I mean, that is really it, at the root cause level, Tick-Tock is gone (and has been for a while really) because they no longer have the people and teams in place to innovate. They lost those people really a decade ago now when they sat on their heels and were content to watch AMD struggle with their bulldozer designs and decided to stop their then very regular Tick-Tock approach that lead to the dominate the market, and instead add additional months/years between when the cadences continued to improve the manufacturing lines (the "Tick") because their technology was easily 2 generations better than their competition, and all the energy efficiencies, power usage, heating requirements showed that to be the case. This was why they dominated in the datacenters, which is where the real money is located in computing. But the rested while AMD continued to innovate, and purchase ATI, getting them a foothold in the then just emerging GPU computing space (a market space which has since kicked off the mainstream AI computing revolution)...

I believe that it really needs to add "Enshittrification" as a category/tag. Part of this very lawsuit is about the enshittrification at WP Engine, after, surprise, a private equity group bought/buyout and stripping of functionality/features all in the name of cost cutting before parting out/selling out all the rest of the company it bought. I can't think of a better example of enshittrification than this kind of behavior.

This will certainly be discussed and looked at for decades from now in the future. The missteps that have occurred and the technology advances and shifts the spelled the downfall of the once complete dominant technology company in the world that led the drive and datacenters of the internet's initial rise and expansion, only to collapse on itself due to resting on its technological lead and loss of the key internal personnel that drove their dominance in chip manufacturing and the ramifications those items had in the years to follow with the rest of the chip manufacturing world catching and surpassing Intel's once overwhelmingly dominant lead.

It really needs the cart slot or some way to add games that people may own. I highly doubt that there will be any official way (I suspect there are too many copyright issues even with games that are 40 years old).

I did at least see that some of the games are many of the good ones, like "Shark! Shark!", "Astrosmash", "Sea Battle", and "Night Stalker". But some of the best games are probably missing, like Commando, Atlantis, Advanced D&D, Advanced D&D Treasure of the Tarmin, Tron: Deadly Discs, Beauty and the Beast, Thundercastle, SKI, Hover Force, Demon Attack....

We went to the moon to try and beat the Russians from getting there first. And it wasn't known if we would be able to beat them there either. This was all to prevent the Russians from actually scarring "us", like they did when they launched the first satellites, and the first people into space. The philosophical blow of allowing Russia to reach the moon would have possibly set back the fight between capitalism and communism decades. The loss of reaching the moon first on Russia was almost immediate, with the complete dismantling of their lunar space program and them not even attempting a lunar landing (they did at least repurpose the design of their lunar rover for use in cleanup of the Chernobyl disaster as it was the only vehicle design with enough radiation protection to the electronic control systems to be able to survive long enough to operate).

Someone forgot to read the context and realize what they were quoting was sarcasm....

From a fundamental standpoint, I 100% agree with this level of fee on H1B visas. It was intended for bringing in people who had specializations that didn't exist locally, not for bringing in people who would simply do the work cheaper then the local labor pool. This has led to all kinds of stagnation in compensation especially when there was high demand for the jobs as well as rising cost of living.

That being said, remote work has shown that some of this can be done without being at the office anymore. I think some businesses will look at this again and review their recent back to the office policies, and the need to have workers live/reside near certain tech hubs/centers, and will use it as an excuse to then pay the going rate of where the person resides, not the rate of compensation for the work itself....

I mean seriously, how important can they be if they don't even bother releasing them in the USA or Europe....

Pretty sure the opposing lawyer caught it and brought it up, which is why it was in the appeal in the first place. They just were not able to convince the judge in time for the original claim. Many of these kinds of things were probably cited in various fillings with limited time to respond (some things have less than 7 days to respond, which does not give enough time to dig down to all the citations, and may only provoke a more generic response that they could not find the case/reference).

Everyone gets a tracker!!!!

I mean, really? Really? The government's own policy is to not wear health and fitness trackers because they can and are being used to track people's locations and exposed quite a few "secret" locations around the world where there happened to be concentrations of people doing workouts and training in remote bases and small camps of soldiers/special ops units who were maintaining their fitness and readiness.

More of the do what I say, not what I do....

Games are $80 not $90. And that is still a huge discount from what games cost back in the 80's, 90's, 2000's when adjusted for inflation. NES games in the 80's were either $55 or $39.95 at discount. Inflation adjusted that puts the games at between $120 - $165 for the NES at launch.

The SNES games were $59.95 at launch, which inflation adjusted would be $140. Even PS2 games which were DVD based stamps (i.e. much cheaper to make than NES/SNES/N64 cartridge style) were $50 - $59 at launch, which is still $90 - 108 inflation adjusted.

So yes, games are still not as expensive when adjusted for inflation as they were back in the 80's, 90's, or 2000's.

So much wrong with your statements. Just to start, the original NES was released in 1985 at the price of $179.99, which inflation adjusted to today would be over $530. The SNES in the USA was released for $199.99 in August 1991, which inflation adjusted to today's price would be $470....

Show me a single modern phone that will use 20W of power using it's CPU+GPU capabilities. They are all much lower power, lower performance chips that will typically at most use 8W (think about this logically, you don't have a phone that has a heatsink and fan capable of dissipating that heat of the high performance parts used in the Switch 2).

I mean, seriously, this is not that surprising. It seems like Nintendo delayed the hardware 1-2 quarters to allow for more time to produce more of them ahead of release, and even imported many of them to the USA at least two or so months in advance to avoid all the tariff uncertainty.

I guess the only surprising things might be how quickly it sold out in the USA. Japan was almost certain to sell out, given the pre-order "disasters". But the USA selling out typically being Nintendo's largest market was not as certain. That said, the backwards compatibility and essentially upgrades to 4K+HDR capabilities, was pretty certain that it would be a good seller, even at the higher price point than people had been originally anticipating (I believe fans were hoping for a $350-400 range, but given that it has essentially sold out within 2-3 days of launch across the country at $450, it shows the market could support that price).

And on top of the flag on your Credit Card account, it will also put a flag on your Ubisoft/Steam/etc., account and they may also simply terminate your account causing you to lose access to all the content you have "purchased". You might want to read the terms of service you signed on those accounts, a credit card charge back is many times specifically spelled out as being a breach of terms of service which they can then terminate your service entirely.

It's hard to say with this one. I agree that at least this appointment has some enthusiasm about the overall subject. I'm not sure of the "business" side of it though. Trump still has the mindset of running government like a private business, when it is far from it. Hopefully this appointment recognizes the difference. Heck, I think it will slam him right in the face day one when he realizes that they don't have a budgetary plan that can survive more than 1 year, which makes dealing with things that take multiple years pretty hard to do....