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Comment Re:Eh (Score 2) 36

Tomorrow, if the PLA wanted, they could just walk into Primorsky and Krasnoyarsk and annex them. Heck, they could easily overrun and conquer all of Russia from the Urals to the Bering Sea

You don't think Russia's nuclear arsenal would still serve as a deterrent against that sort of thing? (Not that I have a whole lot of confidence in Russia's ICBMs actually working, but China would probably have to assume at least some of them would, and that losing some cities would be a bad thing for them)

Comment Re: It's as useless as the average human (Score 1) 41

The oil specified for your vehicle by the manufacturer might or might not be the best thing to put in it. You didn't give us enough information to know if that fact is relevant, but since it might be, I put that here.

I am not talking about brands here either, if you do changes on schedule that is mostly irrelevant. I mean some vehicles are better run with a different weight than specified, usually due to engineering failure.

Comment Re:RISC Rules Everything Around Me (Score 2) 43

The problem with ChromeOS is Google having to maintain two Linux distributions. The only reason it even exists at all is that Chrome for Android was shit at the time at which ChromeOS was released. Its entire purpose for existing is running desktop Chrome on cheap laptops. Now that Chrome for Android is basically OK, it has no reason to exist. Unfortunately for Google they are going to have to support it for another decade, but that support could be pretty bad and probably still meet any notional promises they've made.

Comment But why? (Score 3, Interesting) 43

Columbia computer science professor Jason Nieh, who interviewed Google engineers as a witness in the case, testified that Aluminium requires a heavier software stack and more powerful hardware to run.

This just doesn't make sense. We're supposed to believe that the software now running on phones requires more hardware than the software now running on laptops?

Comment The days of cheap everything are over (Score -1, Troll) 25

There was an interview with some guys out of Las Vegas about how the strip looked empty. They made the point that the reason was the prices were too high but they didn't care because they made more money going after rich people then catering to the middle class let alone the working class.

If you make less than half a million dollars a year the world is gradually locking you out. Companies have figured out they can make more money off of servicing a few million consumers instead of the entire country. And if you try to start up a business to service the rest of the country they will just run you out of business because they don't want to rescue coming after their customer base.

Comment Re:WM isn't what it used to be... (Score 1) 53

I stopped going to walmart because about 9/10 of the time they wouldn't have what I wanted and I'd leave empty handed.

I've looked at their website many times but only ever bought something there once. In their attempt to be like Amazon they have wound up taking on all the same AliExpress shit as Amazon. This makes me unlikely to shop there because what I wanted was an alternative to Amazon without the flurry of crap which I buy from AliExpress, because it's 10-50% cheaper there.

I conclude that the people who shop at Walmart are predominantly either stupid, looking for typical mass market crap which I don't buy because it's terrible, or both. If I wanted some artificially fruit scented hair gel or a bicycle which is made out of the lowest grade chinesium, I'd go to wally world. It's still an OK place to pick up a HDMI cable or memory card on short notice. But in general, if they've got it, I don't want it, and vice versa. Last time I went in there, their website claimed they had a car battery that they in fact did not have. I wound up going to Costco, and they actually had it.

Comment Re:"Trust me, bro..." (Score 1) 18

I don't think you have a choice. Reading online there is just no equivalent software . Reddit has several threads with people lamenting that there isn't any serious alternative.

My guess is the big boys rolled around and hobbyists aren't profitable enough.

Also I suspect any serious effort to compete with Adobe would be met with large price drops from Adobe until you're out of business. Even if Adobe doesn't make money off animate I doubt they're going to stand by and let somebody else do. If nothing else they would be worried that if they get a leg up with an animation package they might start competing with them on other software packages.

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