It is possible for Microsoft to do both, you know.

• OEM version: Requires a higher minimum level of hardware support for a premium experience
• Retail version (more expensive): Supports a wider range of hardware to the extent that it can

Then they just have to make sure the price difference is high enough to destroy any profit benefit from cutting corners on the hardware.

When you read "AI" on Slashdot, or in a business article, it's almost certainly a language model made by one of a handful of companies.

If it's about Nvidia it might have something to do with robots.

Free market capitalism has as a core principle the importance of market forces. That is, democracy.

Zuckerberg gained control of billions of dollars because he correctly judged that the people wanted to play hot or not with pictures of their friends and would accept psychological manipulation in return. He spent billions on VR because he thought it would work even better.

If you're American, "democracy" has had lots of opportunities to spend money on health care and does so to considerable excess.

Yeah, as if we needed any more reason to consider this bloated "security" software to be malware. I really don't understand why anyone in their right minds would install it or allow it to be installed on their systems. Giving some third-party company complete control over what software can run on your machines basically screams "I don't understand anything about security" better any almost anything else you could possibly do as a system administrator, IMO, short of posting the shared-across-all-machines root password on USENET.

The GGP was demonstrating how using ellipses to remove half of a post could make it sound silly. I was agreeing with them by demonstrating that it also works on single words.

OP was talking about a "powerful" GPU. There ain't no free lunch. You don't get magical heat and power benefits from putting a chiplet in a package with a CPU versus it's own little plastic house. Quite the opposite, at least where heat is concerned.

Government: So I see that your H-1B jobs are all for "Computer Programmer (I)" and your U.S. hires are all for "Software Engineer (III)" or "(IV)".
Company: Yes. We haven't had much luck in hiring level one programmers here in the U.S. We put the jobs out there, but nobody is applying.

Prevailing wage for the job doesn't mean what you think it does. A bunch of sleazy outsourcing firms made sure of that.

LOL! I bet that was an American insisting cows have testicles! Maybe the Agriculture secretary?

If they identify as a COW they can still have testicles ;-)

I you drink enough that the PFAS in the beer is a concern to you, that means you drink so much you don't care about your health since you drink so much beer in the 1st place, which is not good for your health! That is really the point of what I was saying.

Nobody cares about old history where people can only drink sewage; also, bottled water is way cheaper if you are too poor to have safe drinking water you shouldn't be buying beer.

Not that people are rational. I knew an addict who didn't drink beer because "that stuff will fuck you up" while he ended up in jail while high on some mix of illegal drugs driving recklessly under the influence in a drawn out police chase. no kidding! drunk driving is bad, he'd never do that.

The guy almost never tells the truth. This is just to sound good. He streamlined H1B last time but couldn't / didn't change the cap on workers. It became easier while he sounded like he was against it last time. He can't legally set this fee but the law doesn't matter anymore. This will have EXEMPTIONS for his "friends" besides it sounding like it is still a bargain that won't really deter large companies. They may even write it off on their taxes! Except big loopholes and exceptions for the "right" people.

Surprisingly little money. As soon as the extra cost exceeds the cost of hiring one person to maintain workarounds, it is cheaper to do the workarounds. Tricks like that might ostensibly work for individuals, but they fail badly every time when you're talking about big corporations.

Computer Science is a flawed degree but you are way off! It was a math degree initially and it was theory bound. It became corrupted into software engineering. It sounds better so the name sticks but it is more of a software engineering degree today. It really should be a math degree that has nothing from industry in it. Let them research new algorithms and have very few job prospects. If you want software engineers, then make a proper engineering degree! Stop this widespread false advertising!

Even so, industry will bitch because businesses don't do job training anymore and externalize all responsibility they can. You can't learn all the specialization out there in the industry and the things you do are possibly moved to "legacy" by graduation. Software Engineering needs to cover the common themes and theory not a specific framework. The industry needs a professional union... laying people off rather than training them or allowing self-training is a shitty thing to do. No worker should be loyal to a business that is just going to fuck them 1st chance the new CIO or CEO gets.

I've seen deported students. didn't finish their degree. I've seen self deportation too.

Why you would stay in the USA as soon as you had a chance to leave..after the degree? You are not treated well and somebody you upset can accuse you of anything and you are deported. But we'll fix that as our already declining education system gets further harmed by Trump over the next 3+ years. It is already so poor that many students don't see hardly any difference between online learning and in person learning.

12 hours per day, 6 days per week (9am to 9pm.)
Like china. It's illegally being attempted in the USA now in some places; big tech places... subtle and getting more clear with time. It's begun the push but will things be so corrupt that we backslide into it? Losing the weekends that took so much fighting to get a century ago?

We're already backsliding a century back in other ways.

Ten tiny companies, ten meters.