Apple's fingerprint reader doesn't read the fingerprint, it reads the tissue under the skin. This makes it much harder to fake and very constant over time. They're much more secure than "traditional" fingerprinting.
All that article says is that they've produced test chips on 14nm. Intel is much closer to actually releasing 14nm parts than Samsung, let alone the others.
Also, Intel spends less than the sum of all the ARM manufacturers, sure, but those guys aren't exactly collaborating either. Much of their R&D is redundant (developing Krait and Exynos wasn't cheap I'm sure, yet the two chips are fairly similar in performance), which makes the comparison pointless at best, misleading at worst.
Contrarily to what seems to be a popular belief on Slashdot, x86 and ARM aren't the real issue, it's the designs themselves which come from very different backgrounds (large high performance chips where thermals weren't a concern and fans were a given versus embedded processors which had to sip power and hide in small areas). An efficient x86 device is just as possible as a powerful ARM device, and Intel really does have a shot at tablets and maybe even phones. They've been cutting down power usage in a dramatic fashion.
Intel has been making numerous pushes for x86 support in Android (there are x86 images for most if not all Android versions) and also participated in (sadly now defunct) MeeGo. Considering Android is largely based on bytecode applications, I'd even say they're in an excellent position there, since you wouldn't even need to recompile applications for different platforms if the backend is handled properly.
Actually, I'd be curious to see how many of those are journalists finding a good sensationalist story subject versus scientists themselves contacting journalists to warn people. Scientists will always be happy to answer journalist questions, but that doesn't mean they're trying to use those visible but ultimately meaningless events to "prove" AGW.
And the problem I have with those in the opposition, so to speak, is that they take the stance that until absolute proof has been given, nothing should be done. That we're faced with obvious issues and have a potential cause we can do something about that a lot of scientists agree upon, but for whatever reason it still isn't good enough.
Your entire post is basically "but what if they're WRONG!?", to which the answer is... We'd have reduced pollution dramatically, we'd have pushed cleaner, less dangerous, more stable and more forward-looking energy sources. Well shit, that's really a terrible situation we'd be in. It'd be completely useless without CO2 being the evil gas we currently posit it to be.
I'm as anti-smoking as it gets (not anti-smoker, that's a strawman), but I don't give a shit about e-cigs being used by existing smokers. What I do want to avoid is people getting addicted to nicotine through e-cigs and then either getting stuck with those or moving on to other tobacco products. I find it fine as a lesser evil for existing smokers who have trouble stopping, but it's still harmful for you and it's costing you a lot of money, taxation or not.
There's a fine line to draw in order to help existing smokers transition to them (since they're evidently better than actual cigarettes) and discouraging non-smokers (especially teenagers) from trying them out. By painting the opposition as nutjobs, all you're doing is looking like a nutter yourself.
Why is it a stupid idea? The NSA is good at crypto, yes, that's quite obvious, but this doesn't lessen the damage they're doing to US corporations. As it is, if you have any kind of sensitive information as a foreign person or corporation, you're basically obligated not to deal with US companies if you don't want your data snooped or worse. It's going to dramatically hamper US companies' ability to deal with foreign nations.
If congress passes laws specifically targeting that behavior, then it can be stopped.
This doesn't really work in today's world, though. Sure, in suburbs and villages, that probably has something to do with it. Cities, though? A city hash millions of people living in it, many of them not even originating from that city at all. Walk a hundred meters and you'll probably stumble on people from 10 different countries at the very least. I have serious doubts that you, by happenstance, always pick people who grew near your own place of birth.
That's foolish and you know it. Regardless of the software and hardware, the government will always have control since at some point you need to reach the big backbones in the network. Those are easy to monitor and take over by the hosting government. If the government cannot, for whatever reason, coerce companies or individuals into revealing what they require to snoop on those backbones, then could just shut them off.
What we need is a large change in mentalities. There shouldn't be any reason to spy on your own citizens. Ever.
Actually, while the Xbox wasn't about the OS, it was still about software. The Xbox wasn't all that popular. The Xbox 360 however most certainly was, and perhaps one good reason was that it was easy to develop for. The hardware was closer to PCs than the PS3 while still being powerful and conventional enough compared to the Wii. The software dev kits were a lot better than anything Sony could ever provide.
Nokia still to this day makes extremely good hardware. They were looking for a new CEO and found Elop. The thing is, what if they'd found someone else? Someone with just a little bit of focus and vision? It surprises me that people can't consider the idea of Nokia ditching Symbian and focusing on MeeGo or even going Android; their phones easily rival or even surpass stuff from Samsung and HTC and their brand is renown. If they managed to survive three years with the failure that is Windows Phone, they could've done the same with MeeGo.
The only thing I'll say is that there are good reasons for school uniforms. They remove a lot of the social stigma that might otherwise come from being poorer in (generally) richer schools by making everyone dress exactly the same; especially in high school, clothing is a big factor which determines which groups you are a part of. As a bonus, it can give a certain sense of pride to students who come to appreciate the uniform as representing the institution (just look at how many people wear university shirts) and having a "normal clothes" day is a simple and effective reward.
Outside of this one thing, I fully agree with what you've said.
Perhaps. In order to change the system, though, you'd need to force people to go to public school. The system has a lot of inertia; it'd take a good few generations to get better, and in the meantime you're throwing thousands of kids under the bus. I'm sorry but that's really not going to fly.
I'm usually quite for social systems, but I don't think improving the educational system should come at the cost of hurting people's education if they could've otherwise avoided it. Remember, if the classroom is bad as is, just imagine how it'd be if you added all the children from the private system into the classrooms (no, they're not all little angels, and even if they were, just the sheer numbers would make the classrooms collapse). If we want people to use public schools, we should just make them better until they're more attractive to parents than the alternative. The problem is that that costs money and requires a lot of effort and planning.
There was no evidence for a long time, though, and the people are very easily led to smearing others who disagree with their opinions.
The thing that really erased all semblance of credibility from him is when he was revealed to be on Oracle's payroll throughout the Oracle v. Google case which he covered extensively (and almost invariably rooted in favor of Oracle, strangely enough!). Never once did he put a disclaimer saying he had ties with Oracle; instead, he actively denied it. THAT is inexcusable and irrefutable and entirely invalidates any sort of opinion he may have had or will have.
I don't think the point of the study is to provide an excuse. It's much more useful as a way of hammering home to the idiots who claim poor people are just lazy that they're plain and simply wrong. There are reasons why poor people have a hard time getting out of that state of poverty, and it's got nothing to do with laziness.
The faster we can all move on from shaming and scorning poor people to actually helping them, the better.
... My bank's online functions are directly accessible through a link from their homepage? Only giving the address through a physical letter is probably very rare.
So what? Why wouldn't we come to a point where people would have to understand extremely basic programming as part of the main curriculum? We already ask them to do so for their native language, usually a second one, plus subjects like math. Programming is becoming fundamental to the society we live in, and the fact most people don't even know what programming is (well, apart from seeing it as some form of arcane art) could easily become problematic in the future.
Plus, the point is that if you want to try it out, the option is there. On an iPad, there is no option.
Except this is all about school-provided hardware, where iPads are being purchased en masse by schools to give to students during their scholar year. If you aren't in a school with that sort of program, then bringing an iPad in class is very likely disallowed anyway.
That's really risky though, because in many cases where the law is controversial, the courts will just go with applying the law exactly as it is written. Since they'd have broken the law, they'd be guilty and that'd be it.
They'd need to break the law, drum up enough attention to themselves to cause a fuss and get a judge who'd actually want to open Pandora's Box. That's a lot of requirements. By going more carefully around it, they risk less. It's less good for consumers, because if they lose they might not keep fighting, but it's a much more logical thing to do from a business standpoint.
In years of using the service I've never once been told that I'd missed an email by anyone I know. I'll take that as a sufficient confirmation that I haven't missed anything important. Things that I have missed which people haven't followed up on or notified me of are just about as good as junk mail anyway.
IT may not leverage it that much, but CS most certainly does. Computer graphics, signal theory, machine learning, computer vision, optimization, they all make extensive use of calculus.
I'm rather surprised you didn't have an algebra course. They usually show up simultaneously.
Origin worked just fine throughout SimCity's launch fiasco. Heck, the download speeds were often even faster than Steam's. It was SimCity's servers and online-only stupid design which completely blew up.
It's always amusing to see people rebutting figures with what are pretty much just soundbites. You're essentially being a politician. Just like a politician, you don't take time to see what the actual argument is (it's been quoted many times in this comments section) or actually weight the argument. You just take your preconceived notion and accompanying snark lines and throw them at his face and feel smug about it.
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Apple's fingerprint reader doesn't read the fingerprint, it reads the tissue under the skin. This makes it much harder to fake and very constant over time. They're much more secure than "traditional" fingerprinting.
All that article says is that they've produced test chips on 14nm. Intel is much closer to actually releasing 14nm parts than Samsung, let alone the others.
Also, Intel spends less than the sum of all the ARM manufacturers, sure, but those guys aren't exactly collaborating either. Much of their R&D is redundant (developing Krait and Exynos wasn't cheap I'm sure, yet the two chips are fairly similar in performance), which makes the comparison pointless at best, misleading at worst.
Obviously your wallet is not Cota-compatible, so it wasn't... charged.
Contrarily to what seems to be a popular belief on Slashdot, x86 and ARM aren't the real issue, it's the designs themselves which come from very different backgrounds (large high performance chips where thermals weren't a concern and fans were a given versus embedded processors which had to sip power and hide in small areas). An efficient x86 device is just as possible as a powerful ARM device, and Intel really does have a shot at tablets and maybe even phones. They've been cutting down power usage in a dramatic fashion.
Intel has been making numerous pushes for x86 support in Android (there are x86 images for most if not all Android versions) and also participated in (sadly now defunct) MeeGo. Considering Android is largely based on bytecode applications, I'd even say they're in an excellent position there, since you wouldn't even need to recompile applications for different platforms if the backend is handled properly.
Actually, I'd be curious to see how many of those are journalists finding a good sensationalist story subject versus scientists themselves contacting journalists to warn people. Scientists will always be happy to answer journalist questions, but that doesn't mean they're trying to use those visible but ultimately meaningless events to "prove" AGW.
And the problem I have with those in the opposition, so to speak, is that they take the stance that until absolute proof has been given, nothing should be done. That we're faced with obvious issues and have a potential cause we can do something about that a lot of scientists agree upon, but for whatever reason it still isn't good enough.
Your entire post is basically "but what if they're WRONG!?", to which the answer is... We'd have reduced pollution dramatically, we'd have pushed cleaner, less dangerous, more stable and more forward-looking energy sources. Well shit, that's really a terrible situation we'd be in. It'd be completely useless without CO2 being the evil gas we currently posit it to be.
I'm as anti-smoking as it gets (not anti-smoker, that's a strawman), but I don't give a shit about e-cigs being used by existing smokers. What I do want to avoid is people getting addicted to nicotine through e-cigs and then either getting stuck with those or moving on to other tobacco products. I find it fine as a lesser evil for existing smokers who have trouble stopping, but it's still harmful for you and it's costing you a lot of money, taxation or not.
There's a fine line to draw in order to help existing smokers transition to them (since they're evidently better than actual cigarettes) and discouraging non-smokers (especially teenagers) from trying them out. By painting the opposition as nutjobs, all you're doing is looking like a nutter yourself.
Why is it a stupid idea? The NSA is good at crypto, yes, that's quite obvious, but this doesn't lessen the damage they're doing to US corporations. As it is, if you have any kind of sensitive information as a foreign person or corporation, you're basically obligated not to deal with US companies if you don't want your data snooped or worse. It's going to dramatically hamper US companies' ability to deal with foreign nations.
If congress passes laws specifically targeting that behavior, then it can be stopped.
This doesn't really work in today's world, though. Sure, in suburbs and villages, that probably has something to do with it. Cities, though? A city hash millions of people living in it, many of them not even originating from that city at all. Walk a hundred meters and you'll probably stumble on people from 10 different countries at the very least. I have serious doubts that you, by happenstance, always pick people who grew near your own place of birth.
That's foolish and you know it. Regardless of the software and hardware, the government will always have control since at some point you need to reach the big backbones in the network. Those are easy to monitor and take over by the hosting government. If the government cannot, for whatever reason, coerce companies or individuals into revealing what they require to snoop on those backbones, then could just shut them off.
What we need is a large change in mentalities. There shouldn't be any reason to spy on your own citizens. Ever.
Actually, while the Xbox wasn't about the OS, it was still about software. The Xbox wasn't all that popular. The Xbox 360 however most certainly was, and perhaps one good reason was that it was easy to develop for. The hardware was closer to PCs than the PS3 while still being powerful and conventional enough compared to the Wii. The software dev kits were a lot better than anything Sony could ever provide.
Nokia still to this day makes extremely good hardware. They were looking for a new CEO and found Elop. The thing is, what if they'd found someone else? Someone with just a little bit of focus and vision? It surprises me that people can't consider the idea of Nokia ditching Symbian and focusing on MeeGo or even going Android; their phones easily rival or even surpass stuff from Samsung and HTC and their brand is renown. If they managed to survive three years with the failure that is Windows Phone, they could've done the same with MeeGo.
The only thing I'll say is that there are good reasons for school uniforms. They remove a lot of the social stigma that might otherwise come from being poorer in (generally) richer schools by making everyone dress exactly the same; especially in high school, clothing is a big factor which determines which groups you are a part of. As a bonus, it can give a certain sense of pride to students who come to appreciate the uniform as representing the institution (just look at how many people wear university shirts) and having a "normal clothes" day is a simple and effective reward.
Outside of this one thing, I fully agree with what you've said.
Just having a loose hard drive in your luggage with "random" data is enough to make them suspicious. You'll crack down before they do.
Perhaps. In order to change the system, though, you'd need to force people to go to public school. The system has a lot of inertia; it'd take a good few generations to get better, and in the meantime you're throwing thousands of kids under the bus. I'm sorry but that's really not going to fly.
I'm usually quite for social systems, but I don't think improving the educational system should come at the cost of hurting people's education if they could've otherwise avoided it. Remember, if the classroom is bad as is, just imagine how it'd be if you added all the children from the private system into the classrooms (no, they're not all little angels, and even if they were, just the sheer numbers would make the classrooms collapse). If we want people to use public schools, we should just make them better until they're more attractive to parents than the alternative. The problem is that that costs money and requires a lot of effort and planning.
There was no evidence for a long time, though, and the people are very easily led to smearing others who disagree with their opinions.
The thing that really erased all semblance of credibility from him is when he was revealed to be on Oracle's payroll throughout the Oracle v. Google case which he covered extensively (and almost invariably rooted in favor of Oracle, strangely enough!). Never once did he put a disclaimer saying he had ties with Oracle; instead, he actively denied it. THAT is inexcusable and irrefutable and entirely invalidates any sort of opinion he may have had or will have.
I don't think the point of the study is to provide an excuse. It's much more useful as a way of hammering home to the idiots who claim poor people are just lazy that they're plain and simply wrong. There are reasons why poor people have a hard time getting out of that state of poverty, and it's got nothing to do with laziness.
The faster we can all move on from shaming and scorning poor people to actually helping them, the better.
... My bank's online functions are directly accessible through a link from their homepage? Only giving the address through a physical letter is probably very rare.
So what? Why wouldn't we come to a point where people would have to understand extremely basic programming as part of the main curriculum? We already ask them to do so for their native language, usually a second one, plus subjects like math. Programming is becoming fundamental to the society we live in, and the fact most people don't even know what programming is (well, apart from seeing it as some form of arcane art) could easily become problematic in the future.
Plus, the point is that if you want to try it out, the option is there. On an iPad, there is no option.
Except this is all about school-provided hardware, where iPads are being purchased en masse by schools to give to students during their scholar year. If you aren't in a school with that sort of program, then bringing an iPad in class is very likely disallowed anyway.
That's really risky though, because in many cases where the law is controversial, the courts will just go with applying the law exactly as it is written. Since they'd have broken the law, they'd be guilty and that'd be it.
They'd need to break the law, drum up enough attention to themselves to cause a fuss and get a judge who'd actually want to open Pandora's Box. That's a lot of requirements. By going more carefully around it, they risk less. It's less good for consumers, because if they lose they might not keep fighting, but it's a much more logical thing to do from a business standpoint.
In years of using the service I've never once been told that I'd missed an email by anyone I know. I'll take that as a sufficient confirmation that I haven't missed anything important. Things that I have missed which people haven't followed up on or notified me of are just about as good as junk mail anyway.
IT may not leverage it that much, but CS most certainly does. Computer graphics, signal theory, machine learning, computer vision, optimization, they all make extensive use of calculus.
I'm rather surprised you didn't have an algebra course. They usually show up simultaneously.
Origin worked just fine throughout SimCity's launch fiasco. Heck, the download speeds were often even faster than Steam's. It was SimCity's servers and online-only stupid design which completely blew up.
It's always amusing to see people rebutting figures with what are pretty much just soundbites. You're essentially being a politician. Just like a politician, you don't take time to see what the actual argument is (it's been quoted many times in this comments section) or actually weight the argument. You just take your preconceived notion and accompanying snark lines and throw them at his face and feel smug about it.
Great job really.