I’d assume they were still called “Woody” and “Buzz”…
I’d assume they were still called “Woody” and “Buzz”…
Nah, cows can’t move that fast.
They can’t fly either…
I’m in two minds about that. One the one hand, yes, of course - as all the original COBOL folks die off, the skills will be even rarer and thus worth more.
On the other hand, if we keep propping up old shit, the businesses will keep relying on it and it’ll be even more painful when they do eventually get forced to migrate off it.
On the other other hand, we know it works, and we don’t want to migrate everything into a series of Electron apps just because that’s popular at the moment.
Should copyright for works that old be expired? Yes!
In the actual world we live in, was this guy ever going to avoid being sued so hard that his grandchildren will be embarrassed for him? No!
You’ve got to admire the lemming-like devotion to the legal cliff he threw himself off though. Writing a sequel to not only a copyright work, but one that is still in the cultural zeitgeist thanks to a 20-year old wildly successful series of films? Ballsy. Subsequently suing one of the largest companies in the world and the estate that produced the original works as infringing his copyright?
Chutzpa, I believe the term is.
That was my first thought when I read this:
The Pin isn’t always recording or even listening for a wake word, instead requiring you to manually activate it in some way
So you’re saying… only a clanker can call another clanker ‘clanker’?
Christ, the Gammons would canonise Churchill if they could, and the man was a monster.
Found the Daily Mail reader…
Maybe I should at least reserve my real name on it…
*gets asked for mobile number
Nope, don’t care that much.