Posts by Aitor 1 1568 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jun 2009
In BF I could just get an engineer, squad with a mate or a random, and we would team up on vehicles.
in 2042 it is technically possible, but no real class makes it less of a cooperative game.
Also, the game in single thread challenged. I do get that most ppl have 8 cores or less, but it is what it is.. I get more limited by my 5900x than for the 6900xt.. I don't get 100% GPU use with large number of players. And fps is not great.
Carriers prefer Huawei kit rather than cisco/juniper, BUT they have been banned buy the US from using it AND the US has banned Huawei from buying most chips.. so back to Cisco it is.
Really big fish (like Google, Amazon, Facebook) use their own stuff, much cheaper and better.
So it is probably carriers and corporate.
They don't respect the standards, that is the main issue, and of course, they do things their way.. so another problem. The blob is AN issue, but not the worst possible.
Of course, it is also a serious security risk, as they could be doing nasty stuff in their blob.
As other have pointed out, EUV etc is quite easy to disable.
Plus, there is only one supplier, and it is in the EU.
This is the reason others cannot produce such fine products; EUV from SMIL. You want it? play by US arbitrary rules. Don´t want it? good luck, you are screwed.
So I don´t see them being able to sidestep this issue.
Also, even if they were able to capture it (no way), it would get obsolete relatively quickly.. and no new equipment.
Look at SMIC: they are getting EUV equipment, and have taped 7nm lithography and are good at 14nm.. but their access to SMIL means playing by embargo rules, etc etc.. or else.
You mean HSBC and pals?
It seems yes, they do get fined but still keep doing it.
As long as it is profitable, they will do it.. meanwhile small fish like us get quite a few inconviniences for small transactions.
Crypto is anything BUT opaque. All transactions are public, while banks do not share that info on the open. What you don't know is WHO is behind a wallet/transaction.. unless they want the money out in FIAT, then you need an exchange.. so it is only fair that money laundering exchanges get heavily fined (should be closed, really)
Links for HSBC still being "problematic":
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anthonycormier/hsbc-money-laundering-drug-cartels
https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/hsbc-moved-vast-sums-of-dirty-money-after-paying-record-laundering-fine/
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2021-07-28/money-laundering-ring-pushed-4.2bn-through-hsbc
You get objetives.
Those objectives have numbers, AKA KPI
Then you make magic so those numbers are met.
Probably not very useful for the company that I have the objective to say reduce the backlog to XX items.. as I would not engage with clients and create a bigger backlog, unless I can create a project and not backlog..
Next year objectives: Y contacts with clients.
And so it goes..
As it stands, without revision, etc,looks more like fraud that anything else,bait and switch.
Tbf, they should be different models, the difference between a 970 and a 960 is mostly controller and nand.. and some of these companies are changing controller, nand and firmware. So a completely different product
This is the main reason Oracle has been considered a legacy product in quite a few companies I have worked for.
If you just use what is in the DDBB as you install it.. voila, your SW magically coverts from prof version to enterprise, etc etc.. just a single use of features (by mistake, etc) flips them into XX payment.
Even if you do avoid those things, they will eventually change rules etc so you have to pay the most expensive version... so it is best to avoid Oracle altogether (including their Java distributions).
I understand the geofencing.
They don't want people to use the devices in countries they have no license to operate, as that would make them liable for huge fines.
Also, it is a beta and they need to make dure they understand where the dishes are, and to determine needs before putting more birds in space.
Elon commented that they plan to lift the geofencing latter this year.. so it might happen (or not). I still expect them to limit the movement of the fish to a single country/region, for legal reasons.
BTC is not a good crypto, but is the one that appeared first.
So it is the "gold standard". It is terrible for transactions, but can be used as a reserve, the same way gold can. Also, moving gold arround is quite expensive, so people just move certificates, mostly.. someone is keeping it for you, even between countries: same can be done with wallets.
The main reason governments don't like cryto is not privacy. Nothing less private than a public ledger! The reason is governments print money. Literally take cloth/plastic and make money, with little cost. On top of that,. using interest rates they control monetary scarcity/supply.
If other people essentially start "minting coin", this takes one of the main sources of power out of the government.. and it is the government/mps/etc who create laws and control the economy.. they won't allow other orgs to do so.
Are there tulip runs with cryto? of course.
Is it private? no, it is the opposite of private, it is PUBLIC.
Also, the economy is waking up and electricty is needed, so another reason not to allow serfs to mint coins.
Thinkpads used to do that too... But not anymore.
I have three thinkpads. (two work,one personal) and the personal ones has a smaller brick.
One thinkpad will complain, and charge,the one year newermodel,same tdp, will charge powered off, wont charge powered on. So they decided against it.
We have also gone hp for the refresh.. as they could not get the cpus we wanted
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