Must everything "change the world?"

What happened to making a thing, and making it really well, better than anyone?

Is there no more merit in that? Is it all a race to the quarterly earnings call?

I have a more cynical view.

The medical and pharmaceutical industries are the most heavily invested at making money on from the day you are born, to the day you draw your last tortured, well-past-best-by-date, please-kill-me-10-years-ago breath.

I saw it with my grandma, my aunt, and others. People are kept alive just so the docs and pharmas can milk them for 20 years more than they normally would've. For 100% selfish reasons. Not for the patient -- it's "for the family." "Oh how wonderful that you had your grandma 'til so late". Yea buddy, at the end she was trippin' balls, talking about the farm she hadn't seen since the 50's. Her last 10 years were horrible, but of course her daughters were thrilled even tho they were the ones caring for her.

Disgusting. We're like cattle to them.

Yeah, those in power want power forever, but the medical and pharma bros are far worse in how they seek to extend life solely to cash in on that extension.

Possibly the last thing they make we can buy.

I do myself have an ancient Lumix and love it. Their marriage with Leica was an excellent idea.

But they're going to need more than cameras. A return to consumer electronics would be nice. Their projectors really were superb.

My music room music system is built around a 21 year old Panasonic digital receiver. 21 years of daily use, and I don't mean a couple of hours a day, I mean this thing does duty day and night, it only sleeps when I do.

That's the Panasonic that was worth something.

I really would like a new camera, a 4/3rds, and it'd be a Lumix, of course. Maybe next year.

This is what happens when you quit your core.

Panasonic receivers? Gone.

TV's? Gone, and now maybe making a comeback

Projectors? And I was a huge fanboy of their projetors.. Gone. Both home and pro, gone.

Tough to make money through "services."

Same with the "service economy"

'way business should work is .... you make thing, sell thing, make money from it. Fix the thing the other guy sold, make money from it.

Panasonic would need to start making things again to become relevant. And I don't see them doing it.

Matsushita-san would be aghast. The company he built from just a two-way light-socket adaptor is now a skeleton of what it was.

Perhaps they should look at other factors.. such as, worsening delivery experience, too many shenanigans with transfer between Amazon and USPS going awry, and the one that really grinds my gears -- have the balls to charge $130 / year for Prime, and still have the fresh face to say "We want 3 bucks more a month for ad-free Prime Video."

Maybe it's time I drop them, myself.

Long ago, before I even got to slashdot, I had told my wife, after seeing Terminator 2, "the day computers can say "maybe" instead of "yes/no" or "on/off," we're cooked.

The day came what... 3 years ago now?

Augmented Idiocy will be our undoing, more than the love/greed of money, more than religion, more than using every means possible to divide this country.

Mark my words. It' AI that will sink us, not the Left, not the Right, not the Religious Nutjobs, and not the Biology Deniers.

It's AI that will ultimately completely fuck us over.

Another paid "expert" who can go fuck himself. All safe and tenured and cocooned in his little cozy ivory tower. He's safe, no matter what damage his bleating and writing cause.

The only people who are being hurt by people working remote is office real-estate owners. Now, are we really supposed to feel sorry for them?

No, of course not. Fuck 'em. May they lose their shirts.

My garage is to protect my car from the elements, potential vandals, thieves, etc. It also stores gardening and yardwork implements.

I have a storage shed somewhere just for the stuff I don't need in the house right now.

The difference between most people and me, is most people see cars as an appliance, some outright see it as a threat to humanity, other see it as a status symbol (and still park said status symbol outside.)

I see it as a toy, a tool, an instrument. A thing that can deliver joy by the crateful, and also drive you straight up a wall when you're dealing with mechanical issues. It also frees you from the shackles of public transport.

I will never sully any garage or drive way of mine with an electric car. My objections are two-fold: Batteries for main power source is derp, making for 5000 lb cars and even heaver trucks, and b) the constant whine whine whine from the Left to adopt electric is having the exact opposite effect. I'll double down on petrol before I bend a knee to whatever King the Dems appoint next time.

For those of you who don't understand, one of my objections to battery-powered cars is: a 5500 pound car (Caddy Lyriq, Porsche Macan, and many others) are 2x as heavy as what I drive, which clocks in at about 2700 lbs wet with driver.

The enemy isn't lack of horsepower the enemy is mass.

Make them lighter an they will be more efficient, drive better, go better, turn better, stop better.

You want me in electric? Ditch the battery. Find some other way. And stop the government from their whole "Buy ELECTRIC! OBEY! Do what the paid, biased experts tell you to do! DO IT"

Fuck that. Virtue-signalling is all that is. Trying to score points with the tree-fuckers is what that is all about.

Gasoline still has the most power per unit of weight, more than gunpowder, more than TNT. Thank you Mythbusters for pointing that out.

Hey. You. Yes you. Go into Mexico with no papers and try to get set up and live there.

Then, years laters, tell us here how your jail stint in Mexico for illegally entering the country was.

Pick any country. Russia. Vietnam. China. Ooh yes, go to China illegally and tell us how it went!

The Dem's "No One Is Illegal" is bullshit of the worst kind.

The person entering either got the correct paperwork to come in, or not.

If not.. illegal. It truly is just that simple.

Liberals twisted all this to garner sympathy. It's a guilt-trip. I was raised Catholic and I recognize the tactic.

oh, you know perfectly well why it was posted.

It's a troll. Stir up the pot. That's all msmash is good for.

Technical articles here have comments numbering in the low-dozens to single-digits.

Politically-charged tripe will get hundreds. Much more engagement, and that is the only thing this place cares about.

"...that's usually when the ground goes away from under you"

Another one that applies: "But this boat cannot sink?!"

When you're this confident / arrogant.. this is usually when The Bad Thing happens.

This should be +5 Insightful.

How to explain this succinctly..

Real IMAX is 70mm, yes, but each frame is 15 perforations (perfs) wide. The film runs horizontal. And a robot picker picks the platter with the film and takes it to the projector (at least the one in the Mall of America in MN did)

Regular 70mm, like Super Panavision, is 70mm wide, by 5 perfs tall. The film runs vertical.

Nothing. Beats. Imax. Nothing at all.

These fools already have several storied 70mm names they could use.. Super Panavision, Todd-AO, etc etc.. but they will never, ever beat real Imax.

Problem is, real Imax is stupid expensive, and heavy, so it's mainly travelogues and stuff.

The stuff Nolan and others shoot on is just Super Pana -- but don't get me wrong, 70mm 5 perf is still so much clearer and sharper than 35, and has a very different look because the depth of field is shallower the bigger the film gets.

Super Pana is good enough.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FMM4_0V...

That will help visualize it. real IMAX is a monster. Sooo much more surface area.

Hyper-v with the Hyper-V manager. It's kinda like VSphere but with different words and concepts. Using the same hardware ESXi was on. We just took a few machines and did it. Storage is the same SAN. I don't think we've gotten to building and testing clusters yet, but at least the creation and running of VMs is very similar to VSphere.

There's also Azure Local (was Azure HCI) and we also have built a little trial thing with it. All of it in its infancy, but they're running and doing useful things.

Also, we've had an azure footprint for a bit, so.. we've moved some loads to that, too.

'twas good knowing you, VMWare... you paid my bills for the past 20-something years. Never thought I'd see it in the graveyard that is Broadcom, along with Veritas and other ancient tombstones.

C'mon Slashdot editorbots.. the original story's still on the front page, and you duped it already?

Yes, I know, time-honored /. tradition, the dupes and all that... but c'mon. Give it a rest.

At least it's a technical article, and not one of your usual feeble attempts to further divide our country by posting ragebait political pablum.