I'm still wondering if the Peruvian panflute dude following Chakotay around all the time is regulation or not. Like does he have clearance? What if Chakotay needs his flutes playing during classified meetings? Does he run out to the hallway to get the dude? Does he have an MP3 player full of panflute tracks in his pocket he can whip out? So many questions....
I especially liked the part where they designed the sensors inside domes, so they could handle the pressure without any issue. But then when one imploded it caused a cascade failure that destroyed a huge part of the thing. It left the whole thing crippled for years as they struggled on with just a small part of the sensors (which they redistributed and beefed up a bit). Luckily a few years later it got a full upgrade and rebuild, so it was back to 100% again.
Wasn't the IPO of SpaceX setup to be a rug pull? With them only selling a small part of the shares and current shareholders being able to sell their shares way sooner than normal. They put it up at a ridiculous price, idiots buy it because somehow there's always large groups of people buying into Musks bullshit. Then before the price drops the current share holders sell that part of their shares. This would make them so much money and would allow Musk to pay off the debt he made with his fuckups in the past.
Is any of this legal? Doesn't really matter since the Trump administration has pretty much killed any kind of oversight and consequences for this kind of thing. No wonder we saw Musk hanging out with Trump all of the time.
I still have my original 7" EEE PC somewhere in storage (batteries removed). It was the 900mhz model which I imported from Asia. That little thing was so cool, with a little utility I could undervolt and downclock it to 700mhz. That way the fan would never run and the battery time was very long. I absolutely loved that little machine.
They had been operating on the same premise for a long time. Use dirty tactics along side with superior tech to heavily punish the competition. Then coast along for as long as possible, maximizing profits and doing little else. Rinse and repeat.
However this hinges on them getting the superior tech at the right moment, just as the competition is surging again after years of Intel coasting. This backfired in the past when Prescott had a new 90nm process that had way more leakage than expected. This raised the amount of energy the chip required to operate, which in turn raised the heat. This limited the clockspeed, which made them slow and energy hungry. Desktops were slow and noisy and laptops were impossible due to the power requirements. And the Netburst architecture they had needed high clockspeeds which also wasn't possible. It failed hard and allowed AMD to surge with their Athlon64 chips absolutely destroying anything Intel had at that time. Intel needed to go back to their P6 design (pre-netburst), which had been kept alive in the company for their Pentium M series.
It backfired again recently when Intel failed to make the expected jumps in process node. The chip design was perfectly fine, but pretty ordinary as compared to AMDs lineup. Especially on the high end AMD had more performance on the table. As the new process node failed and AMD had TSMC make their high end chips, AMD took the lead once again.
This failure was compounded by a large scale production error where oxidation of one of the internal cpu layers wasn't caught by QA. This made a small (but significant) percentage of chips fail after a few years. Intel figured out a workaround where changing some of the power regulation allowed for the oxidation to not occur or get worse. But chips that already failed or were about to, still failed. This led to consumers being annoyed and weary of buying Intel again and enterprise customers forcing Intel to replace a lot of chips at no costs.
Another big part is the whole GPU thing, where Intel has had integrated GPUs for a long time, but no dedicated product. The performance, compatibility and features were poor, basically enough to connect a monitor for office work but not much more. They even released a couple of products with AMD integrated GPUs, combined with Intel cpus because their on-board graphics were so poor. They tried to fix this multiple times, but failed each time. Recently with their Arcmage and later Battlemage products they are finally in a position to sell products. But the performance is still poor and compatibility is hampering them quite a bit. Even when selling them at a loss, it's hard to be competitive. And then when the AI boom hit, they were left out in the cold. Nvidia won that race, selling so many chips for AI. AMD did significantly worse, but still good as compared to Intel. Intel has been selling some AI products, but it's nothing compared to the others.
Then there's the whole ARM thing. People have been saying for years one could build pretty good chips with them. In the past companies like Qualcomm and Mediatek said as much, but weren't taken seriously. Then Samsung made their own and also said as much. Again they weren't taken seriously, they are good chips for phones and perhaps tablets, but for serious computing you need more power. Sure the performance per watt is good, but no way that scales right. But someone at Apple was listening after getting frustrated with Intel. They had moved from IBM to Intel in the past without much trouble. So they invested, designed some chips and blew people away with their results. Enough for Microsoft for example to also try again with Arm chips, having failed miserably with the software in the past. This might hurt Intel a lot in the future, as they were often the preferred supplier when it came to running Windows.
So yeah a lot of things going on, there's also some shady financial stuff involved and more tech stuff. It's an interesting, complicated and unfolding story. Like so many things today, we have no idea how the future will be in regards to Intel.
First we created communities that we used to share information and ideas. This allowed people to grow in their skills and in turn teach others what they learnt. This cycle kept the communities going, providing an important service for everyone involved.
Then capitalism turned those communities into walled gardens, often using predatory patterns to increase engagement to the detriment of the quality. Being walled off made it harder to share the knowledge, leaving people with only a few larger holdouts of what once had been.
Then we created machines to do the learning for us, finally killing off the concept of information sharing communities. These machines learnt from every knowledge sharing community that existed previously and became the place to access that knowledge. Without people coming into the communities, even the last holdouts could no longer sustain themselves. The ability to share and gain new knowledge was removed, causing stagnation for everyone involved. The ability to actually learn anything was also greatly reduced, having the machines apply the knowledge directly. The new machines can't learn, can't think, can't reason or be creative, all they can do is remix already existing information and regress to the mean while doing so.
But for a while there, a lot of value was created for the shareholders.
Not to be that guy, but that's 100% on you for not having backups of important work. It's 3 years and your fucking research dissertation, how the fuck do you keep that all in one place?
This time you got fucked by Microsoft for having shit software. But it could have been your hardware that exploded, your house catching fire, your shit being stolen, you downloading malware from that one site you told your girlfriend you'd never visit again, shitty infrastructure causing power issues or flooding, you yourself having a nervous breakdown and nuking the thing.
Keep everything important at least in three places, one of which should be in a physically different (remote) place. Backup often, keep to the schedule and test your backups.
Jeez man, using Microsoft software and not having backups is like walking around with a loaded gun pointed at your dick. It's all well and good till you get your dick blown off.
The only upside I see is their stock has fallen since this announcement. Perhaps the market is finally getting that companies pushing AI isn't a universal good thing?
I hate to break it to you, but when someone states anything in metric, I immediately have a feel for how large that is. That's because we usually state everything in metric, so we don't need to refer to random stuff and just learn the sizes of everything.
Thanks for responding. It's good to get different people's opinion about it.
Running stuff locally is really cool, I've messed about with it. I think the tech is super interesting, it's just a shame about all the downsides in the way it's used right now. Unfortunately what I can run is very limited, my most powerful machine has a 4070 GPU with 12GB of VRAM. The lack of VRAM really limits it to very small models which are fun to play around with, but not for anything serious.
I would love to get my hands on something with more VRAM or one of those unified memory ARM systems. However AI has pushed prices for anything like that into the stratosphere.
I'm still wondering if the Peruvian panflute dude following Chakotay around all the time is regulation or not. Like does he have clearance? What if Chakotay needs his flutes playing during classified meetings? Does he run out to the hallway to get the dude? Does he have an MP3 player full of panflute tracks in his pocket he can whip out? So many questions....