Sounds like Max-Q
happening as a higher speed and lower altitude than expected (or built for).
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are two incalcitrant graphics/imaging/video programs that do not have a Linux analogue.
Yet anyway. Both companies have made recent public statements about shifting their development to Rocky Linux and using that as a base for their Mac and Windows desktop version.
Until then, my personal machines boot into Rocky Linux, then VirtualBox fires off a Windows instance.
Any regular ElReg user (grey-beard appearance not required) will be using this, or similar to manage their home Windows systems. It's not hard but it is beyond Great-Uncle Bob and Grandma Florence.
to a group manager after their third-shift operators called me in on a "printer problem" that simply required a fresh box of fan-fold.
The pager was frozen in a block of ice and being a 1980s vintage Motorola, worked fine after being defrosted. That, and a billing for multiple hours of time at double standard rates (after-hours, weekend, etc) I never had this problem again.
Absent and real or imagined 'national security implications' as long as the thing is 90% of Copilot/OpenAI at 10% of the price, I can't see why any organization would not use it. The implications for all those many MANY billions of $$$ spent and the people who spent them are left as an exercise for the reader.......
Seriously, last years LLM stars and the spending behind them were pretty much matched and in some scenarios obsoleted by the inevitable challenger. Only surprise here is that the challenger went public in early 2025 when I was thinking late 2025.
are the limiting factors.
The greed of local councils to fill unused industrial estates and 'idle' farmland will never be satisfied. Some other limiting factor, such as moral outrage over the unproductive consumption of energy resources and adverse impact on the reliability of energy grids will have to come into play......
GPU constraints? There are some arguments that a 256 bit enhancement to AltiVec has the potential to outperform Nvidia silicon on far cheaper and less energy hungry hardware. if that come to fruition (Power 11/12 anyone?) all real-estate and GWatt calculations are off.
And remember, at the end of The Forbin Project the Colossus / Guardian symbiote demanded that the island of Malta be evacuated and hollowed out as an AI fortress / core.
.......and I've been part of discussions on this very topic over the past six months...
If the people who have spent hundreds of Billions of Dollars on 'AI' can't begin to show positive usage trends, regardless of real-world usefulness of those said-same AI applications, people will start to lose their jobs and bankers / investors will start to call in their notes.....
Notoriously lazy SAP Basis team who refused to update their SAP documentation and had the company stuck on AIX 3.2.55 (!!!) for a year after IBM pulled support. They were satisfied with the 92% uptime of the overall SAP installation because it was 'better' than the 85% reliability of the old SAP on System 1.
Leaned heavily on the (then very new) AIX transparent/no reboot OS upgrade and patch capabilities. Took over three weeks to upgrade a good-sized farm of servers one at a time. Took another 6 months before the Basis team noticed both the upgrade and the suddenly improved uptime numbers to 4 nines.
This particular story goes on for 3-4 more years and (IMHO) deserves both it's own article on El Reg as well as an SAP whitepaper and IBM Redbook.
After construction and build out completes, the only taxes paid are those via payroll tax.
Massive data centers are often attracted to tax-exempt property and 'value' agreements with local authorities. Over the 10-15 year life of a data center, this can save more money that low cost land, construction, and utilities.
One of the banks I consult for has their end-of-year freeze running from 01 Dec to 15 Jan every year.
Retailers in general freeze the state of their systems, excepting critical system-outage kind of work, during similar time frames.
This practice has been a known 'feature' of IT work for decades.
Kyndryl is spending large $$$ on 'pundits' and PR-focused 'executives' to keep clients happy and fed. K knows deep down that their client base is no longer beholden or loyal to an ex-IBM structure; as soon as the winds or tides change, clients will be off looking for pricing and performance guarantees from other players.
.....enabled by a combination of bad build and testing on the part of CS **and** (don't forget) deliberate design decision by msft to hide a set of API calls that set their own internal AV solution (Defender) at a significant performance advantage compared to third-party tools.
When msft was caught with their design pants down, the decision was made to open those APIs up to everyone and anyone when the rational/good design decision should have been to kill off the calls.
And that's how we got here.
The court case that needs to be settled is if msft and their managers/executives are liable for global user damages caused by poor design and implementation of their products.