The war on personal computing now targets PC hardware. Fuck.
We need "AI" datacenters, so companies, that don't charge for their product, can have more of their product, which loses them money, but maybe will let them ice out all the other "AI" companies and become the only player in town, and can then convert to government contractor, and then charge whatever they want.
It's a destructive, retarded, and entirely flawed strategy. Especially now that Nvidia is apparently committed to producing newer and better hardware every year. Goodbye any sort of capitalization curve. They're financing these data centers on a 30 year time line.
Another mortgage backed security sized bomb is about to hit America. This time they want your 401k. A good time to take a loan against some of your monies.
Except they can make the argument that fire selling the equipment could put other businesses the creditors have debt with in jeopardy so it'd be better to just burn it all.
Most modern tech "innovations" are done specifically to shrink the "unregulated market" (i.e. people who pirate, circumvent advertising, or otherwise detach themselves from paying subscription fees).
Which is why games force you to download the latest updates and break modding architecture. Why is why TVs went from having native, built-in VCRs and DVRs to encrypted hard drives and eventually nothing at all. Which is why car dealer options went from being physical things you paid for at the dealer to shit that's already in the car but you have to pay a subscription to use.
If there's one type of person capitalists and commies hate with roughly the same amount of ire, it's the privateer.
The war on personal computing now targets PC hardware. Fuck.
We need "AI" datacenters, so companies, that don't charge for their product, can have more of their product, which loses them money, but maybe will let them ice out all the other "AI" companies and become the only player in town, and can then convert to government contractor, and then charge whatever they want.
It's a destructive, retarded, and entirely flawed strategy. Especially now that Nvidia is apparently committed to producing newer and better hardware every year. Goodbye any sort of capitalization curve. They're financing these data centers on a 30 year time line.
Another mortgage backed security sized bomb is about to hit America. This time they want your 401k. A good time to take a loan against some of your monies.
On the bright side, after the AI bubble pops, there's going to be a fire sale on used consumer grade data center equipment.
Or they will just spite everyone and chuck it all in landfill.
That's not an option when a company's liquidated in bankruptcy, they have creditors they're obligated to pay with whatever assets they have.
Atari Inc (1972-1984)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2836779/Atari-games-buried-landfill-net-37-000-eBay.html
Except they can make the argument that fire selling the equipment could put other businesses the creditors have debt with in jeopardy so it'd be better to just burn it all.
You think they will give a shit?
Most modern tech "innovations" are done specifically to shrink the "unregulated market" (i.e. people who pirate, circumvent advertising, or otherwise detach themselves from paying subscription fees).
Which is why games force you to download the latest updates and break modding architecture. Why is why TVs went from having native, built-in VCRs and DVRs to encrypted hard drives and eventually nothing at all. Which is why car dealer options went from being physical things you paid for at the dealer to shit that's already in the car but you have to pay a subscription to use.
If there's one type of person capitalists and commies hate with roughly the same amount of ire, it's the privateer.