How long can Meta survive without shipping a product people actually want?

The fuck they are. They're $74.00, for your _second_ controller because one is already included with the base system.

https://direct.playstation.com...

While steam controller is apparently $80 when bundled and $100 after. Why lie about this.

... wait, one is included with a PS5, then they are $75 purchased separately, $80 and $85 are for different colors.

Steam controller is $100 purchased separately.

Paying for something and then ignoring the terms you agreed to when you paid for it is one thing, but not paying for something then taking it anyway because you disagree, that's just dumb. It's not something you need and can't afford.

Nobody owes you a video game on your terms you entitled snowflake. What a loser.

That's literally how copyright works, you retain ownership. You sell copies with strings attached. We're debating the strings, not the ownership.

"Please protect us from child-harm lawsuits since child harm is pretty much our business model."

You can have both, an actual threshold with an estimated 1% chance of passing any given year, and also not happened in the past 40 years. Also it's an expression for anything that feels about like those odds.

A hundred year flood can happen tomorrow, it's still considered a hundred year flood if the chance of it happening next year is still 1%.

Not seeing it

https://www.sellcell.com/blog/...

Profits either go under the mattress, go out as dividends, invest in themselves one way or another, or used to buy someone else. That is any public company in a nutshell.

This is very important. There's a light-year of difference among a typical scholarly article, a physics paper, a math paper, or some kind of incomprehensible humanities bafflegab that no sane person could comprehend. The former, if it's not too technical, should be readable to the average undergrad. The second and third might not be because there are so many specialized concepts and so much specialized language. The latter (and I'm not indicting everything coming out of the humanities, but a lot of it) is incomprehensible because it literally doesn't make sense.

Well wait a minute, like there was a dot com bubble, but not an internet bubble.

AI related valuations are very fucky and speculative right now. That part can't last forever. But yah, the costs will come down over time and it absolutely 100% is not going anywhere and will be in everything. It doesn't mean markets are rational about what it actually means today, because there are a lot of people throwing a lot of money hard in any direction they think has the AIs.

That's why you have to go out of your way to tell them. So they can say blah blah Biden blah China and Kamala's phone would have been worse. So we can go back to not feeling bad about not visiting this summer.

I think you're thinking of C++ from a Microsoft POV I can tell from your other post, and that is an extreme outlier. A redistributable C++ runtime that ships alongside your app, can be updated independently, has a long support life, and mostly decoupled from the OS release lifetime. So for a Windows C++ app you have a different story.

For C++ software on Linux (since we're talking about Java), your question is silly. No there is no benefit to you whatsoever but you're going to rebuild your software for RedHat 10's runtime and dependency versions anyway, just like you did for each of EL 9, and 8, and 7, and so on, and support all of them in parallel until they EOL because their whole world is tightly coupled to the OS. Because of that, some gross decisions to bundle dependencies will have to be had.

We shouldn't be comparing MSVCRT to _anything_ because nothing else works that way. More developers really should get familiar with deployment processes and understand how that last mile works on the systems their software actually deploy to. You all don't have to manage them at least, but it ain't magic.

Uh what? https://learn.microsoft.com/en... and Microsoft has also moved it to short support windows. It's not a Java or Microsoft thing it's an industry thing that Microsoft is a big proponent of.

The MSVCRT absolutely is versioned too with its own issues, but now we're talking about the old school MS compatibility which has always been an outlier. It's not nothing, and anyone casually expecting that same treatment elsewhere is an idiot and taking what Microsoft pulled off for granted.

You're talking about Java because it's popular. In practical terms we're talking about Java on Linux, the most popular platform for running business software. Linux, all of its relevant native programming runtimes are also versioned and change frequently depending on popularity. Due to its distribution model is all tightly coupled to the OS release. Fun.

I have no empathy for developers that are totally fucking ignorant of runtime logistics. Whole fucking programming environments like Go were designed to get around open source runtime distribution problems, not to mention Java in the first place to get around broader cross platform issues, and you all just want to think you just write C, Java, Python, Ruby, ... what the fuck ever and oblivious to the fact you are targeting a _platform_, a point in time snapshot of all the core language runtime features and other dependencies, and someone has to pay for that point in time stability no matter how you slice it. Or you can speak a dead language and use dead dependencies that don't change and eventually nobody will want to support for other reasons. Hey, Perl is super stable now across Linux releases now! because nobody wants to use it, that's the cycle. Ruby is also in sweet spot. Java is actually a good deal all things considered.

We don't pay for it. That was the deal with open sourcing it, no more long horizon support windows for security backports. Just like anything else open source, the more popular it is, the more it changes, and you either keep up or you stop getting security patches.