dysamoria

Huh. Good.

Coincidentally, I just spent the afternoon reminding myself why I haven’t finished Broodwar.

I installed Starcraft on my iMac through Battle.net, moved my saves from my old PC, played the same mission over six times, looked up advice on it, found I WAS doing what we are supposed to do... and lost interest again.

Starcraft is the only strategy game I ever enjoyed, but I don’t enjoy challenges anywhere as much as I did a decade ago... and I didn’t enjoy them much then.

Anyway, cool game, but it’s not for me anymore. None of their stuff is. I’m glad they keep their code up-to-date, but that’s mostly down to the fact that video gaming has become “e-sports”, where watching obsessive gamers play is now big business. This is also not for me.

Beats said:

Does it even mean anything?

How can Apple be worth almost a quarter less than a few weeks ago?

j2fusion said:

It just shows how close the stock market is to gambling. And most of us depend on it for our retirement...

No. It doesn’t mean anything. It’s all just an opinion of worth.

Yes, the stock market is gambling. This is not an economic system. It’s a bunch of BS foisted upon us by the few who can play with millions of dollars of valuation per month/week/day/minute. It’s all imaginary value. The fact that it has real world consequences on us is utterly ludicrous craziness and shows how utterly insane our culture is to treat this gambling show like an economy.

foregoneconclusion said:

LOL...the vast majority of the world's economic engine is based on non-sustainable or throwaway products. That isn't a new development unique to the smartphone market. One of the primary problems of the 21st century is to disengage from the 20th century economic model that guarantees a future collapse. 

Yes, it’s everywhere and everything. Let’s start with single-use plastics, which we see in grocery stores on every shelf... Instead of reserving petroleum product for more critical things, we have it wasted on packaging that doesn’t even get recycled at the end because scumbag incinerator corporations literally compete against recyclers and win government contracts via utterly corrupt Departments of Environmental Protection.

How about all the single use plastics in healthcare? I’m sure sterilization is possible for the large majority of the RAW materials...

And every appliance maker who’s now producing appliances that only last 3 to 5 years...

And the general lack of recycling ANYTHING in the USA. Incinerators are not “renewable energy”!!!

The problem is SYSTEMIC across EVERY industry. Apple isn’t innocent but they’re also not remotely the only target to take aim at.

22july2013 said:

As is often the case, the comments literally double the value of the article. However the diversity of opinions makes me think of the old adage, "A man with one watch knows what time it is, but a man with two watches is never sure."

I'm also starting to worry about this statement:

"AI is the most powerful technology force of our time and has launched a new wave of computing," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "In the years ahead, trillions of computers running AI will create a new internet-of-things that is thousands of times larger than today's internet-of-people. Our combination will create a company fabulously positioned for the age of AI."

Are they really saying that their future chips sold to us will be running Nvidia's AI software even when we are using them? This opens up a can of worms. Will Nvidia let us opt out? Or will it be an opt in? Will Nvidia tell us what software they are running on our computers? Will Nvidia be able to see my computer's screen? Will I be able to see Nvidia's software running using my computer's "task manager"? Will the computations be sent across international borders? Will Nvidia be paying us for the use of our computers? Will Nvidia be tracking any personal data like unique computer IDs? Will Nvidia be giving access to my computer to law enforcement with a warrant?

I don't think I want Nvidia or anyone else knowing what's in my house or what internet-of-things devices are in my house, let alone controlling what my processors are running. This is exactly the kind of thinking by companies like Google/Facebook that has made Apple a two trillion dollar company because some people actually value Apple's attitudes toward privacy and security.

Personally, I don’t find that quote to be scary at all. I find it to be a bunch of babbling nonsense. Everything that has the term “AI” thrown at it today isn’t remotely apropos of the term. The only place AI “exists” is in sci-fi/techno-fantasy. The quote is just another one of those fad-filled grandiose statements that corporations make to puff up their self-importance and stock prices.

The article still calls it Apple ClearMask...