Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 62
Audiophilles will be convinced they can hear a difference. They can't, but they will be convinced of it.
Comment Re: Yes (Score 1) 202
"And the UK handed you the brand new computer industry on a plate by destroying all the computers it had built during the war while not requiring that you do the same with the licensed copies you had built."
The UK decided to destroy its computers on its own, don't blame us for your idiocy. "Require"? What were you going to "require" we do? And how were you going to enforce this "requirement"?
And what licensed copies are you talking about? Britain shared the Bombe (which was basically an upgraded version of the one the Polish built, but of course Brits insist they're the geniuses who broke Enigma), but ENIAC was a US production.
Comment Re:my experience among the apes (Score 2) 202
Business school is a 2-year cocktail party.
Comment Re:Burning French historical buildings? (Score 2) 152
Given how most of the rioters are masked, and many of them are clearly white, I don't think iTs AlL iMMigAnNTSS is proven.
In any event, the French riot constantly, and have for decades, well before you saw large increases in immigration.
Comment Re:Burning French historical buildings? (Score 0, Troll) 152
"She" is also lying about being a French woman. It's just some right-wing propaganda bot farm content.
Comment NMS (Score 1) 27
I really wanted to like the game but even a few hours of gameplay showed that it was repetitive and kind of bleak and depressing.
Submission + - Mark Stephens, known as Robert X. Cringely, passed away on Oct. 3 2026 (hillandwood.com) 1
See it here:
https://www.hillandwood.com/ob...
Submission + - Microsoft îs temporarily barred from using H1-B Visas (apnews.com)
Mr. Vance said that in the last year, the company had laid off 6,000 American workers, while it benefited from 6,300 H-1B visas and nearly 3,000 green cards.
Anthony D’Esposito, the inspector general of the Labor Department, also announced that the agency was launching investigations into several universities for potential abuses of the J-1 visa, a cultural exchange program that allows foreign students to work and study in the United States. Among the nine schools are Harvard, Stanford, Arizona State and M.I.T.
Submission + - The Trump administration has barred Microsoft, Adobe from H-1B (politico.com)
The Trump administration has barred Microsoft, Adobe and six IT companies from sponsoring H-1B workers for green cards, Vice President JD Vance announced Thursday. Vance made the comments during a press conference on visa fraud, during which he argued Microsoft is discriminating against Americans by prioritizing foreign workers
Submission + - Vance suspends Microsoft, others from foreign workers applying for green cards, (foxbusiness.com)
Comment are you serious? (Score 1) 90
There are people still using VMWare?!?!? And their main issue is COST, rather than the fact that VMWare is like a thousand years old?
Comment Re:benefits should not be "doled out" (Score 2) 165
You don't know him and don't know he's a sociopath.
However, the people who do know him say he's a sociopath, so they probably know.
Comment ehh (Score 1) 148
I mean the software is impressive and all, but since when is someone with a user ID in the 400,000s a long-time reader?
Comment Re:Uh HUH (Score 1) 84
"I forget what they call it"