If Netflix buys them or Skydance buys them, the end result is the reduction in competition. TBH though, the ownership of Skydance makes me feel that way is a slightly worse option. But there is no existing media company that WBD could merge with that wouldn't reduce competition. Netflix, Skydance, Disney, Amazon, Comcast... all bad options.

Calibri is a font that MS created to improve readability in printed documents. That is why it's the default in things like Word now. The OG order to switch to it actually saved money and effort in that they didn't have to reset defaults on new PC deployments. But it looks like the administration sees the words "makes it easy" and immediately goes to "it's WOKE so it's BAD" and we get stupidity like this.

*sung to the tune of Macho Man by you know who's fav group*
TACO, TACO man
I've got to be a TACO man
I've got to be a TACO, TACO man
I've got to be a TACO! Ow!

I agree the price is high compared to off the shelf enterprise grade drives, but it's actually in line or a bit cheaper than vendor enterprise SSDs (it's actual competition). A 3.84 TB HP SATA SSD is $1600 from HP or $900-$1100 from others.

Enterprise customers wanting hardware with a single vendor SLA warranty won't balk at that pricing.

The Tom's Hardware story cites 2 German sites that don't cite any sources themselves. Until we hear this from Synology's own mouth or actual reviews of the hardware pop up stating this, take it with a grain of salt. I have a hard time believing Synology, which has been very pro-community in the past, would do something this stupid.

I see a Butlerian Jihad coming with the corps and their "thinking machines" falling.

Some of this thinking around AI removing entry level positions makes me chuckle because the corps are signing their own death warrants. Not necessarily by an uprising but because today's entry level becomes tomorrow's seniors. Without that pipeline, eventually there will be no one to replace the retiring and the business becomes an empty failed husk.

It's easy to look back with 20/20 vision and criticize decisions Microsoft has made, but the one that has kept them firmly embedded in business is backwards compatibility.

Businesses have custom apps they will never rewrite unless they are forced too because it will cost them too much money, so MS has gone to great pains to keep the ability to run old code as long as possible. Until the jump to 64bit, Windows could still run 16bit Windows code. Today, 32bit VB6 code on Windows 11 runs fine because they have kept quietly patching the VB runtime (this is still a big enterprise thing). Compatibility modes on some apps preloaded into the OS and manually configurable for others have kept lots of other code running. All of these have led to MS staying dominant.

I love Linux, but it has a backwards compatibility problem. You can't run something compiled a few years ago and expect it to run on a fresh install of any distribution without running into a dependency nightmare for some library. MS and Windows may be messy, but they have Linux beat on this front.

Not to detract from the seriousness of the environmental impact, but HAIRDRYERS? How did that get into a list that is made up of pricey electronics?

Ok, explain this to me...

How is a single chip on a motherboard going to do the following and do it without someone noticing:

1: Intercept data on the server without knowledge of what OS is running and/or without a driver to facilitate OS access?

2: Send that data to some 3rd party, through a firewall, without the bandwidth usage being noticed?

I know someone is going to answer #1 by saying "it'll just send everything in memory / traveling over the bus", but then you wind up hitting #2 because that would use a crap ton of bandwidth.

This looks very improbable and much like another "China is the boogeyman" story. I want hard proof before I believe this. The hysteria around this is like BadUSB all over again, and we all know where that went.

Don't trust Blackburn. It's already leaking out that Comcast's lawyers are the ones writing this legislation. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmotherboard.vice.com%2Fen_us%2Farticle%2Fqvw8k5%2Fcomcast-fcc-net-neutrality-law

Also you have to remember the cost to transport the parts. Right now most of the parts are semi-local. They come from down the street pretty much. Now all those parts have to be shipped to the US and handled separately through customs thus probably adding almost 50% to that cost at least.

I'd figure everyone would be jumping for joy because there's no systemd in this.

They have the wrong article linked above. This is the right one: http://www.fastcompany.com/3061860/the-future-of-work/how-technology-is-making-doctors-hate-their-jobs

My main box is a couple of years old on the CPU at this point but it still cranks pretty fast. It helps that I upgrade GPUs every 2 years usually.

Core i7-4770K
16GB RAM
GeForce GTX 970
1 LG 34" 21:9
2 Acer 27" 16:9
Samsung 850 PRO 512GB SSD for boot and core apps
2x WD 2TB HDD (RAID 1) for everything else
Windows 10

With 4 versions of Visual Studio (2008, 2010, 2013, 2015) and the rest of the 10+ apps in startup, my time from power on to usable desktop is about 75 seconds. (yay SSD)

Ok, based off what I read, 1 & 3 are true but they are common business practices used in multiple areas. 2 is completely false but market forces make it look true.

A good example of 1 & 3 is Coke. If you decide to have Coke in your business, Coke will give you things as promotional considerations. Signs with you name on it plus the Coke logo, etc. But to get those you have to not carry Pepsi. That's the crux of 1 & 3. If you want to carry both, then you don't get the goodies that go along with them. You can preload Play with something else, but not Maps, Gmail and the other unless you agree to exclusivity for the preinstalled items. (The Play concession was made a while back to satisfy some anti-trust worries). More manufactures don't do that though because of the incentives plus market forces. People want Google's stuff there and ready. Google isn't holding a gun to people's head saying "Use Gmail or else". There are plenty of option and I use one myself in the form of AquaMail to my non-Gmail e-mail.

As for #2, hello, phones being sold running Cyanogen and others based on AOSP derivatives, but they don't have a big market share yet, or maybe ever. Market forces (people) aren't creating a demand for them. Thus the big guys don't make Cyanogen phones because people won't buy them en mass. And it's not for a lack of trying. Look at Samsung and all the times they've tried to do Tizen as an Android alternative. They never got anywhere. The mass market is happy with what they have. Phone OSs are a two horse race (Android and iOS). You're not going to force the market to accept more if they don't want it, but that's seems to be what the EU is angling for with #2.

This is just how I see it. I'm sure someone is going to come along with some conspiracy and collusion theory as to why I'm wrong, but this is a situation where the simple answer is the answer.