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Comment Re:Ok but (Score 1) 39

If Netflix shouldn't buy them then neither should Paramount

Yes and no. There's a very VERY big difference between Netflix (the world's largest streaming service with over 1/4 of the market share in the USA, and significantly more globally) buying Warner Brothers and Paramount, a company that can't even crack double digit market share in its home country.

Yeah mergers of large companies are rarely good, but don't pretend these two options are equal.

Comment Re:To All the AI Haters Out There (Score 1) 37

the shortage is manufactured

Hardly. There's no memory manufacturers in any way restricting production to "manufacture this shortage". They may be price fixing (they have a history of that) but right now they are producing memory at full tilt.

And if you ask why they didn't invest years ago, can you please tell me tonight's winning lotto numbers since you are so good at predicting the future?

Comment Re:did anyone answer that question? (Score 1) 57

Because TPM takes the users computer and makes it Microsoft's. It is a builtin, pre-installed rootkit. It was never about making the computer safer for the user, but safer for Microsoft.

It has a side benefit of showing the world who the ignorant people are, like you. TPM 2.0 doesn't restrict anything. It's nothing more than a secure storage area.

Comment Re:did anyone answer that question? (Score 1) 57

Why didn't Microsoft push for this instead of TPM 2?

That's like saying why doesn't the government focus on creating regulations for meat rather than funding a cure to ear infections. The two have nothing at all in common with each other. Not in use, practice, or application.

Add to that, ECC has downsides. It's more expensive and it's slower. It has its place, but that place just simply isn't on most desktops. If you're running a computer crunching critical financial transactions, yeah ECC is a good idea. If you spend your time teabagging other players in CoD then the impact of a RAM error will very likely go completely unnoticed. What will be noticed is that ECC tops out at 7200MHz at a significantly higher CAS latency than the comparable non-ECC memory which is 8800MHz at a lower price.

On the flip side TPM 2.0 provides some meaningful security benefits. You may not care, but many people do, especially laptop users with full disk encryption.

Comment So paper does seem to be (Score 1) 24

A better way to learn. The more tactile feel of it combined with the accumulation of physical notes seems to be an improvement.

What I am wondering is if you have a stylus and also probably one of those gloves to keep you from smudging the screen how does that compare.

One thing I do know is that if you are really going to learn things you have to use them in a effective way. Basically you need projects that use the data and the learning. But having students do that versus just testing them on problems individually is very expensive and we don't like spending money on kids that aren't ours. It's really kind of an every man for himself world these days.

Comment So... (Score 3, Insightful) 39

...no real evidence either way.

Most of the opponents are unions. Their interests will be ignored unless a Democratic government is somehow put into office before the merger completes, which is doubtful.

Paramount opposes it, but every argument they give would also apply to the Paramount takeover of WBD they are arguing for, so... I don't even know why their lawyers submitted this brief.

This year there have been multiple mergers, all heavily against the public interest, where it became clear the deciding point was whether adequate fealty was paid to Trump. Two massive TV station operators were involved in seperate mergers that are only going ahead because they opposed ABC showing a comedian critical of Trump and because ABC "settled" a bogus lawsuit filed by Trump. CBS is going ahead because it cancelled a major Trump critic, also settled a bogus lawsuit with Trump, and the new owner is run by a right wing nutjob relation to Licence Ellison. T-Mobile bought US Cellular after dropping anti-discrimination policies, paying towards Trump's inauguration fund, and funding the "ballroom", despite DOJ objections. And, so on.

The merger will go ahead just as long as Netflix keeps up its steady stream of crappy right wing action movies and right wing comedy specials. And, of course, makes "donations" to Trump "causes".

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