In what fantasy world do you live in where cellular Internet access is ever faster or cheaper?
Hell, even SpaceX's Starlink should be a completely nonviable service. You can not violate the laws of physics. There's only so much spectrum, but vast amounts of fiber can be buried. If US ISPs weren't such an utter shitshow, Starlink would have no market. And I mean none, not even in rural areas, which could have fiber to the premises the same way they have electricity to the premises, except the ISPs managed to take the huge tax breaks while not building out at all because the law didn't include penalties for that failure. Nothing like writing your own tax break law.
This isn't anonymous. This is transparently scarcely-rewrapped ad copy. It's even loaded with buzzwords and talking points.
But he said "shit"! Ooooo, so edgy! So convincing! Can't possibly be corporate-speak. Microsoft would never use "blue" language in their advertising copy, surely. That would be unseemly. Therefore it must be a completely legitimate third party review that's jizzing all over my screen.
I work for what's legally a small business and unlike a lot of people's reports here, we actually have two Surfaces. Not sure which model, and it hardly matters. It's a tablet. It's fine. It functions. It can do Windowsy things in a tablet form factor, which is probably useful for some very specific use-cases. Which... we don't have. They mostly sit on the shelf in the sysadmins' office, used as loaners when somebody is desperate because their regular laptop is down. Not even our marketing and sales people have any use for them. Picking up your whole laptop is still more convenient than undocking your Surface, and ten finger typing on a physical keyboard is still more efficient in meetings than fumbling around with a virtual keyboard or a stylus.
Microsoft seems to be working really hard to solve a problem no one has. People have adapted to their clamshell laptops, and the physical reality of the clamshell wins in so many use cases. About the only people who need a Surface are the medical transcribers who follow doctors around, and they have the option of an ASUS Transformer (which now has a magnetic power connector). Give it some time for the medical software to get ported to Android and even that necessity will vanish.
But keep rolling out that astroturf, Microsoft. It's so green and shiny.
Patents have never worked the way they were intended.
Patents have always worked the way they were intended. They were intended to give buddies of the king exclusive access to free shit. See letters patent.
All that crap about being for the common good and protecting inventors is propaganda.
So? Per country is the only thing that matters, because the only way it changes, except for magical new technology like fusion, is through political action, and that applies only per country.
China is actually investing heavily in renewables and leading in the field so their output will start to decline at some point.
US output has already declined, so bully for China.
So you can help by not buying cheap chinese goods and not being so individually wasteful with resources and bring down the per capita usage levels.
Cheap Chinese goods are a microscopic fraction of any US person's CO2 emission share. I already brought my emissions down radically by installing a high efficiency furnace when I didn't have to and by buying an electric lawnmower, which eliminated the equivalent of 11 new cars worth of volatile organic compounds and nitrous oxides from my emissions hour for hour I run it. What have you done?
Careful. There are loads of far lefties here combined with trolls that will scream that China deserves to pollute.
My karma can handle it.
I don't often agree with you, so I'm immediately suspicious when you agree with me, but in this case yeah, it's long past time to call out the lunatics on their hypocrisy. Unfortunately in this brave new world, that no longer has any effect on people's behavior. Hypocrisy is just fine.
What amazes me, is that they continue to justify CHina's massive emissions as well as rising per capita, as being China's right.
In point of fact, it is China's right. Improving the standard of living of its citizens is the right of every country. Them turning around and saying the US is evil for having done it first is their hypocrisy, and it's long past annoying.
Are you really going to run with the really silly premise we should regard emissions only per country / per continent and not per-capita?
First, it's not my really silly premise. It's yours. Second, yes, per country is all that matters in this case because the only way it changes (bar magical technology like fusion finally working) is through political action, and that operates only per country.
Recent tour of Scandinavia. Saw these things all over the place... in rural areas. At $1500+ I expect they'd be stolen quite quickly closer in to town.
They have antitheft alarms. Take it outside of its invisible fence without the controller and it will shriek.
On second thought... I suppose these are prolly battery powered and may actually be fairly quiet
They are blessedly quiet. I bought a lithium battery powered electric lawnmower two years ago, and it's lovely. Not a robot, unfortunately. Still audible, of course, since there's a spinning blade involved, but with zero engine sound and no detectable motor sound, they're amazingly quiet.
I'd have gotten a robot myself, but parts of my lawn are too steep for them. It would trigger their tilt sensors and make it shut off.
"China's Emissions: More Than U.S. Plus Europe, and Still Rising". New York Times. 2018-01-25.
"Chinese coal fuels rise in global carbon emissions". The Times. 2017-11-14.
"Yes, The U.S. Leads All Countries In Reducing Carbon Emissions". Forbes. 2017-10-24.
"World carbon dioxide emissions data by country: China speeds ahead of the rest". The Guardian. 2011-01-31.
"China now no. 1 in CO2 emissions; USA in second position". PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. "China CO2 emission accounts 1997–2015". Nature. 2018-01-16.
The most recent numbers are for 2016. Country Fossil fuel CO2 emissions (kt) in 2016 China 10,432,751 United States 5,011,687
See how that first number is bigger than the second one? See how that first number is in fact double the second one? The title of the first link is correct: add up US emissions and the emissions of every single EU country and combined they're still less than China. You can also perform the same exercise with the Americas. Add up US, Canadian, and Mexican emissions, plus the emissions of every single country in Central and South America, and that total is still less than China.
China is improving their standard of living. China has improved, past tense, their standard of living. They have gigawatts of electrical generation they didn't have 20 years ago. And before you start whinging about how other countries have outsourced their pollution to China, read the live link on Nature.com. Between 1980 and 2002, China's emissions were growing at 8% per year. Those were the outsourcing years. At the end of that period, they were only emitting 3,694,000 kt annually. After 2002, the number jumped to 13% per year, and sustained that through 2007. Those were their standard of living improvements. In 2018, China is estimated to emit 30% of all CO2 globally. The US is estimated to emit 15% of all CO2 globally.
A tad off-topic, but it dawned on me that all cancers are *always* caused by space radiation.
They're not. In fact, almost none are. Chemical carcinogens are far more common, and therefore much more likely to come into contact with humans. DNA can be perverted by more than just radiation, and frequently is.
Aside from a not-for-profit venture, or as I do for my own benefit buying stuff that needs a cap job, or power transistors or broken connectors replacing, it's far too often that electronics falls in to the Beyond Economic Repair box.
This sounds like a job for expensive (once) automation. A repair robot, equipped with an arm of solder braid, a gripper arm, and a soldering iron arm. And maybe a heat gun arm. Trained with modern machine vision to avoid bumping into and damaging adjacent components, the user just points and clicks: replace this cap with these specs. The robot has replacement caps in reels just like the original pick and place machine, and the tools required to separate the old component and attach the new one.
This doesn't seem impossibly complicated to implement to me. Difficult, but not impossible.
Huge cash-rich businesses don't just wither away. There are jackals deep within any such company itching to rip it apart.
This kind erosion goes hand-in-hand with huge profitable success.
Interesting observation, but I think Apple has more to fear from external jackals than internal. The amount of trading of AAPL is vast, especially in options. Apple only has to release a few more turkeys like these before their profits slip noticeably, causing their stock price to slip, which could easily precipitate a bloodbath. Which will then have investors howling for Apple to Do Something! Since the reality distortion field is starting to wear off at last, they'd better stop being lazy about testing their new products, or they'll get into serious trouble.
Do the people posting rape, gore and death also get PTSD or is that only something that happens to the mod team?
Usually not. They have other disorders which preempt the PTSD from setting in. Sociopathy, for starters. Psychopathy, in same cases.
There are a non-zero number of psychopaths who haven't been caught, or are what you could call "high functioning". They refrain from torturing people with jumper cables not because it's a bad thing but because they've currently got something else to do with their time.
At the end of the day, they see eSport as a marketing tool, able to reach out and attract more of the younger generation..
Should clarify that this is about trying to capture money from the younger generation that they were losing. They don't necessarily expect to convert esports fans into football fans. They just want esports fans to be wearing jerseys with their logos plastered all over them, even if the name on the back is the handle of some kid who plays his sport sitting in a chair.
Take a look at the CEO and you will see why the editors are interested in this.
Isn't it great that women are learning how to overpromise and underdeliver? That used to be the exclusive domain of tall men with chiseled jaws named Chad. Equality. Isn't it grand?
At least this one didn't resort to fraudulent activity. She's a role model!
There are the laws of the road, and then there are the human laws of the road - and they are not the same. You can program in fixed laws, but you cannot account for the understandings and accepted abnormal behaviors of people in software.
Yes you can, and they already have. Google's self-driving cars used to get stuck at 4-way stops in California, because the human convention (completely in contradiction of the law) is to roll the stop. If you're not already moving when it's your turn, you miss your turn. Google coded that into their cars, and now they can navigate 4-way stops just fine, because they exhibit the same aggressive behavior as human-driven cars.
You can always account for human abnormalities in software. You just have to find out what they are first. And ignore the law, just like the people do. And that's what Google did.
In normal places like NYC or parts of Europe, kids walk, bike, or take public transit to school, and parents aren't quaking in their boots in fear.
That was one of my biggest instances of culture shock in Germany. I was there in late fall, and seeing mobs of kids riding the same trams and subways as I was was entirely foreign to me. They were as businesslike as any of the adults about getting to where they were going.
It strikes me that America's total lack of effective public transportation is contributing to America's bullying problem among kids. School buses were and still are the sites of a lot of bullying. That's simply a non-issue when kids are riding the same transportation as a bunch of commuting and errand-running adults. When the child to adult ratio goes from 70:1 to 1:1 or even less, kids act far more sensibly. First because they can't get away with bullying, because it will be noticed (and presumably stopped), and second because they're surrounded by role models in the form of hundreds of adults going about their business. Kids imitate what they see.
This isn't for memory or mobile chips as is the case with TSMC process. There's a reason why high power chip majors like nvidia aren't touching the TSMC's PR speak 7nm process with a ten metre pole.
Uh, AMD's next generation, going by the name Zen 2, isn't just on TSMC's 7nm process, it's already done, taped out, in production, and sampling, with benchmarks leaking. For multithreaded/multi-process workloads, it's fast. Very fast.
As stated elsewhere in these comments, server prototypes built around it are being evaluated by all of the major datacenter builders. AMD is slobbering all over themselves. Zen 2 was supposed to compete against Intel's Ice Lake core, which was supposed to be the 10nm coming out this year. AMD expected to be in their usual "just-slightly-slower-than-Intel's-best" position, in their usual "just-slightly-later-than-Intel" timeframe. Then Intel delayed Ice Lake. For a year. TSMC is in volume production of 7nm Zen 2 chips right now. AMD expects to make huge inroads into Intel's 2019 marketshare, and all indications are they will.
Ever noticed how that kind of rhymes with titanic? With similar fates I might add.
Poe's Law hitting hard, here.
For whoever modded this up, the actual marketing name of the chip is Itanium. It was retroactively christened Itanic by the community specifically because it sank without a trace.
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Yet everyone wants faster cheaper internet.
In what fantasy world do you live in where cellular Internet access is ever faster or cheaper?
Hell, even SpaceX's Starlink should be a completely nonviable service. You can not violate the laws of physics. There's only so much spectrum, but vast amounts of fiber can be buried. If US ISPs weren't such an utter shitshow, Starlink would have no market. And I mean none, not even in rural areas, which could have fiber to the premises the same way they have electricity to the premises, except the ISPs managed to take the huge tax breaks while not building out at all because the law didn't include penalties for that failure. Nothing like writing your own tax break law.
Who think their parents' lives are over, too (Oh! Carrie Fisher! Too Old!)
Is dead "too old"? Dead for two years.
Not to say she wasn't awesome. How many actresses have pulled off a whole series of action sequences while wearing a bikini with a skirt?
This isn't anonymous. This is transparently scarcely-rewrapped ad copy. It's even loaded with buzzwords and talking points.
But he said "shit"! Ooooo, so edgy! So convincing! Can't possibly be corporate-speak. Microsoft would never use "blue" language in their advertising copy, surely. That would be unseemly. Therefore it must be a completely legitimate third party review that's jizzing all over my screen.
I work for what's legally a small business and unlike a lot of people's reports here, we actually have two Surfaces. Not sure which model, and it hardly matters. It's a tablet. It's fine. It functions. It can do Windowsy things in a tablet form factor, which is probably useful for some very specific use-cases. Which... we don't have. They mostly sit on the shelf in the sysadmins' office, used as loaners when somebody is desperate because their regular laptop is down. Not even our marketing and sales people have any use for them. Picking up your whole laptop is still more convenient than undocking your Surface, and ten finger typing on a physical keyboard is still more efficient in meetings than fumbling around with a virtual keyboard or a stylus.
Microsoft seems to be working really hard to solve a problem no one has. People have adapted to their clamshell laptops, and the physical reality of the clamshell wins in so many use cases. About the only people who need a Surface are the medical transcribers who follow doctors around, and they have the option of an ASUS Transformer (which now has a magnetic power connector). Give it some time for the medical software to get ported to Android and even that necessity will vanish.
But keep rolling out that astroturf, Microsoft. It's so green and shiny.
The law expressly dictates how interstate network traffic should work, which explicitly controls a lot of interstate commerce.
No it doesn't. Stop lying, Coward.
Patents have never worked the way they were intended.
Patents have always worked the way they were intended. They were intended to give buddies of the king exclusive access to free shit. See letters patent.
All that crap about being for the common good and protecting inventors is propaganda.
Currently but the USA is the biggest per capita.
So? Per country is the only thing that matters, because the only way it changes, except for magical new technology like fusion, is through political action, and that applies only per country.
China is actually investing heavily in renewables and leading in the field so their output will start to decline at some point.
US output has already declined, so bully for China.
So you can help by not buying cheap chinese goods and not being so individually wasteful with resources and bring down the per capita usage levels.
Cheap Chinese goods are a microscopic fraction of any US person's CO2 emission share. I already brought my emissions down radically by installing a high efficiency furnace when I didn't have to and by buying an electric lawnmower, which eliminated the equivalent of 11 new cars worth of volatile organic compounds and nitrous oxides from my emissions hour for hour I run it. What have you done?
Careful. There are loads of far lefties here combined with trolls that will scream that China deserves to pollute.
My karma can handle it.
I don't often agree with you, so I'm immediately suspicious when you agree with me, but in this case yeah, it's long past time to call out the lunatics on their hypocrisy. Unfortunately in this brave new world, that no longer has any effect on people's behavior. Hypocrisy is just fine.
What amazes me, is that they continue to justify CHina's massive emissions as well as rising per capita, as being China's right.
In point of fact, it is China's right. Improving the standard of living of its citizens is the right of every country. Them turning around and saying the US is evil for having done it first is their hypocrisy, and it's long past annoying.
Are you really going to run with the really silly premise we should regard emissions only per country / per continent and not per-capita?
First, it's not my really silly premise. It's yours. Second, yes, per country is all that matters in this case because the only way it changes (bar magical technology like fusion finally working) is through political action, and that operates only per country.
Awesome! Now was that so hard?
Not hard for me. Probably too hard for iggy. (I'm not the original poster.)
Recent tour of Scandinavia. Saw these things all over the place... in rural areas. At $1500+ I expect they'd be stolen quite quickly closer in to town.
They have antitheft alarms. Take it outside of its invisible fence without the controller and it will shriek.
On second thought... I suppose these are prolly battery powered and may actually be fairly quiet
They are blessedly quiet. I bought a lithium battery powered electric lawnmower two years ago, and it's lovely. Not a robot, unfortunately. Still audible, of course, since there's a spinning blade involved, but with zero engine sound and no detectable motor sound, they're amazingly quiet.
I'd have gotten a robot myself, but parts of my lawn are too steep for them. It would trigger their tilt sensors and make it shut off.
No, they owned the domain *SEVEN YEARS* before it was expropriated.
Liar.
Big claims. Where's your sources?
Everywhere.
The most recent numbers are for 2016.
Country Fossil fuel CO2 emissions (kt) in 2016
China 10,432,751
United States 5,011,687
See how that first number is bigger than the second one? See how that first number is in fact double the second one? The title of the first link is correct: add up US emissions and the emissions of every single EU country and combined they're still less than China. You can also perform the same exercise with the Americas. Add up US, Canadian, and Mexican emissions, plus the emissions of every single country in Central and South America, and that total is still less than China.
China is improving their standard of living. China has improved, past tense, their standard of living. They have gigawatts of electrical generation they didn't have 20 years ago. And before you start whinging about how other countries have outsourced their pollution to China, read the live link on Nature.com. Between 1980 and 2002, China's emissions were growing at 8% per year. Those were the outsourcing years. At the end of that period, they were only emitting 3,694,000 kt annually. After 2002, the number jumped to 13% per year, and sustained that through 2007. Those were their standard of living improvements. In 2018, China is estimated to emit 30% of all CO2 globally. The US is estimated to emit 15% of all CO2 globally.
The big emitter is China.
A tad off-topic, but it dawned on me that all cancers are *always* caused by space radiation.
They're not. In fact, almost none are. Chemical carcinogens are far more common, and therefore much more likely to come into contact with humans. DNA can be perverted by more than just radiation, and frequently is.
Along with Europe?
The Finns are already accustomed to burrowing through snow. Britain will just have to learn. (And import a lot of food.)
Aside from a not-for-profit venture, or as I do for my own benefit buying stuff that needs a cap job, or power transistors or broken connectors replacing, it's far too often that electronics falls in to the Beyond Economic Repair box.
This sounds like a job for expensive (once) automation. A repair robot, equipped with an arm of solder braid, a gripper arm, and a soldering iron arm. And maybe a heat gun arm. Trained with modern machine vision to avoid bumping into and damaging adjacent components, the user just points and clicks: replace this cap with these specs. The robot has replacement caps in reels just like the original pick and place machine, and the tools required to separate the old component and attach the new one.
This doesn't seem impossibly complicated to implement to me. Difficult, but not impossible.
Huge cash-rich businesses don't just wither away. There are jackals deep within any such company itching to rip it apart.
This kind erosion goes hand-in-hand with huge profitable success.
Interesting observation, but I think Apple has more to fear from external jackals than internal. The amount of trading of AAPL is vast, especially in options. Apple only has to release a few more turkeys like these before their profits slip noticeably, causing their stock price to slip, which could easily precipitate a bloodbath. Which will then have investors howling for Apple to Do Something! Since the reality distortion field is starting to wear off at last, they'd better stop being lazy about testing their new products, or they'll get into serious trouble.
Do the people posting rape, gore and death also get PTSD or is that only something that happens to the mod team?
Usually not. They have other disorders which preempt the PTSD from setting in. Sociopathy, for starters. Psychopathy, in same cases.
There are a non-zero number of psychopaths who haven't been caught, or are what you could call "high functioning". They refrain from torturing people with jumper cables not because it's a bad thing but because they've currently got something else to do with their time.
At the end of the day, they see eSport as a marketing tool, able to reach out and attract more of the younger generation..
Should clarify that this is about trying to capture money from the younger generation that they were losing. They don't necessarily expect to convert esports fans into football fans. They just want esports fans to be wearing jerseys with their logos plastered all over them, even if the name on the back is the handle of some kid who plays his sport sitting in a chair.
Take a look at the CEO and you will see why the editors are interested in this.
Isn't it great that women are learning how to overpromise and underdeliver? That used to be the exclusive domain of tall men with chiseled jaws named Chad. Equality. Isn't it grand?
At least this one didn't resort to fraudulent activity. She's a role model!
There are the laws of the road, and then there are the human laws of the road - and they are not the same. You can program in fixed laws, but you cannot account for the understandings and accepted abnormal behaviors of people in software.
Yes you can, and they already have. Google's self-driving cars used to get stuck at 4-way stops in California, because the human convention (completely in contradiction of the law) is to roll the stop. If you're not already moving when it's your turn, you miss your turn. Google coded that into their cars, and now they can navigate 4-way stops just fine, because they exhibit the same aggressive behavior as human-driven cars.
You can always account for human abnormalities in software. You just have to find out what they are first. And ignore the law, just like the people do. And that's what Google did.
In normal places like NYC or parts of Europe, kids walk, bike, or take public transit to school, and parents aren't quaking in their boots in fear.
That was one of my biggest instances of culture shock in Germany. I was there in late fall, and seeing mobs of kids riding the same trams and subways as I was was entirely foreign to me. They were as businesslike as any of the adults about getting to where they were going.
It strikes me that America's total lack of effective public transportation is contributing to America's bullying problem among kids. School buses were and still are the sites of a lot of bullying. That's simply a non-issue when kids are riding the same transportation as a bunch of commuting and errand-running adults. When the child to adult ratio goes from 70:1 to 1:1 or even less, kids act far more sensibly. First because they can't get away with bullying, because it will be noticed (and presumably stopped), and second because they're surrounded by role models in the form of hundreds of adults going about their business. Kids imitate what they see.
This isn't for memory or mobile chips as is the case with TSMC process. There's a reason why high power chip majors like nvidia aren't touching the TSMC's PR speak 7nm process with a ten metre pole.
Uh, AMD's next generation, going by the name Zen 2, isn't just on TSMC's 7nm process, it's already done, taped out, in production, and sampling, with benchmarks leaking. For multithreaded/multi-process workloads, it's fast. Very fast.
As stated elsewhere in these comments, server prototypes built around it are being evaluated by all of the major datacenter builders. AMD is slobbering all over themselves. Zen 2 was supposed to compete against Intel's Ice Lake core, which was supposed to be the 10nm coming out this year. AMD expected to be in their usual "just-slightly-slower-than-Intel's-best" position, in their usual "just-slightly-later-than-Intel" timeframe. Then Intel delayed Ice Lake. For a year. TSMC is in volume production of 7nm Zen 2 chips right now. AMD expects to make huge inroads into Intel's 2019 marketshare, and all indications are they will.
Ever noticed how that kind of rhymes with titanic? With similar fates I might add.
Poe's Law hitting hard, here.
For whoever modded this up, the actual marketing name of the chip is Itanium. It was retroactively christened Itanic by the community specifically because it sank without a trace.
Elon Musk apparently reads Slashdot
No wonder Tesla and SpaceX projects are always late, and he never looks like he's getting enough sleep...