Based on what you've written, your PayPal experience is largely as a payor, and not a payee. That's certainly the most common case.

The other side of the transaction is very different. PayPal is heavily biased toward the former. That's a problem, because PayPal is quite unforgiving for payees. A big part of the problem is that payees are often ignorant, reckless or outright criminal, and their heads are often filled with small-business-person shit. People think they're clever or take things for granted with PayPal and get caught: accounts get frozen or shut down when people fuck around, and people do a lot of fucking around.

They frequently don't see it as fucking around. But that's a chronic condition, especially for business folks. You'll notice the lack of details seen from PayPal haters. When they do share, you'll learn all about how fast PayPal picks up on all the screwball things people try to pull, and how little patience PayPal has for the nonsense in the heads of these people.

PayPal isn't perfect. Handling money is complicated, and PayPal has made mistakes. But you can safely chalk up about 99% of the PayPal hate you see to payees that learned the hard way that their bullshit won't fly with PayPal.

This.

Culturally it would have been a big shift, even given the talent they have, but they just don't have the courage of leadership it would have taken to do this. It's been 60+ years since IBM had that, when they bet the company on the 360. The PC doesn't count; that was essentially a side project for IBM. They didn't create the hardware or software for it, and the companies future wasn't riding on it.

It's a part of their business, but not a majority of it, even before AI. They've added AI coprocessors to their Telum CPUs for their Z series platform, but it's not a significant player in the world of AI money. More of a checkbox me-too thing that probably will be of use for legacy customer applications, but no one is building data centers full of Telums to compete with OpenAIAnthropticGoogleEtc.

Even there they improve automation if it makes sense. Its not always a cost of labour, but managing error rates,

There have been some calls for Intel to reorganise into separate chip development and chip fabrication divisions or businesses.

Note, Intel had previously designed StrongARM and XScale lines, but sold them off.

Maybe. I doubt it: Intel seems to have figured out that x86 is not it's exclusive future, a change in corporate mentality that long overdue.

Also, this story must be fake news: Tariffs Don't Work! member?

This is the real answer. A lot of people are afraid of the speech Nazi's that ruin the lives of anyone committing wrongthink. They know the social media companies are moderated by privileged tech weirdos that are protected and immune, and readily bury the people they hate with no consequence. Sane people don't engage with stuff like that.

While we're at it, why don't we pour hot grits on a Beowulf cluster while Natalie Portman confirms that BSD is dying?

And the case doesn't really rely on the GUID, so it doesn't matter.

If you actually find anyone doing that in the real world, you should point and laugh until they get angry.

Yes, yes, yes. Thing is, there was a clear lack of urgency here. The timelines you cite are for your case, and whatever requirements, budgets and deadlines you suffer. T-Mobile made a bad bet in 2008, and the writing has been on the wall for years now, and viable alternatives have been available at least as long. Were T-Mobile competently managed, they certainly had the means to meet the necessary deadlines. Instead, they made yet another bad bet trying to litigate against pirates.

The correct bet today is container orchestration and open-source based virtualization tools that aren't at the mercy of inveterate rent seekers. There are many ways to skin these cats, and the fact that T-Mobile has slouched into its current unfortunate position is entirely T-Mobile's fault.

Also, the argument that only "two calls" where made and, therefore, a team of 20 people is somehow ridiculous is specious. Support contracts at this scale involve far more than picking up a phone during business hours, and Broadcom will have absolutely no difficulty poking that argument full of holes.

It's all about keeping the hype machine going. Sure A.I. is improving at a very rapid pace. But it is still not anywhere near to the level of the hype. A.I. is a useful tool but all these A.I. companies are operating at enormous losses. None of them have turned a profit. Many consumers of A.I. are finding out the hard way that A.I. token consumption is more expensive than human staffers. They are also finding out that even a 28% failure rate is way too high. SalesForce, Amazon, Microsoft, and now Ford have backpedaled. Soon the investors are going to want a return on investment. Soon the token cost is going to need to be increased. Soon we will be running out of electricity and consumer electronics are starting to feel the pinch of inflated RAM / Storage pricing after Micron decided to exit the consumer market so they could make over a Trillion selling to A.I. data centers. Apple just raised their prices, others will soon follow. Electric prices are going way up and some places are talking about austere measures to conserve electricity. Those states need to jack up the price for the data centers so they can invest in increasing power production.

There are major advancements in semiconductors that will greatly increase efficiency thus reducing electricity costs tremendously. The problem is it costs trillions and takes a decade or more to retool FABs to use the new designs. There are also nuclear reactor designs that are much smaller and a thousand times safer than what was built originally. But the general public fears nuclear. These new designs make it impossible for a meltdown to occur, etc. Data centers are already pursuing nuclear power if they get past the regulatory red tape.

The problem is A.I. is moving faster than the supporting infrastructure can be built. We need to move faster to keep up. There may be a tipping point and the bubble may burst. It won't kill A.i. but the hype will disappear if the bubble bursts as investors see their money is being burned with no return on investment.

The only thing I ever used a FireStick for was to connect to my media server with an App Store approved app when I traveled and used hotels.Worst case scenario, I could jack in the FireStick to HDMI and connect the power cable to a USB port. It beats using a tablet or a phone to watch content on a small screen. The more modern tech savvy hotels you can just stream via AirPlay or Chromecast to the TV from a smartphone.

The side-loaded pirate streaming apps are what the newbs use who don't know any better.

Sadly, server storage is expensive again...

microwave labotomy ... We just put the machine against your head here for a bit and those bad urges go away, all better.

Another poster mentioned that it's actually focussed ultrasound.

Still sounds like breaking a piece of a system by stirring the brain with a knife (lobotomy) or burning it out with heat (cauterization), electricity (electroshock) or mechanical shock (blow to the head) - just carefully focused without (substantial) damage to other parts of the brain or its casing.

Ultrasonic destruction of a piece of the brain's reward/punishment/desire/avoidance mechanism rather than persistent unwanted fat.

If you're close enough to see an enemy, they already have multiple autonomous weapons coming for you.