Comment Re:"reached orbit" is a misnomer (Score 0) 72
The very first Saturn V, sixty years ago, achieved orbit, as did all of the later Saturn V launches.
This whole "chose to go orbital" thing sounds to me like rationalizing SpaceX's ineptness.
Comment Is it the caffeine or the coffee? (Score 1) 189
How about taking caffeine in the form of a pill (like NoDoz)? Does that have the same beneficial effects as getting caffeine in coffee?
Comment Re:One guy and Claude Code? (Score 1) 11
Netcraft confirms it: BSD is dying.
Comment Re:No reason to upgrade. (Score 2) 106
I'm still running Windows 10, but not the consumer version. I'm running Windows 10 IoT LTSC. It's similar to the consumer version, but doesn't have a lot of the crap, and it's supported by Microsoft through 2032.
Comment Re:Oddly misleading headline (Score 1) 74
A better headline would have been "macOS 27 Beta Kicks Asahi Linux Off Apple Silicon".
Comment Re:Every single movement you make will be tracked (Score 2) 166
a bunch of old guys a few hundred years ago had the presence of mind
Most of them weren't old guys. In 1776 Jefferson was 33, Hamilton was 21, Madison was 25, Adams was 40, and Washington was 44. Only Franklin, at 70, was old.
Comment Let me guess... (Score 0) 55
Huang kissed Trump's ass...
Comment I'm still waiting... (Score 1) 37
...for someone to port Linux to my toaster.
Comment Re:Excel is off-topic (Score 2) 120
IBM BIOS wasn't source available either. The precedent for 'clean room' involved reverse engineering binary code.
Not true. IBM published the source code to their BIOS in their technical reference manuals, which were available to the public.
Comment This is rich... (Score 5, Insightful) 67
So Anna's Archive, run by anonymous operators, is doing illegal stuff, but the AI tech bros sucking up the entire Internet and using it to train their LLMs without the permission of the owners of the material is AOK?
Comment Re:Is anyone surprised? (Score 1) 90
No idea why the fanbois seem to think that Apple gives a shit about their privacy
Especially since Tim Apple has been regularly flying to DC to get down on his knees and publicly suck Trump's dick...
Comment Re:Windows Explorer 11= terrible (Score 1) 166
Explorer in Windows 11 is so slow and terrible I finally just quit using it. It was taking like several minutes to simply open up a new, blank, explorer window.
What are you running Windows 11 on, a 30 year old machine? I've got a three year old middle of the line laptop--not particularly fast--and it takes less than a second to open a new Explorer window.
Comment Re:It's not THAT difficult (Score 1) 166
Have you actually seen the Windows codebase? I see posts from people all the time making all sorts of comments about the Windows codebase, yet they've never seen a single line of it.
Comment Re:Pointless law (Score 1) 243
Companies emit loads of greenhouse gas in the process of refining oil. And methane leaks in oil fields is another big problem as methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.
Comment Re:Provable, quantifiable damages... (Score 4, Insightful) 243
You're forgetting the fact that producing and refining oil itself is very environmentally unsound. It's not just the consumers buying and using oil products.
It takes a lot of energy to refine petroleum, and that generates greenhouse gases. As does the extraction of petroleum products (methane leaks at oil fields are a big problem as methane is a much more climate-affecting greenhouse gas than CO2).
It takes a lot of energy to refine petroleum, and that generates greenhouse gases. As does the extraction of petroleum products (methane leaks at oil fields are a big problem as methane is a much more climate-affecting greenhouse gas than CO2).
