> "The siren song of "free" software in exchange for giving up a significant amount of privacy"
I have a serious question here. If you want something like Google, which is a truly once-in-a-generation useful advance, a search engine that searches the entire Internet in a flash, how do you expect to pay for it?
People like you whine about the lack of privacy, but refuse to pay google for a very useful service. So what to you expect Google to do? If you do not like google you do not have to use it, so no privacy ramifications there.
But other people do find it very, very useful. google does need to get money for maintaining such a large thing from somewhere. But with a customer base that refuses to pay for it.
Any ideas? And no, a horde of open source hackers in their mothers basements is not going to cut it. Google solves a problem that requires very, very, ginormous amounts of infrastructure.
Confusing "group think" and "chips and devices that are so advanced only a few large teams can afford to develop them" is a bit naive.
It is the same with large passenger airliners. Only a few companies can build them, they are too expensive and complex. Even Airbus is giving up on the A380.
These things are not built by a horde of open-sourcerer hobby nerds. They can't be. Unless you want to stay with your Commodore 64.
> Standard form factor for making upgrade-able smartphones-esq devices.
If you have a standard form factor then there would not be any innovation in the form factors anymore. We would still use telephone with a dial and using beige boxes with big fat monitors.
The major innovations of the last few years (mobile phones, tablets, 2-in-1 convertible laptops, VR displays, Google Glass) come from companies experimenting with novel form factors, going beyond what is "standard".
Do you any idea how much money, time and effort goes into developing an ASIC like that? If it was that easy it would have been done years ago. For one, these things to now stamp out single copies of chips on demand like a laser printer. It is more like a printer where you make a plate for a lot of $$$ and then print out a zillions books for little $. It is only economically viable if you want to make a few million chips. Which does not really sound "custom" to me.
I would not go that far but it is polarizing. I like it (but I dont positively love it either) but my dad hates it. Generally I like it better than a hordes-of-buttons monster remote and I can actually type fast with the onscreen keyboard.
Bingo. The world is probably a safer place because people "Over there" are much more in your face nowadays, so the government cannot denigrate them with propaganda and make war. Go and check out US propaganda movies about Japanese in WW2. Lots of it on NetFlix. Total eye-opener. And before you blame the US, the Japanese were not any better.
This sort of stuff is much harder now because people actually interact with people around the world much more cause of the Internet.
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Can you RAID these things? What sort of error correction exists here? ECC DNA?
So basically you want to break the laws of Physics and blame Intel because your dreams do not come true?
Sorry to break the news to you but hard problems do not become easy problems because you want them to.
The only body spray that attracts women smells like a credit card.
> "The siren song of "free" software in exchange for giving up a significant amount of privacy"
I have a serious question here. If you want something like Google, which is a truly once-in-a-generation useful advance, a search engine that searches the entire Internet in a flash, how do you expect to pay for it?
People like you whine about the lack of privacy, but refuse to pay google for a very useful service. So what to you expect Google to do? If you do not like google you do not have to use it, so no privacy ramifications there.
But other people do find it very, very useful. google does need to get money for maintaining such a large thing from somewhere. But with a customer base that refuses to pay for it.
Any ideas? And no, a horde of open source hackers in their mothers basements is not going to cut it. Google solves a problem that requires very, very, ginormous amounts of infrastructure.
Confusing "group think" and "chips and devices that are so advanced only a few large teams can afford to develop them" is a bit naive.
It is the same with large passenger airliners. Only a few companies can build them, they are too expensive and complex. Even Airbus is giving up on the A380.
These things are not built by a horde of open-sourcerer hobby nerds. They can't be. Unless you want to stay with your Commodore 64.
> Standard form factor for making upgrade-able smartphones-esq devices.
If you have a standard form factor then there would not be any innovation in the form factors anymore. We would still use telephone with a dial and using beige boxes with big fat monitors.
The major innovations of the last few years (mobile phones, tablets, 2-in-1 convertible laptops, VR displays, Google Glass) come from companies experimenting with novel form factors, going beyond what is "standard".
> are custom 20um chips too much to ask for?
Yes. It is.
Do you any idea how much money, time and effort goes into developing an ASIC like that? If it was that easy it would have been done years ago. For one, these things to now stamp out single copies of chips on demand like a laser printer. It is more like a printer where you make a plate for a lot of $$$ and then print out a zillions books for little $. It is only economically viable if you want to make a few million chips. Which does not really sound "custom" to me.
Several APIs involving Queues and pipelining have a "drain" function call which clears it.
That is what I did, except I actually sat on a Trampoline and had a tennis ball roll towards me. The kid understood that, at 6
I have an "older" Broadwell 14 Core Xeon and that thing kicks the ass of 99% of any "newer" chips. Performance drop or not.
I would not go that far but it is polarizing. I like it (but I dont positively love it either) but my dad hates it. Generally I like it better than a hordes-of-buttons monster remote and I can actually type fast with the onscreen keyboard.
On a 6502 all programs have access to all memory all the time
I have written a compiler in Prolog, and I assure you it was better than writing it in C.
Same here
Are there any large Cobol projects out there? I mean this as a question, not sarcasm.
Women give sex because they want marriage
Men give marriage because they want unlimited sex
The problem with this setup is that, as soon as the woman gets married, she does not have to give sex anymore
Bingo. Works like a charm for me too. Add to that a custom Haraka server with a black/white list and no more spam problem.
Scarily, that might even be funny in 60 years
My one friend did actually get sued for 200 million USD by his employer but the case was dropped.
War is war. If they don't fight by the rules the so be it.
Well he is not that stupid is he?
He deserves to be probed. In the ass. With a sharp stick. Coated with capsaicin.
FTP? Seriously if you install that around here you would be a liability and be fired. By me.
Bingo. The world is probably a safer place because people "Over there" are much more in your face nowadays, so the government cannot denigrate them with propaganda and make war. Go and check out US propaganda movies about Japanese in WW2. Lots of it on NetFlix. Total eye-opener. And before you blame the US, the Japanese were not any better.
This sort of stuff is much harder now because people actually interact with people around the world much more cause of the Internet.
Considering that Windows has not actually existed for 30 years in any meaningful way, probably not. What did they do before? Patch DOS?