You really don't want to completely turn off the gps chip. Getting the L1 and L3 signals back and the ephemeral data they contain takes a lot of time, sometimes quite a few minutes.
Turning the GPS off does not have to mean losing the almanac, ephemeris, or current time. For a long time now, integrated GPS receivers have been able to do a warm start where this state is maintained in seconds. If it is stale or not available, AGPS works by downloading this data from the network.
So the upshot is that while these autonomous systems will create this whole new class of collision by zombified drivers, even while potentially lowering the overall rate with their mostly good collision avoidance systems. Drivers will be out of practice and situationally unaware when HAL throws up its hands and gives back control, or when it fails to respond to trucks in the roadway, construction, black ice, pot holes, etc, etc.
That is ideal for the companies producing these systems. All failures will be do to the customer not paying attention and the customer will be paying for that feature.
The patent office is very selective about what publications they consider prior art; mostly they care about previous patents. I regularly find things which are currently patented despite having been published decades ago.
He can technically challenge the patent on ground of prior art.
There is a review process for this now however in practice only after it is granted because the patent office construes patents narrowly while the courts construe them broadly.
Anyone who thinks that logic requires data to be cleared before it is over-written, is still using core memories from the 1970's. No one clears the old result and then writes a new one. The new result overwrites the old one.
Dynamic logic erases the previous result before doing the next computation and it is not a technology which died with core memory; it is still used for high performance logic.
The only serious problem I can see is this scenario:
- conventional processors stop improving much - people buy processors less often because they're not getting better - some processor makers go out of business due to reduced demand
Then when the industry picks back up again, there are fewer competitors. I have no idea how likely that all is though.
Wouldn't it be simpler to just find this Moore guy and force him to change his damn law?
Unfortunately that will not work because Moore is dead.
It is possible to reduce the noise of a resistor by reducing temperature, bandwidth, or resistance but it is NOT possible to reduce Boltzmann's Constant because Boltzmann is dead. - Analog Devices Application Note 280
Just off the top of my head, the die area is shrinking as a square so power would need to scale at the same rate or your devices will overheat. The easy way is to lower voltages but then you are dealing with distinguishing between ground state and signal i.e. logic levels.
The problem is that power is made up of several different components and the total does *not* scale with the inverse square so power density has risen to the limit which may be economically handled.
If you check the die area for a maximum power of Intel's processors going back several generations, you will find that power per area has stayed roughly constant while area has decreased. Newer Intel processors use less power because they must in order to increase transistor density following Moore's Law.
Moore's Law is very much about energy use. In fact, the ability to decrease transistor size is directly tied to the ability to control the energy these transistors consume.
Moore's Law is about the economics of increasing integration. If we had some way to make silicon area cheaper, which has happened on a small scale, then we could duplicate Moore's Law with increasingly large integrated circuits without decreasing transistor size. Moore's Law is not even about performance which was reduced during some process generations.
In recent fabrication generations for integrated circuits, power has become important because it limits transistor density. Above a certain power per area, removing heat becomes uneconomical. So again, it is about the price per transistor.
We're moving to energy weapons. You have fun with your inaccurate loud as fuck guns, sonny boy. Meanwhile we'l sit here with our lasers fucking your eyes with no remorse and no license required!
Various space opera films show that chemically powered slug throwers are still competitive.
Logitech's quality and reliability have never been very good. Every Logitech mouse I have had since their BUS mouse has had switches fail and the cord break at the point where it enters the mouse. Check out online the number of third party cord replacements for Logitech mice that are available. Their wireless keyboards have transmission problems and regularly fail for no discernible reason.
And if you didn't pay the taxes, anyone would be free to murder you and take your money without cause. Laws are just words with nothing to enforce them.
Do you mean like the current situation with civil assets forfeiture and police getting away with murder?
It wasn't hundreds of pages of legalese in any of my mortgages, and I did read through the agreements.
I wonder if you could get away with reading the legalese in detail with the loan officer. If they are going to waste your time, at least you can have company and waste theirs as well.
More people should read their contracts over before signing. But most people don't have the reading comprehension.
Reading comprehension is not sufficient when you do not know the language which in this case you already admitted is legalese which includes statutes, executive decisions, and court precedence for context. The lawyers who wrote and approved that document know this and take advantage of it. So now multiply the number of lawyer hours used to draft the document with a constant to represent the number of hours every non-lawyer reader will need to understand it, and multiply that by the number of non-lawyer readers.
Is that productive? It is for the lawyers and nobody else. Lawyers are not payed to be clear, concise, and unambiguous.
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You really don't want to completely turn off the gps chip. Getting the L1 and L3 signals back and the ephemeral data they contain takes a lot of time, sometimes quite a few minutes.
Turning the GPS off does not have to mean losing the almanac, ephemeris, or current time. For a long time now, integrated GPS receivers have been able to do a warm start where this state is maintained in seconds. If it is stale or not available, AGPS works by downloading this data from the network.
and them bailing on the organization leaves the people with one less voice on it. makes no fucking sense.
this is not the same as when the corporate 'leaders' left trump's stupid panel thing, forcing it to dissolve itself. w3c isn't going anywhere.
What difference does it make if they were not listening anyway? Membership became a waste of effort.
Thing is, you need to get people to show up to primaries, ...
That is what the Bernie Sanders voters thought.
So the upshot is that while these autonomous systems will create this whole new class of collision by zombified drivers, even while potentially lowering the overall rate with their mostly good collision avoidance systems. Drivers will be out of practice and situationally unaware when HAL throws up its hands and gives back control, or when it fails to respond to trucks in the roadway, construction, black ice, pot holes, etc, etc.
That is ideal for the companies producing these systems. All failures will be do to the customer not paying attention and the customer will be paying for that feature.
These publications constitute prior art.
The patent office is very selective about what publications they consider prior art; mostly they care about previous patents. I regularly find things which are currently patented despite having been published decades ago.
He can technically challenge the patent on ground of prior art.
There is a review process for this now however in practice only after it is granted because the patent office construes patents narrowly while the courts construe them broadly.
Anyone who thinks that logic requires data to be cleared before it is over-written, is still using core memories from the 1970's. No one clears the old result and then writes a new one. The new result overwrites the old one.
Dynamic logic erases the previous result before doing the next computation and it is not a technology which died with core memory; it is still used for high performance logic.
The only serious problem I can see is this scenario:
- conventional processors stop improving much
- people buy processors less often because they're not getting better
- some processor makers go out of business due to reduced demand
Then when the industry picks back up again, there are fewer competitors. I have no idea how likely that all is though.
- Already happened.
- Already happened.
- Already happened.
Wouldn't it be simpler to just find this Moore guy and force him to change his damn law?
Unfortunately that will not work because Moore is dead.
It is possible to reduce the noise of a resistor by reducing temperature, bandwidth, or resistance but it is NOT possible to reduce Boltzmann's Constant because Boltzmann is dead. - Analog Devices Application Note 280
Just off the top of my head, the die area is shrinking as a square so power would need to scale at the same rate or your devices will overheat. The easy way is to lower voltages but then you are dealing with distinguishing between ground state and signal i.e. logic levels.
The problem is that power is made up of several different components and the total does *not* scale with the inverse square so power density has risen to the limit which may be economically handled.
If you check the die area for a maximum power of Intel's processors going back several generations, you will find that power per area has stayed roughly constant while area has decreased. Newer Intel processors use less power because they must in order to increase transistor density following Moore's Law.
Moore's Law is very much about energy use. In fact, the ability to decrease transistor size is directly tied to the ability to control the energy these transistors consume.
Moore's Law is about the economics of increasing integration. If we had some way to make silicon area cheaper, which has happened on a small scale, then we could duplicate Moore's Law with increasingly large integrated circuits without decreasing transistor size. Moore's Law is not even about performance which was reduced during some process generations.
In recent fabrication generations for integrated circuits, power has become important because it limits transistor density. Above a certain power per area, removing heat becomes uneconomical. So again, it is about the price per transistor.
ISSCC 2016: William M. Holt, Moore's Law: A Path Forward
Driver's License? For what? Disk drives?
Internet access should be treated like a utility.
It is treated like a utility with the government mandating that only one or two companies provide it.
We're moving to energy weapons. You have fun with your inaccurate loud as fuck guns, sonny boy. Meanwhile we'l sit here with our lasers fucking your eyes with no remorse and no license required!
Various space opera films show that chemically powered slug throwers are still competitive.
What a stupid fucking argument. The 2nd amendment was never under ANY duress.
Heller was a 5 to 4 decision and even with a majority agreement, lower courts are still not upholding it.
Even if you agree with Trump's platform, his ability to actually bring forth any progress on implementing it has been...disastrous.
And if you prefer gridlock to anything done, then Trump was the right choice.
No, AMD's x86 licensing deals are not transferable and would have to be renegotiated.
And then later, Seagate doubled down and bought Maxtor.
Logitech's quality and reliability have never been very good. Every Logitech mouse I have had since their BUS mouse has had switches fail and the cord break at the point where it enters the mouse. Check out online the number of third party cord replacements for Logitech mice that are available. Their wireless keyboards have transmission problems and regularly fail for no discernible reason.
Billions of solar powered self replicating machines like ... trees?
"It's a strong indication that Bitcoin is mostly used for criminal activity."
Hardly. By that logic everyone using cash are mostly engaged in criminal activity.
Based on civil assets forfeiture, that is the logic being used by the government.
And if you didn't pay the taxes, anyone would be free to murder you and take your money without cause. Laws are just words with nothing to enforce them.
Do you mean like the current situation with civil assets forfeiture and police getting away with murder?
Which is why the privacy extensions were added to IP6 where the MAC address may be replaced with a random address.
I wonder if the the banking industry learned this from the phone industry or the reverse.
It wasn't hundreds of pages of legalese in any of my mortgages, and I did read through the agreements.
I wonder if you could get away with reading the legalese in detail with the loan officer. If they are going to waste your time, at least you can have company and waste theirs as well.
More people should read their contracts over before signing. But most people don't have the reading comprehension.
Reading comprehension is not sufficient when you do not know the language which in this case you already admitted is legalese which includes statutes, executive decisions, and court precedence for context. The lawyers who wrote and approved that document know this and take advantage of it. So now multiply the number of lawyer hours used to draft the document with a constant to represent the number of hours every non-lawyer reader will need to understand it, and multiply that by the number of non-lawyer readers.
Is that productive? It is for the lawyers and nobody else. Lawyers are not payed to be clear, concise, and unambiguous.