....Apple.
I believe they already have moved, it was malicious compliance.
This is largely in response to the EU forcing Apple to allow in app purchases to go via someone other than Apple, to which Apple did the minimum they could to try to meet the letter of the law (ignoring the spirit of the law, which doesn't make you popular with the EU).
So what's the catch?
It's in the summary.
They're only lowering the cut on in-app purchases, likely in response to the EU directives forcing Apple to allow apps to manage their own in-app purchases independent of Apple (you could always do this on Android). They "might" be lowering their cut on app sales themselves.
I suspect like me, most people just aren't using "apps" any more, everything I need can be accessed via web browsers (Firefox with ublock and privacy badger installed) as apps have just become delivery vehicles for ads you can't block and a means to rape your wallet with in-app purchases. Also the Google Play store is atrocious these days so Google is trying to get developers back by offering them a discount.
Our president and his cabinet are heavily dependent on AI as well. I'm fairly sure they're all lost in AI delusions as well
They were lost in delusions long before AI came along. I doubt it's helping though.
The AI large-language model doesn't know that the real world exists. It doesn't know that fiction is different from reality, because it doesn't actually know about reality.
It put together a large fictional world, in which fictional things happen to characters that did not, actually, turn out to be fictional.
To be fair, that describes a great many people as well, unable to tell fiction from reality.
Assassination of top leadership is now an accepted political standard. No war and capture and trial, just kill heads of state when the opportunity arises.
The reason that's been frowned upon isn't because some of these heads of state aren't monsters the world is better off without, it's because it makes things less stable and diplomacy more difficult.
It makes further assassinations more likely, which is bad for heads of state, but it also makes wars more likely, which is bad for everyone else.
What do you mean by "now"... It's always been an accepted political standard, hell in many ways it's preferred. Assassination of enemy political leaders is almost as old as politics itself, especially to avoid a war or weaken an enemy state that is being belligerent.
Pepsi says their cola is way better than Coke's
(That they prefer their own user interface is newsworthy?)
Both are equally shit... I just buy whichever is cheapest on the day (soft drink or office suites).
Both ANA and JAL offer USB C with power delivery, which can charge or at least maintain laptops. They do say that you should not charge your laptop though, only maintain the battery level. They seem to be most worried about charging, as that is when the battery is most likely to fail catastrophically.
Why is it that people think that charging their device is a universal right (not directed at the parent poster)?
If you can't plan ahead for a flight and arrive at an airport with a fully charged device, start flying airlines that have in seat entertainment or you know, find other ways to keep yourself occupied (books, crosswords, et al.). Anyone whining about not being able to use power banks are the pinnacle of entitlement in our society and need to have a long, hard conversation with themselves.
Also, it's not like batteries are short lived these days. A 5000mAh battery should be giving you at least a full 12 hours of screen time. That's the flight time of London to Los Angeles.
Honestly I think it's a result of some people being so vapid and boring that they can't stand to be alone with their own thoughts so they constantly need to be distracted.
Who cares if the sun is directly overhead at "noon" Just pick standard or daylight time and stick with it. You're never going to make everyone happy since the time from east to west of the time zone is going to differ by nearly an hour. so one side might have the highest point at "noon" while the other side has it at 11a or 1p. How many people actually look at the time at exactly "noon" and look up at the sky and actually bitch that the sun isn't at the highest point? We don't tell the time with sundials anymore, it really shouldn't matter
It's less about the sun being overhead at noon and more about synchronising our working day with our circadian rhythm. Before we all had clocks, this is what we used to do naturally as seasons changed the number of daylight hours. In simple terms, work when it's light and sleep when it's dark. Before the trains forced a uniform time zone, it wasn't uncommon for different parts of Britain to have different time zones, the clock above the Corn Exchange in Bristol has two minute hands, one for GMT and the other for (historic) Bristol time. Bristol is about 100 miles west of London.
In a year, the same people in Vancouver complaining about the "clocks going forward" will be whining that the sun is up at 3:30 in the morning and it's getting dark by 8:30 at night and struggling to cope with "curtain fade" (the curtains will fade is a famous trope from arguments against DST in Australia).
I was all ready to stereotype you as disgruntled anti-woke but then house husband dropped.
You win
I thought it was AI... it made that much sense.
The concept of a government that's actually useful and is on the people's side is something alien to most Americans, even when the US government is run by Democrats. It's a sign of how bad politics have been on this side of the country since before Reagan, but it's also why politics are so bad in the US. I genuinely think that if America had, for example, a national health system maintained by the government, people would be more invested in elections, and politicians keener to prove their competence.
Even when the US government tries to be more helpful and useful, like Obama, some people will do everything they can to destroy it and undermine it.
The US has ended up with the politics it deserves.
Better still, there's an entire *novel* about it: Ender's Game. I don't remember the SG1 episode you refer to but I would bet the book is better.
The episode was called "The Game" and was in the 3rd series of Atlantis.
I don't think this is analogous of Ender's Game as that was humans fighting a real war masquerading as a game. This is more akin to Skynet, computers deciding how to defend humans and then deciding the best action is to kill them all.
It's hilarious hearing "TDS" from the people who still whine about FDR, Carter, Clinton, Obama and think Soros is the micromanaging mastermind behind everything they despise
The thing I've learned about the far right is that they're constantly projecting. When they accuse others if bias, it's because they're biased. When they claim something is being done to them, it's really just a desire for them to do that to others. Thus it is with this claim, they're projecting their own fear and hate onto others.
The cost of overturned stupid shit is borne by US taxpayers. So it's a win-win for Trump and The Government.
At this point he's openly stealing from US taxpayers, by paying billions to his Bored of Peace which goes directly into his accounts (probably offshore for tax evasion, which is defacto legal for rich people in the US, Leona Helmsley was right 35 years ago).
Sometimes direct action is the best action.
So typically American.
First solution to any problem is violence.
Makes it easy to dismiss your complaints as that of a raving mad man and all it results in are more sales of the surveillance cameras and the corporation being more ambiguous about what they're really doing once they've done the rebrand. You're not actually punishing the people violating your privacy, you're rewarding them.
To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so.
