What do you mean? Didn't you see that AI video he posted awhile back with the jet? He certainly took a dump on people who coincidentally watch TV too.

note, that was a napkin calculation - i didn't know they started dividends as late as 2011, and I don't know the dividend per share. i just put some numbers in to give the impression, but unlike certain politicians, I'm not trying to prove a point to influence policy decisions. Thought experiment, nothing more. :)

yeah, i just did a check. Adjusting for inflation, the stock price would need to be around $154 to be comparable in value. (Assuming total volume has remained relatively constant in that time).

that is, at $80 now, that means the stock is really worth only $42 in 2000 dollars.

So it is a number that's the same, but the value of $80 if you held onto it this entire time is still far less than you had when you started. Dividends won't quite add up to that gap - if 50c per share per quarter, and you kept the cash, that's $50 per share...but that's been spread out across inflation, so you'd have to curve the value down for what the more recent 50c means vs 50c 25 years ago. I'm not in the mood to run the calculus, but i'm gonna wager it still falls a little short.

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There is nothing relating to patents in this story. Terms being used in product names have to be actively used in a product. You can't just call dibs on a word and then not do anything with it. That includes terms you used in the past. Otherwise we would eventually run out of practical names for products due to past use in history and "Trademark Trolls" who register everything in the dictionary and sit on it -- the result will be product names that look like email addresses.

Using Microsoft default anything should be a felony.

Hopefully this will be enacted in Europe soon!

It is not just the artificial "intelligence" that is becoming enshitified. The impact on the real thing is every bit as serious.

laughs in capitalism

I suspect a lot of these people are signing up because they heard about seven figure salaries and huge sign-on bonuses. But, assuming the AI bubble hasn't burst by the time they graduate, I doubt those types of positions will still be a thing by then. The FAANG are spending big bucks to grab talent now in a race. Talent that's already got a decade if experience under the belt in comp sci and machine learning. Not a wet behind the ears undergrad.

Fortran has some optimizations involving pointers that are invalid in other languages like C. So it can be the absolute fastest outside of hand optimized assembly (which is very difficult to do better than a compiler these days). It also has advanced math libraries which are highly tested and optimized. So its niche is highly performant math and scientific programming.

Come on, has the last 12 months not taught you anything? Clearly Trump would add massive tariffs to the import of those vehicles to allow the domestic manufacturers a chance to catch up.

The irony of the NYTimes complaining on copyrights given their history of reporters found guilt of or complicit in plagiarism is not lost to me.

We really need standardized protocols for garage doors. Chamberlin had a near monopoly on the market and had proprietary protocols.

If you want to make a compatible garage door opener, you have to use their HomeLink chips. My Tesla had HomeLink integrated, and it's awesome having the garage door just open when I pull into the driveway with GPS activation, but now they charge extra for this, in part because HomeLink is a proprietary chip, and they can't just integrate the functionality directly without an additional part. That's also why it's limited to only controlling three garage doors (which is an issue for some people with overly complicated lives).

Now it's a similar situation with WiFi control, where they have a proprietary protocol that goes through their servers simply so that they can charge a subscription fee.

What is needed is some good open standards.

An open standard for the RF signals: Let anyone implement the hardware. Allow for separate open/close signals, as well as the current activate signal. Allow for separate authentication for the signals, so you can do things like have a keypad access outside that only needs the code to open the door, not close it.

An open standard for WiFi control. This is likely already covered by Matter.

Bearing in mind that most of the world thinks even left leaning democrats are right wing extremists. Maybe most chat-bots are also right wing in their view

Sounds like a great way to create a new competitor to your own business. I'd like to think American business leadership has seen enough examples to know this is a bad idea from an information security perspective.

For most Americans, AI getting better just means a higher chance of being put out of work. Why would we want that? Let the Chinese put themselves at a risk of revolution faster. Wont bother me.