jeffythequick

I think there will two classes of people on 2/2:

Those that have the Apple Vision Pro.
Those that wish they had the Apple Vision Pro*.

*varying degrees, but I think these are going to be bigger than the naysayers, and some of the pundits say.

Then there will be two classes of Apple Vision Pro owners on 2/3:

Those that know how they'll use it, and find creative ways to use them.
Those that regret buying them because it's just an iPad on their heads.**

** for now... The iPad was kind of the same thing.  Just a bunch of iPhone apps that even now, some developers just use.  

sbdude said:

I don't think it matters that the performance increase comes down to clock speed versus architectural improvements. That is, until we get to the next fabrication process. We're getting to point of diminishing returns on node reduction, and TSMC has already said its gate all around transistors are more difficult to fabricate. They may have won this round, but future rounds are going to be hard fought.

If they're not stacking the components (i.e. the transistors), then we approach the impasse.  When I left the semiconductor world in 2009, that was the next "new technology" on the pipeline, but I stopped looking at that.  I do remember the process engineers talking about the length of the interconnects and how the speed of light was a limiting factor, so going vertical on the chips can help reduce that.  Instead of going up, over, then down (there are multiple layers of interconnects, so that path may be on multiple different metal layers), if they could just up and over to the next transistor, that would be huge.

sbdude said:

chadbag said:

So in reality there was no tax loss by the government because the activity that netted the income was illegal and wouldn't have otherwise happened.    

Yes, her failure to report her I'll gotten gains was illegal but the activity it was based on shouldn't have been happening and since she will have to forfeit the I'll gotten gains, they never happened and the government didn't lose any tax money on gains she didn't end up having. 

That you could somehow explain away her malfeasance, thereby ameliorating her guilt, is confounding. Even drug dealers get put away for tax evasion.

I think it's sad that we have a system that can't/won't put people away for the horrendous things they do, so they make stealing from the government the "gotcha" crime.