I think she could reasonably assume that she wouldn't be served liquid hot enough to literally melt her.

If by 'burned a little' you mean 'her labia literally melted and fused shut,' you're correct.

"Corporations are people, and money is speech" comes rather forcefully to mind.

it's great that apple is offering a laptop for less than $999 now, but i don't think this is disruptive to the PC industry.

plenty of decent windows laptops for 400-500 and with even more RAM to boot. no mom is going to switch from windows to mac and have to relearn everything (and figure our a big chunk of their current apps are not available)

Yes, that's the point.

Sure, you still had to buy the license, dev kits, and so on. But at the time, Nintendo was taking something like a third of the cost per unit, right off the top, if I remember correctly.

I'm going to go reread Game Over.

You're absolutley correct that the PSX's ease for developers to write for was a major factor, especially compared to something like the Saturn.

But Sony's real *business* genius was not doing what Nintendo did, which was to artificially limit developer access to the console.

At the time, Nintendo was still whole-hog on the 'Nintendo Seal of Quality' and treated developers like serfs. You had to get Nintendo's approval to publish, you had to go *through* Nintendo for cartridge production, and Nintendo would limit how many games a year you could publish.

They did this because they didn't want a second Great Video Game Crash of 1982.

Because cartridges take a loooong time to manufacture, developers had two choices: go big and hope your game actually sells and you're not left holding a massive inventory of unsold carts, or go little and risk having the game be a hit, and sold out for months while you wait your turn for the next cartridge run.

PSX, on the other hand, ran on CDs, and Sony couldn't care less about what you published. You could get your CDs made at any factor that could press CDs, and you could stamp out an entire run in a weekend at pennies per, compared to tens of dollars per cart in manufacturing and license fees.

Nintendo was acting like it was an inevitable force of nature, rather than a big fish in a sea of competition.

We don't need it, we don't want it

yes you do, yes you want it, otherwise why did you agree to use it?

i have never used claude but i have a bit more respect for the company now

prime is for free shipping and nothing else. no one has prime for the basic music catalog nor prime video

slashdot doesn't like using tags and after decades there isn't still an edit button. sigh

Back then we had 2. for stable releases, 2. for unstable, and big features would lead to a new 2.x version.

maybe we can argue that due to maturity there aren't really big changes any longer though

genAI is new so the recession comparison is not relevant.

jobs are and will be replaced further by AI. no one knows how bad is it going to get though. amazon stock is nearly 20% down ytd and we are still in february

and here i am hating on my toyota dash because the hvac buttons are a mess, no free maps, android auto volume cannot be independently controlled from music. at least i have them, plus heated seat button and a volume physical switch/turn on/off radio, and can even move to next/prior station via wheel buttons.

i guess i could be doing a lot worse

You haven't demonstrated bias.

So?