No, he is saying it is NOT A DEFECT. The cars are not designed to stop criminal actions. Is it a 'defect' that the windows can be 'exploited' by not being bullet-proof? Is it a defect that the body is not armored? Is it a defect that brake lines can be cut? Is it a defect that the car can be towed away by a criminal?
The fact that there is no commercially grown GMO wheat kind of puts a big hole in your argument. The so-called gluten intolerance is yet another stupid diet fad and not a medical problem.
Non-sequitur? Not at all. YOU are the one claiming that Reddit is doing bad things by exercising their property rights. So why is it 'bad' for Reddit to exercise their rights to prevent me from using their property to make a speech, but not 'bad' for you to prevent me from using YOUR property to make a speech? It is exactly the same thing.
The total non-sequitur is your claiming that you support my right to write on MY car. Reddit is not stopping anyone from posting anything on their own web sites.
You don't really believe those numbers, do you? That chart claims that the Dodge Omni got 35 city and 55 highway. Two years later, according to the EPA the same car got only 26 city and 35 highway. What happened in those 2 years to cause a 33% reduction in mileage? Better testing.
Do you have the slightest bit of evidence that the 'problem' is what you said? If the problem was as you state, then it should manifest itself immediately. This particular problem took 5YEARS and 600K+ vehicles, with probably tens of BILLIONS of vehicle miles, to come to light. How much testing is 'enough' in your opinion? Can you point me to the 'properly tested' software (ANY software) that meets your criteria? Can you point to ANY man-made thing that meets your criteria?
So, some people are allowed to exercise their rights, and that is 'a good thing', but other people exercising THEIR rights is 'a bad thing'?
What you seem to be saying is that Reddit, for example, should give up it's rights - explain why that is true. And if you DO think that is true, then surely you would have no problem with me painting 'death to all (any group)' on your car or house, right? After all, if you were to object or otherwise remove it that would be interferring with my free speech, and we can't have that, right?
You have got to be kidding. Yes, those cars were easy to work on, they had to be as they required constant service. Ever wonder why all the 'service stations' became 'mini-marts'? Because new, electronically-controlled, cars no longer provided the steady cash stream that all that mechanical crap did.
I remember when I was a kid in the 60s that a big part of the family vacation budget was 'get the car ready.' Going on any trip of more than a few hundred miles meant 'major tuneup' - points, plugs, distributor cap, rotor, idle adjustments, etc. And of course it had to be done ahead of time, because there was a fairly good chance that something would not be right and it would have to go back.
My current car has 102K miles on it, and the only service it has ever required is fluid and belt changes.
What makes you think physical is any better? My daughter called me one night saying she could not shut her car off, ignition key would not turn. Purely physical, no software involved. Turns out she had the GM iginition switch problem. The major difference between physical and software was that she was without her car for 10 weeks while they waited for parts, vs a quick trip for a software update.
Light switches certainly do not 'work every single time'. They are mechanical devices, and as such are subject to failure. And the failures can be quite spectacular, such as burning down the house. Many places now require 'anti-arcing' circuit breakers to prevent the fires caused by arcing switches.
Have you ever been to any of those states? Drive on I80 through PA and tell us how suburban it is. Or I87 (north of I84) through NY up to Canada. Or I90 across NY.
No, the fastest processors were certainly not in the 'low MHz' range. As I recall, they ran at about 700MHz. Not as fast as today, but far from low MHz.
I do not know exactly why BJT is not used, I am not a semiconductor expert. But I do know that there are specialized applications where they mix BJT and CMOS on the same chip, which is way harder than just making a BJT chip, so there must be some reason they do it. And I know that there are very smart people all over the world looking for any way to increase performance while keeping power usage low. And I highly doubt that every one of them has overlooked the 'obvious' solution of just using BJT.
In the mid-90s (hardly the 'early days of computing'), IBM made the decision to switch from bipolar to CMOS for its mainframes. This was quite painful, as CMOS did not have near the performance of bipolar, and they risked losing customers. So why did they do it? Because the fastest machine they offered, with 10 CPUs, used 165KVA and created 475,000 BTUs/hr of heat, and the roadmap showed ever increasing rates of energy usage. By the time CMOS caught up in performance (about 8 years later), those numbers were 0.6KVA and 2,000 BTUs/hr. Todays mainframes, with about 200x that performance, only use 27KVA.
You might consider the fact that your little school experiments bear no relation to the real world of processor design.
The fact that you could even write that shows just how clueless you are. MIPS has not actually meant Million Instruction Per Second for about 3 decades.
Even if we assume it is a meaningful count of instructions, what instructions are they? Are they register-register adds, decimal floating-point divides, a move of 100MB of data, encyption of a block of data? All of those can be done in a single instruction on Z, yet they all require different amounts of time to execute.
And even if you can choose the instructions, where is the data? Is it in L1, L2, L3, or L4? Does some other processor have to cast it out of cache before you can access it? All of that affects execution speed and thus widely changes the 'MIPS' count.
The Z114 uses the z196 processor. That processor runs at 5.2GHz, is superscalar and out-of-order. Each core has 64KB of instruction L1 cache and 128KB data L1 cache and 1.5MB L2 cache. Each processor has 2 integer units, 2 load-store units, 1 binary floating point and 1 decimal floating point unit. It can decode 3 instructions and execute 5 instructions in a single cycle. If you actually believe all that adds up to 'a fraction of the power of a pc', based of some entirely meaningless MIPS number, you are seriously deluding yourself.
What kind of imbecile actually believes that the z12 has the performance of a 1990s pentium? The kind that thinks a mainframe MIPS has ANY relation at all to an Intel MIPS.
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A car's design is defective if it was not designed to withstand people trying to hack it.
Why? Just because you said so? Since when it is a manufacturers responsibility to protect against criminal actions involving his product?
The locks are a convenience feature and not actual security.
No, he is saying it is NOT A DEFECT. The cars are not designed to stop criminal actions. Is it a 'defect' that the windows can be 'exploited' by not being bullet-proof? Is it a defect that the body is not armored? Is it a defect that brake lines can be cut? Is it a defect that the car can be towed away by a criminal?
Wrong. The anti GMO crowd keeps claiming this, but for some reason can never produce actual cases.
The fact that there is no commercially grown GMO wheat kind of puts a big hole in your argument. The so-called gluten intolerance is yet another stupid diet fad and not a medical problem.
Non-sequitur? Not at all. YOU are the one claiming that Reddit is doing bad things by exercising their property rights. So why is it 'bad' for Reddit to exercise their rights to prevent me from using their property to make a speech, but not 'bad' for you to prevent me from using YOUR property to make a speech? It is exactly the same thing.
The total non-sequitur is your claiming that you support my right to write on MY car. Reddit is not stopping anyone from posting anything on their own web sites.
You don't really believe those numbers, do you? That chart claims that the Dodge Omni got 35 city and 55 highway. Two years later, according to the EPA the same car got only 26 city and 35 highway. What happened in those 2 years to cause a 33% reduction in mileage? Better testing.
Do you have the slightest bit of evidence that the 'problem' is what you said? If the problem was as you state, then it should manifest itself immediately. This particular problem took 5YEARS and 600K+ vehicles, with probably tens of BILLIONS of vehicle miles, to come to light. How much testing is 'enough' in your opinion? Can you point me to the 'properly tested' software (ANY software) that meets your criteria? Can you point to ANY man-made thing that meets your criteria?
So, some people are allowed to exercise their rights, and that is 'a good thing', but other people exercising THEIR rights is 'a bad thing'?
What you seem to be saying is that Reddit, for example, should give up it's rights - explain why that is true. And if you DO think that is true, then surely you would have no problem with me painting 'death to all (any group)' on your car or house, right? After all, if you were to object or otherwise remove it that would be interferring with my free speech, and we can't have that, right?
You seem to be confusing a right to free speech with a right to be heard. One (speech) exists. The other does not.
You have got to be kidding. Yes, those cars were easy to work on, they had to be as they required constant service. Ever wonder why all the 'service stations' became 'mini-marts'? Because new, electronically-controlled, cars no longer provided the steady cash stream that all that mechanical crap did.
I remember when I was a kid in the 60s that a big part of the family vacation budget was 'get the car ready.' Going on any trip of more than a few hundred miles meant 'major tuneup' - points, plugs, distributor cap, rotor, idle adjustments, etc. And of course it had to be done ahead of time, because there was a fairly good chance that something would not be right and it would have to go back.
My current car has 102K miles on it, and the only service it has ever required is fluid and belt changes.
Any evidence to support your claim that exposure to micowaves is not a bright idea?
What makes you think physical is any better? My daughter called me one night saying she could not shut her car off, ignition key would not turn. Purely physical, no software involved. Turns out she had the GM iginition switch problem. The major difference between physical and software was that she was without her car for 10 weeks while they waited for parts, vs a quick trip for a software update.
Light switches certainly do not 'work every single time'. They are mechanical devices, and as such are subject to failure. And the failures can be quite spectacular, such as burning down the house. Many places now require 'anti-arcing' circuit breakers to prevent the fires caused by arcing switches.
Earths moon has a name - Moon. The question is why did we start refering to the satellites of other planets as 'moons'.
Number two on the list is accidents.
Have you ever been to any of those states? Drive on I80 through PA and tell us how suburban it is. Or I87 (north of I84) through NY up to Canada. Or I90 across NY.
Not 'any more'. EVER.
No, the fastest processors were certainly not in the 'low MHz' range. As I recall, they ran at about 700MHz. Not as fast as today, but far from low MHz.
I do not know exactly why BJT is not used, I am not a semiconductor expert. But I do know that there are specialized applications where they mix BJT and CMOS on the same chip, which is way harder than just making a BJT chip, so there must be some reason they do it. And I know that there are very smart people all over the world looking for any way to increase performance while keeping power usage low. And I highly doubt that every one of them has overlooked the 'obvious' solution of just using BJT.
Good grief. Bipolar? Are you kidding?
In the mid-90s (hardly the 'early days of computing'), IBM made the decision to switch from bipolar to CMOS for its mainframes. This was quite painful, as CMOS did not have near the performance of bipolar, and they risked losing customers. So why did they do it? Because the fastest machine they offered, with 10 CPUs, used 165KVA and created 475,000 BTUs/hr of heat, and the roadmap showed ever increasing rates of energy usage. By the time CMOS caught up in performance (about 8 years later), those numbers were 0.6KVA and 2,000 BTUs/hr. Todays mainframes, with about 200x that performance, only use 27KVA.
You might consider the fact that your little school experiments bear no relation to the real world of processor design.
The fact that you could even write that shows just how clueless you are. MIPS has not actually meant Million Instruction Per Second for about 3 decades.
Even if we assume it is a meaningful count of instructions, what instructions are they? Are they register-register adds, decimal floating-point divides, a move of 100MB of data, encyption of a block of data? All of those can be done in a single instruction on Z, yet they all require different amounts of time to execute.
And even if you can choose the instructions, where is the data? Is it in L1, L2, L3, or L4? Does some other processor have to cast it out of cache before you can access it? All of that affects execution speed and thus widely changes the 'MIPS' count.
The Z114 uses the z196 processor. That processor runs at 5.2GHz, is superscalar and out-of-order. Each core has 64KB of instruction L1 cache and 128KB data L1 cache and 1.5MB L2 cache. Each processor has 2 integer units, 2 load-store units, 1 binary floating point and 1 decimal floating point unit. It can decode 3 instructions and execute 5 instructions in a single cycle. If you actually believe all that adds up to 'a fraction of the power of a pc', based of some entirely meaningless MIPS number, you are seriously deluding yourself.
Any evidence at all for that no benchmarking claim? Thought not.
AS400s are not mainframes and never have been. You seem to know very little about a subject you are talking about.
What kind of imbecile actually believes that the z12 has the performance of a 1990s pentium? The kind that thinks a mainframe MIPS has ANY relation at all to an Intel MIPS.
Uh, yeah. World Cup champions 91, 99, 2015. Olympic Gold 96, 04, 08, 12. Olympic Silver 2000. World Cup 2nd 2011. World Cup 3rd 95, 03, 07.
'Finally let won' indeed.
This is supposed to be a news site. An article should therefore have something NEW in it. There is absolutely nothing NEW about this.