Not a chance. Every CXO has an untouchable golden parachute. He could murder the rest of the board and shit in the water cooler and he'd still get his contractually guaranteed compensation.
Charlie has been following and detailing Xpoint and its failures for a while now. He's got a half dozen articles or so with more specifics, including official marketing BS from Intel and how its changed over time. I haven't seen Charlie sink his teeth this deep into a story since bumpgate. If you remember that one, he was basically the one guy that bothered to do the legwork to prove an large number of Nvidia's GPUs were defective. This resulted in lawsuits against Nvidia and even caused Apple to move to AMD graphics.
As a flat number, $140,000,000 in marketing for a major film is peanuts. It's absurd, but that is the state the film industry is in. If you want to profit from your film you need deep pockets or a lot of luck. Nothing gets sold without vast media junkets in the US and in Asia.
If you do not have this budget and no major studio will pick u your project and run with it, your best option is to beg Netflix for a deal that includes them slathering their main screen with a trailer for your shit.
I voted against Trump, but I also voted against Hillary. I'm in a deeeeeeeeeeeeeep blue state, so my vote didn't matter either way.
I thought Trump had zero fucking chance in 2016. Now I'm sure he'll win in 2020 easily. The DNC has gone full retard, and they're getting exposed for all their crimes.
Of course they are. Either way, you're missing the point. Among those that have/had long-lived old things, you will find very few (or none) that have long-lived replacements.
It's NOT an issue of bias in only looking at examples where old shit happened to last a long time. That's what the person I replied to claimed. It's horse shit. If that were the case, and new shit lasts just as long or longer than old shit, then the typical experience of someone with long-lived old things would be that the new shit is better. That's not the typical experience. If it were, people wouldn't bitch about new shit not lasting long.
If that were the case, anecdotes of having to replace the new appliance more frequently than they had to replace the old one (if they ever did) wouldn't be common.
It's not just that some old things survived. Among those who own old surviving things, the survival rate of new things does not match.
No. Existing NVMe SSDs already use DRAM for the cache, which is faster and more reliable than Xpoint. And you're bottlenecked by NVMe performance and latency.
Xpoint was supposed to replace both DRAM and storage. Now it's a very expensive replacement for storage that's better in one metric (MAYBE two) and a very poor replacement for DRAM that's worse in every metric except cost. And until Intel actually starts shipping these things for sale to end users, that cost benefit is up in the air.
I for one expect DRAM prices to settle back down (likely due to regulators finally shaking their stick against the collusion) well before Xpoint NVDIMMs make sense. Then the only benefits to Xpoint are latency on the storage side (in which case it's still likely much more expensive than NAND) and persistence on the memory side. If you need persistence in memory you're typically running supercap / UPS setups and flushing to disk. NVDIMM Xpoint could get rid of all that complexity, but at what cost?
Xpoint's other claim to fame is durability. DRAM wins. It might beat out current NAND, but no one really has tested enough to be sure. Their currently shipping products have tons of overprovisioning on them despite Intel claiming it's not necessary at all because Xpoint is so resilient. Who knows?
Why would you mix and match DRAM and Xpoint on the same bus anyway when Xpoint is so much slower than DRAM?
Because Intel originally said you s hould do this and that it would be awesome and that the memory controller knew how to make it all work out so you get DRAM speed for DRAM stuff and multi-channel XPoint speed for NV stuff.
Uh, not when they want to develop new cars, or update and fix the beta cars they're selling to their beta testers.
interest is fixed and finished
So they have no outstanding debt?
Both those things will go down per car as more cars are made.
Only if they stay fixed, or don't grow as fast as production does. They're not staying fixed. They're growing. Production is growing very slowly, and growing that production capacity is costing them heavily.
So the more cars they make the smaller your 'nonsense claimed loss' is. When that number gets smaller and smaller it will turn positive. Selling more cars won't make the number worse, it will make it better. Why you might ask (well if you had a brain) because the cars are profitable to make once those fixed costs are paid.
The costs aren't fixed. Tesla is still struggling to build a fraction of a real auto factory. They're still bleeding R&D costs to tweak and update the models they've already shipped. They're going to bleed more R&D to make future models. The demand isn't limitless, and competitors exist. If you expect a few thousand cars a week to save Tesla, how many years will that take? Who wants to buy a new 2018 Model 3 in 2025?
Weak. Luke Skywalker was able to send a projection of himself to a distant solar system and it was so strong it convinced his force-sensitive twin sister, once of the strongest (and most emo) force wielders in the universe, AND his favorite droids.
Any measurable scale can be referred to as being measured in degrees. Kelvin is a (nearly) open ended scale that starts at 0 and goes up, up, up (probably to the Planck temperature).
Intel has numbers. But they're not sharing. They're still promising to ship the NVDIMM Xpoint modules "soon". Micron has numbers. But they're not sharing. Oh, and they're doubling down on DRAM manufacturing. They're not exactly going full steam ahead with Xpoint. I wonder why?
The delay is because XPoint doesn't work. The writes usually take, but sometimes they don't. Intel hasn't figured out why.
They current practice is to verify all the writes and simply redo them if they don't take. This means you're tying up the the bus, and this is why Intel now recommends dedicating entire memory channels to XPoint instead of mixing and matching with DRAM. If you have XPoint in all of your channels, your latencies go through the roof and your performance tanks.
Wait for generation 3 before considering XPoint NVDIMMs.
$140 million on marketing, which was nearly as much as the film's regular budget.
As a flat number, $140 million on marketing is fucking peanuts these days. As a percentage, many major films now spend as much on marketing as they do on production, if not more.
I was dismayed to learn this weekend about a Tesla employee who had conducted quite extensive and damaging sabotage to our operations. This included making direct code changes to the Tesla Manufacturing Operating System under false usernames and exporting large amounts of highly sensitive Tesla data to unknown third parties.
What is a "false username"? Is it a username that doesn't exist? If so, how did your system allow such a thing? Is it a username for someone else? If so, were the other users complicit? How did the saboteur know their login details? How did you identify the saboteur among the "false usernames"?
How do you know that data was exported? You claim to know that "large amounts" of "highly sensitive" data was exported to "unknown third parties". If your system categorizes data such that some can be categorized as "highly sensitive", and you have logging in place that can discern how much was exported, why were no alarms set off when "large amounts" of "highly sensitive" was accessed? Further, how do you know what was done with it? You claim it was exported to "unknown third parties", but how did you make that determination? Were you able to track the data after it was exported? If so, how? Was the data exported over your own network? If so, see my previous questions about categorization of data, logging of volume and access, and a lack of klaxons.
The full extent of his actions are not yet clear, but what he has admitted to so far is pretty bad. His stated motivation is that he wanted a butt fucking that he did not receive. In light of these actions, not butt fucking him was definitely the right move.
I think you need to give him that butt fucking so he tells you the full extent of his actions.
Oh, my God! You're right! How is my lard-ass going to suck down gallons of sugar water while driving without a plastic straw!?!?! With my fucking lips? Holy shit! This is a catastrophe! These fucking environmentalists want to ruin our lives. How dare they?
You suck legions of dick with your lips. What's your hangup about, exactly?
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Historically, startups have been the engine of US economy.
NOPE! When you start with that, you're just telling everyone with a brain to tune the fuck out.
Not a chance. Every CXO has an untouchable golden parachute. He could murder the rest of the board and shit in the water cooler and he'd still get his contractually guaranteed compensation.
https://semiaccurate.com/2018/...
Charlie has been following and detailing Xpoint and its failures for a while now. He's got a half dozen articles or so with more specifics, including official marketing BS from Intel and how its changed over time. I haven't seen Charlie sink his teeth this deep into a story since bumpgate. If you remember that one, he was basically the one guy that bothered to do the legwork to prove an large number of Nvidia's GPUs were defective. This resulted in lawsuits against Nvidia and even caused Apple to move to AMD graphics.
As a flat number, $140,000,000 in marketing for a major film is peanuts. It's absurd, but that is the state the film industry is in.
If you want to profit from your film you need deep pockets or a lot of luck. Nothing gets sold without vast media junkets in the US and in Asia.
If you do not have this budget and no major studio will pick u your project and run with it, your best option is to beg Netflix for a deal that includes them slathering their main screen with a trailer for your shit.
I voted against Trump, but I also voted against Hillary.
I'm in a deeeeeeeeeeeeeep blue state, so my vote didn't matter either way.
I thought Trump had zero fucking chance in 2016. Now I'm sure he'll win in 2020 easily. The DNC has gone full retard, and they're getting exposed for all their crimes.
Anecdotes are not data.
Of course they are. Either way, you're missing the point.
Among those that have/had long-lived old things, you will find very few (or none) that have long-lived replacements.
It's NOT an issue of bias in only looking at examples where old shit happened to last a long time. That's what the person I replied to claimed. It's horse shit. If that were the case, and new shit lasts just as long or longer than old shit, then the typical experience of someone with long-lived old things would be that the new shit is better. That's not the typical experience. If it were, people wouldn't bitch about new shit not lasting long.
False!
If that were the case, anecdotes of having to replace the new appliance more frequently than they had to replace the old one (if they ever did) wouldn't be common.
It's not just that some old things survived. Among those who own old surviving things, the survival rate of new things does not match.
No. Existing NVMe SSDs already use DRAM for the cache, which is faster and more reliable than Xpoint.
And you're bottlenecked by NVMe performance and latency.
Xpoint was supposed to replace both DRAM and storage. Now it's a very expensive replacement for storage that's better in one metric (MAYBE two) and a very poor replacement for DRAM that's worse in every metric except cost. And until Intel actually starts shipping these things for sale to end users, that cost benefit is up in the air.
I for one expect DRAM prices to settle back down (likely due to regulators finally shaking their stick against the collusion) well before Xpoint NVDIMMs make sense. Then the only benefits to Xpoint are latency on the storage side (in which case it's still likely much more expensive than NAND) and persistence on the memory side. If you need persistence in memory you're typically running supercap / UPS setups and flushing to disk. NVDIMM Xpoint could get rid of all that complexity, but at what cost?
Xpoint's other claim to fame is durability. DRAM wins. It might beat out current NAND, but no one really has tested enough to be sure. Their currently shipping products have tons of overprovisioning on them despite Intel claiming it's not necessary at all because Xpoint is so resilient. Who knows?
Why would you mix and match DRAM and Xpoint on the same bus anyway when Xpoint is so much slower than DRAM?
Because Intel originally said you s hould do this and that it would be awesome and that the memory controller knew how to make it all work out so you get DRAM speed for DRAM stuff and multi-channel XPoint speed for NV stuff.
Nope.
keep in mind that the roadster's numbers are bottoms, not tops.
So are Elon Musk's fans.
OK idiot, R&D is fixed and finished
Uh, not when they want to develop new cars, or update and fix the beta cars they're selling to their beta testers.
interest is fixed and finished
So they have no outstanding debt?
Both those things will go down per car as more cars are made.
Only if they stay fixed, or don't grow as fast as production does. They're not staying fixed. They're growing. Production is growing very slowly, and growing that production capacity is costing them heavily.
So the more cars they make the smaller your 'nonsense claimed loss' is. When that number gets smaller and smaller it will turn positive. Selling more cars won't make the number worse, it will make it better. Why you might ask (well if you had a brain) because the cars are profitable to make once those fixed costs are paid.
The costs aren't fixed. Tesla is still struggling to build a fraction of a real auto factory. They're still bleeding R&D costs to tweak and update the models they've already shipped. They're going to bleed more R&D to make future models. The demand isn't limitless, and competitors exist. If you expect a few thousand cars a week to save Tesla, how many years will that take? Who wants to buy a new 2018 Model 3 in 2025?
Seek psychiatric help, please.
Weak. Luke Skywalker was able to send a projection of himself to a distant solar system and it was so strong it convinced his force-sensitive twin sister, once of the strongest (and most emo) force wielders in the universe, AND his favorite droids.
Any measurable scale can be referred to as being measured in degrees.
Kelvin is a (nearly) open ended scale that starts at 0 and goes up, up, up (probably to the Planck temperature).
Intel has numbers. But they're not sharing. They're still promising to ship the NVDIMM Xpoint modules "soon".
Micron has numbers. But they're not sharing. Oh, and they're doubling down on DRAM manufacturing. They're not exactly going full steam ahead with Xpoint. I wonder why?
The delay is because XPoint doesn't work. The writes usually take, but sometimes they don't. Intel hasn't figured out why.
They current practice is to verify all the writes and simply redo them if they don't take.
This means you're tying up the the bus, and this is why Intel now recommends dedicating entire memory channels to XPoint instead of mixing and matching with DRAM. If you have XPoint in all of your channels, your latencies go through the roof and your performance tanks.
Wait for generation 3 before considering XPoint NVDIMMs.
Remember the Portlan motto: Keep Portland Away.
$140 million on marketing, which was nearly as much as the film's regular budget.
As a flat number, $140 million on marketing is fucking peanuts these days. As a percentage, many major films now spend as much on marketing as they do on production, if not more.
Of course it's still there. But will Facebook explain who deleted it or will they claim it was a "bug" and then simply reactivate it?
Imagine being so salty about the election that you shit out this tripe on a daily basis.
What do you think the phrase "the writing is on the wall" means?
I was dismayed to learn this weekend about a Tesla employee who had conducted quite extensive and damaging sabotage to our operations. This included making direct code changes to the Tesla Manufacturing Operating System under false usernames and exporting large amounts of highly sensitive Tesla data to unknown third parties.
What is a "false username"?
Is it a username that doesn't exist? If so, how did your system allow such a thing?
Is it a username for someone else? If so, were the other users complicit? How did the saboteur know their login details? How did you identify the saboteur among the "false usernames"?
How do you know that data was exported? You claim to know that "large amounts" of "highly sensitive" data was exported to "unknown third parties". If your system categorizes data such that some can be categorized as "highly sensitive", and you have logging in place that can discern how much was exported, why were no alarms set off when "large amounts" of "highly sensitive" was accessed? Further, how do you know what was done with it? You claim it was exported to "unknown third parties", but how did you make that determination? Were you able to track the data after it was exported? If so, how? Was the data exported over your own network? If so, see my previous questions about categorization of data, logging of volume and access, and a lack of klaxons.
The full extent of his actions are not yet clear, but what he has admitted to so far is pretty bad. His stated motivation is that he wanted a butt fucking that he did not receive. In light of these actions, not butt fucking him was definitely the right move.
I think you need to give him that butt fucking so he tells you the full extent of his actions.
The old McDonalds straws were thick and durable. I also remember cleaning and saving them.
Ok, how long ago was this period of time of the metal straw?
My neck beard is getting quite old, and I have never in my life seen a metal straw.
I"d never heard of such a thing till an earlier /. thread on this a few months ago.
I never saw them in the 60's through now....some time before that?
I have a metal straw from 7-11 that I bought less than a decade ago. It's got SLURPEE emblazoned on it, but I use it mainly for milkshakes.
Oh, my God! You're right! How is my lard-ass going to suck down gallons of sugar water while driving without a plastic straw!?!?! With my fucking lips? Holy shit! This is a catastrophe! These fucking environmentalists want to ruin our lives. How dare they?
You suck legions of dick with your lips. What's your hangup about, exactly?