Tim H.

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• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  I use an M1 mini that I bought discounted after the M2s were introduced, I expect similar discounts to be available when the expected M3 or M4 upgrade happens. Bear in mind RAM & storage are not economically upgradeable on...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  My impression is that they want everything back, and more. Wouldn't be surprised if some of those little things they seek bring them into conflict with the investor community....
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  Thanks for that brief vision of "Mr Creosote"....
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  That would be the ideal response....
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  My guess, "Detention!"....
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  I expect some young person to notice differences between the mandated text and what's in the KJV. I also think there may be potential to annoy "The blessed of Mammon", who would welcome the return of "Sunday blue laws"* as...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  The usual suspects see "Drumph!" not as a source of ideas, but as a vessel they'll fill. Though I suspect you only omitted that for brevity's sake....
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  If attainable, just what we need....
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  If the recommended inflation pressure is 80 psi, consider a small barreled pump, otherwise the effort can be punishing, as well as tedious....
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  The possible Dyson swarms will be more interesting when we have better pictures. That a civilization avoided the embarrassing fate of becoming a "Dead World of Antiquity" before beginning to develop off-planet resources would be a big deal....
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  Some of them certainly, mostly it's not exactly evil folks who only dimly realize they live off of working class/small business types and think of carrying capacity seldom if ever....
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  Presupposing the local hospital hasn't closed their emergency department due to economic contraction or posturing right wingnuts in State governments....
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  On a positive note, my first "Smartphone" was a Nokia running WinMobile 8*, it worked well enough that I once considered moving further into the M$ ecosystem. Fortunately, this was just before they shitcanned Windows Mobile, and I acquired a...
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  Thereby creating the possibility of local "Right-Wing nuts" acquiring a list of folks who despise the local NAZI wannabe candidates for doxxing purposes....
• Commented on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
  I expect an update soon that makes it simple to disable that "Antifeature". Moz @#3 and Mike Watts @ #4, and it'll likely be insufficient in mitigating reputational damage....
• Commented on Harmless Fun
  The only roadkill deer I was responsible for happened in north central Kansas nearly forty years ago, the implement of Bambi's destruction? A Suzuki GS550B*. A fawn, panicked by noise, both the bike's and a long coal train in the...
• Commented on Harmless Fun
  If memory serves, more like an early PPC. 68040 machines didn't support 9. Unless one deceived the installer....
• Commented on Harmless Fun
  They let their freak flag fly, without even realizing it's a freak flag....
• Commented on On mistaking a transient state for a permanent one
  The threat to slavery was likely the bit that got the attention of the southern colonies. The puzzle is why wouldn't King George agree to talk with colonists less than enthusiastic about rebellion?...
• Commented on On mistaking a transient state for a permanent one
  Another complication, "Winner take all" States (Most of them), without winner take all a (Formerly) GOP National candidate would be fortunate to get 8 of Missouri's 10 electoral votes, with it rural voters override St Louis & Kansas City....
• Commented on On mistaking a transient state for a permanent one
  I don't really see the disagreement......
• Commented on On mistaking a transient state for a permanent one
  Immigration is a patch to temporarily keep a society going when it does stupid things like mistaking a motley collection of resentments in a trench coat for a philosophy. A lower birthrate is a sensible reaction to ever increasing rents...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  Thank you, that sounds like what I'd expect from the co-author of "Crown of Slaves"....
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  If memory serves, one of the goals of the displaced Americans in Eric Flint's "Ring Of Fire" series was to discourage European participation in the slave trade. I've only read a few of those, don't know if any of them...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  I believe the time frame I had in mind was 2002ish, and was not suggesting an install of WIN NT desktop in a phone, but a mobile OS built around the NT kernel, like they released in 2012. Not at...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  M$ has made use of the NT kernel in other operating systems, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone_8 Not exactly a power hungry application, and for myself, it and it's WIN 10 mobile descendant were the most pleasant varieties of that family of...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  Intel was not the only x86 manufacturer, and x86 was not the only CPU style NT was ported to, even back then....
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  A timeline where Nolan Bushnell runs Atari for another decade or two could be interesting. As well as one where M$ brings a 32 bit, NT kernel based, OS to the smart phone market ten years ahead of what they...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  We got the plastic to make bottle washers redundant. How to stop more plastic getting into milk will involve conflict with sales folk, reminiscient somehow of n"Bored of the Ring"...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  I would say that Putin wishes to play the game of kings at a lower difficulty level....