At last, hardware built to run my code!

Also are the Rolling Stones involved? Asking for a friend.

Maybe it’s the same normal human inconsistency as those of who support public health care and basic income, but ironically still buy stuff from capitalists.

“Help us improve your User Experience by trying as hard as possible to induce to spend money you don’t have on crap you don’t need.”

Fear = Profit!

Would you like to know more?

1. Trump threatens Nintendo with tariffs
2. Nintendo doesn’t seem to GAF
3. Trump says he’ll talk with Nintendo if they call
4. Nintendo doesn’t call
5. Trump cancels tariff, invites Nintendo CEO to lunch
6. MAGA applauds Trump for saving America from something or other

Thanks, my bad!

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Unable to locate package batcat

Please do! Are we talking about Microsoft Bob or what?

While I was there they were working on integrating presence detection. I saw some demos where lights would go on and off when you walked from room to room, and music you were listening to would follow you. If you were using a computer your desktop environment would migrate to a computer in the new room. Never saw that hit the market in any way I was aware of.

Lots of stuff MS Research did never saw the light of day. One time when my kids were playing Toontown I found a bug that let a player slip behind the graphics. You could see that the clerk at the store was just a legless torso floating in the air, and you could even go behind the walls and fly backwards into empty space until the whole world shrank to a dot. This same bug was present in a MS project called V-Worlds I had worked on a couple years earlier, so I always wondered if they had made a deal with Disney to use the code or if it was just a common graphics bug.

Very intelligent article in terms of painting a richly detailed picture. Falls short in reality awareness tho.

For example, it’s easy for people like the author who are immersed in using information tech to imagine everybody lives that way, but about 2/3 of all jobs still involve working directly with physical objects and materials. Of the 1/3 of jobs that could be done entirely online, only about 1/3 of those actually are. The author mentions that we also interact with our personal lives solely through electronics - to communicate with each other, manage our schedules, our lists, etc - but we used to do most of that on paper. Electronics didn’t replace direct interaction with reality, it just replaced paper and pencil.

Recognizing this takes most of the wind out of the author’s sails. Silicon Valley, the label they seem to lump modern technology in general under, which most people see as a handful of IT companies, didn’t start this phenomenon of insulating ourselves from the real world. We’ve had telephones and radio for about a century, paper for centuries before that, and all kinds of powered or motorized appliances and other conveniences all our lives. How many of us still have living relatives who ever depended on fire-based lighting or animal-powered transportation, for example?

Anyway, tl;dr I think this article is a fine example of stylishly writing up an interesting and stimulating point of view, which doesn’t really have a solid basis but is written well enough to convince many readers that it’s insightful.

Musk saying something doesn’t reflect on the quality of the idea itself. For many thousands of years people freely imitated whatever they saw that worked, in a process known as “the spread of civilization”, which turned out pretty well for humans. At some point somebody figured out they could get rich by selling copies of other people’s work and paying them a pittence, aka “royalty”, and boom, IP laws were born, and so was the concept that imitation = “stealing”. So now you’re evil if you rub two sticks together without paying somebody - unless they’re evil, then you’re fighting for social justice. It all makes so much sense.

So, according to popular gospel it’s really a penis size simulator!

Former Win10 user here, also a former MS employee, now on Mint. I never even heard of Recall but holy crap on a cracker, Microsoft - seriously? SERIOUSLY?

You guys have absolutely lost your fucking minds. My advice is to make Microsoft great again by quitting and forming a bunch of startups, where you can work on innovations that are actually good and useful. For the sake of your own sanity.

Yeah that’s really my point. The head of any government department should have past experience related to what that department does. Same requirement as for ANY job - you don’t get hired as head chef if you’ve never even worked in a kitchen FFS. Trump’s appointments are a festival of incompetence.

To the business world humans are ultimately just conduits to money. But somehow people think privatizing everything is the best way government can serve the public.

The real trouble starts when you hit the two rocks together.

Don’t think so, she’s only 3 years younger (76).

Maybe it’s also American to understand I was expressing shame at being heinous, I dunno.

Secretary of Education - that would be Linda McMahon: politician, business executive, and former professional wrestling promoter.

Jesus Fucking Christ no wonder the world laughs at us. “You want I should teach dem skools a lesson, boss?”

Throwing away money isn’t evil when WE do it!