> with non-U.S. sites being slowed, perhaps to the point of being unusable, especially if they don't pay Danegeld to U.S. ISPs
I think you're misunderstanding me a bit here too. I'm implying that the rest of the world, especially the parts that uphold and enshrine NN in legislation like the EU and Canada will not really care in the long term about the US as much. When I mentioned startups moving out of the US, that would also imply their potential user base would be outside the US. There'd be no benefit to establishing outside of the US only to try and court US users. If the US wants to be an internet backwater, the rest of the world will shrug its shoulders and move on.
>>plot holes big enough to drive a planet through.
>That's nothing new to Trek, even from the very early days of the original series.
Sure, but I'd argue the JJ movies were an order of magnitude worse. Or two. Basic logic doesn't even come into it because the movies were focused on creating a spectacle regardless of whether it made sense or not, so much so that I truly believe Abrams and the rest of the writers worked backwards from a cool visual to make it fit.
Example: "Starship crashing into the ocean in San Fran? How do we make that happen?" "They have a fight in the area of lunar orbit, lose power and fall to Earth". "COOL, run with it!" Which ignores things a 10 year old with an interest in space could point out.
- If they were in lunar orbit when they lost power, they're not going anywhere. They're in ORBIT. - If they were only in lunar 'space' and weren't actually in orbit, they aren't going to crash to Earth, they'll fall into the lunar surface - Assuming they had enough velocity before power loss to exceed lunar escape velocity, the Earth is a tiny target about the size of a golf ball held at arms length from the Moon. The chances of hitting it are pretty damn small - Even if they do hit the Earth it'll take DAYS to get there.
And my biggest problem with that scene, two starships - including the Federation flagship - just had a shit kicking battle with each other in plain sight of the Federation's seat of power, the headquarters of Starfleet, and the biggest shipyard in the Federation that sits in Earth orbit. You don't think MAYBE someone would have noticed? And then watched an uncontrolled starship headed for San Francisco and gotten a couple of tugs out there to stop it, or slapped a monster tractor beam on it right from spacedock? Of course they would have. But that wouldn't have been cool and let the super roided freak Khan run around after crashing into San Fran.
> the Internet will likely become like a larger version of AOL
Slight correction. The AMERICAN Internet. The rest of the world will route around the damage. Hell, I'm willing to bet a lot of future Internet startups will be setting up shop outside of the US for fear the lack of neutrality in the US would impede their growth, especially in any services that might compete with something cable companies are doing.
There's a LOT of problems I see with this show from the trailer. Racial quotas isn't one of them.
The biggest issue is it's JJVerse Trek as a series. All shiny, no substance and if it follows the movies' lead, plot holes big enough to drive a planet through.
> I hear that most servers only user 4-core CPUs and don't need more than that, so I guess EPYC will be a niche use-case.
????
Maybe if this was 1999 that would be true. For certain server tasks threading between more than a few cores isn't that important. However the server world has largely shifted to virtualization and in virtualization every core you can get your hands on is better. My builds for basic ESX servers at our datacenter for low intensity VMs are a pair of 6 core 12 thread CPUs loaded with 128GB of RAM, and that's for a machine that is intended to host at most 10 light duty VMs. For more intensive multithreaded tasks like database operations the more cores the better for both VM and physical.
And if you quit, and can't afford to pay for COBRA, or get fired and same?
See up here in Canada, we pay out of pocket... er.. zero dollars per month for healthcare coverage. If we're employed associated taxes are taken, if we're not, then nothing extra out of pocket. So when switching jobs or thinking of just quitting because your work environment is awful, healthcare coverage doesn't even come into the thought process.
So maybe I am not up on the nuance of the problems facing some of ACA users. Regardless, the basic point stands. In the US, unlike most of the other developed nations, your medical care is closely linked to your employment which makes job mobility that much harder. It makes it more difficult to report employers for small (or large) violations for fear of reprisal that will affect that medical care. Agreed?
It's pie in the sky dreaming you mean, not a stretch. I'd be astonished if 50% of the passenger cars in the developed world were electric in 8 years, let alone the globe. And that doesn't even touch commercial vehicles, motorcycles, trains, etc all of which will be much lower in electric share.
Yep, and I bet that owner justified it all in his head that she was getting more "value" out of the insurance so it's still cheaper for her to work 20 more hours a week than to pay for the meds out of pocket at another job. So he's actually doing her a favor!
How many people in the US are staying at jobs they hate because they're terrified of losing health care coverage? ACA lessened that, so no wonder Republicans are desperate to scrap it. Can't have the plebes thinking they can just quit on bad employers, can we?
> The real scary thing is that they can't tell the difference between heavy load and a DDOS.
Who says they can't tell? Maybe they're weaving a different narrative in the media to further their ends:
Step 1. Claim cyberattack
Step 2. Arrest John Oliver and a few dozen random people who commented for cyber terrorism. HBO's lawyers get tied up in it for months, many random Joes and Janes can't afford proper legal representation and plead out.
Step 3. Chilling effect. If there is another call to action on Net Neutrality, many of the more informed will remember that last time a bunch of people got caught in the gears of the legal system and will be less likely to participate for fear of that happening to them.
"The judge overseeing the case, William Alsup, challenged Waymo to show evidence that Uber knew Levandowski had downloaded company documents. Verhoeven argued that it can't because Levandowski is asserting his right against self-incrimination and Uber has withheld more than 3,000 documents that might prove the point."
"Uber's response: Uber says it is has the right to assert privilege on the documents in question. "We're not hiding anything," Uber outside lawyer Arturo Gonzalez said. "The privilege we are claiming is a legitimate privilege.""
So Uber's lawyers have checked those documents over and determined there is nothing in there, trust them! Nothing to see here folks, show's over, go home!
Well you guess is wrong. Check my post history and you'll plainly see I couldn't give two shits about Etsy either way. Was just trying to answer someone's question seeing as a lot of people on this site, especially the 7 digit members, had few clues but lots of snark.
As for the "slave labor" bit, who knows. I did say friend *of a friend*, so I've never spoken with her directly but my friend alluded to her creating at least some of what is sold herself. Regardless, I don't really care.
Careful with that edge there, you might nick yourself by accident....
Etsy is basically a marketplace for people to sell stuff they make themselves. Jewelry, clothing items, house knickknacks, 3d printed items and similar seem to be the more popular. A friend of a friend has a storefront on there and makes about $3000 a month in profit selling necklaces and various accessories through it so it's got some traction.
> Microsoft Paranoia still reigns, and with some good reason, but I think the walled garden approach here is mainly about Chromebooks.
I'd believe you if they hadn't literally just announced a $1000 Surface book that comes with Windows 10 S preinstalled - with the option to upgrade to full Windows "for a limited time".
"The Surface Laptop ships with Windows 10 S, the new cut-down Windows 10 SKU Microsoft also announced today. Out of the box, the operating system can only run apps from the Windows Store, though it's possible to upgrade it to a full Windows 10 Pro install for free until December 31, 2017. Afterward, the Pro upgrade will cost $50, the same as it normally will for Windows 10 S users."
Obviously Apple is only sitting on that money because they are scared about their cash flow. I bet if even more tax breaks were enacted for corporations, Apple and others would really start to create more jobs instead of sitting on mountains of cash!
> BTW, for those not familiar with the Macon and the Akron, I definitely recommend reading about them. They were literal flying aircraft carriers. You know how a landing jet on an aircraft carrier catches a cable with a hook? They did that too, but in the other direction - they caught a "trapeze" on their topside. They were then raised into the hangar, which was designed for five airplanes.
> We'll need 10 people instead of 300 to run the factory, but what then? We've suddenly got the income to buy 30 times as much
Really? How exactly did that happen? If a car plant automates completely, you think the price of a brand new 5 series BMW is going to be $2000? Or T-shirts will now cost 35 cents? Or a 60" LCD TV is going to be $29.99 ?
Your reasoning is very flawed. ONE person - the factory owner - will have more money to buy things, but we can't build another single factory, let alone 30 of them on the possible increase in spending from factory owners.
I would suspect that this will be used for some sort of priority same-hour delivery service where the receiver is actively waiting on site for the package, similar to what they planned for their drones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXo_d6tNWuY
Like in the video you're waiting and get a text message or app alert saying the car is a couple of minutes out, go get ready to meet it on the street. Once it's there, they'll probably have some sort of array of boxes on the rear of the vehicle like at the Amazon drop centers in malls, you type in the PIN given to you by the delivery alert and the appropriate box unlocks and opens, you retrieve your stuff, close the door and the vehicle departs.
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And? From what I understand the games are downloaded and run locally. Unless your kids are installing 2-3 games per night that 750GB should be fine.
Partially disagree. It's malicious but that doesn't mean Trump isn't stupid too.
> with non-U.S. sites being slowed, perhaps to the point of being unusable, especially if they don't pay Danegeld to U.S. ISPs
I think you're misunderstanding me a bit here too. I'm implying that the rest of the world, especially the parts that uphold and enshrine NN in legislation like the EU and Canada will not really care in the long term about the US as much. When I mentioned startups moving out of the US, that would also imply their potential user base would be outside the US. There'd be no benefit to establishing outside of the US only to try and court US users. If the US wants to be an internet backwater, the rest of the world will shrug its shoulders and move on.
>>plot holes big enough to drive a planet through.
>That's nothing new to Trek, even from the very early days of the original series.
Sure, but I'd argue the JJ movies were an order of magnitude worse. Or two. Basic logic doesn't even come into it because the movies were focused on creating a spectacle regardless of whether it made sense or not, so much so that I truly believe Abrams and the rest of the writers worked backwards from a cool visual to make it fit.
Example: "Starship crashing into the ocean in San Fran? How do we make that happen?" "They have a fight in the area of lunar orbit, lose power and fall to Earth". "COOL, run with it!" Which ignores things a 10 year old with an interest in space could point out.
- If they were in lunar orbit when they lost power, they're not going anywhere. They're in ORBIT.
- If they were only in lunar 'space' and weren't actually in orbit, they aren't going to crash to Earth, they'll fall into the lunar surface
- Assuming they had enough velocity before power loss to exceed lunar escape velocity, the Earth is a tiny target about the size of a golf ball held at arms length from the Moon. The chances of hitting it are pretty damn small
- Even if they do hit the Earth it'll take DAYS to get there.
And my biggest problem with that scene, two starships - including the Federation flagship - just had a shit kicking battle with each other in plain sight of the Federation's seat of power, the headquarters of Starfleet, and the biggest shipyard in the Federation that sits in Earth orbit. You don't think MAYBE someone would have noticed? And then watched an uncontrolled starship headed for San Francisco and gotten a couple of tugs out there to stop it, or slapped a monster tractor beam on it right from spacedock? Of course they would have. But that wouldn't have been cool and let the super roided freak Khan run around after crashing into San Fran.
> the Internet will likely become like a larger version of AOL
Slight correction. The AMERICAN Internet. The rest of the world will route around the damage. Hell, I'm willing to bet a lot of future Internet startups will be setting up shop outside of the US for fear the lack of neutrality in the US would impede their growth, especially in any services that might compete with something cable companies are doing.
There's a LOT of problems I see with this show from the trailer. Racial quotas isn't one of them.
The biggest issue is it's JJVerse Trek as a series. All shiny, no substance and if it follows the movies' lead, plot holes big enough to drive a planet through.
> I hear that most servers only user 4-core CPUs and don't need more than that, so I guess EPYC will be a niche use-case.
????
Maybe if this was 1999 that would be true. For certain server tasks threading between more than a few cores isn't that important. However the server world has largely shifted to virtualization and in virtualization every core you can get your hands on is better. My builds for basic ESX servers at our datacenter for low intensity VMs are a pair of 6 core 12 thread CPUs loaded with 128GB of RAM, and that's for a machine that is intended to host at most 10 light duty VMs. For more intensive multithreaded tasks like database operations the more cores the better for both VM and physical.
And if you quit, and can't afford to pay for COBRA, or get fired and same?
See up here in Canada, we pay out of pocket... er.. zero dollars per month for healthcare coverage. If we're employed associated taxes are taken, if we're not, then nothing extra out of pocket. So when switching jobs or thinking of just quitting because your work environment is awful, healthcare coverage doesn't even come into the thought process.
So maybe I am not up on the nuance of the problems facing some of ACA users. Regardless, the basic point stands. In the US, unlike most of the other developed nations, your medical care is closely linked to your employment which makes job mobility that much harder. It makes it more difficult to report employers for small (or large) violations for fear of reprisal that will affect that medical care. Agreed?
It's pie in the sky dreaming you mean, not a stretch. I'd be astonished if 50% of the passenger cars in the developed world were electric in 8 years, let alone the globe. And that doesn't even touch commercial vehicles, motorcycles, trains, etc all of which will be much lower in electric share.
Yep, and I bet that owner justified it all in his head that she was getting more "value" out of the insurance so it's still cheaper for her to work 20 more hours a week than to pay for the meds out of pocket at another job. So he's actually doing her a favor!
How many people in the US are staying at jobs they hate because they're terrified of losing health care coverage? ACA lessened that, so no wonder Republicans are desperate to scrap it. Can't have the plebes thinking they can just quit on bad employers, can we?
Lighten up Francis, it's a joke.
Or is it?
> The real scary thing is that they can't tell the difference between heavy load and a DDOS.
Who says they can't tell? Maybe they're weaving a different narrative in the media to further their ends:
Step 1. Claim cyberattack
Step 2. Arrest John Oliver and a few dozen random people who commented for cyber terrorism. HBO's lawyers get tied up in it for months, many random Joes and Janes can't afford proper legal representation and plead out.
Step 3. Chilling effect. If there is another call to action on Net Neutrality, many of the more informed will remember that last time a bunch of people got caught in the gears of the legal system and will be less likely to participate for fear of that happening to them.
As long as they don't name one of the ice towing ships the Cantebury I don't see any issues with the plan.
The same guy also made Office Space.
So, do tell, what two movies have YOU made that are more famous and have better cultural cachet?
It's not bad advice.... too bad it doesn't easily scale.
"The judge overseeing the case, William Alsup, challenged Waymo to show evidence that Uber knew Levandowski had downloaded company documents. Verhoeven argued that it can't because Levandowski is asserting his right against self-incrimination and Uber has withheld more than 3,000 documents that might prove the point."
"Uber's response: Uber says it is has the right to assert privilege on the documents in question. "We're not hiding anything," Uber outside lawyer Arturo Gonzalez said. "The privilege we are claiming is a legitimate privilege.""
So Uber's lawyers have checked those documents over and determined there is nothing in there, trust them! Nothing to see here folks, show's over, go home!
Well you guess is wrong. Check my post history and you'll plainly see I couldn't give two shits about Etsy either way. Was just trying to answer someone's question seeing as a lot of people on this site, especially the 7 digit members, had few clues but lots of snark.
As for the "slave labor" bit, who knows. I did say friend *of a friend*, so I've never spoken with her directly but my friend alluded to her creating at least some of what is sold herself. Regardless, I don't really care.
Careful with that edge there, you might nick yourself by accident....
Etsy is basically a marketplace for people to sell stuff they make themselves. Jewelry, clothing items, house knickknacks, 3d printed items and similar seem to be the more popular. A friend of a friend has a storefront on there and makes about $3000 a month in profit selling necklaces and various accessories through it so it's got some traction.
> Microsoft Paranoia still reigns, and with some good reason, but I think the walled garden approach here is mainly about Chromebooks.
I'd believe you if they hadn't literally just announced a $1000 Surface book that comes with Windows 10 S preinstalled - with the option to upgrade to full Windows "for a limited time".
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/microsoft-makes-a-regular-old-laptop-the-surface-laptop/
"The Surface Laptop ships with Windows 10 S, the new cut-down Windows 10 SKU Microsoft also announced today. Out of the box, the operating system can only run apps from the Windows Store, though it's possible to upgrade it to a full Windows 10 Pro install for free until December 31, 2017. Afterward, the Pro upgrade will cost $50, the same as it normally will for Windows 10 S users."
Not a good precedent.
Obviously Apple is only sitting on that money because they are scared about their cash flow. I bet if even more tax breaks were enacted for corporations, Apple and others would really start to create more jobs instead of sitting on mountains of cash!
> BTW, for those not familiar with the Macon and the Akron, I definitely recommend reading about them. They were literal flying aircraft carriers. You know how a landing jet on an aircraft carrier catches a cable with a hook? They did that too, but in the other direction - they caught a "trapeze" on their topside. They were then raised into the hangar, which was designed for five airplanes.
So basically Crimson Skies in real life:
https://youtu.be/WE20UlBFJbc?t=193
That would be so cool to do with choppers today.
> We'll need 10 people instead of 300 to run the factory, but what then? We've suddenly got the income to buy 30 times as much
Really? How exactly did that happen? If a car plant automates completely, you think the price of a brand new 5 series BMW is going to be $2000? Or T-shirts will now cost 35 cents? Or a 60" LCD TV is going to be $29.99 ?
Your reasoning is very flawed. ONE person - the factory owner - will have more money to buy things, but we can't build another single factory, let alone 30 of them on the possible increase in spending from factory owners.
I would suspect that this will be used for some sort of priority same-hour delivery service where the receiver is actively waiting on site for the package, similar to what they planned for their drones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXo_d6tNWuY
Like in the video you're waiting and get a text message or app alert saying the car is a couple of minutes out, go get ready to meet it on the street. Once it's there, they'll probably have some sort of array of boxes on the rear of the vehicle like at the Amazon drop centers in malls, you type in the PIN given to you by the delivery alert and the appropriate box unlocks and opens, you retrieve your stuff, close the door and the vehicle departs.