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Comment Some individuals are excessively sensitive (Score 1) 172

by ikea5 on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @12:18PM (#64457003) Attached to: Apple Slammed By Users Over iPad Pro 'Crush' Ad

I saw the video during the event, and immediately noticed that Apple did a good job of purposely rendering the theme quite cartoonish, so as not to be mistaken for real objects, because it might upset some people. But I guess some people are just too sensitive.

Submission + - SPAM: FAA delays environmental review of SpaceX's Starship yet another month, to May31

Submitted by schwit1 on Monday May 02, 2022 @01:45PM

schwit1 writes: We'll have to wait at least another month to see the results of the U.S Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) environmental review of SpaceX's Starship program.

The FAA has been working for months on that review — officially known as a programmatic environmental assessment (PEA) —which is assessing the environmental impacts of Starbase, the South Texas site where SpaceX has been building and testing its huge Starship vehicle.

The agency published a draft PEA in September and estimated that the final version would be wrapped up by the end of the year. But the FAA has repeatedly delayed the final PEA, generally by a month at a time, citing the need to analyze the public comments submitted in response to the draft report and discuss next steps with other government agencies.
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Comment Too little, too late. (Score 1) 175

by ikea5 on Monday January 21, 2013 @09:08PM (#42652807) Attached to: PayPal Preparing To Address Frozen Funds Policy

Screwing legitimate users on regular basis is not a good way of doing business. eBay/PayPal.

Comment Not news (Score 1) 507

by ikea5 on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @11:08PM (#39055299) Attached to: Sony Raises Price of Whitney Houston's Music 30 Minutes After Death

If Sony raises the price 30min BEFORE WH's death, now that would be news.

Comment Re:Made in Japan: Cheaper Alternative? (Score 2, Informative) 104

by ikea5 on Saturday November 28, 2009 @11:55PM (#30258908) Attached to: A Dual-Screen 10.1" Laptop In Time For the Holidays

Kohjinsha is actually a subsidiary of Inventec based out of Taiwan. Inventec designs and manufactures Kohjinsha products.

Comment Re:Wristwatches are just plain convenient (Score 1) 778

by ikea5 on Sunday November 22, 2009 @02:22AM (#30191440) Attached to: Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete

There is almost no time when I am not within sight of a clock which is why the watch I bought 20 years ago still looks new.

Obviously not a outdoors guy.

Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? 620

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 05, 2008 @08:23PM from the dysfunctional-programming-on-the-way-out dept.

prone2tech writes "From an article at Dr. Dobb's: Chipmakers have essentially said that the job of enforcing Moore's Law is now a software problem. They will concentrate on putting more and more cores on a die, and it's up to the software industry to recraft software to take advantage of the parallel-processing capabilities of the new chips. As is argued in this article, this means becoming proficient in parallel functional programming. The bad news? Getting good at functional programming is hard, harder than moving from iterative Pascal or Basic or C coding to object-oriented development. It's an exaggeration but a useful one: When you move to FP, all your algorithms break.'"

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