Did the transistor companies get taxed to "compensate" the people/companies who made vacuum tubes that would be put out of work? No.

Did Henry Ford get taxed to compensate the people who made horse drawn carriages and saddles? No.

Did the people who made desktop publishing "a thing" get taxed to compensate Linotype manufacturers/operators? No.

etc....

Technology marches on. March with it or get left behind. Why should an entire industry of innovators be taxed to protect people who can't pivot and deal with change? That's not to say that I agree that many of these "AI" companies are offering real value.

Best,

Even for basic level functionality testing. Lord knows how many dragons lurk under the covers. I don't use Windows for anything that I care about. Full stop and there are more and more people in C-level positions at major enterprises that feel the same way every day.

I'm running the daily release on a 2 core/4 thread Intel NUC with 8GB of RAM. When absolutely idle with just me logged in to the desktop gnome interface, it's using a little over 2GB of RAM. I'm assuming it's still a bit porky due to all the debugging turned on. If I run firefox and load a piggy cnbc.com main page, it goes to about 3.8GB of RAM utilized.

This is 10+ year old hardware and it's still quite usable.

I don't see anything to be concerned about.

Best,

then don't use it.

And here comes the pedants.

Since there was an executive order issued in 2014 to the NLRB forbidding retaliation for discussing your salary, kinda implies that maybe there was some forbidding going on, no (I distinctly remember the whining)?

And why would employers demand that?

It's market manipulation that distinctly changes what your job is worth.

Fair, but there is also the asymmetry of forbidding employees from discussing their salaries or delving into the business' financials.

If it is labor for hire, then an efficient market demands every player access to data to determine price.

If not, the market must account for this asymmetry through regulation and law, and watch business whine like babies when the shoe is on the other foot.

Expecting any manner of consistency or (hold back the laughter) leadership (remember when that was the buzz from the management class?) is like wishing for for ponies. I'd settle for boring competency at this point, but here we are.

Annnd since no one seems to have a five point plan to improve things (or at least try something new), we'll keep on this trajectory until we go over the cliff or die waiting for cosmic justice.

Who the fuck cares? It's a game console. Change vendors....start reading books, etc.....

Once storage became cheap and bandwidth was no longer an issue (in the home), I just ripped all of my content to use FLAC and called it a day. I've stored all the original media somewhere safe where it won't get damaged. For commercial content and devices to replay that content using other encoding methods, I'll let those folks duke it out with Dolby. Wake me up when it's over.

What does a failed test look like? If containment fails and 92 protons interact with matter, I would imagine you wind up with a flash of energy as the antiprotons and their proton cousins mutually destruct. It's been a fair amount of time (and bottles of wine) since my last physics class. How much energy are we talking about? I am guessing it's not a significant energy release in terms of there being any real risk to anyone/anything nearby.

Or perhaps AI would be better at eliminating dupe posts? There was already a story on this right here just a couple of days ago.

https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

Could be their biggest export customer!

It isn't even worth the hassle. Everyone at home (myself/wife/kids) are all using Ubuntu as our daily driver and I've switched to a Macbook Pro for the obligatory work laptop. Even my 80 year old parents are using Ubuntu now.

Seeya MSFT....

Especially once they started to use DOCSIS technology to push faster Internet services. And they were able to keep up (mostly) with fiber Internet, They now offer symmetric 1.2 gigabit speed Internet with DOCSIS 4.0, which has started its national rollout. I expect Comcast once it achieves near-natonal coverage of DOCSIS 4.0 to push it to 4 gigabit symmetric access.

In short, I expect Comcast to be less in the cable TV business and more in the cable modem Internet business. And very likely they may widely offer a cloud storage DVR with effectively unlimited storage to save video from cable TV channels and streaming services for later viewing.

The scale of this is surprising, but not the act itself.