I never built up a CD collection but I now started a digital DRM free local collection. Yes, I am actually buying that stuff (call me stupid if you like) but only loss free.
One of the few disks I own is sadly too corruoted for error free ripping, luckuly I still have it as mp3. That album simply does not wxist online anymore, anywhere. Possibly not even in the darker corners of the net. I think that happens more often than many believe.
I remember that very well. Doesn’t change anything about the ID.Polo being a great car for a competitive price tag. Chinese cars in Europe aren’t much better priced.
That is not entirely true. The new VW ID.Polo is a very nice new compact EV for a reasonable price for example.
That is the neat thing about language, it adapts. Euphemisms wear off and something like “smart device” increasingly sounds like “nasty anti-consumer surveillance home appliance” all by itself.
Yes, that was not an exhaustive list. Both, Germany and Britain are on it too. Any developed country is.
That is not even correct anymore. China is nowadays in the lead on battery technology in specific and EVs in general anxx dc that lead is home made. The West simply did not care about battery technology that much, as it was considered a low return business. You can’t copy that much anymore if you are the technology leader yourself. China is also increasingly outresearching the rest in other fields.
I am not saying that China isn’t still copying elsewhere where it isn’t technology leader. The US and Japan have historically done the same.
PS: Regarding LLMs, no tears for thiefs being stolen from btw.
The EU is rather special in this regard. While the EU enacts those fines, none of those fines end up in the EU budget but will be handed down to the member states, who in turn have no say on the application of these fines.
Yes, that was already the appeal and Google lost in court. There is no regress to that. Google has to pay that fine.
Yes but its very dirty solar energy because rockets are very dirty and the amount of energy to lift all those arrays into orbit is substantial.
Projected cost targets from SpaceX, especially for Starship are only losely related to reality. Weight is what determines the minimal required energy input to lift something into orbit. Independently from SpaceX number magic. Volume, like I said, can be an additional bottleneck but never undo the above.
You do need margins not just for humans.
Building something the size of an (unmanned) space station for a single server rack, yes, it makes no sense. The energy needed to lift all that stuff into orbit, the comically inefficient cooling and never mind the issues of impact damage and radiation and inability to do any service (without huge effort) if things go wrong, all make this a pretty irrational idea.
Just put that server rack in Iceland with geothermal power and closed loop heat pump. But then the tech oligarchs would have to comply with laws and that is probably the reason they want it up in space. There surely is no technical reason for it.
It does make sense for the provider as those for a specific model provide a good measure for computational effort, for that doecific model. That doesn’t mean that token rate comparison between models give you a good picture.
It really is not. Companies operate on creating profit. Activities are judged on their ROI. Worth is not relevant for the ROI.
That gives you a heat rejection capacity of less than 140 kW (mind you, that is total heat rejection, incl. heat from the sun, support systems etc., only a part of that can be used to cool servers) So you settle for laughably low compute to keep radiator size somewhat reasonable, yet still massive and heavy.
Total Worth doesn’t matter. What matters is revenue and profit and that is the basis for the fine.
That space data center might end up dumping more waste into the oceans with all thise launches but certainly more into our atmosphere.
Via radiation into space. All you need is a radiator, the weight of a battleship (or worse). Yes, the idea is crazy.
Weight is always the issue with lifting stuff into space. Volume might merely be an additional issue.
No, I would not even take one even if they paid me the current price. The thing is not street legal in the EU, therefore useless. The reasons that it is not street legal have nothing to do with Elon directly but with that vehicle being unjustifiably dangerous to pedestrians and other drivers as well. If you drive one of those it tells all the others how much you care about everyone that isn’t you.
I reject that thing not because it isn’t street legal I reject it for why it isn’t street legal and that goes down to the heart of its design and concept.