The i740 was somewhat competitive with other cards available at the time. They dropped the ball entirely once the TNT hit the market, though.

You were so close with point 2, but you seemed to miss it still. To win an election, you only need to secure the swing vote. Democrats put forward a candidate which appealed to their own base instead of a candidate that appealed to the swing vote. That's why they lost the election.

The other side to this coin is that making a deliberate choice not to have a kid is also depriving a potential being of a life that it might well have thought of as a net positive. In saying that, I'm not suggesting anyone is burdened with a responsibility to have children, but it's not necessarily all about you, sometimes it's also about them. It's a crapshoot as to whether they would view life as worthwhile or not - you can't say whether one choice is definitively better than the other.

And that shows the disconnect between journalists and activists and your everyday Joe. SUV's are the most popular car on the road in most countries. From this, it should be clear that there is a major disconnect between the very loud voices, amplified by the media, of a minority in favour of climate action and the average person who doesn't actually give much of a fuck.

I never expected great things from Apple TV+. I didn't think they'd be willing to take any risks or be edgy. Anything they host on the service will impact their brand image, and Apple is all brand. They can't afford to be at all controversial, it's doomed to be dull.

That this madness achieved an insightful 5 says a lot about the current state of Slashdot.

We'll ban you from attending the meetings! Consider yourself warned!

There are financial risks, risks to quality of life & risks to actual life today, that are immediate consequences of the kind of change we are told is necessary to avert this. Those risks are certain and immediate if all the insisted upon actions are to be taken and the impact is high to critical. Nothing can be considered in an isolated silo. We must be risk-averse, but not just to the risks that you think are important.

The bad guys are out there, and they're not going to be sympathetic to your lack of time or motivation. I understand how you feel, but these days you can't afford to be complacent, especially so if you are responsible for securing data relating to or owned by other people. In my personal view, if I don't want to do something right, I don't do it at all.

You don't like people accessing your publicly accessible systems? Don't make them publicly accessible. I get it, you want your cake and to eat it too. You can't control what other people do with the information once they have it. Even if you could stop these legitimate groups from doing this, you couldn't stop the malicious actors.

Who cares if someone makes some violent or sexualised material with AI? Let them do it, it's fine. It'll become rampant and everyone will view such images with scepticism and assume they were made with AI anyway. We put too much stock in people's feelings today. Lets focus on things that really matter rather than banning anything that can be misused by irresponsible people. If someone literally hurts you or takes something away from you, yes you have a legitimate gripe, but anything else is your own problem. Grow thicker skin, people!

...and nothing of value was lost.

While your points are valid, my views align with the parent and I will be cancelling my Prime membership the day this rolls out. I hope many others will do the same to prevent ads making their way to other streaming services. I hope we can force Amazon to find another business model that does not involve ads or privacy invasion.

You need to get rid of these people, whether they're working in the office or remote. I've found that when I need to get my head around something, a video call with the right people screen sharing is just as good as an in-person catch-up. The key, though, is to let them know ahead of time what you want to learn, so they have a chance to prepare themselves.

I've seen the opposite trend in my teams, and I suspect they're spending more time working now than they should be, after upsetting the work life balance with covid. On a personal note, I am able to be a lot more productive when working from home, because there are less distractions and I spend less time on general banter with people in the office. Discussions are more focussed on the work in video calls and they tend to disband more abruptly than office meetings once conclusions are drawn. Perhaps it's down to the type of people working in the teams, or it could be the tools you have in place, the culture, the processed or the management style.