That would be 1.4M users worth $1000 each in a timeframe short enough to make a profit and not find a better investment. They must be counting on that 1.4M users being worth $10000 each or more on a longer time frame. Good luck. You can only sell so many hallucinations.
It's actually worse than that... your calculation is off by three orders of magnitude. 1.4B users, not 1.4M.
It doesn't matter how much he spends on infrastructure, at some point he has to charge people more or cut his costs to run these models.
At a trillion dollars a year they'd need to increase the cost by a factor of more than 4 and increase the paid user count to 1/8th of the entire planetary population just to cover capital spending. If you charged corporate America $30k a year for each employee made redundant by AI you would need to replace ~20% of the entire productive US workforce to cover just those costs.
A million little girls want a pony.
Oddly enough, buying ponies for those million little girls would cost less around 1% of the proposed annual spend here. You could also buy a backhoe for a million little boys for another couple of percent or so.
"Corporate America" typically has non-management advancement tracks. When I worked for Siemens, engineers were well compensated, senior engineers were more well compensated, and principal engineers made more than the managers they grudgingly agreed to work for.
Nothing on TV these days comes close.
Try Bluey. Seriously. It's a parenting show disguised as a children's show.
People do want EVs. Look at Norway, almost every car sold is an EV. Put in the infrastructure and people love them.
It probably has more to do with the subsidies, the ability to park for free, drive in bus lanes, ride on ferries for free, etc, than it does for any innate love of electric vehicles.
Was there any person out there that wanted a tablet that is 18 inches?
*Raises hand*
I actually want one that is 20-1/4", the same size as a sheet of tabloid sized paper, but I'd settle for one about 14", the size of a sheet of letter sized paper. In an ideal world, it'd have an e-ink display.
If you know who, can you go beat them with a rubber hose.
Fuck you, too, I guess?
The weight will be insane, there is no avoiding it... it's just a matter how terrible it will be, not a question of IF.
A portable 18" LCD monitor weighs about 2-1/2 pounds, and I'm sure you could take some of the weight out of that. Fitting a hypothetical 18" ipad into a roughly ~3lbs envelope seems reasonable.
Aside from a few niche areas, this will struggle to find a problem, where it is an optimal solution.
Niche at first, but I think engineering and manufacturing would eat them up in the long run.
>If our nukes are connected to the public Internet, we might as well just push the Armageddon button now and git it over with!
FTFY.
Git is not the best choice for this application, I would suggest using Subversion instead.
To quote myself from another comment above: I'm not a fan of Darth Cheeto, but it's a stupid take to blame him for something that is the result of 50 years of bipartisan policies. IF I was putting the headline "China has overtaken America" at the feet of any specific individual, it would be a toss up between Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton. The "so much winning" in that context was the idea that we would convert the Chinese into western style democracy by growing their economy.
I'm not a fan of Darth Cheeto, but it's is a stupid take to blame him for something that is the result of 50 years of bipartisan policies. IF I was putting the headline "China has overtaken America" at the feet of any specific individual, it would be a toss up between Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton. The "so much winning" in that context was the idea that we would convert the Chinese into western style democracy by growing their economy.
ODF is widely deployed but doesn't meet the "lowest common denominator" bit I mentioned. Try opening an ODF file in Safari on an IOS device or Chrome on Android. ODF files are also file creation formats and not distribution formats.
Yes, it absolutely is a shit format, but for distributing documents it's a widely deployed lowest common denominator that works for everyone. Unless you're suggesting we go back to fixed width text files (or you can figure out how to get the entire world to immediately start using LaTex) it's probably the best distribution format you're going to see without falling into the xkcd 927 trap.
Ford Mobile Service isn't just for a King Ranch, it applies to anything--it doesn't even have to be a Ford vehicle. They also do concierge pickup/drop off service--when I need an oil change, I just call the dealership, they schedule a pickup, come get the truck out of the parking lot while I'm at work, and bring it back. I typically don't even talk to the the driver, it's full no contact.
They do not charge for this service, and the drivers don't even ask for/expect tips.
The problem is, those rules only applied to "cars". Almost all US car manufacturers have stopped making cars, and the ones they are building are largely big muscle cars, and not fuel efficient ones. Instead, they are building SUVs that aren't "cars" but are classed as "trucks" and exempt
The 1990s called, they want their talking point back. CAFE applies to light trucks (up to 8500lbs GVWR) and was expanded under both the Dubya and Obama administrations, and light trucks are included in the fleetwide averages.
The Microsoft case was brought by the DOJ, which is a far different beast than a class action suit brought by one private entity against another.
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