protimewaster

> This hardware pays for itself pretty fast.

I think that's only true for a fairly limited set of people, though. Just the basic hardware in your case is about 80 months worth of the $200/month subscription. And that's excluding the machine to put the hardware in and the electricity, space, and cooling requirements.

If I'm someone who lives in a small apartment, the idea of running a bunch of 300W TDP cards is potentially problematic beyond just the basic cost.

AFAIK, reverse engineering a game isn't necessarily "trampling the IP rights of others." If I'm just doing a RE project for my own curiosity and not releasing the results or building a derivative product of some kind, it feels like a stretch to say that's trampling on the IP rights of others.

Surely it depends on what I do with the results of the RE?

I agree. I'm not sure why anyone thought that these companies would be okay with someone releasing an unofficial title in their flagship franchise, AI created or not.

It seems like the news outlet is running this as "suddenly they object to AI" and ignoring the fact that they're objecting to it because it's clearly an infringing product. It would be infringing whether it was made with AI or not.

This is akin to somebody saying we should be allowed to own knives for cooking, and then calling them a hypocrite when they object to knives being used to stab people in the face.

If the goal is to replace US technology, replacing it with Canadian technology does, in fact, accomplish that goal.

Regarding labels on the keyboard, as someone who came from systems where "backspace" meant backward delete and "delete" meant forward delete, I find the icon to be less confusing than labeling backspace as "delete".

iOS is 93%+ in several countries, including Bahamas and Bermuda. I assume there are also some countries where Android is 90%+.

There are entire countries where one company has 93%+ marketshare. Yes, maybe people can go to another country where the marketshare is different, but do we all seriously think that the global marketshare not resembling a monopoly definitely means that there's no one market where a monopoly exists?

I imagine trying to effectively use (or market) a competing product in a region with 93%+ marketshare is a painful experience, regardless of whether the global marketshare is more balanced.

Using global marketshare hides details like that. Apple could have 100% of the market in China and India, and Android could have 100% of the marketshare in the rest of the world. This would put, worldwide, Apple at about 35% and Android at about 65%. I would argue there are clearly monopolies in that case, though, even if the worldwide numbers are 65 and 35.

I'm not defending anybody. I'm just saying, if I live in a market where one company has 99% of the market, somebody coming in and saying "There's not a monopoly. They only have 30% of the global market! " isn't going to make me feel any better, because I don't live everywhere in the world. I live where I live, and that company has 99% of the market there.

I just don't think the 30% of the global market number is relevant to anything in terms of arguing if somebody has a monopoly. Are there even any countries who use a definition of "monopoly" that uses global marketshare to determine if there's a monopoly? Surely those definitions all look at marketshare within some specific region?

Why would I use the global market share to determine if someone has a monopoly, though? It seems like a flawed way to determine how much choice consumers have.

For example, there's a monopoly on garbage service where I live, but he company with the monopoly has basically 0% of the world market.

I found the input latency to be much worse than the PC connected to the same TV, for whatever reason.

I thought I surely was imagining it, so I revisited it 6 months or a year later, and, yes, the input latency from the controller is substantially worse on the Apple TV.

It depends on what you're looking for exactly. Some models of FireTV Cube have pretty beefy processors and can handle some things the Shield can't, like Dolby Vision FEL.

My Apple TVs have not been set and forget. Apple's aggressive storage saving makes it so that it resets storage for, and I get logged out of, apps that I don't use frequently. It'll also randomly need a reboot to solve the problem of some videos not playing correctly.

It's definitely not the most troublesome player I've dealt with, but rebooting and logging back into apps randomly can be frustrating.

> If you ban an e-mail address, creating a new one is trivial.

For many people, getting a new CPU is pretty trivial too. They might as well just offer the option to pay a fee to get unbanned at that point. It would reduce waste.

I'm confused about the read on this too. It reads like a "I don't want the government involved in my healthcare" type of statement, but it's posted in the discussion section of an article about private companies mishandling data.

> Verbatim, who owns M-Disc, doesn't even manufacture discs anymore. They just slap their brand on other peoples discs.

They're owned by one of the other disc manufacturers (CMC Magnetics), so I think they're technically putting their name on their own discs. But, "they" is CMC now.