In this context, it means the purchase will be made only with money, as opposed to stocks in a different company, or a stock + cash deal.

Seems like 17 years as long as no one new is hired.

My car actually uses a heat pump rather than electric radiant heat, and its far more efficient in the cold.

Who only hit the hood after getting hit by a human driver first.

I use M.2 drives in M.2 enclosures now. The form factor is a little bigger than USB flash, but the performance is fantastic. I think this is what you're looking for.

But the pointer is free to anyone. NFTs are at best, a receipt for a pointer to a JPEG.

Patents have nothing to do with copyright.

This Isreal/Hamas prisoner exchange article (https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hamas-israel-hostages-prisoners-wednesday-1.7043716) and the take you got from it is "Islam is great, lets all kiss the ass of Islam". You're fucked in the head buddy.

You have it backwards. It's not that Android users can't send high resolution images, is that apple can't receive high resolution images from Android users.

This really only makes sense if the orders were reversed. Not all idiots are in congress.

At the time, Trump putting up tariffs on various imports. This was likely a deal to make Trump look good for "bringing manufacturing back the the US" in exchange for tariff exemptions.

What you're suggesting, is that if they didn't invest into AI, their current chips would have 16 times the performance of their current offerings - effectively a 7 year stagnation. This is ridiculous.

If you are hoping for a big drop in something that has always been a consistent gainer, you sometimes have to force that drop to happen. This article is likely one of those puzzle pieces.

Reddit has a blackout starting today for the next two days. This probably contributes.

Just like in south park, the problem lies in the smug levels of the people buying these systems. They tout their systems (What are you crazy? I cant play on STANDARD definition) and feed the hype, but its an inflated level of 'coolness' that the games just cant hold up to. Flashy games are usally boring, half baked ideas. I can barely stand to play any of the games today, playing mostly old emulators (River City Ransom booyaa).