Posts by Aitor 1 1533 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jun 2009
Microsoft will be happy to support linux using office365 and all online, as long as they get their recurring income. This is why they no longer care that much about open source, etc.
They will, of course, try to get as much from windows while they can, but not a top priority anymore.
Yes, the starlink antenna detector seems unlikely.
The reason is it is a directional antenna.
I haven't tested or know of anyone who has tested the leakage of radio waves.. iit certainly leaks, how much, I don't know, not much is my guess, they are directional after all and all leakage is lost useful power and increased noise.
I am going with "don't believe you". Or maybe they can detect the wifi from the system.. that is certainly possible.
We should have batteries for these cases, but of course that is expensive. Not as expensive as fossil fuels, but they aren't free.
And, the big problem is they would mess up the market for the energy companies as they could not get rich with peaker plants.
So why spend money to lose money?
This time increased prices also were important.
Plus both sides are losing market to arm processors in the data center.
Is Intel using their weight to pressure vendors? Probably. They have done it in the past, and the fines are miniscule compared to the gains.
ARM has refused to say these claims are false, just that the are, err not precise.
So I do believe that Qualcomm is either exaggerating or ARM was strong arming Qualcomm. Couldn't happen to a nicer company, but the fact that did not say no to the per device, etc, is telling.
Legal answer is yes it is legal.
The attack on Sebastopol would have been impossible without Starlink and the coordination of the war requires Starlink.
Therefore they are legal and reasonable targets.
Now, destroying satellites is terrible and that should be banned, as it could trigger Kessler syndrome.
We did pay a lot more than that.
And Ukraine is going to be expected to pay a lot.
So either they lose the war (unlikely) or they lose by winning the war, and then join the eu and the eu gives them money that will go to the us.
So essentially europe is screwed no matter the results.
China would crack months before the US does.
The US would feel the lack of product in months, China the lack of income the next day.
This is why embargos are of a few critical components and normally used against smaller countries.
China overall has no monopoly in anything except maybe up to a point rare earths and affordable good quality electric cars. Electric cars are not key products.
I want fast and reliable, but if I had to choose, I would choose reliable.
I want more channels and them being separated so les collisions happen and we can have more devices running without issues.
I am not convinced we are going the right way.. wider bands used for less devices to go faster sounds good until you realise you didn't really need the speed for a single device, but rather quite a few devices cooperating and going at good speed.
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