Ah, given the social skills and anger issues you must be a console gamer. See, when your computer isn't in a fancy box with "Sony" written on it you can put any downloaded file you like on any medium you wish. You can lend it to a friend, once you've downloaded it you don't need any "storefronts" at all, etc.

Your inability to copy files off your computer sounds like it's a problem all right, but I'm not sure that problem is Rockstar.

Hey, come on. When cracks were found in the MD-11 engine mount on several aircraft, Boeing looked into it, concluded a failure "would not result in a safety of flight condition," so there's no need for replacement but you might want to eyeball it every five years or so. The FAA was cool with it and everything was totally fine. Totally fine.

Okay, one engine fell off on one aircraft, but that was actually due to something else and it definitely wouldn't ever happen again.

The A380 is already out of production. The airlines that fly A380s really want more though. "Not economical" depends very much on what types of routes you fly and how much landing and takeoff slots cost at the airports you service.

Might be the other way around. Notion was neat variation on the note taker app. Add a floating chatbot button you can't get rid of, some nagging to try their meeting transcription, collaboration features, connect your calendar, an e-mail client apparently, hey, why not integrate your crypto wallet and a social network and a payment platform and.... Of course to support all that you have to hire more developers, who need to be paid, so more ads or higher subscription fees.

Yeah right. Everybody today writes wonderful programs right off the top of their heads, virtually no improvement possible.

Maybe the American and Russian troll farms are willing to pay higher rates for ads.

There's the problem. It's expensive to do properly, and only moderately effective. Nobody who runs a cafe or mall is going to pay for it. Offices would be better served by giving employees time off when they're sick. If they don't want to do that they're definitely not going to pay for semi-effective gizmos.

We voted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Ehh, sort of. Better than usual in the last one.

What would you have us do?

Try voting for someone that is not recommended to you by one of two corporations. I'd suggest voting for whoever says they'll strictly enforce the $3500 / year maximum individual and zero corporate election contribution limits.

In communist societies communes are the companies and there is no government. Communes are like companies except the people who work in them own them. Thus "workers own the means of production."

China isn't communist. It's not even the fake communist that you get when revolutionaries establish a "transitional government," or the economically communist that China sort of was until Mao died. It is authoritarian, which is where the government has a lot of power to tell everyone what to do.

The GP didn't ignore your original comment, they corrected it.

Ah, so it only kills you if you're not driving the correct type of vehicle, or one of the "few exceptions."

I've had people tell me a lot of really dumb rules of thumb over the years, but the best are always the ones that get you killed unless they're carefully applied in only very specific circumstances.

Stop reading the opinion section of the National Post. It will rot your brain.

Do you have them installed in your house? If not, why not?

You know most of that billion years of natural selection wasn't spent packed into mostly sealed boxes with electrical ventilation systems so we can breathe right?

Of course. The point of machine learning is that the thing learning on its own is much cheaper than engineers figuring out how something works and hand programming a model. People have been talking about this since at least the 50s. It seems the mainstream needs to rediscover it every couple decades though.

Play some early access games. They usually get a lot better with updates. Optimization is a thing.

There is a very real phenomenon where software expands to fill available resources. You might have noticed it happening on your hard drive.

You can notice similar inflation here too, where computers that would have been practically magic 20 years ago are utter garbage. Even more apropos, memory today is outrageously priced, a truly civilization ending catastrophe, when it costs about half as much as it did ten years ago.