I'm sure this will be as successful as all of the other times it was tried. What was the Google version of this that they eventually dragged out behind the shed several years ago called again? Stadia? Or was that some other failed attempt at this. NVidia has more money coming in than this could ever hope to bleed, but they're not exactly known for doing anything that doesn't make them even more money.

What developer would sign their game up for this anyway? If this were successful it's the Spotify model all over again that every artist seems to despise. That NVidia is now handing out free hits really ought to tell you everything you need to know about this business model.

Golden age tractors don't have cabs. Many of them are still in use because they're built to be reliable and designed to be repairable by their owners if something did break. It's sad that so many of the companies that made them went out of business, probably because no one ever needed to buy a new tractor from them after the first purchase and they never got into the business of selling equipment with whiz-bang features that was otherwise unreliable and needed replacing every decade or so.

I agree with what most are saying here. As an old guy (age 65), I noticed quite some time ago that software, generally, rather peaked about 20 years ago. That is, for general things like web browsers, e-mail applications, word processing, accounting, spreadsheets, and the like, we got to the point that there was no real reason to pony up money for Version 18.7 of software when Version 11, which you installed five years ago, was still doing just fine. The problem with software (and intangible technology in general) is that, unlike tangible property (clothes, furniture, houses, etc.) it does not deteriorate. It's code, that stays the same. We don't need to buy new software on a regular basis. Software companies, as an example, figured out a while back that the only way to maintain an income stream was to convince people to switch to a subscription and/or online model. And the problem with *that* is that, to us oldsters, we wonder how exactly going from software we bought years ago that still works great to something that offers no significant improvements is something worth paying for indefinitely. AI is interesting, and fun to play around with. Perhaps it really is the Holy Grail for the overall software industry, where everyone will be paying subscription fees for the rest of their lives because they will rely on AI to tell them when their next appointment is. But I tend to see it as driven more by the need for revenue than actual innovation which will advance society.

The TDS is real;

Yesterday I got down modded for suggesting that the Anti-vax movement while lately embraced by MAGA; is hardly unique to that brand of politics, simply pointing out the easily observed truth that at least up until the pandemic you could find a lot anti-vaxers in very well-heeled, very granola blue areas, as much as anywhere on the right. I pointed out that RFK wasnt a Republican let alone MAGA until suddenly he and Trump thought they could advance their mutual agendas.

Now you people are going to go an insist that Drunk driving laws were some kinda Republican led thing, sure there were a lot of anti-drug right of main-line conservatives that were on board, but there were as many left of main-line liberals who saw it as public health and safety issue and the two came together to form a large enough coalition to get it done over the objections of the general public at the time. Once again though highly revisionist to claim it was GOP issue.

Ditto for the history of "cooperative federalism" as a concept. The GOP has certainly embraced it, and did so pretty quickly, but certainly did not invent it, that was New Deal Democrats!

Lord knows there are plenty of reasons someone can dislike Trump personally, object to the agenda, etc. However I become pretty unimpressed with most of those arguments because of posts like yours. They are mostly made by people who either are pretty ignorant of our political history, and/or are in some sort of deep reality distortion field where they believe Trump and anyone in his orbit actually invented these tactics, let alone anyone at Heritage. None of them have come up with anything new they are just flipping through their catalog of old grievances and successes alike and looking at what political tools brought them about. Then using them, usually with minimal finesse or competence.

Teleportation sounds cooler in the white paper.

Actual teleportation doesn't and will never exist outside of sci fi.

Would ... that impart the dreaded "processed-ness"? A lab vs. a factory?

That's the end objective of everyone, everywhere, at all times. Never bet against integration.

Indeed, there are a great many trade secrets in the RF business. However, I expect all this to level out in the coming years. Physics provides a limited spectrum, and the unlicensed and licensed sides in this are already squabbling over what spectrum there is, because all the useful bands (<=6-7GHz) are now allocated, somehow, to one side or the other.

The Wi-Fi people understand this: Wi-Fi 7 already covers all the unlicensed spectrum that isn't still being squabbled over, and even some that is. Wi-Fi 8, therefore, doesn't deal in new spectrum—there isn't any to be had—instead focusing on refinements that improve efficiency, contention, stability, security, etc. That's all great, but it also belies the underlying reality that the future of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, et al., at least for mobile applications that have any useful range (there are much higher frequency bands, but the physics of attenuation limit the value of these,) is limited by spectrum.

So in the near term, all the players are going to max out the performance that physics allows in the spectrum available. It's a natural cork in the development pipeline. Notice, in the summary, the mention of MediaTek. That's a fabless Taiwanese company, ranking among the Broadcom's and Apple's of the world. They're all running up against the limits of physics and they'll all eventually achieve parity with one another as a result.

Oh no! By dismissing one example, you've devastated my ... oh wait, no you haven't.

What about the artificial vanilla flavor? Is Grandma the queen of processed-ness?

Is there some percentage of kitchens that something has to be found in, to be free of the "processed-ness" taint? Do they all have to be home kitchens? I mean, since we're being so scientific about all this ...

You ... do know that kitchens around the world have things like artificial vanilla flavor (and yes, even Karo corn syrup) in them, right?

... grams of proceed-ness per serving are the limit?

You know, since we're being scientific ...

It doesn’t matter that much for Broadcom customers. Apple isn't going to sell their chips to anyone else. It's the same situation with CPUs where Apple has a core that's as good or even better than the best x86 CPU. Neither Intel nor AMD are particularly worried because they don't really compete against Apple directly and Apple won't sell those chips to anyone else of the companies who buy CPUs from AMD/Intel.

The only people who see any benefit are Apple customers, but If place this into the category of nice to have, but not the kind of thing I'd expect to notice. No one is particularly threatened by Apple's chip being better because Apple doesn't sell chips, they sell iDevices.

Advertising will get there first. There's more incentive and a better feedback mechanism. Movies will hold out for a while, but television is already overrun with programs that are just dressed up advertisements that it won't take long for it to be consumed.

"Joe Sixpack" might be a nuclear engineer, brain surgeon, or astronaut - i.e. much smarter than you or your typical code monkey - who just doesn't care about the details of the OS, and just wants a simple solution to his annoyance.

Insulting them and thinking because you know how cookies work and they don't makes them an object of derision is why IT and computer people are held in such low esteem.

    Grow up, script kiddie.

Nice conjuring. First you pull "hundreds-not-dozens" of fake successes out of your hat then you wave a wand and accuse libertarians of ignoring "conflicting data" which you also fail to produce, but hey, let's all believe "Plugh" is a smarter and better informed guy than Milton... suuuure!