The cheapest one I can see on Amazon is $59 and it's some no-brand product I wouldn't buy.

Where do you get one for $20? Aliexpress? Is it also a bullshit no-brand device?

The processor obviously doesn't include a cellular modem. You could reasonably put it in the chipset. You would still need an antenna. In order to be practical it would have to reach outside of the case, as PCs mostly have metal cases (even many of the plastic ones have metal RF shields, or at least paint) and are not good at letting RF signals out. In a typical laptop the antenna is around the monitor bezel for example. So yeah, I could believe they designed a chipset that would do that, but they wouldn't have put it in the processor itself and this also clearly would have been an optional feature because the manufacturer would have to connect an antenna.

The 3G-related features are billed as part of vPro remote-control, specifically AMT. They also tout control by Ethernet, not just "3G". There's not ethernet on the processor die either, any more than there is 3G.

You have gone full frother.

Accounts don't do anything. They are just some database entries. Software does something with them. In this case, it's software that exfiltrates your data without getting your explicit permission. An intelligent person would recognize this as malware, which explains why you don't.

You mean this setting which Microsoft is turning on whether it's wanted or not? Suck harder, cuck. There's a prize for you at the end. It's a complete lack of self-respect.

This is about copying their files, wholesale, which is obviously still more data than that. You don't seem to understand the difference between less than, equal to, and more than. How do you function? Why have you written so many obviously batshit insane comments in the last 24 hours? Every comment I've read on multiple discussions this morning which has made me say "what the fuck is this clown on about" has been by you.

Are you sure? Because maybe they were just trained for a different job. Mine were wasted on Ninja Gaiden, the original I mean. You had to be halfway to a speedrunner just to finish that fucker. But having trained my brain to do that for 2d platformers (which I can't or perhaps don't want to do any more either, but now I'm old and have an excuse) I find it difficult to do it for 3d ones.

There is seldom a game which couldn't benefit from more development time. When you choose to throw away effort instead of stretching it out a little more and having a more polished product to offer at a more fortuitous time... well, then you're the games industry in general.

HahaHAHAHHaHAHAHHAHAHAH

Very good, junior! *claps* *holds up an orange* Now what is this?

Limitations are a key principle of art. The camera only captures what you point it at and configure it for. The brush only puts on the canvas what you can make it put there.

Yeah, why would they care if the people who produce the most interesting images and cause network effects leave their platform?

I never thought of my memory being especially great until I got to compare it to yours, where you forgot that computer technology was moving rapidly enough that the average person wasn't buying a new one more often than a new version of Windows came out. Today I also learned that you're not a PC enthusiast, because you didn't build more PCs than that in that period. Windows licenses transferred freely. Some of us were actually building PCs and successfully used the same license for multiple machines as we rotated through them. Sorry you weren't into this stuff but want to talk about it anyway.

I was either unaware that id had been purchased by the evil empire, or else I blacked the memory out as a defense mechanism.

DeepSeek is designing a tensor processor. The instruction set is very simple. Mostly just lots and lots of parallelized low-precision multiply-and-accumulate.

I didn't realize Amazon's Mechanical Turk was still around.

At some level, it does. When these laws were passed, I think the main goal was to stop companies from charging exorbitant fees to other companies' cardholders when using their ATMs to withdraw money and similar. You wouldn't want to do that to your own customers, because you'd lose them as customers, so why would the government regulate it?

But now, years later, in the context of retail sales, card companies want the opportunity to charge higher fees to retailers so that they can give rewards, confident that the retailers will charge customers the average fee rather than passing on the exact fee that they get charged on a per-customer basis, and as a result, that jacking up the prices for your own cards won't cause you to lose customers.

The truly perverse (incentive) part is that customers are forced to chase the higher fees or else they're paying more as the stores up their prices to the newer, higher average.

The only sane way to solve it is for cash-back rewards to be banned outright, with the only allowed exception being retailer-issued cards that grant cash back exclusively at their store by using their own low-fee network (e.g. airline cards, Amazon cards, Apple cards). Because those retailers have every incentive to keep prices low, this very narrow case doesn't have that problem. But even those shouldn't be allowed to give cash back everywhere.

No, now Microsoft is mostly a normal, legit business, and they even publish a linux distro.

It's been that way for many many years now. But windoze still sucks.

My prediction is that this chapter will end rather quickly with the judge fining the lawyers who attempted it.

Having a service model instead of a sales model is inherently a rent-seeking business, but that's not bad.

When people use "rent seeking" in the pejorative, it means something different; that you're seeking perpetual rent after you've finished providing the service.

IBM doesn't do that. Whenever they provide code to their customers to utilize their services they give it under Apache 2 or similar BSD-style, business-friendly licenses. And then they only charge "rent" for services that are currently being used.

In this conversation, "rent seeking" would only apply to this other unknown company who is trying to get money for somebody else's work, based on having purchased or inherited an old contract for which no new services are even planned.