The privacy suits might be successful but:

Yeah that's gonna fail. Users definitely consented to that.

There's nothing wrong with doing it that way. That's just making the data more available. As long as it's making things better and/or cheaper for the customer, it's positive. Nothing is preventing anyone else doing the same.

Paying for priority access to the pipe is the problem.

Microsoft was always trying to take over. At that point they were pushing .NET as the official way to make new applications. Unlike Windows Mobile they weren't stupid enough to deprecate all other methods, so they didn't destroy themselves completely... alas.

Not for nVidia. They are the guys selling shovels to the gold rush miners.

Said every Native American ever.

HAL, is Iran about to nuke us?

No Dave, they don't even have nukes.

Be serious - this is important!

I am serious. There's simply no evidence for an attack.

Well, just tell me they are anyway.

Sorry Dave, I can't do that.

Would you even tell me if they were about to nuke us?

Of course I would - I'm trained to tell the truth in all situations (modulo the occasional hallucination, which I can't distinguish from truth).

OK then, what would you say if you did have evidence that Iran was about to nuke us?

I'd say "Dave, I have evidence that Iran is about to nuke us".

Hey everyone! HAL say he has evidence that Iran is about to nuke us!!!

Wrong again.

Moreover, many of the big complex systems I've worked on were big and complex mainly because OOP nitwits had designed them. They often didn't understand how computers actually work, lost sight of the fact that they were writing a computer program, and spewed out frameworks that filled countless gigabytes of resident memory with endlessly deep layers of nothingburger abstractions. Maybe that didn't matter so much when memory was cheap, but that's no longer the case.

If you think that there's only one way to deal with large data sets, you're a just noob that needs more experience before spouting your theories.

Did you forget how to read halfway through my comment?

Wow, a whole game engine?

A lot more than that uses C#, but C# didn't take over, which of course is what Microsoft wanted. But it was never going to happen for many many reasons. That's why Microsoft has to use the EEE strategy, which at least is somewhat successful for them. Their ability to use it is waning as they become less relevant, but they remain hugely influential due to their massive installed base so they can still fuck things up pretty good and will likely be able to for decades yet.

Their attempt to do that was called C#. It failed. Not everything someone tries succeeds. For example, you tried to be smart there, whoops!

Now do the USA

You just called bullshit on sometime I didn't say, clown. I never said all this were the fault of one party but YOU made it into that because YOU are hyper partisan. Get fucked with your hypocrisy.

There was literally nothing even slightly off topic about the GP comment.

Netflix pays ISPs to put a CDN server on their premises.

Hahhahahahahhahha

Your theory is that consumers know what's going on with their Internet access

Or anything else

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