that's exactly what I meant.... there are far too many examples of my chumpness to ignore hehe

as cool as they are, I just don't want folding phones to be another one

ever seen how a crab shell cracker works?

I have this horrifying vision of something like a coin/key getting in there while folding and then hearing an awful cracking noise

and similarly, even some grit/dirt/sand would seem problematic.... this is not the phone you take to Tatooine

I keep my phones for years so I'm gonna let some other chumps do all the field testing for a while before I would consider it

also, does the outer screen get all scratched up?

look fellas, no need to be hasty, it's a good idea, just needs a bit of re-jiggering...

let's go with only 2 characters from the IP... slave-outfit Leia and post-scratch Padme... and honestly that's all you need, everything else nobody will notice

then we narrow our target demographic to /. types, then...

enough profit to buy the world!

ok new-fangled-AI-generator, gimme 1 million unique comments defaming my competitors

because we will no longer be able to just tell from reading them whether they're legit or not... similar to how now visual AI generated content can be indistinguishable from something a human could only do not long ago... we humans will weaponize it

with scarcity, will trust and truth become even more valuable? and somewhat ironically, we have to rely more on tech to determine/verify/validate these things, with commercial and political turds thrown in just for a bit of flavor

seems like both the cause and cure come from the same place

no answers from me, but I do think we're on the cusp of something really big in human history and like most things, it will have both good and bad aspects

for those that get some of this money, hold on to it; then, when they come asking for it back, hit them with all the same beauracratic non-responsive crap they give everyone else....

- they have to submit their grievance in triplicate, then lose their info and have them resubmit it a few more time times
- make things fail only at the end and after everything's been input by hand
- give them a few non-descript errors as to why it failed
- lay the blame back on them using some generic crap that doesn't even apply to the situation, eg, did they reboot their computer and check all connections?
- don't respond for months, if ever
- say it violates your terms of service
- they need 13 forms of identity verification and at least one of them is impossible to provide
- you will need the executives' personal info before you can even discuss the matter
- only when you get hit with actual legal actions to you begrudingly give it back, but admit no wrongdoing

and most importantly, never, ever let them speak to a real live human being; bonus points if they have to interact with an unhelpful chat bot

call me petty, cuz it's true; you might as well add 'unrealistic' while you're at it

you're right, the messenger is likely a biased PoS

his message however, is realistic and pragmatic

I too was at Bejing and Shanghai... food was good there and there was definitely more of a western influence, but you could still find weird stuff from the street vendors; note some of the other places I went to had never or hardly ever seen a non-asian in person... I mean it was far from where most touristy types get to

not only did I see regional differences, the locals said the same; not really different than the idea of our regional foods in the US

lol, authentic Chinese food varies greatly over regions and is nothing at all like what we get in the USA.... I repeat, not at all

Taiyuan and Chengdu(?) and metro areas; even went into the countryside a bit, some of it pretty rough by western standards; local bigwigs took time to show us around

I'm pretty sure I/we was the first round eye many had seen in person; nice folks, and everyone wanted to practice their English with us; other than the constant staring, great memories ;-)

the food was tough to get used to; I was in fantastic shape back then and even I lost about 15 lbs over the 3 week trip; chicken feet, fried cubes of pork fat, rooster heads, organs, blood, bugs... what I saw in the wet markets... no thanks, more weak tea and bitter melon for me, please

when I was visitiing China back in the 90s, I was deep in the interior and desperate for something other than misc. grey meat, weak tea and bitter melon

so when I saw an American-esque fast food burger joint, I had to try it; and even tho the pics on the fast-food style menu didn't quite look right, I ordered anyway

unknown meat, 'cheese' was not cheese of anything in my experience (tofu?), and the 'pickle' was just a slice of plain cucumber; no mustard, no ketchup

it's like all they had to go on were pictures of the food, but no actual cooking/tasting experience.... ya know a slice of pickle looks just like a slice of cucumber lol

after tasting it, I'm sure my reaction was similar to how the Italians might react to Dominos pizza.... WTF is this shite?!?!!!

good explanation, thanks for the help

it's not a lack of careful reading, so fuck your condescendence

your next sentence is a bit more helpful, thanks

I don't understand this part...

"...China's advances in the semiconductor industry....would increase prices and reduce the ubiquity of chips..."

in just about everything else China has been producing, prices go down and the ubiquity goes up

what am I missing?

1st sentence of the 1st paragraph, no?

"The retired founder of TSMC (2330.TW) said on Thursday that even as he supported U.S. efforts to slow China's advances in the semiconductor industry..."

though technically not a quote maybe

if there's one thing I've learned on /. it's that IT/developer/CS types are so knowledgeable, logical, ethical, moral and honest on just about every topic imaginable

in fact, we could easily do any job in the company better than the chumps currently doing it if we weren't so busy writing leet code

first we'll come for the ethics folks, then after we re-sharpen our pitchforks, renew the torches and snag a new bag of chips, we'll be coming for the accountants, exces and janitors

ftw!!! nerds rule!!!