SAS has been dead for 15y; it started with R and then Python absolutely destroyed it. No one teaches SAS in universities any longer, why would they? It's terribly expensive and absolutely fucking dead.

We migrated away from SAS back in 2017 and never looked back. The only verticals still using it are heavily regulated and running long-standing legacy code that they're slowly migrating to Python.

I remember absolutely dying when they tried to renegotiate our contract UP back in 2015. I flat out told them they were dead and we were moving away from them and they told me, "good luck managing your data without us!"

Two companies and 10 years later, we're doing just fine and they are not.

Geary would probably just get sued again if he automatically acquiesced. :-)

Can Kim Kardashian pass a bar? :-)

Holy cow!

Was there no agency you could have tipped off about it?

Steam was introduced by making it mandatory to be able to buy and play Half-Life 2. Big red flag right there and then, which is why I decided _not_ to use Steam right then and there at the beginning of it all.

Yes, HL2 was an excellent game and dominates the hall of fame of videogames for good reaons. Which is why Steam took off like a rocket. And yes, Steam offers great value and Gabe and his crew manage the service well. But if he changes his mind or valve gets sold to some greed leech investment gang things can go belly up pretty fast. I buy my pure-bits versions of videogames with GOG and archive the packages myself. If GOG would shut down tomorrow, I couldn't care less. Which is the way things should be. I'm too much of a (seasoned) computer and internet expert to be fooled otherwise.

From TFA: "The hands-free experience is meant to turn Google Maps into something more like an insightful passenger able to direct a driver to a destination while also providing nearby recommendations on places to eat, shop or sightsee..."

English translation: "We encourage businesses on all major routes to contact us right now for priority placement on our list of 'recommendations'. Bring lots of cash. Maybe one of your children, also."

Ironically, the ads will probably be for TV shows like "911" ... :-)

On a related note... Way, *way* back when I was still in college I opened the door to a knock and found a guy holding a U.S. Marshal badge asking for me. My mind raced thinking, "What the hell have I done?" He was there to do a background check for a friend's security clearance. Whew!

... up with a method to convert radiation to electricity directly, we'd be ready to back to nuclear power.
Until then it remains a dead end.

Nuclear fuel or power isn't the problem. Nuclear Fission steam power and nuclear waste is.

Also, other than them both being around now, not really sure what ties AI (or the "AI Generation") and Crypto -- except maybe both (perhaps) being scams that mainly help the rich get richer (at, probably, the expense of others) ... -- oh, wait ...

I'd be confused too if Windows told me that I had reached EOL. :-O

There, FTFY.

Say what you will about Steve Jobs, but ever since the switch to MacOS X he always had one budget item in each category with sometimes great or even exceptional value for the money and Apple quality along with it. The legendary white 12" iBook G4 was by far the cheapest subnotebook at it's time and the first Mac minis could be bought for 250-300 euros, offered great value for the money, were excellent machines and very small. Any PC equivalent that even could come close would cost hundreds more and came with ultra shitty windows.

So good for Tim Cook finally getting back into offering a neat quality budget item. I might actually buy Apple again, believe it or not.

Trump will pardon them in 3... 2... 1... then say, "I don't know who they are." (Then continue complaining about Biden using an Autopen.)

'No idea who he is,' says Trump after pardoning crypto tycoon CZ

Just like with the NX-5 Planet Remover