Comment Re:Then find another softcreammachinevendor (Score 5, Informative) 66
Because they are colluding with the machine vendor to screw over the franchisees.
McDonalds don't want to fix the problem, because the problem is McDonalds.
Because they are colluding with the machine vendor to screw over the franchisees.
McDonalds don't want to fix the problem, because the problem is McDonalds.
In Australia the daily charge has been spiraling upward to offset any rebates or lesser usage solar causes.
It is almost cost effective to roll your own microgrid. Once that threshold is reached more and more people who can afford it will go off grid, forcing the remainder of the higher costs on those who cannot afford the infrastructure to go off grid themselves.
That the energy sector has been so mismanaged that it's almost cheaper to roll your own power is insane.
If they block the purchase of any further studios by sony after blocking the activision sale that could be worthwhile. Otherwise it's pretty hard to justify the double standards when it was sony that pushed the trend of buy studios and make titles exclusive (which worked a treat for them).
Epic (unreal engine) started becoming a big sponsor of blender. Which makes a great deal of sense when they're selling a game engine. They want other tooling required to be cheap/free to encourage uptake.
Blender as a 3d modeller is no threat. Blender with integrated game engine was not a serious threat by any means, but why fund a potential competitor? It would have been easy for them to have enough influence to gently push in the direction of ditching it. It was already poorly maintained so easy to justify too.
It doesn't need to make sense as long as it is common.
Well it isn't common here, maybe it's an american thing? Considering there is dispute over what it means that could be reason for it's lack of usage.
It is after all nothing more than a medium used to convey meaning.
Agreed
you knew the old historical use case for "begs the question"
Not the person you replied to, but I don't/didn't, it reads like you want to plead to a question to make it do something, which is pretty nonsensical. Even with people who think they know what "begs the question" means there seems to be debate about it in this thread.
There may be no English czar, but we should try to gravitate towards the greater ability to convey meaning. Etymology and knowing roots/history etc helps with this usually, but not with idioms, which this usage seems to come under.
I'm not the person you responded to but..
5g dynamic beamforming changed all that. Part of the big draw with 5g was each tower direction finds the phone so it can send directional beams. Allowing telcos to re-use spectrum.
Having the direction to within +-5 degrees, as well as the signal strength, from multiple point sources.. significantly brings the area down.
For others convenience, the part of the paper describing the actual antenna
For easy integration with other components, here we adopt the SIW as the waveguiding structure, which uses two parallel rows of metallic via holes and the thin dielectric substrate to realize the rectangular waveguide in planar form. Two ±45o inclined elliptical slot openings are etched on the top metallic surface of the SIW. The lattice size of the unit cell along the x-direction is 2mm, corresponding to 0.1580.
Each slot opening works as a polarizable magnetic dipole whose extracted electric field polarization is perpendicular to the long side of the slot. The slot meta-atom is intentionally designed at an off-resonance state by carefully tuning the geometric parameters of the slot opening.
Four PIN diodes (MACOMMADP-000907-14020x) are placed across the capacitive gaps of the slot openings in each meta-atom (Fig. 1b). A DC bias circuit is integrated into the meta-atom design. The circuit consists of a fan-shaped bias line (for radiofrequency choking) on the bottom biasing circuitry and a control via connecting the top meta-atom to the bottom biasing circuitry. We directly utilize the vias fences that existed in the SIW as the control vias to alleviate the perturbation of the bias network on the guided wave. Two PIN diodes in the same slot opening are biased in the same state, while PIN diodes in different inclined slot openings are biased and controlled independently.
As someone who simulates the analog side of antenna emissions for a living a fancy controlled leaky feeder'ish design sounds like there will be pain in my job in the future.
Getting the information from specific 5g manufacturers about the phasing configs/limits their radio units drive their beamforming phased arrays was bad enough.
Microsoft literally pulled all of bethesda's games from the PlayStation as soon as they bought it.
Did bethesda sell their ownership of the fallout series or something
I haven't seen evidence of them pulling anything since the bethesda acquisition. Only a new release that was never released on ps5 afterwards, starfield.
Maybe in the 90's perhaps. Seems to be whoever is in social/political power strong enough to successfully witch hunt always wants their 'enemies' to have no privacy.
Most of the people I see pulling the nothing to hide(and being the most authoritarian) are 'lefties' now, but give it another decade or two and the pendulum might swing back.
If the point of CUDA is to expose hardware capabilities openCL has been pretty great since 1.1/1.2 over 12 years ago. That's not a short length of time and they can't very well go back in time to predate CUDA.
If you're referring to the myriad of libraries nvidia supports and supplies, I'd argue that that isn't really in the scope of an api designed to facilitate efficient use of compute hardware. As useful as it may be for coders.
Maybe if Intel or AMD could do a driver or an API worth a fuck they would be dominating this market instead.
That wouldn't be enough, there's too much lock in and too much existing investment in CUDA.
Using OpenCL or vulkan-compute you can already do cross platform gpgpu programming, quite well I might add.
From-scratch items are easy, it's integrating existing work that's an issue, it's not insurmountable but there's enough friction to make it not worth peoples while.
Nvidia got in bed with academia pretty early with cuda, so there's whole decades of university graduates of the engineering type that don't know any better.
If they care about cross platform compatibility they may have investigated other options and done them, but it's pretty rare. Most people have an actual problem to solve that is the focus, and cuda was the api they learnt in school and are comfortable with.
I think we're done here though, there is no path forward from saying a 700kb firmware is larger than a 34mb full mini os load.
good day.
You have morphed your original argument against binary blobs to attacking the closed source nvidia kernel driver.
Since you mentioned using it in order to avoid having to use GSP.
Of all of them, amdgpu requires the largest binary blobs.
more than the 34mb gsp blob? not at all
If nouveau can run at a decent speed without GSP I'd be fairly happy. That is not the case.
There are lots of cards that amdgpu doesn't support at all (I happen to own one). They're old, but they exist.
If it's that old you probably want the radeon driver rather than amdgpu, unless you're talking 90's old.
Of course I don't. Again, you're trying to draw an AMD shaped line in the sand.
Tell that to the intel, arm mali, and every other in mainline drm driver. Nouveau would be fine if it were performant, which is no fault of their own really. The last cards it decently supports are from seven years ago. Nvidia can fix this easily if they wanted to, but they don't. When the vendor gives no shits, why support them?
Even some mobile gpus are becoming open/mainline now, which is nice for long term support and not being at the behest of a fixed kernel version with blob. Nvidia have been better with their tegra line, so they know how it can be done but choose not to.
Nvidia is that abusive partner, but they're charming enough for many to not care. Fair enough if that's what you're into, but not everyone is.
The best way to accelerate a Macintoy is at 9.8 meters per second per second.
