A big dish of all the fuck off into the heart of a neutron star forever. And then some more fuck off to follow.

shocked, I tell you, that someone who is beyond balls deep in the mix of technology and marketing woo woo that his company (amongst others) has sprayed utterly ridiculous quantities of cash on, and who needs to generate revenue to satisfy shareholders' desire for RoI, is making all these promises of epoch changing experiences for end users.

What we get instead is parlour game legerdemain, weirdly unsettling reheated word salad (and that's when it's not clearly utter bullshit), Disneyfied colour saturated images, dominated by the bias and prejudices of a small, and not particularly representative group of human beings. If it weren't so enraging it would almost be funny. Especially the bit about search, because let's be honest here, pretty much all of the major products are useless for search, seeing as they just make shit up. It's basically a feature that you cannot trust the output.

Mass market machine-generated slop is an abomination. There are perfectly good, targeted, and useful applications of machine learning with tightly controlled training data, but who wants to drink from the well on offer now? It's more like a firehose laced with sewage; the only things you end up with are the stench, and the information equivalent of typhoid, polluting everything it touches.

... has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet its maker. It has shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. It is an X parrot.

I bet X.org are giving Elon the side eye right now, and Apple must be laughing their vintage 20 year old MacOS Panther and Tiger labelled socks off.

"But Elon's a business genus."

Well, as an exercise in "yes we can do it", it's nice, but not ultimately useful given that you only need the first 38 decimal places or so.

Pretty much bang on. The EU market has 400m users. It really doesnâ(TM)t matter that UKG says, the de facto standard will happen. And given Iâ(TM)m typing this on a 6th gen iPad mini that uses usb-c, adding it to the phones canâ(TM)t be too far away. And there are lots of us that think that the current government is populated by palsied gibbons, headed by a honking porky sexdoll

The landscape looked quite different in the the UK, where the C64 was still priced in line with the BBC Micro (£399), but the lower end was dominated by Sinclair's ZX Spectrum (48k version was around £170), with a bunch of other incomers like the Dragon 32 and Oric 1.

to avoid the place. As fascinating as China is, I've never wanted to visit, and this kind of mindset is part of the reason why. Japan, on the other hand...

And Microsoft didn't create DOS either: they bought it. Them's the breaks, Bill. You won in one market. It doesn't give you a divine right to win in all of them.

This is going to struggle. And we have past evidence of this, with Googleâ(TM)s travails with Google Wallet and payment services (and then thereâ(TM)s Samsung and there first into payments). Apple Pay brought those kinds of payment services to the mainstream, and I think it probably needs that kind of a push to make this work. The question of whether itâ(TM)s advisable to collect all of those IDs in one handy, stealable place is another one entirely, of course.

"if his tweets cross a line with abusive behavior."

What, you mean apart from threatening another nation with a nuclear attack, or the numerous instances of boorish, abusive and just generally shitty behaviour? What do they count as "abusive behaviour", when it's clear he's not only crossed that line, but pole vaulted it while wearing a jetpack.

There's an often used word for this in Cockney rhyming slang: cobblers.

"...the negative costs of their technology, such as end-to-end encryption"

Negative. Costs.

Well, that's a fairly subjective view of the situation, isn't it it, old chap? I think there are a great many people who would like to see your working on that one, before giving you a smash in the face with a frying pan for being an utter twatknacker.

I may know that. You may know that, but HMG are spending quite a lot of time trying to conflate ECHR and the EU to weaken this position. While May may how been a very lukewarm member of the remain camp and deliberately kept her head down during the referendum, she has very definitely been ready to spike ECHR, and the concomitant Human Rights Act as soon as she possibly could. She's not been secretive about this, but has been incredibly dishonest about the relationship between them. And with a right wing press that's more than happy to see our membership of ECHR trashed, the media has been drip fed stories about "human rights" designed to appeal to a very specific demographic

Damn straight. DNA often admitted (and took delight in) the fact that all of the versions of HHGTTG are mutually inconsistent and frequently contradictory.

Not just that, she was in Doctor Who as well...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Up to a third of Americans believe the earth is around 6000 years old, and that evolution is a lie. And increasing numbers believe the earth is flat, in spite of fairly compendious evidence to the contrary.

So you'll forgive me if the opinions of the American public don't exactly fit me with a sense of confidence or hope in their sense of judgement when presented with inconvenient things like facts.