Translating garbage code creates even worse garbage code. I remember years ago a company I was with hired a company to translate COBOL to Java.

It was still crap when it was all over and the project was flushed. The biggest sin was the naming conventions used by the original code were maintained.

I've migrated code from one language to the other, and the best end results I've achieved were when I reverse engineered the original code and wrote the new code from scratch. It took longer, but in the process we discovered bugs that were then corrected in the new code. I loved it when the QA people would come back to me and say the results weren't the same, only to discover the original program had an undiscovered error.

I'm sure simple programs can be converted this way. My prediction is the big programs that no one wants to work on will still be crap code no one wants to work on after being converted. If they even run right.

I have never paid any sort of subscriptions for a games or paid for one that can't run offline on my own computer or phone. If I can't get a physical copy of a game, it has to be free or ad-supported to play. That doesn't mean I don't occasionally pay for a booster or something, or spend a few bucks for ad-free, but I sure as heck don't spend hundreds of dollars or feel any sort of loss if the game would go away.

Stop asking the nanny government to fix this. Step up and make a sacrifice yourself like a responsible adult instead of a whining baby. Your wallet is your best tool, as long as enough are willing to pay for something, companies will continue to sell it. And if the government creates rules, they will find a way around it.

On the other side, it costs money to keep those remote servers running. I don't begrudge companies for charging for it. Nor do I begrudge them to right to turn them off when they are no longer profitable. It's my choice to determine how much money I'm willing to spend for entertainment. People only rent online games and their associated purchases, they don't own them. The sooner players understand that and decide to spend accordingly the sooner the pricing structure will change. But as long as people are willing to spend hundreds of dollars to buy electrons that aren't theirs, companies will continue to offer it.

In the end, it's the consumer's choice and obligation to decide what they spend money on. Grow up and accept the consequences of your actions instead of playing the victim.

... to never buy Apple products. I don't need a nanny, and my children have parents that pay attention. Why should I have my privacy invaded and surveilled just because some parents don't know how to parent.

And anyone who doesn't think this will be easily circumvented is naive or has never had an intelligent child.

I 'quit' LinkedIn years ago, it's signal to noise ratio was getting too high. It contained far too many articles sporting click-bait titles but simply rehashing common sense information that most should already know and recruiters that would pester anyone that posted comments anywhere and seemed employable. About the only good part was the ability to easily follow fellow team members after they found new jobs.

Never missed it once ....

Ridiculous point. People buy what they want to spend the money on. And, for most people, it just works no matter which one they install.

And really, the only choices for purchase are 11 Basic, home, pro or enterprise. And most people are fine with Basic or Home so it's really only two.

I'm sticking with Windows on my custom machine because Apple sucks for customizing and Linux doesn't support most of the software I use and there aren't any 'real' alternatives that don't require significant effort to get working. I work with computers all day long, I don't want to evenings and weekends too. I just want to turn it on, do my stuff, and be done with it.

Which, to be fair these days, is usually my Android phone anyway. Other than for work, I hardly use my computer unless I'm writing and want to use a dedicated workstation.

Jeez .. all of these self-centered entitled brats thinking the world revolves around them. No one has to change for you. Life isn't fair, get over expecting it to be. 90% of you will probably use a free AI to write it anyway.

Or, accept the reality that you don't have to go to college, and you don't have to go to a particular one just because your guidance councilor/parents/friends think you should. Grow a pair and chart your own course through life. College is only required for a few fields, and even those have workarounds. No one says you have to go full time and as soon as you graduate either. Or get a degree, going part time and taking specific classes can be far cheaper and may not even require the standard application. And you might find an employer to pay for it via a tuition reimbursement program. Aren't you the generation that wants to change things??

However, I will acknowledge that the traditional essay is an idiotic requirement. The only thing the essay should ask is 'Discuss what you expect to be the cost of college and how are you going to pay for it'. If someone can't do that simple task, they probably aren't smart enough to go to college in the first place.

After renting a Tesla a couple of weeks ago, I'll never own an electric car. Sure, the acceleration is great, although unnecessary. But it's like learning to drive all over again. it's difficult to know how fast one is driving as there is no engine sound. The jerky deceleration as the regenerative breaking kicks in was nerve racking. The car itself was noisy, far to much road noise for a car this expensive. Charging at the office was a PIA, one had to download an app and request permission because they were private, and then discovered that the car didn't have an adapter so I had to go to a Tesla charger, wait in line to use, and sit on my ass in a parking lot for 20 minutes to take it from 25% to 80% after just two days of local driving. The damn thing shut off at a traffic light when I opened the door because I thought it was not closed tightly and only knew it when the light changed to green and it wouldn't go. And the field of view was just awful, forcing me to rely on video cameras far to often.

Granted, some of these things are just related to the learning curve and my co-workers did tell me "you get used to it". But I didn't see how ANY of them contributed to an improved experience over my truck. And many contributed to unsafe driving. Sorry Elon, your 'encyclopedia of control settings' on the dash is one of the worst ergonomic setups I've ever seen. I want buttons and levers for commonly used settings, like wiper intervals.

I'm 100% for removing all subsidies and government programs to increase the use of electric cars. Let the market decide. It may take another 20 years for us boomers to get out of the way. But at least *I* won't have to pay for it.

What a reasoned, well thought out argument. Thanks for contributing.

Since you don't want to be thought of as a hypocrite, I assume you will also be supporting changing all of the place names in Australia to their original Aboriginal names on all maps. Sydney would become Warrane, Melbourne becomes Naarm, Brisbane -- Meeanjin. and so on.

I mean, India did it after the British changed many of their names. Bombay is now known as Mumbai. Many others were changed.

People living in wildfire prone areas are just as responsible for making sure they have insurance and a disaster plan as people living in hurricane, earthquake, tornado, and other areas. If your house burned down because of wildfires, the only one responsible is you for choosing to live in a wildfire prone are, i.e. all of southern California. When my wife and I choose to move to Florida, we picked a home that was well away from the shore and have been through 4 hurricanes without any damage. Unlike idiots that want to live near the shore. Climate change truth .. a 9 foot storm surge doesn't care about 2 inches of ocean rise. When we moved to Tennessee, we picked an area with a gentle slop on two acres with limited trees to reduce risks during wildfires and heavy rains.

Stop blaming damage on climate change. There have been wildfires and hurricanes in these areas throughout recorded history, it only take one to destroy YOUR home. If you didn't have a plan to save your important belongings or museum pieces or you let your insurance lapse, there is no one to blame but you. (Insurance companies have to give notice, if someone didn't renew because of the cost, it's still their fault they didn't have it because they choose to live in the wildfire zone that is southern California and pay the exorbitant real estate costs.)

We all have to live somewhere, expecting others to protect us because of our choice is simply irresponsible.

You keep using that word 'everyone'. I do not think you know what it means.

Not 'everyone' uses Facebook for news.

Not 'everyone' gets there ideas from a single infuencer, no matter what platform they are one.

Not 'everyone' believes what they are told and isn't capable of doing their own fact checking.

Sure, there are a lot of people that are easily fooled. But that doesn't mean the rest of us can't do our own fact checking and should have our information castrated by those in authority. Too many people use excuses like 'think of the children' and 'if one life could be saved, it would be worth it' to restrict freedoms in order to push their agendas to trust anyone implicitly.

I finally bit the bullet, enabled my TPM module, and told it to upgrade.

Now if they would only tell me why it downloads, goes through the upgrade process, and then removes it. It actually says on the screen that it's removing it . Yet all I get is a useless error code that basically says 'something is wrong .. you need to figure it out on your own because we are too lazy to provide a text file somewhere that explains why'.

Washington DC doesn't appear to have gotten the memo. It's still pretty full of old white guys (of which I am a member). Boomers aren't going to stop voting, so until the younger generation comes up with any good alternatives willing to run, it's going to continue to be more of the same. And I've got news for you, being a politician isn't as easy as one thinks, it takes an awfully thick skin. Those easily offended need not apply.

You can try and blame the boomers, but from the millennials on down, they haven't really done all that much to change anything. Except act as entitled brats who demand employers bend to their will because working 8 hours a day is "too hard and I can't see my friends and I need to be able to wear pajama bottoms to work so I can be true to who I am". And other Gen-Z BS excuses for just being lazy. (Which not all Gen-Z are, just the ones that use these types of excuses and think TikTok is full of great ideas.)

Some People Were Freaking Out'

There ... fixed that for you

I recognized the problem in 1989 and over the course of 2 years had updated all of our code to support years above 1999 using a very simple routine that performed date comparisons and did date arithmetic instead of doing it directly in the code. I was able to do it at my leisure as I worked on updates to the code during the normal business process.

I'm sure there were many software engineers that were just as observant.

Only the ignorant and unprepared panicked...

Versus all that new Kamala was a complete economics moron whose stated programs would have driven this country further towards recession/depression/inflation. Biden showed his mental incompetence many times but those with TDS refuse to accept it and find a worthy alternative much earlier in the process.

If anything, Biden/Kamala supporters are just as much to blame because they never gave independent voters a viable alternative to Trump by calling out the lies regarding Biden's abilities earlier on and then not demanding a real candidate instead of Kamala, who had already been soundly rejected by the Democrat voters 4 years ago.

I'll continue to dump money into my 2002 Dodge Ram that gets 10mpg as long as I can find parts for it. They've already made it almost impossible to get a truck with an 8ft bed unless it's custom ordered. And yes, I need it because I do real work that baby trucks can't handle efficiently.

I say remove all audible seat belt warnings and let evolution sort it out. The same is true for huge labels on hair dryers warning of the danger of using them in the shower and similar warnings that only server to keep stupid people alive. And don't give me that 'think of the children' BS, if the parents are stupid, the kids probably are also. Because that's how genetics works.