More of the power put in goes into the food, so watt for watt, they are better at heating everything.

I don't disagree, I'm just not in so much hurry that I can't wait another minute.

I had a mediocre drip maker from Proctor Silex, it made okay coffee but the carafe could only be poured at a very narrow range of speeds or it would piss all over the table.

It died, but it lasted OK before that, so I bought another one. They managed to make it even shittier. They "fixed" the pouring problem so it would pour okay at low to medium speeds, which actually was an improvement. But the new unit could only be filled with water through a hatch, and you could only fill it very slowly. And then the water came out too quickly, so it made shitty weak coffee.

I returned it and got a $100 espresso machine, which I get a better result from than going out to a chain.

Most cheap espresso makers aren't really espresso makers. They don't make enough pressure for full extraction. However, there is now a ~$100 DeLonghi pumped unit which does a fine job. Sadly it has a stupid milk steamer, but it's otherwise pretty good.

We can have 220/240V outlets in the USA. We have standards for them at a variety of current carrying capacities. I've installed the 240V@20A outlets (on new circuits from a subpanel) before. Then we could slap a US style plug on one of your kettles and run it just fine.

However, my inverter microwave does a fine job of heating water, to boiling if I want. Also, an espresso machine is available for $100 (from DeLonghi) and produces a better result.

The decision as to whether something is copyrightable doesn't depend on whether it's art, or whether the person who wrote the prompt can be called an artist. The copyright office has no involvement in that argument at all. It's based on whether there is sufficient human input for it to be considered a work by a human, because the purpose of copyright law is ostensibly/allegedly to protect the creators of works. What they're saying is that he cannot be considered to be a creator, not whether he is an artist. It's not only artistic works which are eligible for copyright protection, so that argument doesn't matter and he's wasting his time by having it unless it makes his art sufficiently notable to make it worth something.

One definition of art is anything which is designed with aesthetics in mind, by which definition LLM graphics output can obviously qualify. And the common definition of artist is someone who creates art, so by a reasonable definition he is an artist. But that still doesn't make any difference in whether he can get a copyright on LLM output.

Yes, two important things have happened since it was good. One, it was sold to DICE which was indifferent, and sold again to B!zX which is malicious. They put "Nazi" in the word filter to protect Nazis from being insulted; they eventually took it out but "Re!ch" is still in there, so they can protect the institution of Nazism even if they don't protect individual Nazis. Two, Donald Trump became president. Perhaps you missed one or both of these occurrences.

Thanks. The 2A guys have been a lot quieter since Trump went full fascist and they failed to respond, so maybe we have a shot at solving at least one of those things. Trump also said he wants to take away the guns first and look at going to court later, but the ammosexuals seem to have blocked that out, so unfortunately we won't have their help removing the trump tumor from our body politic.

You obviously do not, and now you have doubled down on not understanding it. Why are you determined to prove that you're a schmuck? You do that with every post, no additional posts are necessary.

Well, that tracks. You're citing Godwin's law incorrectly, so indeed, you clearly do not care what Mike Godwin thinks. The only remaining question is, why are you attempting to cite Godwin's law (and failing) when you don't care what Mike Godwin thinks?

1) Godwin's law is that as the length of a USENET thread grows, the probability of someone being compared to Hitler approaches 1. You do not understand Godwin's law any more than most people understand Murphy's Law. (Both are fine examples of Murphy's law.)
2) Mike Godwin explicitly said that comparing Trump to Hitler is apt, not that this is relevant to Godwin's law, which doesn't refer to aptness of comparison.

It seems like you are ignorant on every topic.

It's probably wrong, as we will likely have a nuclear war before then, and we can have a party at ground zero instead.

The bulk of Slashdotters are American, Slashdot is hosted in America, there is nothing going on in America right now which is more important than the influence of the orange dick-who-would-be-tator. If you don't like it, start your own website. If you don't like it, do something to help remove him. If you don't like politics, explain your nickname.

https://www.abc4.com/gtu/ameri...

One of the most fascinating aspects of H2O is the sheer number of forms it can take under different conditions.

We're going to have to hope this project pans out, I guess. I used to run Familiar linux with GPE (gnome-based) desktop on my HP Ipaq... H2215 I think? It had what was then the fastest mobile ARM processor, the Intel PXA255. Unfortunately it was power hungry so I had to have a big stupid battery.

ANYHOO they had phone versions of those PocketPC devices, and you could run Linux on those as well.

For the time being, I guess I'm stuck on Android. I have an app library there I'd rather not abandon, and I still want to be able to use the bank app.

This is silly. You can run whatever you want on a phone, and while more pixels and more real estate are better (he saw himself type on his 42.5" 4k TV) you can still do a lot with a small screen. Work is done with phones every day. It's of course absolutely true that most people are mostly consuming content with their phones rather than creating it, but that doesn't negate actual uses like CRM and data collection which are completely viable on a small-screen device.

Having all that processing power on the phone is mostly squandered, but it's handy for a lot of short-running, high-horsepower tasks. When was the last time you experienced a perceptible delay in loading an image that wasn't related to storage? And on the more expensive phones, even the storage is fairly snappy. I buy mostly cheap Motos and the storage is plodding on all of them, but I rarely do storage-limited tasks so it's only irritating when installing or updating apps.

Do you mean Palmtop PCs, or PDAs? Both have done a lot more jobs than that. I've known a lot of people who had sub-laptop PCs who did actual work with them. A friend of mine had a Dauphin 486 tablet-with-pen for example, and used it as his primary machine on the go. That had a kind of laughable form factor by today's standards, and it was amusing back then too to be honest since it was as thick as a GRiDPad 1910. Maybe thicker? Too lazy to look it up now, and I only have the gridpad so I can't just compare.

Hmm, that was supposed to be ejected, but you know, fucking Google. Autocorrect always picks the dumbest option.