if this was vegas, what do you think they would have as the odds for that being their intention?

When I was a student, the system was you could get a loan to cover tuition costs, books and misc for the year. Almost everyone I knew spent the lot within a month of starting on Drink, Pizzas, TVs, computers etc. This will be the same, 99% of people likely to be replaced by machines will invest heavily in booze and cigarettes.

Ad-tech generally means google. I'm a consistent increase in anti-google news articles recently (some justified, some just speculative to add fear, uncertainty, doubt). I wonder who is pushing it?

It gets into what is a song vs a different song.

Is Drum Beat A + Lyrics A the same as Drum Beat A + Lyrics B?

What about drum beat A re-recorded to make drum beat B?

What about drum beat A on a different set of drums?

What about drum beat A with different speed or distortion?

What about drum beat A + mocking lyrics C as a parody that should be protected under fair use.

Can blockchain? No.

Bitcoins and their ilk are like painfully constructing tulips to sell for a tulip mania.

sigh, i'm calling bullshit on ai for programming. just like 4G languages were going to let non-programmers write programs just like sql was going to allow non-techy boss query their databases for reports ai will at provide guidelines or suggestions at best. the one thing ai can't do is provide certainty on anything. and the one thing you need in software development is certainty.

whoops, looks like a was wrong. it looks like nano server (announced same day) is the cut down windows server SKU. while the microsoft containers use the hyper-v engine to enforce isolation but sharing the kernel.

This is a bit misleading.

What microsoft are offering is virtual machines with a cut-down 64bit windows kernel, without the 32bit support, without the user interface and without all the other guff that bloats a normal windows install.

It's still a VM running on a hypervisor.

Containers on the other hand all share the same running kernel (linux kernel) and just include different application or systems files. Well at least that's what it has meant for the last few years with lxc, docker and rocket et al.

what professor? it's been 16 years since I was at university.

I can't vote this post any higher than 5 so I'll have to reply to it and voice my agreement. "anything" should be able to run on a i7 with 16gb of ram.

Go, for anything to do with 'The Cloud'. There seems to be a lot of people with backgrounds in ruby and python getting into Go. and node for a lot of the JS people getting into backend stuff.