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Comment Re:Demand? (Score 1) 18

I work somewhere that just placed an initial order on some of these Copilot+ laptop thingies. Nothing compared to their usual sizes of orders, yet. But some higher in the broligarchy thought it would be an idea to trial them for whatever reason.

I'm assuming the "demand" is propaganda though, like anything from 0 is an infinite increase. To telling whether any of the bros like it enough to buy a second round. They gave up on some gizmos like tablets years ago.

Comment Re:uh (Score 1) 25

That's interesting to know. I never spent a lot of time with NeXTStep, though I have played with it a little bit. I think I have a VM for an x86 version around here somewhere, but it was a little crashy in a way that the 68k machines weren't and I don't know which piece's fault that is. I spent more time with OS X, but not a whole lot, so I didn't get that far into it.

Comment 2025 is the year. (Score 0) 14

The year that "art" became devalued to the point where its name is synonymous with any passing fancy or fantasy that pleases you. The squealing of brakes? I'm sure somebody considers that to be art. Similarly, fan-prompted AI-manufactured "music" - in the "style" of someone whose name appears on the list of credits for a "song" - will now be called "art".

For too long now a lot of what passes for an artist's music is in fact the work of a committee. In such a committee, said artist may play a very small part, gaining a writing credit for as little as changing one word in the lyrics. Arguably, even the artist's voice may largely be a hollow construct of auto-tune and other manipulations. These practices have rendered much of today's music the aesthetic equivalent of an inferior copy of crappy pre-packaged ultra-processed junk food.

Now, to add insult to injury, fans will be spinning up their own special derivative of the inferior copy of crappy ultra-processed junk food I mentioned above. It's a steaming pile of crass, soulless crap all the way down to the surface of the cesspool on which it floats.

Comment Re: Ah bless; now go and do Economics 101 (Score -1, Offtopic) 148

"An employer can only pay the workers what their output is worth, so if your industry is producing things that are difficult to sell, then you're not going to get a good paying job"

You're blaming the victim. If the employer's plan doesn't include paying a reasonable wage then their plan is crap and they need to go out of business so that someone with a better plan can succeed them.

"The experience of Detroit should be a warning to those who believe that this economic law can be avoided; the car makers sold the same stuff year after year whilst Japanese and German producers made ever better stuff."

That's not because they couldn't do better. They chose not to and depended on regulatory capture instead, preventing others from bringing more superior products to the market. Again it's the employer's fault and no one else's.

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