I'm a life-long computer guy....but I prefer to keep the computers out of the other appliances.

Finding a 'dumb' TV, or 'dumb' appliances is something you have to commit to. It's not easy, it's a lot of work.

I can't tell if it's because of the potential for additional income from upgrades/options, or whether it's setting the stage for 'recurring revenue' or whether it's just about data-collection and marketing, but they don't like to build 'dumb' appliances anymore.

I figured it might just be that all those features test well with the focus group and that's what they think the entire world wants. ( kinda like how all corporations thinks everyone wants AI in their toothbrush) But I can't imagine why they don't have 'base' models as well that save manufacturing/licensing costs. There's always gotta be the value option....right?

Why would you want to only edit cloud-storage files with your on-disk software?

If you're going to do cloud editing, wouldn't you use the cloud software?

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Why does MS want my files on One-Drive so bad? It costs them money. It's cheaper for them to let me edit local files than it is for them to force me to put them in a free One Drive account?
Is it really just in the hope that I 'might' decide to upgrade...even though I've rejected it over and over and over for the last 10 years?

Is there a clause in the EULA that lets them train their AI on all the files I keep in my free One-Drive account?

Is it just lock-in, and Libre Office can't access those files...and it's an extra step if I want to copy them over to GoogleDrive?

I just don't get it.

When there's a thing that's popular, but demonstrably bad...how do you get rid of it?

Alcohol, (specifically alcohol abuse) is bad for the individual and for the community. Because of the latter, it's not a 'personal preference' thing anymore. So, they attempted to regulate it by enforcing a ban.

TikTok is exactly the same. There's nothing wrong with a video posting service. There is something wrong when people are being harmed by that service (ie, dangerous viral challenges, misinformation, spying?) So they are attempting to regulate by enforcing a ban.

However, because of its popularity (whether earned or addicted) the users say NO! And either reject or ignore the harm, and just say they want it anyway so they get it in another form, or from another source.

If you have a responsibility to protect the community what do you do?

So, no checked luggage, no carry-on luggage. Are they expecting that you're going to have the return trip on the same day?

It seems like booking a flight is going to turn into 'ordering a pizza.'

Pick your seat option:
Pick your luggage option:
Pick your food option:
Pick your in-flight entertainment option:
Do you want a hot towel?

I don't understand the 'motion capture' aspect of it. (Ignore the fact that nobody is going to be recognized for their motion capture. That's 100% of the reason that stuntmen work in the first place. You can't tell who the person is running around on fire.)

With Mo-Cap, the inputs are taken as 'inputs' and then are manipulated by the animators. Even without AI, the animators can manipulate the inputs and create new motions. Is the problem that 'new motions' are created from the inputs recorded from the actors? Or is the problem that "AI" did it, and not a digital animation artist?

Or does this new agreement extend to any manipulation/extension of the motion capture data? What about simply 'mirroring' it, and playing it "left-handed" instead of "right-handed." The actor didn't get paid for reaching out with his left hand as well.

If it's not a 'train' but a bunch of 'self-powered carts' this works.

Part of the problem with the current infrastructure is that it's not spontaneous. It's not 'instant.' You'd have to fill up a whole train before it could leave the station. I think the idea of the conveyor belt/carts is that they are small. If a package needs to move, it starts moving immediately.

That's definitely the beauty of a conveyor belt. It's always moving, there's no additional cost for putting an individual thing on it vs putting a whole lot of things on it. So someone orders a new shoelace, it ships instantly. Of course, the drawback is that you're burning money even if you're not shipping anything.

As soon as you move away from the 'always on' conveyor belt, you start running the math of balancing 'frequency' vs 'capacity' and they are enemies of each other.

Someone's been playing the automation video games and decided it was just crazy enough it might just work.

I recently installed Win11 from a USB image. There wasn't an option to use a local account. This made it difficult because I was building for a remote family member. I discovered that if I would have checked an option when I built the image using Rufus, that it's something I could have still turned on. I don't know exactly what kind of hack that is, but it seems really strange.

What makes me sad is the threatening messages I get on my Windows 10 machine. "Your machine doesn't support Windows 11, but you have to get off Win 10 anyway." Why would I do that? Win 11 is one of those 'skip' releases, like Vista or Win 8.

20 pages per month? You'd have more than that with just one kid's homework.

That's also 35c per page, which is very high, especially with it not covering paper. (I'm guessing that's the 'moral support' they give you.)

They should bump it by an order of magnitude. 200pages for the $7 plan.

The 700 page plan doesn't fit either, but at least that's already 5c per page. That should probably go to 1200, or 1500.

Isn't that a firm rule in networked systems? I know in online games that's pretty much mandatory. All the important details have to be done on the server, and if the client tries to say something happened that the server doesn't like, it just gets reset and those inputs are ignored.

In this case it seems important that the ATC wouldn't ask the plane where it was...it would find out where the plane was. So the system is backwards. You can still use a transponder, but it just broadcasts an ID code. Using triangulation, the system would find out where that ID code was broadcast from and that becomes your plot. (And you'd have radar as a backup for those that weren't broadcasting.)

In IntelliJ, which half is which?

  >= vs =>

I assume those are equivalent and get displayed as the same ligature. But which side is the equals on?

Look at the >= They reduced it to one character width. How are you supposed to tell it that you want to delete the > as compared to the = or vice versa. I assumed with the other ligatures that they'd remain their same fixed-width, so it doesn't mess up the vertical columns...so your cursor would be over the correct part of the 'ligature' even though they all appeared to be attached. But with the >= symbol, that's impossible.

BTW...this is part of the reason I contribute to the Amazon empire. I could shop around and create different accounts at several different websites and spread my info to the wind....or I could just buy from Amazon, get free shipping, and only worry about one place.

There are also 'pitfalls' out there. I one time made the mistake of buying something from 'wish.com' One week and a hundred spam email later I was doing everything I could to scrape my information from that page. (Another reason to stick with the devil that you know.)

I don't care anything about Hearthstone or professional gaming. I had no idea they had things called grandmasters.

However, because of this action by Activision, I now know all about a guy who supported the Hong Kong protesters that I never would have heard of otherwise.

Doesn't work that way. Instead, since downloading is legal in Switzerland, all those sites will just block Swiss IP addresses. It'll be the other way around and Swiss people will use a VPN to pretend they aren't Swiss. Then when they get sued or accused, they'll say, "Surprise, I'm Swiss...sucker."