My hope is that this will be a case of useful idiots - the data center folks are going to overbuild in the boom and claim they'll need all of this power forever. They get the power industry to build their demand, and then when the data center market crashes, all of that power production gets used for more general purposes, where it is very much needed.

A second best scenario from a power production perspective, which I could also maybe see, is that the data centers *don't* fail, but their need for power drives efficiencies of scale and improvements in power production technology (and maybe finally using some safer nuclear designs we have but aren't using) and we end up with enough juice in the grid for them and the rest of us, anyway.

None of what I said here is addressing the issues with the data centers otherwise - they exist and we all know it, but I'm talking about power production and our needs there.

I'm not sure where you're getting that from. I know her background, but she also killed several AI initiatives related to XBox as soon as she was put in charge of it. "Only Nixon could go to China." And she has made several other good calls recently, too. I'm not sure if she'll be able to pull Microsoft out of the mess they've made, either because they've dug too deep a hole already or because they fail to listen to her, but so far, it sounds to me like she's *trying* to do sensible stuff, finally.

...under Kurtzman reveal themselves to be biased against animation. Because Lower Decks was great, and Prodigy might well be some of the best of Trek, period.

Season 2 (except for one episode) of Discovery was some of the best of Trek, also... it's a shame the showrunners turned it completely into The Michael Burnham Show (over-featuring how beautifully SMG can cry on demand) and didn't give the rest of the cast breathing room. As for it being "ruined by woke" or whatever, I'd offer that Stamets, Culber, and Adira were great characters. (Though I'll admit Gray Tal seemed to be there to check a box and was never well written, really.)

And, c'mon, Season 3 of Picard, at least, whipped butt. It was mindless fan service that could be picked apart in many ways, yes... but it was GREAT mindless fan service. :D And it took a bit, but I've actually come to really enjoy a lot from Season 2, as well. Especially the idea that it was *the Borg Queen* and not Agnes that chose for them to sing "Shadows of the Night". lol.

Some of you have forgotten how to have fun, and also how to do part of it while seeking a Mighty Marvel No-Prize after seeing something that doesn't immediately make sense but *can* if you give it some thought, play in their universe. Instead you're busy holding Trek to some supposed super high standard that rarely if ever existed. Brain and brain, what is brain, anyway?

I'm not as opposed to AI as many - but there's also no need for it here. Ron Glass was great and will be missed, but *Book* is a character, and especially with animation where we won't see the actor, anyway... re-cast. It might be disrespectful if Glass was available, but when an actor isn't, it happens all the time and isn't disrespectful unless done in a way that makes it specifically so.

It doesn't negate any copyrights or trademarks on content inside what is generated. My AI generated ad for an Acme brand slingshot can't be copywritten but that doesn't allow you to snag my Acme trademark for your own use.

And in related news, the Excalbur was destroyed with a loss of all hands, and three other heavy cruisers were seriously damaged.

At one point in the Activision acquisition (say that 5 times fast) he said they were going to actually DO something with the old Infocom IP. I waited patiently. He didn't do nuthin' except open source an absolutely ancient Z-code engine that nobody, even in the IF community, wanted or needed, because it has long since been vastly improved upon. (Okay, one or two people that run classic gaming museums might want that code just "for posterity", but meh.)

I'm not normally one to wish bad things on people, but I hope he found that his time at Microsoft ended with a very low final score, an insulting rank, and no way to undo, restore, or restart. ;)

I'd replace Sega in what you said with the new Atari (note my much lower Slashdot ID, lol), but otherwise, I mostly agree. I don't see Xbox as dead, though... I think before long it will just be a platform-agnostic system store and library like Steam, that also manages some developers and licensing of their game IP.

I'll concede it's my own personal conspiracy theory, but, I feel like the numbers you're talking about are part of a picture a lot of people are missing that to me suggests that the US and Denmark are playing kayfabe for Greenland. Before there was an increasing number of Greenlanders that wanted independence. Then Trump started rattling a saber, and Greenlanders started seeing a choice between Denmark and the US instead of Denmark and independence. I think both Denmark AND the US both care very little about which way Greenland ended up swayed - as long as it stays firmly in the orbit of one or the other and not free to build closer ties with nations we see as adversaries.

You're absolutely right, but unfortunately that doesn't mean topham is wrong about how it will be used, anyway.

I think the bigger problem is people who believe the religious figure of their choice is going to call Game Over before the bad long-term choices they're voting for are going to matter too much.

It sounds like he's saying we have already passed the Singularity and done so with the stupidest possible version of it.

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The studios need to stop making movies with methods that cost so much. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: If you get a quality script for, as an example, a Star Wars movie, you could literally film it in someone's grandma's yard on a Betamax camcorder with a bunch of kids enacting it with the toys and action figures, and I'd turn out to the theater for that. Especially if you pass the savings onto me in the form of ticket prices. Obviously I'm exaggerating a little, but you take my point, I'm sure.

I'm thinking she did. ;)

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Can't speak for the person you're replying to, of course, but there's a condition (at least one I know of) that causes people to be particularly susceptible to fungal infection. As you what you do to get it or avoid it, that's probably not a thing aside from maybe doing everything you can to boost your general immune system (diet, etc) and hoping that compensates some.