China always aspired to be the world's undisputed leader in science and technology, and Trump is giving them what they want.

Oh, we can figure out a way easily enough. Figuring out a way to do it that doesn't quintuple food prices is the more difficult part.

A lot of people don't realize how valuable "environmental services" (like crop-friendly weather) are to the economy until suddenly they don't have them anymore, and have to start spending money to try to reproduce those same conditions artificially. Building air-conditioned indoor farms is going to be hell of a lot of capital-intensive than just essentially planting seeds in the ground and gathering the result food afterwards.

Hmm, sounds like you've caused an underflow on an unsigned value. I recommend restarting the simulation from the top and hoping it goes better on the next iteration.

So what the fuck is coding now? (Roughly) 1950s, machine language. 1960s, assembly. 1970s, C, basic. 1980s pascal, lisp. 1990s Java, C++. 2000s, frameworks. 2010s, I got no idea, a bunch of shit. 2020s, even more what the shit.

Can AI write the super Woz machine? The fast fourier transform? The 3d Doom libraries? Perl scripts to manage unix servers? WHAT ARE WE CODING? Because it is utterly ridiculous to consider the BS we call "AL" as actually coding, as I understand it.

Do a database query and mark it up for a web page? Because that's not coding. PLEASE help me understand what the flying fuck we are even talking about?

What made the decision so difficult was that they decided they had to give refunds to everyone whose devices no longer functioned properly, because their customers were no longer getting the functionality they had paid for.

Right?

At some point they'll have AI-controlled robots going through the waste streams and the landfills and sorting all the useful materials out of them. Once you have robots capable of doing the tedious work, landfill becomes a valuable ore, full of useful materials.

Between Bitcoin and AI, "too much electricity" shouldn't be an insurmountable problem for anyone. Either of things will happily consume as much electricity as you can throw at it, and want more. Of course, if you think those things are a waste of power, you could start using excess power to synthesize fuel to sell.

No iPhone user gives any kind of fuck. Anyone have a count of Slashdot no-story-here posts by non-Apple owners' outrage about Apple? Well, +1 I guess.

China's economy can always sell product to Chinese people. There are a lot of them. Not to mention the rest of the world, which is happy to trade with China, if only because China isn't constantly making unreasonable and incoherent demands on everyone.

"Mad Max" seems to have seriously underestimated the creativity of Australians regarding energy production :)

So "coding" is now assembling modules to spit out what you want. ..... That's not coding. The goal post hasn't moved, it's over in the next county. STOP PRETENDING THAT AI IS REAL. Slashdot readers (should) know better.

I think they expected that since they had paid to purchase the game, they would be able to play that game for as long as they cared to, i.e. same as the deal you get when you purchase a book or a DVD.

You can argue that they were wrong to expect that, but that's the usual way of thinking about items that you buy, so that's what people (who haven't yet thought through the implications of software shrink-wrap licensing agreements) naturally expect.

If being able to play the game perpetually isn't a viable business model, then perhaps the publisher should be required to specify up-front how long (at minimum) they will guarantee purchasers access to the game; that way nobody will be surprised when their access goes away, because they understood the time-limit on what they were purchasing before they made the purchase.

... and in 2020 it was "anyone but Trump", as it will be again in 2028, assuming we still have elections then.

Step back a bit, and you realize the real voting pattern is "anyone but the incumbent", because the system has deteriorated to the point where problems don't get solved anymore, so voters are just blindly switching back and forth from one party to the other in the hopes that doing that will somehow lead to improvement. American Democracy has devolved into the world's most elaborate ring oscillator.

That's true, but some people might be sad if they previously were able to pay their rent and now they cannot. Hopefully there will be other jobs available for them to move to.

So when Microsoft continually abused their monopolistic control of 90% of the PC market, they were let off the hook. But Apple which doesn't even have a majority of the smart phone market, is now a monopoly. This is more butt hurt users who would never even buy an iPhone complaining that it is a closed market. BUY A FUCKING ANDROID. You are not missing any functionality when you do that. As a matter of fact, you get the fiddly control you demand. Stop trying to force iPhone users play in the same play ground. We're quite happy. How about this, do a survey of how many iPhone users demand opening the app market. No? Because NO iPHONE USERS ARE ASKING FOR THIS. If they wanted this, they'd buy an Android. It is sheerest idiocy to claim Apple is a monopoly when Microsoft still controls almost the entire office computer market, but nary a peep is heard.