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Comment It's Alphabet. My bet is ... (Score 1) 185

This is a three to four year deal.

At best. Lots of press, several levels of various presentations, demos, and blurbs at conferences. Then rollout. Whee!

Then nada. It will be too late, not consistent between the wildly different platforms. Eventually their gaming voice assistant will start bad mouthing the mediocre player stats and piss off the seventeen remaining players.

For all their noise, they really don't have the staying power for anything besides search.

Comment /. shame posted by techdirt.com (Score 1) 151

Yep, nothing but a press release here. Bop over to techdirt to read the actual story. Both HBO and Netflix are fine with password sharing. So, why is this urgent solution even necessary?

It isn't.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.techdirt.com%2Fartic...

Comment What goes around comes around (Score 1) 427

MSFT was well known for doing exactly this. And often. I'm sure the ex-intern is much too young to know that the honor system doesn't work at MSFT, much less their browser team.

United States v Microsoft Corp. Look it up. It was sort of a big deal back in the day.

MSFT is just collecting karma, their account has been deep in the red for since last century.

Comment Just ask for more work. (Score 1) 415

Hopefully, more *interesting* work.

I've done this several times. When the first bit of work is done I tell my boss. We verify the results, need to keep their interest in my skills up. Then I let them know the plan and ask for more that might benefit from my skills.

Did this as a software consultant (in QA support) as well. Lead spent two weeks trying to solve the issue, hired me, found my office, 45m later I entered his office and asked for the next task. "WHAT!" was essentially his reply. But I stayed around automating the hell out of the place.

Comment How could Intel do anything about this? (Score 1) 180

I get the message. But the messenger is wrong. Intel knows squat about software, integration, UI, user satisfaction, learning, and pretty much anything that isn't *melting sand*.

Android and iOS are both accessable. Easy to dev for, if you're a programmer, which might be the issue for anyone working at Intel Sand R Us labs. Buy an unlocked phone, have your older phone unlocked, get a dev environment, knock yourself out. Show it to your friends, if they laugh good, if they want it better. But nobody needs Intel to barf out something as bad as UEFI is again.

Considering their current "use three die" and culling out the results into fifty bins, one might suggest they aren't all that good at melting sand anymore. Was a time when they would actually tweak the die to get better yields. Those days and the engineers that could do that are gone. Intel missed the phone market - by miles.

Comment I could totes do that job! (Score 1) 98

Nobody knows if you're a dog on the intertubes!

Or that I only drove through NYC once
Also, I don't know much about NYC except via novels, tv, web
Even LESS about MTA

Dog Nos they would be happier with a real dog
Since I ain't a dog, I just type as one every now and then.
Is this a great country or what?

Comment The link is re looney tunes anti-science. (Score 1) 105

AKA flat earth nutjob. If that is what you mean, read the article instead of just the headline and you will find several sites of similar more-than-a-bubble-off-center friends to play with.

If not, please clarify.

There are many that use citizens/public/us to look at blood flows in mice brains for Alzheimer research, as well as SETI and protein folding.

Good luck.

Comment Why would you ask? (Score 1) 325

This is normal. Nothing has changed.

IT is a significant foundation block of the modern corporation, even down to lowly small businesses. Nobody, and I mean nobody wants to pay for it. Even if they claim they will, they don't.

This is aggravated by the tendency of VPs in charge having a non-IT background. Which also includes executives coming from a different background, non-sales for a sales focused company.

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