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I doubt that Microsoft has many patents on graphics, after all it's not in any of their core areas of competence. If they had anything that they could use against Nvidia they would have been beating NV over the head with them for years. MS buys their graphics from other companies.

And MS + AMD haven't been working on AI long enough to have any major patents in that area. NV has been working on AI for almost 20 years and still has the majority of AI hardware expertise.

Remember that Microsoft depends on (and will continue to depend on) Nvidia for the majority of their AI hardware. MS has already said they will be using Nvidia's H200 next year. They are working with AMD because they need a second source but they certainly wouldn't want to see their primary source of AI hardware suddenly converted into an enemy. MS is battling Google, Amazon and others for AI dominance so they need NV's hardware and software. That also means software developed by MS for AMD will have limited availability if it assists MS's competitors.

Nvidia has literally thousands of AI related patents. How long before we start seeing violation claims?

Recently I've upgraded from a 2020 Intel MacBook Pro to an M3 similar system. I waited this long because I need a couple of Windows based applications and only recently have I become convinced (thanks to my coworkers) that an ARM based product wouldn't mess with my workflows.

Part time I'm running Windows 11 under VMware Fusion and I'm happy with both the CPU and GPU speeds. Actually, the increase in speed of the M3 is impressive with MacOS or Windows. Yes, the price of the system is high (not that I'm the one paying) but it's definitely worth it when you're using it for 8 hours or more daily.

I used to write UEFI drivers and I'm not surprised that these problems have only now been discovered. This is one of the reasons that I'm running a MacBook Pro as my daily driver. It has a completely different boot setup although still based on EFI.

Nvidia has a backlog for months despite using every fab that has the capability to make their high-end chips. In addition, AMD, Google, Amazon and Meta are making high-end AI chips also. So where will Microsoft find a fab that has the capability to produce their stuff in anything like a significant quantity?

Don't hold your breath. It's reported that Nvidia already has a backlog of AI chips for nearly 12 months, and they are selling at 70% profit margin. And even if China came up with an equivalent product, Nvidia isn't standing still. They have already announced their next generation and said that they are on a one year cadence for new generations of AI chips.

At this rate, video cards are just an afterthought. Something for Team B to work on while waiting for vacancies in Team A. The sad thing is that even then their video cards will be competitive, such is the depth of their engineering experience.

At this rate Nvidia may be able to buy Intel with their spare cash in around five years.

At least Chamberlain isn't requiring you to watch a 60 second advert before you can operate their devices. Not yet anyway - but that would really bump up how much they could charge companies advertising in the app.

Itâ(TM)s easy to switch the search default in Firefox to whatever you want. I use duckduckgo, personally.

If you're going to commit a serious crime, be paranoid. Do your online research using DuckDuckGo accessed through a VPN that is outside the USA and keeps no records such as Mullvad. Also use a security oriented browser like Firefox. Maybe add Tor to all that also. Pretty easy really.

It's long been held that writing and saying are equivalent (except for some civil issues like libel and slander) and there's the problem. 14 searches for an address to which you have no connection (owner, renter, live there, your girlfriend lives there, etc.) is going to raise some some eyebrows if that address goes up in flames. It's going to grenerate some questions that you will need to answer if you don't want the police to draw a negative inference. Now, should police have access to your search history? They can use whatever you say to other people, and with a warrant they can access your mail or your email or your phone data or your bank or credit card accounts or vehicle data or CCTV or photo recognition data or travel history (plane, train, ANPR, cell tower data, etc.) so why would search history data be different?

Google is at liberty to sell your search history to anyone. In my mind that makes it semi-public data, and it's not obvious why your search history should be treated any differently from any other form of communication.

Work changes over time. Around 1810, the Ludittes destroyed the machines which replaced skilled workers. It did cause hardship but that was a short term problem because the machines needed people to construct them, operate them, repair them, and also created ancillary jobs because they produced textiles much faster. They also reduced the cost of textiles by a large amount. All in all, substantially greater productivity without creating long-term unemployment.

Jobs are always being replaced. My grandfather was a computer. No joke, that was his actual job title. He worked on large civil engineering projects such as bridges and other constructions where accurate calculations were vital. He told me that at least three people did each of thousands of calculations needed. If there were disagreements in the results the work product was turned over to senior computers to find the errors. Today the calculations are done in a tiny fraction of the time of doing them manually, and I don't see many out of work human computers.

In the 1870s, gas street lighting was being replaced by electric lighting. In some large cities in Britain a switch was located in each electric light pole so that the lamplighters kept their jobs turning the lights on and off. That didn't last more than a few years, the costs of centrally switching the lights were far too great.

I'm sure there are thousands of similar examples. Jobs change mostly to increase productivity. Long term, employment doesn't go down, people just learn new skills. Sometimes the new skills pay more, sometimes not. So long as capitalism reigns that's the way it's going to be. Maybe that needs changing, I don't know.

Or worse. The link you paid for pointed to a domain that was not renewed. So someone else bought the domain while it was up for grabs.

Your link now points to a picture putting the original goatse.cx to shame. Advertising that you are the 'one and only true owner' of the link may now actually be detrimental to you...

My neighbor's Tesla Y was rear ended at a traffic light. It didn't look like much damage in the pictures he showed me but the car was totaled. The insurance company's estimator told him that the whole rear end had to be replaced because it was cast in one piece.

The only way I can picture 'Goldman Sachs' and 'world-class' reputation in one sentence, is by adding a negation to that sentence.

I suspect they are in the same class as the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

So what if we measure the length of the interval by the difference in sound intensity? Then going from high to low could provide a 'point in time', the same as going from low to high. And if we reference on these points in time, instead of what is between them, we could still experience silence as something else than sound, but experience the same length for sound as well as non-sound.

Some background: a drummer does not change tempo when only playing short sounds with silence in between compared to sounds that have a lot of sustain: a drummer will play rimshots in the same speed as cymbal hits.