Comment Re:Boeing (Score 1) 68
Did the computer controlled fuel cutoff work?
How Did Amazon Spin This Year's Prime Day Sales? (fortune.com) 24
"Amazon stretched out its annual Prime Day sales event so that it lasted four days — twice as long as in the past — and, as a result, blew away previous sales figures," reports USA Today:
Spending for [the four-day] Prime Day amounted to "more than two Black Fridays — which drove $10.8 billion in online spending during the 2024 holiday shopping season — and sets a new benchmark for the summer shopping season," Adobe said in a news release. The total also surpassed Adobe's pre-Prime Day estimate of $23.8 billion in sales.
But an article in Fortune notes that "what stood out to this longtime Amazon watcher is that the company didn't disclose anything about the number of items sold." The last time it made that choice was 2020, when nothing normal was happening anywhere in the world, and Prime Day was moved from summer to October. Before that, you have to go back to the second-ever Prime Day in 2016 to find a wrap-up that didn't provide any update on the number of "units" sold.
It's unclear exactly why Amazon decided to withhold that number for 2025, but this Prime Day was odd for a few reasons. Sellers, and brands big and small, had to come up with different strategies to contend with tariff chaos. And they're trying to woo increasingly pessimistic consumers. Those factors could be weighing on the company's decision to withhold exact numbers.
Instead Amazon's official Prime Day recap swapped in some unusual alternate statistics. For example, Amazon reported that if you added up all the discounts given to customers over the four-day event, it was larger than any previous total amount of all discounts given to customers (over the earlier two-day events). To be sure, it's possible that this Prime Day was a success. An outside analysis from Adobe estimated that sales across online retailers overall increased by more than 30% during this year's four day Prime Day period, compared to last year. And Amazon said in this year's recap that the four days of Prime Day 2025 outsold any other four-day period that included previous Prime Days. But historically, the event hasn't run longer than two days. That means that previous years have included two prime days and two regular days, while this year included four prime days. It's unclear why the company would change the basis of comparison.
Amazon "declined to comment on the absence of specific product sales tallies for 2025," according to the article (while pointing Fortune instead to an Amazon blog post with facts about past Prime Day events.)
But in a sign of the time, Amazon's announcement notes that their Prime Day customers found deals and other product information using Amazon's AI-generated buying guides, as well as an AI-powered shopping assistant named Rufus and Alexa+ — Amazon's next-generation personal assistant ("now available in Early Access to millions of customers").
Another interesting statistic? USA Today notes that "a majority of shoppers (53.2%) made purchases on mobile devices, compared to on desktop computers, accounting for $12.8 billion of the spending, according to Adobe."
But an article in Fortune notes that "what stood out to this longtime Amazon watcher is that the company didn't disclose anything about the number of items sold." The last time it made that choice was 2020, when nothing normal was happening anywhere in the world, and Prime Day was moved from summer to October. Before that, you have to go back to the second-ever Prime Day in 2016 to find a wrap-up that didn't provide any update on the number of "units" sold.
It's unclear exactly why Amazon decided to withhold that number for 2025, but this Prime Day was odd for a few reasons. Sellers, and brands big and small, had to come up with different strategies to contend with tariff chaos. And they're trying to woo increasingly pessimistic consumers. Those factors could be weighing on the company's decision to withhold exact numbers.
Instead Amazon's official Prime Day recap swapped in some unusual alternate statistics. For example, Amazon reported that if you added up all the discounts given to customers over the four-day event, it was larger than any previous total amount of all discounts given to customers (over the earlier two-day events). To be sure, it's possible that this Prime Day was a success. An outside analysis from Adobe estimated that sales across online retailers overall increased by more than 30% during this year's four day Prime Day period, compared to last year. And Amazon said in this year's recap that the four days of Prime Day 2025 outsold any other four-day period that included previous Prime Days. But historically, the event hasn't run longer than two days. That means that previous years have included two prime days and two regular days, while this year included four prime days. It's unclear why the company would change the basis of comparison.
Amazon "declined to comment on the absence of specific product sales tallies for 2025," according to the article (while pointing Fortune instead to an Amazon blog post with facts about past Prime Day events.)
But in a sign of the time, Amazon's announcement notes that their Prime Day customers found deals and other product information using Amazon's AI-generated buying guides, as well as an AI-powered shopping assistant named Rufus and Alexa+ — Amazon's next-generation personal assistant ("now available in Early Access to millions of customers").
Another interesting statistic? USA Today notes that "a majority of shoppers (53.2%) made purchases on mobile devices, compared to on desktop computers, accounting for $12.8 billion of the spending, according to Adobe."
Comment Re:WSJ source? (Score 1) 81
My money is on yet another massive, murderous engineering disaster from Boeing, plus yet another massive coverup. It's not not this would be the first time. Fly Boeing if you are tired of life.
Comment Re:Shame on the WSJ for the clickbait headline! (Score 1) 81
Please do less spouting and more reading of the fucking article. "The investigation revealed the plane software made the 787 think it was on the ground and the Thrust Control Malfunction Accommodation System cut the fuel to the engines." Clear implication that software is able to cut of the fuel. Whether it has to physically move the switches or not is immaterial. (Probably does not physically move the switches, and the operator would have to manually cycle the switches to override the software cutoff. Let's wait for the detailed report...)
Comment Re:Oh good just what we need (Score 1) 81
You have such a big mouth and it is so often open unnecessary, braying.
Comment Re: That's just false (Score 0) 81
When a plane first engages its thrust reverses it is still flying. So you are full of crap, please stop.
Comment Stop using Microsoft (Score 2) 49
Just stop using Microsoft. Given its track record, Microsoft should have no role in defense. Using Microsoft should be a firing offense, or worse.
Comment Re:Shame on the WSJ for the clickbait headline! (Score 2) 81
It is also important that they have identified a computer control system that could possibly have malfunctioned. It's not like this would be the first time.
Comment Re:Oh good just what we need (Score 0) 81
A nice big wall of text with nothing but unsubstantiated speculation
You wish. What sort of heathen would wish such a thing under these circumstances? Identifying the role of the Thrust Control Malfunction Accommodation System is not "nothing", far from it. Boeing employee by any chance?
Comment Thrust Control Malfunction Accommodation (Score 1) 81
"Thrust Control Malfunction Accommodation". We'll be hearing a lot about that over the next months. Right up there with "Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System".
Comment Re:That's just false (Score 0, Troll) 81
So your claim is, in that case the plane and passengers dodged a Boeing bullet. I don't see how that gives anyone reason to relax.
Comment Archived in read-only mode!!! (Score 1) 93
archived in read-only mode
Archived in read-only mode? Pfffffft! For a free software program that is the same as still online. Clone, fork, continue at will. Might have to file off some trademarks if any have been unconscionably inserted.
Comment Re:Ontario, Canada, has the same issue (Score 1) 110
You know, I only care about the businesses that do transition, not the dinosaurs who are too stupid to do what's best for themselves.
Comment Re:Ontario, Canada, has the same issue (Score 1) 110
customized source control for groups of drafters
Why not use Git for that? I use it, it's beyond awesome. Perfectly distributed too.
Comment Re:Ontario, Canada, has the same issue (Score 1) 110
I can personally attest that you can swap AutoCAD for FreeCAD.
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