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Comment Headline wrong (Score 1) 117

The proper headline would be "AMD made a very bad choice, and Valve suffers because they choose AMD".

AMD (unlike Nvidia and Intel) choose to not include the protocol enumeration in their firmware (which they apparently plan to do moving forward (they learned the lesson), which required them to do it in software. They knew they would need to make the protocol public, which the license and NDA they signed did not allow. They did try to convince the HDMI forum to let them publish the protocol, which the HDMI forum decided not to do (as was always their right, and the most likely outcome, but AMD needed to try). Valve choose to select AMD knowing HDMI 2.1 was not likely to be available. So, bad on AMD, and bad on Valve.

Comment Re:Taking the number of studios from 5 down to 4 (Score 1) 63

If Netflix were to buy Warner, there would still be a "Big 5". If Paramount buys it, we go to 4. Is that good, bad, meaningless? I don't know.

(Old) Hollywood is terrified of big tech. They see changes coming that will impact the way the business has operated for many decades. Sort of like some people are terrified of AI (their jobs will change, or be eliminated). Change will happen (no matter who wins the acquisition). Unless you can accurately predict the future it is not possible to know the good, bad, and meaningless changes that will happen (either in Hollywood, or AI, or ...)

Comment Re:Is he even sane? (Score 1) 63

You're not wrong, but I think your numbers are a little off. NYT Numbers, cite below:

Netflix - $83B, no cable networks Paramount - $108B, networks convey

Not sure what value I'd put on Discovery, etc., either.

The cable network parts were expected to be worth (somewhere) around $16B after the spin-out, which means Netflix's bid is worth (to the shareholders) in the range of $100B (as the shareholders still get the cable network).

The board will probably need to evaluate the Ellison offer.

Comment Re:I predict (Score 0) 73

You don't have to pay for the service after all.

Some people insist that they do need to see the content. They were often brought up in an environment where they were told they can have it all. And every politician will always promise everything for free (or at least cheap), as that is the way to get (re)elected.

Comment Re:I must be getting old. (Score 3, Interesting) 126

Am I the only person on the planet who still opens the garage door with, you know, my hands? Is that completely crazy? Am *I* crazy?

Around my neighborhood almost no one parks in the garage (they park in their driveway, or the street). The garage is where you store stuff (and you rarely open the garage door).

Comment Re:Software change, not a recall (Score 1) 58

The aircraft owners are doing the software change and most should be done within a few days.

The software change is reportedly to roll back to a previous version of the software (which did not have this particular issue, although the updated version was presumably introduced to fix some other issue).

Most airplanes already require regular daily checks (think of it as checking the oil levels, but there is a lot more to check on an airplane than the fluid levels) usually performed at night when the planes are not being flown. Adding a few hours of software rollback to an aircraft's daily checks is not ideal, but should be able to be accomplished for many aircraft quickly (although for the airplanes that also need new flight hardware, that will take a bit longer).

Comment Re:Directly monitored switches? (Score 1) 54

There's no camera looking at the switches to confirm they actually were moved.

One recommendation from the NTSB a number of years ago was to add cockpit cameras to assist with their investigations. As I recall, the pilots unions, on behalf of their members, strenuously objected (and the airlines were not keen on the additional expense either). Neither the FAA (nor other regulatory bodies) added regulations to require cockpit cameras. Perhaps this incident will be the one that forces the recommendation over the regulatory line.

Comment Re:We have internet (Score 3, Informative) 54

We have internet and can remote easily, why do so many people travel by air still

For the purposes of chain of custody (which may be very important if this ends up being criminal investigation as some point, but also goes to the trust of the entire process), all access to the evidence, when it is not otherwise secured, must be in person, with colleagues and witnesses present, when the evidence is opened and accessed using certified equipment suitable to the task. The 787 uses two EAFRs (a combined flight data and voice recorder), with one in the forward part of the aircraft and one in the rear. One was extensively damaged, and required more extensive data retrieval work.

A leading theory by people who actually know the plane (including pilots) is that this appears to be another EgyptAir Flight 990, which was suicide by plane (with Egypt insisting publicly that their co-pilot would never do that). The preliminary report by the AAIB did not provide any evidence to contradict the suicide by plane theory (and even strengthened it a bit, much to the consternation of the pilots union). It is possible the NTSB and the AAIB will come to different conclusions.

Comment Re:Rich a$$holes (Score 1) 69

Rich a$$hole explains why it would be a mistake to inconvenience rich a$$holes.

Follow the money

A CEO's job is to promote their company (marketing) so that their owners (which includes Tim, personally, in this case) make more money.

There was the old joke, which was Q: "how can you tell when a marketing individual was lying to you". A: "Their lips were moving". I you listen to a CEO and believe they are not lying to you, you did not internalize the essence of the joke.

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