Posts by fishman

Re: Potentially dumb question...

They should have gone with a 3X telephoto lens instead.

Re: No worries

"Oh. This sounds like something political."

Why do you think the SLS is called the "Senate Launch System"?

Re: Facebook will position itself as a provider of government digital services

"Which one will use the mined data for the least evil purpose?"

Governments can throw people in jail and/or confiscate all of their belongings, so the PRC is potentially the most evil.

But companies that mine the data can have the results taken by the government and then used for evil purposes.

Re: Is...

Earth is a planet. Whether there is intelligent life on Earth is up for debate.

Re: the main problem with the Pixel 2/3 etc.

And the Iphone is literally an android phone.

Large phones? Android first.

Fingerprint sensor? Android first. (Motorola Atrix)

Notch? Android first (Essential Phone)

Facial unlock? Android first (2011 Galaxy Nexus)

Re: Give it a couple of million years

If you could accelerate at 1g for one year, you would reach the speed of light. Decelerate at 1g for a year, and you are done. Assuming you don't hit anything - since you are traveling at the speed of light you have no way to maneuver around anything - by the time you could sense something you are already there.

Re: Old Linux ?

I ran SGI Irix 3.2 in 8MB of memory. 16MB was comfy.

Re: Travesty...

The new movie's characters are closer to the original drawings than the old Disney movies.

Re: Of course they're still spending...

"Who do I root for? I'm so conflicted."

Oracle - Evil to employees and customers.

Amazon - Evil to employees.

Re: Why is QLC the hardest of all to use?

Just wait until they go to 11.

Re: The plaintiffs stand a decent chance of losing

"Every one of my Androids have lasted <2 years due to battery issues"

My first Android lasted 5 years - the battery was still in good condition. On the other hand, my son killed the battery in his iphone in a year.

Re: "The US approach maximises consumer welfare"

"Corporate welfare maybe, but not investor welfare."

If corporations were run to maximize investor value executive pay and benefits would be dramatically slashed.

Re: Feature trickle down

The Essential phone has a notch - It came out before the Iphone X, and is currently around $500.

Re: Wade Owen Watts

Cringely's name is the pen name of Mark Stephens.

Re: Don't want that swing.

When many people think of nudists they think of young fit attractive adults going naked. The reality is that most of them are old, overweight, and unattractive - like most people.

"So a bit like turning the device off? Are they going to sue for power buttons as well?"

It's more like the "mute" button on my TV's remote control. But it's ON A COMPUTER!!!

Re: Lego...

"I built my Saturn V out of standard bricks."

I built a Saturn 1 using the cardboard tubes from Christmas wrapping paper. The tanks on the first stage of the Saturn 1 are visible from the outside, and it took somewhere around 8 tubes to recreate the look. I was somewhere between 8 and 10 years old.....

Re: We have the clueless leading the blind...

I see I got (so far) 9 thumbs down when I corrected someone who provided false statistics. Looks like there are quite a number of fake news fans here.

Re: @ wolfetone

"Lets face it if ever theres a proper shooting war then all these carriers, and the planes still on the deck, will be on the bottom of the sea within about an hour."

If it gets to that point the airfields will be smoldering holes in the ground and the cities will be ashes. And few will be alive to care what happened to the carriers.

Re: I thought all carriers shared a stolen handset list.

"The only difference between Verizon and the other major telecoms is that Verizon pretends like they're different."

And charges quite a bit more for it.

If I remember, at the press conference after the launch he said they would fire the second stage engine until it ran out of fuel. So it sounds like it had more fuel than they expected.

Re: And it doesn't sound like the actual residents of the town were responsible

"Well, Trump was never "elected", he was installed by the "electoral college" through a process called "gerrymandering",which is how republicans overthrow election results, and that is what the US calls "democracy"."

Gerrymandering could have only a tiny affect the electoral college - only Nebraska and Maine give out the electoral votes by congressional district; the other states are winner take all. Nebraska is solidly Republican and gerrymandering would have not had any impact; Maine state legislatures are mostly controlled by Democrats - the state legislatures are where the gerrymandering gets approved - so any gerrymandering would have been probably done by the Democrats.

For those outside the US, gerrymandering is when a voting district geography is reshaped in such a way that the included population will vote in a way the "designer" desires. The voting district can end up in with a strange distorted shape. Both parties are guilty of using it.

Re: The previous FCC chair was expected to be a cable stooge

"Too bad Trump was all bluster when he said he was going to drain the swamp."

He's draining the swamp - but replacing it with a sewer.

Re: You're really lucky!

My two best (?) lucks - I had a transmission replaced at 35K miles under the 36K mile warranty, and a refrigerator compressor replaced at 4 years 11 months under the 5 year warranty. Of course, better luck would have been no repairs needed at all.

Re: Down in Arkasas they'll call it "Sweetmouth Broadband"

I live 1000 miles away from *Arkansas*, and even I know that the team is called the Razorbacks. And Arkansas ranks 24th in pig production.

Re: The More I read About the US of A....

Brexit.

Whenever the Brits start looking down on the USA, don't forget that the UK has far more cameras focused on their population than the US. And their politicians are just as capable of doing crazy/irresponsible things.

Re: Mars Orbit?

You mean like the Voyager episode "The_37's" where they find a 1936 Ford pickup truck floating in space?

Re: Well this could get messy...

"So, for centuries, your run-of-the-mill Muslims were quite happy worshipping their guy who had been shagging a nine or ten year old. "

Plenty of Christians were standing behind Roy Moore, the Alabama senate candidate, when it became known that he had chased after a 14 year old girl when he was in his 30's. And it wasn't entirely that they didn't believe the girl - some didn't have any problem with the age difference.

Re: What real use are they?

I've seen neighbors with fake security company stickers in their windows.

Re: It seems...

"We have introduced product that wasn’t on their site that once it proved to be be a good seller, Amazon started selling the same thing, bypassing us. Unethical gits."

I don't quite understand. You introduced a product - did you make it, or were you reselling it? And did Amazon start selling a knock off, or did they get it from the same supplier that you did? And was it Amazon, or a seller under the Amazon Marketplace?