5 seconds for a relatively simple app to load? That's nothing to be proud of. Both Epic and Steam should be ashamed that their apps take so long to load. They can do a lot better, and hopefully this focus on performance will lead to both apps getting their load times down to 1 second or less and spark an industry trend towards reducing application bloat, optimising load and reducing memory footprint (especially with RAM being so expensive). This bloat trend is a blight on the whole industry.

I know lots of people who used Netscape (and Mosaic before it), but I don't know anyone who paid for it back in the day. To be completely upfront, I don't remember how I received a copy, whether it was from a swap-meet, from my ISP, or from my circle of friends, but it certainly wasn't from a shop. That was just how things were back in those days.

Instead of picking fights with their distribution platforms, maybe they should have directed more attention towards creating new games. I can only imagine how much money they have missed out on in a foolish effort to try and become the new Steam for mobile platforms. I wonder how many people will even install the Epic store on their iPhone/Android device - I know I won't.

I am not bothered by the shuttering of Sora, but this sneaky news in the last paragraph about merging Atlas AI browser functionality into their OpenAI and Codex app is a real disappointment. I probably won't let Atlas have a place on my computer - I think they will come to regret this move. Forcing unpopular products onto people through embedding in more popular products may not have the desired effect.

The demo videos look pretty awesome to me! I can't wait to see this uplifting game graphics. I know a bunch of naysayers will jump on me saying I'm out of touch and just don't understand their perspective, but I'm a gaming veteran not some out of touch nub. It looks to me like there's still plenty of room for art direction, and I do understand that this tech will homogenise games to some degree, but if I can have games looking photorealistic like that in real-time, that's a net win for me. The real test will be to see the performance impact, latency, etc.

You must have missed the part where the fine is more than twice what CloudFlare made from Italy in a year. If Italy threatened my company with such a fine, I'd pull out of there, too!

I had a look at their website and had to scroll 2/3 down before there was any mention of a Tailwind Plus. Either a marketing failure or an unwillingness to sacrifice principles, but either way it's a failure of management more than LLM's tearing down their business. If you want to survive as a company, use your website as a vehicle to promote your paid services.

So we won't be able to stream Netflix in a hotel without inputting credentials into the hotel tv? That seems like a big step backwards.

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!