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We had a maxed out one of those in the company lab. I seem to remember that it was on the loud side.

What a tremendous waste of money.

You know, that's a good point. It would be great if people simply finished things and called them good sometimes.

Hopefully they don't find a way to stick hand-written ads on the side for the free version.

I really like the looks of that, but the dates on the blog!

Is it dead, Jim?

Heck, life generally is filled with that kind of inertia.

It's not easy to change banks or brokerage houses. Does it make sense that someone with $1M at Vanguard gets a bunch of special perks and lower fees? Not fair!!!

lol. I guess that I'm a righteous idiot then (ie. someone who might not agree with you).

Mostly, the point is that people choose their battles based on bias or their own needs, not some sort of overall logic.

I can understand the argument over the various sorts of non-neutrality. A need to bring together cable tv and internet pricing and bandwidth needs, the opportunity to break out fixed and variable pricing on bytes moved, etc. The main point is that it simply isn't as simple as waving a sign around and getting out the vote.

Heck, we might as well all get worked up about the fact that the USPS allows you to buy 1 day shipping or that the shipping companies cut special deals with large customers. Another example is toll roads.

The world is a complicated place and doesn't succumb well to slogans.

"Lets fix all abusers, not just ISPs. That should satisfy your argument, no?"

Yes.

Of course, people want to build an internet that suits them personally, so there are a million answers.

Exactly.

The vast majority of media websites that make their money by delivering other peoples' content have an interesting problem. They skirt the line between curating and merely providing a form of storage for everyone. The minute you curate, you fall down an interesting rabbit hole.

That's not even to mention the business model of youtube which is largely based on copyright violation.

In any case, the difference between ISP and major media website is insignificant to the average user. It's one big blob.

It seems to me that I have more choice between ISPs than in auction sites, as an example.

The tendency towards monopoly in networks makes all these cases similar I think.

I'm still trying to grok why ISPs are supposed to treat all customers equally while PayPal, eBay, youtube, GoDaddy, Twitter, etc. are allowed to pick and choose.

I'd be more comfortable with the arguments if people were consistent in them.

So how could you tell an AI-generated Rothko from the real thing? If you can't tell the difference, is there a difference?...a kind of Turing test applied to art.

Personally, I think that a helluva lot of modern art has a high BS level, and welcome the uproar that a computer could bring to it.

Hey, at least it wasn't Pixelon.

That's an interesting point. It's rather like the leapfrog to cellphones without intermediate steps.

No matter what tech is used, it'll be obsolete at some point.

I can't say that an economic model built on continuous population growth makes any sense. The piper will get paid at some point. Even the current notion of driving down the average age via mass immigration will only last so long.

In any case, what really matters is the per capita wealth, not total.

Sssshhh. You'll ruin the narrative.

It seems to me that the easiest way for a Germany to cut on energy needs is simply by having less people live there. I expect they would have been at negative population growth without shipping in a scad of people.

Then it shouldn't be a problem at all. The power companies will simply veer towards solar if it's cheaper.

It seems simple enough to me.

Over time, these hardware companies grow or die. Their products have to get cheaper, hopefully due to economy of scale. Company management never wants to kill the old products with new ones, plus it's pretty hard to guess exactly where to go.

Everyone eventually falls off the treadmill.

Years later, of course, management has amazing 20/20 hindsight.

COMPASS. Odd things like 60 bit words and 6 bit characters.

I remember that.

"Still in all, every night we does the tell, so that we 'member who we was and where we came from..."

It also seems to me that people are quick to conflate censorship by Facebook with censorship by a state.

It would be a cleaner argument if Facebook merely viewed itself as a platform and a government found the need to restrict it within their boundaries, but Facebook has it's own rather mysterious law that it applies in an arbitrary fashion.

Absolutely. In the worlds I work in, FPGA has been standard practice for years and years. As of late, it's becoming more common to place the CPU there for cost reduction.

In addition, you get the opportunity to both update the part and/or to change it's behavior via (for instance) a user setting.

I'm confused. I thought that Facebook was doing the censoring.

I watched it with subtitles and I'm mystified why it would be offensive enough to censor. Anyone with the opposite POV, that mass immigration from the Third World is desirable for the First World, could make their own video (and do, no doubt).

I'm surprised that I haven't run into someone using Git for EDL's.

Another corporate angle is the extent that MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) is at work. Large companies in older industries will have a large portfolio and if they get hassled by a competitor, the competitor can strike back.

As a practical matter, what can happen is that small companies can't get traction since all of the minimum features/implementations in a given type of product have already been patented by one of the existing older companies as a form of low-hanging fruit.

I think a patent is only worth something to the extent that it is enforceable.

I'm waiting for the full 3270 PC or the XT/370 kit.

also, I would imagine that there would be a strong bias towards reuse...which leads you to long term standardization of not just language but also CPU architecture.

That is too bad. There was more to it than Redwood City.

Working in the broadcast equipment world, you run into old school people from that company. Here's one I used to know.

https://archive.org/details/HollywoodBowl

I expect that it's role in the OS ecosystem is mostly taken up by projects like FreeRTOS.

It certainly doesn't help that more people type for a living, look at moving pixels on a screen for fun, sit in a car for an hour a day.

The US diet seems natural to me. I think it's the result of 100 years of evolution in food design and the fact that your body wants fat-adding easy to acquire calories. Fritos didn't grow on trees.

A more interesting question is to compare why countries at an equal level of wealth and technical development aren't the same. Ethnicity? Culture? Legal climate?

I just wanted to pop in and say that I agree 100%.

Good post.