Up to us, the populace to vote for people who would be willing to pass a law about it. This is the extent the FTC can do without that.

Buddy, you better take a good look at who is in office.

You might be too young.. oh who a hell am I kidding this is slashdot.

Anyway in electronics there are different grades of quality. TigerDirect made a business selling the B and c grade stuff. Because of that they could undercut just about anyone but they often sold junk.

Think of it like how Intel bins their CPUs only it's stuff like the quality of the electrical wiring in the final product.

So the practice I think has more or less gone away for major brands. They have much better quality control so they don't do the binning thing anymore. But the factories will absolutely do binning and resell them to different brands. So there can be a big difference between the Kodak electric scooter and the one from some weird Chinese seller. Although honestly kodak's brand is so shot these days that I doubt there's much difference between those two particular companies

Apparently broadcom does have fabs and they make chips and apple uses them for that. I don't really think of broadcom like that but yeah I guess they do. So it's Apple designed chips being manufactured by broadcom.

As a matter of national security yeah it's good to have chip production here but it's kind of a yawn from a jobs perspective. None of these chip foundries produce very many jobs. It beats the hell out of an AI data center I guess.

It was only the land of the free before white people showed up, but it's been good propaganda.

Well no one, by all accounts they ran some of the most amazing and successful game studios themselves, e.g. Bungie.

However MS buying ALL THE STUDIOS without any plan of what to do with them... that was always going to end in disaster.

Carmack infamously hated the concept of licensing engines and was really happen when id got out of the business back 15 years ago. In their opinion it not only places a burden on the company (needing to track licenses, but also provide support, and tools to 3rd parties) but also places restrictions on the team (when you sell your tech to someone else you can't just introduce breaking changes on a whim to suit your own games anymore.

As for needing an engine, back in the day id Tech was revolutionary. It really set the pace in the industry. These days it seems to be more playing catch up. It's a sad time we live in but it seems like more and more the future is Google Chrome... errr I mean Unreal Engine, ... sorry got our sad state of the IT world mixed up.

You're being disingenuous. Back then every engine was truly revolutionary from a technical standpoint. Wolfenstein engine may have introduced 2.5D, but Doom introduced the entire concept of a Z axis. It was a fundamentally different engine with a fundamentally different process for generating the world and absolutely revolutionary in its day. It wasn't a refinement, it virtually a completely re-think of how to process graphics, and would power many games until Quake revolutionised id Tech into a true 3D space.

I think you don't understand some of the amazing complexity that went into Doom. It was the first game to compute only the elements that the person could see, which gave it a massive performance leap over Wolfenstein's approach, and is one that Quake relied on heavily for it's 3D processing. Doom did some amazing bullshit with math, precomputed lookup tables (with a mistake that made history as Carmack fat fingered the calculation of pi into the lookup table), and even neat tricks with writing to the monitor since the engine outperformed the ability for VGA graphics to draw the screen of the day.

Don't dismiss doom simply because Wolfenstein was the first game you played that let you roam through a building shooting things. Both engines were truly revolutionary in different ways.

Users want interoperability and apple is against it

What is or isn't a monopoly is literally irrelevant here, that is not at issue. They don't have to be a monopoly to be a gatekeeper. They only need control over an influential platform.

This is wrong and literally dangerous.

Firstly a lot of people don't really understand the whole idea of a hybrid marketplace where it is a legit brand but also hosts ones selling dangerous crap. Especially most people don't realise that it's somehow fine for Amazon to sell stuff which is illegal. Amazon is hosting it, providing the storefront, processing the sale and payment. To most people that's selling.

And even if you do know, it's really hard to identify what's merely cheep cheese and actively dangerous. I'm confident with electrical stuff, being an engineer, I know what creepage is and so on, but this is so far beyond what most people know. Even generally competent people have a hard job spotting this from things outside their area of expertise. i doubt I could spot a dangerous ladder.

Everything you posted yesterday is stupid and wrong, fuck off

Agree, I buy a lot of fiber optic cables for work and many of the cheaper brands on there have been solid with no problems (Yutianhome is one in particular). While i try to prefer more "reputable" suppliers like LANShack I have to say the quality is comparable. Ditto for SFP adapters, Amazon is where I came across 10GTek and they have always been solid and reliable by my anecdotal experience.

If it gets any kind of traction then one of those brands is going to sue him sooner or later. Possibly multiple brands. If he's in the United States he'll just get bankrupted by the lawsuits and if he's in Europe they don't have the same Free speech protections we do so he's looking at a pretty serious libel suit...

As an American I don't have a hell of a lot of civil liberties left but I can't at least talk shit about bad companies. I mean for the time being and all...

I absolutely love my EHEYCIGA electric scooter and OH GOD IT'S ON FIRE. Quick where is my WNPETHOME brand fire extinguisher!? Oh God it's full of bees! Why is it full of bees!? They aren't even live bees!!