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Re:Lockheed Martin Taps Red Hat to Accelerate F-22 Raptor Upgrades on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @04:19AM (#20693621)

Couches are so 90's ... creative thinking needs beanbags.

Re:Thiel Urges U.S. Probe of Google's 'Seemingly Treasonous' Acts on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @03:10AM (#20448078)

Is he the new Joseph McCarthy ???. Instead of Slavic commies we now have to look for Asian commies behind every bush ???.

Re:Former Tesla workers claim they were fired for using maternity and ... on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:05AM (#20391295)

I could never understand the love in the US for Ayn Rand type of social predations labeled as "right to work" (sic).

Re:Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence [video] on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @03:38AM (#20342388)

"Homolog of mammalian neocortex found in bird brain"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121001151953.h...

Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available locally on Thursday January 14, 2016 @11:50AM (#10902541)

I will just cancel my account.

I use a proxy service as the South Africa content library is piss poor , no use saying you are available in the country if you can only carry a small selection.

Naspers owns the satellite tv market here and they launched a streaming service months before Netflix arrived and signed up all the good stuff.

Re:Netflix Is Now Available Around the World on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @06:56PM (#10854908)

So I signed up for free trail in South Africa.

All of Netflix's own stuff is there but the rest of the catalogue is rather dire.

Re:Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Will Shutter... on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @12:45AM (#10579375)

Looks like we are going to switch over the kids to Apple Music for Android when it is stable enough. Rdio was at least available in South Africa unlike Google Play Music and Spotify.

Re:Bend-gate: Apple iPhone 6 Plus found bending in pants pockets on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @11:27AM (#8361996)

Gruber

"If you feel pressure like this on your iPhone 6 in your pocket, you need looser pants."

Re:Facebook acquires Oculus VR on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @05:47PM (#7469291)

They are going to use VR to build the next Like button. I don't get Facebook .. they are buying everything these days that is not nailed down ... they are the Ebay of Web 3.0

Re:Apple in Talks with Comcast About Streaming-TV Service on Monday March 24, 2014 @05:06AM (#7457295)

I see that Netflix want's to introduce more tiers in their pricing ... a bloody good idea so then they can tell their Comcast based subscribers how much extra they need to pay each month for quality service.

Why must I as a non US based customer of theirs help fund the poor state of competition in the US broadband market ???.

Re:What Happens to Older Developers? on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @10:06AM (#7428663)

Late fourties , started off as Unix C developer/sysadmin for a big retailer until they replaced most of their systems with SAP or outsourcing.

Still coding at same company but in ABAP (SAP dev lang).

Re:PLATO (computer system) on Monday November 04, 2013 @05:01AM (#6667771)

In 1980 there was a PLATO installation at our local University (UWC) in South Africa when I was in high school.

It was used by first year students for some tut work and by high school students from the surrounding area for maths courseware.

It was an interesting experiment and novelty but I don't think it fundamentally changed how the varsity did or approached it's teaching.