Instead of charging less for buys who purchase a LOT of power, it would be logical to alter the pricing structure so that they have to pay more. This is scheme would be a logical way to encourage businesses to be more power efficient.
Before someone goes off saying it would blow up the economy, I would point out that this shouldn't be an overnight change but a gradual one in order to let businesses adjust.
Pff! After 30 years. Perfect is the enemy of good. Be a little less literal and absolutist.
Right... after 30 years. Perfect is the enemy of good.
No, but endless security patches?
Who claimed there were endless security patches? You can continue updating your system with the same hardware.
I haven't tried, but would the latest SuSE install on my 486DX?
If it can run Windows 10?
It seems like this is one more reason to go with a popular Linux distribution: they don't EoL your computers.
Solar works great when it's made well but Chinese solar is untrustworthy because it's made to fail suddenly and catastrophically as a means of military attack against other countries that buy it.
[Citation Needed]
I believe they are referring to this story: Rogue Communication Devices Found in Chinese Solar Power Inverters
Kiss cheap shit goodbye
Seems unlikely because of "overcapacity and tepid demand". However, "cheap stuff" is already evaporating as a result of tariffs.
The benefits of Comparative Advantage are being downplayed at the expense of supply resilience.
Any change in behavior is more likely due to the market turmoil caused by Trump's unpredictable and inexplicable tariff policies. The situation is so volatiles that even MBAs, who can't see past their noses, are nervous.
I fully expect that when the threat passes that MBAs will go full single-point-of-failure again.
AAA is a marketing buzzword with no meaning.
AAA is a financial term used to describe the level of financial investment which generally reflects the excepted financial return. The natural consequence of a heavy initial investment is an expectation of wide distribution AKA popularity. This plays into my point of using it's popularity to pressure people to switch to Win11.
It's not the first of many.
Only time will tell.
It's simply the latest e-sport title to do this and doing this has nothing to do with Microsoft. Kernel Level Anticheat is a thing that has been playing a technological game of cat and mouse with users for decades.
Would you still believe this Activision started making this a requirement for all PC games that use Activision's "RICOCHET Anti-Cheat"? I say this because there are five older titles that use RICOCHET.
Call of Duty is far from the first game to require TPM 2.0 for its anti-cheat.
I've only seen a few other games with similar requirements. However, you're missing the point that CoD series are AAA titles.
Gamers are already largely using Windows 11.
Right and to increase that number... duh.
This change has no impact on Microsoft's bottom line at all.
Why would you think this game isn't merely the first of many to suddenly sport this requirement?
Activision isn't making the calls here, Microsoft, which bought Activision, is pulling the strings in order to try and push more people to use Windows 11.
Almost like $100 billion in stock buybacks and firing engineers was a bad idea.
"What?! NOOOOoooo! Those stock buybacks created create value for our shareholders! It's unjust to judge us for the consequences happening today based on our causal actions of yesterday because that could make us lose money!" - every CEO ever
Do farmers actually use these satellites?
Per TFA:
"NASA and others have turned this happy accident into an incredibly valuable set of maps of plant photosynthesis around the world," explains Scott Denning, a longtime climate scientist at Colorado State University who worked on the OCO missions and is now retired. "Lo and behold, we also get these lovely, high resolution maps of plant growth," he says. "And that's useful to farmers, useful to rangeland and grazing and drought monitoring and forest mapping and all kinds of things, in addition to the CO2 measurements."
AI isn’t a bubble
You're not entirely wrong because it's more like religion. See also: TESCREAL
This isn’t speculative—it’s the new normal.
That in and of itself is speculative.
Lie by omission: you can't get hired without a degree because their HR bot will filter you out.
To stay under the radar, Plague wipes environment variables like SSH_CONNECTION and disables shell history logging.
If you environment variables get wiped out and shell logging is disabled then that's a HUGE red flag right there. Not stealthy at all.
Anti-debug tactics have been around so long that they have managed to improve debuggers just deal with them. This isn't new or special.
ASCII a stupid question, you get an EBCDIC answer.
