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Comment ...so nothing much of value? (Score 1) 47

Samsung indicated that it'd be able to do many of the same things Bixby can do on a phone.

...so, nothing much of value?

After Samsung stuffed Bixby down consumers' throats on S8 and S9 and would not provide a way to disable that goddamn button, I am staying away from anything Bixby.

Comment Re:"It never happens". (Score 1) 295

Point missed. What jobs will it make the labor available for? High-end jobs only this time. One of the saving graces of the industrial revolution is that it required more warm bodies than it required skilled labor.

Trades, construction, nursing / elderly care, education for starters. All of these fields currently have shortage of labor.

Who in 1900 could have foreseen the airplane industry and the number of people it would employ? A mere 10 years ago, the fields of VR, electric vehicles, smart phones, & data analytics were all so small as to be practically non-existent.

I appreciate the caution, but really, the world will go on.

Comment devil's in the details (Score 3, Insightful) 38

...said the technology may help reduce the number of calls coming into the bank's compliance call center by as much as 50 percent.

That's great and all, but you can reduce the calls by 99.999% if you force the users through a maze of menu options and prompts.

When our help desk was outsourced to IBM consultants, the metrics were equally impressive. The reality however, is much less so --- most people simply opt not to call now, because the service is so horrible and decidedly unhelpful.
...But the call volume metrics say "job well done!".

Comment Oracle + Accenture (Score 2) 63

This merger should make for a really fascinating corporation.

While at it, why not merge with Monsanto, Halliburton, and Blackwater --- not as if their reputation/image can get any worse...

(Oracle's reputation is well-known in these here parts. Accenture grew out of Andersen Consulting, a sister company to Arthur Andersen, accountants that didn't detect anything wrong w/Enron back in 00s).

Comment Re:Maybe just profit taking? (Score 1) 296

> The ignorance of looking at a 24 hour 17% drop vs a 300% 12 month raise is astounding. I would think most people who understand financial markets would not be this ignorant to call this a "crash"

You think wrong. For *any* asset type a 17% drop in 24hrs is most definitely a crash.

Comment Re:"The app was never a revenue driver..." (Score 2, Informative) 59

the difference between revenue and profit has absolutely nothing to do with being a "finance weasel". it is financial jargon, and a basic one at that.

do you really mean to imply that failing to understand the distinction between a monitor and a CPU is protecting yourself from IT weasel-words?

Comment Re:I have my Nexus 5 about 2 years (Score 1) 116

> Apple is doing the same and now it's doing it with the Macs.

Interesting you say that. After the disappointing release price of Pixel XL, the next phone I'm buying will likely be an iPhone --- their support for old phones lasts 5 years. From what I can tell, iPhones have the longest, most robust support of any of the phones on the market.

Pixel & Pixel XL is promised 2 years of support and a 3rd year of security fixes. ...for $650 & $750? no thank you!

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