Helvetica wins. But the real thing is they don't read or follow anything so it doesn't matter. They've already switched to dingbat.

Because it is. Netflix is anti-competitive and must be blocked too. The real difference is that Paramount is bribing the president and will turn everything it owns into a mild version of Fox News. Not that CBS wasn't already sane washing and failing to counter the delusions being sold to the public. MORE media control than there already is should be scary.

Colbert was fired with BS reasons; we still don't see any real push back on that one. The network gave him a deal for that much money not long before; now they say it's too much money but they could almost cut it in half and be where they where they were a decade ago. They could afford that...

I'd rather pay $9.99 per month for what Netflix used to be before all the companies said, "I can milk these properties for more money if I create my own streaming service and cut out the middleman."

There may or may not be too many streaming services, but there are WAY too many streaming services owned by content distributors. You can't have any sort of meaningful free market among streaming providers if they're all just providing their own content. You still have competition among content providers at that point, but zero competition on the streaming itself.

No, most fitting would be ....some popular Russian font.

I wouldn't call plant-based meat alternatives "healthy" unless your idea of healthy is dying of salt poisoning.

Apple was one of the cofounders of ARM (the company) in 1990. It did not create the architecture, though it likely had an impact on ARM6 (ARMv3 architecture) and later. Either way, the ARM architecture probably would not still exist if ARM (the company) hadn't been founded. The ability for multiple companies to design and manufacture chips turned out to be critical for its long-term survival and viability in the cell phone market and others.

ARM (short for Acorn RISC Machine or Advanced RISC Machine) is an acronym, and all letters are capitalized. Arm is something attached to your torso.

I'm not saying Apple Silicon isn't better than the competition — it is — but that's not a fair comparison. Raspberry Pi's performance is largely because they use Broadcom chips, which stay several generations behind the state of the art. For example, the Raspberry Pi 5 (released in 2023) was designed around the Cortex A76 CPU (released in 2018).

Disagree. They put blazingly fast single-core performance and roughly half the speed of a workstation-class laptop in the power envelope of a netbook.

• M5 PassMark CPU Mark: (28561 multi / 6001 single)
• Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX top-end laptop chip (56007 multi / 4745 single)
• i9-14900KS top-end desktop chip (60511 multi / 4828 single)

They're nowhere near the top overall, but their single-core performance (which affects perceived speed more than multi-core performance, typically) is at the top.

You really can make the comparison. Which one is best depends on the workload.

Yeah, that's about right. But Apple also uses those chips in desktop, where the comparison is not nearly as rosy.

Don't get me wrong, I love my M1 MacBook Pro. The battery life is spectacular, and performance is good enough. But I'd be lying if I said there weren't workflows for which Intel would be better. :-)

Look into Apple's deep involvement with ARM; predating the computer use. ARM is revolutionary and they were into it. Without Apple, there probably wouldn't be ARM.

Correct!
The stuff is grossly over hyped and people are over leveraging on the hype. Thinking they will discover the terminator 1st and rule the world. They'll find some clever uses; which in some cases will not be easy to own and likely hint at solutions others can copy. Already we've seen many big expensive competitors pop out from nowhere using the research to make their own system.

If somebody does "own" whatever next innovation, you think China is going to care to pay for it? They will find copy and discover spin off tech before the lawsuits finish. Besides, while USA companies hold each other back and in-fight, others will ignore that game and move forward. "I.P." in the USA is harming more innovation than it helps. Not that I think they will actually get smart. The magical reasoning that is behind language seems to be somewhat unlocked but it's just a kind of intelligence. much of which is just modeling a pattern of that; not all the other thought behind it in the 1st place.

Even if they didn't pay this guy to do it, they'll be there to HELP this nobody stop them from media dominance. The man could have come up with this scheme expecting to get paid somehow for being useful. Certainly it's not as much of a gamble as everything else is in Vegas.

I guess I assumed it was big enough to be remembered. It wasn't on your radar then.

Organic Chemistry is a filtering class to keep out people who shouldn't be M.Ds. He was not just anybody they fired and the reasoning was idiotic and indicative of a deep rot in the culture of the organization that it even happened in the first place and didn't get the push back it needed. It's a huge reputational harm that needs consequences besides simply churning out low quality graduates which in time will lower the reputation. Aside from having even more for people to rail against with medicine and science.

A lot of big companies fail and get saved somehow after reorganization. It doesn't have to be sold off in parts. Bankruptcy doesn't kill off everything. The idiot in charge though seemed more like he was wanting it to die so he could make a good deal for himself. that whole renaming game was idiotic...a sign it was going to fall apart. But maybe that wasn't the plan; just sell it so he can get a great deal might have been the plan all along.

The big difference is the profit motive in the absence of a truly free market.

The big difference is the requirement to test them to make sure they work. It's expensive, and most candidates fail.

This is potentially the biggest strenth of a vaccine approach. According to the Internet the flu vaccine costs my government an average of $5.43 cents. Individuals can get it for under $100 in most parts of the world where you have to pay the full cost. The reason it's not stupid expensive, being a new drug with novel components most years, is because the procedure for making flu vaccines is well known and has a special type of approval that lets new variations be used without extensive trials.

It's not particularly difficult to determine the protein that a bit of DNA codes for. It's more difficult to figure out which of those are going to be reasonable antigens to target, but you don't really have to. Cancer cells aren't unknown pathogens, they're regular old human cells with mutations.

You don't need to do that either though. Cancer mutations aren't infinitely diverse. "Personalized medicine" sounds like a treatment just for you and you alone, and maybe in a Star Trek future it will be, but in the meantime it means a targeted treatment. You'd identify something that occurs in 10% or 1% or 0.01% of a particular type of cancers, make a treatment, and sell that along with a test for that mutation. We've already got several of those based on more traditional immunotherapy. RNA vaccines just make it a lot easier so we'll have lot more options, including ones that target the 1% and 0.01% instead of just the 10%.

It's worse than that. They insist on not selling any bitcoin. So their ability to repay the loan, issue dividends, whatever, depends entirely on their ability to get more people to give them money.