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tommikele said:

Shameful money grab by Chicago government. Doesn't seem much different than class action lawyer looking for a deep pocketed defendant to file a lawsuit against.

Not a lawyer, but it certainly seems bogus and discriminatory to single out streaming services. If the tax is valid everything going through the internet pipes should be taxable. I thought (could be wrong) that no state could tax interstate commerce and it seems moving data between states is interstate commerce.

The Judge was a Cook County Judge, not state or Federal. I would be surprised to see this hold up as it moves up the judicial ladder toward Federal courts.

In the 2018 South Dakota v. Wayfair decision the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door to states taxing interstate commerce as long as it wasn’t penalized more so than intrastate commerce.

viclauyyc said:

StrangeDays said:

viclauyyc said:

Well, it looks good on number in the presentation. But let’s not forget the Ultra is comparing with a 2 year old Xeon. 2 years is a lot in computer technology. Not to mention, arguably AMD’s Epyc is the fastest CPU in the PC world. 

Let’s hope the future Mac Pro will be even faster with 4/8 sets of CPU. But it might cost $8000 on the entry model.

Can you point us to a newer Intel offering that is in production and faster?

If not, this sentiment is irrelevant. There is also something faster in development.

https://technical.city/en/cpu/Xeon-W-3275M-vs-Xeon-Platinum-8380

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_xeon_w_3275-1160-vs-amd_epyc_7763-1908

6 TB of main memory is impressive.

MplsP said:

good start. Now we need to work on providing competition for the remaining 2/3rds of the population. I have a choice of exactly one provider in my suburban Minneapolis home. 

That’s because your local municipality’s franchise board has granted a monopoly to that provider in exchange for a percentage of the revenue. If you and your neighbors have an issue with it take it up with your local board.

waveparticle said:

verne arase said:

Apple is much too successful - we need to stop it now! -- Microsoft

Microsoft is pretty pathetic, and Apple's privacy terms rankle Microsoft's nerves. Too bad Windows doesn't have the same privacy safeguards - with Windows attempting to force everything through Edge.

Microsoft runs their own closed ecosystem with XBox, so it's a lot of Microsoft calling the kettle black.

The real monopoly is in the enterprise software realm where Microsoft keeps boosting prices for their good enough software.

What really pisses off Microsoft is that they don't have access to Apple Silicon ARM processors, so Windows ARM will run faster on Apple hardware than on their OEMs - or indeed on their own surface machines.

Microsoft has a point here. In the 90s it was so successful it almost killed Apple. On the other hand, Steve Jobs resurrected Apple without having to stop Microsoft. 

Actually with an infusion of cash from Microsoft and a guarantee on the availability of Office for the Mac. If they weren’t in antitrust hot water themselves they probably would have let Apple die.

Mike Wuerthele said:

beowulfschmidt said:

It's not "troll" behavior if the patents are legitimate and are legitimately being infringed.  And the proper place to determine legitimacy is in the courts.  Not in a clickbait headline.

It is absolutely troll behavior if all you use purchased patents for is litigation.

That is, literally, what this organization says that they're going to do.

It’s not. That’s just using a derisive term to color opinion against one party. An engineer who has a valid patent on something they design are allowed to sell their rights to anyone trade law permits. If you further limit who they can sell their rights to you, you are decreasing the value of that original engineer’s work and the compensation they will ultimately receive. And the law requires a patent, copyright, trademark, etc. holder to actively police their own intellectual property otherwise it becomes public domain. So you can refer to some patent holding group as a “troll” if it makes you feel better about stealing their intellectual property but all that matters is if the patent is valid. I guarantee all the people on here calling them trolls wouldn’t be OK with someone usurping their property rights.