What's worse is that Steam could obviously make certain titles crypto-only but MasterCard gets to tell them they can't sell those either.

It's a hostage situation by Fed member banks.

In his ZFS use case you want to flash your HBA to 'IT mode' which gets rid of all RAID logic on the card.

ZFS is much more reliable if it can see the disks directly. And more reliable than HBA-based RAID too.

Let them pass.

I drove 3 hrs once to see a film in IMAX only to find out it was liemax.

Imagine how happy I was.

The only IMAX I've paid for since then was "Sully" at Air & Space. Or "Avatar" in Omnimax. I was a huge fan in the 90's. They burned my good will.

The U.S. is somewhat lagging behind, because right now, it's some kind of anti-virtue signalling to go fossil despite the advantages of electric.

No...it's lagging because compared to ICE, EVs for many people is a royal pain in the ass and inconvenient.

For many people, charging at home over night, is not an option.

EVs are significantly more $$$ to purchase.

Insurance rates on EVs are more $$$.

They take way too long to recharge (a major sticking point if you cannot charge at home every night).

And used EVs have horrible resale value....

In the US, EVs have a lot of strikes against them....and until they are made more attractive to buy/own...and at least as convenient as ICE vehicles are currently, they're not going to overtake the ICE vehicle market.

They have to be made to compete on the market with ICE...not be "mandated".

If I had the choice between: an EV I could charge up at home or indeed anywhere that has electricity, even via my own solar panels - or a Hydrogen car where I'm dependent on stations owned by a billionaire cartel + taxed heavily by my authoritarian government - why would I want hydrogen ?? Even if the two had identical performance?

Me?

I'll just stick with ICE until they work out the "kinks" in the systems and make it just as convenient to fuel and depend on an EV as it is for my ICE vehicles....

Nope, can't charge at home really (same boat many Americans are in)...so, EV is just not practical to me an public recharging takes too long.

Do you really think they would have 12 chargers will be running constantly all together?

I can't think of a reason why they would not?

I mean, if you look at the typical US gas station, at most any given time of day, you can see most pumps are being used for filling cars.

And, considering that many folks do not and will not have the capability of charging at home, or may at any time be out on a long trip, sure I can see the need for multiple chargers refueling at a "gas" station simultaneously.

We have a lot of people with a LOT of cars here in the US. We drive everywhere to do everything, so, there's a lot of people on the roads here 24/7.

BYD's new electric vehicles can add around 250 miles of charge in 5 minutes now. Of course we're not allowed to buy them in the US, hooray for our "free trade" economy, right?

Fuck China.

One of the appeals of the IMAX experience is that they're showing films that are filmed on a special VERY LARGE format film, I believe it is 70mm.....at least twice the resolution of the common 35mm movie.

Unless these new "large" theaters are doing to develop their own large format film, or extremely large digital sensors....they will be showing 35mm on a larger screen...which will result mostly in lost resolution, no?

Just having a big screen doesn't cut it...

Why are you so scared of China?

I can only guess you have not been terribly observant since at least the 60's....

China is antagonistic towards the US, and our enemy.

One generally does not aid and abed their enemy who is actively seeking to undermine and destroy them.

US wants rare earth minerals, China wants NVidia chips [reuters.com].

The US has PLENTY of rare earth minerals on our own land...we just need to open it up to domestic mining and processing.

The primary theme seems to be tattletale outrage bait from them. Easy content.

Maybe there's something more interesting behind the paywall.

It's an obvious standards violation to not call themselves 402 Media.

Anyway do they address the Doppelganger Problem?

For the lawyer cost of these audits every one of those companies could have an OpenJDK Core developer on staff and get first-class support in-house.

KLED

Every TV sold in the stores today has xxLED in the branding.

Only the akshully crowd would be triggered.

So, exactly who thinks this is a good idea selling any tech like this to help the Chinese?

Why are the feds lifting this ban?

I cannot for the life of me, think of one positive thing this will lead to....