I loved that book! It romanticized computers and programming and partially inspired my career.

RIP, Mr Kidder.

Mixed news for Star Trek fans:

Good news:
  - We have antimatter under control.

Bad news:
  - Antimatter lets us travel at truck speed, not FTL speed.

We GIFT you copyright.
We do that to encourage you to create.
When it no longer encourages you to create, it is fair that we should withdraw that right.

Most creations cease to benefit their creator ( thus giving any possible encouragement to further creation ) within five years of creation.
So five years is a reasonable time limit for the copyright we GIVE you, so get something back for giving it to you and others are encouraged to create further.

> > (almost nothing makes money after that)
  >
  > Hard disagree.

Research was done. You are disagreeing with facts:

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10286632.2020.1829608#d1e393

95 year copyrights are an abomination.

It's time to make the copyright PRIVILEGE work for *US* again.

We give creators copyright for a reasonable 5 years to allow them to make a profit (almost nothing makes money after that) and in return we get the creation for other creators to create with.

THAT'S HOW COPYRIGHT IS MEANT TO WORK !

Big AI firms will crash soon, and please let OpenAI be the first.

But this is clearly not a Ponzi scheme, just crazed investors putting way too much money into loss-making ventures they don't understand.

I can't wait for the cheap GPUs, RAM, etc !

Please queue up to buy the new "Ford Mustang 1000mph Edition".

People who get it, get it.

People who don't are beyond saving.

"Trump to spread the benefits of wind energy across the globe"

That's what the headline should have been.
But, no, all you Trump haters try and put a negative spin on it and try and act as if Trump is stupid enough not to realize that global warming is the biggest challenge to civilization that mankind is facing.

Fools !

"Reddit mods are scum of the Earth IMO."

I agree, hence my comment.

Couldn't Reddit use an AI to catch mods who react to things they simply disagree with, rather than things that are trolls/lies/etc. ?

Couldn't they do that here ?

I came here to post that.

Musk loves setting extreme engineering challenges for himself and his companies, and meets many of them, hence his success.

This is another of those and, while involving yet another different hardware field, it is still hardware. I think he might meet it.

Ob.: Yes, he's a dick and his politics may be different to yours. Not relevant.

Nice, but if it can't do dupe stories, it's useless here and will never replace incompetent humans.

That would not satisfy the publishers who don't want their text used EVER.

Other greedy bastards have given us 95-year copyright terms, remember.

The investment money pool is drying up and the fat fish stuck in it are starting to eat each other.

The end is nigh, thank goodness.