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Comment Re:How much can we trust statcounter's methodology (Score 1) 148

by ac22 (#65526752) Attached to: Linux Reaches 5% On Desktop

Countries with large numbers of English speakers are overrepresented here. Given PC ownership numbers, you'd expect Japan and Brazil to feature in the top 10:

        China – 357.4 million
        United States – 269.3 million
        Japan – 59.5 million
        Brazil – 52.5 million
        Germany – 49.2 million
        India – 41.6 million
        United Kingdom – 36.9 million
        France – 33.3 million
        Russia – 32.1 million
        Canada – 25.9 million

Comment Re:Why? (Score 2) 63

The carrier sued Austin, Texas-based CrowdStrike three months after the July 19, 2024 outage disrupted travel for 1.4 million Delta passengers.
Delta has said the outage cost $550 million in lost revenue and added expenses, offset by $50 million of fuel savings.

TFA gives the relevant numbers.

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

Comment Re:No calculator in early age (Score 1) 19

by ac22 (#65351225) Attached to: Google Plans To Roll Out Its AI Chatbot To Children Under 13

Having the ability to do basic mental arithmetic is a valuable skill we use every day. Being able to make reasonable estimates can save you from making potentially expensive mistakes.

What's 23.71 x 42,372? No idea, but having a feel for numbers and mental calculations allows me to work out straight away that the answer is going to be somewhere near 1,000,000. If I then input the numbers into a calculator and get an answer closer to 100,000 or 10,000,000, I know from my estimate that I've messed something up.

How would somebody with no grasp of estimating numbers detect that error? Now use the same logic with somebody trying to understand a terrible car-finance deal that a salesman is pushing at you, or any kind of loan or contract?

Comment Re:for some reason I stopped buying new games (Score 3, Insightful) 124

by ac22 (#65299645) Attached to: Ubisoft Argues Players Don't Own Their Games in Wake of The Crew Lawsuit

Sidenote: I was cleaning out the attic last year and I found a whole lot of CDs. I *OWN* them. They don't depend on any server. I can't play any of them. Even if I were to jump through hoops installing dosbox to emulate an old system, my PC doesn't have a CD drive. So where does ownership get me? Just another thing I can't play.

You could order a USB DVD drive from Amazon for 10 bucks, if you had any interest in playing your old CDs.

Comment Re: Tips (Score 1) 52

by ac22 (#65196049) Attached to: DoorDash Paying Drivers $17 Million For Stolen Tips

Why not? There's a weird misconception on Slashdot that AC posters are all illiterate trolls. The majority of my posts are made AC, and all of my posts going back 20 years were AC until Slashdot forced us to create accounts. AC is one of Slashdot's best traditions, using it to make non-trolling posts helps to keep it alive.

I am not the AC you replied to.

Comment Re: Tips (Score 1) 52

by ac22 (#65196013) Attached to: DoorDash Paying Drivers $17 Million For Stolen Tips

The easiest way to tip your driver is through the app. At the end of your trip, you’ll be prompted to rate your driver. Once you provide a rating, you’ll be given the option to add a tip. Giving cash directly to your driver is also an option.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uber.com%2Fus%2Fen%2Frid...

Comment Walmart still leads US retail sales comfortably (Score 4, Informative) 24

by ac22 (#65183913) Attached to: Amazon Surpasses Walmart in Revenue For First Time

2024 Walmart:
US sales $527B
International sales $114B

2024 Amazon:
US sales $387.5B
International sales $142.9B
AWS $107.6B

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fir.aboutamazon.com%2Fnew...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.statista.com%2Fstati...

Comment Re: Lunatic (Score 0) 151

California's statewide recycling rate is 41%, better than the US's 32%, but not as good as the UK's 44%. However, Californians are better at publicizing how great they are, so just ignore those numbers.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fen...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.biocycle.net%2Fca-di...

Comment Re:One of the really impressive things (Score 2) 10

by ac22 (#65099275) Attached to: Nintendo Addresses Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Credits Controversy

Fun fact Nintendo didn't make the original donkey Kong game

Has Shigeru Miyamoto been deceiving us all this time?

Nintendo of America was founded in 1980 with minor success at importing its parent's arcade cabinets from Japan. In early 1981, its president Minoru Arakawa bet the small startup company on a major order of 3,000 Radar Scope. Its poor reception in America filled a warehouse with 2,000 unsold Radar Scope machines, so Arakawa requested that the parent company president (and his father-in-law) Hiroshi Yamauchi send a conversion kit of new game software. Yamauchi polled the company's entire talent pool for fresh game design concepts to save the distressed startup. This yielded Shigeru Miyamoto's debut as lead game designer of his Donkey Kong concept, and Yamauchi appointed head engineer Gunpei Yokoi as project supervisor with a budget of $267,000 (equivalent to $895,000 in 2023) according to Miyamoto.

Ikegami Tsushinki was subcontracted for some of the development, with no role in the game's creation or concept, but to provide "mechanical programming assistance to fix the software created by Nintendo". Nintendo instructed Ikegami to produce a program according to its instructions and put it onto read-only memory (ROM) chips on printed circuit boards (PC boards). This later led to mutual lawsuits in 1983, as Ikegami asserted ownership over Donkey Kong which Nintendo denied as Ikegami was a subcontractor who had already been paid. Game Machine called it "simply a nuisance tactic" on the part of Ikegami.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Comment Re:Is it a good idea (Score 1) 118

What about cellular internet? That's probably cheaper.

Not in Zimbabwe. You can buy 55GB of mobile data for $126 USD/month - apparently 10MB/s is a good speed for mobile data over there.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.econet.co.zw%2Fdata-...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FZimba...

Comment Re:Well that's interesting (Score 1) 39

From the English Google translation of the article:

Malone accompanies Carlsen to most tournaments and seems to have taken on an increasingly important role in "Team Carlsen". VG knows that on Monday she was central when intensive work was done to secure a clothing agreement with G-STAR after "jeans-gate" during the Rapid Chess World Championship last week.

If Carlsen wants to make some extra money a week after "jeansgate" occurred, I don't see a problem. If he had manufactured the whole thing to make some sweet marketing $$$, that would be very shitty.

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