The point of the point of the invention is to reflect the infrared light back at the filament, so the warmth should be pretty much absent if they succeed.
If you saw the actual errata list for processors on launch day, regardless of manufacturer, your jaw would drop. A lot of nasties get cleaned up on subsequent revisions (mask changes), but in the meantime patches show up for the BIOS, libraries, and compilers so that the user never sees the warts. With Billions of transistors there will be design errors that even intel will not catch during verification or characterization. The fact that a BIOS fix will take care of it is a sign that it is not that egregious.
If you want to avoid this kind of stuff you should wait a few months after any major shakeup to buy.
Flying has long been in a different category. Special rules have long applied including searching you with metal detectors, screening your bags (or just stealing all the good stuff out), and you lose a lot of rights while in the air. While regrettable, this is just an incremental change, albeit for the worse.
Passports are rather expensive and can take months to get. I don't have much of an objection to using my passport to travel, but they need to be issued for a reasonable price in a reasonable time frame. I hide my passport until I need to go international because the darn thing cost almost $200 in total to get and took a month with the expediting charges.
The better question is who will QA/QC your car's code. The unintended acceleration episode is a good example of life critical code being poorly implemented, so can we trust the entire code base to the same guys? I am more afraid of coding bugs than moral weightings.
I read the article you linked, and frankly it left me scratching my head. I think he managed to write a book about censorship unintentionally, as it was the only way to get to his real point about the perils of television. When I read the book I found the whole picture walls thing to be secondary rather than primary. Maybe he pulled a Homer?
It would be like finding Orwell's diary and finding out he thought 1984 was about the perils of video cameras rather than government control, propaganda, and surveillance (to badly simplify).
I don't give a flying crap what religion he is. Frankly I think it does a disservice to story by featuring it.
Should we throw "Christian", or "Athiest" into the headline whenever some poor kid get gunned down by a cop? It adds no value unless relevant. So unless someone's religion was important to the events, I would rather it be left out of the headline and story.
Honest citizens are still mostly badly trained dumbasses. I am more afraid of accidentally being shot by some redneck who drank too much and got in an argument than I am from being blown up by ISIS. The statistics bear this out. Do you live your life by real numbers or just gut feelings?
Sadly when dealing with law enforcement you can't make jokes. It is a related issue to the whole "zero tolerance" mindset that has besieged school policy. Being reasonable is no longer a reasonable expectation.
A normal human can be expected to crack a joke when confronted with a bizarre situation, such as a teacher asking a seemingly insane question as to whether your clock, or backpack is a bomb. Using humor to diffuse a tense situation is one of those social skills we pick up as a way to survive being crammed into overcrowded schools with a bunch of numb skull peers. But normal human behavior will get you tazed, pepper sprayed, arrested, or even shot these days.
Similarly we have a lot of cases of folks freezing up while being barked at by armed cops and being shot for not dropping the "weapon" (real or imagined). Normal human behavior for sure, but you die as a result. Trying shield yourself from a rain of blows? To a cop that can be seen as "resisting arrest" and justify a further rain of blows, a choke hold, or a tazing. Using body language like gesticulating with your arms and hands as you try to talk things out with some meat head pointing a gun at you? To a cop that is "acting erratically", maybe even causing him to "fear for his life". Not answering questions per your Miranda rights? "Acting un-cooperatively."
I can go read my meters for all my "real" utilities. I cannot read my internet usage anywhere. A large amount of my internet usage is crap ads and Windows 10 trying to download itself. I have limited control on a lot of this bandwidth. Netflix does not have an option to set the maximum download rate anywhere I can find (I wish all streaming could be throttled locally). I usually have a pretty good idea why my gas/electricity/water bills are what they are, but I honestly could not tell you what my internet usage is or which devices are the main users.
The internet grew up without a metered notion to it. Mobile sites went through very small straws and forced the sites to be lean (often to the point of uselessness), so this attempt to close the barn doors is just rather late in the game. To fix it we will need to have some charge-back to companies to incentivize the not go overboard with all the crap. But in reality this is more of a money grab than an actual issue being addressed.
I've tried to read a lot of papers in my field, which is Mixed Signal ASIC design, and mostly they are awful. The reasons break down as follows.
1) Corporate papers are enough to advertise what they did, but leave out most of the important details if you are trying to follow in their foot steps. Understandable, but counter to the whole point of the paper and conference circuit.
2) Academic papers are awash in the need for every PhD candidate, and most Master's candidates to get published. The conference committees are from this arena and are overly sympathetic. So you get a ton of student papers that are badly written and mostly redundant. Until we ease off "novelty" and invention as a criteria in engineering, which is mostly turning existing cranks and only occasionally novel, the few good papers will be lost in a see of bad student papers.
3) Every paper must use a jargon Thesaurus to replace all normal english words with the most obscure ivory tower versions. It makes papers impenetrable even when you find one that is on-point otherwise. I've run across a couple 1st drafts on author websites that ended up being twice as informative as the as-published version for this reason. I believe the editors (a bunch of self aggrandizing academics) actively reject readable papers.
Yep, small bump in performance, modest drop in power. Check back in a couple years, you might get another 10-15%, still only 4 cores, probably still have to pay 2-3x to get 6 cores without the stupid integrated graphics, even though it will be the same process and silicon area as the 4 core that includes the stupid integrated graphics.
There is a hockey stick in the price curve to go above 4 cores, both for the CPU and motherboard. Intel wants to charge a major premium.
Also these higher core Xeon's are often clocked much lower which can result in a major step down in performance for programs just using 1-4 cores. We recently went away from using a 14 core server for an electromagnetics simulator after finding that the stupid thing spent about half its time on one core, making our 6 core local machines 20% faster for the identical problem. Kind of maddening on all fronts.
Not all vendors want to be rapacious capitalists. Maximizing revenue is not always the single unitary objective, especially when it comes to artists. Many bands honestly want their die hard fans to come and enjoy the show at a fair price. By only charging $50 when they could have charged $200 and still sold out they know that some of their younger or at least less wealthy fans will be able to have a chance to come see. Bots negate this and put the rapacious capitalism back into place.
I would prefer to see a lottery system where everyone puts in their real names and seating preferences for all party members and at the appointed times a computer algorithm doles out the tickets. Everyone has to show ID to get in, and tickets are only exchangeable at a live human ticket office with both parties present. Instead I find the current system to be such a sham that I have only gone to one concert in the last 10 years, and we bought the tickets through the legit ticket office, and Weird Al was just fantastic.
I have light rail almost in my back yard (3 houses away as the bird flies, but a 6 minute walk in reality). My work also has a light rail station only a 10 minute walk away. Great right? Even though it is 25 minute drive, and a 40 minute bike ride, the train is about 50 minutes door-door. I can easily swing by a grocery store on the way home using my bike or car, but not with the light rail. So the light rail is my worst option even though I have a nearly ideal situation.
To be honest I would rather see gasoline/carbon taxed heavily to shift the economics towards encouraging people to live in smaller houses closer to work while driving their smaller car less rather than having autonomous cars make it more convenient for those who want to live in the sticks while working downtown.
Relying on a normal human as backup for the computer is a complete non-starter. Read up on what happened when google started letting employees use the Beta cars instead of the pro drivers. Even though they were informed they may need to take over, and even though they knew this was an experimental car the employees took names, whipped out laptops, etc. They were in no shape to takeover.
Normal mouth breathers will be even worse.
Now consider a car owner who has not driven a mile in the last couple years plinking away on his laptop when suddenly the car beeps and he is supposed to take over. He will be disoriented for a while under ideal circumstances, but odds are something really weird happened for HAL to throw in the towel. Is a Cessna landing? Emergency vehicle? Bug splat on the Lidar? Low tire pressure outside the underwriters criteria? The driver has been setup for failure, which cannot be acceptable.
HAL has to be 100% or merely augmenting like adaptive cruise control. A 99% solution is a nightmare scenario (unless you are a lawyer).
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The point of the point of the invention is to reflect the infrared light back at the filament, so the warmth should be pretty much absent if they succeed.
Go see page 21 for example:
http://www.intel.com/content/d...
If you saw the actual errata list for processors on launch day, regardless of manufacturer, your jaw would drop. A lot of nasties get cleaned up on subsequent revisions (mask changes), but in the meantime patches show up for the BIOS, libraries, and compilers so that the user never sees the warts. With Billions of transistors there will be design errors that even intel will not catch during verification or characterization. The fact that a BIOS fix will take care of it is a sign that it is not that egregious.
If you want to avoid this kind of stuff you should wait a few months after any major shakeup to buy.
Flying has long been in a different category. Special rules have long applied including searching you with metal detectors, screening your bags (or just stealing all the good stuff out), and you lose a lot of rights while in the air. While regrettable, this is just an incremental change, albeit for the worse.
Passports are rather expensive and can take months to get. I don't have much of an objection to using my passport to travel, but they need to be issued for a reasonable price in a reasonable time frame. I hide my passport until I need to go international because the darn thing cost almost $200 in total to get and took a month with the expediting charges.
Still better odds than those guys have in the real world.
The better question is who will QA/QC your car's code. The unintended acceleration episode is a good example of life critical code being poorly implemented, so can we trust the entire code base to the same guys? I am more afraid of coding bugs than moral weightings.
I read the article you linked, and frankly it left me scratching my head. I think he managed to write a book about censorship unintentionally, as it was the only way to get to his real point about the perils of television. When I read the book I found the whole picture walls thing to be secondary rather than primary. Maybe he pulled a Homer?
It would be like finding Orwell's diary and finding out he thought 1984 was about the perils of video cameras rather than government control, propaganda, and surveillance (to badly simplify).
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Should have been "Error 1984 Big Brother Disapproves"
Except he predicted giant screens on the walls that people obsessively watched. We instead obsessively watch tiny screens that go with us everywhere.
I don't give a flying crap what religion he is. Frankly I think it does a disservice to story by featuring it.
Should we throw "Christian", or "Athiest" into the headline whenever some poor kid get gunned down by a cop? It adds no value unless relevant. So unless someone's religion was important to the events, I would rather it be left out of the headline and story.
Huh?
Honest citizens are still mostly badly trained dumbasses. I am more afraid of accidentally being shot by some redneck who drank too much and got in an argument than I am from being blown up by ISIS. The statistics bear this out. Do you live your life by real numbers or just gut feelings?
Sadly when dealing with law enforcement you can't make jokes. It is a related issue to the whole "zero tolerance" mindset that has besieged school policy. Being reasonable is no longer a reasonable expectation.
A normal human can be expected to crack a joke when confronted with a bizarre situation, such as a teacher asking a seemingly insane question as to whether your clock, or backpack is a bomb. Using humor to diffuse a tense situation is one of those social skills we pick up as a way to survive being crammed into overcrowded schools with a bunch of numb skull peers. But normal human behavior will get you tazed, pepper sprayed, arrested, or even shot these days.
Similarly we have a lot of cases of folks freezing up while being barked at by armed cops and being shot for not dropping the "weapon" (real or imagined). Normal human behavior for sure, but you die as a result. Trying shield yourself from a rain of blows? To a cop that can be seen as "resisting arrest" and justify a further rain of blows, a choke hold, or a tazing. Using body language like gesticulating with your arms and hands as you try to talk things out with some meat head pointing a gun at you? To a cop that is "acting erratically", maybe even causing him to "fear for his life". Not answering questions per your Miranda rights? "Acting un-cooperatively."
I can go read my meters for all my "real" utilities. I cannot read my internet usage anywhere. A large amount of my internet usage is crap ads and Windows 10 trying to download itself. I have limited control on a lot of this bandwidth. Netflix does not have an option to set the maximum download rate anywhere I can find (I wish all streaming could be throttled locally). I usually have a pretty good idea why my gas/electricity/water bills are what they are, but I honestly could not tell you what my internet usage is or which devices are the main users.
The internet grew up without a metered notion to it. Mobile sites went through very small straws and forced the sites to be lean (often to the point of uselessness), so this attempt to close the barn doors is just rather late in the game. To fix it we will need to have some charge-back to companies to incentivize the not go overboard with all the crap. But in reality this is more of a money grab than an actual issue being addressed.
I've tried to read a lot of papers in my field, which is Mixed Signal ASIC design, and mostly they are awful. The reasons break down as follows.
1) Corporate papers are enough to advertise what they did, but leave out most of the important details if you are trying to follow in their foot steps. Understandable, but counter to the whole point of the paper and conference circuit.
2) Academic papers are awash in the need for every PhD candidate, and most Master's candidates to get published. The conference committees are from this arena and are overly sympathetic. So you get a ton of student papers that are badly written and mostly redundant. Until we ease off "novelty" and invention as a criteria in engineering, which is mostly turning existing cranks and only occasionally novel, the few good papers will be lost in a see of bad student papers.
3) Every paper must use a jargon Thesaurus to replace all normal english words with the most obscure ivory tower versions. It makes papers impenetrable even when you find one that is on-point otherwise. I've run across a couple 1st drafts on author websites that ended up being twice as informative as the as-published version for this reason. I believe the editors (a bunch of self aggrandizing academics) actively reject readable papers.
In our area it is 5 minutes of continuous barking in any 15 minute period max. Call your local animal control, get a video or audio recording.
There are two warning visits before a modest fine.
Expect to piss off your neighbors, but the alternatives are much more expensive.
Yep, small bump in performance, modest drop in power. Check back in a couple years, you might get another 10-15%, still only 4 cores, probably still have to pay 2-3x to get 6 cores without the stupid integrated graphics, even though it will be the same process and silicon area as the 4 core that includes the stupid integrated graphics.
There is a hockey stick in the price curve to go above 4 cores, both for the CPU and motherboard. Intel wants to charge a major premium.
Also these higher core Xeon's are often clocked much lower which can result in a major step down in performance for programs just using 1-4 cores. We recently went away from using a 14 core server for an electromagnetics simulator after finding that the stupid thing spent about half its time on one core, making our 6 core local machines 20% faster for the identical problem. Kind of maddening on all fronts.
Puper wants to be the Uber of your bowel movements.
Use the app to send in your request for texture, color, and any add-ons (corn being a favorite). Puper will show up to your door with your "delivery"!
Not all vendors want to be rapacious capitalists. Maximizing revenue is not always the single unitary objective, especially when it comes to artists. Many bands honestly want their die hard fans to come and enjoy the show at a fair price. By only charging $50 when they could have charged $200 and still sold out they know that some of their younger or at least less wealthy fans will be able to have a chance to come see. Bots negate this and put the rapacious capitalism back into place.
I would prefer to see a lottery system where everyone puts in their real names and seating preferences for all party members and at the appointed times a computer algorithm doles out the tickets. Everyone has to show ID to get in, and tickets are only exchangeable at a live human ticket office with both parties present. Instead I find the current system to be such a sham that I have only gone to one concert in the last 10 years, and we bought the tickets through the legit ticket office, and Weird Al was just fantastic.
I have light rail almost in my back yard (3 houses away as the bird flies, but a 6 minute walk in reality). My work also has a light rail station only a 10 minute walk away. Great right? Even though it is 25 minute drive, and a 40 minute bike ride, the train is about 50 minutes door-door. I can easily swing by a grocery store on the way home using my bike or car, but not with the light rail. So the light rail is my worst option even though I have a nearly ideal situation.
To be honest I would rather see gasoline/carbon taxed heavily to shift the economics towards encouraging people to live in smaller houses closer to work while driving their smaller car less rather than having autonomous cars make it more convenient for those who want to live in the sticks while working downtown.
Relying on a normal human as backup for the computer is a complete non-starter. Read up on what happened when google started letting employees use the Beta cars instead of the pro drivers. Even though they were informed they may need to take over, and even though they knew this was an experimental car the employees took names, whipped out laptops, etc. They were in no shape to takeover.
Normal mouth breathers will be even worse.
Now consider a car owner who has not driven a mile in the last couple years plinking away on his laptop when suddenly the car beeps and he is supposed to take over. He will be disoriented for a while under ideal circumstances, but odds are something really weird happened for HAL to throw in the towel. Is a Cessna landing? Emergency vehicle? Bug splat on the Lidar? Low tire pressure outside the underwriters criteria? The driver has been setup for failure, which cannot be acceptable.
HAL has to be 100% or merely augmenting like adaptive cruise control. A 99% solution is a nightmare scenario (unless you are a lawyer).
Mice a a vastly bigger risk to your home safe than the banks are to your savings.
When was the last time someone lost their FDIC insured account balance?
Go home, buy some gold, and put your tinfoil hat on you nutter.