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Comment Re:Cheapest solution (Score 1) 55

If people wonder what I mean on what a backup plan looks like then look at studies out of the UK, UN, EU, or any of a number of studies on the issue. Many of these studies will point to solutions other than relying on only renewable energy sources and energy storage as the most viable option.

Could you come out and say what you mean? Right now you're being very vague. I'm guessing some flavor of nuclear, or perhaps geothermal?

Comment Re:Cheapest solution (Score 1) 55

For some reason when given the easy way and the hard way, we always go hard.

Nah, the easy way was to do nothing and leave all the problem-solving for the future to deal with. Works great, until the future actually arrives, and the bills come due.

Comment Re:Missing the point (Score 2) 46

Have they not realized that answers to questions on their site are often outdated and therefore useless?

Realizing that is the easy part. The hard part is fixing the problem, especially if you don't have an active user base who is willing to update the answers.

And of course AIs will run into the same problem, unless there are well-informed human beings available to update their knowledge base.

Comment Re:Economics (Score 1) 206

I bet you're on of the MAGAs who are not just OK cutting medicaide to give more money to the rich. You cheer for it.

Cutting waste and fraud in medicare, I would think, would be something MOST US citizens would be in favor of...?

And for these entitlements...again, I'd think it would be common sense to make sure they were ONLY available and provided to US citizens....not to people who broke the law and came here illegally...?

And for able bodied younger adults....on the dole..why should they not have a little skin in the game and have a requirement for work...20 hours a week....?

Comment Some did (Score 2) 65

Jobs and Wozniak got rich off Apple, Gates and Balmer off Microsoft. Sinclair was already rich. Tandy, Commodore, Atari, and IBM had hugely popular machines but no "rock stars" single-handedly responsible for their development, and bad business decisions ultimately killed them. Similarly Coleco, which had a great chance to undercut the PC with the Adam and its cheap letter quality printer, but they were too ambitious and by the time they worked out their manufacturing problems the PC had taken root. But the PC killed the rest of the industry by killing itself, making the first clones possible which could run object code generated for other manufacturers' machines, which was Microsoft's second stage to orbit after providing Level II Basic for the TRS-80. It wasn't MIcrosoft's intent, but imagine what today's computer ecosystem would look like if all software was still architecture-specific and there were a dozen or more popular models to choose from.
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Apple and the rest had room to grow because the big names like DEC, Data General, and even IBM were focused on business and saw them as toys. They bought and ate anything that looked like it might compete with them, such as the CP/M office systems which might be a credible threat to minicomputers like the DEC PDP series. That was another gap IBM threaded by being IBM.

Comment Re:why not just block internet connectivity? (Score 1) 93

Remember those little booklets of blank notebook-style paper they gave you in which to physically scrawl your exam answers under the watchful gaze of the proctors?

That was a blue book.

Interesting...I don't recall having any classes that had such a test or blue book requirement....interesting.

Comment Re:They deserve life in prison (Score 1) 79

It's not software. It's mass murder. 480 million people with COPD across the world. How many of them lost years or productive, happy lives thanks to the software change? A rather large lot I suspect.

And just how would you prove in a court of law any cases of death were due to this software "cheat"?

Comment Re:They deserve life in prison (Score 1) 79

They took years off people's lives. People died early. People will die early. All thanks to inhaling toxins that were illegally released. All for profit. All widespread. Worse than a bank robbery that gets people killed.

Could your prove this in a court of law....?

I kinda doubt it....

4+ years for tweaking software is WAY overblown for the "crime"...geez.

They let murderers and rapists off these days with less than that....

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