The Williams Company strung fiber optic cables inside decomisiones Gas Pipes, that was Wiltel. first iteration bought by LDDS, second one bought by Level 3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Quest laid down fiber alongside train right of way, using a special plough moved by a locomotive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Ditto for laying bahaul fibre in the eguts/sewers of large cities. Or using the actual sewer pipes to bring the access fiber to buildings or houses...

If the rights of ways are aquired for something else already, laying the fiber is easy and cheap, and a nice way to earn additional revenues on your existing rights of way

That seminal paper was published in 2004. Yes here we are, 22 years later
Some people were asleep at the wheel.

AI training need HUUUUGE datacenters. But AI inference may benefit from these smaller datacenters.

Ditto if you can move classic cloud workloads and associated gear (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) to these smaller datacenters, freeing up your biggest datacenters for AI training.

I proposed to do something similar to that a while ago, using container data centers. But this may work even better.

From TFS:

I guess this guy is either hoping for, or actually has other investors ready to provide the other U$D 16 milliard. Probably, those investors will come forward once the deal clears some other hurdles.

When I studied French in Laussane in 1997, you were fresh out of an EU joining referendum. You said no. At the time I tought that was a bad decistion. While I still think that being a part of a greater whole is better than beain a small independent part, it is now evident that the EU as it currently is, does not gel well (or is downright incompatible) with what Swiss is and always has been...

JM2C
YMMV

They are efficient. Never felt the need to privatize...

What do the swiss have that the belgians lack?

"with the current generation of young programmers. They clearly do not know the difference between an operating system and applications. Nobody should be trying to add AI to Windows, or to Linux, or to any other OS. The OS is supposed to add a layer of abstraction to the platform, so applications can be written and then run on multiple systems with hardware differences. The OS is supposed to allocate resources to applications. The modern OS is supposed to allow multiple applications to run at the same time or appear to run at the same time using some combination of cores and time-slicing. If any operating system is having problems doing these things (the basics) then programmers should be improving whichever element is not up to par."

I call bull. Older versions of unix came with apps. An editor (vi), network utilities (mail, gopher, ping, traceroute), utilities like grep, interpreted languages like awk...

Is logical that, as the OS went graphical, vi gave way to notepad++ (recently released for linux).

Remeber all the controversy in the mid '90s about if the browser should ship with the OS or not. Nowadays you would not accept a desktop OS without a browser out of the box.

AI is the next iteration of this. The desktop OS HAS to have AI out of the box. If you want to disable or replace it, so be it, but an enterprise-y desktop OS like ubuntu HAS to have AI out of the box, for the convenience of the corpos that buy support and therefore pay the development that benefits us free users

A cursory read of the comments show that the people on these parts want no AI in their Ubuntu. Which is not what you said

And, on a personal note, i do not think is wise for a generalist and corporate distro like ububtu to ship sans AI integrations in the year of our lord 2026. As long as canonical has a light touch and do not ram it though our throats like windows, everythig should be ok

I know that, you know that, we both know that. But a cursory read of the other comments shows that most people in these parts did not get the memo, an pretend that every single people using linux get a no-ai experience, and has the l337 skillzzz to install huggingface and do the model integration on all the relevant parts of the OS themselves....

I fail to see how accountants, administrators, video editors, photographers and biologists, just to name a few, will acomplish that.

But then again, what does an OpenStack trainer like me can possibly know about the l337 skillzzz of normies to install and deeply integrate AI on a non-AI OS.....

Torvalds... Why would it not work well for other Linux users?

Yes, do have EXTRA-work, but in the school and supervised by a (different) teacher.

The problem with classic HOME-work was that, more often than not, the results would depend A LOT on parent/adult involvement, from no supervision, to light supervision, to prodding*, to downright the parent doing the work instead of the children.

Lower the ammount of EXTRA-work, supervise (by a neutral adult, i.e. a different teacher) to be sure the children does it, and offer a tiny wee bit of aid, just to unstuck the children if needed be, and get done with it.

That leaves more time either for the kid to be a kid (i.e. play) or for the kid to enrroll on certian extra curricular activities like sports, or music ( https://elsistema-org-ve.trans... ) , or arts, or computers (my case) , or "whatevur"

* During my eraly years, from preschool all the way to the end of 4th grade, I was in this group, I was smart enough (18~19 / 20 average subtrasting PE) to do the homework unaided, but too lazy to actually go and do it.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Ubuntu, Zorin & Mint depend onSebian, and the non-rpofit under wich debian operates is based in the state of New York (USoA). I.e. the USoA could significantly disrupt Debian if needed be, and while Debian's developement is distributed, in the short and median term, that disruption would throw a massive spanner in the works.

NixOS is Dutch, so, like Suse, is safer. Cant find info on Arch (on which Manjaro is based).

Having said that, please rmeeber that many of the packagaes that, along with the Kernel make a linux distro tick, are derived from entyties that are based on the USoA, and therefore, subjected to pressuer if needed.

That is true, but is also true that Linux is VERY americanized. For starters, most Kernel Plumbers are either fully USoAn and/or based in the USoA. Then most of the Projects/packages that, along with the Kernel compose a Linux distro, are based in the USoA. And then most of the distros themselves are based on the USoA.

Let's use Distros as an example:

Canonical (the makers of Ubuntu) are British, while ZorinOS and Linux Mint are based in Ireland, but, guess what? Mint and Zorin are based on Ubuntu, while Ubuntu itself and Linux Mint Debian Edition are based on Debian. Heck, even the French Linux (the Linux of the Gendarmerie) is based on Debian.

But Debian operates under a Non-Profit in the USoA (Software in the Public Interest (SPI)), which means that, if push comes to shove, the USoA can indirectly pressure Debian by harssing them, by severely reducing their donation income, as well as threathening legal action to specific individuals in the foundation. Is this the end of the world? Of course not, the software is FOSS, and the develpment model is decentralized, so other stakeholders on Debian can keep development going...

But it would throw a spanner in the works for all the derivatives for the short and medium term.

The RedHat Family? RedHat, Fedora, CentOS? Ditto, USoA. The clones? The most promient ones are from the USoA. Remixes and derivatives therefore have the same problem (or even worse, because the pressure is more direct) if the USoA presures RedHat as if the USoA pressures Debian.

Slackware? Ditto, USoA.

I guess that, if you are European, one of the few viable alternatives WITH CRITICAL MASS to be as USoA-free as possible is probably Suse/OpenSuse or something derived from them. (there are alternatives with less critical mass, like Mageia)

TL;DR: Moving away from Microsoft and Windows is good, Sovergnty is good, but moving blindly to Linux is not a silver bullet, do your Due Diligence to move to Linux smartly.

We are still using (re-)writeable 120mm shinny plastic disks for back up of certain things, long term storage, and as media interchange.
We are still using Winchester type disks to store bulk data, but mostly in NAS boxen nowadays (I have one 5mts from me as I write this), akin to Novell Netware or WindowsNT NOS Boxes.
We have that in common with the 90s. ;-) ;-P

If you are a theater owner, you have to pay iMax periodicaly for naming rights, and other stuff. The equipment (that you also had to pay) is sunk cost already.

If Disney can Provide "A Name/Brand" 90% as strong as iMax at 60% of recurring costs, and convince theater owners that is really the case, be certain that many a theater owner will jump ship in a heartbeat.

Competition is good, and a Duopoly is better than a monopoly any day.

On a personal note, there are no iMaxs in my country (Venezuela), and I almost do not go to cinema, but still go from time to time (like once or twice per annum), either for the social aspect, or because there is a movie I REALLY like to see "the way it was meant to be seen". So, I have no beef in this fight, just seeing it from a bussiness perspective.