The smartphones we have today were copied from Apple. The only real comparison before then are Blackberries and Windows phones, both of which are very different implementations.

Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO at the time, was on Apple's board during the time Apple created the iPhone. He was later fired from Apple's board for conflict of interest. It's well known that Google copied other products from companies such as Microsoft. It's clear that Google took the ideas for it's smartphone from Apple.

Well, some of that is for classes for people who can't see that default 3-pixel wide scrollbar on Windows 11 in high contrast dark mode. :-)

Yeah, you're blessed to have one of each. Until they start conspiring against you, which you KNOW is going to happen.

For all my pro-life ramblings, we were granted only one child. He's 22 now. I'm not sure if I'm jealous or worried about you. Keeping up with two toddlers after age 50 can't be easy.

In other news, by marrying close to my age, I'm spending 51 to 54 in caregiving activities to the point that I can't keep up with a 40 hour a week job, and the job market is such ain't nobody gonna hire me anyway, so I'm striking out on my own and trying to trick old people into paying me $300 to back up their Windows 10 boxes and switch on TPM in UEFI if it exists:

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When Google was founded, they were only a search engine. Android phones didn't come until years later when they stole the idea from Apple.

Everything is fake BS. People gravitated towards authenticity... Influencers because they were unpolished "real people" as they did reality TV stars before... Then they also SOLD OUT and became as fake as everything else; advertising corrupts everything!

Build a "brand" as an influencer then sell your persona for AI training and sell out with none of the shame (assuming you have some.) Much easier than selling out in person.

Sounds like Pharma is investing in prolonging customers while funding cures just to slow down cures?

We all know it's best for business to mitigate rather than solve.

1st thought... 5% is about the ratio of USA to the human population (340/8000.) I would have expected that number to be higher given the carcinogen exposure.

1) Lord of the Rings. Nerdland.
2) IT related jobs in demand for decades
3) The top country to live in on earth as ranked by the UN. They were in the top 3 forever usually #1.
4) Their population is too high to sustain a top-level lifestyle and is a preview of best case scenarios in a bleak future.

Tesla did it 1st. BMW does something...

If implemented securely and practically I'm ok with this:
1. This increases value by allowing cheap upgrades later; IFF the car model number gets upgraded then it increases resale and insurance value.
    + model number verification needs to be properly handled
    + Regulations needed to prevent them from expiring your ability to upgrade later (like lowering resale value; they have motive to do this.)

2. Normally, you always paid for extras such as this - likely quite a lot more money to get a larger engine.
    + lowers production costs; can make lesser models cheaper
    + Tying it to the car makes it the same as a physical upgrade; this is normal.

3. Monthly payments are ONLY good if they are a loan for a permanent upgrade!
    + any revocation is a huge security risk
          + permanent upgrades that are capable of being revoked are NOT secure
    + company dies, sold, hacked, moves to other countries, lack of internet, resale, could revoke upgrades
    + unlocking service is BS and should be illegal without severe oversight regulation
    + paying much more over a span of time can be handled as a high interest loan; like making payments to cover replacing the engine. OR you can pay less upfront OR other schemes.

Xi certainly couldn't free Tibet and stay in power. Tibet predates him.

Uyghurs are a tiny minority slave labor community of about 1 million; I won't say the police state prison system of the USA is good simply because it's better; at present. I won't mention the Native Americans because that predates Trump but that was far far worse. Or how aspects of their abuse mirror aspects of what goes on here; which at some point they may improve to be as shitty as we are... not that we'd notice here because when we do it we're largely blind but when others do the same shit we'll criticize. Hypocrisy is practically a virtue here in the USA; it is not in China, yet. Oh, the USA has 2 million in jail and like 5 million supervised; a way higher %.

Trump doesn't yet have the amount of power of Xi. He won't live long enough to be exposed to that level of corrupting power; though, he is already more corrupt in most every other way. Certainly way more embarrassing.

China is way more impressive that they progressed so quickly given their HUGE size. Learning from others is valid progress; and innovation is nearly always building upon the past. You can be upset that they didn't re-invent the wheel but nobody else really cares (and people rarely reinvent from scratch...furthermore, you likely are giving the USA too much credit for the work of other nations.) They will slow down when they have nobody left to copy and that is when the real competition begins. In many ways they will be better situated at that time. (which differs by topic when that is.)

The head start is being squandered by the USA and it's speed is being taken for granted. Others move at a long-term pace which isn't even really that concerned about the short term race. You chant USA and #1 all you want; it doesn't do jack but make you overconfident and lazy... as people like myself continue for some reason to prop you people up as you hate on us for going against your flat-earth narratives.

China is not 40 years behind the USA. Depends on what you look at so it's hard to really say. They manufacture better than the USA does already; they lack the quality control regulatory system but otherwise have beat us. For chips, they are behind; though the top chip makers are not USA... Intel is dying to catch up again. The USA has not had real competition in a long time; now they do and it has only begun... and the proof of our losses are in our desperate Tariffs. No, their tiny slave labor population is not how they lower prices. Poor regulations do help them; cheap labor does too - but they have infrastructure we do not. cheap electricity and free healthcare are massive benefits. socialist? sure. but so is free fire, police, and roads which drove down costs for the USA vs others. better infrastructure. we can't even maintain. they expand on what is infrastructure.

What is moronic (teenage) is to blindly cheer your team/tribe and not learn from the competition's progress even when they may lose current matches. They will catch up and win more often and you need to stop making excuses and get to work. The gap has been narrowing and you don't even notice. Reminds me of high school sports teams...(also moronic.) The next big concept for you is to realize that once it's competitive, it becomes almost random who wins the matches... the slightest bit of cheating makes all the difference in those situations. Also, it should mean a lot less who is #1 when it's so so close.

How did we stop China from reverse engineering our chips? We didn't. It's a manufacturing problem mainly.

YES! Perl really shot themselves in the foot with serious consequences... Although Roku has interesting ideas and abilities it was almost an insurmountable task which made the whole situation so much worse. It would have been better as a different language from the start... and likely would have died early since a lot of talented Perl people were spent on Roku being a massive upgrade of Perl.

It's still too technical and hacky for large projects; which means that you need a team of people who are all on the same page skill, talent, and style; otherwise, it is a poor choice. For quick solutions; especially for text related problems, it does that well and for finding talented programmers. Perl is probably still the fastest interpreted language? but it's parser complexity prohibits compiling so it can't dynamically compile which is how the others get their speed boosts.

Any moron can do Python and it should be replaced with something even more accessible... so that an AI can also write... then simplistic automation can be understood ... I suppose a combination of legalese and python?? A programming language for non-programmers; like Python started out being. Like everything else, it'll grow bloated and less accessible and I bet replaced with something more aligned with interacting with LLM. Human languages lack specificity and logic which is one reason we have legal speak which is so removed it's like another dialect. So you linguists out there should be working on the future Python replacement (instead of Perl or Roku.)

How is Trump better than Xi? I'd like to hear your propaganda on that.

You seem to be unaware at the rate of progress China has had in the last 50 years... in the last 30 was especially impressive. Nobody has matched it; in all of history. Not at every topic, but they are trying in a serious way while here we are infighting all the time and punishing all the actually smart people from which our advantages primarily come from.
You ever hear the story of the Tortoise and the Hare? You sound like the rabbit.

Chinese chips are behind and their rate of progress is still impressive but still BEHIND - we are now again selling them better chips than they can make themselves; which is good enough to be dangerously foolish.

AGAIN, citing 1 mistake in time is not proof; only proof of 100% perfection against a major USA propaganda push where they were actually had the CIA influence everybody necessary. There was a rather HUGE story about the CIA man who found the WMD saying he found nothing and who had his life and his undercover wife's life ruined (and outed a whole location of people) because 1 man refused to just be a CIA tool for a sham war.

The Guardian went against the war way ahead of most everybody else. Remember WikiLeaks and how it helped end the war quicker? The NYT wouldn't have done shit if they weren't going to be topped by Der Spiegel (if I recall correctly) and The Guardian.

The Guardian also published a lot of Putin's shit over the years which is probably why Cusco is so upset with The Guardian.

The main thing about AI, is that it learns...