Don't know why you got downvoted. I mean, I'd have said "many" rather than "most", but in principle this is true.
SuperJetShoes
joined 11 months ago
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:
- Small co files against large co for using same name
- Large co produces huge response document which is all piss and wind
- Small co says they can't afford the costs to answer each point
- Judge permits Small Co to use Legal Aid.
- 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.
Yeah man, that scratches the itch!
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.
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.
All perfectly legal (unless sanctions forbid it).
But in that case they wouldn't need any fake IDs.
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They've been playing the long game here...encroaching on your Drive storage for years
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).