Apple will say that 8 GB is enough, until they up the minimum to 12 or 16 GB. Then they will lambaste any competitor that still makes computers with 8.

This government consists of the most pompous, luxury-seeking, arrogant gits yet, so I doubt they would consider themselves stooping so slow as to use anything from a shop so pedestrian as IKEA.

Apple is not "playing catch-up to AI". They were among the first to put NPUs into their SoCs, to use it for actual AI-driven features.
The current AI craze is playing catch-up to Apple.
Only that they weren't as heavily marketed particularly as being "AI" features.

That's still the thing. You can't sell new laptop computers just with the word "AI". You'll have to show actual features that matter, that are predicated on having that larger NPU that the previous generation lacked.

MrMobile shows how easy in his review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I know former college students who were subjected to previous attempts at automated grading of assignments.
They learned to game the system, to produce the absolute minimum required to get a good grade from the program.
I can't believe that it would be different here.

I think in general, it should not be an issue that someone uses modern technology to make their job easier: whether it is a student or a teacher.
But the user has to understand the limits of the tool, and not rely on it functioning outside those limits.
It should also always be possible for a student to appeal a grade, and apply for their work to be graded manually.

> it was only 3 years of his life.

Not including the seven movies, spanning 1979 .. 1994.
Wrath of Khan is what introduced my generation to Star Trek.

The film is "Dune: Part 2", as it is part 2 of an adaptation of the novel Dune by Frank Herbert.

Dune II is a computer game, often being called the first modern Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game). It was also based on the novel, with a little inspiration from the flm-adaptation that Lynch directed. It is a sequel to a game that more closely followed the book in a more linear fashion, having only some real-time strategy elements

Before WASD became the norm, it used to be common to use right Control as fire/action button in games together with the arrow keys.

It does not send the same key code as the Menu key though.
Reportedly, it sends Windows + Shift + F23.
(Apparently there are also several other hidden key combination with the Windows key and F14...F24.)

I have seen the "hamburger" Menu symbol as an alternate legend on the Copilot key on some laptop keyboards though, so I'd guess that it is available as Fn+Copilot.
Hopefully, there will be some laptops on which it can be remapped in BIOS also. That would be preferable IMO.
I always map it to the Compose key myself, as I like to express myself with beautiful non-ASCII symbols such as ligatures, maths and logic symbols, etc where appropriate.

You are misrepresenting the situation by calling it "not a thing", indicating that the decline would be demand-driven.
It is not. The Swedish telephone operators are actively discontinuing landlines where they can, and pricing it to make it near-unaffordable in areas where it is still common, so as to push consumers and businesses to use the more profitable cell networks instead.

It's also why, when a manufacturer stops supporting a particular version of software, they should be legally obliged to open source the code and file formats.

I am not sure I agree about going as far as requiring all abandonware to become open source. In many cases, there are complex licensing issues with components, especially with video games.

I think that publishers of commercial software should be required to have any DRM keys to into escrow ahead of publication.. When the software becomes abandonware (for whatever reason: stop of support, closing of servers, bankruptcy, etc.) then the escrow agent would release the DRM keys publicly.
The publisher would have been required before publication to have proven that using those keys would be enough to make the software free to copy and use.

Did the Apple IIGS have any clones at all?

It had several Apple-proprietary chips, including the video controller.

Originally, "smiley faces", or "emoticons" where not used as words. They were intended to express feelings.

They are there as a substitute for intonation in conjunction with words because it is otherwise difficult to express intonation in text form.

So, the most a thumbs-up emoji can do to express entering into a contract, is to express that you are feeling positive about the contract and want to proceed.
But it does not necessarily mean that you'd want to enter it right now.

The problem is who is allowed to create them, and assigning responsibility for how they are used.

Well, that's just the crux. Microsoft is marketing this tool as "safe and appropriate for user of any age" when it clearly isn't.

That's how publicly traded companies have always worked. That's nothing new.
Were you trying to make a point or were you just letting off steam?