Who is "we"?

Why "should" a video game not be "killed"? Why "should" a company have to keep a game going into perpetuity? Ditto operating systems.

That's nice for Enterprise people. What about the average user? How does one get it? How much does it cost?...

I was one of those who always looked much younger than my actual age. Then, when I was 53, my left internal carotid artery unraveled. Right out of the blue. Besides the obvious plumbing issue, there was collateral damage to the wiring, and there are neurological issues as well. I have no stamina (chronic fatigue), my eyes are all fracked up, and I have serious vertigo problems - like just falling down at random times. I call it 'tumbling the gyros'. Lord knows how many micro-strokes I had before it smoothly scarred over, as I'm told it has done.

If you, as I did at the time, wonder how I survived losing a carotid artery, search on 'Circle of Willis'. Talk about incredible 'design'! Collateral flow - it's why I'm alive.

But my whole life changed. No real Plan B. Couldn't work, for a start. And my plans for my land here just stopped. I just turned 70, and I look it. I feel 80.

This. Utterly, completely, this.

Algorithms do not, can not have rights. There are plenty of ethical issues around 'AI', but 'AI rights' is not one of them.

Good idea - go for it!

"Still, for me the biggest surprise is that Goofus and Gallant even have laptops."

For me, the biggest surprise is that Goofus and Gallant even exist any more! I was reading the Goofus and Gallant cartoon in Highlights in the very early 60's, when I was just learning to read. I can't believe they still are a thing. Much less that they have laptops!

Whoever OK'ed this headline needs to be fired. Blatant dishonest false news, an embarrassing disgrace for Slashdot. What were they thinking?

But one hammer/screwdriver does not do all of those things. Dare I say "Do one thing and do it well"? :-)

I have a real problem with using the present tense in announcements like this. It is rife in rocket news.

It can do this, it can do that, it can build projects in space, in can travel to the Moon, it can refuel spacecraft, ad nauseam.

The fact is... NO IT CAN'T. It doesn't even exist! Given BO's track record so far, even future tense seems pushing it - it will do this, it will do that, etc. What they really ought to say is that "we have this concept, and we hope that some day we might work up to doing some of this cool stuff."

It will be discontinued next year. :-/

You have won the internet today.

This.

Not sure how to put this gently, folks. But the entire world is deeply enshittified. And the rate of enshittification is clearly accelerating on all fronts. Good luck to us all!

IBM PC's did not yet exist in the time period being discussed.