The shitty thing is that if margins are high enough only a very small minority of owners need to subscribe in order for them to break even and then we get stuck with it for eternity like SiriusXM being implanted into practically everything.
And of course there's no way to just 'opt out' of the hardware via trim levels. Shitty industry in general
Yeah it's horrible, but I think it's made even worse because the premise and concept sounds like it'd make for a really great game. An open world sandbox of ass kicking, like Hell's Angels meets Fallout with a destructable/interactable environment. It's such a good idea but unfortunately Rockstar didn't pick up on it and we got this instead :-/
Some games would simply not install on a second or third machine without getting permission from the publisher.
I remember binning DDR2 RAM on a test bench back in the day and Windows deactivated itself after about a dozen times lol
fully autonomous
How about 'what the fuck is wrong with you?'
Tech bros reinvent the button smh
Weird thing for you to say to someone basically parroting the IPCC's concerns.
Why would a corporate entity move PP&E to a different country in light of the promise of increasingly favorable tax rates and the threat of tariffs? There's a reason why US and Ireland are havens. Those things are bolted down
What if a country that holds half the world's data centers decides to walk out of every global climate accord and start powering those bad boys with fracking due to isolationist trade policies? Won't amount to zero and in less than a month we find out how that ship is changing its heading
You don't say.
Do you think the USA is incapable of a meaningful increase in global emissions? My original comment is implying the opposite
That'd be contingent on lots of things, such as random clowns not sabotaging the EPA and selling rights to Federal lands
That image is of the bus so it probably requires a 'fleet' type purchase alongside a maintenance contract
They still exist as a corporate entity and I wouldn't consider it cruel or malevolent to wholly eradicate them through patent troll litigation. It'd be rich. They're still sitting on dubiously-gotten gains and it doesn't sit right with me that stakeholders will be able to clean out all the pocket change under the couch cushions and walk away
The existence of two earlier US patents, 6,584,071 and 6,680,933 for router technology developed by Nortel Networks and Lucent in the 1990s convinced the jury that Sable's '919 patent should never have been granted.
It'd be hilariously awesome if Nortel and Lucent took wind of this and decided to bleed Sable dry in court
It's kind of fun like 3D jigsaw puzzles but I'd honestly rather not be fixing things so much. We got this new place, inspection turned out fine, but turns out previous owner didn't find a single stud and used 1" screws on everything in the drywall. Had to redo all the closet shelves, hang closet doors, you name it lol
I think the half of the dash and the entire center console on a G37 was about the trickiest thing. Center console lid has a little gear-driven mechanism and you need to flip the entire console upside down to fix, but I needed to stop everything and go to the dealership for a little plastic cog.
But we're in the middle of moving into a new place and our dishwasher was leaking so I pulled the entire 'tub' yesterday and inside front panel off to see if fitment was an issue, mostly wasting time while a couch was scheduled to be delivered, so I stopped the dishwasher project to assemble the couch (power reclining thing), then had to put the entire thing back together afterword (one of those Maytag 'chopper' models with a built in food disposal thing). But to pull the tub I had to remove the heater blower and chop chop thing and the control board and the water jets and all that... And then I realized a new dishwasher is like 500 bucks lol
I wouldn't call it a skill but I'm really mechanically decent (3D puzzles and Rube Goldberg aptitude, that kind of thing), and my visual memory is really good, so I have the uncanny ability to tear apart household appliances, do something else for hours or days, then return and slap it all back together about as quickly with no leftover mystery screws. I just look at the shit all strewn about, and can somehow recall the very last thing I was holding and work backwords
It's pretty disingenious of them to frame this in such a way as to tout the virtues of plastic. We can make rectangular glass bottles and that not only takes less energy to transport but is also more environmentally friendly than PET, but they didn't explore that option or even suggest it to the reader for consideration
But her research was peer reviewed by Alex Jones
It probably won't be affordable housing due to code, but the crux of the issue is that walkability is horrible, basically a checkerboard of one-ways for cars. Block E used to be an entertainment spot like 20 years ago but now all the fun spots aren't in downtown, people go to the warehouse district, north loop, lyndale and lake because those are established.
Not much reason to do anything in downtown anymore and anyone opening a restaurant or whatever knows that, so it's just a boring spot
"They could totally just make this thing stop and dump the water in the ocean.”
I wish we could make that thing stop
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan is pushing hard for AI with everything — he’s long advocated sending “clones” to meetings.
These 'return to office' meeting-loving clowns are pieces of work. Imagine a meeting so important that you can literally walk out of the room