Comment Just a thought... (Score 1) 181
...Modern ejector seats cause spinal injuries from which full recovery is "unusual". Smashing the spines of pilots might not be the most effective way to boost morale.
Comment Re:Ah yes (Score 5, Informative) 181
$22,000 per hour. The F35 will be nearer $42,000 per hour. These are under-estimates, as they do not include price hikes, crashes that close businesses, crashing into businesses, crashing into heavily-populated sports centres, etc.
Comment Entropy phase (Score 5, Interesting) 64
Ancient Rome made amazing aqueducts. One day they had built all the ones they really needed and with no new projects for a new generation to learn from, they quickly just forgot how to make aqueducts.
"Big Tech" is now entering this phase. In a generation all innovation will be gone.
Comment Absurd pricing (Score 3, Insightful) 70
900$ for a base model with 256GB SSD is pathetic.
Comment Triple it (Score 3, Interesting) 130
Then make it retroactive. Donate the proceeds to the victims of this program who had to train their replacements.
Comment Re:It was never intended to end (Score 1) 96
Most of their revenue is from the cloud, but they still want Linux off the desktop.
MS couldn't give 2 shits about Linux on the Desktop. It's a tiny and irrelevant market share to them.
Not in 2003 it wasn't
Comment Re:PJ must be losing her mind over this! (Score 4, Informative) 96
Does anyone actually have any evidence PJ was a real person and not just a persona created by IBM's PR department? PJ appeared mysteriously, exclusively posting stuff supportive of IBM's position in this case. They never turned their attention to any other litigation. It's awfully suspicious. You'd think a real person who knew that much about the relevant law would have opinions on other cases as well, and you'd expect them to market themselves using the fame/goodwill generated with Groklaw. You'd also think they'd have done at least one interview, or you could find at least one person who's met them. I'm not saying anything posted on Groklaw wasn't true, just that it always seemed like a very successful IBM PR exercise to me.
Her name is Pamela Jones, she was a paralegal. She's done real interviews in the past. She was/is real!
Comment Re:Wrong conclusion. (Score 1) 60
Given that we live in a "market-driven" society, the correct conclusion is that companies are refusing to properly compensate skilled workers.
With executive pay at all time highs and the gap between executive and workers larger than ever, I would agree. This is a failure in the system where boards of directors are not holding executives accountable. The system can't hold for long.
Comment Re:The only reasonable move (Score -1, Troll) 151
The baby killers always lie. Absolute scum of the earth
Comment Nonbinding - move along (Score 1) 13
"Japan is preparing a nonbinding "comply or explain" code that would urge generative AI companies"
This has no teeth whatsoever
Comment Re:That desperate for press leading into IPOs? (Score 1) 70
You sound like an idiot
Comment Re:That desperate for press leading into IPOs? (Score 1) 70
So powerful that Claude requires a billion little hacks to be optimized so as not to use ridiculous amounts of tokens. The programmers are so good they can't build those optimizations into the model to begin with.
AI was supposed to resolve these issues, not add to them. Claude is the worst offender of them all.
Comment Re:Invention (Score 1) 50
"automatically create personalized highlight reels"
Basically its posting dumb shit for you in the background while you are at a dinner party. Peak Facebook garbage
Comment Re:Not sure this is a new discovery (Score 0) 18
The only decent song they wrote.
Comment The Windows Tax (Score 1) 1
Whether we like it or not, whether we use Windows or not, Microsoft is going to insist on adding the tax whether the PC comes shipped with Windows or not. This is illegal bundling, Microsoft has essentially ignored prior rulings, and it's pretty much a certainty the courts will be fine with this.
