Comment Who is "we"? (Score 1) 49
It's very important to recognize that what one executive says is rarely reflective of how middle-managers behave. The bottom line is that nobody should trust Microsoft, especially not it's employees. #GetTheFacts
Submission + - EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law (gamedeveloper.com)
neoRUR writes: EA Sports FC and Battlefield publisher EA has been taken private
The move means the U.S. juggernaut is no longer a publicly-traded entity and is now majority owned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through its PIF investment arm. Other investors include Silver Lake and Affinity Partners, the latter of which was established by U.S. president Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.
The $55 billion transaction was financed via a combination of cash from PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners as well as roll-over of PIF's existing stake in EA—constituting an equity investment of approximately $36 billion. Notably, $20 billion of debt financing was provided by JPMorgan Chase Bank.
Comment Re:Presenting! (Score 1) 37
The illusion of value.
OOW! This will go nicely with my illusion of choice.
Submission + - Brain activity reveals the melodies that people imagine (medicalxpress.com)
alternative_right writes: Study participants were 10 epilepsy patients with electrodes on the surfaces of their brains for clinical monitoring. Participants quietly listened to the first bars of children's tunes, then imagined the melodies of subsequent bars before humming their imagined melodies.
Brain activity from the patients carried information about relative pitches within the imagined melodies. Combining note-level pitch predictions over time allowed the research team to recreate melodic changes that reflected the structure of the imagined songs.
Kwon elaborates, "The model we created decodes relative pitch classesâ"such as do, re, mi, fa, sol, and laâ"rather than exact, absolute pitches. This is useful because people often recognize melodies by the relationships between notes, even when the same melody is played in a different key."
Brain activity from the patients carried information about relative pitches within the imagined melodies. Combining note-level pitch predictions over time allowed the research team to recreate melodic changes that reflected the structure of the imagined songs.
Kwon elaborates, "The model we created decodes relative pitch classesâ"such as do, re, mi, fa, sol, and laâ"rather than exact, absolute pitches. This is useful because people often recognize melodies by the relationships between notes, even when the same melody is played in a different key."
Comment Just use Qt! (Score 2) 32
They could have a unified codebase if they shifted to using Qt for everything. It can do GUI, system config, accelerated graphics, joysticks/gamepads, touchscreens, et cetera. If you want to improve compatibility then Qt is the obvious way to go. It also targets smartphones so if you want to make ports for that, it's an option.
Comment Old news. (Score 1) 55
Make a silent drone I'll be more impressed.
Those are old news, friend. https://s.abcnews.com/images/P...
Comment Re:5X gravity? (Score 1) 22
Umm good luck with that. The animals on that planet would need strong muscles.
Not if they live in the water. You clearly underestimate what billions of years of evolution can produce.
Comment Re:No. (Score 1) 8
Development feeds into distribution however you do it, so, at some point you have to deal with that.
In secure software distributions like Debian, each package...
* has the contents vetted and tested.
* is signed using a key that is associated with a physically verified person.
* may depends on other packages with the same requirements.
There have been no malicious packages in the Debian software distribution system which means there absolutely is a difference.
Comment Unfortunate tale? It's a feel-good story. (Score 2) 41
Hedge funds do NOTHING to contribute to society in any way, shape, or form. The fact that this parasitic operation is dying is a feel-good story, not an unfortunate tale.
Comment No. (Score 2) 8
Neither of these systems were designed to be secure software distribution systems, they were designed to be repositories for software development. Idiots decided, "hey, let's also build and distribute software using repositories meant for software development" and it went to shit as they should have expected. It bears repeating, these are not secure software distribution systems. Everyone needs to get a grip and stop pretending that they are and thus stop using them as such.
Comment Re:Optimization processes (Score 1) 24
(We have on big hexagon on Saturn already.)
I'm not about to listen Big Hexagon about evolutionary geometry. Sounds like they already have you on their payroll!
Comment Actual answer. (Score 2) 16
Nobody in the entire thread could be arsed to actually read the blog post but not far in they tell you...
An open source Vulkan driver on Windows opens up a number of possibilities: a shared codebase across platforms, easier debugging and experimentation, faster turnaround on fixes, and a path for the community (e.g., game developers) to report problems or contribute improvements that benefit everyone regardless of operating system.
Comment So... psychopathic behavior. (Score 4, Insightful) 80
Ignoring the fact that price fixing is a federal crime, they seem behave similarly to businessjerks with anti-social personality disorder (psychopaths). Is this really the future people want? It doesn't matter, the actual billionaire psychopaths are certain to be thrilled to have machines that are willing to be patently evil on their behalves.
Comment And? (Score 4, Insightful) 76
The most sophisticated hacks link together several small vulnerabilities before they ultimately break security. Just because it cannot be exploited on it's own doesn't mean it cannot be used as part of an exploit chain.
Comment Re:Computational Demand (Score 1) 68
The demand is real... whether they can scale the workload down to actually make money remains to be seen.
Realistically, they simply need to increase the price which solves the over-subscription problem and expense problem.
Long term there are major benefits to society if they can drive down the cost of energy, cooling, and computational infrastructure to support democratized access to LLMs and diffusion models without bankrupting providers.
At best, that is wishful thinking.
I would just settle for a decent search engine that didn't require me to go to page 3 of search results (and forcing me to verify that I'm a human for daring to click to page 2 of the search)
Welcome to the shiternet. Fuck you because they have you by the balls.
