Thanks, but I'll pass on this one
Those blades look to be at a precarious level, too close to todgerville for me!
My kevlar chainsaw pants must be in here somewhere...
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I stopped going down the rabbit hole trying to find what is actually being shared. Block the slurp! Set up a Pi-Hole https://pi-hole.net/ , use something besides MS Edge or Chrome, use browser extensions, Ghostery, NoScript, uBlock Origin to name a few. This data slurp is on par with a war... it won't stop because you say chill. It's like telling a charging, angry dog to sit...
Oh: El Reg - you have googletagmanager
Perhaps, the parent Company is to blame? https://situationpublishing.com/ If I go there with my extensions enabled and the Pi-Hole removing garbage, this site doesn't load?!! I get the green circle chasing it's ass... Thanks NoScript!!
In one form or another. My friend and I stood in line starting at 4am for concert tickets that went on sale at 10am on a Sunday morning after a Bowie concert on Saturday! 10 ticket limit per person. We bought our limit. When word got out that we had tickets, and what we went through to get them, we were bombarded with offers much higher than face value. We didn't have to pay for out tickets in the end!
Surely, as learned scholars reading Reg.com, we have the capacity to learn two standards? It's easy, I learned the metric system when I was in 12 going to school in the US! Yes, there was a big push to go metric! I still have the binder we made in school in 1976! The contents are long gone. In the end, all that became metric was soft drinks in large quantities. 3 liters of Pepsi anyone??
As someone who lived in Western Europe for nearly 25 years, knowing both has been a life saver. I worked for an American flavored company with many local hires. As we often received some products and equipment from the US, my knowledge of both standards was extremely useful, and saved the day a couple of times.
Now let's go watch the Maltese Falcon, and the comedy remake The Black Bird....
^^^. I thought the same thing, market saturation... There are enough cloud providers, and those customers who wanted it, have it already. I wouldn't be surprised to see these 30+% growth figures dip significantly in the coming years.
Will it be the mongrels fighting for the scraps?
Halfmad is all right! Give that commentard a beer!
I've never bought a 'new' smartphone* for me. I did buy a new iPhone SE for the missus as it was a special deal from a Telco, I think I shelled out 250 quatloos, and she's still using it 4 years later.
*I did purchase a Nokia(e something?) 11 years ago. Right now it's being used for a backup number for us.
That's only his salary... what about options, benefits (health, dental and others), retirement. Chuck in all the free stuff like transportation, I doubt Tim's picking up the limo fare, or the plane tix, private or not... I'm sure that on the iphone cost to consumer pie chart graph, there's a slice that covers stuff like transportation and such.
This time tracking your work nonsense was proposed at a place I worked at by my newly hired boss at the time. After implementation, productivity took a nose dive. When staff evaluations came around, this was a talking point on everyone's evaluation. Once it was all pieced together, it turned out that the lost productivity on our jobs was put into entering in what we did, instead of moving on the next fire...
Scrape off the Win11 UI, and you'll find all the familiar control panels buried underneath. I was astonished that after three clicks in different "new" settings and control panels to find the old friendly stuff we remember, like advanced settings to change your page file, and tell Windows to adjust for best performance etc. If I had to use Win11 as a daily driver, my productivity would be horrible.
What's next? Changing the order of the alphabet? And calling it progress?