Slavery.

Grim Fandango.

Seriously, it’s one of the only games I consider to even HAVE a soundtrack. It’s absolutely next-level.

I get your point, but, no.

Finding out who he’s planning on damaging is important. But an article that starts with “Trump says…” is already too conciliatory.

Every article reporting Trump’s insanity should be written appropriately: “In full damage-control mode Trump tries to pretend his name may have been planted in Epstein files.”

“Trump violates the constitution again, in claim that…”

“Despite ruling from superior court judge, Trump pushes ahead with illegal kidnappings.”

This is what the media needs to do, and every time they don’t, it’s a failure that doesn’t deserve our attention.

Any article that begins with “Trump says” isn’t worth reading.

Downvote every post and article that begins with ‘Trump says’ or ‘Trump claims.’

Geekbench did some testing a month ago, and came up with ‘comparable to a gtx 660.’

If you’re not sure what my point is you’re not informed enough to present a legitimate argument.

Or maybe you didn’t present your point clearly.

Or maybe you’re just wrong.

These are entirely possible scenarios you might want to consider.

The premise of a web business model is that websites must make a profit - either directly or indirectly.

That’s utter bullshit. Some of us are old enough to remember when the web (or for that matter, the pre-web internet) was there for sharing of information, social interaction, and community. Schools, the government, and nonprofits provided hosting for free.

Later on, ISPs started to add hosting as part of their internet service - along with usenet access and an email address. The cost to them was negligible, especially vs. the benefits of being able to say “switch to us and create your own website!”

Nowadays you can run a site from your home PC in a VM, punch a hole through your firewall, and pay a modicum for DDNS to a custom domain for under a hundred bucks a year. If you’re a bigger site with more traffic, maybe you spin it up on AWS and pay ten or twenty bucks a month.

The very idea that “The Web” is a homogeneous, for-profit entity is a profound and fundamental mistake that is made by every money-obsessed organization around - not just the financial rags like Forbes and The Economist, but essentially corporations as well. Take a look at the support site for your favourite product and try to convince yourself that they didn’t just put the minimum required effort in to send customers into the arms of their competitors.

Such bullshit.

“AI is going to fix everything, so we need a new way to make money.”

1. AI is nothing but a delusional and unwanted waste of energy.
2. The web doesn’t need a business model, period. Money-grubbing billionaires are the only ones who need a business model.

Yes, and?

Utterly not.

Stop giving credence to the indulgent rants of self-interested billionaire fascists.

Punitive damages can be awarded for bad-faith bargaining, which definitely seems to be the case here.

It’s a stretch perhaps, but that’s what I think would be reasonable.

Probably not really feasible - it will require constant connection to a back-end server to play or some bullshit like that.

But even if you can, that’s not the answer. The proper action is to deny them entirely. Don’t play the game, don’t play PUBG, don’t do anything that expands their reach, money or not.

They need to suffer with NOBODY playing this game. They need to suffer by people deleting their Battlegrounds accounts. Software piracy is what makes games legendary.

Oooh, there’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.

$250M PLUS legal costs PLUS $250M in punitive fees. That should hurt them a bit.

Gen X weighing in. That’ll only last you so long, then your body starts to rebel no matter what.

I didn’t consider hard drives (spinning rust or SSD) because they’re generally internal/permanent devices. (although I do have a SATA dock sitting on my desk.)

Hmm. It gets more complicated the more I think about it.

Just a brain fart. I’ve edited my post to reflect them.

I’ve got a full-height 5 1/4" 1GB hard drive around here. Thing is massive.

I’ve also got most of the storage devices I’ve ever used over the decades:

• 5 1/4" floppy
• 3 1/2" floppy
• 4mm DAT tape
• 8mm DAT tape
• 1/4" QIC tape
• Zip disk
• Cassette tape
• Punched tape

I’m missing the following:

• DLT tape
• LTO tape
• 8" floppy
• IBM 2315 disk pack

Never used 9-track tapes, punch cards, or removable disk multipacks.

EDIT Don’t know how I forgot about cartridges (Atari 400 and 2600 - still got em!) and CDROM/DVD/WORM. I have CDROM, DVDROM (in various formats), but no WORM media (i.e. IBM 3363 - a CDROM in a rigid case, before the official CD standard was created).

I’m just here to say my god, that article was horribly written!

If this is what humans are cranking out, maybe I should reconsider my opinion of LLMs.