In short, Java was invented for a reason, and while it has become a victim of legacy cruft as well, the underlying concept of truly portable apps, with a minimum of fuss to jump from platform to platform, still ought to be the preferable path. The problem is that that true platform neutrality/ambiguity pretty much kills Microsoft in all but a few niches, like gaming, but only because hardware vendors put less effort into drivers for other operating systems.

Yes, Office is still king, although I think that crown is beginning to slip, and it may end up being Excel, with its large list of features, that may last the longest. But it isn't 1990, or even 2000 anymore. Developers have multiple ways of developing portable applications, and while MS may (for the nth time) update or swap out its toolchains, the real question is will developers really care?

And when a company doesn't say they won't share personal information, they share it.

In other words, any company you give personal information to will share it. Whether they say they will or not is irrelevant.

And in other news, the sky is blue, water is wet, and politicians lie.

TFS says the vape would use Bluetooth to connect with the phone/app. The vape won't work w/o the app, so they'd build any extra functionality into the app, like ads, tracking and geo-fencing. See my other post Why stop there?

If the vape is going to be app-locked, then the app can be (a) tracked and (b) geo-fenced. Establishments/locations can post if they allow vaping and the (nanny) app can track where you are and disable the vape if it's prohibited. Marketing bonus: The app will probably be running a lot, so the data it could collect could be HUGE. /s

Why comment the ads out? Include the pulling and display of ads as part of every program.

If I understand correctly, you can have GitHub do the compile for you as well, so there's not need to bother the programmer with details like including their spamware code in the source code they see.

And once they've proven that the automated compile is more efficient than doing it yourself, why even have the option to do it manually?

You know that's the end game. And you know they're planning to do that in any complier Microsoft has any control over, as well.

It's for your own good, after all.

agreed, these classist people use our wealth to abscond with the inventions of honest people, this is exactly how classsism works, the upper class uses our capital to cheat and steal from us

that's impressive, usually it does not take so long for upper class people to wreck everything for everybody

greed, classism and corruption has destroyed our economy and enslaved us all

>arguing it unfairly advantages startups

Way to say your dealers suck.

Will it cause collateral damage, or will it end (at least some of) it?

Does social media do anything but collateral damage?

The UK actually has a king, by design; the US not so much.

Simplify. The best part is no part. The parts omitted never fail. They don't require maintenance, supply chains, continuous improvement.

That isn’t analysis, it’s a right wing rant built on stereotypes, paranoia, and zero evidence. Typially, all you right wing fanatics blame entire groups instead of engaging with reality, you ignore how companies actually operate and you replace facts with insults. Phrases like “go woke go broke” might feel satisfying, but they don’t explain anything and they're wrong, meaningless and stupid. If you want to criticize Disney, there are real issues to point to. This just advertises your bias and demonstrates that you're the fascist.

Indeed, your entire staterment is exactly what real fascist comments looks like, an evil person pretending that they and thier greed and hatred are not the problem. Shame on you for selling us out. Meanwhile the corruption and the classism at Disney continues as the rich people who own us continue to cheat, lie and steal and people like you are letting it happen.

It will cure cancer. In combination with robotics it will make personalized cancer treatments based each person's tumor genome. Basically once you have a few biopsies of a person's cancer, you can determine what proteins, DNA, and RNA are aberrant and design a treatment against that.

... as long as they don't store it in a Vatican basement. :-)

they already own the media, just like they own our governments