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Looking at those mesh-like patters in the shoes, makes me wonder how long each one took to be made.

Do you remember when they bought the first and largest webmail platform and did nothing with it?

I seem to remember they spent years trying and failing to migrate it to .net.

Not quite--this predates .net. They acquired Hotmail in 1997, while it was running on Solaris mail servers and Apache on FreeBSD for the web frontend. In a highly publicized move, Microsoft ventured to port it to Exchange and IIS on Windows NT. This went on for years on end, with MS claiming to have finished the transition several times, while getting egg on their face. Eventually, they got it running on Windows 2000 and a combination of their flagship products and Windows Services for Unix (the WSL of those times).

It has since been rebranded as MSN Hotmail, Windows Live Hotmail, Hotmail, and Outlook, likely with some 365 thrown in.

Meanwhile, they have mismanaged their once great mail user agent Outlook Express, as well as their quite useful personal information manager Microsoft Outlook, to the point where their newest offering is absolutely unusable.


> Eventually, they got it running on Windows 2000

The legend was that they tried and finally sticked with Freebsd, because Windows was not able to cope with the level of traffic.



The web version is a complete reimplementation with about as many backward compatibility problems as LibreOffice.

Actually LibreOffice has better backward compatibility than MS Office now. If you have a MS Office 2003 file that current MS Office can't open, try LibreOffice.

Maybe Office 2003, but modern .docx files often don't work right in the web version of Office or in LibreOffice.

But that wouldn't be backward-compatibility? Also when the MS-pushed web versions can't get it right, does it matter?

LibreOffice can't properly render ODT files created with OpenOffice-before-Oracle. I highly doubt their DOCX support is any better.

Doubt what you like, but I "rescued" old MS Office documents for my grandfather with that. Also this is a common fear when leaving MS Office, so you can bet they work on that. I never had someone complain over OO-compatibitlity until now, so there is that.

When LibreOffice appeared on the stage, that was actually my first test back then: opening an existing ODT document I had written. It was already displayed incorrectly at the time.

Are there test files downloadable somewhere, so I can check that myself?

"I don't like X, so I'm guessing Y is bad."

Which is now piece by piece becoming the Desktop version by wrapping it in some WebView junk.

The concept of Windows and operating systems is so 90s. The next version will be Copilot Portal, your access point to the Copilot ecosystem.

Tesla is acquired by xAI (2026)

The Ellison trying to buy WB was the younger one.


I didn't actually specify which Ellison. But we could say the Ellison clan to be inclusive.


It’s all based on elder Ellison’s power and money.


The most likely outcome is kids in third world countries extracting the valuable metals from piles of discarded GPUs.


After GPU crypto mining became unprofitable Chinese manufacturers took "mining only" cards, desoldered the GPU and built new graphics cards using the chips. So at least the lower end stuff (RTX6000) could be repurposed like that.


Their risks are none. They are not increasing capacity, only selling the available one to the highest bidder. Whenever these AI companies run out of money, these producers can simply resume their regular business.


It only depends on whether they get addicted to the high prices.. as long as they can withstand a collapse in the prices then you're right they have minimal risk


Assuming they haven't massively changed operations to crank up supply, which seems to be the case, they shouldn't be massively hurt with a price drop.

If this price goes on for a longer period though, I assume that won't be the case.


Well an example would be if they for example took out massive debts on the back of an expected Revenue stream


Not sure about DRAM companies, but many businesses would still go under if they sold their annual production to a company that then goes bankrupt and won't pay anything for the delivered goods.


Hopefully they get paid more than once a year. Their risk is completely dependent on 1. the net X days until they are paid, and 2. How fast they delay shipment when/if a payment is delayed.



Everything is prepaid, just like you buy RAM online.


Given the election forecasts, people in the UK doesn't support at all the current government nor its policies. And the answer seems to be to suppress any criticism while waiting for the next election cycle.


Given that we have shows on the state broadcaster which criticise the government, there truly isn't a shadowy force supressing it amongst the population.


There is also the fact that automatically generated content predates ChatGPT by a lot. By around 2020 most Google searches already returned lots of SEO-optimized pages made from scrapped content or keyword soups made by rudimentary language models or markov chains.


Well there's also the fact that GPT-3 API was released in June 2020 and its writing capabilities were essentially on par with ChatGPT initial release. It was just a bit harder to use, because it wasn't yet trained to follow instructions, it only worked as a very good "autocomplete" model, so prompting was a bit "different" and you couldn't do stuff like "rewrite this existing article in your own words" at all, but if you just wanted to write some bullshit SEO spam from scratch it was already as good as ChatGPT would be 2 years later.


Also the full release of GPT-2 in late 2019. While GPT-2 wasn't really "good" at writing, it was more than good enough to make SEO spam


I didn't remember that, but it would explain the spam exponential grow back then.


And 10 years ago, Reddit was already experimenting with auto-generated subreddits: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator.


It was popular way before 2020 but Google managed to keep up with SEO tricks for good decade+ before. Guess it got to breaking point.


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