I suspect that the relationship is not linear in a case like this: cancer tends to be a big issue for otherwise healthy-ish people because a lot of varieties of it take some time to develop; either chronic exposure to whatever the carcinogen of concern is or some time after the exposure when your luck with the mechanisms that suppress abnormal cell division eventually fails, or both.

There is probably a part of the graph that is mostly linear, nondrinkers to very light drinkers to light-ish drinkers; but anyone who is really hitting the sauce and succumbing to DUIs, cirrhosis, or other non-cancer alcohol mortality is making themselves ineligible for alcohol related cancer death.

That doesn't make sense, the average gamer will play more than 15 hours a month, that's a tiny bit over 3 hours a week. At that point, you'd just not bother with a console that costs hundreds at all.

So Microsoft is misleading, obsfucating or just flat out lying that only 4% will be impacted. Plus it makes terrible business sense for your cheapest product to meet the needs of your 96% of your customers, its the "2nd cheapest bottle of wine" effect, if you know nothing about wine you buy the second cheapest bottle as it's usually a fair bit better than the cheapest for a fraction of the price extra. So effectively your cheapest product is there just to be shit and drive people to slightly more expensive options. You want most customers buying the 2nd tier (or 2nd and 3rd if you've got a 4 tier system) which isn't much more than the bottom tier whilst your top tier is expensive.

Consoles were always money sinks, however I suspect Microsoft has gotten sick of subsidising them.

PCGMR here, steam quadrupled the price of my subscription this month, as they do every month... let me run the maths... 4 x £0 is still £0.

Don't think I'll be cancelling, even though I still get to keep all my games.

Time to admit the XBox and PS are both effectively dead. And nothing of value was lost.

How good is their game-streaming at cutting out the various 'filler' time(loading screens, startup animations telling you that Nvidia is the way it's meant to be played) and does it have some sort of 'suspend' state to handle cases where you would pause a game if it either doesn't have save on demand anywhere or takes a little while to load from save?

I know I have a bunch of games that I don't actually play all that much, in wall time terms; but Steam's 'executable run time' number is 2x-10x as high because I'm not necessarily going to save, quit, open, load if a game can be paused and alt-tabbed without crashing or continuing to eat all the GPU time to render a static image I'm not looking at; and I'm not necessarily going to do anything other than pause if I'm called away for 15 minutes by something else.

Unless the streaming service is impeccable at cutting out the various little waits it seems likely that people are going to start resenting the time limit even more than their level of seriousness and actual hand-on-controller-and-attention-locked time suggests.

Given that they already purchased Activision Blizzard King, including the "King" part of it, they clearly already have a considerable interest in casual players.

What is less obvious is how that is supposed to work for their streaming service. The stuff aimed at casuals, sensibly, is normally targeted at either potato-tier PC specs or the (pretty punchy in absolute terms) mobile devices that people worth targeting have.

It is much less clear whether there's a 'casual' market that demands current-gen console performance in very limited amounts rather than mobile or iGPU level titles. Given the extreme prevalence of various 'free to play' models that do sneaky monetization later it also looks like the 'casual' market's (significant) amount of money is largely locked up behind the sort of price sensitivity that requires clever psychological tricks to break through. I'm not sure that they'll be a good fit for something as obvious and psychologically burdensome as a ticking countdown timer hanging over every minute they play.

I have no particular reason to assume that Nvidia is lying about what this software does; but unless they've stumbled on a veritable miracle it's going to mostly be a mechanism for running largely separate models of whatever size your hardware allows; not anything close to what the datacenter comparison implies.

There's a reason why Nvidia sells most of their higher end models intended for parallel use with NVLink between the chips inside the chassis and a lot of either infiniband or RDMA-capable ethernet between multiple chassis; as well as shoving a considerable amount of RAM per GPU onto those parts. And it's because latency and bandwidth matter a lot.

As it is people seek out the unified memory parts, Apple's or strix halo, or nvidia's little GB10, because the GPU having to go to main memory over a mere x16 PCIe link is already a serious problem. If you think either 256 or 512 Gb/s directly to the PCIe root on the same die as the main memory controller doesn't cut it I have some...bad news...about how well NICs are probably going to work for you, especially with the Nvidia parts that don't support RDMA even if you have NICs that do.

Remember ladies and gentlemen, you're sharing the footpath with drivers who think a car without an instrument binnacle is a good idea.

Wealthy people don't physically protest, that's just for the proles.

Wealthy people protest by calling their bought and paid for politicians (or merely rented if they're not wealthy enough) which is far more effective.

The rich would love to have everyone tracked except for them. What Nineteen-Eighty Four didn't mention is that the inner party members were not subject to the same rules as normal party members (or proles).

Been a while since we've seen a Slashvertisement like this.

I mean, I've zero love lost on the orange idiot, but you're cray-cray.

His crime was getting caught. Never, ever let the authorities, let alone the general public in on the scam.

But I wouldn't worry, this isn't Kalshi telling Santos he's unwanted, this is Kalshi telling Santos to cover his tracks better. His secret, illegal account is still safe and active... Oh crap, I shouldn't have said he has a secret account... Oh crap, I certainly shouldn't have said it was illegal.

This is entirely performative to maintain a very thin veneer of legitimacy.

Some of them live in their own bubble of unreality. Murdoch and Fox News have had over 30 years of being their sole source of untruth to make that bubble. Americans tend to have a tenuous relationship with reality at the best of times but the MAGA crowd turn it to 11 and then some. When confronted with evidence they don't agree with they will find any excuse to handwave it away, no matter how much they suffer because of it, they'll vote for more of it because the Fox News man tells them to do so. And we're not immune to it, AFD (DE), National Front (FR), Vox (ES), Refrom (UK) are all using the same tactics. I can't speak for all European nations but the British Reform voters are literally the turkeys voting for Christmas. Reform has promised to cut benefits (welfare) and it just happens that most of the Reform voters are in the most deprived towns and counties in England. Clacton, where Nigel Farage was elected, has over 47% of it's working age population economically inactive and 1 in 5 have never held a job at all. They just assume it'll be someone elseâ(TM)s welfare that gets cut... Hell, as it happens they'll still blame anyone but themselves.

Physical ones are definitely rare beasts. Hypervisors make having support for it a lot more generally useful, though. You can still run into weird edge case limitations(certain PCIe devices, under some circumstances, really don't like being detached from the host and popped onto a VM); but the hypervisor will definitely be able to tell guests stories of dynamic reconfiguration that the hardware isn't electrically or mechanically capable of supporting; and being able to add or remove CPUs or RAM without rebooting is nice.

It could certainly just be a numbers game; tons of ICE vehicles out there; or whether there's an issue with accumulated cultural assumptions and engineering priorities.

I can at least imagine that there's a difference in mindset between "this is a 12v lead acid starter battery; it'll put out a solid few tens of amps for the starter motor assuming it is working correctly; but its energy density is kind of trash and we mostly prefer not to dump additional systems onto it, especially when that exposes them to the slightly gross output of the alternator" and "This battery has been designed to fully provide for all energy requirements of a vehicle; if you displease it it will probably kill you and then burn vigorously for a day or two. A foundational assumption of all systems that need energy is that they'll be connected back to it in one way or another because there aren't other energy sources here."

Not like electric vehicle designers couldn't/don't make mistakes, and certainly some of their mistakes burn with the really exciting commitment of a large light metal fire; but the engineering culture around an ICE vehicle seems much more likely to produce a string of individually reasonable, collectively dangerous, "c'mon, it's just one little 12v system" requests that get bolted onto a fairly antique battery without too much broader thought; while analogous feature demands in a fully electric vehicle will either be judged high energy enough to potentially get brought into the high voltage wiring(which, barring gross negligence across the design is treated like it can and will kill you) or totaled in to some low voltage system budget that will be handled by a DC-DC converter designed with actual care because going from 600v to 12v isn't something you do as casually as just slapping another 12v requirement in parallel with the other stuff on the 12v battery and calling it good.

Apple under Jobs was always sleaze city... it's just that it's now the Reality Distortion Field has broken down and people are seeing through it.

Just 10 years ago, Fanboys would be defending the idea of putting ads in as revolutionary, unprecedented, imaginative and groundbreaking whilst jerking themselves silly. Now days the Apple crowd are 40 yr old dads in socks and sandals (and not the fashionable style of hippy, no this is Derek from Accounts Receivable socks and sandals) that has too many kids so no MX-5. I remember when ./ would melt down over every apple rumour, now days a motoring forum I frequent has more attention given to major product releases from Apple and we're talking about one thread in a small "computers and stuff" section of a car forum.

Apple's always been a cult, hence the tolerance of sleeze but it's not the cool cult that Tom Cruise joins, it's the cult that your boring dad joins.

I am a 40 something, but have a 2 seater sports car and no Apple devices (hence I can afford the "kid free" ride).