Just to save others the two minutes of googling I just went through, apparently the MCU in the title stands for "Microcontroller Unit" (and not "Marvel Cinematic Universe" as per my original thought).
Intel microcode license updated to permit redistribution
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Re: Intel microcode license updated to permit redistribution
#12Just to save others the two minutes of googling I just went through, apparently the MCU in the title stands for "Microcontroller Unit" (and not "Marvel Cinematic Universe" as per my original thought).
I think 'microcode update' is what is meant here.
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#13I had a quick Google and couldn't find any published benchmarks yet. Does anyone know of one so far?
According to a German news article [0], Intel published benchmarks themselves [1]. [0]: https://heise.de/-4144515 [1]: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tec...
Intel's attempt to suppress independent benchmarking suggests that this is not the whole story. This suspicion lingers even though it has removed the clause.
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#14Marvel Cinematic Universe?
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#15A lawyer friend of mine one told me that his job was basically to try to see what he could sneak past the opposition's (his sentiment, not mine) lawyers in their contracts. He explained contracts are like a running game of tag for lawyers. "If they don't read it, fuck 'em". He also said that all contracts are mutable. Just strike in red whatever you want, sign it, and send it back. If they don't object (for whatever…
This reminded of a counter-exemplary story, A Tiny, $25 Million Mistake: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/09/16/348975479/a-ti... > Levine had always thought a contract was binding. Now he saw two big companies laugh off his little mistake. The other side agreed to revise the contract to pay the extra $25 million. > The whole experience surprised Levine. "I thought it was a game," he says. "You sort of score p…
Text-only link (no ads, no tracking): https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=348975479
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#16Can anyone with background in law in some of EU member states share their take on enforceability of the DeWitt clause[0]? I know it popped up quite a few times here, but very few commented on it in the context of EU. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_DeWitt
AFAIK EULA's are unenforcable in the EU.
Disclosure: IANAL
Re: Intel microcode license updated to permit redistribution
#17A lawyer friend of mine one told me that his job was basically to try to see what he could sneak past the opposition's (his sentiment, not mine) lawyers in their contracts. He explained contracts are like a running game of tag for lawyers. "If they don't read it, fuck 'em". He also said that all contracts are mutable. Just strike in red whatever you want, sign it, and send it back. If they don't object (for whatever…
Of course, you want some ground rules but you also don't want to be such an ass of a company that you loose customers/collaborators over petty things. In my company we have a legal department sometimes making contracts that us researchers are ashamed of (we get to use all your samples, any IP is ours when generated during the duration of the contract by the people involved, etc), and then there is our wish to keep co…
> our wish to keep collaborating with the other party and keep all of us working happily together now and in the future
And typically, this is not when you need a good contract. When the relationship sours, you will be happy the lawyers did their job.
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#18A lawyer friend of mine one told me that his job was basically to try to see what he could sneak past the opposition's (his sentiment, not mine) lawyers in their contracts. He explained contracts are like a running game of tag for lawyers. "If they don't read it, fuck 'em". He also said that all contracts are mutable. Just strike in red whatever you want, sign it, and send it back. If they don't object (for whatever…
This is essentially how all business works. When I got my first job before I went to university I was very surprised to learn that accountants always pay invoices on the very last day of the terms rather than as soon as they can. Since everyone else is going to pay you as late as they poassibly can, if you pay your invoices as soon as you can you'll lose out in the long run.
The way everyone tries to get slightly more from other people than they give back is one of the things I dislike most about humans. I wish we had a system that punished such behaviour rather than rewarding it.
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#19I had a quick Google and couldn't find any published benchmarks yet. Does anyone know of one so far?
This is all I've seen so far.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=l1tf-for...
Re: Intel microcode license updated to permit redistribution
#20A lawyer friend of mine one told me that his job was basically to try to see what he could sneak past the opposition's (his sentiment, not mine) lawyers in their contracts. He explained contracts are like a running game of tag for lawyers. "If they don't read it, fuck 'em". He also said that all contracts are mutable. Just strike in red whatever you want, sign it, and send it back. If they don't object (for whatever…
This is essentially how all business works. When I got my first job before I went to university I was very surprised to learn that accountants always pay invoices on the very last day of the terms rather than as soon as they can. Since everyone else is going to pay you as late as they poassibly can, if you pay your invoices as soon as you can you'll lose out in the long run. The way everyone tries to get slightly mor…
It's not hard to construct a "multi agent" version of the prisoners dilemma, in which only one prisoner defecting would cause every prisoner to defect.