You may be right about the copyrights in the individual unit, but I was talking about the underlying car OS in response to the commenter who said “most car systems run android”. QNX is a real-time operating system which is required for something like a car. Another for instance would be Microsoft Auto which Ford used before switching to QNX.

In general a modern car will have dozens or hundreds of computers running their own software and communicating in a sort of API fashion usually through something like CAN bus. Most of these systems can’t afford to wait on something to boot when you start your car.

In very general terms we are talking about the main difference between an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi.

I was under the impression that a large portion of cars still ran QNX.

Nah it’s because he is really smart in one area but keeps acting like he is some omni-genius. He lacks the insight to be able to say “I don’t know”.

Absolutely, but I would even go as far as to say that things like rainy day funds or reinvestment should be considered costs of business not “things we might do with profit”.

Yeah, this kinda looks cute while the dog is sitting, but all I can imagine when the dog walks away is poor puppy getting flung side to side on its back.

IDK. Something tells me we aren’t done hearing about his ties to Epstein or him sleeping around as CEO.

Profit isn’t required to maintain a company. Only enough revenue to cover costs. Everything else is a surplus.

Technically most coke is “sugar free” in the strictest sense of table sugar versus corn syrup.

Given that I have worked with people who got confused when the start button stopped having the word “Start” on it I am going to disagree with you.

I can totally see somebody putting in a ticket because “it kept adding letters to the end of the file name when they saved”.

The weird thing is that it worked too well. Like Y2K, it was fixed so it became a nothing burger. Now everyone thinks it was an overreaction and don’t want to keep fixing things.

I remember people talking about not curing covid as fast because then people wouldn’t take the next pandemic as seriously.

They have drone carrier drones now.

I agree but I feel that you are missing the importance in being educated on how to learn. Having access to all of human knowledge means nothing if you don’t know what to do with it.

The large majority of the people I am referring to in my previous comment seem to be allergic to learning or at least convinced that the learning part of their life is finished.

Speaking as a Millennial who has worked at several colleges;

GenZ didn’t fuck themselves, they were fucked by GenX and older Millennials… AKA their parents and, to a certain extent, educators. Who, for some reason, decided to not pass on a single fucking skill they were taught as kids.

Seriously I have been around people just 10 years or so younger than I am who cannot make change, read cursive or analog clocks, or even use a mouse.

The market didn’t let this happen. Years of bad anti-monopoly practices have seen companies like Adobe buy out their competition.

As a result the amount of money it would take to simultaneously catch up to Adobe’s decades of development and compete with them at scale even with just one of their products is far outside what a lot of people are willing to invest.

The same is true for a lot of “big tech” right now. Imagine you wanted to start your own music streaming service…

If I understand correctly then you are assuming that the mouse cursor is hovering and not just thick.

I have a problem with NASA not having its own launch system. Especially when the supposed replacements haven’t exactly demonstrated their viability or cheaper-than-SLS-ness yet. SLS has actually flown. Killing the Shuttle without a viable replacement left us reliant on the Russians to get to space. Killing SLS at the proposed time leaves us at the mercy of the promises of an asshat who has been promising FSD for over a decade.

That aside I also don’t have a problem with a tiny fraction of my tax dollars funding STEM careers.

You understand that it isn’t the government’s money right?

We should go further and fund local journalism like we fund libraries.

Aren’t these the same people banning Fluoride and complaining about supposed Mercury in vaccines???

You don’t have to worry about that until the 7th.

The only reason these things haven’t happened is that Microsoft was banned from doing them back in the 90s. They absolutely wanted to require a Microsoft Account (then called a Passport) in Windows XP. The ban was in place until just after Windows 7 came out.

Blame the government for doing nothing to protect consumers since 1999.