I got an earthquake alert from my (non-Android) cell phone last month a good 10 seconds before the shaking started. It was enough warning for me to get under my desk and then be oddly disappointed when the shaking was very mild, but it did demonstrate the benefit of the MyShake app.

Of course, you usually don't give them that info until after the price has been agreed upon.

It looks more to me that the GPU resources are under stress and starting to just drop stuff that they would ordinarily process.

Easy solution. Buy more Nvidia cards. Or AMD. Either one as I own stock in both companies.

Fine. DVDs and Blue-ray. Regardless, the point stands. It's a physical medium you own.

It's pretty easy to beat this. Just stop buying from Delta.

Do you have any idea how difficult this is? That's like telling people to stop buying from Amazon because of how awfully they treat their workers and all the fake Chinese stuff they sell.

It's impossible to do. I haven't bought from Amazon in years, that's how difficult it is.

I know there are people who will grumble and whine that DVDs are sooooooo outdated, but this is another example of why they are superior. You never have to worry someone else will take it away from you.

You bought it. You own it. Unless someone breaks into your home and takes it or your home burns down, it is yours forever. You can watch it as many times as you like whenever you want. You are not restricted to someone else's schedule. Nor do you have to worry about it breaking up because the signal got botched.

Further, DVDs don't change. No one can alter the movie with "new and improved" scenes or added "features". Han will always shoot first.

That Microsoft has told users there are no refunds is further justification why DVDs are better than streaming.

Sensible humans? The ones in India? The most populous nation on the planet? The one where air pollutants are so thick in major cities it looks like fog? Where farmers openly burn their fields to make way for next year's crops contributing to the air pollution? The country which the article states will increase its use of coal-fired power plants? Those sensible humans?

Then same applies to those who make movies, songs, and software.

Nope, no registration needed. Problem must be on your side.

:) Of course you're right, which means extrapolation is gonna be a /real/ shit-show.

"This isn't piracy. Nothing was stolen. The dollar amount is just pulled out of someone's ass because no sales were lost."

"Authors need to get paid for their work. Fuck LLMs and their piracy."

It's called business. Once the industrial revolution began, people are replacyed by machines at every opportunity.

They won't hold or harass you. They'll simply say "Entry denied. Your flight home is at 2:00. Have a nice day." and your expensive vacation or business trip is now ended. Congratulations on the self-own.

Careful. The unpacking of all those parentheses may cause us to run out of memory on the acronym stack.

It's far faster than exponential (assuming that's 1% of a constant-size market, then 2% of the same market, etc.). The first doubling time was 8 years; an exponential growth process would keep the same doubling time, but it took another 2.9 years to double again.
So your "not even close" is correct, in that exponential growth is far slower than whatever this is.