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Comment Good luck with that (Score 1) 9

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.

Comment Right... (Score 1) 49

The Recall feature already spooked users when it was initially turned on by default before Microsoft reworked it to be opt-in. Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows experiences, told The Verge that "every user can use [AI agents] when they're ready. It's their choice, they decide."

That's what apple said about theirs, then Tim Cook and ArchieBunker became furious after learning that nobody wanted it, so they made it opt-out.

Comment Re:Used/old tractor makers are doing fine. (Score 2) 23

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.

Comment A Colleges Job. (Score 1) 211

1. Colleges should screen applicants. If they aren't ready, don't take them. 2. Colleges should fail anyone who can't pass their courses. Fail too many courses, and you are done.

It isn't the college's job to teach anything other than college level courses.

As we assume to tell a college their job now, lets remember one thing. Those aren’t students anymore. They’re high-paying customers.

A colleges job as a capitalist for-profit institution in America, is to make money. They could honestly give a flying fuck if every graduate took eight years to complete a four year degree. As long as the checks are clearing, they ARE doing their job. If middle-school remedial math courses are what’s needed to lower the bar of high profitability, so be it.

At some point society chose to Leave No Child Behind. We should have been smart enough to grasp that included the really stupid ones too. Now the bar gets lowered at every level in a failing society. See Seattles new mayor for proof.

Comment Re: Trucks booked as sold? (Score 1) 73

China's geology is really bad for petroleum production. A bad lot in the luck of the draw.

They are building a monster pipeline and rail system across Mongolia and Siberia to Russian reserves but it's a decadal project.

Electric transportation is a smart option for their situation. Their necessity has become their Mother of Invention and they are dominating the world in electric power systems innovation.

Comment "a full school year behind " (Score 1) 211

If we're graduating Seniors with Junior level math skills that's hardly "Can't do Math."

I suspect even that claim is wrong and we're also teaching the wrong math for an informed electorate. In undergrad we need people sharp in probability and statistics more than matrix algebra. So they can be numerate against politicians' bullshit. I guess we should ask politicians to work on that.

Comment Re: Alternate headline (Score 0) 72

Some of us are neither Republicans nor Democrats but would support a strong 10th Amendment with strict observance of Article I limitations.

But nearly all the Democrats and Republicans want to selectively choose which parts of the Constitution to ignore. There is no will for Rule of Law.

The Congressmen get elected on the principle of stealing money from one person to give it to five. That's a guaranteed win in a Universal Suffrage system with no strong moral foundation.

The trick is they inflate the money supply to actually do it so everybody pays. The five "winners" suffer the most in real numbers.

I'd rather see a stable Constitutional order but it's fantasy to believe that's achievable. We'll see fiscal collapse, likely War and a Draft, and chaos instead. All because oligarchs and the poor want "free stuff". And it's hard to blame the poor when everything they want is unachievable for them because the markets are all rigged against them.

The Gini Coefficient is too damn high, so don't get between them and the guillotines.

Comment Re:Too Simplistic (Score 1) 79

You ... do know that Karo corn syrup is not high-fructose corn syrup, right?

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 ...

Comment Re: How dense can they be? (Score 1) 49

>"This is about whether a hostile third party can affect a vehicle remotely because of manufacturer incompetence."

Oh, well, both are important :)

I have often wondered if it is reasonable to just find the antenna(s) and put a keyswitch across it/them, so you have absolute control over when/if they can be accessed remotely at all.

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