 2017's video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Can Go add better static analysis? (Score 1) 185
The "Rust" programming language boasts the ability to perform more static analysis (finding errors at compile time) than Go. Could Go add better static analysis?
Comment Does the lineage include C++? (Score 1) 185
In the preface there is a chart of "The Origins of Go" which includes many languages such as C, Modula-2, CSP, and so on. However C++ is missing from the chart. Oversight or intentional?
Comment Re:and they make big bonfires, too (Score 1) 250
Comment Not everyone can stream (Score 4, Interesting) 490
This constant harping on how great streaming is bugs me. While that may be true in urban cores,
in the technological hinterlands we are lucky to *have any* Internet connections. When home,
I have problems getting short YouTube videos to play at all (if they do play, I get long hangs
every few seconds). Last time I looked my choices were AT&T DSL (I to not think they can provide
Uverse to my home), Comcrap or Clear (which is what I have). I used to have AT&T for home phone,
DSL and GoPhone cell service - I will *NEVER* willingly be an AT&T customer again if I can at all avoid
it. And there is a reason I listed the 2nd choice as "Comcrap".
I have never had Netflix but if I were to sign up it would be only for their DVD service.
As is Ihave a large collection of DVDs in hand (TV shows, movies - lots of anime). So I do not
find them "clunky" at all.
Comment The Evils of CopyRight, IP and DRM (Score 2) 418
Rant On.
You don't own it, you only rent it and the "owners" can get make you pay again and again.
I'm sure they (RIAA/MPAA/etc) would like if everything was pay-per-view and we could
not even own our own thoughts.
I dread the day when IP lawyers realize our brains hold memories of the songs we've
heard, the movies we've seen and the books we've read and demand we be made to
forget it all or pay, pay, pay.
Rant Off.
Comment Re:source code stolen? (Score 1) 256
Ah... so the Cold Fusion source code was stored on a box running Cold Fusion?
Comment Re:Code analysis (Score 2) 256
Yes, I mean they stole the source code to Cold Fusion?!? That's kind of like breaking into Ford automotive and stealing the blueprints for the Pinto...
