Invention is not innovation. They didn’t invent the GUI but they innovated it. They blew away what Xerox PARC had been working on. They saw all the ways it could be better and implemented them. They didn’t just package up the GUI and market it better, they made it better.
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It was mostly marketing. Especially back when they started and the market was saturated with computer manufacturers all churning out their own computers that didn’t interoperate well with others. It saved educators and then businesses time because they didn’t have to waste time re-educating students or employees on a new system. This especially bore fruit as computers started gaining power and the ability to perform functions that had been relegated to mainframes, meaning experience with computer type X could become central to that role. I really think Apple took Moore’s Law to heart and projected out the future of the role of computers in business as a result of it and the increasing shrinking of components. Why pay for a super expensive powerful mainframe when only a few people in a company might need that much power and the rest need far less? More cost effective to buy a few powerful desktops and save tens to hundreds of thousands on a mainframe.
Right? At least Elon doesn’t have to conspire to underpay his staff.
I don’t get the desire to have micro walking robots when tracked, wheeled, or other forms of locomotion are easier, simpler, and cheaper to implement. The only place you need a walking robot would be in environments meant to serve people, where non-walkers would find difficulty maneuvering. And in that case they need to be comparable to adult humans in size.
Healthcare and profit motive should never, ever be allowed to mingle. That’s how you’re going to wind up with a pacemaker that requires a monthly subscription or even a prescription - meaning if you don’t see an authorized doctor, you can’t keep your pacemaker running. If someone like United Healthcare could do this, they absolutely would.
Generally the reason why it is like this is because you know others have resources to do the same to you and you don’t want to start a trend of doing that thing. Also, it’s their leverage against the people it could be used against. You’re asking an amoral group of individuals to act morally - that flies against everything they stand for.
The futuristic version of never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
Some servers do get down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81wKSt0tkNs
Some servers just got more funk than others.
You can still sue. Whether or not the suit goes through is different story.
Money, why else? You think things like good and evil, moral and amoral, ethical and unethical mean a damn thing compared to money? They never even enter the equation.
I have to say I think his studio lighting isn’t doing him any favors. In the first segment he looks so much better. Maybe it’s different cameras.
Maybe you’re thinking of EPROMs? I can’t think of anything else that you’d need UV light for. Even then the UV was used to erase them, not write.
I mean, have you seen the price of corgis lately?
Those are not directly relevant to what this think tank is doing, which is what I was replying to. The think tank has broken no laws, so there is no crime to be pursued.
Because no one has committed a crime?
If Gemini goes, so does Bard since Gemini is what powers Bard.
Should have figured it was clickbait. They’ve done this with several previous versions after EOL security support ended AFAIK.
So, basically, we’re still in the ENIAC stage of quantum computers. They’re cool and all, can do some awesome stuff, but are no where near the potential they could be.
Maybe modern Apple, but the GUI wouldn’t be where it is today without Apple and specifically Jobs’s Macintosh team, especially those who followed him to NeXT and what they accomplished there then brought with them when Jobs was brought back to Apple.