Last I heard, Apple sales haven't plummeted and thrown them into bankruptcy, so it sounds like they learned the lesson just fine: it's fine to show people ads. People might complain a little bit, but they won't stop buying. Cost is $0 and ad revenue is presumably more than $0.

If someone is stuck with your proprietary software and you aren't showing them ads, then you're leaving money on the table. What're they gonna do, fork it out?

...assuming the book can still be found in print form

As long as they talk slick, sound authoritative and sycophantic, and more importantly cost less than human labor, companies will replace human by mediocre AI.

Because capitalism is a race to the bottom.

If that's your cope for simply being wrong, good luck with that.

Strangely, the founding fathers didn't empower the judicial to overrule the executive everytime liberals got butthurt (ie 100% of the time).

Win an election, motherfucker.

That pesky Constitution!

Slashdot, where someone will write 250 words to tell you that a single word was redundant.

And feel smart about what they did.

Where on the planet is not near groundwater?

And yet, the discovery of an anti-gravity mine where contaminants flow UP to the aquifer, should be worth billions.

You're using privacy-invading software made by privacy-invading Big Data companies using data stolen from millions of people. What did you expect?

If you don't want mass surveillance, avoid Big Data software.

CSS is not Turing complete

If the CEOs believe it is true, it won't matter that it is true. Reducing headcount and ending hiring is going to be their priority.

I say any company over 50 employees needs to be charged an extra AI tax for eliminating positions, above and beyond the unemployment taxes they already pay on layoffs.

Now gay men can go back to all that irresponsible behavior they practiced before HIV!

Next stop: monkey pox.

Yes, exactly. Best Buy got Napster because they bought Roxio - the CD-Burning software company. LOL. "Roxio Toastt". Roxio was the first vulture to pick the bones of the original Napster, buying branding assets when the feds shut it down.

Invented virtualization.

Mine's an MNT Reform. Even fully loaded, its performances are lackluster at best. Think entry-level laptop from 5 years ago kind of perforrmances. Or maybe top-of-the-line Raspberry Pi. But performance is not the point of this machine.

Still, sluggish though it is, it's quick enough for 95% of what I do. And since I'm not into modern games, it works fine for me for gaming too.