You will absolutely be allowed on the counter when you follow the same rule that humans follow for working on the counter- wash your hands/paws with soap and water first.
Not into that? Then you stay on the floor.
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Okay here's what I don't get.
Awesome little gadget, good DAC, and the only Bluetooth codec it supports is SBC? No aac, no aptx hd, no ldac, no LE Audio?
Actually I would say the the one who goes to extra health should be whoever at Apple made the decision to use the patent encumbered HEIC format as the default for iPhone photos.
There are plenty of open picture formats that do the same thing without a patent tax.
Focusing on the Xbox side- the sensationalist headline masks the real story.
Most of these job losses aren't layoffs, they are studios being sold or spun off and many/most of those people will keep their jobs.
And on the Xbox side at least, this is a VERY good thing.
Hard truth #1: Xbox is losing money, and MS will not keep subsidizing a money-losing division forever. Xbox needs to be profitable if it is to continue.
The Phil Spencer / GamePass strategy was to adopt the Netflix business model- buy a ton of indie studios, crank out tons of games to fill up GamePass, everybody subscribes. Put simply, this plan failed. A couple AAA games and three pages of games you've never heard of from publishers you've never heard of is not a compelling value proposition to a gamer who has finite gaming time. Especially when you're already planning to play other AAA games being released.
The other problem was a stupid organizational structure. Apparently some parts of XBOX had 14 (!) levels of management. Asha wants to cut that to 3-5 levels (which IMHO is the right call). That means a lot of project managers and department heads and the like who don't really add much overall value but cost a lot and make changes take exponentially longer.
Combine this and you have a large, top-heavy organization that's producing games that aren't selling consoles and aren't selling GamePass subscriptions. Something had to change, and this is it.
Personally I think XBOX is in a better place today than yesterday. The resulting company won't be trying to develop every game, they will be focusing on bringing in exclusives and hopefully focused on good first party games like Halo. And with much lower costs, hopefully they will be much more profitable to the point that XBOX has a profitable future.
I've not been able to find any solid intel on what actually happened to the wafers.
Thing is though- cutting wafers and packaging can be done at any fab so in theory they could find an older fab with excess capacity and pay them to do some of it.
Binning however requires some more specialized equipment, that from what I understand is more specific to the type of chips you're making. This is where you test each individual chip- out of a wafer you'll get some great ones, some good ones, some bad ones, and some that don't work at all. Thus 'binning' is taking a stream of chips and sorting them into bins by their maximum speed, stability, etc.
You might find a fab that has the equipment to bin DRAM chips but not the means to manufacture those chips. Still it seems an odd use of resources to get into the chip production business when your core business has nothing to do with chips.
I'd like to see a lawsuit like this against OpenAI.
They bought a combined total of 40% of the world's 2026 memory production- not as usable modules, but as finished wafers. Those wafers have to be sliced into individual chips, which are then tested (binned) and packaged into modules, which themselves get mounted on a PCB with some support circuity to make a DIMM.
OpenAI (as far as I know) doesn't have the equipment to do that.
So chances are those finished wafers are either in the trash or sitting in a warehouse somewhere.
Question becomes- to what end? To drive up prices for other AI companies? To manipulate the market and then sell those wafers in small batches at great premium?
IMHO- unless they can show those wafers have been processed packaged and put in servers, they should also be sued.
Ever look at the back seat of a modern vehicle? It's almost never a flat bench. There's indentations, they're just less deep than the front seat.
actually that little extra material makes a big difference.
Look at it from the side (IE put a camera where your spine would be), same on the bottom where your leg would be. There's several good square inches of 'wall', much more than just a seat belt.
And while it is angled up somewhat, the seat belt is doing a great job pulling you back down into it.
If you mean the middle rear, probably because there's nothing in front of you. It may be the safest overall, not necessarily the safest in a side impact.
Those are both bucket seats, just to different degrees.
Imagine a camera placed where the spine or leg is looking at the side of the seat. Look at how much exposed surface area faces the camera. Let's call that surface area the 'side restraint component'. (IE, if the side panel comes 'up' out of the seat 2", and extends out 4", the side restraint component is 2").
On a seat belt, you've got about 2" x 4" surface area on each side. So 8 square inches on each side. That's all a bench seat gives you.
On that car seat you've got about 2.5" x 8" on the back, plus an average of let's call it 2.5" x 4" on the seat. So that's about 30 square inches on each side.
On the racing seat you've got about 14" x 20", but cut in half as a triangle, and let's say the shoulder bit fills in the missing part by the belt opening. So call that 140 square inches per side.
The car seat may be designed for comfort, but the side bolsters do have a restraint effect.
It's one of the benefits of a bucket seat, and you'll note front seats have a bucket shape both on the back and the bottom. This does a LOT to keep a human in place, especially if the seatbelt is holding the human down into the bucket. Lots of surface area on the side of the leg and torso for the bucket shape. OTOH with a bench seat there's nothing at all keeping the human in place, there's just the 3 places where the strap crosses the human and those don't do very much. Seat belts are designed to keep you down in the seat.
If anything this shows how totally fucked equity markets are.
So they're making way more money than expected, but they haven't sold out their users fast enough so dump the stock?