I understand that on the production side a blockbuster movie is a large-budget feature film for mass markets. But how do you guarantee massive popularity and huge financial success?

It shouldn't be that hard to sway a country with a majority of people dumber than a bag of rocks.
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We've had heatwave after heatwave after heatwave, and we still have another month of summer. Where I live 5% of the state is on fire, the National Weather Service regularly predicts "Smoke" as the weather. The air quality index is actually advertised as -1, I have no idea what that means, but it can't be good. For weeks at a time the sunrises and sunsets are orange in color because of the smoke. This is not a European problem, it's an everywhere problem. Not only do we have to stop human carbon from going into the atmosphere, but we have to remove energy from the system. Reducing population won't do it. Reducing pollution won't do it. We need to take very drastic and expensive steps to reduce the amount of energy hitting the planet from the Sun. Solar panels won't cut it, wind power won't cut it, nuclear power won't cut it. We have to block it. And then try and restore our atmosphere.

And Nothing of Value was Included...

But only the left turn signal. For the right turn signal, something special...

Imagine the horror of attempting to try to attain super-intelligence on data gleamed from Meta. But I guess when you have hundreds of billions of dollars to waste, the worst that can happen is, I don't know, depicted in some movie somewhere. The real story here: We are not taxing the rich enough. Time to go back to 70% for the upper tax bracket. You can still be stupid rich, but we need to feed and house the poor, and rebuild our roads, and provide affordable electricity/water/sewer, and clean up our environmental disasters from WWII and maybe even some education and medical stuff in there too.

I don't think you can point at any one thing Intel did and say "that's what killed the company". I do agree stock buy backs did not help.

Back in 2006 when AMD bought ATI I thought for sure Intel was only moments away from buying Nvidia. It would have made sense at the time, but how would that have changed things in the long run? Who knows.
Would the roll-out of AI using high-powered Intel + Nvidia hardware have never happened?
Would AMD suddenly become the AI hardware powerhouse that Nvidia is today?
Would the Intel + Nvidia merger be like the Boeing + McDonald Douglas fiasco?

Remember that Intel survived the Itanium 64-bit disaster (Itanic).

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Reject this takeover!
Abort this takeover!
AT&T has the worst telco history in the history of telco!
Danger Ahead!
Eject! Eject! Eject!
Waveoff! Waveoff! Waveoff!
Knock it off! Knock it off! Knock it off!

Does Ohio State University have an Open Source Lab? No. In fact, searching for Ohio State University Open Source Lab returns links to OSUOSL as the top results. Oregon has a long history of being a tech center. The west side of the Portland Metropolitan Service Area is called the Silicon Forest for a reason, and not just because of all the Intel campuses.

What the hell are you larping about? I printed all quantum AI 4D with my HP Epson directly to WiFi and all it spit out was 1080P confusion.
Next, I checked my connection on the moon. It was 100000000% perfect. But I noticed a slight bit of lag. So I unplugged the WiFi, and replugged it to nothing, and now everything is fine.

You can trust AI all you want. It's the verification of the results that really matters.

I asked ChatGPT 3.5 to produce a JavaScript version of the Dykstra algorithm. It did, and I verified it, and it worked correctly. I then went on to modify it to my specific need.

Had an 8-station computer lab for 1st grade in 1985, either Commodore 64 or something from Atari. Best teacher at the time named David Hein.
Upgraded for 2nd-6th grade to some donated 286's from AT&T, terrible teacher limited us to Typing Tutor.
During 7th grade got a donation of 386's with ARCNet networking, Netware 3, took over as network admin.
Expanded the network to the middle school for 8th and 9th grade.
Eventually had the entire school wired for ethernet.
In 2003 I donated enough parts to build 14 new workstations to the school and gave a week of my time to show the kids how to build the machines.
In 2015 I donated another 14 new workstations to the school, a year later they discontinued computer education at the school, replaced the computer lab with a prayer room, and all my donated machines disappeared.

Funny that your name is whipslash, because the recent ad-loading of Slashdot actually causes whiplash. Advertisements with heights of 100px followed a few seconds later by replacement advertisements with heights of 1,000px causing the entire story to move and a story reader forced to re-focus their eyes to something potentially off screen is so incredibly annoying. If ads maintained their height and didn't force content to move around on-screen I would not have been annoyed so much. But now, reading a story on Slashdot, I am forced multiple times to scroll my browser simply to maintain current position of where I am trying to read.