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Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
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#402First, AI took all the hype. Now, AI is taking all the RAM. Soon, AI will be taking all the electricity.
Exactly. It is already wasting enormous amounts of energy for silly inefficient AI nonsense. The price of energy will go up due to high demans and at the same time it also produces a lot of heat. I am not seeing a very optimistic future for mankind...
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Microcenter is headquartered here in Ohio. Arguably the best PC focused "brick and mortar" store still in existence. I feel like I stepped back into my childhood every time I go into one of their stores
Yes. Microcenter was founded in Columbus, Ohio -- IIRC as a shop on High Street most of a lifetime ago. The present headquarters are, IIRC, just up the road in Hilliard. They maintain an excellent and enormous retail store in the area. There is an amazing (and not at all cheap) Greek restaurant across the street. But after I drive to Microcenter and shop there and drive back, I'm fuckin' tired. I won't want to build…
Didn't realize they used to be downtown. That was before my time. Happy Greek right? Too bad that closed about a year ago. Great food.
There's a Vietnamese place right next to Microcenter on bethel that has some killer BBQ pork fried rice though. That's usually my excuse to go.
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Is that a joke? Socializing important industries has always been a disaster. Government run organizations have never been able to innovate on a sustained basis.
Lots have even in America. 2 famous ones are the NIH and the National Laboratories. In fact, the largest, most advanced, and best known semiconductor manufacturer is primarily government owned: TSMC. The only thing that gets in the way of their ability to sustain innovation is administrations hostile to publicly funded research. Outside of innovative industries, there are plenty of examples of important government ra…
u/nradov meant a functioning govt is a disaster for vulture capitalists.
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#405Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. Microcenter was founded in Columbus, Ohio -- IIRC as a shop on High Street most of a lifetime ago. The present headquarters are, IIRC, just up the road in Hilliard. They maintain an excellent and enormous retail store in the area. There is an amazing (and not at all cheap) Greek restaurant across the street. But after I drive to Microcenter and shop there and drive back, I'm fuckin' tired. I won't want to build…
Didn't realize they used to be downtown. That was before my time. Happy Greek right? Too bad that closed about a year ago. Great food. There's a Vietnamese place right next to Microcenter on bethel that has some killer BBQ pork fried rice though. That's usually my excuse to go.
Yes. According to my understanding of the lore: Microcenter was once just a small computer shop on High Street. A little mom-and-pop place -- you've probably been to one at some point. It got bigger. (That was all before my time, too.)
The Greek place that stands out so favorably in my memory is Lashish the Greek. It's right across Bethel from Microcenter, in the strip mall behind the McDonald's. Looks like it's still running. I should stop in there again sometime.
Last time I was there it was empty except for us and the owner. Friendly dude. He stopped at our table after we had some time to finish eating and we chatted about food, food quality, and the Gipsy Kings album that he was playing.
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#406Earlier quoted context omitted.
Didn't realize they used to be downtown. That was before my time. Happy Greek right? Too bad that closed about a year ago. Great food. There's a Vietnamese place right next to Microcenter on bethel that has some killer BBQ pork fried rice though. That's usually my excuse to go.
Yes. According to my understanding of the lore: Microcenter was once just a small computer shop on High Street. A little mom-and-pop place -- you've probably been to one at some point. It got bigger. (That was all before my time, too.) The Greek place that stands out so favorably in my memory is Lashish the Greek. It's right across Bethel from Microcenter, in the strip mall behind the McDonald's. Looks like it's stil…
Thanks for the tip! I'll check out Lashish next time I'm up there.
So many great ethnic restaurants in between Henderson and Bethel.
Re: Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
#407Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. According to my understanding of the lore: Microcenter was once just a small computer shop on High Street. A little mom-and-pop place -- you've probably been to one at some point. It got bigger. (That was all before my time, too.) The Greek place that stands out so favorably in my memory is Lashish the Greek. It's right across Bethel from Microcenter, in the strip mall behind the McDonald's. Looks like it's stil…
Thanks for the tip! I'll check out Lashish next time I'm up there. So many great ethnic restaurants in between Henderson and Bethel.
It's a quite wonderful area to empty one's pocketbook. I really do miss living near(ish) to there.
Lots of memories, and all of them are good.
(Including that one time when a buddy and I bought a used 3D printer out of the trunk of a fellow geek's sedan, in cash, in the Microcenter parking lot. We actually went to Microcenter looking to buy a resin printer, and we definitely succeeded -- just not in the manner in which we had expected to succeed. That's been a solid little machine for a few years now and was precisely as it was described.)