Well, to be fair, I have to wonder how many of those 56,000 people already displaced american jobs. You know, besides ALL of them.
So hopefully everyone can pardon me while IDGAF that a bunch of people who got jobs from people laid off to 'reduce costs' are now being cost reductions themselves. Good riddance.
But they didn't realize we meant the modems and went ahead with the business plan anyway. Don't worry, next year they will have a new proposal since this one didn't perform completely to expectations.
It's value is largely based on people wanting it to have value. The majority of gold goes to making...jewelry. Combine that with bullion and you have the large majority of gold usage.
The amount of gold used in manufacturing is a small fraction of the overall total so, while it's still necessary, the hype around "we must has all teh golds for computerz" is utter crap. There's enough in people's jewelry today to support the manufacturing industry for 100+ years.
People just assign a value to gold because it's always been valuable. If you want to talk about much bigger tulip markets...how about diamonds? Well, except that debeers would simply pay/bribe/force the media companies not to.
While I'm not married to crypto currency, the DOW (well, stock prices, the DJIA is mainly a cumulative tracking instrument) are most certainly a gamble too.
I've seen plenty of relatively minor things vastly change stock prices...or equally, plenty of nothingness drive prices to ridiculous levels.
Crypto is just at a much more infantile stage which is largely the cause of it's volatility especially when you couple it with all the ceaseless media coverage the last few months. There isn't room for a bazillion coins all tied to nothingness. There is certainly options for the blockchain to support coins tied TO things.
'fittest' is relative to society which changes many orders of magnitude faster than genetic traits are formed and passed on.
There's no singular 'right' answer, though there are many 'wrong' answers.
To argue with myself...even the wrong answers do drive science forward and broaden our understanding and abilities in regards to genetics. Eugenics might limit bad traits but would also limit the gene pool which has it's own potentially disastrous effects. So if someone with a strange genetic mutation broadens our understanding and abilities - was that a negative mutation?
To expect them to be merely evenly distributed between good and bad is ludicrous. The chance of a random mutation doing something good, especially without negative repercussions, is extremely rare.
People like to apply the morals and views of today to people who lived in the past.
Many (probably virtually all) well respected famous people - be it kings and queens or inventors or philanthropists - from 100+ years ago did things that today's society would consider reprehensible. At the time though, those things were the norm and accepted by society. In 50 or 100 years, people will look at society today and consider some of the things we do as barbaric too.
Agreed. This is a big part of the reason some countries are making internet access a basic human right.
We're still in the early teething stages for some of it, but we already see how things like security systems, heat, electricity, news/warnings/emergency notifications, grocery and other life necessity ordering, etc. all can and do routinely involve internet access in their various ways. Yes, you can go to the electric company and pay your bill in pennies...assuming you are able to get there. You could mail it in, but that assumes your eyesight and manual dexterity allow for it. And so on...in the end, the methods of doing many things that DON'T involve the internet are becoming less available, more complex, and harder to use.
Connecting your thermostat to the internet (or, more specifically, a cloud server) isn't necessarily a horrible thing. It just needs a level of security that most people and companies aren't capable of.
Internet providers (which are also typically cable tv companies) are salivating at the opportunity to return to expensive and segregated TV channel packages... but for internet which is very much killing off their cable TV business. Mind you, if they weren't so stupid about how they handled TV in the first place it would have been a natural and relatively easy transition to IP-based everything. But nah...greed and corporate-boardroom-fear overruled any kind of sense they might have had.
Counterpoint: if you win lotto, you generally receive a life-changing amount of money exchangeable for physical goods. If you 'win' a lootbox, you get database record entry related to some random game you're playing.
Oh, and lootboxes generally cost more than playing lotto anyhow. The pricing is honestly staggering. $100 is the normal high end price and even that doesn't buy you everything.
"Chinese herbal medicine" Oh, and the pill will increase your libido, grow your cock by 3" (apologies to the women), and ensure your pregnancy is a healthy one (apologies to the men).
Loans upon loans for amounts essentially unfathomable to teenagers pay for college. "Sign here for your loan and everything is paid for" so OF COURSE college students don't really complain about the cost. They never see it until it's too late and, even then, it's just a payment to make because the amount is too large to otherwise really consider.
You obfuscate the cost and then no one complains about it. They complain about the 'problem with student loans' and 'expensive health insurance' when those are symptoms, not the problem.
Oh please. Like he'd do something as stupid as tweet a challenge at another government that he could complete something they desperately need and then go on to deliver far ahead of schedule. If he did, he'd probably just stuff it full of batteries or whatever and who would want that?
TBH he probably WOULD make a terrible politician. They are, as a whole, not results-oriented individuals.
I also have to wonder if this was partly in response to the battery issues they had with the 6-series (or 6s, i forget) where they'd get unexpected shutdowns and battery capacity under ~40% was a complete crapshoot. I had one and regularly saw the phone power off at 20% battery...or go from 30 to 5 and then power off and back to 40% when powered back on.
My guess is iffy battery performance messed up their capacity algorithms when it couldn't handle minor spikes in power due to CPU...so they basically just cut out the spikes in CPU to avoid further need of replacing batteries. And from there...it becomes a logical step to apply this to any device which might have anything similar happen. A slower phone is easier to accept than one which powers off somewhat randomly after all.
I'd put my money on them being linked. It was a business decision to help limit battery replacement...and a "good idea" spread it to all devices.
I bet that laptop also gives you the ability to check battery health too...you know, without returning it to the manufacturer to have some oddly titled 'guru' run a set of completely automated tests that give results which have standardized actions to take in response.
I'd hope folks on/. would know the CPU is absolutely not running at battery voltage, much less directly off the battery.
Lowering the CPU power prevents spikes in battery drain. Since batteries are less efficient at higher current draws, this still makes sense but not how you explain it.
Also, engaging 'limp mode' and notifying the user is likely a very bad idea. Limp mode is very likely a momentary (though frequent) throttling of the CPU - or more exactly, it DOESN'T throttle the CPU up and engage more cores when a higher load is presented. Modern CPUs bounce frequency and multiplier and cores around constantly...so you'd get as much as a few pop-ups a second. So much for improving battery life.
Generally I'd agree, but I've also seen much stupider things done in business.
6 months of pay may be a significant thing for a smaller company. Someone may have a grudge and the ability to pull the firing trigger without being forced to walk through 6 months of CYA.
I'd still suggest giving notice. Maybe a bit less and offer to stick around for up to 6-12 months at a higher rate and/or part time.
At-will employment does allow either party to terminate the employment with zero notice for no reason. However that absolutely DOES NOT absolve either party of obeying laws around employment. You can terminate me for no reason, but you can't pretend a reason doesn't exist. i.e. if a company terminates someone a week after they announce they're pregnant there are sufficient grounds for a lawsuit - at which point the company would need to justify the termination was not on illegal grounds.
Age is protected status.
Retaliation is also illegal. You can't fire someone because they gave notice to terminate their employment. Many companies DO decide to go with leave in lieu of notice for employees with privileged access. I've had that more than once and it amounts to a couple-week vacation where I'm technically on-call but have all my access cut so can't do anything.
If you give notice of retirement in 6 months and they are stupid enough to fire you for "no reason" shortly after, you'd have a pretty solid lawsuit in the making. Not to mention they'd easily get crucified in the media over it and any cost to just pay you out even for 6 months would be minor in comparison.
You have no idea how the bitcoin blockchain works it seems.
First, each block is limited in size and each transaction takes a portion of that. Therefore, there are a finite amount of transactions per block. Blocks don't come when they're 'full' but instead when they're mined (i.e. someone finds the next hash) which happens at a fairly stable cadence.
And...when you combine the rate of blocks with the number of transactions that will fit into them. 4-5 transactions/sec is what the blockchain supports/allows/does.
For some further education... miners don't 'process transactions' much less do it in parallel. They look for the next hash and, when found, publish the next block that includes some of the pending transactions, but not all of them.
Agreed. Even under heavy use a phone should reach thermal equilibrium in 15-20 min...with no parts getting any hotter then they already are...and that should be within the design temp for the device and battery.
Now, if this test phone broke because they let it run for two days and during which it was subject to temp fluctuations (such as the sun coming through a window and cooking the phone) then this isn't especially news beyond 'battery failing as intended during extreme heating'
I have to wonder though - how much can you really mine from phone CPU and GPU? I guess if you have infected millions of them...but phones are generally harder targets than computers and have much, much less processing capacity.
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Well, to be fair, I have to wonder how many of those 56,000 people already displaced american jobs. You know, besides ALL of them.
So hopefully everyone can pardon me while IDGAF that a bunch of people who got jobs from people laid off to 'reduce costs' are now being cost reductions themselves. Good riddance.
But they didn't realize we meant the modems and went ahead with the business plan anyway. Don't worry, next year they will have a new proposal since this one didn't perform completely to expectations.
Agreed. Long term vs. short term investment.
Real estate is generally a good long term investment but it's equally bad to sink all your money into that.
Ok, so while we've got all these panic moments...remind me how many people got very, VERY rich in the process?
If you got OUT of the dotcom bubble at the right time you could have made a killing and kept it.
Gold isn't all that much better.
It's value is largely based on people wanting it to have value. The majority of gold goes to making...jewelry. Combine that with bullion and you have the large majority of gold usage.
The amount of gold used in manufacturing is a small fraction of the overall total so, while it's still necessary, the hype around "we must has all teh golds for computerz" is utter crap. There's enough in people's jewelry today to support the manufacturing industry for 100+ years.
People just assign a value to gold because it's always been valuable. If you want to talk about much bigger tulip markets...how about diamonds? Well, except that debeers would simply pay/bribe/force the media companies not to.
While I'm not married to crypto currency, the DOW (well, stock prices, the DJIA is mainly a cumulative tracking instrument) are most certainly a gamble too.
I've seen plenty of relatively minor things vastly change stock prices...or equally, plenty of nothingness drive prices to ridiculous levels.
Crypto is just at a much more infantile stage which is largely the cause of it's volatility especially when you couple it with all the ceaseless media coverage the last few months. There isn't room for a bazillion coins all tied to nothingness. There is certainly options for the blockchain to support coins tied TO things.
'fittest' is relative to society which changes many orders of magnitude faster than genetic traits are formed and passed on.
There's no singular 'right' answer, though there are many 'wrong' answers.
To argue with myself...even the wrong answers do drive science forward and broaden our understanding and abilities in regards to genetics. Eugenics might limit bad traits but would also limit the gene pool which has it's own potentially disastrous effects. So if someone with a strange genetic mutation broadens our understanding and abilities - was that a negative mutation?
Random mutations are, by name, random.
To expect them to be merely evenly distributed between good and bad is ludicrous. The chance of a random mutation doing something good, especially without negative repercussions, is extremely rare.
People like to apply the morals and views of today to people who lived in the past.
Many (probably virtually all) well respected famous people - be it kings and queens or inventors or philanthropists - from 100+ years ago did things that today's society would consider reprehensible. At the time though, those things were the norm and accepted by society. In 50 or 100 years, people will look at society today and consider some of the things we do as barbaric too.
There's a big difference between a services failure and an intentional denial of those services...or worse, the threat of denial.
The underlying problem here is the farce that copyright law has become. Addressing that would make this problem non-existent.
Agreed. This is a big part of the reason some countries are making internet access a basic human right.
We're still in the early teething stages for some of it, but we already see how things like security systems, heat, electricity, news/warnings/emergency notifications, grocery and other life necessity ordering, etc. all can and do routinely involve internet access in their various ways. Yes, you can go to the electric company and pay your bill in pennies...assuming you are able to get there. You could mail it in, but that assumes your eyesight and manual dexterity allow for it. And so on...in the end, the methods of doing many things that DON'T involve the internet are becoming less available, more complex, and harder to use.
Connecting your thermostat to the internet (or, more specifically, a cloud server) isn't necessarily a horrible thing. It just needs a level of security that most people and companies aren't capable of.
Internet providers (which are also typically cable tv companies) are salivating at the opportunity to return to expensive and segregated TV channel packages ... but for internet which is very much killing off their cable TV business. Mind you, if they weren't so stupid about how they handled TV in the first place it would have been a natural and relatively easy transition to IP-based everything. But nah...greed and corporate-boardroom-fear overruled any kind of sense they might have had.
I rate that things got to this point to begin with.
Yup.
Counterpoint: if you win lotto, you generally receive a life-changing amount of money exchangeable for physical goods. If you 'win' a lootbox, you get database record entry related to some random game you're playing.
Oh, and lootboxes generally cost more than playing lotto anyhow. The pricing is honestly staggering. $100 is the normal high end price and even that doesn't buy you everything.
"Chinese herbal medicine" Oh, and the pill will increase your libido, grow your cock by 3" (apologies to the women), and ensure your pregnancy is a healthy one (apologies to the men).
To draw a comparison, it's like college.
Loans upon loans for amounts essentially unfathomable to teenagers pay for college. "Sign here for your loan and everything is paid for" so OF COURSE college students don't really complain about the cost. They never see it until it's too late and, even then, it's just a payment to make because the amount is too large to otherwise really consider.
You obfuscate the cost and then no one complains about it. They complain about the 'problem with student loans' and 'expensive health insurance' when those are symptoms, not the problem.
Oh please. Like he'd do something as stupid as tweet a challenge at another government that he could complete something they desperately need and then go on to deliver far ahead of schedule. If he did, he'd probably just stuff it full of batteries or whatever and who would want that?
TBH he probably WOULD make a terrible politician. They are, as a whole, not results-oriented individuals.
I also have to wonder if this was partly in response to the battery issues they had with the 6-series (or 6s, i forget) where they'd get unexpected shutdowns and battery capacity under ~40% was a complete crapshoot. I had one and regularly saw the phone power off at 20% battery...or go from 30 to 5 and then power off and back to 40% when powered back on.
My guess is iffy battery performance messed up their capacity algorithms when it couldn't handle minor spikes in power due to CPU...so they basically just cut out the spikes in CPU to avoid further need of replacing batteries. And from there...it becomes a logical step to apply this to any device which might have anything similar happen. A slower phone is easier to accept than one which powers off somewhat randomly after all.
I'd put my money on them being linked. It was a business decision to help limit battery replacement...and a "good idea" spread it to all devices.
I bet that laptop also gives you the ability to check battery health too...you know, without returning it to the manufacturer to have some oddly titled 'guru' run a set of completely automated tests that give results which have standardized actions to take in response.
This is Apple and millions upon millions of lines of code.
It COULD be both - out of arrogance, stupidity, or ill intent (or all three).
I'd hope folks on /. would know the CPU is absolutely not running at battery voltage, much less directly off the battery.
Lowering the CPU power prevents spikes in battery drain. Since batteries are less efficient at higher current draws, this still makes sense but not how you explain it.
Also, engaging 'limp mode' and notifying the user is likely a very bad idea. Limp mode is very likely a momentary (though frequent) throttling of the CPU - or more exactly, it DOESN'T throttle the CPU up and engage more cores when a higher load is presented. Modern CPUs bounce frequency and multiplier and cores around constantly...so you'd get as much as a few pop-ups a second. So much for improving battery life.
Generally I'd agree, but I've also seen much stupider things done in business.
6 months of pay may be a significant thing for a smaller company. Someone may have a grudge and the ability to pull the firing trigger without being forced to walk through 6 months of CYA.
I'd still suggest giving notice. Maybe a bit less and offer to stick around for up to 6-12 months at a higher rate and/or part time.
You're right, but wrong.
At-will employment does allow either party to terminate the employment with zero notice for no reason. However that absolutely DOES NOT absolve either party of obeying laws around employment. You can terminate me for no reason, but you can't pretend a reason doesn't exist. i.e. if a company terminates someone a week after they announce they're pregnant there are sufficient grounds for a lawsuit - at which point the company would need to justify the termination was not on illegal grounds.
Age is protected status.
Retaliation is also illegal. You can't fire someone because they gave notice to terminate their employment. Many companies DO decide to go with leave in lieu of notice for employees with privileged access. I've had that more than once and it amounts to a couple-week vacation where I'm technically on-call but have all my access cut so can't do anything.
If you give notice of retirement in 6 months and they are stupid enough to fire you for "no reason" shortly after, you'd have a pretty solid lawsuit in the making. Not to mention they'd easily get crucified in the media over it and any cost to just pay you out even for 6 months would be minor in comparison.
That sounds more like a business transaction. Granted, an illegal one from both sides but nevertheless...
All the more reason for prostitution not to be illegal.
Not ridiculous. Not untrue.
You have no idea how the bitcoin blockchain works it seems.
First, each block is limited in size and each transaction takes a portion of that. Therefore, there are a finite amount of transactions per block. Blocks don't come when they're 'full' but instead when they're mined (i.e. someone finds the next hash) which happens at a fairly stable cadence.
And...when you combine the rate of blocks with the number of transactions that will fit into them. 4-5 transactions/sec is what the blockchain supports/allows/does.
For some further education ... miners don't 'process transactions' much less do it in parallel. They look for the next hash and, when found, publish the next block that includes some of the pending transactions, but not all of them.
Agreed. Even under heavy use a phone should reach thermal equilibrium in 15-20 min...with no parts getting any hotter then they already are...and that should be within the design temp for the device and battery.
Now, if this test phone broke because they let it run for two days and during which it was subject to temp fluctuations (such as the sun coming through a window and cooking the phone) then this isn't especially news beyond 'battery failing as intended during extreme heating'
I have to wonder though - how much can you really mine from phone CPU and GPU? I guess if you have infected millions of them...but phones are generally harder targets than computers and have much, much less processing capacity.