"Nobody should ever need more than 640k of RAM."

Once everyone found it easier to just add more memory, the idea of efficiency started to go away... knowing the more efficient way to divide by 2, knowing how to avoid unnecessary program pointer jumps (if the first character of the string does not match, why run strncmp() for when you have a large data set)... these are things taught by experience. One of the best efficiency teachers would be to write for an embedded system with very limited memory. You learn very quickly about memory management and operational efficiency.

At least those of us who grew up with "The Six Million Dollar Man"... Death Probe

That's because tax prep is a cottage industry. Intuit, H&R Block, and lots of others want us to have ultra-complex tax codes so they can continue to sell their solutions... which means they're making contributions to the Appropriations Committees and Subcommittees, and anyone else who could influence what's in that tax code.

Of course, if you really want to cause a taxpayer revolt, end the process of income tax withholding. Let everyone get their full paychecks without any money held back for taxes and force them to write a check every month. It won't take long before people demand better budget accountability.

... not only have I turned off "Apple Intelligence" on any devices, I have also gone through every last detail to tell it not to learn from any apps on it and not to include it in any recommendations. It ultimately comes down to whether or not Apple and its iOS flavors will actually respect the user settings or not. At least by having turned off those switches it would give me a small amount of legal standing against Apple for violating user preferences/settings... not that I would do that kind of fight on my own, and it would also likely turn into a class action suit anyway.

It then becomes another subscription that you keep paying for all the time because you forget about it once it starts. I don't want to keep shelling out the cash for something I don't use frequently, because when you terminate that subscription your license downgrades (at best) such that you cannot fully edit your files any more, or gets shut off (at worst) so that you cannot even open the files. Better to pay the flat fee one time, get the "permanent" license, and not have to keep paying for something I barely use.

Office 97? Those were the days when Microsoft blatantly ignored MIME formatted email, choosing instead to try to decode the binary parts itself... and that's how corporate computers got infected with some sort of email virus... because by starting that decode it auto-ran stuff. All they had to do was follow the standards and read the MIME header. If it were up to me, I would ditch it entirely and let people "bring your own client," even if it means some corporate IT types would have to evaluate different ones to add them to the "allowed" list. Unfortunately with this "Microsoft 365" crap, it's offloading the hosting of stuff like this to MS.

... had a job putting the caps on toothpaste tubes, got replaced by machines, then got a job repairing the machines that replaced him in the first place. The same thing will happen here. Human intervention will never go away. If it does, well, Skynet will be online.

This naming scheme has all the makings of a new Abbott and Costello routine... without the humor.

For the old school folks who remember how Microsoft was touting Windows NT 3.5 as "C2 Secure," we also remember the full statement was, "Windows NT 3.5 is C2 Secure as long as you do not connect it to a network." Looks like the same thing... that unless you can keep your AI stuff on standalone systems that cannot be accessed from anything outside of your local network it cannot be secured.

Or we can think of Little Bobby Tables...

Does this mean that people who get these MBAs now have to actually go get a job doing some of the grunt work instead of going directly into management and maybe learning what the workers actually do before they start making all of these ivory tower decisions that make employees' lives miserable?

I remember having to learn Pascal first. It was never a widely used language outside of academia, but it did force you to use some good practices with regards to data typing, structures, and algorithms. Once you learned that, then the next one you did was C. With the advent of better compilers, the need to learn Pascal has pretty much been deprecated as much as the language itself.

Senators elected in November, 2024, will not be sworn in and seated until January 3, 2025. For now, contact the one who was not up for election or the one who ran for reelection, whether that person won or lost the bid.

And then there's the complete misunderstanding of the apostrophe:

• It's not "would of" it is "would've"... a contraction of "would have" (applies to could and should as well)
• Apostrophes do not make plurals: the plural of "book" is "books," not "book's"
• "It" and "who" are the only ones I know of where the situation is reversed... apostrophe for contraction ("it is" => "it's" and "who is" => "who's"), but no apostrophe for possessive ("its" and "whose")

... would focus on the major polluters (China, India), we might actually have a real impact on pollution levels.

This is a problem overall and has been experienced in other franchises as well *cough*Doctor Who*cough*. The producers, show runners, etc, have been far more concerned with trying to satisfy a small segment of fans and push some agenda or message, all the while forgetting that they have to actually tell a good story too. Sci-fi stuff always waxes political... doesn't matter what you support or despise. If the story is good, people will watch or read it and keep coming back, and it will likely attract new fans too... even if you are pushing an agenda or message. If you're going to beat your audience over the head with said agenda or message every few minutes, lines, or whatever, they will get tired of it and walk away.

That's because the House of the Mouse has been pooping on other franchises, hoping the audiences will forget about the first round of mouse poop on the Star Wars franchise while they work on the current victim(s).