Maybe there's a limit to data back-up systems we haven't hit yet.

Don's Great Wall finally doing its real job!

According to Star Trek, AI doctors are fine as long as you don't beam into remote areas or convince doc they are an opera star.

Buy 3 livers and get one free!

You just haven't tried a Huawei spleen yet. Their CRISPR tech is cookin'

...for many things you don't know if it will fly until you try. Their shoppers tend to be older, so health services made sense on paper.

I think it's more that Nadella knows if he goes against Gates' wishes and his own plan fails, he's in the hot-seat, as Gates is bigger than life.

That was a Gilligan's Island episode: a Mars probe inadvertently landed on the island, but NASA thought it reached Mars. Soon after being activated, the camera lens popped out and broke, preventing the castaways from sending an SOS.

The Professor baked a special glue to fix the lens, but Gilligan forgot to turn off the fire on the glue pot. Right when they got the lens to work, the pot exploded and blew glue & Gilligan's feather collection all over the crew and signs. NASA thought they were looking at "Martian bird people".

Corny but funny; a bunch of plot elements came together at once in one big explosion, like reverse entropy. The probe did look like a taller version of the Viking landers despite being a decade earlier. (I simplified the story a bit for TLDR.)

Correction, it's supposed to be "glaring", but blaring works also, as the gaps are so obvious you can practically hear the suckage.

As a practical suggestion, the main screens for their software should have a completely different UI for mouse/desktop versus mobile. For infrequently-used screens, mobile is the lowest common denominator and works good enough, but the high volume screens should be tuned for each if you care about your customers.

So when I curse Gates over blaring gaps in MS Shitware, It's not entirely in vain.

Time for him to go. Google changes software products more often than I change underwear, and nobody will trust them anymore unless a new CEO comes in who clearly promises to have more patience growing software and its legacy support.

Because your jizz tastes like her own cooking.

> There is absolutely no reason to expect this to change and no reason to expect this technology to ever amount to anything.

Come on, that's premature. QC shows hints of promise, but may take longer to tame than expected. Fusion energy could be the same way. We are making incremental progress in Fusion, and if the trend continues, we'll eventually hit the break-even point in roughly 15 to 30 years (more large-scale energy out than in.)

With QC, they find ever better ways to clean up the "quantum noise" over time, and if the cleaning trend continues, eventually the useful computations will be "louder" than the noise.

Similar with self-driving cars: they incrementally get better, but are not clearly past comparable risk of human drivers. However if the progress continues on the same pace, eventually we'll hit that threshold. Whether that's 5 years or 50 years away is hard to say.

True, there may be unforeseen tall hurdles that may set the 3 projects way back, but I'd put my money on continued incremental progress...barring an apocalypse.

(I expect the first successful robo-taxies and delivery trucks will stay on known routes to reduce surprises. This will hopefully give auto-drive companies the money to improve automation, and eventually the vehicles can go anywhere a human driver can...at least per formal roads.)

> My squishy, human brain learns the same way, I read a newspaper and absorbs the knowledge.

Our heads would be taxed and billed if someone found a way. With AI it's a bit more objective to prove borrowing, at least with the current state of the art. In the future, slimebags may find ways to disguise the training source.

I still don't see how this answers the original claim "[It's because] Chinese people prefer...to buy Chinese made products", as Samsung foldables used to sell well. Did they suddenly get nationalism? Is the sales change a change in nationalism feelings, or better competition in China? If the first, what changed it? Perhaps you meant to say squabbles with the USA triggered general nationalism in China, spilling over into Korean products?