I feel like this is just going to make the problem resurface. They're not admitting that it's bad. They're just placating the courts. Unless these 7 years mark the date of the next review or something, this is an incredibly weird ruling.

What's the upside for me? Why would I ever want this? Getting better ads is not necessarily better. If I'm really looking to buy something, maybe, but then I'll just do my research instead. This sounds like a net loss for users. Even if we assume all those data is collected in an ethical manner, why would I want this?

That's true. I remember those. I imagine that's pretty niche, though. I don't think a lot of teachers will want this just so that they can fold their screen over on top of an overhead projector.

I don't think I would use it. I'm not sure what the value is outside of the coolness factor.

Based on the screenshot of the article, this looks exactly like what it looked like in Windows 10. This guy seems to have wanted something completely different. Calling it "almost unusable" is bullshit.

Considering alexa understands about 1% of the things I say (this isn't hyperbole, it's about 1%), then it's entirely useless for me. And it's not like I speak with some weird accent or anything like that. I speak English normally, and it still doesn't get it. No setting or anything makes it work. I also needed two replacements when the device wouldn't even boot up when I got it. If this is in any way indicative of the average experience, I can totally understand why nobody uses them.

Slightly better on one benchmark, slightly worse on another.

This is what I have: https://www.kinnarps.com/produ... I bought it for around 500 EUR in perhaps 2003, and it's been absolutely amazing. Sure, it's a bit worn, but it's just as comfortable as it was when I bought it. Prices have risen dramatically, though. Last time I checked it was up to 1500 EUR, though that might have changed again.

Way to go, you've published another bullshit article about the end of something. By that rationale, I should be able to say something like "the number of wrist watches in the world are far more than apple devices". Or, for that matter, "the number of actual apples (fruit) in the world are far more than apple devices". Please keep this bullshit off of slashdot!

I just can't be bothered. I try to maintain some sort of security w.r.t my accounts, but int he end, there's no stopping the avalanche. I've given up. They already have all my data.

Is there a reason I had to watch TWO ads, both containing the same thing, each 60 fucking seconds, before I got to see the piece?

With the exception of medics and the like, a solder is a solder, regardless of how they assault the enemy. Be it via bullets, via networks or via psy-ops, they are equally valid targets, I think.

With the exception of medics and the like, it doesn't really matter how you are assaulting the enemy.

I absolutely agree. When I saw the first pictures on engadget the other day, I thought to myself "man, that keyboard has gone to hell. Where are the page-up (etc) buttons?". They've taken what was arguably the only remaining good laptop (w.r.t ergonomics) and flushed it down the toilet.

I wrote half of an ETL tool at my previous employer for the same reason, there was nothing out there. Of course, I couldn't open-source that... By "half" I mean that, while it was certainly an ETL tool, it only supported the subset of operations we needed. This is also fun, because it teaches you things about databases that you might not encounter otherwise, as pushing millions of rows into a database isn't necessarily a "normal" use-case that you'd otherwise encounter. If you focus on the E and L parts, you can make the T part pluggable, if you like.