Not that kind of edible...
No Panzerschokolade then... Boring!
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Instead of going in a blaze of glory, or fading gently into the endless night, Voyager will get a shameful death by beancounter.
What an ignominious end for one of mankind stellar achievements
yes, in theory this announcement has nothing to do with the end of the mission, but we all know MAGAs are itching to pull the plug on them scary sciency thingamajigs
Bosses don't want bums in seats. They want people to actually act on what they said here, and quit.
What's not to like? All the shareholder-pleasing benefits of a layoff round without the bad publicity.
Bonuses and martinis all around!
Who cares if the serfs fall on bad times because of this? That's what they are for. And who cares if this causes the best and brightest to leave? That's a problem for next FY and for sure can be fixed with more layoffs
>> Phone Link [...] provides easy access to calls, messages, and device information
SInce MS abandoned the cell phone business, they were missing on all of this delicious, delicious data. But now they found a way to syphon it even from iPhones, and beam it to the mothership.
I really have to commend them for the effort
I may need to run this through Google's dumber-downer from the other article because I don't get it: MS is paying Sweden to burn wood -that did not need to be burnt otherwise- and bury the soot... And that somehow grants them the right to pollute somewhere else?
Bloody hell, man... that went into Spirit territory. How can one feel sad for a chunk of metal millions of miles away?
Green / Amber LEDs have been the bane of my existence. I is infuriating trying to set up a device and not knowing wether the blinking pattern you see is the "good one" (green) or "bad one" (yellow) because they are indistinguishable from one another. Usually looking at them through a phone camera works, but sheesh! is it not like there are no other color options.
As a kind of funny aside, the green traffic light in some US places look basically blue to me. Not sure if it your case but I always found it amusing (and great, as they are impossible to miss)
"Apple" is the keyword here: their fabled walled garden an Jobs' phrase "people don't know what they want until you show it to them" are the cornerstone of this behavior.
MS et al started mindlessly copying Apple's actions because they were successful and one slippery slope later, we are here: our machines are not actually ours but remain the property of big tech, users are treated with absolute contempt, tolerated only as beta testers or because more money can be extracted from them by any means necessary.
Where else, outside China, has got the necessary charging infrastructure for EVs?
Not my (third world) country for sure, but that doesn't stop people from buying chinese EVs in spades.
"Geometrys" and "Seagulls" are now a very common sight in the roads, a local newspaper tells me there are now 34.2 EVs per 10000 persons, which is a respectable ratio.
And this number is eating from the lower-end Japanese models (Suzuki, smaller Nissans) which used to dominate the market until not long ago.
In the good old times, google would let you hunter and gather all over the internet, so you could prepare your own meal.
With time it increasingly pushes on already prepared stuff you are not interested in.
Now with AI, the "solution" is to have a machine eat and digest the food for you, leaving it ready to be shat directly in your mouth... Is this progress?
As per the article, The standard requires remote controls to allow voice control
But I am utterly convinced that it will only listen for the wake up word to comply with the user commands, and will not be listening for words and phrases that the Powers that Be consider double plus ungood. No sir!
When I travel I always carry a small notebook and pen with me. Small enough to fit in my front pocket along with the cell phone. Never inconvenienced me... whenever I take them out to do some quick annotations, people looks at me like an alien.
These notebooks (I am on the third one) have a record of all the places I've visited since 2012. Obviously being dead tree slices, they are in danger of being destroyed very easily so I am in the process of digitalizing them.
I know that if I lose them now it will be my fault, but I am not at the mercy of a Silly-Con Valley company.
Some of the use cases in the article are noteworthy, and I can't but feel bad for these people, but trusting Google is the dumbest thing one can do online.
Easy enough to do at home, but MS doesn't care about that market anyhow.
I guess most people here who use Windows unwillingly, do so because there is no other option at the office. That is my case, at least.
Unless the S&P 500 gangs together to beat MS to a pulp for these stupidities, nothing will change.
Will that happen? I won't hold my breath, CIOs are probably getting very cute gifts from MS to avoid it.
>>I understand the risks involved
You are an exception, as is most of the people who frequent these forums. This is not an accurate representation of how the average person uses internet.
>>I am sensible with what I share online
You are doubly an exception here. I commend you for that. The problem is that the vast majority of internet users don't even know that there are risks associated to what they share, much less that there are options beyond Google. For them. one day the blue e stopped being "the internet" and instead the colorful circle became that.
Alphabet has a virtual monopoly over the way people access the internet. This goes beyond the information they may have about any individual, and this kind of monopolies are never healthy.
NB: I am not one of the downvoters.
You can throw all the redundancy you want at the machines, they will only be as safe as the pilot at the helm[1]. If this is massified, the barrier of entry will be lowered, meaning underpreprared people will be flying these things over densely populated places, which does not sound appealing.
[1] No mention in the note of how the test was piloted, but I'd hope no one is mental enough to try and put to production a fully automated deathflying machine