Sujet : Re: Report: Arm cancelling contract with Qualcomm
De : OFeem1987 (at) *nospam* teleworm.us (Chris Ahlstrom)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 29. Oct 2024, 19:26:11
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rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 07:18:15 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
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The simmer is starting to boil over because Woke games lose money.
Sometimes a WHOLE LOT of money. (Just like movies.)
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Gotta be woke. IT sent out an announcement about Dependent Care FSA
yesterday. Adding nothing to the text was a large photo of a happy multi-
racial family. Somehow it's always a black male, white female, and
offspring of various hues.
I'm guessing you don't see many such families in Montana or Idaho.
White guy: Gee, look at that couple! Their kids look black!
Black guy: Gee, look at that couple! Their kids look white!
-- XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.
XVII:
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing,
and obeys the Second Law of Thermodynamics, i.e., it always increases.
XVIII:
It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon
to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of
ten degradation accomplished.
XIX:
Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will
be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
XX:
In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding
approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the
administration requests -- minus 4-percent tax.
-- Norman Augustine