Bingo. All the companies involved in making SoCs will be looking to cut out the ARM licensing fee. ARM typically takes $1-10 million up front plus 1-2% per chip, so you can see how their customers would be eager to keep that for themselves.
I feel like Microsoft and Nintendo are engaging in a contest to see who can come up with the silliest and least informative names for their consoles, and I look forward to the upcoming "XBox One-not-1 X 360" and "Newer New 2DS U".
First, it's one guy with a soapbox to stand on. Of the other 2 million consoles, we don't know how many others have failed.
Second, the Switch has only been out for a single week and already we're seeing reports like this. Now we get to play the game of "will the failure rates follow a bathtub curve, stay constant with time, or increase with time?"
Finally, I was genuinely excited about the Switch at first. But then I heard the reports about low FPS when connected to a TV, and the joy-con connectivity issue, and the dead/stuck pixel issue, and a half-dozen tiny nitpicks (flimsy kickstand, etc); and I decided to wait and see, hoping that process improvements and software updates would fix things.
But now it's becoming pretty clear that Nintendo really cheaped out on their components. At this point there's nothing that would convince me to get a Switch other than Nintendo allowing save game backups or implementing their own cloud backups, and also releasing a newer model Switch with more durable parts.
Having been on the fence about whether or not to get a Switch, this is the news that settles my decision on "hell no". The inability to back up saved games would have been somewhat tolerable if the storage medium were reliable, but clearly it is not. There's no way I'm going to risk having all my progress thrown to the four winds.
Here's what I really don't understand: saved games are small, and Nintendo presumably has capable servers because it offers downloadable games. Steam has shown us that it's perfectly reasonable to ask that the service you download your games from also back up your saves, because it's a huge benefit to the gamers at a miniscule cost to the company. Does Nintendo really not give a damn about their customers?
While others have already pointed you to the fourth amendment of the Constitution, I'd like to add the third:
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
But wait, you ask, what does that have to do with anything? Well, according to the late Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, this amendment upholds the individual's right to privacy by forbidding the government from forcing you to accept the prying eyes of its agents into your private home without due process.
No, I don't mind. Because I don't have any illegal drugs or child pornography for the plumber to find.
What about the illegal drugs and child pornography that the previous occupant left hidden in the wall, next to the water pipes? You know, the ones you now have to prove aren't yours?
The university's actions will ultimately lower their annual $5.83 billion budget by just 0.1%.
It doesn't take a fortune teller to see how this will end. Anyone with experience with low-cost offshore replacements knows that after the painful transition and a slow degradation of IT performance (with all the slowness, bugs, and embarrassing security breaches that come with it), the fallout of the university's decision will ultimately cost a hell of a lot more to fix than what is saved up front.
I don't think that's going to be a problem. From what I've read, humans treat sounds as simultaneous if they occur within 0-20ms of each other (depending on loudness, this can go up to as much as 100ms). Literature on audio-video simultaneity is much more complicated so it's harder to give solid numbers, especially since people's brains apparently quickly adapt to ignore the effect of slightly out-of-sync videos, but I'd say your average person would find it hard to notice any audio-video lag shorter than 80ms. In any case, a few dozen microseconds either way certainly won't be noticed by the user.
Instead, I'd say the problem that will plague most airpod users will be audio dropping out altogether from wireless congestion in crowded areas.
MISRA disallows using malloc in a car's critical systems code. I imagine a Mars lander would be subject to at least that level of stringent requirements.
OK, see, this attitude of yours is actually a large part of why Trump won. Imagine your average hypothetical swing voter:
On one side of the fence, the Trump supporters are shouting about all the perceived problems this country has that Trump will fix. The swing voter has major doubts about whether those problems are as bad as they are, or if they're even real, or if Trump could indeed fix them.
But on the other side of the fence, the only thing the Clinton supporters are shouting is "If you even think about joining those Trump bastards, you're a stupid racist bigoted backwoods redneck!"
Which group do you think the swing voter will feel more disposed to joining?
Personally, if a laptop comes with fans, I like a little fan noise to reassure me that the fans aren't dead and are doing their job. Obviously, in a laptop without fans (a la most Chromebooks) I relish the silence, but powerful laptops need fans and I need to know they're working as expected.
That's a cynically lazy attitude. Corrupt people need to be held accountable, or the situation will only get worse.
And even if all politicians are corrupt, they still vary by degrees of corruption. Remove the worst offenders and the average corruption of the whole goes down.
The GOP had this coming. Back when they decided to start cozying up with the Tea Partiers, they didn't have the foresight to realize that this would be the inevitable result, and now their party is ruled by whoever manages to shout the loudest and act the craziest.
I disagree. Cheap phones are slow, and trying to scroll through barely-responsive webpages at 10fps gradually frays one's mind. I'd pay a good sum to avoid going back to that again.
...Unfortunately, the phone makers know it, and keep releasing updates that suck away more resources right around the time a newer, faster, more expensive phone is released. Not naming names, but iHate it when companies do that and I wish they'd Think Different.
I don't buy that at all... the computer in this case is still learning through visual feedback only. If you replaced the screen buffer with a camera, the neural net would very quickly learn to ignore the areas outside of the monitor.
Similarly, using a mouse and keyboard would be more of an accomplishment for the hardware engineers rigging up the appropriate servos than for the AI learning to use them.
They say they're moving on to Quake but I can guess that, because of how machine learning generally works, the AI they've trained for Doom will be utterly helpless at Quake until fully retrained.
I prefer to think of it as a pay-by-weight buffet. Except every single item you put on your plate comes with a 10-pound piece of hardtack plastered with advertising.
Google should absolutely not "choose to cut them a break".
This is one of the biggest problems of the takedown system: the big boys get their own special set of rules and are insulated from the fallout of the horrible systems they put into use, while everyone else has to deal with the massive collateral damage of these out-of-control takedown bots. The only way it will stop is if Google stops shielding these companies from their own stupid decisions.
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Bingo. All the companies involved in making SoCs will be looking to cut out the ARM licensing fee. ARM typically takes $1-10 million up front plus 1-2% per chip, so you can see how their customers would be eager to keep that for themselves.
I feel like Microsoft and Nintendo are engaging in a contest to see who can come up with the silliest and least informative names for their consoles, and I look forward to the upcoming "XBox One-not-1 X 360" and "Newer New 2DS U".
I voluntarily upgraded from 7. And I regret it.
I... don't own an XBox. I'm not sure where you got that idea.
First, it's one guy with a soapbox to stand on. Of the other 2 million consoles, we don't know how many others have failed.
Second, the Switch has only been out for a single week and already we're seeing reports like this. Now we get to play the game of "will the failure rates follow a bathtub curve, stay constant with time, or increase with time?"
Finally, I was genuinely excited about the Switch at first. But then I heard the reports about low FPS when connected to a TV, and the joy-con connectivity issue, and the dead/stuck pixel issue, and a half-dozen tiny nitpicks (flimsy kickstand, etc); and I decided to wait and see, hoping that process improvements and software updates would fix things.
But now it's becoming pretty clear that Nintendo really cheaped out on their components. At this point there's nothing that would convince me to get a Switch other than Nintendo allowing save game backups or implementing their own cloud backups, and also releasing a newer model Switch with more durable parts.
Having been on the fence about whether or not to get a Switch, this is the news that settles my decision on "hell no". The inability to back up saved games would have been somewhat tolerable if the storage medium were reliable, but clearly it is not. There's no way I'm going to risk having all my progress thrown to the four winds.
Here's what I really don't understand: saved games are small, and Nintendo presumably has capable servers because it offers downloadable games. Steam has shown us that it's perfectly reasonable to ask that the service you download your games from also back up your saves, because it's a huge benefit to the gamers at a miniscule cost to the company. Does Nintendo really not give a damn about their customers?
Also LTE latency.
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
But wait, you ask, what does that have to do with anything? Well, according to the late Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, this amendment upholds the individual's right to privacy by forbidding the government from forcing you to accept the prying eyes of its agents into your private home without due process.
No, I don't mind. Because I don't have any illegal drugs or child pornography for the plumber to find.
What about the illegal drugs and child pornography that the previous occupant left hidden in the wall, next to the water pipes? You know, the ones you now have to prove aren't yours?
Clicked on this solely to find out how far I'd need to scroll before the first Grim Fandango reference.
The university's actions will ultimately lower their annual $5.83 billion budget by just 0.1%.
It doesn't take a fortune teller to see how this will end. Anyone with experience with low-cost offshore replacements knows that after the painful transition and a slow degradation of IT performance (with all the slowness, bugs, and embarrassing security breaches that come with it), the fallout of the university's decision will ultimately cost a hell of a lot more to fix than what is saved up front.
I don't think that's going to be a problem. From what I've read, humans treat sounds as simultaneous if they occur within 0-20ms of each other (depending on loudness, this can go up to as much as 100ms). Literature on audio-video simultaneity is much more complicated so it's harder to give solid numbers, especially since people's brains apparently quickly adapt to ignore the effect of slightly out-of-sync videos, but I'd say your average person would find it hard to notice any audio-video lag shorter than 80ms. In any case, a few dozen microseconds either way certainly won't be noticed by the user.
Instead, I'd say the problem that will plague most airpod users will be audio dropping out altogether from wireless congestion in crowded areas.
They wanted the earbuds to be independent, so they could operate in a solo situation, rather than have a Master-Slave relationship.
So, would this be Apple tacitly acknowledging that these things are guaranteed to quickly fall out and get lost?
Ah, yes, good point. One nested function call too many could exhaust available memory just as easily as malloc.
MISRA disallows using malloc in a car's critical systems code. I imagine a Mars lander would be subject to at least that level of stringent requirements.
Which group do you think the swing voter will feel more disposed to joining?
Personally, if a laptop comes with fans, I like a little fan noise to reassure me that the fans aren't dead and are doing their job. Obviously, in a laptop without fans (a la most Chromebooks) I relish the silence, but powerful laptops need fans and I need to know they're working as expected.
No, not new; I just haven't had all the idealism crushed out of me yet.
That's a cynically lazy attitude. Corrupt people need to be held accountable, or the situation will only get worse.
And even if all politicians are corrupt, they still vary by degrees of corruption. Remove the worst offenders and the average corruption of the whole goes down.
The GOP had this coming. Back when they decided to start cozying up with the Tea Partiers, they didn't have the foresight to realize that this would be the inevitable result, and now their party is ruled by whoever manages to shout the loudest and act the craziest.
I disagree. Cheap phones are slow, and trying to scroll through barely-responsive webpages at 10fps gradually frays one's mind. I'd pay a good sum to avoid going back to that again.
...Unfortunately, the phone makers know it, and keep releasing updates that suck away more resources right around the time a newer, faster, more expensive phone is released. Not naming names, but iHate it when companies do that and I wish they'd Think Different.
I don't buy that at all... the computer in this case is still learning through visual feedback only. If you replaced the screen buffer with a camera, the neural net would very quickly learn to ignore the areas outside of the monitor. Similarly, using a mouse and keyboard would be more of an accomplishment for the hardware engineers rigging up the appropriate servos than for the AI learning to use them.
They say they're moving on to Quake but I can guess that, because of how machine learning generally works, the AI they've trained for Doom will be utterly helpless at Quake until fully retrained.
I prefer to think of it as a pay-by-weight buffet. Except every single item you put on your plate comes with a 10-pound piece of hardtack plastered with advertising.
Google should absolutely not "choose to cut them a break".
This is one of the biggest problems of the takedown system: the big boys get their own special set of rules and are insulated from the fallout of the horrible systems they put into use, while everyone else has to deal with the massive collateral damage of these out-of-control takedown bots. The only way it will stop is if Google stops shielding these companies from their own stupid decisions.