One can dream, but I do think that any channel that uses public airwaves should be fined for any lie it tells and have its broadcast license revoked over a certain number. Outright lies are far worse than bias.

Previous comments have been drawing analogies to Black Mirror, but this "idea" goes back much further...

...This is an episode of Max Headroom (US version).

Specifically, S02E02: "Deities." A company claims to be able to bring past loved ones back to "life" as an AI, for a modest recurring fee. But Bryce (the creator of Max Headroom) opines they can't possibly have the compute power to do it, as it requires a large mainframe just to run Max's highly flawed, glitching bust.

Wouldn't surprise me if the "visionaries" behind this saw that episode, and saw an opportunity to fleece gullible rubes.

It might also explain why italian is 'full duplex'... 2 italians can talk to each others simultaneously (and follow each other). I've seen it happen numerous time and also when you have a group of italians there's typically 60% of them talking at the same time. I suspect that's because the language is consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel-... so it falls into a rhythm and they can sync.

If you're buying retail licenses, then take your Windows 10 license, put it on your new hardware in accordance with the license terms, and upgrade it for free to Windows 11. Still not seeing how this is a cash grab on Microsoft's part.

Decades ago, the move to 'open offices' was driven by bad research. That is, the research on productivity was done with college students; they found that college students in a collaborative environment do better than college students trying to study in isolation. Which--well, that makes sense, given that college students are still learning, and it helps to have some collaboration while in a learning environment.

But that research was used to justify the whole 'open office' movement--forgetting that people like software developers are not college students, and need a way to drown out the 'forced collaboration' in order to find a modicum of peace so they could focus.

Of course, open offices aligned with managers who wanted to be able to see all the veal in the cattle pens workers working for them, and it aligned with the penny pinchers who didn't want to build enclosed offices.

And it was only decades later that we "learned" the painfully obvious: that open office floor plans are a failure.

And now we're doing the same damned thing with "hybrid work" and forcing people back to the office.

Both civic leaders who want to bring workers back into the downtown corridor so they have the captive audiences for commerce in a downtown corridor, commercial real estate owners who want full buildings so they can guarantee returns on their investments, and managers who want to see full veal pens their workers so they can 'manage' them, have all aligned with this idea that "returning to the office" is better, somehow.

And now comes the research--undoubtedly being done on college students, who in fact do benefit from collaboration. And not on workers who benefit from quiet space so they can concentrate on their work.

Worse, because of the absolute mess done by the pandemic shutdown requirements--and how people moved across the country (because they could), the push to get people back into the office is often accompanied by confusion and worse: a lack of desks for workers to work at. But we're ploughing ahead anyways, regardless of the loss of productivity or the loss of good workers--and I'm sure research will be "discovered" which support all of this.

And a decade or two from now, after the wreckage is done, someone will point out that maybe all of this wasn't a good idea: that the increased carbon footprint of daily commuters to fulfill some sort of financial and political obligation to large commercial real estate owners, as well as satisfying the need to fill veal pens, may not have been the wonderful idea prior "research" suggested.

orcs on Max, Mad Max. I think they should also switch from the unsafe oxygen to the government approved breathing mixture of putin's farts and healthy sulfuric acid vapors.

Okay, but how is this "releasing new versions of Windows for the upgrade fees?" What "upgrade fee" is Microsoft collecting in your scenario?

Err... anything less than 12 years old (Haswell) already supports those. The list of unsupported CPUs starts with things significantly newer than that (Skylake CPUs, which support v4 of the instruction set, are not officially supported for Win11 at all and will plain not install Win11 24H2).

Who the hell is paying Microsoft for Windows 11 upgrades? If you have a valid Windows 10 license, the upgrade is free (as in beer).

you must be new on life. Easy? What if the plane is replaced after the ticket purchase? Who is supposed to maintain this csv file? There are tons of ticket resellers, are there APIs? Etc. I don't work with airlines, I do provide systems in logistics and transportation management, nothing is ever easy.

we are on a technical site, supposedly. The work required to ensure that every single seat is marked 'window but not really' vs 'window' and then all of the plane schematics are adjusted according to every single airplane is insane and may not even be technically possible. You are buying tickets through a system that doesn't know the exact layout of that particular airplane, it knows the model. The layouts change because airlines replace seats and may change the number of rows and how the rows are aligned exactly against windows and doors, etc.

I am saying this is ridiculous to sue for this, because it's clearly way too complex of an issue, just like most other real life issues, they are not 'black' and 'white', 'democrats' and 'republicans', etc.

This is nonsense, what if it is not a window but a door instead, should you be suing based on a technical name? Window seat is seat adjacent to a wall, aisle seat is a seat adjacent to a corridor. Then there are middle seats. I got 'window seat' many times, where the window is not directly in my row but it is somewhat between rows, so what? It's a name.

I *think* he means that they put so much whitener on them that they appear an unnatural shade of bright blue. He's got a point. Related to this american habit of always showing teeth while smiling; I don't even know how long they train for that in front of a mirror, I find it impossible.

I've found South Park to have gotten significantly less funny over the past several years, but I have laughed my ass off at the current season.

Yes, One Hour Photo had me rolling in the aisles, as did Dead Poets Society and What Dreams May Come.