NSA Whistleblower Tom Drake said the spooks bought up all 10,000 copies of his book and insisted he redact the claim that 9/11 Commission Director Phil Zelikow was briefed on hijackers being on Saudi/CIA payroll (reportedly independently confirmed) before reprinting.

You've got to have north of $14.99 Million to have F-U money in the US.

Corrupt courts understand "the process is the punishment" and cheer on their fellow lawyers.

Software liability (corporate) would be good for domestic careers (corporate).

It might be an overall bad idea but on this narrow aspect they'd stop outsourcing to lowest-bidders in overseas sweatshops.

At the height of AI mania people were selling $AAPL because they had "no clear AI strategy".

At the same time they probably don't want to release something that will be mocked for its errors.

So they preannounced to save their market reputation but now suffer user reputation.

But Tim Apple's job is only to make the users happy to the extent that it makes the shareholders happy.

In his position (which I have assiduously avoided) I would probably do the same thing.

He is being pressed to release technology that doesn't exist yet.

In the 90's Windows and Office needed to be broken up so the DoJ decided that unbunding Internet Explorer was "good enough".

Today Google and YouTube need to not depend on and tie each other so they're making Google spin off Chrome. And this is after the Covid debacle killed millions because YouTube censored origins, prevention, and treatment.

Killed millions.

Don't fall for the same trick twice.

Agreed - I haven't seen the film but I saw the play at the Wintergarden Theater in the 80's.

It was mostly spectacle in the theatrical sense. Not much energy or emotion.

Definitely a 70's vibe. Mama Mia would be in the same category. Discrete songs with little connective tissue.

Les Mis pulled off both spectacle and a good story with a score with a through-line. But that came later and everything evolves including theatre.

Even so ALW scores are very popular, though they bore me to sleep.

I can't imagine spending any mental energy hating a film. What's the value?

Go see a better film with that time. Or go for a walk in nature.

For content that came out before the era of HD(2006 and earlier), the programming was VERY VERY VERY blurry. The larger your screen, the more you notice just how bad the quality is. So, doing an upscaling on it makes some sense. Now, there are two ways to approach it, try doing it on demand, or, you do it properly, you do the upscale with real professionals, get it done properly, and then you have something decent.

Using AI as a tool isn't a problem, but if the people who handle the upscaled content don't pay attention to the quality of the result, that's just incompetence.

What's worse is the Courts force them to behave sociopathically.

If they don't the Courts will allow "shareholder" lawsuits claiming they didn't maximize profits.

The case that cost Musk his ~$50B pay package was brought by someone with an extremely small number of shares.

What CEO will risk that to help out some folks playing games on older hardware?

It would be better to buy a graphics card from a privately-held company should one exist.

You need cholesterol to build sex hormones and maintain neurons.

Of the LDL 1 of 4 main types can get stuck in inflamed endothelial intima of the blood vessels which are swolen by triglycerides which are caused by rapid simple carbs.

Did InBev fund this study?

There is DXR which is a part of the DirectX 12 Ultimate API, but there is the whole RTX from NVIDIA that has NVIDIA specific functions/extensions.

TDS is a real recognized diagnosis now.

They're gonna have to add EDS soon.

> they're already behind with their new AI Siri, this'll just add to the mess and delay

I think they have like 14,000 developers.

Probably different teams.

Jobs had the goal way back in '06 of a KVM mode for a phone that would be your desktop computer.

This seems like the penultimate step.

I beta tested a MacNC back in the 90's with netboot via tftp and AFP instead of a hard drive. He and Larry realized not everybody had a T-1 to their house so they pivoted that hardware to iMac instead.

Sometimes these ideas take a while to come to fruition.

FWIW I got the docking station for a Pine64 many years back and it worked fine. Not fast but OK for light office work.

Most people would prefer this to a separate standalone desktop.

Most of us here prefer a real desktop but we're nerds.

At least he's a real nuclear engineer and successful VC.

Stepping aside from the Board for time reasons is a polite way to say "you guys are doing a terrible job". Which is accurate.

Intel is first to market with Backside Power Delivery which could be a true advantage.

TSMC won't have A16 until '26 at this point.

I truly believe we need competition so best of luck to him!