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Comment Re:The sooner they leave the better (Score 2) 287

"Except for 13,000 people paying taxes, I'm sure that doesn't bring any money in."

I've a much better bit of sarcasm for you. Do The Maths.

For your 13,000 tax payers (the *original* estimate foxconn gave was 5,200 workers BTW), the investment was $4 Billion. That's an investment of $307,000 ish per worker. The average tax paid for an American over their *entire* working career of 40 years is around $188,000 (Source: Forbes).

At the current expected number of 1,000 workers, that's about $4m per worker.

Still look like a sensible deal?

Interesting article from boing boing yesterday :
https://boingboing.net/2019/01/30/sending-jobs-to-jina.html

Comment Re: I can understand being locked in on a PC offic (Score 1) 143

Well, for years office for Mac was developed by an independent team and was widely considered to be a better product than office for pc. But donâ(TM)t let that get in the way of having a rant!

Whilst much of what Microsoft does may not be to everyoneâ(TM)s taste, itâ(TM)s a multi faceted company and to generalise would be wrong. Back when windows 95 was a piece of shit and I was starting to run Linux, I still used a Microsoft natural keyboard and intellimouse because they were great.

Comment Re:Why Apple gets away with this bullshit (Score 1) 331

Yes, blame a peripheral manufacturer for thinking that an update (10.13.3 ->10.13.4) wouldn't do something like break the subsystem that their drivers depend on. Couldn't possibly expect Apple to put some more QA on macOS updates and stop treating the OS like it's a legacy product WRT support.

You know that the companies mentioned are all using un-supported internal APIs to implement their products right? They're called un-supprted for a reason! Feel free to criticise Apple for not realising that these APIs are handy and formalising / supporting them, but really the fault lies squarely with the third party companies.

Comment Re:Dead or just temporarily unusable? (Score 1) 331

Er, no. I suspect that you don't actually understand what DisplayLink adapters are or how they work... They're a (admittedly clever) way of creating what is an additional graphics adapter on the far side of a USB connection. Most normal docks are port replicators for interfaces within the machine.

Its not a standard protocol and certainly nowhere close to universal.

Comment Whatâ(TM)s the story? (Score 1) 229

So... there are two scenarios :
1) Apple has crafted an update to specifically disable some 3rd party components
2) The third party component designer has failed to make a properly compatible part.

Despite the story sounding like theyâ(TM)re spinning it as (1) Iâ(TM)d be very surprised if it wasnâ(TM)t (2) as thatâ(TM)s the most likely if they can fix it with an update as reported. Whatâ(TM)s the news? Why should a manufacturer go to the effort of testing badly made replacement parts that they never claimed to support in the first place?

Comment Fines != Safety (Score 1) 258

So, the data tells us then that most drivers ignore the red light and push it by 0.3 seconds or so to "scrape through". If the priority was safety, as well as issuing tickets, the time between one route going red and the subsequent route going green should also be increased by 0.3 seconds as well to compensate for behaviour. This would have more of an effect of reducing danger than a fine after the fact...

Comment IceComm: serverless video conferencing, very easy. (Score 1) 115

Set up IceComm on a web site that only you and your kids can access, and give them the Chrome browser with a bookmark to go there at scheduled times .. https://icecomm.io/

Very easy to set up server less video conferencing. Add a bit of TogetherJS to the mix and you've got realtime chat as well - without needing to install anything on any local computers besides the Chrome browser.

I use IceComm on my main server as the 'front door' to my business - I have a browser sitting on my front door all day, and whenever clients visit I'm ready for them. Its just like having a virtual front door to the business .. very handy and very care-free for the customers.

Comment 6 billion or "hundreds of billions"? (Score 1) 143

Last time I took a maths class, 6 was not "hundreds". If 6 billion isn't a typo, then the article is way out of whack, and the economics are actually heavily stacked in the hyperloop's favour, as 2 airports with terminals and a dozen 747s to shuttle between them would end up costing more than 6 billion.

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