"Groundbreaking" never was MS's forte, they typically let startups test ideas and then buy or swipe an idea when it catches on.

It's a trade off: you get abundant free energy to run the server, with extreme constraints on cooling because your server is running in the most perfect Thermos bottle ever.

Others are taking the opposite tack: undersea data centers for abundant free cooling at the expense of having to get the power down to your servers.

If had to bet on which one is more practial, I'd go with undersea servers. Build them off the coast of Chile, run cables out from batery-backed solar plants in the Atacama desert.

C-Suite idiots or not, it seems when Microsoft gets its hands on something DOOM and gloom is the eventual outcome for the acquired.

Games are succeeding. Games are selling millions of copies but that's not enough to keep the suits happy. It's enough to keep everybody who makes the games very comfortable employed but it's not enough to make the line go up.

The problem we have here is a bunch of ghouls are sucking 50 to 70% out of the economy before anyone else gets a crack at anything. So things don't have to be successful they have to be wildly incredibly mind-bogglingly successful so that they can line the pockets of the Epstein class while leaving just enough left over that you and me can survive

Microsoft fired all the engine programmers except one guy for id. This means that if you need a advanced engine and you don't have the money to build it yourself the only option is going to ever be unreal. It is painfully obvious Microsoft should not have been allowed to buy id software because of the effect on the engine market. But here we are.

The blue haired college girls were never coming for your games. Gamer gate was always bullshit cooked up by Jeffrey Epstein. The people coming for your games are the finance bros and the AI Bros who made buying game hardware cost three times as much.

Wasn't there a scene in Minority Report where the star was trying to run away from the authorities he kept getting his iris scanned by electronic billboards and signs as he ran through the crowded shopping plaza?

IIRC the advertisements and announcements that played started customizing themselves indicating they'd identified a criminal and showing is face and profile?

If you've got 1 bad cop, and 9 "good" cops who are covering for him, what you've actually got there is 10 bad cops.

You have it exactly right. I can see why you didn't post with an identity, you'd get punished by the reich wingers. Wage theft exceeds all other theft combined but maggots are still crying about shoplifters

Hurricanes aren't "bad" for any power generation. Power generation needs to take into account environmental effects in their design. That is all. That applies to solar, wind, gas, coal, nuclear, or whatever.

The shoddy way you may choose to put your solar panels on your roof probably won't withstand a hurricane. That doesn't mean solar isn't suitable for an area that gets hit by hurricanes, it just means you did a shit design and installation job. Same for wind.

It doesn't need to be a default belief. We have direct evidence showing that the executives in this case are in fact very much idiots. MS went on an insane spending spree acquiring studio after studio without any plan beyond "We bought Minecraft and that made money, so this should work."

If this were a case of a single acquisition and a single layoff we may not need to blame executives. But it is a pattern that has repeated over and over again for a few years now, so at what point do we stop blaming what were very successful studios when they were running themselves for not making "all the money", and start blaming executives who seem to be able to not make any success from their acquisitions?

"Trump has been taking out the vassal states (or allies) of China one by one."

Bullshit, la Presidenta has been taking out targets of opportunity because he thinks he will get political gain out of doing it. Venezuela was easy, they were looking the other way when their dictator got stolen. And la Presidenta left the dictator's regime in place to continue to terrorize its people. China will have no trouble funding the new government which is the same as the old government.

Iran is just sheer stupidity. All the experts said precisely what Iran would do and Iran did precisely that. Unfortunately for la Presidenta, he and his rodent, Hegseth, fired all the experts or at least the ones willing to give truthful advice. Now we have an even more virulent regime in Iran, but la Presidenta did unify its people. Before this, they wanted to see the regime's heads on pikes. Now they want to see his head on a pike.

And if that dumbass wanted to screw China, he'd screw Russia which is now getting into bed with China, N. Korea is just icing for the Great Putini. Now Putin has his bitch in the Oval Office, Israel is an outcast, and the U.S. economy is headed down the rat hole with the rest of la Presidenta's "businesses".

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Right, it is a short step from that to Blacks and other minorities being banned.

I see, so you welcome a Nazi state.

Let me guess, you're related to, or possibly are, this guy?