Evil? This is the price of modern life. You want your electronics, medical devices, cars, cozy homes, etc, etc? They all require manufacturing that generates lots of waste. It has to go somewhere.
Fine. But maybe not somewhere near groundwater, hm'kay?
Is there anywhere in Western Europe that isn't "near groundwater?"
FWIW, the reason it's a 3 isn't (completely) a love of leetspeak, it's because Ford already had a trademark for the Model E.
the problem is you cant trademark a style.
Trademark? No. But copyright infringement? Yes. See "Blurred Lines" for more detail.
e problem is that there's no such thing as a captive big fish. The biggest companies might be captive in the short term
You can stop there. That's the point that so many people seem to be missing: this is a short term plan to extract the maximum amount of revenue from the product. They do not appear to care about the long term.
My reference to Goodfellas was not just for the literal words, "Fuck you, pay me" but rather the entire scene. This is a planned destructive act.
At that point, VMWare as a platform is done.
That's true, but it seems to be factored into their plans. There is no "long term" strategy here, this is all about short term revenue extraction.
You completely misunderstand the business model that Broadcom has chosen to use here. For a primer, see the "Fuck you, pay me" scene from Goodfellas.
They are purposefully imploding their customer base. The goal is to squeeze every customer that cannot move off of vSphere like a lemon in a hydraulic press. They actually do not give a fuck if you migrate to another platform, because they'd rather have 10x the revenue from their captive big fish than worry about the small fish or the ones that got away.
The whole point of the essentials three pack was to give you enough of a taste of the vmware experience that you'll be encouraged to stick with it as your grow.
Was it? I thought the whole point was "how do we extract revenue from customers too small and price sensitive to buy vSphere standard?" Anyone who just wanted "a taste of the experience" could run the free ESXi.
The problem is that the sort of environments that went with that bundle rarely ever grew to need anything larger and many of them never renewed maintenance.
OK, I'll bite: why is that a "problem?"
We might be hitting noise floors near physical limits, but there's plenty of room for innovation -- interfaces, processing, integration, etc. But little incentive for this to happen with so much concentration in the marketplace.
> And prices remain pretty low,
If you want a 12-ENOB 2.5GSPS DAC, you're paying hundreds of dollars; this isn't *extremely* high end, either. Prices haven't really been falling on the high end for several years.
> Monolithic Power Systems
They don't make any "high-spec" SKUs and it would be quite a lift for them to try to enter this market; they top out at 1 *MSPS* don't they? There's a lot of black magic to make it work.
But those calculations are tricky, and international flights are commonly slightly overloaded. This is why dump fields exist. As you never want to land with a lot of fuel still onboard.
Tell me you don't know what you're talking about without telling me you don't know what you're talking about--international flights are not "commonly slightly overloaded." Cargo and passengers are routinely moved around or offloaded when weight and balance limits are not met.
With regard to dumping fuel, it's because max takeoff weights on large aircraft are higher than max landing weights (because the forces on e.g. landing gear are higher when landing than they are when taking off).
When someone is trying to kill you and has missiles and bombs to do the job if they know where you are, it tends to focus your mind a bit.
You'd think so, but the war in Ukraine shows otherwise. The Russians suffered heavily early on due to using cell phones--and they kept using them even after figuring out they'd lost something like four general officers due to them/staff/bodyguards using their phones, causing even more losses. I can't help but agree with the GP, some assholes are always going to come to the conclusion that "everyone else shouldn't do it, but it will be fine if it's only me."
Anyways, at least the passengers didn't suffer when it finally failed. FWIU, death was instantaneous, so there is that upside.
They didn't feel pain, which is good, but I would say that they almost certainly "suffered." They knew they were fucked for some period of time before they died, and they spent their last minutes sitting in their coffin in the dark two miles below the surface. I imagine the father/son duo had it particularly awful, with dad knowing that he killed his kid, and the kid knowing that his dad killed him. I wonder if they discussed that fact amongst themselves while waiting to die.
You forgot Joan Rivers.
Dated June 10th 2025.
Here, I'll spoon feed you the relevant part of the linked story:
ARC is apparently selling data to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which is a part of the Department of Homeland Security. ARC entered into a contract to provide data beginning in June of 2024, and the contract remains in effect until 2029.
I don't like Darth Cheeto. I don't like that he ignores the law and the constitution when it suits him. But you cannot blame him for something done by the Biden administration.
Well,
I googled for it yesterday and got a few dozen factories as hits
Great. Post some of those links. Hell, post one of them.
Yes, and each floppy disk usually had hundreds of floppies. [then some spiel about legacy users]
I'm going to assume that the above is just a typo, and you meant "each floppy disk drive." Even still, it makes no sense. Are you seriously suggesting that legacy users are consuming three times the annual production of the entire market at its peak? Do you not know what the word "peak" means?
Right, so you pay $10M in programmer salaries, make $5M in revenue, and have to pay tax on your $3M in profit. Kinda puts a wet blanket on things. And every time you grow you go through the same thing -- expenses now, taxes now, deductions later.
Sure. But that's a one time issue, and after five years your carried forward deductions add back up to 100%. The change was just a short term revenue boost for the government, not anything that affected anyone long term.
I don't do it for the money. -- Donald Trump, Art of the Deal
