Often the hardware is the same, but they have software locks in place to e.g. stop you using WiFi bands that are not legal in the US. On top of that they have to provide support for new firmware, and TP Link often replace devices that are out of warranty but which were bricked by a firmware update.
Obviously there were not many - and it might have been rarity value.
Or perhaps no one had told them about mosquito coils.
They can't win. If they don't pay they get sued by students for not securing their data. If they do pay they encourage further attacks.
The time to win was before the hack. Now all they can do is pay, and hope they picked the cheaper option.
Android has had this for years. I'm not sure if it's the same on every phone, but on Pixel long press the bar at the bottom of the screen and it opens Google Lens or whatever it's called now. From there you circle what you are interested on screen, and it invokes Gemini AI on it. It can also do stuff like copy text or translate it for you, which is handy when you need to use an app in a language you don't read.
Chromebooks are great. They just work, they are cheap, and they cover many people's needs easily. My mum is on her second one and went from monthly tech support issues with Windows to smooth sailing for years.
How many of these companies will bother making updates for US models after they get banned from sale anyway?
3. They're a reliable customer of power. That means that they will alway pay the bill, even if it is high. The grid operators and generation plant operators can charge them a huge premium for bulk power, then use that extra revenue to build more power plants.
I needed a good laugh, but that is exactly the opposite of how it actually works. They will be a discounted bulk price, or they'll build somewhere that will.
You're describing the situation in places where demand doesn't exceed capacity. I'm describing how any sane person running an electrical utility would bill things in a place where a company wants to put in a data center that exceeds available capacity. They'll hit them with capacity charges based on their usage during peak demand periods, or they'll make them pay for capacity improvements as part of the connection charge, or both.
And the "or they will go somewhere that will" part shouldn't really be a concern. They want to build there. The generating capacity isn't adequate. They either pay whatever fees are necessary to ensure the stability of the grid or they don't build. If that cause them to build somewhere else where adequate capacity exists, that's also fine.
It may be unpleasant, but we can't just ignore what these guys are doing. Or the others who are building AI systems.
If it's allowed to flourish without supervision, AI could be an existential threat to humanity. We need to stay involved with how it will integrate into our lives. And it will, like it or not.
Neither, it's just more popular right now.
Cyrix released their MediaGX CPU with integrated GPU (and audio chipset) in 1996.
It's like rewriting C++ programs to use Pascal.
I guess you'd be shocked to learn that that is actually an everyday occurrence. It's usually pronounced "Delphi" instead of "Pascal," though. It's popular in enterprise because it provides deep windoze integration at the same time as portability to mobile OSes.
You started strong but, as usual, you quickly went off the rails.
He's just an executive who got lucky who made a ridiculous buyout offer he can't finance so he can stay relevant. He's not "in power." He's in charge of a shitty little company that is failing slower than expected because they're popular with dude-bros and incels. He wasn't elected to anything, he isn't running for office, and the political system has nothing to do with this story at all.
I have about $500 of vintage tools I ordered from ebay in the mail right now. I've also got over a dozen camera lenses that I purchased on there.
They're a thriving business with a high profit margin, reasonable debt load, good cash flow, and consistent modest earnings growth.
The value of the data center alone is about 0.81% of the GNI of the entire country. The value of the data center is about 0.033% of the value of Microsoft, so the ratio of Microsoft/Kenya relative value is 2454. Note this is not a percentage, but the approximate ratio of net worth. As a percentage it's 0.04% USD of Kenya per 1 USD of Microsoft.
This is how colonialism is manifest in the 21st century.
The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
