For individual and SMB customers, Austdesk sales is not important, but marketing is. Specially to making customers aware of other autodesk products beyond AutoCad...

But for Big enterprises, with thousands of seats, and huge training budgets, that can shift tools relatively easily?
Sales in those cases is important, who is gona wine, and dine, and golf a big customer to convince not to shift to an autodesk competitor? And who is gonna dine and wine and golf a big customer to ditch a competitor and go to autodesk?. Not an AI, that's for sure.

Having said that, propably some marketeers can be replaced by AI, and the sales area was bigger than needed. Hense, the reductions.

So, as long as said Superior image processing tech lands into the Cheaper TCL TV i am OK with this.

Having superior image processing does not significantly impact the BOM, is just significantly superior algorithms running on a slighly more powerfull SoC.

Superior upscalers for 480i and Vintage Video Game content, superior uspcalers for 480p and 720p content.

As for interpolation, in 30FPS TVs film is already interpolated from 24FPS to 30FPS. May as well interpolate to 60FPS (normal cheapo pannel frequency) and stop whinning. If you do not want the brighter image that come with the interpolation, apply some post processing filters.

All those would be worthy additions to TCL cheaper pannels going forward.

What will distinguish the bravias from the TCLs then? Probably superior pannels, and moar connectors on the back

JM2C YMMV

You will need to read chapter one of the tanemmbaumb book on networks, there is a wholle section dedicated to Standard setting methods. And do some more research on top (but please, for the love of all that is holly, do not ask an AI assistant about it)

The TL;DR is:

a.) standards bodies (some govermental, some private, some mixed) covene to "define a standard", in this case the 3GPP (the 3GPP is completely private, but works hand in hand with the ITU-T and ITU-R, In the past, they worked closely with ETSI as well, but I do not know about that now)

b.) Companies invest a m37r1c 5h170n of money on R&D to get the best tech, and lobby agressively to get their tech/patents on the standard for 2 reasons:
1.) Easy revenue stream through FRAND licensing &
2.) If your tech is selected as part of the standard you have a leg-up on your competitors, as you understand that tech better than anyone.

c.) Of course, what you give up by having your patents into the standard is that you cna not charge "whatevur" for your patents, the patents have to be FRAND, and, although there are disagreements from time to time, FRAND is a very specific set of conditions, highly (but not completely) aligned with jurisprudence dictated in germany

d.) In the case of standards, there is no way around the essential patents. For if you do not use those standard patents, your implementation is non-standards compliant, and therefore, the equipment is not interoperable. Not a big deal if you are making a (smart) fridge, absolutely essential if you want to make a 5G cellphone that wants to talk to any RAN, or want to make a RAN that can talk with any 5G cellphone.

----- TL;DR over

The patent, in this case, seems to be a pattent that allows a handset to inform (via signaling) the RAND to explain their transmit/receive power situation when the handset is using more than one frequency band at the same time, which is a disctintive feature of 5G (this was non existent in 2G and 3G, a bolted on thing in 4G, but is integral to 5G).

IANAL, but IMHO, this patent royalties shall be paid by BOTH the handset makers (Apple, Samsung et al), AND the RAN makers (Nokia, Ericsson et al*), but not by the network operators.

Possibly Acer wants to double dip, or maybe the Operators are willfully selling/pushing no-name handsets that did not pay up, and acer considers easier to go after the telcos themselves than after some "fly by the seat of your pants" Zhenzen/Mumbai handset maker.

I find it hard to believe that Nokia or Ericsson is not paying up for an Essential patent, but some no name phone maker? would not surprise me in the slightest.

* Bigest makers of RAN worldwide are Huawei, and Ericsson trading blows for first place, Nokia in 3rd, ZTE in 4th and Samsung in 5th, then there are many more. But note that Huawei and ZTE are banned in the USoA, where this lawsuit is taking place.

https://www.gsmarena.com/benq-...

From TFS: "Acer also notes that some of its patents count as standard-essential"

'Nuff said.

Having said that, normally in telecom, the patent royalties are paid either by the handset makers (the apples and Samsungs of this world), the equipment makers (the nokias and areicssons of this world) or both.

More so if Mirnotoriety is right, and the patent in question is U.S. patent number: 8,737,333. which covers signaling between the handset and the RAN.

So, I think Acer is trying to Double-Dip here (charging the operators for something that the handset makers and RAN makers already paid).

They were the owners of Benq. They later sold Benq, but that does not mean that they stoper doing R&D on Cellular, or that they could not re-enter the cellular R&D space at a latter date,

30 Years ago Acer was a force to be reckoned with. This Acer is that same acer, but is severely diminished from its former glory.

Actualy no, it would be worse. Your standard would probably be subpar, because all the best technologies would be patented. AND you would have to walk a minefield trying to concot a standard that does not infringe any patents (including pending/submarine ones) and use only non patented technologies, or thechnologies whose patents expired. Take a look at the process of creation of VP9 and AV1 for examples of how hard and protracted this can be.

And even then, you are not certain that the resulting standard wil not be patent free. People make mistakes, so either the engineers making the "patent free standard" missed a patent, or the lawyers at certain company make a mistake and honestly believe that their patent applies to the "patent free standard" and sue.

The middelground the industry and Governments found is that, each patent that is essential to a standart has to be licensed as FRAND (google "FRAND Patent"). That way, companies have an economic incentive to bring their best technologies to the standard, and users of the standard know they will not be gauged.

Disagreements can happen from time to time, like this particular one, but this is the best we have got.

Patents essential to a standard ussualy have to be licensed under FRAND terms. Sometimes this is done through a Pool, to simplify licensing (but pooling the paptents is not a hard requirement for standard essential patents). Sometimes, Pools splinter. And sometimes each company goes at it alone.

Probably the disagreement here is either that the FRAND terms offered by Acer are not FRAND enough (in the view of the big three), or the three big-uns feel they do not need to pay a dime because their providers (the Nokias and Ericssons and Amdocss of this world) already payed the patent fees to Acer and therefore, they allege Acer is trying to double-dip.

Datcenters in general (and AI and Hyperscalers in particular) need HDDs to store vast ammounts of (cold) data. Think google storing the Gmail emails from 2005. Or hotmail and yahoo storing emails from 1995. Or facebook storing pictures from 2006. Or even bigger, each single AI company storing a copy of the whole internet (and then some) to train their models.

Those types of data are best stored on HDDs as GB/$ is superior, and (thanks to the data being seldomly accessed) do not consume that much energy overall.

Compared to the demand of Datacenter/AI/Hyperscalers, PCs, Laptop, Prosumer NAS and external HDD demand for HDDs are a drop in the ocean. The HDD array is too slow? Use NAND Flash storage (NVMe) as a cache in front of it.

The silver linig is that, after years of stagnation, thanks to HAMR we will see a resugence of areal density the following years. But, since an HDD casing, motor and arm actuator does not care about the coating of the platers or the technology of the heads, you can expect low capacity HDDs to vanish from the market, quickly, as most of the available resources shift to the bigger (HAMR) drives Datcenter/AI/Hyperscaler customers demand.

The only factor preventiong every single HDD in the market being HAMR (and therefore bigger and costlier) is the available capacity of Seagate (and, to a lower excent WD & Tosh) to produce HAMR heads (pun intended) and Suitably coated platters.

were tuition is low, and credits are easily transferable to a more prestigious university. Instead of doing 4 years at high tuition costs, do 3 years low cost low profile, and 2 years at a high profile university, so that you graduate "from them" and their name is in your degree.

Not only is this cheaper, but, if you discover in years 1 ~ 3 that maybe this was not the career for you, pivoting to something else is less expensive.

If, with the aid of hindsight you re-read his early works, you can fuind sighs of those same ideas. Veiled, because it was not fashonable to fully express them.
Maybe the neurological incident amplified those ideas.
Maybe the neurological incident damaged his self-restraint circuits
Or maybe this was a trautamtic experience (like a car crach or a another disease could have done) that had him think "Life is too short to self restrain"
IDK

One has to separate the art from the artist. In my case is Adamns and HP Lovecraft. For other people, JK Rowlings perhaps.

Not only that, the OG Mirror had distortions, that had tp be corrected in a first servicing mission, givig the telescope "eyeglases". So, a mirror with similar diameter (we agree this one is bigger) but more modern mirror technology and no aberrations would have been progress.

NASA's take on the optical correction:
https://science.nasa.gov/missi...

Gary Larson's take:

https://static0.srcdn.com/word...

I feel you brother. My trick is to watch everything in 1.5x and to use siberaly the skip forward button. And if the video has a "watched graph" use that to find the most interesting parts.

... you can use "gisdev"'s filters and remove ALL shorts. Period.

https://github.com/gijsdev/ubl...

You are wrong: "In the days following the announcement of that deal, Paramount launched its hostile bid, taking directly to shareholders an offer of $30 per share, all cash for the entirety of Warner Bros. Discovery, including its TV networks. " emphasis mine
source? https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/0...