Become a fan of Slashdot on Facebook

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:misuse of the word "bricked" (Score 1) 85

While true, I'd argue that getting stranded on the side of the highway through absolutely no fault of your own until someone can come grab your car, take it to a dealership, and fix it there, pretty much counts as bricked in the moment. You can do nothing with your car for a long time thanks to an update from the producer.

Comment Re:Critics vs. regular people (Score 1) 51

Critics are always looking for deeper meaning, subplots, unexpected plot twists, and philosophical integrity. Regular people usually just want to see a fun movie.

Good movies have both.

The two goals are very different

Hard disagree. There's absolutely nothing preventing a fun movie from having decent writing (i.e., "treat your audience with some basic respect") aside from cheap studios and hack producers. Michael Bay and JJ Abrams should have been warnings, not instruction manuals.

Sometimes critics focus on silly or tangential things in movies that average people don't care as much about, but critics are also much less willing to let incoherent plots and repeated non-sequiturs pass just because CGI and EXPLOSION.

Comment Re:Professional liar says what? (Score 1) 68

I'll wait for Sam Altman to reassure me that there is no bubble.

Ironically, Altman agrees that AI is a bubble:

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks the artificial intelligence market is in a bubble, according to a report from The Verge published Friday.

“When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth,” Altman told a small group of reporters last week.

“Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI? My opinion is yes. Is AI the most important thing to happen in a very long time? My opinion is also yes,” he was quoted as saying.

Altman appeared to compare this dynamic to the infamous dot-com bubble, a stock market crash centered on internet-based companies that led to massive investor enthusiasm during the late 1990s. Between March 2000 and October 2002, the Nasdaq lost nearly 80% of its value after many of these companies failed to generate revenue or profits.

Comment Re:The one Assassins Creed (Score 1) 118

Never played the game, just remember the controversy at the time.

Personally I think an assassin should probably be able to very easily blend into the general population. Japan, centuries ago, witnesses describe a man with black skin? Alright, let's go grab the dozen or so people fitting that description in the entire country. That does not make for a good assassin story unless you go to extra lengths to explain how he's disappearing from view.

Slashdot Top Deals

Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with an axe.

Working...