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Comment Wait and see if they were right (Score 1) 21

What does Anthropic do that Bedrock can't?

AWS's big sell is that it is a 'one-stop-shop' for all your infrastructure and hosting needs. My bet is when the dust settles the GenAI applications that are actually valuable will get migrated to where the rest of the resources are, especially as any capability gap shrinks.

Comment Re:Reality has a well-known liberal bias (Score 0, Flamebait) 182

Wales is really indefensible, he pretty much stole Wikipedia from Sanger and a lot of the original investors will support that version of events. Sanger is also who you have to thank for a Wikipedia that is a community project and not an enshitified mess of ads that Wales originally envisioned.

Slashdot won't care about any of that thought, because the karma farmers here won't see past their virulent anti-Christian bigotry.

Comment Say what you will about Outlook (Score 1) 44

Can't wait; I mean certainly a mail and calendaring solution that has a history of stretching back thru mail & Schedule+, for almost 35 years now should obviously be 'reimagined' after it could not possibly represent one of the more refined and curated products/feature sets or anything.

I know especially here on Slashdot, people are going to line up to say how much better, is. But the reality is for a full suite of mail, tasks, shared-calendaring, notes, contact management solution; Outlook + Exchange (or o365) is actually pretty tough to beat for the typical office users needs. It won out over even more capable and feature rich solutions like Notes + Domino, and any significant also-rans like Google's suite at least for a UI perspective are basically clones.. Disagree all you want Slashdot, but 'people like Outlook'.

I expect Microsoft is going to regret this, Outlook is a good example of software that other basic maintenance and the occasional face lift to match the look and feel of the OS version du jour is "finished". It does everything most users want it to do and in the way they want to do it, power users have expectations they won't like seeing changed.

I'll just go ahead and predict
1) "Legacy Outlook" will be seen as better than "Outlook re-imagined" for quite some time.
2) Microsoft will find ways to break and otherwise force people to switch by disabling integration people rely on etc.
3) Users (including some large Enterprises) will threaten to switch to Google or otherwise go elsewhere
4) Microsoft will relent and restore Outlook to something that mostly resembles what it is now.

Comment I hope for intel's sake (Score 1) 19

I hope the AI bubble has room to stretch yet because this will only cost Intel more share to AMD and various ARM licensees in their other markets.

They darn well better have a plan to be ready with some compelling leap-frog-products in those other spaces 'three generations for now' because by the super premium "AI-Server market" prices driven by people spending VC money that was never real to them anyway will likely be over.

I don't think the current AI tech is a dead end by any means or that it is not valuable, but it is also not got to generate the revenue to build all those data centers OpenAI has options on. That is all just noise to pump unsustainable valuations a little longer. When those turn out to be the vapor they are Intel's notions of AI server chips being a sellers market will be vapor too.

Comment Re:Elon : hold my beer (Score 2) 32

This includes over $20 billion in federal contracts since 2008, with nearly $9 billion already paid out and the rest committed.

So in the real world - Space X has actually received about half of what you claim, and what they have received is because they have delivered on what they were contracted to do. - So awful..

Meanwhile our so-called-allies in the EU are going to try to undercut another successful American technology enterprise by allowing their state subsidized aerospace operators to collude. - Fine, that is probably the right policy choice for them; but we should stop pretending the EU is 'friendly' and treat them like the 'frenemies' they actually are. We definitely should stop subsidizing their defense.

Comment Re:fire is nice if it weren't for those nasty flam (Score 0) 111

Right all those people enabling the rich to get richer by paying for work well below market rate. While the politicians the wealthy overwhelmingly support out side of notable Billionaires, get a crop of new voters when those people have children. Voters who are utterly dependent on them and entirely free of any commitment to our national cultural heritage.

All those SS and medicare contributions, won't mean a thing because those programs are STILL demographically upside down even with them. Not to mention they really only help once again the already very wealthy pay people less than real cost of living for their labor - it is literally just more wealth transfer. We don't have the problem of 1930 anymore, we don't need older workers to retire to make room for younger more productive bodies; we have almost the opposite problem!

Take care of you in your dotage, you should have actually contributed to society and had some children if that is your concern.

Mass immigration does nothing but pour gasoline on social stratification. Even if it does enable growth, this has always been true, it was true in gilded age it is true now. The US does not really have a wealth and productivity problem right now. If we did immigration might be a sensible policy, we do have social stratification problem, so the correct policy choice is clearly to reduce immigration.

The person that needs to grow brain or at least us it, can be found in your nearest mirror. This nation's problems are because an entire generation can't let go of the dogma of 1960. Either they grew up in the 1960s or the got 'educated' by people who did and they can't or won't see the landscape has changed.

GDP impact is a fine measure for looking at the impact of some narrow policy choices, but people continue to act like it strongly correlates with mean-individual well being. It hasn't for a long time, but generations of economists can't let go of theories developed by Great Depression survivors, who at the time were right about "Bro You gotta pump them top line numbers" we are not there today.

Comment Re:A huge crash is coming (Score -1, Troll) 91

So how many people has he actually plowed into? I am guessing none? right?

So the reality, all those people where correct, their much nicer car than he can afford on a bus driver salary, is more than capable of accelerating and getting out of the way before he collides with them.

It not surprising they have better perception and judgement than he does, given they are not civil employees.

Comment Re:Lets act like we are surprised (Score 1) 72

Not even

Under communism, once the decision is made to develop a resource, that is usually it. Anyone's objections reasonable or otherwise be damned.

At least under capitalism private ownership gives people some incentive to keep things they have 'nice' and resist policy that would deprive them of it, which they often successful can.

Look at the history of Russian Oil and gas, over the 20th century. Communism is most certainly NOT going to help the cause of saving the planet.

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