Comment Re:The Profits should be competed away (Score 1) 40
Microsoft and Apple ensure that operating systems haven't got cheaper etc.
errr... Apple doesn't charge for its operating system. macOS literally doesn't have a price.
Microsoft and Apple ensure that operating systems haven't got cheaper etc.
errr... Apple doesn't charge for its operating system. macOS literally doesn't have a price.
A million years ago when I got my first management job I had to attend a training session on 'Goals and Objectives', the current in vogue management tool. The instructor impressed on us that 'you get what you measure'. He used an example of police wanting to improve road safety by measuring the number of moving violation tickets given out. Ticket quantities went through the roof but there was no improvement in accident rates; go figure. What was true in the 70s is still true today.
Which is why you have to ensure what you measure actually produces desired outcomes and not create perverse incentives. Reminds me of teh Dilbert cartoon where the PHB announces a bug bounty and Wally says “I’m writing myself a new minivan”
At least some of this will be stress. If you're enjoying something, then you won't be stressed. If you're feeling positive and delighting in what you do, then you won't be stressed in unhealthy ways. This looks similar to the Mozart Effect, which turned out to be that if you liked something, your brain functioned better.
Yes, charging around the stage playing rock music isn't exactly gentle, but it IS extremely good exercise for the heart and the rest of the body. Again, that's going to have positive effects.
(We can ignore Keith Richards in this model, as he's older than the universe and only created it as a place to store his guitars.)
In the world I live in, no opinion held by students at the Florida College of Arts and Humanities has ever mattered..
Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/...
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh yesterday that demand for AI infrastructure is creating a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build."
Why it matters: With many college grads fearing AI could obliterate their career dreams, Huang pointed to boundless opportunity as a "new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning
Nvidia, which makes AI chips, is the world's most valuable company. Huang told 5,800 recipients of undergraduate and graduate degrees that the AI buildout will require plumbers, electricians, ironworkers, and builders for chip factories, data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.
"No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools â" or greater opportunities â" than you," he said. "We are all standing at the same starting line. This is your moment to help shape what comes next. So run. Don't walk."
"Every major technological revolution in history created fear alongside opportunity," Huang added. "When society engages technology openly, responsibly, and optimistically, we expand human potential far more than we diminish it."
Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You do have people doing that in the UK, but it is more people with million pound incomes.
I also lived in the midwest and never had seasonal cars. Now I have a car and a truck. I drive the car unless I need the truck.
If I had known it wasn't checked, I absolutely would have lied.
More generally this is a sign of a kernel-wide "cleanup" effort where stuff that's old is getting yoinked for no particular reason.
The particular reason is that their time and effort is finite. If very few people are using them, then it is being removed from future versions as they do not want to keep maintaining them. Remember that your current versions do not suddenly stop working. Also if someone else wants to maintain it, they can. They will not maintain it.
On the flip side trying to get a modern Linux distribution running on a K5 would be like a trip to the dentist. Actually you could do both because your system probably won't have finished booting by the time your dentist is done with your root canal
For future versions of Linux, it will be more difficult to get running on a K5. Current working versions are not affected. However, I cannot imagine anyone running a K5 now needs all the new features of 7.2 going forward. They can continue to use the 7.1 kernel and older.
Match fixing is a thing but in the major sports, the TV revenue is larger than betting revenue by several orders of magnitude.
Very true, but betting on games makes people more likely to watch tehm, driving viewership and TV revenue. Major sports may decry the impact of gambling and run all the Addicted? Call
FOSS and hasn't yet bowed down to California's cloud AI DRM bullshit mandates.
Great machines and well supported, with a good community as well.
If you had better tools, you could more effectively demonstrate your total incompetence.