It's a step function price shock that'll adjust at a stable price. If enough leave there is no point in owning the IP, doubt they'd open source VMware. All it takes, which AI makes easier than ever, is a workable alternative with an easy button. Have done a little proxmox - just attach to an ESXi machine and suck 'em over.

If the tencent cluster could smoke signal an OAI party somehow it'd be a plot right out of "Colossus: The Forbin Project" from 10 years before "Wargames"

It's not expensive to add AM coverage to the radio itself. However, many cars, especially EVs, flagrantly exceed FCC limits on RF noise pollution, and this is far worse on AM (which picks up noise as signal) than FM (which suppresses some noise and receives less due to the higher frequency). So the cost is not in the radio but in fixing the el cheapo badly filtered car power system so that the AM radio isn't wiped out by it.

Of course after you do all that almost all that's on AM is junk, lots of Rush wannabees, though there is diverse ethnic programming in some cities.

Young whippersnapper, hold your tongue.

I grew up eating Gros Michel and remember it fondly. Cavendish is not nearly as tasty. And yes, I am over 70 -- it was the 1950s.

If you hunt around you can find a few sellers offering Gros Michel bananas as exotic specialty fruits, grown in remote (from other bananas) areas like Miami. But they're not in stores. And a blight is coming for Cavendish, so they'd better have new varieties lined up.

Massachusets successfully sued the EPA citing global warming and ocean rise.

Next step would be taking China to the world court claiming overproduction could trigger an alien UFO intervention to save us from ourselves.

"The magic of dots is when they bring your boss work done the way you would do it"

FTFY

Sure, seems like with the blessedly secular higher education driving themselves crazy we will have all these different schools of thought dedicated to their own peculiar name for and interpretation of the nameless one popping up all over. Conservatives have been coming up with their own private education institutions for a while.

A three camera cluster should do - any one goes off line the other two can still coordinate laser fire.

It happens - my 6th grade desk just happened to be right next to a wall of books with a couple of "Rick Brandt Electronic Adventure" and we were off to the moon and Tibet.

Purely coincidentally asked Omarchy to clone and build the same just a minute ago - able to record background office noise and play it back ðY

Firmware in most consumer routers is based on Linux, with the router vendor adding some UI and chip-vendor drivers to the open source baseline. Not written from scratch. And thus just as good or bad as routers whose hardware was assembled elsewhere.
China can't manufacture the high end chips yet, but they do have their own supply chain for midrange SOCs and memory. Gigadevices cloned some European SOCs. They work. Chinese contract manufacturers build to the quality level the customer pays for. You want cheap junk, they're happy. You want good, they can. And their native design capabilities are catching up. The US, in contrast, is now mainly an exporter of raw materials -- wood, scrap metal, animal feed. Plus weapons to allies and airplanes, though Boeing's reputation ain't what it used to be.

Something any serious jazz drummer already knows - getting syncopated rhythms going in each limb independently

Like ask Jeeves but with get 'er done attitude

100% of every thousandth payment taken, vs. 3% of every single payment....

Yep, still have the XP running - it's only function is for an old Epson scanner that they won't update the drivers for but that's it.