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Comment Hollywood flips a coin and goes with ... (Score 1) 131

... one of the only two ideas they've had for the past couple of decades:

  1. Produce a remake of something that made money before.
  2. Produce a movie based on a comic book.

Do these geniuses ever stop to wonder why attendance at movie theaters has been dropping over the years? Nope, sorry, it wasn't COVID (though that didn't help). It's the crap movies.

Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 195

So "keeping the system working as anticipated" means Win11 is intended, in part at least, to be means of collecting data on users in order to direct advertising to them. No thanks.

I had my belly full of Windows when WinXP keep crapping on itself and rendering itself unbootable. Nowadays, I'll only use an Microsoft operating system when an employer shoves it at me---but I'll looking for a means of running Linux in a VM.

Comment A human intervened how many times? (Score 1) 44

How productive was it to have the AI write articles that had to be re-done -- several times -- because they contained factual errors? Assigning the story to a single writer -- who might, initially, have included the same inaccuracies -- and having it reviewed/fact-checked and corrected once would have been more efficient.

I'm hoping that sites like CNET includes disclaimers about having used an AI to write particular stories, but, hopefully will include them at the top of the article so I can bail out before I've wasted my time reading something that may or may not contain bogus information.

Comment Privacy? (Score 1, Troll) 161

``And if I catch you recording me for content, I will smack your phone away.''

... preferably into heavy truck traffic.

Just because some TikTok videographer thinks privacy is dead, they need to learn that, no, it isn't. Simply being in public doesn't make you a potential subject for some video project they're working on. Whatever happened to model releases anyway?

Comment Top-selling item? (Score 1) 40

``Oh, and the top-selling item at one of Walmart's drone ports? Hamburger Helper.''

So not great loss if the delivery drone screws up, then.

I'm waiting for a package to be grabbed by a dog in the back yard where it's being drone-delivered and Fido having a ball with his new Tug-Toy.

Comment Re: Non-replaceable batteries (Score 2) 74

Kudos for flagging the new products that don't include replaceable batteries. I'm surely not alone in getting tired of products that have rechargeable batteries but which cannot be replaced when they begin failing to hold a charge and become yet another bit of e-junk whose lifetime could have been extended if the designers had thought to include a replaceable battery. A trip to BatteryLand where I could buy a replacement battery (and return the old one for recycling) is hardly different than a trip to the local Buy-More to buy an entire device. The biggest difference is that the parts of the device that still worked would not be in a landfill just because the part that could have easily been replaced had croaked.

Be better designers.

Comment I wonder about the Windows users... (Score 4, Interesting) 195

... who use it only for the corporate requirement of Outlook or Teams but do all their "real" work in a virtual machine running Linux (via Virtualbox or the like). Let's see the percentages taking that into account. That was the case on my last project. The folks who spent the majority of their time in Windows were the rare exception (excepting the managers who lived in Windows all day).

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