So he's using old handsets to control skype on their local computer. Tell me if this is somehow not what's going on.

Considering that more than half of Reddit is either false or fake, this is going to end really well. I give it 5 years before the whole AI bullshit collapses into a "stupid people will believe anything" meme. This no different from all the execs who "cloudified" all their system to save money and got huge bonusus followed by all the new execs who are starting there in-sourcing project to take everything out of the "cloud" and back into personal datacenters, you guessed it, because the "cloud" doesn't work the way they thought, and it is costing them MORE money now. And those exec will also give themselves big bonuses. This is no different.

As others pointed out, this is a lost cause.... in most cases. The real issue is QUALITY, not a guaranteed job. Look at Japanese anime and video games ported to the west. In Japan, Seiyu (voice actors) are highly trained actors. The producers except only top quality work, equivalent to Hollywood actors. The US (etc) actors are, well, not that good. Sorry if you have a favorite voice dubber, but you have to admit that they are NOT top tier actors. Simply, dubbed anime is shit. Again, sorry to those who insist on not reading subtitles or learning how to speak Japanese. Put a good quality (not talking about shonen shit like Naruto or One Piece) anime against the dubbed version, and you will immediately see the difference. The whole point of this, make yourself a demanded actor. Be better than the AI. I really hope that some voice dubbing actors can do that. Right now they are just coasting, and they know that they are not really much better than their AI equivalents. Maybe top games and anime will start using Academy Award winners instead of the sclubs they use now. That would be the best.

Expect the re-in-sourcing project to start next week when they figure out how much extra it will cost them, past the "projected" cost. Oh, maintenance, redundancy, replication, performance management, fat fat pipes, unmet SLAs.... It's the same fucking story over and over. So I hope the execs lined their pockets with those M$. Maybe they'll move to UAE, and we'll be rid of them. Then let the tens of thousands of unemployed tec workers help you put your business back together.

What's Slashdot doing about random "AI" generated articles? Just saying...

Is anyone taking this seriously? If so, we are experiencing the biggest scam of the modern age (whatever that hyperbole means.) What will the historians call this? The utterly fucked up 20s? The scam to beat all scams? Or will our future historians just say, "thank god we are not that stupid anymore."

Make better films. I don't care what they are about, or who the characters are. MAKE GOOD FILMS. Who are these idiots who think they have to see a film because it's "MCU?" Tell me who the director is. Who the screenwriter is. How dedicated the actors are. Will the producers let them create art or hamstring them to just repeat the last film that made money. I know it's not easy to make good films. I'm just saying stick with THAT as the reason to do all the work, spend all the money, and let people see it because it is good, not because it's a series with name recognition.

So you DON'T want superheroes? Because for almost a hundred years that IS what superheroes are about.

Am I the only person on Slashdot who knows what backups, disaster recovery, colocation, real time replication, and business continuity are? Just wondering. It should take them what, better part of a week, to get back to full production.

Since "AI" is really only useful for a tiny fraction of what people claim it does, and is really only used for data mining, bad help desk experiences, and scrambled press releases, how about we laud the companies NOT spending billions on vapor ware? I hope Apple loses a ton of value, because it'll be a great buy for when this idiocy comes to an end. "Remember when we thought AI was real? Oh, how stupid were we back then."

So what the fuck is coding now? (Roughly) 1950s, machine language. 1960s, assembly. 1970s, C, basic. 1980s pascal, lisp. 1990s Java, C++. 2000s, frameworks. 2010s, I got no idea, a bunch of shit. 2020s, even more what the shit.

Can AI write the super Woz machine? The fast fourier transform? The 3d Doom libraries? Perl scripts to manage unix servers? WHAT ARE WE CODING? Because it is utterly ridiculous to consider the BS we call "AL" as actually coding, as I understand it.

Do a database query and mark it up for a web page? Because that's not coding. PLEASE help me understand what the flying fuck we are even talking about?

I've always loathed the term "Nintendo Tax" because it implies some kind of penalty, like a wealth tax or a vice tax. Though I can't argue that it's not a real thing - Nintendo's best games hold their market value far better than rival games, even from other top-tier Japanese developers.

Still, I would approach this phenomena from the other direction. Nintendo is not able to maintain high prices because they're somehow fleecing people (as a tax would imply), but because they work to make games that stand the test of time. And then back it up with a sales strategy to match.

So much of the industry treats video games as ephemeral entertainment - something to consume, and then throw away as you move on to the next game. It's the traditional media model for TV and movies extended to interactive media. And for most of the industry it's an accurate observation: game sales are ridiculously front-loaded, and few games (especially single-player games) have a long tail. After the initial hype subsides, you need to lower your price quickly in order to keep unit sales (and thus revenue) from cratering. All the while you're already hard at work on next year's game.

But Nintendo has been able to channel the lifecycle of board games and card games. In their eyes they aren't creating media, they're creating a digital plaything. They're creating something that you'll play now, but you'll also want to play next month, next year, next decade. Case in point: Mario Kart 8 is 11 years old and the only thing that has really diminished its value (and sales) after all of this time is that it finally has a successor in Mario Kart World.

When is the last time you saw a permanent price cut on Monopoly? Uno? Settlers of Catan. The occasional sale, sure. But a copy of Catan is still going to sell for $40+, even today. That's the business strategy Nintendo is tapping into. If a game is good - like really, really good - and it's repeatedly replayable, then why does the price need to be cut soon after launch? Why can't people come along and discover it years later? Why does it need to be priced like it's a quickly depreciating asset - like a movie instead of a board game?

And that is the ultimately where the Nintendo Tax as we know it comes from. Make a game good enough, make a game gamey-enough, and don't devalue it by replacing it 3 years down the line - and it's something people will want to buy even years later.

Though this is a relatively recent phenomena. It's only after we hit the PS360U generation of hardware that systems had enough processing power and memory for games to not be constrained and do whatever they want. And that games stopped being obviously dated in terms of visual when compared to the previous generation. It's no coincidence that this was the last generation where Nintendo offered their Nintendo Selects line of discounted games.

No iPhone user gives any kind of fuck. Anyone have a count of Slashdot no-story-here posts by non-Apple owners' outrage about Apple? Well, +1 I guess.

So "coding" is now assembling modules to spit out what you want. ..... That's not coding. The goal post hasn't moved, it's over in the next county. STOP PRETENDING THAT AI IS REAL. Slashdot readers (should) know better.

So when Microsoft continually abused their monopolistic control of 90% of the PC market, they were let off the hook. But Apple which doesn't even have a majority of the smart phone market, is now a monopoly. This is more butt hurt users who would never even buy an iPhone complaining that it is a closed market. BUY A FUCKING ANDROID. You are not missing any functionality when you do that. As a matter of fact, you get the fiddly control you demand. Stop trying to force iPhone users play in the same play ground. We're quite happy. How about this, do a survey of how many iPhone users demand opening the app market. No? Because NO iPHONE USERS ARE ASKING FOR THIS. If they wanted this, they'd buy an Android. It is sheerest idiocy to claim Apple is a monopoly when Microsoft still controls almost the entire office computer market, but nary a peep is heard.