Milking people out of their money on a technically unfeasible project. It's money that could have gone to help solve transportation issues with solutions that can actually be implemented.
Definitely the first red flag was that it was something that Elon Musk wouldn't even devote any time or money in by "giving it away" for others to implement.
Huawei didn't build "secret" fabs to avoid sanctions. Huawei masked their ownership/involvement in these fabs to avoid sanctions.
being able to write code in some form of language is increasingly mandatory for work.
Most jobs don't and never will. For example, the service industry is a major employer and will never require "programming" skills. I can't see someone's who job entails ending customer interactions with: "Would you like fries with that?" ever needing such skills.
However, in the technical and scientific jobs that's true.
I think the point is to get some "non-sponsored by a huge company to further their own goals" information out to non technical people. Although people use and new generations have grown up with technology, the actual underpinning structure and the potential misuse of information gathered through that technology is not well known.
I'm a huge proponent of revealing "how the sausage is made" at a high level for everything we use today, not just where our highly processed food comes from, but politics, economics and of course technology.
The greatest threat to humanity's future is humanity. We should regulate them before they cause permanent damage to our society.
AI will save us!
I've seen laptop computers for sale on ebay that have processors that aren't "officially" supported by Windows 11 being sold with Windows 11 preinstalled. So this would be a good thing so a non-tech savvy purchaser would know that the computer has an "unsupported" version of the OS installed on their computer.
I agree that for the people that went to the trouble themselves of circumventing the checks, it's just annoying. But as long as it's a notice just pasted on the desktop, I'm fine with that.
This sounds to me like a company finding a flimsy excuse to steal somebody's work. I have no doubt there are ways MSI could set aside what they owe Nicolaychuk, and compensate him when the political situation improves. They won't, though, any more than the music corporations that have been ripping off artists for royalties for decades will suddenly grow a conscience.
If you read the forum posts. The author of MSI Afterburner writes after someone said that they'd complain to MSI Europe:
But it is not their fault at all. They'd love to keep the project alive, but they cannot and will not cancel or bypass sanctions and make SWIFT magically work here.
The only way that Alexey could be paid by MSI is for Russia to end the war in Ukraine in a way that will remove the international sanctions that prevent MSI from sending funds to Alexey legally. Don't jump to conclusions if you're not willing to even read the linked source.
Yep, they don't sell your information to OUTSIDE ad companies, but that doesn't mean that they don't mine the crap out of all the information that they gather from their customers to power their OWN ad sales.
I also agree that it would be foolish for the PRC to try to invade and occupy the ROC.
However, I disagree with your assessment that it is similar to the situation in Ukraine.
Sure, the ROC is an island 100 miles off the coast of the PRC. But note that the ROC also farther away from any ally than it is to the PRC, unlike Ukraine which has a land border with Poland. For any allies of the ROC to get materiel there it's going to have to sail or fly it in within land or sea based missile range of the PRC. It's going to be much easier for the PRC to maintain supplies to its troops just 100 miles from the "mainland" than any ally of the ROC.
If the PRC wants to "take" the island, it's 100% possible. It's just a question of if it's willing to take the losses and the fact that they'll be in possession of a technologically useless island that would have destroyed any of its high tech equipment and factories before any full takeover by the PRC. With how things are going with Xi virtually declaring himself as "Emperor" of China, I would not bet against an invasion being ordered.
Don't ask me to figure out what is the most accurate to the standard that film and video makers use to craft their videos. Just calibrate the panel to that standard and give me the option to set it to the standard and then never touch it ever again. I think that's a problem that has already been solved, and it's called "Filmmaker mode".
Using machine learning to try to "predict" what my preferences are is just a waste of time and effort.
I never want to shift again.
It was just distracting to have to shift to keep an engine in the range where it can efficiently provide enough torque in the four cylinder cars with short gears that I drove (for example, in one car, I could not successfully complete a left turn without shifting into 2nd.) Sure, it felt great to do a perfect heel toe downshift, but I'd rather not have to do it in the first place. Technological advancement, right?
Electric motors have torque out the yin yang and I and especially my passengers appreciate silky smooth acceleration.
I had a firewire PC and laptop connected to one of the fancy cable boxes. I never really got the firewire to work reliably with the cable box provided by my cable company.
Note that encryption was on cable/satellite only.
OTA broadcast channels CANNOT be, weren't and aren't encrypted. That's a requirement of being to able to transmit in the US. However, that doesn't mean that some of the cable providers didn't mess up and sometimes "forgot" to enable the broadcast flag on broadcast channels relayed over their cable network.
Cable card was a real pain as well, but worked well enough with my silicondust ethernet enabled tuner to record even pay channels like HBO.
I've since moved to a OTA silicondust tuner after ditching cable and it's NEVER had any problems sending OTA channels to be recorded by my media server unencrypted.
Don't worry, in the US where most electric utilities are "for profit" private companies, they'll change the rate schedule to whatever makes them most money.
Currently it's more profitable for them to have EVs charging at night since their systems are experiencing peak load vs. capacity during the day, but as soon as that changes because of transitioning to more wind and/or solar or whatever, they'll change the hours that will allow users of EV's to charge at the lowest rates. So naturally, most EV users will shift their charging patterns to use the lowest rates.
That way the solar panels get sun 24hrs a day and if positioned properly, will catch solar energy that never makes it to earth anyways. Then we'll have these thousands of satellites with solar panels shoot lasers to transmit the power to a hub in orbit and that hub satellite will have a HUGE FRICKIN LASER and it will shoot energy down to any place on earth.
Just look at Sri Lanka to see what the elimination of chemical based fertilizers do to agricultural production. Manure may be better than what the farmers were using before the initiative, but won't be a viable long term solution for massively increased production.
Unfortunately, it really is because of the large corporations developing fertilizers, GM seeds and pesticides plus the aggregation of small farms into large industrial like farms that has increased the yield of crops in the US significantly. Eventually Africa will need to follow this model to maximize food production.
However, it was probably not a good idea to immediately jump from subsistence level farming techniques to a full use of fertilizer, pesticide and engineered seeds type farming since the local economies would be completely upended.
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