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Comment Re:It isn't man made climate change (Score 1) 65

> I remember back in the 70's they said because of all the pollution, we were headed to another ice age.

Who are "they"? Two dudes? yawn

> It's called a CYCLE. It's been going on for thousands of years.

Rarely had it change as fast as it has. Usually mega-volcanos or meteors were involved in comparable rapidity.

Comment Re:Good luck translating that into revenue (Score 1) 25

> It's indirectly claiming their industry is limited to some finite amount of production. Not how it works,

If you are an oligopoly or monopoly, then the market may actually already be too crowded to make expansion worth it. More production on your part just lowers prices and hurts your profits.

Submission + - Scott Adams, 'Dilbert' creator and conservative commentator, dies at 68 (nbcnews.com)

Tablizer writes: Scott Adams, the "Dilbert" creator whose cartoon was dropped by hundreds of newspapers after he made racist remarks, died months after he revealed his diagnosis with prostate cancer, his family said Tuesday.

Adams told fans in May that he'd been diagnosed with prostate cancer, which had spread to his bones.

He'd recently been in hospice care in Northern California. "Unfortunately, this isn't good news," his ex-wife Shelly Miles told Adams' fans Tuesday on YouTube. "He's not with us ... anymore."

In a statement he wrote Jan. 1, which Miles shared Tuesday, Adams said he hoped his work brought joy to "lots of lonely people. "I had an amazing life," he said. "I gave it everything I had."

Tablizer: "I personally didn't like his politics, but his humor made cubicle life and insane office politics a bit more tolerable. RIP Scott!"

Comment Why VR & 3D keeps failing (Score 1) 65

VR/3D will need a killer app to take off, comparable to spreadsheets launching desktop computers into most businesses.

However, Big Tech has not been good at producing such killer apps. Instead, open-source and standardize the tooling and let tinkerers tinker. Then you have a pool of many thousands of enthusiastic amateurs experimenting and sharing ideas with each other. Eventually killer apps will bubble out from this Lab Of The People.

Meta and Apple should cooperate since if it takes off, both will likely benefit.

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