The Alexa division has never been profitable.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Ftech%2Famazo...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mobileworldlive.co...

You can bet that a part of the Alexa+ strategy is to turn that around. You are going to see tons of ads, those AI CPU cycles are super expensive.

It makes sense, I was surprised when they said they were considering it. They've clearly reimplemented the whole back end and the old app wouldn't work any more. End users thinking that the app was the entirety of Sonos' systems was a bit naive.

They rolled it out too soon though.

This is hardly a surprise.

I don't believe this is true. This would be about as successful and useful on MacBook Pro as the Touch Bar. Apple people are smart people.

That said, consumers like a touch screen, so for the MacBook Air - a consumer focused machine - for sure. It would increase the cost though, and consumers are price conscious.

Hence scepticism overall.

Did anything happen here or did some activists cancel their own movie for publicity? This summary says that no action has been taken by DC?

Sounds like something I should get into.. make a movie announcement, then say it was cancelled a few days later - free publicity, and no need to make the actual movie as no-one will see it!

Been using Slashdot, the biggest Linux advocate there is for 20 years, and after those 20 years Linux is still average - the very definition of mediocrity, decisions made by committee, Just as average as it always was, advocates feeding on each other.

"All of the metrics"

I would be keen to see these metrics. Please do post sources!

Vista ain't there, but it wasn't bad, just the brand got a bad reputation.

I liked ME it looked modern.

Windows XP was really two versions - XP service pack 2 was a very significant update to XP, the first time security was a driver in Windows OS. XP SP2 was probably the best - or maybe 7.

8 was probably the low point.

I'm done with bug reports.

It can take hours to put one together. Time is valuable. I'm a dev, I appreciate a bug report, but usually bug reports require putting together a simple test case, stating and restating the obvious, even coding a project that replicates the bug. Screw that. This takes hours and hours and is ungratefully received, usually they are not acknowledged.

My days of submitting bug reports are over.

Whoever leaked that email is probably screwed.

A great technique to catch leakers is to encode into the email who received it. But all the text bodies are the same you might say!

Nah, you can easily insert a space into the email text in a few different places in some emails and not others, change the punctuation in some emails and not others, add extra capitalisation, even change words to words with similar meaning. You can narrow down the whole mailing list using such a code.

Then when the text is leaked you can match the leaked text back to the individual who was sent that version of the mail.

Northside is still > than Southside

Just sayin'

I don't trust the news media much, and it would be nice to see a definitive source saying how big this piece of junk was relative to other junk, and the differences in this re-entry. CNN has a good reputation but all the examples of other space junk landings given in the linked article are also of Chinese origin, and there is no mention of items of non-Chinese origin like Skylab raining over Australia, and the recent SpaceX uncontrolled second stage re-entry which actually happened over land just last month - https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2Fscienc... which did not cause major alerts like this has.

I just don't think this was a well researched article by CNN and maybe this re-entry was over sensationalised just because it is of Chinese origin. I could be *completely* wrong, but this CNN article does not reassure me of that. It is written like Chinese space technology is bad and I suspect that is not the case.

No I don't have to present anything!

Please see my earlier post, I'm not interested in convincing you or indeed anyone else of the facts of the matter. Trying to convince anyone of anything online is a waste of time, I just don't care what you think.

I posted my observation which I know to be factual, I don't give a rats about convincing anyone of it, I don't sit here trying to gather internet points or karma or whatever, I don't make a career of being an internet activist.

Thanks.

I do it for fun!

I have taken the time to read your post, it was as expected.

I enjoy watching people proposing that a point I have made is hypothetical, when I know it is factual and evidence exists to prove it! It means that there are errors in their reasoning, and I enjoy watching them posting screeds of supposedly factual information in an authoritative manner, trying to justify their opinion. I may have a sadistic streak about this!

Please carry on.