Danox

The spark laptop in its present form is not very good, in fact, it’s disappointing.

I don’t think it can be off topic. The bubble is going to burst and it’s not going to be pretty and there will be a need for some type of political/financial analysis of all of these data centers being built across the country particularly from a infrastructure standpoint.

If more engineering/medical/science are involved in politics means more public infrastructure aside from data centers I can live with that, if it means more clear thinking, more practical thinking, more can do and less lawyering why not, after all, the lawyers and the business/finance people can’t say they haven’t had their opportunities over the years.

Apple has never spent more than three billion dollars in its entire existence on an acquisition and they won’t start now, memory is the thorn currently in Apple’s side the question is what will the new CEO do about it?

This another one of those times where Apple will need to roll up its sleeves again and take another component (memory) in-house there is no getting around it.

Microsoft is the odd man out the bag holder, it won’t be Apple, and it won’t be Google.

Microsoft is on its way to losing they have been trying desperately to find or hook on to the next great thing. And they have been failing market inertia is keeping them afloat. But they’re on their way to taking a hit like Intel, I don’t think the current CEO at Microsoft is gonna survive Copilot and the collapse of Xbox.

Nothing relate to defend Amazon and Apple don’t need to dig in the trash like Meta and Google to generate a file on someone like Meta and Google. There is no cost of acquisition.

Apple is not even in the same ZIP Code as Meta or Google. When you buy a product from Apple, they get all of the information upfront from you to complete a transaction no different than any retail store. There is no cost of acquisition.

There is no need to endlessly spy and the same pretty much applies to Amazon, Google and Meta may have a file on you, but in order to have that file, they need to spy. in short there is a big cost of acquisition for them to open up that dossier on you.

Apple or Amazon, in order for you to buy something from you, you have to exchange information in order to complete the transaction, which is no different than any other retailer that you would ever do business with, that isn’t Google, and that isn’t Meta. not at their core. And don’t bring up the Me-Too hardware products that both companies try to sell from time to time. Those are just small side work in the big picture for them.

Arm would be a better choice the problem in Europe isn’t tech the problem is mainly a lack of will, I hope someone will pick up the gauntlet. And I don’t mean the free pizza and beer approach ie Linux.

It was British until a short-sighted company sold it to the Japanese, the EU at the time was also looking in the other direction too.

Many people/companies are willing renters today even when the resale value is very good with Mac’s in comparison to PCs. Never have trouble selling on decently equipped Mac computers. The PCs, aside from the graphics card, end up in a scrap heap. (computer graveyard).

The Mac Mini’s and Mac Studio’s are very popular fast, quick, and easy to move around. With very good resale value private party or back to Apple.

Because the target market (mobile) is very profitable, if you have the skill, I also don’t understand that stance because Mac powerbooks, Mac minis, Mac studios last a long time and have high resale value if you decide to move on, particularly if you are a smaller development company.

All human endeavors play favorites. We shall see if the SEC will let lightning strike two times in one year.

The insiders at the top won’t allow it…

Australia and New Zealand don’t make cars? They have no skin in the game…

Most of the cheating historically happens in the American South and that cheating, making it harder for people to vote continues to be a time-honored tradition in that part of the United States still.

Donald Trump and the current Republican Party does not care about anything other than winning at all cost. And if they don’t win, they will cry like Little Lord Fauntleroy.

Forward them to their, partner Microsoft…

Oracle begging couldn’t happen to a nicer company, the only thing that can be said is bubble, bubble bubble…

From where? There may be some profit but I don’t think it’s gonna be anywhere near what they are expecting and the same goes for OpenAI.

Outside of the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the rest of the world can choose their computer and choose their model, and they will.

Every country in the world outside Europe and United States will adopt/use an open Chinese model because it will cost them relatively nothing, the only thing they have to supply is hardware. And the Chinese certainly can provide that. And so can several other companies outside of China. But those companies won’t be OpenAI, Anthropic or even Nvidia.

Where is their moat? Ultimately, where is their profit? answer? There is none at least there is none that will come close to whatever imaginary valuation Wall Street comes up with, in the best of times, while Wall Street may be able to carry one such company, but two within the same year?

Worldwide, it is will be the cheapest model. That is going to win out. In the United States. and Europe, that will be their (OpenAI/Anthropic’s) markets, every place else probably will be a Chinese Open solution. And that will be no different than EV cars. or solar panels the Chinese dominate worldwide and the same probably will happen with AI models outside the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and one or two other countries.

Also, because of the three hyenas of memory, the Chinese probably eventually will have control of the memory market too in the near 3 to 5 year future.

Excellent example. If you ever wondered why you’re cola, your orange crush, your Dr Pepper taste funny, just drink a soda made out of corn syrup, nothing you can eat on the face of the planet is good for you if you eat it in excess without exercise.

Which was something before the last century, you didn’t have to worry about because most people had to work like a horse to survive, and many people on the face of the planet still do.

There are two things allowing people to live longer lives today. Vaccines and antibiotics, both of which are critical towards any human being living past the age of 20, too bad, there are many people today in some of the Western countries that have forgotten what it was really like to live in a time when you could die from an infection before the age of 20, it only took two generations, maybe three, to forget that.

I remember the march of dimes and all those infectious diseases that took out a significant number of kids before they reached 10 years old, and if you did survive, many were either blind, disfigured or crippled many countries in the world are still going through that…

The biggest killer of humankind has always been some type of disease/pestilence or infection before the age of 20 causing death, disfigurement, or lameness and if it wasn’t that, it usually was at the hand of another human it wasn’t by eating animal fat or sugar particularly after the discovery of fire and cooking.

By the way, the screw worm fly is now in Arizona and New Mexico up from Texas hopefully the current administration has learned something from Covid the first time around, doubtful.

Corn syrup is used because it’s cheap. It isn’t used for taste. That’s secondary. Particularly in America…

Hope not because many of those old seeds carry resistance and immunities to various old line diseases/funguses/bacteria/viruses/pests from the past. That resistance is probably going to be needed going into the future at some point guaranteed.

Most of the names that flip over seem to be names associated with the gentry class, many of the names seem to be neutral, soft very inoffensive names.

Profit is the main motivator. Do you want your soda made out of cane sugar or corn syrup?

The best sardines (Nuri) in the world come from Portugal. A guy from California…

PS Even better with great bread.

The schmoozers/lobbyists aren’t working currently in America we need problem solvers and clear thinking.

Absolutely. the first time I found out the Chinese have quite a few engineers involved in government. I said that explains all the infrastructure being built. Mind you no human endeavors are perfect. But there was a time in the United States not too long ago where there was more of a can do attitude, I don’t understand why high-speed rail is not a thing.

I also don’t understand why the Pan American Highway or rail from Nome, Alaska to the tip of South America never got built. Nor can I understand why Oak Ridge, Tennessee Thorium Research Center and further development was left to rot. The Chinese are very close to throwing element 90 in our face.