They will have to, they cannot stop the industry going to downloads. This is the smartest thing they could do.

It's very interesting that game shops were mostly replaced by video game shops which now need to become game shops again.

I read the GP question as how did apple fuck this up in the first place?

You didn't offer me anything and a comment is not a signature, so no and no.

"Honest question"

You have never in slashdot history asked one of those

Ok bot

If you can waive it, it's not a right.

Indeed, someone has to man/maintain those lasers MTG rants about. :-)

First there were human parts in pigs, then bear parts, then... Al Gore's nightmare ...

I don't like tech doing thing I didn't ask it to do, so I hope this can be disabled -- not that I'll be using Gemini, if I still have that choice. Also, I don't generally use Google docs, so perhaps this is moot, for now, until Google pushes this out to other areas.

Wordperfect was fine, and I mean the GUI version. It still lived on for a long time (and may be in use still) because it was FAR better for forms and formatting.

The Linux app for Debian just fails silently for me.

Zoom is shit.

That's the opposite situation.

I'm not sure you understand what jailbreaking means in the context of AIs. It means prompts. E.g. asking it things and trying to get it to make inappropriate responses. Trying doesn't require any special skills, just an ability to communicate. Yes, I very much DO think most parents will try and see if they can get the doll to say inappropriate things before giving it to their children, to make sure it's not going to be harmful.

(Now, if Mattel has done their job right, *succeeding* will be difficult)

I'm familiar with some organizations that have been feeding their Slack data into a RAG for employee queries.

They're going to be quite pissed if this has been shut down by Slack.

No, it is not. You write the contract so that if the customer fucks it up it's their problem, and if you have to undo things that they did when you get there, they have to pay for it.