It's not. Kodak sold a pile of 1000 odd patents to a consortium of tech companies for something like half a billion dollars. It was the accumulated bullshit of thirty years of "transferring a digital image via digital computer network on a Tuesday" type stuff, plus some actual innovation, much of it in algorithms, mixed in.

Hacky: the first of pretty much any gadget is going to be a pile of junk on some engineer's desk. So long as it fits on a desk.

Why secretive? He took an image sensor invented at Bell Labs and manufactured by Fairchild and used it to make an image. Secretive from his bosses maybe, since he managed to put Kodak out of business.

Income taxes, not taxes.

"Instant" profit is more like "in five years" or "during my time in charge" profit. That AI "research" is very much aimed at generating profits in the short term. Nobody really cared that much until OpenAI announced something that could potentially cut into Google's ad+search money pipe, then the race was on. It follows precisely the silicon valley software company strategy: write some software, offer it free or steeply discounted at a loss to get users (i.e. "scale") then monetize it with ads.

That's not even vaguely what I said, so it's unclear if this is some kind of language issue or the result of a disability, but I'm just feeling worse and worse for you. You somehow believe the cold war was about communism?

I'd say Microsoft won that war, and everyone else lost.

Well, I'll have to admit, I didn't have "learning that someone on Slashdot believes that the Cold War was a myth" on my bingo card for today.

Wow, I had no idea you were dumb enough to fall for the Red Scare.

You seem to be confusing "wanting to get rid of communists" with "wanting their countries to be poor and dangerous".

It's quite amusing that some troll follows me around modding down any comments where I suggest humans should cooperate with one another. They are literally proving my point by moving things backwards with their solitary cowardice.

That it's a competitive system is the problem. The world advances through cooperation.

You seem to have forgotten we have read your comments.

Good. Fuck off and don't come back, hypocrite.

I see that you are ignorant of the USA's entire history in Central and South America. This is my surprised face.

You are hereby forbidden from learning anything from this comment!

But you weren't going to anyway, were you.

Hahahahaha you think nationalists care about people other than themselves hahahhahahahahhahaha