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Comment Early days? Seriously? (Score 1) 13

"the technologies are still in "every early days" and "only exist in simulation right now.""

The PS5 was released 5 years ago and next gen console releases generally happen on a 7 year cycle so wtf has Sony been doing for the last 5 years? If they haven't even got any test dies yet never mind prototypes to send to software houses then this thing has no chance of being released to the public by 2027.

Comment Re: Great. Another App-dependent widget. (Score 1) 46

If they weren't going to make money on it they wouldn't have bothered, they're not a charity. You can guarantee the construction is the shittiest they can get away with made in the lowest quality chinese factory and it will probably fail after a year or too anyway if used a lot.

Comment Re:Hercule Poirot... (Score 3, Insightful) 40

"Now begins the trend of censorship on the Internet by nation-state boundary."

Begins?? Have you just stepped out of a time machine from the year 2000? Its been going on for years if not decades my friend in places like china, russia and north korea and they have far less noble reasons than trying to protect copyright.

Comment Coal maybe, not gas (Score 2) 70

As I write this here in the UK sitting under a cloudy high pressure system with not much (inland) wind , 47% of our electricity is being generated by gas, 21% wind and 13% solar. Good, but not great , and there are always planning battles over siting of new wind and solar farms. Wind can be put in the sea (making it more vulnerable to russian sabotage but thats another discussion) but solar can't so we're probably not far off the install limit of the latter unless the government starts compulsory purchasing land for it.

Comment Blame the parents (Score 1) 157

Everyone wants their kid to be special or have special treatment? Shy, a bit awkward? Must be something wrong with them, must get special attention at school!

No! They're just normal kids. There is no single normal human behaviour, there's a whole spectrum of it from the psychotically gregarious to the socially awkward types amongst who I include myself and probably a lot of people who have it ended up in IT have it because interacting with a machine can be simpler. That doesn't make us special or abnormal, quite the contrary.

Comment You don't say (Score 5, Insightful) 215

An online setup system is an order of magnitude more complicated to develop than a simple app that runs locally on the machine. They didn't spend that money just to give their users the finger (though that is definately a side effect). They want user data, location and telemetry, simple as that.

Unfortunately this is what happens with near monopolies (and I exclusively use Linux but I don't fool myself its going to be used by the majority of PC users anytime soon). Any semblance of giving a shit about their customers goes out the window though with MS that happened years ago.

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