They made a Jungle Cruise movie?

Why did it have to be the color of the Jeep I had?

When I moved away after high school my parents sold the old Volvo station wagon I was driving, decided the newer Volvo wagon my mom had been driving would be what my younger siblings would drive, and with strong encouragement from my younger brother, my mom picked up a used Boxster thinking that she’d never have to do the carpool line again. This was after the dot-com bubble burst and there was a surplus of used Porsches for relatively cheap. Somehow they found one as an automatic transmission back then, but it was still the best car I’ve ever driven as far as the handling goes. I loved the GTI I bought later, but that Boxster was a different level. At the speed limit it was almost like the car was steering itself because it was so effortless, and it was easy to go double the posted speed limit without realizing it if there weren’t other cars around.

So that’s quarterly savings of around $400,000 for Dell and $600,000 for HP, if they disabled it for all of their devices, which they’re not. So maybe saving $1 million per year at Dell and maybe $2 million at HP.

I feel confident that plenty of Ferraris have caused their owners a great deal of sadness, along with joy

Here’s the Google blog post announcing it: https://blog.google/products/android/quick-share-airdrop/

It’s one of the very small number of books to defeat me. The narrative part was okay but every other chapter was full of wildly inaccurate “natural history” descriptions of whales and their lives and I just couldn’t take it.

Anyone know what the embargo that wound up lasting 3 months was about? I’m assuming a security vulnerability that is now fixed?

I’m sure there are many jobs AI is not capable of doing but some CEOs probably do a bad enough job that an AI chat bot could probably do better.

I know we like to dump on CEOs all the time but a good CEO does not seem like one that could be replaced by AI, certainly not by what is currently being hyped. There are just a lot of highly visible companies with CEOs who aren’t actually very good. I suspect the dysfunction of publicly traded companies and the goals of Wall Street investors (or other nations’ equivalents) frequently not aligning with a good long-term health of a company has a strong influence on this.

And of course these guys will be happy to have AI replace them; they’ve already made boatloads of money and think they’ll be able to keep that going even if they lose their job.

Not having seen it and only really watching Friends a few years ago because it’s my wife’s comfort show, the writing was the main problem? Or was Joey not enough of a character to be the solo focus of the series?

That slogan in the preview image (“AI Girls Never say no”) is creepy enough on its own, but even more when users are having it imitate real people

I don’t work there and I also say it will be a huge mess

I can’t remember if it’s announced or rumored, but I think there’s an entry-level MacBook coming with an A17?

Yes, those were features in the most recent release, although I can’t find the announcement post offhand.

I saw a show on Food Network or the History Channel about the history of soda in the US and they said Pepsi rose to number 3 in the US during the depression era from people doing that. A bottle of Coca-Cola was something like 5¢ for an 8oz bottle and Pepsi was also 5¢ but for a 16oz bottle. If you had guests over people would offer them a Coke but pour the glass in the kitchen from a Pepsi bottle then bring the glass out to wherever the guest was sitting.

The number 2 cola in the era was Moxie, but it declined in the soda fountain era. Originally it was only sold in bottles. If the soda jerk gave an extra pump of syrup with Coke or Pepsi it wasn’t a big deal, maybe even better. Get the ratio wrong on Moxie, though, and it was apparently bad.

When I first started reading the headline I assumed it was announcing her death. Impressive that she’s still working! Someone should figure out a project with her, Dick Van Dyke, and Mel Brooks. Anyone other comedians in that 90+ range still able to work?

The one area I would sorta disagree is on updates, although only inasmuch as they’re needed for security fixes on things connected to the internet. But if it’s not connected? No, no updates needed unless I encounter a bug or they add a new feature I really want.

I remember it looking better than this screenshot shows

Yeah, it seems like Japan of all places should be where people should still have the most familiarity with them

To tag along with this, I remember this becoming an issue 10 or 15 years ago and a lot of the big lyrics websites were forced to reach licensing agreements with the songwriting groups like ASCAP and BMI (they collect and distribute royalties on behalf of the writers). I think a couple sites tried going to court to claim fair use but lost pretty quickly. That’s pretty established law going back to the earliest days of music publishing. Just because they were publishing online instead of printing up songbooks doesn’t mean the laws change.