What good does that do? The companies can change the terms whenever the hell they want for any reason. The text means nothing.

Software licenses should be contracts, not "agreements". Then the terms actually mean something.

I wonder how many real programmers you could hire with that kind of money. Heck, for the same amount of money, you could outsource to 100 times as many foreign vibe coders.

Well, I think it all started with the EV fanatics screaming, "All gasoline cars need to be totally banned, RIGHT NOW!"

After more than a decade of that nonsense, and all the lies EV fanatics have been telling about their experiences, there's kind of a broken trust. Like it or not, there's good reasons why EVs haven't completely overtaken the market yet.

So... to keep using the product you already have, all you have to do is update to something totally different?

Sorry, I grew up in an era before the Internet, so I'm having a hard time understanding why people simp so hard for things that don't make sense. Back in my day, we chose to update software only if we felt it was in our interest, which allowed us to vote with our wallets. Things shouldn't break if you DON'T make changes.

The real problem is not the lack of native 64-bit hardware, but that most of our infrastructure is built with languages that won't let you use 64-values on 32-bit hardware unless you do all the bit-twiddling manually.

I mean, I thought to whole point of a compiler was to do the grunt work for you. A lot of this could have been fixed decades ago.

I'm in a similar position with the Playstation 4. I've barely used it since I bought it, and it's been collecting dust for years. But, I do own one.

The catch is... I don't own a Playstation 5.

They're just trying to keep up with printer drivers.

I think I got confused by what you meant by "networking". Networking, as in social networking in the workplace, not computer networking as in working from home.

I apologize for that.

I still find it hard to understand why people are dumping all over Ol Olsoc. He's not wrong. Whether we like it or not, people are social beings, and if you lack those skills, you're going to have a really hard time getting by in life. Companies will always favor people with good social skills even if they're not good at doing the job. That's just the way people are, so work environments reflect that. You either accept that and get by, or fight against it and remain unemployable.

Or they're like me, and have Schizoid Personality Disorder. We work well on our own and can't "schmooze" like normal people. Or at least, we don't tolerate all that dramatic office bullshit.

But yeah... weird people who do well in remote settings are "manipulative". Form my perspective, it's the exact opposite. It's a normal part of the human condition to manipulate the feelings of others... for better or for worse. Some of us don't care about your feelings and just want to get the job done.

Yeah, go ahead and call us assholes. So sue us. We need to eat, too.

Yeah, not just for manufacturing, but also for licenses and patents. When there's this few companies in this market worldwide, it's too legally complicated and risky to try to disrupt the existing consortium.

Dark matter is not common matter that is simply sparse. There's lots of ways to see clouds of gas or other sparse particles, such as by spectral absorption.

The trouble with dark matter is that it only seems to interact with gravity, and thus it does not qualify as a traditional form of matter. Calling it a "material" is speculation. It could be a form of energy we simply haven't discovered yet.

Until we have a better explanation, it's pretty close to magic, and it certainly does violate physics... at least, the physics we have currently defined.

What's most typical for slashdot is acting like a jerk in the face of reality.

Yes, we really are running into problems where vendors will put vehicles into limp mode if there are connectivity issues, and not because there is a genuine problems. It happens with vendors like Fisker more than the mainstream brands, but this most certainly is reality.

Reminds me of the time when Teslas were dying because the SSDs they used to collect telemetry data were dying. Why should the whole car not function if it can't spy on you and report back to the manufacturer? What does that have to do with getting a car from point A to point B? Yeah, that's a failure of company policy, not an engineering/update/safety issue.

To be fair, if you wanted a solid, finished, reliable product from a manufacturer with a good reputation... you didn't buy a Fisker.

Don't worry about that. We all know the tech isn't designed to keep drunks off the road.

The whole premise behind AI is that it can generate a huge quantity of stuff quickly. There is simply not enough demand to consume the supply.

The sad reality is that AI is not a means of doing better, it's a cultural race to the bottom.

Ask places like DeviantArt how well that's going. All of the art-related web sites that have allowed/embraced AI are turning into ghost towns. It's awful.