OK I can understand Knowledge doubling but what is most important to me is the change in substances that cause damage and yes new substances adding insult to injury.
As I scanned the article I did not see new substances as problems but the same list of bad actors (mercury, dioxin... ).
One article is clearly self serving as they advise the establishment of a clearing house and income source for themselves.
Missing in this is the growing body of knowledge that grapefruit has massive social impact and now that it is available year round it can cause much more social impact. Note well that grapefruit interacts with neuro transmitter chemicals both therapeutic and natural also antibiotics.
One might say skip the grapefruit except that the white rind often gets processed into vit-C tablets. Makes for a chewable "natural" vit-C supplement but the side effect are ill managed and ill understood. Heck if I was a radical I would point to this as the single most evil fraud hoisted on Americans and perhaps one of the major root causes of teen suicide and mass murder.
As much as this article is not news this topic needs attention so hey... if it is not a slow news day.
I have 4 cards in my wallet. Person debit, personal credit, business debit, business credit. Now I'll need to have 4 pins in addition to the multitude of other passwords that I keep in memory. I'm sure there's plenty of people with more cards than I'm carrying.
If there is software that can damage those speakers in the manner that Dell's trying to claim, it fails upon UCC 2-314 and UCC 2-315 out of box.
Per Mangusson-Moss, it's not legally possible for them to claim that their warranty is voided just because there is a piece of software put onto the machine because they didn't limit their warranty in this case in writing....snip....
It should be impossible for software to damage modern hardware. Full stop...
Back in the 60's +/- there was a rumor of an IBM computer where a microcode loop could over-heat a transistor and cause the machine to fail. There was a flap about it but in the end the heat-sink was improved (or something). I cannot recall if it was a discrete transistor or an ECL package (serious power stuff).
Submarines used it for navigating below the ice cap in the 50's.
Early Sperry-Rand gyros were too large for a phone and perhaps not as good as modern micro machined devices today but could get them from A-B-C.... Recall the oldish phrase close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and A-bombs.
Fast is fine but big parts of the internet are build on assumptions of many talking to many...
That is P2P not just central hubs that manage and control all traffic and also have to source all trafic.
What if Netflix was a P2P service and as part of a discount strategy some 60% of you upload bandwidth and some N-GB of local storage used by Netflix to serve up content.
Sure encryption and other tricks could be well employed to preserve valuable content.
I have had cause to trace route this and that service and it is obvious that traffic does not move via any short path but by some management heavy power centric path. Perhaps this is necessary for FBI and NSA good reasons but if so then these pipes should be nationalized, net neutral, bigger, and free to all as the Interstate highway system is.
Yes businesses can build toll roads for low latency trading or other needs but the Nation needs to facilitate P2P and the cross sectional bandwidth that it can gain with great connectivity.
Heck the next DOCSIS N+1 standard should embrace a local box that can proxy bits as part of a neighborhood of P2P servers. Just moving trending video, TV and other current traffic to a P2P caching context could give us vastly better responsive service.
It seems that the Texas location is fair game again.
There are not too many places where a 100Km circle can be scribed and not slice through hills, mountains, and towns.
My personal preference for spending billions and billions on research would best be an expansion and repurposing of the US federal compute center (NSA, FBI, DHS) in Utah to be a national and global climate center research center.
There is a real need to understand the climate changes man made or not and understand what needs to happen.
We could plant merlot grapes in Norway or in the Sahara so they would be ready when the climate changes to favor them. If that was not enough reason we could look at fields of corn sugar production moving to Brazil.
Food, fuel, water -- changes natural or not need to be understood.
Perhaps if we were to grind Gibraltar into chunks that could be trucked a short distance so we could close off the entrance to the Mediterranean by reducing that thermal mass the Sahara could be made to bloom (or not).
The reality is that food production is a lot harder than a couple zucchini plants that are so easy to coax into abundance.
Then there is insulation, flood planes, mosquito born maladies. Recall that there are still vast areas of Africa that are want to kill you with insect born diseases.
The most obvious to me is the manager with twenty direct reports. Clearly he cannot pay micro attention to each so the mgr would then elect to focus on one or perhaps two and exclude all the others. There is no way to accurately compress a day into less than a day.
Sexual harassment... oh my.
Some meetings you need to be quiet.
Now let us invert this. Obama and all the NSA depth search limit contacts to him and his cabinet as well as the legislative branch. This information and its meta data would let us know a lot more about the inner workings.
Perhaps stated differently the manager also needs one and his employees need access. In specific union representatives and legal proxies. HR harassment police need these on all managers in a position of power.
Golly help anyone that shakes a bottled smoothy too often or too vigorously.
Nope, just the regular ones. Oklahoma doesn't get enough snow to make snow tires worth it, just enough that we're not all total noobs when some happens to fall.
You might be correct but not because of snow depths or frequency. http://downloads.newsok.com/kn... However it is clear that chains or cable chains are worth the investment. Snow tires are near worthless in an ice storm and a great rain tire can work just as well.
Minnesota snow at 10F and colder is almost a dusting of light sand. However in the temp range of 30-34F things can get slippery to a degree that is just difficult.
Winter.... some days are simply chess and checkers walk over to the neighbor weather.
Because he's the boss? The guy in the hotseat? The person they're paying to make decisions?
The mayor may be advised by his engineering or public safety guys, but, in the end, it's his decision.
And if he says it's not his decision to make, the wrong guy got elected mayor.
No not the boss of it all. Following your logic Obama should have canceled Atlanta. Others would reach higher had demand the Pope cancel Atlanta.
School bus drivers... and schools should have their own criteria and should be responsible for acting in a timely manner.
Offices and office workers, if your boss required you to stay and you asked to exit in a timely manner put the additional travel time on your time card. Stay in a hotel or motel... bill the company.
Highway patrol could have seen trouble and placed chain-up or get off restriction on all public carrier (truck) traffic. Chains on 5% of the highway traffic would have chopped up much of the ice and that alone would have helped keep traffic moving in many places.
The reality is warm ice is slippery like mayo on glass. Common tires and even most snow tires are simply round runners.
What rights are you talking about? A movie theatre is on private property, and as such any glasshole has no right to film from the interior without permission. Movie theatres generally make it VERY clear that patrons are not permitted to film on the premises.....snip....
N.B. They let him in with the glasses.
Would they let another person in with a big shoulder mounted professional digital movie camera (or a hat mounted GoPro video camera)?
This individual was targeted and had she been careless and captured video incidentally would have been crushed... Smells like entrapment and may be sufficient to demand disclosure of all domestic surveillance on this individual.
Somehow, somewhy they intended to make a point...
Perhaps they wanted to attack GoogleGlass because Google retaliated and encrypted all site to site and center to center data traffic recently (prior to Snowden, BTW).
Every time they ask you a question, respond with lawyer - you will have a really strong case against them if one isn't provided.
Perhaps.... A better answer might be "no, I do not understand my rights as you explained them" if the phrase following now was part of the reading. Further if I had a lawyer and he asked me if I understood I would say "no" as well.
In fact I no longer trust that I understand all this.
$0.75? How about you leave that out and I'll take it for $2.00 less?
How does that logic work? Besides, you can easily remove the Play Store from most devices. If not, this site might not be for you.
Yes,,,, but for many not aware of/. the reality is that Google does a little to a lot of work on the cruft that folk toss onto the application pile. They have apparently started looking hard at abuses some software vendors were updating twice a week to update embedded marketing and advertisements... because I suspect the bandwidth was free. From benign to just durn nasty there are many abuses that google is looking to squash (and has already).
I noted on my tablet that Samstung has their own store. But AT&T just a collection of applications on the Google Shop....
I was wondering why the hell he thinks he needs to drag a laptop to a movie theater.... Hopefully it gets hit by a flying coke... (although that'd be very expensive with the ridiculous concession prices)
Why... Consider the lack of security in parking lots. Smash and grab... there it goes.
Many vehicles do not even have a trunk. Further the act of opening a trunk can be seen from 440 yards and the vehicle targeted as ripe.
Yes, but the standard is "cruel and unusual" not "cruel or unusual". If a death method is cruel but common, that's fine. If the method is not cruel, but novel, that's also fine. The whole point is to stop executioners from thinking up new ways to torture people to death.
Worth repeating:
"The whole point is to stop executioners from thinking up new ways to torture people to death."
Execution by any method is a terrible endeavor and should not be considered lightly.
Death from drug overdose is not uncommon and I would wager that those that recover from overdoes will tell you that they have no recollection or awareness of what was happening to them.
The fact that it took 20 min tells me that the dose was marginal. I suspect someone looked a the PDR and administered the "lethal" dose which could be a long way from a guaranteed lethal dose. The result is that respiration was suppressed but not negated and reflex actions reacted with spasms. Reptilian brain reflex and all...
In the future I suspect the dose will be increased many fold... and more.
My thought is that after profound sedation exsanguination would be more effective, quicker and kinder perhaps via a large bore chemo-therapy like PICC line. The spasmodic breathing reflex is CO2 triggered if i recall correctly. One could also resort to CO and or N2 saturation via a mask to quicken asphyxiation without triggering CO2 reflex. A 100% nitrogen (N2) atmosphere would not support life and after five min or so brain death would begin. Pre-conditioning the condemned with a zero percentage CO2, O2+N2 only atmosphere could also almost eliminate the CO2 triggered reflex in and of itself. Then shutting off the O2 component would finish the job.
Like I said above. Execution by any method is a terrible endeavor and should not be considered lightly. A rich nation has the luxury of incarceration for life. But that in many case would be less kind.
You would need several thousand transistors for a standard DIV circuit, and then the CPU would need to iterate through the operation many times in order to perform a division.
...snip....
Trivia... the MC68000 took 144 clocks to finish a DIV.
Many processors are microcode engines under the hood. Modern ALU blocks are big but can be purchased as a library.
If you want to trade transistors for time, just use a CPU.
Anyway when making a chip, 24,000 transistors is not much. You don't want to do it everywhere sure, but a couple of times and it isn't an issue.
Gark... with a MC14500 your can (http://www.linurs.org/mc14500.html) with an Intel 4004 you can. With a MC6800 you can.... build a system...
If I recall the Motorola MC68000 was about 68000 transistors but a "C" program on the 68K runs a lot slower than on a modern processor with a couple billion transistors. Nvidia is beyond 7Billion transistors for their high end graphics.
There is something missing in big buckets here.
Lock the door, air gap a design lab, get some large as heck FPGA from Xilinx and go to work. If you have something magic you want to own it but the turf is well occupied so market and price points will matter.
You can use FPGA parts for subsystems --- WP reminds me that Xilinx currently holds the "world-record" for an FPGA containing 6.8 billion transistors. so you can get a lot done on field programmable devices -- or tiled arrays of parts.
If they are serious get some funding to start coding this in a hardware description language.
Note Well: this is a lot like asking how many x86 instructions a "C" program will take without writing a "C" program. At best this gets you a starting answer.
If you tell the compiler to kill loop unrolling code shrinks and might run slower. If loops unroll code grows but might run faster. SIMD instructions the code can shrink. Now ask if the x86 answer is the same answer you get on a ARM and a MIPS processor. The other thing to know is data path widths have large impact -- wider is faster but used more gates -- too wide is slow -- too narrow is slow.
Invest a couple grand of their money on some large FPGA development kits and go to work. For the most part graphics hardware is tightly coupled stripped down common processors and state machines setup to solve specific display problems.
One positive place to work is in the world of CUDA on graphics cards.
CAUTION.... the field is full of patents and going fast on CUDA is dancing with a hungry bear... Any hardware you build to the same end will likely trip on patents that others have.
Well written hardware descriptions read a lot like any programming language. With a second beer in hand you can read down from an X-windows program all the way town to gates and other hardware library stuff and hardly see a speed bump.
Going fast in hardware requires clever minds....
And if you cannot build Open-GL and WindowZ graphics on top of your "C" proof of concept you have a lot of work to do.
Percentage of what people pay to watch... sure 20% of zero
As I said, this is a tax on paid channels, which, as you could have guessed from the name, are not free.
99 % of those commenting here seem to think that TFA talks about a tax on something that is free (which wouldn't make sense).
Rule 35 of the Internet: When something doesn't make sense. Your first reaction should be to read it again more carefully, not to point out how stupid it is.
Paid channels... does the channel pay or does the common carrier pay?
The cable company here has "free" content and "additional fee" content.
Free to me on paid cable are many channels that are also free over the air. But in both cases the channel pays for content and is in a position with knowledge and contract terms and conditions. The channel may put content on the air that has a negotiated terms and conditions for any number of markets.
Much of the "free" content on youtube has no union scale actors, directors, writers, musicians,... it is monetized well after the fact by attaching ad. content to the "free" content.
Not a real problem. By default there is no read permission except by root.
Not a real problem... A stranger must own your machine to grab the phrase.
Not a real problem. Knowing the key to a WiFi link that travels less than 100 feet in most cases has no value unless your snooping device is also within 100 feet.
Not a real problem. Data coming off the WiFi router is not encrypted on links that can be snooped on half a continent away.
Not a real problem. If you care, establish a VPN link between you and some place you trust.
Not a real problem. If the key was encrypted... In a family of six the pass phrase needs to be shares with at least six. Add the babysitter and key management in a home gets to be so much trouble that silly user tricks will make it worse.
I don't see a problem with the YouTube tax. According to TFA, YouTube would be subject to the already existing tax on video-on-demand. This means they would have to pay a percentage of whatever people pay them to watch YouTube (on paid channels), just like their competitors.
....snip....
Percentage of what people pay to watch... sure 20% of zero
Tax on non french content sure... but how to measure.
YouTube could simply block France.... I see no problem with that.
Which side should pay. Should YouTube pay or should invoices to French customers contain a Tax line item so French Customers can pay.
Who audits and who measures and invoices...
Part of me sees the issue but the part with a brain cannot see how this is going to work.
If I was YouTube I would pull the plug and then embargo any critical path patent and enforce copyright laws in a reciprocal way. If they do not pay we are free to use any French content and also not pay.
I can see the issue I just cannot see a path to a method to support the madness.
Slashdot Mirror
In the old days....
Check one:
Sex: Male [], Female[], Yes []
Now the list is clearly longer:
Sex: Mail [], Female[], Yes [], No [], RollWithIt [], Mail [], Feemail []
OK I can understand Knowledge doubling but
what is most important to me is the change in
substances that cause damage and yes new
substances adding insult to injury.
As I scanned the article I did not see new substances as problems
but the same list of bad actors (mercury, dioxin... ).
One article is clearly self serving as they advise the establishment
of a clearing house and income source for themselves.
Missing in this is the growing body of knowledge that
grapefruit has massive social impact and now that it
is available year round it can cause much more social
impact. Note well that grapefruit interacts with neuro transmitter
chemicals both therapeutic and natural also antibiotics.
One might say skip the grapefruit except that the white rind
often gets processed into vit-C tablets. Makes for a chewable
"natural" vit-C supplement but the side effect are ill managed
and ill understood. Heck if I was a radical I would point to
this as the single most evil fraud hoisted on Americans and
perhaps one of the major root causes of teen suicide and
mass murder.
As much as this article is not news this topic needs attention ... if it is not a slow news day.
so hey
I have 4 cards in my wallet. Person debit, personal credit, business debit, business credit. Now I'll need to have 4 pins in addition to the multitude of other passwords that I keep in memory. I'm sure there's plenty of people with more cards than I'm carrying.
One word... Alzheimers
Well, all the current solutions just squeak or make me scratch.
And they're not fooling anyone either.
If there is software that can damage those speakers in the manner that Dell's trying to claim, it fails upon UCC 2-314 and UCC 2-315 out of box.
Per Mangusson-Moss, it's not legally possible for them to claim that their warranty is voided just because there is a piece of software put onto the machine because they didn't limit their warranty in this case in writing ....snip....
It should be impossible for software to damage modern hardware. Full stop...
Back in the 60's +/- there was a rumor of an IBM computer where a microcode
loop could over-heat a transistor and cause the machine to fail. There was a flap
about it but in the end the heat-sink was improved (or something). I cannot recall
if it was a discrete transistor or an ECL package (serious power stuff).
I stand corrected....
c1958 the technology of the North American Aviation N6A-1 Inertial Navigation System was used (per WP).
Not new..
Submarines used it for navigating below the ice cap in the 50's.
Early Sperry-Rand gyros were too large for a phone and
perhaps not as good as modern micro machined devices
today but could get them from A-B-C.... Recall the oldish phrase
close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and A-bombs.
Fast is fine but big parts of the internet
are build on assumptions of many talking
to many...
That is P2P not just central hubs that manage
and control all traffic and also have to source
all trafic.
What if Netflix was a P2P service and as part of
a discount strategy some 60% of you upload
bandwidth and some N-GB of local storage used
by Netflix to serve up content.
Sure encryption and other tricks could be well
employed to preserve valuable content.
I have had cause to trace route this and that service
and it is obvious that traffic does not move via any
short path but by some management heavy power centric
path. Perhaps this is necessary for FBI and NSA good reasons
but if so then these pipes should be nationalized, net neutral,
bigger, and free to all as the Interstate highway system is.
Yes businesses can build toll roads for low latency trading
or other needs but the Nation needs to facilitate P2P
and the cross sectional bandwidth that it can gain with
great connectivity.
Heck the next DOCSIS N+1 standard should embrace
a local box that can proxy bits as part of a neighborhood
of P2P servers. Just moving trending video, TV and other
current traffic to a P2P caching context could give us
vastly better responsive service.
And sure I like fast too...
It seems that the Texas location is fair game again.
There are not too many places where a 100Km circle can be scribed
and not slice through hills, mountains, and towns.
My personal preference for spending billions and billions
on research would best be an expansion and repurposing
of the US federal compute center (NSA, FBI, DHS) in Utah
to be a national and global climate center research center.
There is a real need to understand the climate changes man made
or not and understand what needs to happen.
We could plant merlot grapes in Norway or in the Sahara so they
would be ready when the climate changes to favor them. If that
was not enough reason we could look at fields of corn sugar production
moving to Brazil.
Food, fuel, water -- changes natural or not need to be understood.
Perhaps if we were to grind Gibraltar into chunks that could be trucked
a short distance so we could close off the entrance to the Mediterranean
by reducing that thermal mass the Sahara could be made to bloom (or not).
The reality is that food production is a lot harder than a couple zucchini plants
that are so easy to coax into abundance.
Then there is insulation, flood planes, mosquito born maladies.
Recall that there are still vast areas of Africa that are want to kill
you with insect born diseases.
This is rife for abuse at too many levels.
The most obvious to me is the manager with twenty direct reports.
Clearly he cannot pay micro attention to each so the mgr would then
elect to focus on one or perhaps two and exclude all the others. There
is no way to accurately compress a day into less than a day.
Sexual harassment... oh my.
Some meetings you need to be quiet.
Now let us invert this.
Obama and all the NSA depth search limit contacts
to him and his cabinet as well as the legislative branch.
This information and its meta data would let us know
a lot more about the inner workings.
Perhaps stated differently the manager also needs one
and his employees need access. In specific union representatives
and legal proxies. HR harassment police need these on
all managers in a position of power.
Golly help anyone that shakes a bottled smoothy too often or
too vigorously.
Nope, just the regular ones. Oklahoma doesn't get enough snow to make snow tires worth it, just enough that we're not all total noobs when some happens to fall.
You might be correct but not because of snow depths or frequency.
http://downloads.newsok.com/kn...
However it is clear that chains or cable chains are worth the
investment. Snow tires are near worthless in an ice storm
and a great rain tire can work just as well.
Minnesota snow at 10F and colder is almost a dusting of light sand.
However in the temp range of 30-34F things can get slippery to
a degree that is just difficult.
Winter.... some days are simply chess and checkers walk over to the
neighbor weather.
Because he's the boss? The guy in the hotseat? The person they're paying to make decisions?
The mayor may be advised by his engineering or public safety guys, but, in the end, it's his decision.
And if he says it's not his decision to make, the wrong guy got elected mayor.
No not the boss of it all.
Following your logic Obama should have canceled Atlanta.
Others would reach higher had demand the Pope cancel Atlanta.
School bus drivers... and schools should have their own criteria
and should be responsible for acting in a timely manner.
Offices and office workers, if your boss required you to stay and you
asked to exit in a timely manner put the additional travel time on your time card.
Stay in a hotel or motel... bill the company.
Highway patrol could have seen trouble and placed chain-up or get off restriction
on all public carrier (truck) traffic. Chains on 5% of the highway traffic would have
chopped up much of the ice and that alone would have helped keep traffic moving
in many places.
The reality is warm ice is slippery like mayo on glass.
Common tires and even most snow tires are simply
round runners.
What rights are you talking about? A movie theatre is on private property, and as such any glasshole has no right to film from the interior without permission. Movie theatres generally make it VERY clear that patrons are not permitted to film on the premises.....snip....
N.B. They let him in with the glasses.
Would they let another person in with a big shoulder mounted professional
digital movie camera (or a hat mounted GoPro video camera)?
This individual was targeted and had she been careless and captured
video incidentally would have been crushed... Smells like entrapment
and may be sufficient to demand disclosure of all domestic surveillance
on this individual.
Somehow, somewhy they intended to make a point...
Perhaps they wanted to attack GoogleGlass because Google
retaliated and encrypted all site to site and center to center
data traffic recently (prior to Snowden, BTW).
Actually that's incorrect.
What you need to do is say: "Lawyer".
Every time they ask you a question, respond with lawyer - you will have a really strong case against them if one isn't provided.
Perhaps....
A better answer might be "no, I do not understand my rights as you explained them"
if the phrase following now was part of the reading. Further if I had a lawyer and
he asked me if I understood I would say "no" as well.
In fact I no longer trust that I understand all this.
$0.75? How about you leave that out and I'll take it for $2.00 less?
How does that logic work? Besides, you can easily remove the Play Store from most devices.
If not, this site might not be for you.
Yes,,,, but for many not aware of /. the reality is that Google does
a little to a lot of work on the cruft that folk toss onto the application
pile. They have apparently started looking hard at abuses some
software vendors were updating twice a week to update embedded
marketing and advertisements... because I suspect the bandwidth
was free. From benign to just durn nasty there are many abuses that
google is looking to squash (and has already).
I noted on my tablet that Samstung has their own store. But AT&T just a
collection of applications on the Google Shop....
ExifTool is probably your best start:
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
find . -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum | sort -flags | uniq -flags
There are flags in uniq to let you see pairs of identical md5sums as a pair.
Multiple machines drag the full file to the next machine and concat the
local files....
Yes exif helps. but some editors attach exif data from the original...
The serious might cmp files as well before deleting.
I was wondering why the hell he thinks he needs to drag a laptop to a movie theater....
Hopefully it gets hit by a flying coke... (although that'd be very expensive with the ridiculous concession prices)
Why...
Consider the lack of security in parking lots.
Smash and grab... there it goes.
Many vehicles do not even have a trunk. Further
the act of opening a trunk can be seen from 440 yards
and the vehicle targeted as ripe.
Yes, but the standard is "cruel and unusual" not "cruel or unusual". If a death method is cruel but common, that's fine. If the method is not cruel, but novel, that's also fine. The whole point is to stop executioners from thinking up new ways to torture people to death.
Worth repeating:
"The whole point is to stop executioners from thinking up new ways to torture people to death."
I don't know what is then.
Well who does? Seriously, who does?
Execution by any method is a terrible endeavor and should not
be considered lightly.
Death from drug overdose is not uncommon and I would wager that
those that recover from overdoes will tell you that they have no recollection
or awareness of what was happening to them.
The fact that it took 20 min tells me that the dose was marginal. I suspect
someone looked a the PDR and administered the "lethal" dose which
could be a long way from a guaranteed lethal dose. The result is that
respiration was suppressed but not negated and reflex actions reacted
with spasms. Reptilian brain reflex and all...
In the future I suspect the dose will be increased many fold...
and more.
My thought is that after profound sedation exsanguination would
be more effective, quicker and kinder perhaps via a large bore chemo-therapy
like PICC line. The spasmodic breathing reflex is CO2 triggered
if i recall correctly. One could also resort to CO and or N2 saturation
via a mask to quicken asphyxiation without triggering CO2
reflex. A 100% nitrogen (N2) atmosphere would not support life and after
five min or so brain death would begin. Pre-conditioning the condemned
with a zero percentage CO2, O2+N2 only atmosphere could also almost eliminate
the CO2 triggered reflex in and of itself. Then shutting off the O2 component
would finish the job.
Like I said above.
Execution by any method is a terrible endeavor and should not
be considered lightly. A rich nation has the luxury of incarceration
for life. But that in many case would be less kind.
I was misunderstanding my notes.
You would need several thousand transistors for a standard DIV circuit, and then the CPU would need to iterate through the operation many times in order to perform a division.
...snip....
Trivia...
the MC68000 took 144 clocks to finish a DIV.
Many processors are microcode engines under the hood. Modern ALU blocks are
big but can be purchased as a library.
If you want to trade transistors for time, just use a CPU.
Anyway when making a chip, 24,000 transistors is not much. You don't want to do it everywhere sure, but a couple of times and it isn't an issue.
Gark... with a MC14500 your can (http://www.linurs.org/mc14500.html)
with an Intel 4004 you can. With a MC6800 you can.... build a system...
If I recall the Motorola MC68000 was about 68000 transistors
but a "C" program on the 68K runs a lot slower than on a modern
processor with a couple billion transistors. Nvidia is beyond 7Billion transistors
for their high end graphics.
There is something missing in big buckets here.
Lock the door, air gap a design lab, get some large as heck FPGA from Xilinx
and go to work. If you have something magic you want to own it but the turf
is well occupied so market and price points will matter.
You can use FPGA parts for subsystems --- WP reminds
me that Xilinx currently holds the "world-record" for an FPGA containing 6.8 billion transistors.
so you can get a lot done on field programmable devices -- or tiled arrays of parts.
If they are serious get some funding to start coding this in a hardware description language.
Note Well: this is a lot like asking how many x86 instructions a "C" program will take
without writing a "C" program. At best this gets you a starting answer.
If you tell the compiler to kill loop unrolling code shrinks and might run slower.
If loops unroll code grows but might run faster. SIMD instructions the code
can shrink. Now ask if the x86 answer is the same answer you get on a ARM
and a MIPS processor. The other thing to know is data path widths have large
impact -- wider is faster but used more gates -- too wide is slow -- too narrow is
slow.
Invest a couple grand of their money on some large FPGA development kits and
go to work. For the most part graphics hardware is tightly coupled stripped down
common processors and state machines setup to solve specific display problems.
One positive place to work is in the world of CUDA on graphics cards.
CAUTION.... the field is full of patents and going fast on CUDA is dancing with
a hungry bear... Any hardware you build to the same end will likely trip on patents
that others have.
Well written hardware descriptions read a lot like any programming language.
With a second beer in hand you can read down from an X-windows program
all the way town to gates and other hardware library stuff and hardly see a
speed bump.
Going fast in hardware requires clever minds....
And if you cannot build Open-GL and WindowZ graphics on top
of your "C" proof of concept you have a lot of work to do.
Percentage of what people pay to watch ... sure 20% of zero
As I said, this is a tax on paid channels, which, as you could have guessed from the name, are not free.
99 % of those commenting here seem to think that TFA talks about a tax on something that is free (which wouldn't make sense).
Rule 35 of the Internet: When something doesn't make sense. Your first reaction should be to read it again more carefully, not to point out how stupid it is.
Paid channels... does the channel pay or does the common carrier pay?
The cable company here has "free" content and "additional fee" content.
Free to me on paid cable are many channels that are also free over the air.
But in both cases the channel pays for content and is in a position with knowledge
and contract terms and conditions. The channel may put content on the
air that has a negotiated terms and conditions for any number of markets.
Much of the "free" content on youtube has no union scale actors, directors, writers, ... it is monetized well after the fact by attaching ad. content to
musicians,
the "free" content.
Not a real problem.
By default there is no read permission except
by root.
Not a real problem...
A stranger must own your machine to grab the phrase.
Not a real problem.
Knowing the key to a WiFi link that travels less than
100 feet in most cases has no value unless your snooping
device is also within 100 feet.
Not a real problem.
Data coming off the WiFi router is not encrypted on links
that can be snooped on half a continent away.
Not a real problem.
If you care, establish a VPN link between you
and some place you trust.
Not a real problem. ... In a family of six the pass phrase needs to
If the key was encrypted
be shares with at least six. Add the babysitter and key management in
a home gets to be so much trouble that silly user tricks will make it
worse.
...except when the state does it, it is legal.
I don't see a problem with the YouTube tax. According to TFA, YouTube would be subject to the already existing tax on video-on-demand. This means they would have to pay a percentage of whatever people pay them to watch YouTube (on paid channels), just like their competitors.
....snip....
Percentage of what people pay to watch ... sure 20% of zero
Tax on non french content sure... but how to measure.
YouTube could simply block France.... I see no problem
with that.
Which side should pay.
Should YouTube pay or should invoices to French customers
contain a Tax line item so French Customers can pay.
Who audits and who measures and invoices...
Part of me sees the issue but the part with a brain
cannot see how this is going to work.
If I was YouTube I would pull the plug and then
embargo any critical path patent and enforce
copyright laws in a reciprocal way. If they do
not pay we are free to use any French content
and also not pay.
I can see the issue I just cannot see a path
to a method to support the madness.
BTW: what is French for "Let them eat cake"?