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Intel Wants PCs To Be More Than Just 'Personal Computers' (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report "What people need from a PC, what they expect is really more diverse than ever," Intel's Client Computing head Gregory Bryant said in an interview. "We're going to embark on a journey to transform the PC from a personal computer to a personal contribution platform... The platform where people focus and can do their most meaningful work." Bryant says Intel will focus on five key areas to reframe its vision of PCs: Uncompromised performance (of course); improved connectivity with 5G on the horizon; a dramatic increase in battery life; developing more adaptable platforms that go beyond 2-in-1s and convertibles; and a push towards more intelligent machines with AI and machine learning integration. Admittedly, many of those points aren't exactly new for Intel, and they also fall in line with where the computing industry is going.
PCs are more than just 'Personal Computers.' They are phones and all kinds of devices....it's just that Intel isn't part of that.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
If that is a eufemism for communicating behind the user's control, I certainly do NOT want " improved connectivity".
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We're going to embark on a journey
Holy Flying Spaghetti Monster, that was marketing loaded statement. How about Intel gets back to doing Intel things, building great chips. Cut the marketing talk and do the engineering walk.
What does the CPU maker have to do with all that?
Just execute the instructions, thanks. Oh, and don't give things access to the memory that shouldn't have it. Thanks again.
We need more pci-e lanes on the desktop and high end gaming systems.
AMD has more on both and on there high end gaming / workstations chips all cpus have the same number of lanes. Unlike the intel ones where min cpu cost is $1000 just to get the same number lanes that can $350-$500 chip used to have.
And you know it.
My PC is connected to the grid. No battery life needed.
I have my house wired for ethernet. No 5G needed.
Seems to make the most sense to me: phone + high-quality KVM experience = what 99% of the population wants.
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Like a puppy or a kitten. Something your can love and will love you back. On second thought, forget it. I'll just by a dog.
This is Intelspeak for "we want your personal information so we can sell it."
From the headline & summary, I was immediately flashed back to my time at RIM where the company had exactly the same vision for Blackberries - the talking points are identical to what I heard at RIM. TFA goes into a bit of the technology required for the vision but, again, I could go back 8-10 years to RIM and see identical issues (connectivity, battery life, processors & software omnipotence) being discussed as requirements for the platform.
RIM's failure to succeed was largely due to hubris and inattention to what was going on around them but I tend to think that there was a basic underpinning that there is NO single device that can do everything for everybody and trying to come up with the ultimate device, whether it is on a communications device (Blackberry) or a "personal contribution platform" isn't going to end where the proponents think it will.
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Let's not repeat the mistake of the past (heavily invest in R&D of a new technologie to become a wolrd-class success company).
Let try what we failed horribly 10 years ago one more time. Just to be sure.
Here we go again.
Was it really necessary to write a whole article about Intel thumps it's own chest and doesn't even announce anything new?
Two of the five things, performance and efficiency, is something every chip maker invests heavily into and have obviously been a priority for Intel since the 1980s. Wireless modems and connecting their chips to them is likewise old hat for them, thou just by a bit over a decade while hardware for faster and more efficient machine learning is more recent for them, it's something every big chip maker and their mother is working on. Finally, trying to get into new form factors is something they've been trying to for quite a while, but after getting into servers in the 90s they've only been semi-successful at getting into tablets and that was only while they were literally giving away chips for tablets. 2-in-1s are not a new category, they're just laptops with touch screens and keyboards that fold away or detach and they've existed since the 90s.
Maybe my natural cynicism is acting out here, but I really don't see anything in that yes man's statement worthy of attention. It's just some overpaid executive stating what they've been doing since at least the 1980s.
"Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it."
I want my PC to do one thing and one thing only: do what I tell it to do. I don't want it to "think" for me, make guesses at what it thinks I'm going to do, or get in the way of what I'm doing.
I want a platform which is stable so I can do my work.
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I have various tools--hammers, saws, socket wrenches, etc.
Can Stanley or Snap-on transform my tools into "personal contribution platforms"?
He missed a golden opportunoity to bump Intel's stock 5% by just mentioning blockchain.
Homer had the same idea when he designed his car.
I want and need my stationary PC. It's easy to upgrade, robust, stable, easy to connect anything inside and outside, runs Linux just fine, gaming through Steam, Netflix through Chrome (maybe Firefox even works now?). Everything works!
If you break it, AMD here we come!!
Oh, and fix your issues.
Or is it going to be locked down to tight to load your own OS?
Why I want a PC with ARM, 8 core, 64 bit, no Intel comm engine, capable of cellular net connection with hardware power switch and no microsoft OS, no microsoft OS modules, no microsoft OS Linux subsystems, no microsoft applications, nothing from Intel or microsoft. Intel wants to sell me Intel with a spy engine in it. OH, with less power consumption
They want PCs to be PCs?
Because that is what it reads as.
Then you read 'always on 5G connectivity' and it becomes Big Brothers Little Helper instead.
I can always go for more battery life, but going for always connected insecurity is out of security budget.
With integrated 5g and wireless power your computer can spy on you 24/7 monitoring your exact location, keystrokes, brainwaves even when you install Linux due to ME. This is the age of the telescreen computer.
I'm only looking for a Personal Computer or Workstation. I don't wish to commit to anything beyond that.
It's like when I buy a blender, I don't also need it to be a cheese grater.
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Uncompromised performance (of course); improved connectivity with 5G on the horizon; a dramatic increase in battery life; developing more adaptable platforms that go beyond 2-in-1s and convertibles; and a push towards more intelligent machines with AI and machine learning integration.
Uncompromised performance (of course) and a dramatic increase in battery life typically don't go together well. Granted, they can get better battery life, but it generally means that at least some compromise in performance is needed.
Still, most of this just sounds like a long winded way of saying they want to get into the mobile phone market. Better battery performance- check, 5G connectivity- check, AI blah blah, Siri, Google voice, etc- check. More adaptable platforms, phones are getting pretty powerful these days. I can certainly foresee the possibility of being able to wireless connect them to a keyboard mouse and monitor. Actually it may evolve into a device that you wear/implant that contains your stored files and setup preferences and a phone works as a handheld interface, or you can interface it with a wireless KVM. Or your home entertainment system. If there were some type of standard interface it would start making upgrades less painful too.
Honestly, I really like the idea of having a personal assistant AI sort of thing that tries to help keep track of stuff for me.
The problem is that everything these days wants to send all that data back to a server somewhere. My personal computer should be just that: My. Computer. I want something that requires zero internet connectivity to do its job. And that job should very clearly be: Do what I tell it to do. Take notes, schedule an appointment on my calendar, open programs, set a timer, or an alarm, or a reminder, etc.
The closest it should get to doing stuff online is if I specifically ask it to do something online. ex: "Search the internet for pictures of kittens." Simply stating "Search for kittens" should default to searching my computer itself. Nothing should go online without my actually stating that it should go online.
Computers in the late 90s were starting to get programs that could do basic voice recognition and dictation. I see no reason why my computer today can't do vastly better at it than the old apple performa did - and without using any servers anywhere to do so.
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Another PR stunt to make the stock holders happy.
This PR BS is related to Apple's new job positions of many h/w engineers and specialists in verification.
Has Intel missed the fact that "PCs" is an abbreviation for "Personal Computers"?
Are they literally saying that "We want Personal Computers to not be Personal Computers" ?
Doesn't this necessitate needing a new term? This sounds to me like a childrens joke... Down the lines of "When is a car not a car?"
*(When it turns into a driveway)
1. Powerful
2. Reliable
3. Not locked into using only Windows
The rest is up to the software I run on it.
I think the horsepower is already there -- but there needs to be better ways to take advantage of it. What's been missing, in my opinion, is a richer gesture-based GUI. The touch based GUIs we have now are not standard across platforms, and are generally only concerned with desktops, not applications. And so, on our touch device, we can navigate to an app and open it by touch, but once in the app if it has any complexity at all, we're reduced to a KVM or some device that mimics a mouse, because that's the kind of input the app expects. And the solution we're expected to accept is a laptop with a detachable touch sensitive screen for when we want to cruise through netflix, which we have to reattach to the rest of the laptop to do any serious work.
As consumers, we need to significantly raise our expectations. There should be a rich, standard set of gestures, in a commonly available library, that applications can use and understand. You shouldn't have to touch a mouse or use a mouse-analog device for most operations in-app. You shouldn't have to touch a keyboard unless you're inputting a substantial amount of text. (And even then, voice recognition has become a valid replacement for casual text input.)
Faster computers, faster network access, more portability, longer battery life, are all good things, but most of them (with the exception of battery life) are already Good Enough. What we need is something to DO with this hardware besides looking at cat videos.
And I know, I know, content creation is a much smaller market than cat video watching. So I don't expect this to be fixed any time soon.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Maybe they should put their money where there mouth is when it comes to performance and stop making the PC the laughing stock of console peasants due to 80% of them with integrated 15 years behind consoles and save game developers a big headache
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For most what they call a PC is computer + Internets.
If Intel wants to help out and expand the PC then how about spending some dosh on busting big com so more can tweet their infos on facechat. >:^P
Everyone knew the day was coming where PC manufacturers would limit the low level control you have on your PC so that they can be locked down from doing activities they deem to be wrong, and encourage you to do activities they can monetize. Now the day has come.
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I believe many people would love a lightweight tablet (or phone) that they can use as their main computer to "resume" whatever it is they were doing. Think Nintendo Switch. I absolutely abhor Windows and have been using Unix for.. (crap, man I'm so old), but I have been curious enough to get a 13" windows tablet to give it a try. Man does it sucks (not that Linux is any better, there's nothing since Ubuntu gave up). It's much better than it used to be, I actually use it to read my humblebundle ebooks, but so far behind Android or IOS in terms of usability. There's so much potential, especially since Microsoft opened their eyes and started following the cloud movement. But they don't even have the basics right... It's depressing, it reminds me of the first windows phone, where they almost got the idea but were so entrenched in their menus and stuff that they didn't think about usability. I should stop, I'm ranting.
and hard drives and memory and the NUCs and pretty much everything a that makes a computer a computer, so they've got a lot to do with it.
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Never again Intel: YOU OWE US MONEY.
Your board should be jailed.
Your company nationalized.
Your ashes scattered to the wind.
trying to push back at PCs becoming irrelevant for content consumption and even for some forms of creation. It's to be expected. Nothing to see here, move along.
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We need more pci-e lanes on the desktop and high end gaming systems.
And what if most of the public don't use high end gaming systems? Why would they need more pci-e lanes? AMD and Intel both have to sell the the general public more than the high end gamer.
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I don't wanna contribute to fuck all. Keeping my egotistical Personal Computer, thank you.
Not some fucknigga bitch from Intel.
I want Intel to get raped more than just 'Up the Ass', since we're sharing our deeply incompatible desires.
You PC knows what you did last night.
Pay $20 in the next 12 Hours to prevent us from telling your employer and friends.
Your "friends" at Intel, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon corporation.
The "general public" can use high end 486 chips or Atom processors. They'll never notice the difference.
The reason the cloud has been able to take over is because the PC stopped developing technologies that serve the user and require more real-time bandwidth than is available on a home internet connection.
I want two big things to happen in PC development.
First, bring the peripherals into this century. Free it from fixed displays and support mixed voice, gesture and keyboard input in everything. Most importantly, I want wireless A/R based displays that allow me to see many virtual displays, sheets of paper, talking avatars, or whatever I want to use to represent data naturally appearing in the environment around me. Blow up the limited "desktop" metaphor and expand it to my whole world. I want to be able to create display walls like those that would be in an advanced military command center and have everything updating in real time.
Second, give it native AI capabilities that can operate at the level of Deepmind's best and be trained at home. This undoubtedly means giving it a separate AI processor that is not just a tweaked GPU and probably operates in the analog domain to pack the power of hundreds of Google TPUs into a single chip. It should be able to play games, screen callers not on my contact list, screen people at the door (announcing them and letting them in if necessary), continuously monitor news for my interests, help me to automate my stock trading activities, help me to write my software, monitor the baby room, monitor my vitals and adjust the environment for my comfort at all times, order my groceries, suggest meals based on its knowledge of what I like and my mood, and many other things in a 24x7 simultaneous fashion.
We need more pci-e lanes on the desktop and high end gaming systems.
AMD has more on both and on there high end gaming / workstations chips all cpus have the same number of lanes. Unlike the intel ones where min cpu cost is $1000 just to get the same number lanes that can $350-$500 chip used to have.
AMD also has ECC. Intel would rather play games and intentionally withhold it to upsell Xeon.
Hey Intel. I don't want your mitts all over my PC. I want it to do what *I* want, when *I* want it done. I want it secure, fast, and I don't need your "extra enhanced bullshit (tm)" on it. If you lock me out of it, I will surely find another chipmaker. If I can't load the OS that I need, then you won't see my money (ever again!)! If you hard wire me to the internet where it can't be secured, again, I'm gone. If you (one more time) sacrifice security for speed, I will be gone. Here is a thought: instead of trying to be the total AI for all things to everyone, try doing what you should be doing properly *first*. If I want to do AI, then *I* will install Prolog and Lisp. I don't need your meddling. If I want to do advanced satellite imaging, then *I* will compile the software defined radio software, add the radio hardware, build the antenna, and then write the deconvolution software, make it multithreaded, and work with either cuda or openMP to make better use of GPU's (some of these things are already underway). I don't really want to have Full Unloading Complete Kernel With Indexed Trampolines (go ahead, you can abbreviate that), to solve a "Trust us, it's secure(tm)" massive security hole, and suffer at least a 1.5% total performance penalty. (Hey, If Apple can slow down their phones, then surely Intel can slow down PCs). Thanks again.
I need threaded comms, interprocess comm and seamless mesh nets. I have work to do, shit ton of devices that steal productive time away with too weak bridges that have to be reconnected to Bluetooth, NFC, WiFi and NAT. Keep the 27" desktop screen and lose the cords. Keep the modular boxen paradigm. I don't care what happens on the portable side.
Take you GHz elsewhere. I need extra boards++, DAC's, encryption and graphics for the future-proof work ahead. I'm plenty productive. Seventy percent of my time is formatting for the other Intel boxen for whom there exists legacy programs and need to be compatible on some 3rd standard.
I get what Intel is saying, loud and clear.
No need to upgrade my PC, just shove all the RAM it can take, a good SSD, and I will be good. I've got more than enough cores, more than enough RAM, and no spyware, crapware, trialware, shovelware, etc.
It runs Windows in a VM, where it can't do any harm, and Windows has no access to anything it doesn't need.
My "On the Go" Desktop is a compute stick, running Linux, but this is now leaning towards an HardKernel XU4 running same.
I totally get that Intel, MSFT, et al have a new business model based on harvesting all my data, and charging me for "cpu use" of my own cpu, by means of harvesting my data, all the while I pay for the bandwidth and the electricity,and the license cost.
I now just "evaluate" Windows, on a 30 day term, each day. And on each day, it turns out that Windows is not sufficient for my needs.
Sounds more like PR coming from a battered company reeling from MeltDown/Spectre mess.
"But . . . what if they were?"
Marketing committee discussion, probably.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
That's the marketing speak for, "Let's divert our customers and shareholders attention from the fact that our 10nm rollout is now three years late and still incomplete and the fact that we haven't updated our uArch in years (the last one was Skylake in ... 2015) and AMD is closely trailing us in the IPC metric (which is considered the cornerstone of CPU performance) and with the advent of 7nm process from the competing fabs is around the corner and AMD has all the chances to make us irrelevant".
Oh, Qualcomm is about to introduce SnapDragon 1000 which is going to directly compete with Intel's ultra low-power/low-voltage CPUs.
Intel has just found itself irrelevant because having been a monopoly for so long has eaten the company from the inside.
Oh, and it's the middle of 2018 and we have yet to see their CPUs which have Meltdown (and Spectre to some extend) fixed in hardware. A bloody 12 months later year after the issue was reported to them. Instead Intel is about to rollout an anniversary 8086 CPU, which is the same old Coffee Lake (8700K) with a 5GHz turbo boost. WTF, Intel?!
Why does i have to pay this word "contribution"?
The "general public" is to whom Intel wants to sell things, because there's a thousand of them for every gamer who knows what a PCIe lane is.
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Seems to make the most sense to me: phone + high-quality KVM experience = what 99% of the population wants.
This *almost* exists now just leave a bluetooth mouse/keyboard and Chromecast with hdmi monitor where ever you want to use your phone "full screen." It's the Apps and GUI that aren't there.
It certainly makes sense to just use your phone. But the platforms that be (iOS and Android) have not evolved there yet.
A phone with a SnapDragon 845, 8G RAM and 128GB of storage certainly has the necessary horsepower.
Facebook is billions of individual "Skinner Boxes." And if you use it you are the pigeon!
AMD also has ECC.
Which is of interest to whom? No seriously unless your bank is verifying your house purchase transaction using a Core i5, what benefit is there in ECC RAM for an average user, I mean other than having lighter wallets and less performance?
"I think that would be a good idea", to paraphrase Gandhi.
Since I moved to Linux about 19 years ago, I used to wonder about the term "personal computer", and how "PC == Wintel" to many people. Looking at all of those identical Windows appliances vs. all the fun and interesting setups of Linux enthusiasts. Linux machines ranging from supercomputing clusters to wristwatches around the turn of the millennium. What exactly did the Wintel people mean by "personal"? Something familiar to the average person, or something you personalize to fit your needs and work for you?
Incidentally, today I used and installed Android for the first time. I've been sharing pictures on Instagram using the web extension, but I wanted to set some options that would only be available via the "app" (as if the browser were not an application, vs. the OS), so I tried android-x86. (Why I don't have a phone that runs those things is another topic, but I'm sure many a /.er will resonate.) The question is, why does one need different machines (virtual or actual) for content production and management/consumption? It is yet another frustrating example of the user-developer separation. I guess the real reasons involve something like ad revenue.
The Android experience was refreshing because I keep hearing about "smart"phones as the great consumer control and tracking platform, but it didn't seem realistic until I had a go. Or as mentioned on Wikipedia about its origins: 'Rubin described the Android project as "tremendous potential in developing smarter mobile devices that are more aware of its owner's location and preferences"'.
I'm not sure Intel is in the position to make the computer great.. erm, personal again -- something I can fully customize and control, and that runs all things computable. But it sure would be a good idea.
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Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Otherwise, and most seriously, with me having a laptop that's only running a fraction of it's prior speed, and still not safe form Spectre or meltdown, please go do go fuck yourselves, you pieces of moldy shit.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
We have a social contract, give us what we want, we give you money.
Instead we got stuff like IE so we switched to chrome/mozilla, we got windows with ads and telemetry so we switched to linux, we got Oracle arrogance so we switched to mongodb. We just keep jumping away like a fish hitting a patch of cold water whenever they try something we collectively agree is not in our best interests. We evolve and attempt something different.
If they flub this, the real people who will be feeling it are Intel themselves as ARM has shown itself very competent (I write this on a raspberry pi) and AMD is certainly no slouch and has demonstrated a competitive attitude that I find healthy in the market, though I do wish the list of possibilities was longer.
I don't think Intel is going to be allowed to interject themselves into the customer boot experience :]
.. the only urgent issue I can think of is defining how it boots, if we let Intel do this in a proprietary way we're screwed." ref
.. Pat agreed to remove the words "Network Computer" from the spec' ref
'* NC & Java are platform challenges: - possible emergence of a set of API's and underlying system software that lead to lesser or no role for Windows' ref
"it would be crazy to Intel define this
'No NC mention in any specification
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;] ..
.. "our plans continue to underestimate the importance of an OPEN unified approach for the internet. The demo I saw today when Windows 95 was showing its Internet capability was someone calling up the Fedex page on the internet and typing in a package number and getting the status. Imagine how much work it would have been for Fedex to call us up and get that running on MSN and negociate with us. Instead they just set it up. A very simple way to reach out to their customers." billg
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More than a "personal" computer, ie : a shared computer. Your resources will be shared. Your data will be shared. Your preferences, likes/dislikes and "personal" information will be shared. It's not "your computer", it's a "shared computer". a shared computer that you pay for, but have little to no control over.
That is the most ignorant statement you could have ever made on Slashdot regarding the topic of computing. The entire point of a computer isn't just to calculate data efficiently, but to do so RELIABLY!
Much system instability, downtime, and data-loss can be attributed to random bit-flips. It's so bad, that Google was involved in a study regarding DRAM errors.
We find that DRAM error behavior in the field differs in many key aspects from commonly held assumptions. For example, we observe DRAM error rates that are orders of magnitude higher than previously reported, with 25,000 to 70,000 errors per billion device hours per Mbit and more than 8\% of DIMMs affected by errors per year. We provide strong evidence that memory errors are dominated by hard errors, rather than soft errors, which previous work suspects to be the dominant error mode. We find that temperature, known to strongly impact DIMM error rates in lab conditions, has a surprisingly small effect on error behavior in the field, when taking all other factors into account.
And that study was 9 years ago. Since then, speed has increased with transistors shrinking, which makes them more susceptible to cosmic rays striking the small gates on the die like a stray bullet!
I really wish ECC was mandatory for the entire industry. Performance be damned! You want performance, ok, fine, disable ECC if you want. But that's on you. Honestly, ECC usage should be the norm, not the exception.
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I'm pretty sure the public will notice 486 machines vs Kaby Lake more than Kaby Lake with 4 lanes or 2 lanes.
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I get the message. But the messenger is wrong. Intel knows squat about software, integration, UI, user satisfaction, learning, and pretty much anything that isn't *melting sand*.
Android and iOS are both accessable. Easy to dev for, if you're a programmer, which might be the issue for anyone working at Intel Sand R Us labs. Buy an unlocked phone, have your older phone unlocked, get a dev environment, knock yourself out. Show it to your friends, if they laugh good, if they want it better. But nobody needs Intel to barf out something as bad as UEFI is again.
Considering their current "use three die" and culling out the results into fifty bins, one might suggest they aren't all that good at melting sand anymore. Was a time when they would actually tweak the die to get better yields. Those days and the engineers that could do that are gone. Intel missed the phone market - by miles.
...crickets...
It's fucking nothing. How is the PC not a "personal contribution platform"?
MORE THAN PERSONAL COMPUTERS
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Hey Intel, in case you've forgotten, your processors still have fundamental design flaws that create security holes so large that hackers are driving trucks through them. How about fixing predictive branching at the hardware level so that it's secure before embarking on bullshit features? This a serious problem, it's not a joke. Making sure that your next generation chip designs are secure ought to be the top priority, not new gee-whiz features.
It's so bad, that
Ahh but is it. For all the theoretical work that has been done on the topic the impact has been what in real terms of reliability? Where are the buildings falling down, the money disappearing from accounts? Where's the physics simulations gone wrong, or the random data corruption? Where are the reliability problems when serving up content? Where are the lockups and crashes of our devices? Where is the detrimental impact to our communication?
You see, it's so bad that companies who handle truly critical data did a bit of a study and implemented ECC while the entire world itself effectively experiences zero reliability issues.
You want to spend the extra money, go for it, but the reality is our computers are plenty reliable for even very critical tasks (workstations, rather than consumers) without ECC memory, and we have a good 28 years of experience proving that there's no reason at all to roll out ECC as the norm.
You claim my statement is ignorant, all the while ignoring the fact that it's not likelihood that governs our lives. It's risk. And risk is likelihood combined with the consequence, which for the personal computer is so close to insignificant that it... well it's insignificant. The same can not be said for a datacentre processing bank transactions, or Google being paid a fortune to look after critical data for other companies.
Except for the chromecast part. It needs an internet connection to send your info back to the google mothership. It’s a great concept though.
I remember traveling once and did not want to bring two laptops, so I borrowed a chromecast. Once in my hotel room I tried setting it up and was like WTF. Accounts needing a connection to the internet? To stream from my phone?
The next trip I brought a travel router and set up chromecast, but the whole thing sort of pissed me off. I ended up getting a generic streamcast dongle which, while not as robust, does not phone home.
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