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Comment Re:Good News, but Missed Opportunity (Score 1) 74

No no. They should have made a 787-R, and it was internally discussed in the early stages. Basically a smaller variant that had less range, cost less to make, and retained some of the innovation of 787.

Yes you argued that earlier and it made no sense. Making a thin version of a plane is making another plane. It is not another version of a 787; it is a new plane.

Basically, if you make a plane, all pilots have to certify on it to fly it. For big long haul airlines like British Airways thats not as big a deal if such a plane was considered similar enough to the proper long 787, but regionals like SouthWest and Spirit, thats a huge expense

Again you advocated for a thin 787. That is a new plane. It would have required recertification as neither 787 nor 737 pilots would be certified.

Comment Re: Pretty absurd (Score 1) 44

no , Microsoft can't beat the long time leaders in any hardware realm. call me on your Microsoft phone with rebuttal. or type on your Microsoft keyboard made by Incase.

But MS is not trying to beat leaders in the hardware realm. They are trying to lower costs and get more control of a single part for a very specific use case. It is the same reason Google started designing their own data center CPUs more than a decade ago. Google could have purchased Intel/AMD/ARM or whatever chips. Same reason Amazon did too. I would assume that Apple also uses their own CPUs for their datacenters. This is not some brand new strategy here.

Comment Re:Competition (Score 1) 44

That was not the point. TSMC has very little excess capacity these days as everyone wants to use them not just NVidia. Combined with Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm, these 4 companies probably take up the vast majority of TSMC's capacity at the leading edge nodes. Even Intel contracted out some chips to TSMC.

Comment Re:Trying to care... (Score 1) 92

How far does that creative license go?

Amazon owns the franchise so they can do many things including using new thumbnails if they wanted. Previously a distributer would have to agree with the manufacturer on changes like this. For example if these films were on Netflix, Netflix could not use any thumbnail they wanted.

Are we going to start seeing edited versions of these movies?

They could. Edited versions have always been around. For example the TV broadcast version could have been different than the cable broadcast version due to time constraints, nudity removal, letterboxing, etc.

No amount of sexual perversion is offensive now.

TV broadcast versions have always removed a lot of sexual content.

Sad that Censorship needs a refresher course on the entire fucking point of censorship.

Amazon owns this property; they can do whatever they want including making nerf-gun versions.

Comment Re:Just demonstrates that valuations are nonsense (Score 2) 49

It's like there are at least two layers of funny money accounting going on here.

First, you have the strange way that people equate market cap with value. There's no guarantee that holding shares with a current market value of $X will eventually return $X or more in dividend payments plus maybe some eventual disposal of assets, and these are usually the only tangible values involved. A market cap based on ludicrously high P/E ratio will be high, but trading those shares is like trading Bitcoin: it starts to look more like a Ponzi scheme than a genuine value-based investment.

Second, even the market cap is mostly theoretical here, because any shares held can't be freely traded on an open market. The asset is almost completely illiquid other than occasional anomalies like the secondary sale we're talking about. The first IPO of an AI unicorn could be the pin that bursts the bubble.

It's the difference between being one of the AI unicorns that doesn't actually make any real profit yet and is largely funded based on hype and hope, and being a supplier like Nvidia that is actually being paid real money (funded by all the AI investment) and has a P/E ratio that is high but not off-the-charts stupid.

Comment thats nice how about security... implement DANE (Score 1) 46

how about security gmail team ?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rfc-editor.org%2Frfc%2Frfc6698

microsoft are eating your lunch in europe gov etc

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Flearn.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fpurview%2Fhow-smtp-dane-works

exim supports it and so does postfix get with the times.... the Not invented here is getting tiresome just do it

regards

John Jones

Comment Re:Fuck PWDEA (Score 2) 28

Personally I have seen the blanket RTO mandate makes little sense for some employees. If an employee’s coworkers are not geographically located anywhere near them, then RTO means they have to fight traffic to drive into work for an online meeting. During the pandemic one thing that happened was team members were not organized by location as much.

Comment Re:As if "leading" in frequent bugs to fix was goo (Score 2) 107

No one is saying cars do not need bug fixes. The issue correctly pointed out that 42 updates in 6 months is a lot of bugs that were not fixed earlier. While adding new features could be in updates, taking away features could also be in the updates. Or changing features to be paywalled. For example, BMW wanted seat heaters on a subscription model until they faced huge backlash for even suggesting it. I do not put it past any company to monetize every aspect they can get away with. Backup cameras are mandated but night vision cameras are extra. That will be in the $20 Road Safety monthly subscription.

Comment Re: 20t dump truck filled with gravel. (Score 2) 61

Ah yes, it's the "I gave it thought for 2 seconds, and now I have a better solution than the people who've been thinking about it for decades even though it's not my job, area of expertise, I don't understand the problem anyway, and I am free of a litany of other considerations that apply" guy. Good work.

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