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They’ve been playing the long game here…encroaching on your Drive storage for years

• Gmails didn’t used to count towards storage
• Photos didn’t used to count towards storage (unless stored in “Original” quality)

I’m wagering “Location Data” will be along soon. Then “number of passwords stored”.

Next move will be “number of connected devices”, even though that doesn’t impact how much they have to store.

Finally they will get round to billing you on your number of individual body hairs (shaving in breach of T&Cs).

Don’t know why you got downvoted. I mean, I’d have said “many” rather than “most”, but in principle this is true.

Yeah you were lucky. I had to take public transport for the number 93 bus. Memories of queuing in the rain.

On the plus side, the bus was filled with pretty Japanese students going from their Hall of Residence to University.

Android User here. Never owned any Apple device.

But they’re fucking good quality. Anyone can see that. So what’s the problem?

I like Android 'cos I like dicking about with it. Some people don’t want to dick about with their phones, they want to do other stuff that could be more interesting.

What a shame. A lot of guys will have worked hard on this, perhaps going on a journey from initial enthusiasm at the novel gimmick to anxiety over real-world usability.

Sadly they’re going to lose all their money or, even worse, find a way to pay back the VC.

This will be a tough one to fix. There must be millions upon millions of embedded systems out there with 16-bit epoch burned in.

They’ll all be much tougher to find than “YEAR PIC(99)” in COBOL was.

Y2K wasn’t a problem because thousands upon thousands of programmers worked on it well in advance (including myself) we had source code and plenty of static analysis tools, often homegrown.

The 2038 bugs are already out there…in the wild…their source code nothing but a distant dream.

So you could hava “Delta decent airlines” and “Delta fucking shit piss-stained seats threadbare aircraft $15 50ml Coke cans” then?

Totally different market sectors.

If it’s all in writing you can’t just force another company to do what you want. What you can do is wriggle, twist and delay until it becomes too expensive for the smaller company to continue to pursue.

However judges are more than well aware of this technique and will allow the plaintiff to accrue costs against Legal Aid (paid for by government).

So what usually happens:

1. Small co files against large co for using same name
2. Large co produces huge response document which is all piss and wind
3. Small co says they can’t afford the costs to answer each point
4. Judge permits Small Co to use Legal Aid.
5. Large co offers to settle. (E.g. you’re a 3 person sandwich shop. They offer you £10m. No more work, no more hassle)

If Small Co is energetic, young and courageous, they may choose to fight to the death. But Legal Aid has a limit…

Thank you, I’ve saved that for a quiet moment.

Presumably the pilot would have been ordered to do this. To what end? Why?

Yes China, we know you want Taiwan back. Either commit to solid action or don’t. This bizarre behaviour just risks lives and expensive aircraft.

Seriously, what’s the point?

Yeah man, that scratches the itch!

Fun (albeit personal) fact: I’m a Brit who was sent to work in Texas in '96. I’ve still got a “Don’t Mess With Texas” t- shirt from that time.

Probably what happened was that scraps were scraped off.

Yeah I also wondered if “nuclear gravity” was some fascinating new branch of physics.

Got real disappointed when I realised that it meant dropping 'em.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B61_nuclear_bomb

58 Gen X Brit here. Even I know the correct response. It was a popular tune.

I’m still with Brother. Dropped my last 6 year old Brother (printer not sibling) down the stairs, and replaced it with the updated model. No fuss, no jams, respectable use of toner. Easy WiFi setup (even easier if you know how to allocate it a static IP in router DHCP settings).

Would still recommend, still a Brand Loyal customer.

I 100% agree with this. Sadly, rule #3 applies to me (my job involves dealing with banks and lawyers).

I have had two HP inkjet printers which were unmitigated dogshit. Money-grabbing, thrown together pieces of shit. You get more types of jams than at a craft jam shop.

Five years ago, moved to a Brother laser printer. Little difference in purchase cost. AND IT NEVER FAILS.

I’m now on my second (dropped first one downstairs when moving house) and it is just as reliable.

Each to their own, but for me: Brother Laser Printer every time.

Does no-one check the damn IDs, ffs? It’s a simple matter of typing some numbers into a computer.

I don’t know about the U.S. but in the UK where I’m from, “illegally hiring a non-UK citizen” would be a criminal offence for the hiring company. How are they going to tax them?

Damn. So no totally dark motorcycle then. Ah well

Good point.