Itanium handles speculation so differently that it's unlikely to be vulnerable. IBM has released an advisory indicating that Power7+/8/9 are vulnerable to some extent (they don't distinguish between Meltdown and Spectre) and that patches would be rolling out soon.
The guys at Pebble were smart: they designed the new OS for the Time to have stylized animations that already feel somewhat like tearing (origami-like folding and various quick movements). This was done on purpose to almost entirely mask any tearing the screen may have had and it worked great.
I think the problem of uncited papers isn't that big of a deal, it's quite rare and it doesn't necessarily say that the paper was entirely useless (e.g. the industry will often use academic papers but rarely cite them since they do not publish, or do so very rarely).
What I find much more concerning is that modern peer-reviewed journals only care about successful hypotheses. Doing something interesting isn't enough, it also has to be demonstrably better, stronger, faster or something else along those lines. Failure is brushed aside and quickly forgotten, even though having access to all of the failed attempts of thousands of scientists would be an absolute treasure trove.
How many hours, days, weeks of work could be avoided by knowing that someone else has already traveled down your current path and figured out that it wasn't working? How many ideas have been lost due to a minor issue that the original would-be author didn't catch? How much more efficient would our science be if we also documented legitimate failure (as opposed to failure from sloppiness, outright bad ideas, and so on)?
Restaurants and pubs have no interest in serving larger quantities. They'd much rather you took multiple glasses or an entire bottle, and that way they don't have to stock large, expensive glasses which often require unusual cleaning setups (since they're just too large to fit in normal washing systems). For home use, though, you'll find a lot of glasses like this with capacities well above 300ml (this one's around 900ml filled to the brim, so something like 450ml half filled is reasonable).
Of course, those glasses are also expected to be filled to a much lower degree. The goal is to have a really large surface area for the wine to mix its aromas with the surrounding air while ensuring that it remains contained within the glass thanks to a taller glass with a narrower opening.
While that's true, I think having realistically usable quantum computers with stable enough qubits to perform interesting calculations is an important step towards determining whether quantum computers are any better than classical computers. In doing so, you increase the interest in quantum computers, since they can do more than novelty calculations or toy programs, which in turn increases research on further applications for them. The more eyes there are on the problem, the more likely it is that we'll figure out the answer.
As opposed to not doing it at all, like Sony with the PS4? As opposed to doing it poorly, as Nintendo did with the WiiU, or not at all, with the Switch? I'm sorry, I know hating Microsoft is Slashdot tradition, but they're the only ones doing this properly this generation. Sony's farmed it all out to a game streaming service and Nintendo just has you buying Virtual Console games over and over again or, back in the day, they bundled the Wii in the WiiU with all the shitty graphics and poor resolution that implied.
So because a fraction of the population doesn't pollute as much, it's a-ok? I'm sorry but that's a self-serving, egocentric attitude that shouldn't be dictating anything.
Much as that'd have avoided it, I don't think it's fair to call the maintainer "idiot" for what's essentially a problem with the way Github handles project names and URLs. He's no longer maintaining it and he should be able to do whatever the fuck he wants with the account without having to worry about stupid consequences like this.
I'd expect that pressure waves strong enough to cause cell damage would also most likely cause damage to the environment, especially since you can rarely completely eliminate constructive interference everywhere but the targeted location. There'll be other points in the area that would get similarly strong pressure and that'd be enough to shatter fragile glass or cause vibrations. A microwave attack could be more plausible, but I don't know how they'd be able to set all of that up without someone noticing.
And yet you're missing the biggest actual reason all of these manufacturers are eyeing electric. Hint: it's not global warming. They want to get in on power sources which specifically do not release pollutants because pollution from exhaust pipes is becoming a major issue in just about every large European and Asian city. Synthetic fuels would change fuck all to that, so nobody's investing in it. If you're not going electric, your only other real option is hydrogen, but that's got even more problems.
As a general rule, if you, average Slashdotter, think you've figured out something nobody in the entire world has, you're probably just missing something.
The point is that most of the energy expended when creating the output was transformed into heat rather than directly used to create said output. Thus, all of that energy was wasted. To make a car analogy, it's like the difference in efficiency between a gasoline-fueled car (roughly 20% of the energy content of gasoline is turned into work) and an electric car (80% instead). Sure, both are doing work when expending all of that energy, but one wastes most of it generating heat and sound.
I'll agree that the language could be clearer, but it does show this popup when you try doing this right now. That should be a hint that something bad might happen, I'd say.
It's literally a GUI wrapper over Git. It's as stable or buggy as Git is. There was no bug at play here, merely an incorrect understanding of Git/VSCode terminology, a failure to use a test environment for testing (testing directly on your main project is not smart) and especially a failure to have any sort of backup or SCM.
I know it's hard to read and it's Slashdot tradition not to RTFA, but you didn't even read the fucking title. This is newsworthy in large part because it's not even Disney who filed the claim, it's Warner.
You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. The worst you'll find in the entire US is gonna be around 81F wet bulb temperature, or around 27C, and that's at a yearly occurrence rate of 0.4%. TFA is on another level entirely from that.
Manufacturers are eyeing 400km-500km range in 2020 with 30 minutes to recharge 80%. That means you can do the whole trip in 4 stretches of 4 hours, with an extra 2 hours of breaks between it all. By 2030, we'll probably be at or close to 1000km per charge, which is the tipping point, since you really shouldn't be driving for more than 8 or so hours a day. Every step of the way, though, fewer and fewer people will see the need for more range. Some people are already fine with 200km range.
Clover Trail is an ancient architecture. It's 32-bit only, instruction set support caps out at SSE3/SSSE3, and it's notable for being one of very few Intel CPUs to include a PowerVR GPU.
All those elements mean that supporting Clover Trail is far more trouble than it's worth.
Alternatively, people are more curious about how their new AMD processor is holding up, whereas Intel processors are a known quantity at this point, so new owners are less likely to try.
Yes, because we all know that "unbiased hearing officer" will be entirely unbiased. These are Republicans passing those laws, you can be damn sure they're going to consider anything that doesn't conform to their world views as biased, science be damned.
I think you're being a bit too idealistic of humanity there. Humans are overwhelmingly mediocre. Look at popular music and books, look at your average programming assignment, look at the iterative nature of research in many fields... Yes, there absolutely is a fraction of humanity which is creative or groundbreaking, but that leaves us with 90% of the workforce being redundant. The remaining 10% will create something new which will be immediately integrated into the mass producing AI systems.
The question becomes whether we could eventually make everyone equally creative and brilliant and all that. I doubt it.
It's not a desire for mind-numbing work, it's a concern that the structure of our society will not be modified in time to reflect changes in the economy. If we were to just leave everything evolve freely, we'd see a massive number of jobs get automated, throwing millions into unemployment (and potentially a substantial fraction of those being outright unemployable in other jobs), which would then sabotage the economy itself by removing too many consumers from the equation.
In order to move towards a new paradigm, be it just a leisure society where money has lost all meaning ala Star Trek, or a research society where most people are scientists or explorers, we're going to need concerted action and real, massive changes to our policies, laws and regulations. Even brief contact with a politician will make you doubt that this will realistically happen.
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Itanium handles speculation so differently that it's unlikely to be vulnerable. IBM has released an advisory indicating that Power7+/8/9 are vulnerable to some extent (they don't distinguish between Meltdown and Spectre) and that patches would be rolling out soon.
The guys at Pebble were smart: they designed the new OS for the Time to have stylized animations that already feel somewhat like tearing (origami-like folding and various quick movements). This was done on purpose to almost entirely mask any tearing the screen may have had and it worked great.
I think the problem of uncited papers isn't that big of a deal, it's quite rare and it doesn't necessarily say that the paper was entirely useless (e.g. the industry will often use academic papers but rarely cite them since they do not publish, or do so very rarely).
What I find much more concerning is that modern peer-reviewed journals only care about successful hypotheses. Doing something interesting isn't enough, it also has to be demonstrably better, stronger, faster or something else along those lines. Failure is brushed aside and quickly forgotten, even though having access to all of the failed attempts of thousands of scientists would be an absolute treasure trove.
How many hours, days, weeks of work could be avoided by knowing that someone else has already traveled down your current path and figured out that it wasn't working? How many ideas have been lost due to a minor issue that the original would-be author didn't catch? How much more efficient would our science be if we also documented legitimate failure (as opposed to failure from sloppiness, outright bad ideas, and so on)?
Restaurants and pubs have no interest in serving larger quantities. They'd much rather you took multiple glasses or an entire bottle, and that way they don't have to stock large, expensive glasses which often require unusual cleaning setups (since they're just too large to fit in normal washing systems). For home use, though, you'll find a lot of glasses like this with capacities well above 300ml (this one's around 900ml filled to the brim, so something like 450ml half filled is reasonable).
Of course, those glasses are also expected to be filled to a much lower degree. The goal is to have a really large surface area for the wine to mix its aromas with the surrounding air while ensuring that it remains contained within the glass thanks to a taller glass with a narrower opening.
While that's true, I think having realistically usable quantum computers with stable enough qubits to perform interesting calculations is an important step towards determining whether quantum computers are any better than classical computers. In doing so, you increase the interest in quantum computers, since they can do more than novelty calculations or toy programs, which in turn increases research on further applications for them. The more eyes there are on the problem, the more likely it is that we'll figure out the answer.
So what you're saying is that Microsoft had won a decade ago when Apple launched their childish Mac vs PC ads?
As opposed to not doing it at all, like Sony with the PS4? As opposed to doing it poorly, as Nintendo did with the WiiU, or not at all, with the Switch? I'm sorry, I know hating Microsoft is Slashdot tradition, but they're the only ones doing this properly this generation. Sony's farmed it all out to a game streaming service and Nintendo just has you buying Virtual Console games over and over again or, back in the day, they bundled the Wii in the WiiU with all the shitty graphics and poor resolution that implied.
So because a fraction of the population doesn't pollute as much, it's a-ok? I'm sorry but that's a self-serving, egocentric attitude that shouldn't be dictating anything.
Much as that'd have avoided it, I don't think it's fair to call the maintainer "idiot" for what's essentially a problem with the way Github handles project names and URLs. He's no longer maintaining it and he should be able to do whatever the fuck he wants with the account without having to worry about stupid consequences like this.
I'd expect that pressure waves strong enough to cause cell damage would also most likely cause damage to the environment, especially since you can rarely completely eliminate constructive interference everywhere but the targeted location. There'll be other points in the area that would get similarly strong pressure and that'd be enough to shatter fragile glass or cause vibrations. A microwave attack could be more plausible, but I don't know how they'd be able to set all of that up without someone noticing.
You say that like it's a done deal, but that doesn't explain the brain damage, which a sound projection device would be unlikely to be able to cause.
And yet you're missing the biggest actual reason all of these manufacturers are eyeing electric. Hint: it's not global warming. They want to get in on power sources which specifically do not release pollutants because pollution from exhaust pipes is becoming a major issue in just about every large European and Asian city. Synthetic fuels would change fuck all to that, so nobody's investing in it. If you're not going electric, your only other real option is hydrogen, but that's got even more problems.
As a general rule, if you, average Slashdotter, think you've figured out something nobody in the entire world has, you're probably just missing something.
The point is that most of the energy expended when creating the output was transformed into heat rather than directly used to create said output. Thus, all of that energy was wasted. To make a car analogy, it's like the difference in efficiency between a gasoline-fueled car (roughly 20% of the energy content of gasoline is turned into work) and an electric car (80% instead). Sure, both are doing work when expending all of that energy, but one wastes most of it generating heat and sound.
I'll agree that the language could be clearer, but it does show this popup when you try doing this right now. That should be a hint that something bad might happen, I'd say.
It's literally a GUI wrapper over Git. It's as stable or buggy as Git is. There was no bug at play here, merely an incorrect understanding of Git/VSCode terminology, a failure to use a test environment for testing (testing directly on your main project is not smart) and especially a failure to have any sort of backup or SCM.
I know it's hard to read and it's Slashdot tradition not to RTFA, but you didn't even read the fucking title. This is newsworthy in large part because it's not even Disney who filed the claim, it's Warner.
You think the current migrant crisis is bad? Wait until the number of affected people swells to the billion instead of a few millions.
You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. The worst you'll find in the entire US is gonna be around 81F wet bulb temperature, or around 27C, and that's at a yearly occurrence rate of 0.4%. TFA is on another level entirely from that.
Manufacturers are eyeing 400km-500km range in 2020 with 30 minutes to recharge 80%. That means you can do the whole trip in 4 stretches of 4 hours, with an extra 2 hours of breaks between it all. By 2030, we'll probably be at or close to 1000km per charge, which is the tipping point, since you really shouldn't be driving for more than 8 or so hours a day. Every step of the way, though, fewer and fewer people will see the need for more range. Some people are already fine with 200km range.
Clover Trail is an ancient architecture. It's 32-bit only, instruction set support caps out at SSE3/SSSE3, and it's notable for being one of very few Intel CPUs to include a PowerVR GPU.
All those elements mean that supporting Clover Trail is far more trouble than it's worth.
Alternatively, people are more curious about how their new AMD processor is holding up, whereas Intel processors are a known quantity at this point, so new owners are less likely to try.
Yes, because we all know that "unbiased hearing officer" will be entirely unbiased. These are Republicans passing those laws, you can be damn sure they're going to consider anything that doesn't conform to their world views as biased, science be damned.
I think you're being a bit too idealistic of humanity there. Humans are overwhelmingly mediocre. Look at popular music and books, look at your average programming assignment, look at the iterative nature of research in many fields... Yes, there absolutely is a fraction of humanity which is creative or groundbreaking, but that leaves us with 90% of the workforce being redundant. The remaining 10% will create something new which will be immediately integrated into the mass producing AI systems.
The question becomes whether we could eventually make everyone equally creative and brilliant and all that. I doubt it.
It's not a desire for mind-numbing work, it's a concern that the structure of our society will not be modified in time to reflect changes in the economy. If we were to just leave everything evolve freely, we'd see a massive number of jobs get automated, throwing millions into unemployment (and potentially a substantial fraction of those being outright unemployable in other jobs), which would then sabotage the economy itself by removing too many consumers from the equation.
In order to move towards a new paradigm, be it just a leisure society where money has lost all meaning ala Star Trek, or a research society where most people are scientists or explorers, we're going to need concerted action and real, massive changes to our policies, laws and regulations. Even brief contact with a politician will make you doubt that this will realistically happen.
Did you actually watch the video? It takes the horse example specifically to refute it.