I think jobs famously quipped, I want people to want to lick it.

Also the free (at least to students) MS Office includes copilot pro which is also chaptGPT, right?

And deepseek is free to everyone?

I suspect this more about chatGPT data mining than an actual bonus to the students.

I donâ(TM)t have to convince myself, itâ(TM)s objectively true that most of the links in the chain between the creative people (and athletes) and my eyeballs add little value for big cost. whether that justifies piracy is another matter, but capitalism is definitely not working for fansâ(TM) benefit here.

Seriously, right? Iâ(TM)m a nerd, I get star struck over cool new tech, and have since I took apart the family tv in the 4th grade. But pointless tech is never cool. ChatGPT is cool. Eliza was cool too. Claude is actually pretty useful. But this? I want *less* tech to be attached to, not more. I want a much smaller phone that will project a 3d image like in Star Wars. Now that would be cool tech. Even the watch is pretty cool. Cool enough for me to buy and play with, not useful enough for me to still be wearing.

Sorry, not sorry for the rant. People are starving and their homes are being bombed. This is an obscene expenditure of money and effort for pure fluff-thatâ(TM)s not even really cool.

The very first iteration of Siri, which IIRC was connected to Wolfram Alpha and other sources, and also the OS, was way better as I remember. Not only was it better at finding information, it was better at parsing my input into actual iphone actions, for example, setting a calendar event, calling someone, sending a text, and most importantly, searching the web directly for a particular phrase, or opening a website.

I have not played with Siri in several years, because it lost that functionality and I couldn't figure out how to make it useful, which is of course the bottom line of the tool. I want star trek level comprehension of my requests and corresponding accurate action. Give me that, I don't really care what underlies the interface or whether the interface is 'conversational.'

By small, I mean small footprint. Make it a class d amp for all I care if it has decent power and clean sound. But make it small! The size of a Mac mini is about right.

> LIARS that greatly enriched themselves off this grift.

It is true that research college professors do pretty well financially, but not nearly as excessive as even middle management in the energy sector. This has always been a baloney argument-that climate change is a scam perpetrated bu scientists for personal financial gain. In reality, those scientists might, toward the end of their careers, be driving 5 series bmw sedans, but they are a long ways from stinking rich like the fossil fuel people.

If climate science is wrong, then science is wrong, and we should all just hang it up and go back to feudalism.

I still lament the loss of freehand. I have never been able to get the hang of illustrator and back then it was so bad I just gave up and switched careers.

That's a serious drag. I guess we really are dying! /., the old folks home of the internet.

Have you heard of Fournier's Gangrene? Cause it makes your wiener fall off and is made worse by warming climate.

This is an issue of degree rather than absolute. Different government agencies can have varying degrees of independence. At the extreme would be the Federal Reserve Bank. It's established, staffed, and funded by government, but legally cannot be compelled to act at the prompting of any other government actor.

ZipNada's response below is also accurate, and demonstrates a lesser but still profound degree of independence, maybe better characterized as bipartisan.

What could it be today that it isn’t?

I mean, this is just a basic defintion of productivity of profit/labor cost. They compared that plot to a few other data sets and sure enough, turns out a higher volume of take out orders increases profit per labor unit .

I mean it is science, or at least statistics. Undergraduate research level, but still technically qualifies.

Tablets at the table are a little different than qr codes for my experience. I don't mind interacting with a screen, but my phone is just too small for me to relax and order, requires more focus. I'm going to a restaurant sometimes just for convenience, but usually so I can shut off a little. It's also a hassle with the kids who don't have a phone but can read.

Things like Iran-Contra, MKUltra, Tuckaseegee, United Foods, WMD in Iraq, etc. etc. etc.

It's hard to dissuade (or persuade, for that matter) when you lack credibility.