Ah, but for the most part, that money just sits there. Investing money in stocks has only limited impact on anything, in practice, which is why it doesn't impact inflation much. The money doesn't ever get spent on anything that meaningfully contributes to strengthening the economy.

It is, but not proportionately. The increase in funds availability does increase demand, which increases scarcity, but the price people spend on goods and services doesn't increase to absorb all of the extra money going in — just some of it. That's why if you compare San Jose, CA to Jackson, TN, the median salary differs by more than a factor of 2.8, while the overall cost of living differs by only a factor of 1.9 (and if you ignore the housing costs that are largely caused by San Jose being landlocked, by only a factor of 1.5).

While true, absent government intervention in how people run their companies, you can't prevent scarcity. Scarcity allows companies to charge higher prices for the same amount of labor, so except when you're talking about true commodities, companies have a perverse incentive to keep supply down as much as possible, so long as they stay below the point where the profit margins become too high relative to the barriers to entry into the market and another competitor is encouraged to enter the market and compete with them.

I suspect that Apple's hardware design teams are rather fluid in terms of what projects they work on. Certainly nothing fundamentally prevents Apple from shifting them to work on the next-next iPhone design, or designing eyeglasses with a HUD, or designing some other new consumer device that someone comes up with. There's really no need for an updated version of the Vision Pro hardware right now, IMO, unless doing so would reduce the price by a factor of 4 to make it able to compete with Oculus. They'd be *way* better off having those people work on other projects until the technology reaches a point where there is a pressing need to do a hardware revision.

I can't imagine. Spending more money on Vision Pro hardware right now seems like throwing good money after bad. For most users, Vision Pro is a fun toy, and an expensive one at that. Toys don't get upgraded very often even if they work well and are frequently used. Unfortunately for Apple, surveys show that users aren't using them very much at all, and there's no reason to believe that CPU speed has anything to do with the lack of use, which means you should expect nearly zero upgrades unless Apple takes a cue from the PC playbook and makes them connector-compatible with the existing design so that users can bring them into an Apple retail store and get a $500 main board swap. And even then, upgrades would be a hard sell.

Similarly, users who don't own one are not going to be persuaded to buy one because the new version is faster. Cutting a zero off the price, yeah, but faster, no.

What Apple should do is focus on making the software and user interface not suck. Once they get it to that point and sales start to pick up, *then* start thinking about a new version with a faster CPU. For starters, what we want to see is:

• 100% compatibility with iOS apps (and remove the option to not make apps available on Vision Pro)
• 100% compatibility with Mac apps
• Virtual keyboard that supports touch typing (probably using a fair bit of AI to figure out what is likely being typed)

Get those three things, and the platform will be an immediate success. As long as doing any meaningful work with the device requires being tethered to a physical keyboard, which completely defeats the purpose of using a headset, and as long as a significant number of apps that you might want to run cannot be used at all without being tethered to a Mac, any marketing claims of it being a "spatial computer" are rather comically aspirational, to the point of being an outright lie.

Alternatively, Apple could try to make Vision Pro compete with Oculus by throwing money at the gaming industry in one form or another, but that will still have a pretty limited market, and would require Apple acknowledging that it's really just a high-end gaming headset, so I wouldn't hold my breath. Oh, and you'd probably need controllers to make that work well, so that would be a pretty big pivot.

And of course, Apple could also pivot by acknowledging that Vision Pro was the wrong approach for augmented reality and take a cue from Android XR instead of Oculus, by building an iOS-compatible eyewear fashion accessory that provides a HUD rather than a full active blending of reality with computer-generated content, and supports a more modest feature set, such as real-time text translation, reminding you of people's names and recent conversations, highlighting foods it thinks you might like on restaurant menus, providing access to email and text messages without whipping out your phone, letting you watch movies while out for a walk, etc.

None of these things involve taking Vision Pro and giving it a faster CPU, though. That's just pouring money down the drain. The only rational reason to do that would be if they're going to run into contractual costs related to continuing to build the M2 chip in small quantities and if the R&D costs for doing the board rev are less than the projected annual cost of continuing to make (or stockpile) the old chips. This seems unlikely to me, but I'm willing to acknowledge that it is a possibility.

The same is true of pretty much any animal... Dogs can kill, cows can kill etc. Even small animals are potentially dangerous although you're more likely to be able to fight them off.

Yeah, but the summary says "The Microsoft Store and Game Pass versions contained an unpatched security flaw that had been fixed in other versions of the game." Not other games based on the same engine. Other versions of the same game. I assume that they have one product manager that oversees Call of Duty: WWII, and that this person should be aware of what's happening on every platform.

This is why real software companies have "one version" policies, where you aren't allowed to check in a single project into source control in more than one place. Copies of the engine should be checked out from a shared repository, and changes should get pushed back to that shared repository. And there should be build bots that throw a fit if it doesn't build on every platform, forcing you to stop what you're doing and fix it.

What you're describing barely qualifies as software engineering. It reminds me of how some hardware vendors handle firmware updates. It guarantees that their systems are in a perpetual state of being barely working.

If that's true, then their products should be banned from every platform ASAP, and not just their old titles. Part of the software release cycle is maintenance, and if you aren't doing maintenance — particularly for security updates — then users should not trust your software as far as they can throw it. I have zero respect for companies that play games like that. Real software development doesn't end when the first build ships. It ends when you declare it EOL. And until that date, if you aren't providing security updates, then your company is a threat to the entire computing world.

After seeing this, I won't touch Activision software with a ten-meter pole for at least the next decade, and nobody else in their right minds should, either.

Everywhere I've ever worked, when you release an update to one channel, you release to all channels. This sort of process should be scripted and automatic, to the maximum extent possible. More to the point, there should have been someone responsible for making sure that critical updates have been successfully pushed out to every channel before they declare the update release process closed. There literally should have been someone checking on this on a daily basis for that entire time.

So unless this security bug was just fixed on those other platforms within the last single-digit days, what we have here is a serious process problem, and if it can happen on one game, it can happen on any Activision game. What is Activision doing to fix its processes to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again?

These are salaried workers. They are, by definition, getting paid, and paid the same amount whether they work extra hours in the warehouse or not.

Sounds like they moved on almost immediately from Wiles to Rubio.

Chief of Staff, NatSec/State -- DoD should be next (Hegseth). Rattcliff might be more powerful but they probably don't want to cross CIA. Or the call is coming from inside the house.

https://apnews.com/article/sus...

> lawns came over from the UK but really took off in the US during the post WW2 housing boom

I either have grass or mud and weeds. So I reseed any bare spots every Spring.

Do you mean people tolerated slippery mud and thicket all summer before the 50's?

I get that motorized mowers make everything easier but I see plenty of pictures of nice homes and parks from the 19th century with cut grass at the Historical Society.

> You're the reason pests creep into other people's homes or invasive weeds overrun people's properties by forcing out native plants.

Why would anybody think not using herbicides is the same thing as not mowing your lawn and not weeding?

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Opt-out isn't legal here.

The problem is operating on a blacklist approach...
One chemical gets a bad name and there's a campaign against it, so it gets replaced with something that hasn't attracted so much negative publicity yet. The replacements are often worse, or the side effects are not so well known and once use becomes widespread the side effects are found to be worse.

You've seen this with legislation that pushed vehicles from gasoline to diesel, reducing co2 while increasing other emissions.
You've seen this with food where fat/salt/sugar (that we've been consuming for thousands of years and which are perfectly safe and even needed in moderate quantities) has been demonised, leading to worse replacements where new negative side effects are regularly emerging.
Micro plastics, coolants and various other things are also getting worse.

What you were looking for instead of a paywall:

https://github.com/TecharoHQ/a...

404 Media is misleading - it should be called 402 Media.

Some of these people just want to replace Humans in every way possible, no matter the reliability of the systems.

Wimbledon is not necessary. We don't need tennis tournaments to survive. People enjoy them and being a part of them gives some people meaning in life.

The people who want to take that all away can screw off. Today the line judges, tomorrow the players - and the day after the War Machine.

Boston on July 4: "You can't get there from here." When they shut down Storrow Dr., all those one-way streets become the tenth circle of hell.