Re: Can you help?
Feeding "Exploits of a Mom" into Team's Giphy front-end produces all manner of useless crap (with the emphasis on the last syllable). So...meh, indeed!
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I personally, am more afraid that scientist cease to understand what they've created after a while.
Too late...already there. Remember that the computer "scientists" driving this stuff, many of them having earned Ph.D.s, probably don't know what a computer register is. And they're are expected to understand the physical or software incarnation of neural nets? Shirley, you jest!
Just wait until some guy's ML model shows up on Stack Overflow...
...this "new, improved UI (or "UX", as the kidz now call it) will be every bit as shit as the current one...just different. Which, well...because Micros~1.
Given that picture, one will have a hard time convincing me that the same set of ADHD-addled "Microsoft Designers" aren't still running the asylum, with the same set of design "rules", which led to the WSH1 that, well, all their current offerings have. Clutter, disorganization, whizzy pictures, and eye strain rulez!
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Scientifically literate Reg readers will doubtless have noticed that the AxEMU is an unusual color for something that will receive a full unfiltered-by-atmosphere blast of solar radiation. What with dark hues absorbing heat and lighter tones reflecting it.Axiom Space acknowledged that by admitting "a spacesuit worn on the Moon must be white to reflect heat and protect astronauts from extreme high temperatures."
The chic gray and orange look depicted above is therefore "a cover layer … used for display purposes only to conceal the suit's proprietary design."
In other words, this whole exercise is complete bullshit (or, more accurately, FOMO at its absolute zenith).
Back in the 50's people actually RTFM to find out how to do stuff like that. And kids getting their first car often had Dad (or some other experienced adult, generally of the male persuasion -- sorry, but that's how things were back then) show them how to do stuff like change a tire/tyre, check the oil and fluid levels, topping them off when needed, and so on.
I can't imagine a Millennial or Gen Z'er being arsed to do that. Or a Gen X'er taking their sprog out and showing them how such things are done.
The problem is, despite ongoing public and private efforts to develop a working fusion reactor, X-ray cameras of this sort aren't exactly the kind of thing you can pick up at your local camera exchange or darkroom.
Wait...there are still local camera exchanges and/or darkrooms? Who knew?
[...] Microsoft trotted out arguments it has already made to justify the purchase in the US and EU – namely that it would actually be beneficial to fans by making its games more accessible and more affordable.
So they are going to make their games playable on Linux and OSX. No? OK, then nothing to see here.
But there is something to smell here...the acrid fumes of more Micros~1 corporate bullshit.
Don't quite know what you were smoking when you posted this, but whatever it was, I want some, because it appears to be quite hallucinogenic. Now that you (may) have come down a bit, you should notice that there was nothing about Linux in the thread up to your post.
Fanbois gonna fan, I guess.
- Fix the windows. How about being able to determine which explorer window is which, quickly and visually. You know ... some borders and colours.
Nope. That would offend the sensitivities of their Millennial/GenZ interface "designers". Couldn't have that, now could we?
Microsoft has forgotten all about stability.
Not sure it was forgotten as much as intentionally jettisoned in the never-ending quest for "increasing shareholder value" (e.g. the wholesale firing their QC department).
Is that too much to ask for?
Short answer: Yes. Next question?
[Workday] said it was "committed to trustworthy AI" [...]
Let's assume that this is not the patently obvious oxymoron that, on its face, it is. What constitutes "trustworthy" AI? Is there a certification for such a thing. I mean, we all know that ChatGPT can be "trained" to spew bullshit, racist epithets and so on. And such "training" was done with the best of intentions.1 Such a "commitment" is right up there with, "the safety and security of our customers data is of the upmost importance to us".
1We've been told time and time again that ChatGPT "training" was supposed to be neutral, done under "strict supervision", yadda, yadda, yadda...
Maybe next, we'll get Hitler 2.0 or something equally idiotic, to rinse and repeat, with much larger losses, as has been the trend for idiots who refuse to learn from history.
At the risk of a (probably inevitable) Godwin backhand, methinks we already have him...at least here on the left side of the pond. And he's running again!
Apple didn't respond to our questions about how it intends to respond, but is reportedly planning to appeal the ITC decision on the grounds that it would have a negative effect on public health.
Such patent1 bullshit. Make you wonder how we as a species managed to overpopulate the earth to the tune of 7+ billion folks without having Apple there to constantly guide our lives with their paternalistic monitoring. One could make a compelling argument that the entire Apple iThingie ecosystem (specifically including the Apple Watch) has a negative effect on public health, what with its promotion of a sedentary lifestyle, and demonstrably addictive presentations that tend to disable one's brain during use.2
1See what I did there? ;-)
2Yes, once again I had to dodge some double-epsilon semi-moron randomly wandering between lanes on the freeway while they were ineffectively managing some iThing at 75 mph.
However, the purpose of a browser is to allow the user to view webpages they've asked to view, rendered as faithfully as possible to the expectations of the page designer after taking into account any overrides/browser extensions/etc the user has enabled.
How quaint.
Perhaps that was the purpose back in a simpler time, but not anymore, my friend. Nowadays, the purpose of a browser is to aid in monetizing anything and everything viewed on the web. And (since this is still the wild west), by any means possible.
Upon first glance, it appears that TCI might actually have a point. I mean, how 80's is it that an airliner manufacturer would invest heavily in a foundering Big Data company -- a field in which they have no expertise, and has the same relationship to their core business as a fish has to a bicycle?
Something about a stopped clock being right occasionally comes to mind.
But then, they blew it.
So how would Hohn prefer Airbus spend its "prodigious and rising cashflow"? Increasing dividends or buying back company stock were two possibilities proposed by TCI, which also told Google to make more layoffs.
So TCI opens their kimono1 and exposes themselves to be the same ol' brain-dead, slobbering, self-centered, money-grubbing Vulture capitalists2 we've all come to know and love3.
1A phrase I haven't heard in El Reg for quite some time...
2Sorry, no offense/offence meant to El Reg for the use of "Vulture".
3For vanishingly small values of "love".