Its interesting that you mention the swoosh. nike is so prevalent in online imagery that it is very difficult for openAI to generate images containing shoes that to not have the swoosh. It even tries to put swooshes on other brans if you ask specifically for some DC's, or van's for instance.

the price of the old nintendos wasn't necessarily dropped... It was unbundled. The original had 2 controllers, and the most popular game as a pack in. The later price dropped versions, had one controller and no games to play at all. If you wanted couch multiplayer, and the game everyone else had, you had to pay for them separately which brought the price right back up (or over) the original price. the 'discounted' switch without the bundle, is already available now. You can save $50 NOW by buying the switch 2 without a game without having to wait for the 'price drop' years after launch. SNES controllers didn't cost a ton, but the games where 55-70 dollars each. this makes the '$100-$50' price drop more like a ~20 dollor price drop, and it was significantly into the products lifespan.

to be fair, the chemisty course that they teach that in is optional for that degree track. (boggles my mind) While pursuing a similar degree myself I opted into those courses because I figured it would be ridiculous not to know how heat, liquids, and batteries work when being a specialist in the field. The physics and thermodynamics courses tackle different problems.

not instead of, but both. Microsoft should leave it alone as the most basic editor, and if you want something better you should use for example notepad++, word pad, etc. or roll your own.

the original notepad was JUST a default text box with a default window. basically an example of what you yourself could build with Visual Studio with drag and drop plus a few clicks. Initially 'updates' to notepad where just updates to the MFC that got inherited by all apps on the system that used default widgets.

Microsoft releases newbuilt in backup solution, after previous new built in backup solution broke the existing new built in backup solutions.

I guess you havn't heard of corel. They have competed against adobe longer than I've been alive and still offer full purchases. there are also lots of smaller inde developers who have really good alternatives such as https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Frealisticpaint.com%2Ffea... https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paintstormstudio.c... and MANY others.

ChatGPT recommended to me to avoid the AI chips and buy the previous generations. The AI npu's are too weak, or too overpriced to be economical. You are better off having a GPU with tensor cores, and an older pre NPU - CPU that is faster and cheaper.

You are correct, wii u has lots of exclusives. I waited a LONG time to get a switch, so many of the titles where ports from other systems, and it took them a while to get most of the ones I actually played. I'm more excited for the switch 2.

WiiU still my fav. Mine has the best version of several games, exclusives you still can't get anywhere else, and a ton of old titles ported from the wii and prior systems it copied over from my old wii.

the chat button is pretty major. I'm supposed more people aren't mentioning it. Nintendo is famous for limiting 'chat' to: Lets go!, I'm using tilt controls, go easy on me!, and 'good bye!' besides generic hellos and goodbyes, there isn't much more you could historically communicate except that you are using motion controls and are an easy target. If Nintendo is actually finally opening that up and letting friends matchmake with each other, communicate, and do some actual game discovery it might help the multiplayer take off. Nintendo has been trying to avoid 'on-line' and force people to 'play on the couch' but is finally realizing that doesn't work for a lot of people outside of Japan.

Trump is a life long democrat who switched parties like RFK because he was shut out like bernie was. Trump is a symptom, not the root cause.

I used to have to kodak printer that worked the same way. the problem we had is that we didn't use it enough, and the nozzles constantly clogged and had to be replaced, and they where not individual like the ink carts are, the cost of replacing a 4 pack of printer heads every time one color clogged was just as expensive in the end as doing the same thing with the ink jets. they design them that way so you replace the ink nozzles frequently. "cleaning" them doesn't work, and wastes lots of ink anyways.

People where mad because they could delete it from their COMPUTER but apple added the song to their LIBRARY as a free paid purchase so it would stay in the off-line music catalog and could be easily redownloaded if play was attempted. It took a lot of complaining before apple added a way to delete a paid purchase from the library to get rid of the U2 Album.

It's not the same for everyone. I think it's in the agreement between the bank google, each of my cards behave differently. my cashapp card requires a pin for every transaction. My American Express requires fingerprint verification for all transactions. My american express is from my bank, its not the american express fromthe american expresses bank (capitol one) or the direct american express handled directly by american express without banks.