Yes, it might drive demand for larger and larger screened phones, just like what made the iPhone, and all the profits Apple made from it, possible.

They get people to pay $200 for an additional 8 GB of RAM in their laptops.
Seems they already have verified their users will fall for a scam.

n/t

Let the celebration begin! We have again sent six mega-rich people not-quite to space, so they can gawk at the Earth for a few minutes before coming back down, having accomplished nothing but causing additional air pollution and creating something for them to talk about on their social media feeds like they have had a religious experience, but will not influence their behavior or actions in ways that benefit people in all walks of life the way actual saints have.

No, that's the point (to them). The hardware is too open. They want devices that will only play DRM'd content signed by the special services. Just like a cable TV receiver is generally worthless to a normal person without a cable TV subscription.

The books were finished by Brandon Sanderson on volume 14, and if I do say so his contribution was actually a big positive. The pace was lethargic and full of detours into Aes Sedai politics in the last few volumes by Jordan. Sanderson brought the main story back into focus and got the ball rolling on the Last Battle.

The TV series meddled too much with the main characters to fit the spirit of the books beginnings, and the casting choices we detrimental to the setting of the story.

As poor an adaptation of Jordan (and Sanderson)'s books this was, I still found it very entertaining. Was looking forward to the next season for it.

Building a nuclear reactor takes so long simply from a construction standpoint Trump will be out of office and we can reverse all this before the U.S. has its own Chernobyl.

"Can't innovate anymore, my ass."

(I don't care that he's not with Apple anymore, it sounds like the same level of effort. Might as well be a Humane Pin on a string.

Buying an existing ISP vs. building new infrastructure has always been cheaper, going back 20 years. It's one if the reasons you rarely saw competition in broadband markets even if another company wasn't being cock-blocked by an exclusive franchising rights agreement. Stringing lines, digging ditches, getting rights to use existing utility towers, all of it became more complicated and expensive over the last 50 years.

Yeah, it is. Viki operates as a stand-alone service in the U.S. and Canada.
Rakuten TV, with multiple channels including Viki, only operates in Europe.

GamersNexus brought this up in their video (the one linked in the summary here) and from their own contacts say the decisions are coming from higher up, and when they try to get info on it NVidia tries to have a lower level/PR/marketting person handle answering any questions, essentially leaving the upper management a way to escape any responsibility by not being on record.

Demonizing a hypothetical "cockamamie fascist wannabe middle manager" is dancing to NVidia upper-management's tune.

Hey Apple, how about you get the basic "AI" thing actually working properly on your preexisting devices before you worry about new hardware products? Wont you be embarrassed if you release a new AI-reliant product and then the "AI" part is a miserable failure.

Might not be able to escape a class-action lawsuit if something like that happens. At least the iPhone is still a phone, music player, camera, PDA and internet device without working AI.

Curious how this works for judging a streaming provider for having to adhere to this legislation. Like, what about more niche streaming services that are serving specialized content. Can't demand Rakuten's Viki or TelevisaUnivision's Vix to prioritize languages that don't follow their business.

He's not? Half is mandate is about shipping brown people somewhere else, and now he's recently added shipping in "persecuted" white people from South Africa.