It's definitely a risk, but I would be surprised if they're going to be using their latest-gen technologies there, partly for that reason.
You know, you could RTFA:
The chips made in the Chengdu factories won't be based on the latest process manufacturing technology, McGregor said, adding that Intel wants to protect its intellectual property and won't transfer its latest manufacturing process to China.
Don't underestimate the power difference from top to bottom. Anandtech's CPU bench doesn't go all the way back to 2002, so the closest I got to the Pentium 4 HT 3.06 launched back then is a Pentium 4 660 from Q1 2005 vs AMD Sempron 2650 launched in april 2014. Hey, you said weakest AMD processor. Results
Subtract 15% from the P4's score to match a 3.06 GHz P4 and you're down to 1908. Then you have the arch differences from Northwood to Prescott 2M, but they weren't very impressive as this is when the P4 was running out of steam so let's subtract another 15% to be kind, that brings us down to 1621. Nope, that power guzzler from 2002 probably beats the worst of the worst of 2014. Of course it runs at less than half the frequency, sips a quarter the power and it's dual core so it only loses the single thread benchmark at effectively one eight the power but still, it's a loss.
How is America's left hand drive a non-optimal solution? That implies LHD is superior.
Actually I wasn't trying to say one is superior or inferior, but that we have several competing standards for historical reasons where picking one would have worked fine for everybody. That way car companies could produce one model for all markets, you could import/export cars without the wheel being on the wrong side, tourists can drive the same everywhere and so on. But when you compare the relatively minor gains to the cost of redoing everything for an entire country and the associated accidents as people adjust, well... it doesn't make sense. But you wouldn't design it that way.
I think most agree that when you really need Oracle, you need it but I think the company has a lot less fans than the product. When you have a huge, mission critical database running on Oracle they know they got you hooked deep because short of a major disaster nobody wants to try migrating away. And last I checked their financials they're very good at making you pay for the privilege. Of course that's not unique to Oracle, but they're the big player in that segment, while for example SQL Server is used for all sorts of things. The only ones I know using Oracle for the small stuff are those who has decided they'll be a pure Oracle shop and that's that.
This. Just because you're not a production line worker where you can measure that one hour = x widgets almost all professions are such that with more hours you get more done. If one surgery takes one hour you get more surgeries done in ten hours than in eight. That means there'll always be incentive for management to work you harder unless it costs them money. I don't like overtime pay because I think the total compensation gets better, you should always consider the rate of pay divided by hours worked so what you get paid for 60 hours salaried or 40 hours base + 20 hours overtime ought to be the same.
The difference is the incentive, once you start getting overtime pay it costs them more per hour so they try minimizing the need for it. If they're often using overtime they have the incentive to hire another worker to get it done during regular hours. I'd rather they have three people working 40 hours a week than two people at 60 hours a week. That way overtime is actually used for crunch time instead of running short normally and killing you on the crunch. If they're happy or unhappy with your performance they'll feel the same at 40 hours a week, everybody can put in hours. You're just screwing your own and your colleagues lives for your employer.
When the average person makes maybe $400/year and the elite gets access to many goods through official rationing that are otherwise black market only, then yes. It's enough to have servants and all sorts of expensive personal services you can't afford on $30k in the US.
Here's an article talking about the same from 2002. Apparently there's rather low tech mechanical solutions that work quite well. Kinda like the laser potato peeler, still waiting for that and my flying car.
Don't forget that the PC totally owned the business market, spreadsheets were the killer application of the 80s and the Amiga's multimedia capabilities was totally irrelevant to that. In fact, graphics and sound cards were an add-on to PCs long, long after that. They could have made something similar to the Sony Playstation and become kings of the gaming market, but I doubt they ever had a shot at replacing the PC.
At any rate, it's obvious that in many cases we have picked a non-optimal solution, but the switching costs are just too high. Things like driving on left vs right, power plugs, 50Hz vs 60Hz TV, imperial vs metric and so on. Or simply because of history or network effects, we use COBOL because we got 20 years of code written in COBOL. Or we're on Facebook because everyone else is on Facebook. Products are like genes, it's not the "best" genes that survive it's those that turn a profit and reproduce.
I wouldn't want to work for a company that would try to fire someone for rejecting a patch of the comment text. How absurd and spiteful.
Not to mention a patch which changes a valid sentence to a broken one, my English teacher would mark down this sentence:
The user needs to know that some data has already been sent, to stop them from sending it twice.
Them? Them who? Oh, the user. If you can't use a singular (he/she/it) then you must rewrite the whole sentence to be "Users needs to know that some data has already been sent, to stop them from sending it twice.
I'd also try to revert that patch simply for being broken English. And if that's a firing offense, well I'd be happy to not work there anymore. Best of luck to io.js.
The birthday paradox depends on days being measured modulo 365. There is a finite bound on the birthdays available. That doesn't extend to planetary distances in three dimensional space over the span of the universe.
The whole birthday "paradox" is a human failing of not taking into account the number of possible pairings, it doesn't have to be modulo anything. If you have a thousand planets with life with a one in a million chance to be close, what's the total probabiliy of two planets being close? 1000/1000000? Bzzzzzzt wrong answer, because there's 1000*999/2 = ~500000 possible pairs. So the actual chance is more like 50%, instead of 0,1%. Not that it has any practical application, because it's the odds of two alien planets being close. Earth's chances would still be one in a million per planet, just like the odds of any person having my birthday is roughly 1/365.
I've heard before that in high end movies they push a lot of data around, each day they upload the raw footage to their studio back home which edits it and makes dailies that the filming crew review to make sure it comes out as they want before sets are torn down and actors leave for other jobs. They could do it on location but it's hard to get the people and equipment to follow you around and besides that way you can take advantage of time zone differences. I think I saw that in the LotR extras, Peter Jackson was filming in New Zealand, they edited in the US and it was ready for review next morning.
Consider that 50GB of an actual BluRay has probably been many terabytes of footage because of lack of compression, cameras rolling before and after scenes and many takes. I'm quite seriously suggesting that 100TB might not be that insanely much for a company rigged to handle huge data flows on a regular basis.
The problem is that making a "smart" appliance adds too much cost in a market where most people can't take any advantage of it. As long as you need special everything, it's just not worth it. Part of the problem is that everything needs its own wireless module, which aren't trivial and instantly brings all sort of funny hacking scenarios into play. Ideally you'd have some kind of "smart wiring" which hooks everything straight to a home central, that way even a really cheap micro-controller could do the job and vendors could start throwing it in for free in all models. Particularly for the trivial tasks like a lamp letting you turn it on/off/dim it, an oven letting you set the power, the microwave and dishwasher and washing machine giving you a countdown for when it's done and so on, simple alerts like a refrigerator or freezer sounding an alarm if the temperature is too high.
And it needs to be some kind of open, universal standard. Anything you plug into the system should just tell the central what API it exposes and can do, if it doesn't work seamlessly it's not worth doing. I'd have to be able to go to "my home" page on my smart phone and have everything listed. All the systems that are trying to be too smart just ends up being more effort, I don't want my refridgerator to keep inventory, or rather it'd force me to scan everything to keep its inventory. A smart washing machine still means I have to put the clothes in and take the clothes out, it's not worth trying to find more value that just isn't there. It's really just the ultimate remote control, but it's not more than that either really.
Personally I found the entire article incredibly vague, it doesn't actually mention any particular case or practice or company or product as examples, without clicking through to even further references you'd still have no clue what they're actually talking about. That said, remember how MS Office suddenly became "standards compliant" with their very own ISO standard? If something becomes a sales bullet point or buzzword companies will try to tick that box with no intention of actual being open source, and I don't think you need to be RMS to call them on it.
Android is a good example, they say it's open source. However the reality is that most people would not recognize it as an Android phone without the Google package, I don't know any manufacturer here that ships without it. Chrome is also open source-ish, you have Chromium but it lacks several bits and pieces compared to Chrome so I'd wager 99%+ use the closed source version. And what the value of OS X being "based on" open source has for users is highly questionable. I guess most levels of openness are okay as long as they're not being deceptive, but there'll always be shady businesses that are.
You know, I could swear someone told me this wasn't a problem with open source, I wish I could remember their name... see-a-lots? They said that unlike normal software or pri... pro.. propiratory software as they called it they said open source is all about choice. If I didn't like anything I could just change it to make it look and work like I want it to. The details are a bit hazy to me, but I hope it's easy to use and comes with a good tutorial. And it had the strangest name, I thought those belonged in a kitchen drawer. Knife? Spoon? Ah no, they called it a fork. Not sure what kind of fork that is, it sounded almost magical. You know like in Star Trek "Use the fork, Luke". Come to think of it they did look like they had seen that a few too many times. Or maybe you should try a different bistro? Sorry, distro. I think it was some kind of collection of forks, like cutlery. You wouldn't want to eat steak with a butter knife, right? Or maybe you're just holding it wrong, that's what the nice person in the fruit store told me. A real genius he was, it even said so on his shirt. Maybe he can help you too?
Testing alpha/betas full of broken stuff is no fun. Writing detailed reports on what is broken is no fun. Writing documentation is no fun. Endless discussions is no fun. Being help desk for people with entitlement issues who can't be bothered to RTFM is no fun. Being someone else's side show is no fun, graphics artists probably have projects of their own. And I've yet to meet anyone in marketing who'd do that on their own time for fun. In fact, it's a strange breed who comes home from work after developing software all day to continue writing more software in their spare time instead of doing... well, anything else really. It's kind of of cool to make something though, so the coding part gets a pass. The rest is a different story...
The tracing part is a fair point, but if I was worried about the government "shutting me out of the economy" I wouldn't worry about my wallet I'd worry about my bank accounts and credit cards where the other 99% of my cash is. My small cash reserve is just there to smooth over an outage or losing my card, I wouldn't last a month. Particularly not if the property registry and car registry claims my apartment and car aren't mine. Anywhere I work here in Norway is legally required to deduct taxes which would tip off the authorities so I couldn't make any legal income anywhere anyway.
Basically I'd have to do it the way illegal immigrants do, they work off the books in shady shops and sublet from others, officially they have no job and no residence. In a cashless society it'd just be more comprehensive, they'd have to provide me with clothes and food and whatever else I need to live too. In short, with or without cash you're already pretty screwed if they freeze all your assets and living under the radar would just go from very ugly to slightly more ugly.
Very few breweries outside Europe have this capability, in fact many smaller US craft breweries only allow for one step infusion mashing (hot water added to grain where the mash can only have one temperature stage) which limits the kinds of malts that can be used as the lightest and least modified malts require multiple stages of temperature rests.
Somehow I find that hard to believe, as even my buddy's little home brew machine can do that. All you need is a temperature sensor and timer hooked up to the heating element, a typical schema looks like "52C/15 min, 64C/20 min, 72C/20 min, 77C/5 min". Heck, you can even do it manually with an egg timer but if you only have a simple cut-off temperature switch I'd rather go with a simplified scheme like "66C/60 min" and spend that hour doing something else. I can't really imagine industrial equipment without this capability though.
I remember when they put breathalyzers in Australian pubs so people could check if they were legal to drive home... and then had to take them out again when people started having contests to see who could blow the highest BA levels before passing out.
If they took them out that's silly, the same thing happened here with informational speed measurements and the solution is really simple. Only show values of the legal limit + a bit more. That's what they did with speeding, if the limit is 80 km/h they'll show up to 99km/h or else just >=100 km/h. No fun for speed devils who want to see if they can go 250 km/h.
Say the legal limit to drive is 0.05, then you show values up to 0.09 or else just >=1. Of course you need special software for that, but I imagine manufacturers would easily jump at the chance to supply every pub for a one line fixer (if maxDisplayValue is set and value > maxDisplayValue then "Too much!") If you don't rinse your mouth you'll get silly results anyway, my meter goes up to 0.40 but if you take a single vodka shot and measure with the fumes still in your mouth it'll max out easily.
Intel's mobile SoCs are worse than even Cortex-A15 in terms of power efficiency, which is why you see a number of Intel-based tablets and settop boxes, but next to no Intel-based phones
I thought the main reason was that many apps use native code and that code is all ARM, pushing Android-x86 tablets out there has been to get developers to make native binaries for Intel while running an ugly binary translation. The only phones they've been able to sell is feature phones that don't expect apps from the play store to work, where I understand they've been decent. Not particularly great, not particularly bad either. If Google Glass ends up running x86, developers will need to make native binaries.
Certainly Intel is looking to get on Google's good side, I'm sure they'll give it their best effort at least. Core M Y-series has been taking a bit of flak, but last I checked it had 1/3rd the TDP of the Haswell U-series for much more than 1/3rd the performance, so the problem is that it is oversold as a replacement for something it's not. Once the series fills out with more high-TDP parts it'll hopefully get better.
Actually capitalism has a huge section on utility theory, it's the basis of all bartering and trade. You're a fisherman but you've only got a limited utility of fish for your own use, which is why you're willing to sell fish to buy bread and the baker is willing to sell bread to buy fish. If you got your typical price-quantity curve the utility is the whole area under the curve, which companies try to extract as much as possible of as profit. The difference is that capitalism's utility theory optimizes on the individual level, you spend your money in order to gain as much benefit as possible and society's utility is the sum of the individuals' utility.
Social theories optimize for the whole society and take into account externalities society has to bear the burden of like pollution, littering, congestion, crime and so on, even when it's to the disadvantage of some of the individuals. They fit in the same PQ chart though like this where the social optimum is offset relative to the micro-economic optimum. The issue is that often you end up with quite a lot of wealth redistribution because essential services to the poor have greater utility for society than luxuries for the rich, so while the total goes up it's clearly favorable for some and unfavorable for others.
Then you run into the classic arguments that people change behavior to game the system and in order to not create needy individuals living on welfare you need to reward those who produce value instead, which is countered by arguing that those on welfare need education and opportunities to become net contributors to society and so on. It's not really easy to understand society's dynamics, but as a static snapshot they're not really all that different. It just depends on what "costs" you take into consideration and what you optimize for.
I actually saw a test once with a race driver getting hammered between doing rounds on a track with cones and various obstacles, his best lap came after 7 double vodka-orange juice when he was all but wasted. It's not muscle control that's the biggest drawback with drunk driving, it's that your reaction time and reasoning ability goes to hell. Put a bunch of people in a car simulator, half with placebo and half with pot and I'm sure they'll drive fine in ordinary situations. The interesting bit is what happens in potential accident scenarios.
Of course the universe is impossible given our current understand of physics. Big bang created energy. Big bang created an imbalance between normal matter and anti-matter. Big bang created a singularity with zero entropy and it's been growing ever since. None of those things are possible with physics as we know it, yet it all apparently happened. The only thing we can be quite sure of is that we don't know everything.
Yeah, I'm not really seeing what the principal issue here is. If a woman has had a violent boyfriend and he leaves Eninem's "Smack my bitch up" on her answering machine, that's a pretty blatant threat. Almost like using newspaper clippings to make threat letters, whatever they were you're using them as a threat now. That said, you seem to get away with an awful lot of threats by proxy by saying "The [holy book] says that [type of sinners] should be [punishment]." instead of making the threats yourself. I guess maybe the issue is how "transitive" the song is, like if you were just raging and posted a song that was raging but contained a line which might be interpreted like a death threat, are you now on the hook for death threats? Like, how literally can an objective person take every word of a rap text? There's a lot more gangsta rap fans than actual gangstas, quoting one doesn't exactly have the same credibility as making the same threat in your own words.
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It's definitely a risk, but I would be surprised if they're going to be using their latest-gen technologies there, partly for that reason.
You know, you could RTFA:
The chips made in the Chengdu factories won't be based on the latest process manufacturing technology, McGregor said, adding that Intel wants to protect its intellectual property and won't transfer its latest manufacturing process to China.
Don't underestimate the power difference from top to bottom. Anandtech's CPU bench doesn't go all the way back to 2002, so the closest I got to the Pentium 4 HT 3.06 launched back then is a Pentium 4 660 from Q1 2005 vs AMD Sempron 2650 launched in april 2014. Hey, you said weakest AMD processor. Results
Cinebench R10 - Single Threaded Benchmark:
P4 660: 2245
Sempron 2650: 1384
Subtract 15% from the P4's score to match a 3.06 GHz P4 and you're down to 1908. Then you have the arch differences from Northwood to Prescott 2M, but they weren't very impressive as this is when the P4 was running out of steam so let's subtract another 15% to be kind, that brings us down to 1621. Nope, that power guzzler from 2002 probably beats the worst of the worst of 2014. Of course it runs at less than half the frequency, sips a quarter the power and it's dual core so it only loses the single thread benchmark at effectively one eight the power but still, it's a loss.
How is America's left hand drive a non-optimal solution? That implies LHD is superior.
Actually I wasn't trying to say one is superior or inferior, but that we have several competing standards for historical reasons where picking one would have worked fine for everybody. That way car companies could produce one model for all markets, you could import/export cars without the wheel being on the wrong side, tourists can drive the same everywhere and so on. But when you compare the relatively minor gains to the cost of redoing everything for an entire country and the associated accidents as people adjust, well... it doesn't make sense. But you wouldn't design it that way.
I think most agree that when you really need Oracle, you need it but I think the company has a lot less fans than the product. When you have a huge, mission critical database running on Oracle they know they got you hooked deep because short of a major disaster nobody wants to try migrating away. And last I checked their financials they're very good at making you pay for the privilege. Of course that's not unique to Oracle, but they're the big player in that segment, while for example SQL Server is used for all sorts of things. The only ones I know using Oracle for the small stuff are those who has decided they'll be a pure Oracle shop and that's that.
This. Just because you're not a production line worker where you can measure that one hour = x widgets almost all professions are such that with more hours you get more done. If one surgery takes one hour you get more surgeries done in ten hours than in eight. That means there'll always be incentive for management to work you harder unless it costs them money. I don't like overtime pay because I think the total compensation gets better, you should always consider the rate of pay divided by hours worked so what you get paid for 60 hours salaried or 40 hours base + 20 hours overtime ought to be the same.
The difference is the incentive, once you start getting overtime pay it costs them more per hour so they try minimizing the need for it. If they're often using overtime they have the incentive to hire another worker to get it done during regular hours. I'd rather they have three people working 40 hours a week than two people at 60 hours a week. That way overtime is actually used for crunch time instead of running short normally and killing you on the crunch. If they're happy or unhappy with your performance they'll feel the same at 40 hours a week, everybody can put in hours. You're just screwing your own and your colleagues lives for your employer.
When the average person makes maybe $400/year and the elite gets access to many goods through official rationing that are otherwise black market only, then yes. It's enough to have servants and all sorts of expensive personal services you can't afford on $30k in the US.
Here's an article talking about the same from 2002. Apparently there's rather low tech mechanical solutions that work quite well. Kinda like the laser potato peeler, still waiting for that and my flying car.
Don't forget that the PC totally owned the business market, spreadsheets were the killer application of the 80s and the Amiga's multimedia capabilities was totally irrelevant to that. In fact, graphics and sound cards were an add-on to PCs long, long after that. They could have made something similar to the Sony Playstation and become kings of the gaming market, but I doubt they ever had a shot at replacing the PC.
At any rate, it's obvious that in many cases we have picked a non-optimal solution, but the switching costs are just too high. Things like driving on left vs right, power plugs, 50Hz vs 60Hz TV, imperial vs metric and so on. Or simply because of history or network effects, we use COBOL because we got 20 years of code written in COBOL. Or we're on Facebook because everyone else is on Facebook. Products are like genes, it's not the "best" genes that survive it's those that turn a profit and reproduce.
I wouldn't want to work for a company that would try to fire someone for rejecting a patch of the comment text. How absurd and spiteful.
Not to mention a patch which changes a valid sentence to a broken one, my English teacher would mark down this sentence:
The user needs to know that some data has already been sent, to stop them from sending it twice.
Them? Them who? Oh, the user. If you can't use a singular (he/she/it) then you must rewrite the whole sentence to be "Users needs to know that some data has already been sent, to stop them from sending it twice.
I'd also try to revert that patch simply for being broken English. And if that's a firing offense, well I'd be happy to not work there anymore. Best of luck to io.js.
The birthday paradox depends on days being measured modulo 365. There is a finite bound on the birthdays available. That doesn't extend to planetary distances in three dimensional space over the span of the universe.
The whole birthday "paradox" is a human failing of not taking into account the number of possible pairings, it doesn't have to be modulo anything. If you have a thousand planets with life with a one in a million chance to be close, what's the total probabiliy of two planets being close? 1000/1000000? Bzzzzzzt wrong answer, because there's 1000*999/2 = ~500000 possible pairs. So the actual chance is more like 50%, instead of 0,1%. Not that it has any practical application, because it's the odds of two alien planets being close. Earth's chances would still be one in a million per planet, just like the odds of any person having my birthday is roughly 1/365.
I've heard before that in high end movies they push a lot of data around, each day they upload the raw footage to their studio back home which edits it and makes dailies that the filming crew review to make sure it comes out as they want before sets are torn down and actors leave for other jobs. They could do it on location but it's hard to get the people and equipment to follow you around and besides that way you can take advantage of time zone differences. I think I saw that in the LotR extras, Peter Jackson was filming in New Zealand, they edited in the US and it was ready for review next morning.
Consider that 50GB of an actual BluRay has probably been many terabytes of footage because of lack of compression, cameras rolling before and after scenes and many takes. I'm quite seriously suggesting that 100TB might not be that insanely much for a company rigged to handle huge data flows on a regular basis.
The problem is that making a "smart" appliance adds too much cost in a market where most people can't take any advantage of it. As long as you need special everything, it's just not worth it. Part of the problem is that everything needs its own wireless module, which aren't trivial and instantly brings all sort of funny hacking scenarios into play. Ideally you'd have some kind of "smart wiring" which hooks everything straight to a home central, that way even a really cheap micro-controller could do the job and vendors could start throwing it in for free in all models. Particularly for the trivial tasks like a lamp letting you turn it on/off/dim it, an oven letting you set the power, the microwave and dishwasher and washing machine giving you a countdown for when it's done and so on, simple alerts like a refrigerator or freezer sounding an alarm if the temperature is too high.
And it needs to be some kind of open, universal standard. Anything you plug into the system should just tell the central what API it exposes and can do, if it doesn't work seamlessly it's not worth doing. I'd have to be able to go to "my home" page on my smart phone and have everything listed. All the systems that are trying to be too smart just ends up being more effort, I don't want my refridgerator to keep inventory, or rather it'd force me to scan everything to keep its inventory. A smart washing machine still means I have to put the clothes in and take the clothes out, it's not worth trying to find more value that just isn't there. It's really just the ultimate remote control, but it's not more than that either really.
Personally I found the entire article incredibly vague, it doesn't actually mention any particular case or practice or company or product as examples, without clicking through to even further references you'd still have no clue what they're actually talking about. That said, remember how MS Office suddenly became "standards compliant" with their very own ISO standard? If something becomes a sales bullet point or buzzword companies will try to tick that box with no intention of actual being open source, and I don't think you need to be RMS to call them on it.
Android is a good example, they say it's open source. However the reality is that most people would not recognize it as an Android phone without the Google package, I don't know any manufacturer here that ships without it. Chrome is also open source-ish, you have Chromium but it lacks several bits and pieces compared to Chrome so I'd wager 99%+ use the closed source version. And what the value of OS X being "based on" open source has for users is highly questionable. I guess most levels of openness are okay as long as they're not being deceptive, but there'll always be shady businesses that are.
You know, I could swear someone told me this wasn't a problem with open source, I wish I could remember their name... see-a-lots? They said that unlike normal software or pri... pro.. propiratory software as they called it they said open source is all about choice. If I didn't like anything I could just change it to make it look and work like I want it to. The details are a bit hazy to me, but I hope it's easy to use and comes with a good tutorial. And it had the strangest name, I thought those belonged in a kitchen drawer. Knife? Spoon? Ah no, they called it a fork. Not sure what kind of fork that is, it sounded almost magical. You know like in Star Trek "Use the fork, Luke". Come to think of it they did look like they had seen that a few too many times. Or maybe you should try a different bistro? Sorry, distro. I think it was some kind of collection of forks, like cutlery. You wouldn't want to eat steak with a butter knife, right? Or maybe you're just holding it wrong, that's what the nice person in the fruit store told me. A real genius he was, it even said so on his shirt. Maybe he can help you too?
Testing alpha/betas full of broken stuff is no fun. Writing detailed reports on what is broken is no fun. Writing documentation is no fun. Endless discussions is no fun. Being help desk for people with entitlement issues who can't be bothered to RTFM is no fun. Being someone else's side show is no fun, graphics artists probably have projects of their own. And I've yet to meet anyone in marketing who'd do that on their own time for fun. In fact, it's a strange breed who comes home from work after developing software all day to continue writing more software in their spare time instead of doing... well, anything else really. It's kind of of cool to make something though, so the coding part gets a pass. The rest is a different story...
The tracing part is a fair point, but if I was worried about the government "shutting me out of the economy" I wouldn't worry about my wallet I'd worry about my bank accounts and credit cards where the other 99% of my cash is. My small cash reserve is just there to smooth over an outage or losing my card, I wouldn't last a month. Particularly not if the property registry and car registry claims my apartment and car aren't mine. Anywhere I work here in Norway is legally required to deduct taxes which would tip off the authorities so I couldn't make any legal income anywhere anyway.
Basically I'd have to do it the way illegal immigrants do, they work off the books in shady shops and sublet from others, officially they have no job and no residence. In a cashless society it'd just be more comprehensive, they'd have to provide me with clothes and food and whatever else I need to live too. In short, with or without cash you're already pretty screwed if they freeze all your assets and living under the radar would just go from very ugly to slightly more ugly.
Ye gods, send in the Vogon Constructor Fleet to make it quick and painless.
Very few breweries outside Europe have this capability, in fact many smaller US craft breweries only allow for one step infusion mashing (hot water added to grain where the mash can only have one temperature stage) which limits the kinds of malts that can be used as the lightest and least modified malts require multiple stages of temperature rests.
Somehow I find that hard to believe, as even my buddy's little home brew machine can do that. All you need is a temperature sensor and timer hooked up to the heating element, a typical schema looks like "52C/15 min, 64C/20 min, 72C/20 min, 77C/5 min". Heck, you can even do it manually with an egg timer but if you only have a simple cut-off temperature switch I'd rather go with a simplified scheme like "66C/60 min" and spend that hour doing something else. I can't really imagine industrial equipment without this capability though.
I remember when they put breathalyzers in Australian pubs so people could check if they were legal to drive home... and then had to take them out again when people started having contests to see who could blow the highest BA levels before passing out.
If they took them out that's silly, the same thing happened here with informational speed measurements and the solution is really simple. Only show values of the legal limit + a bit more. That's what they did with speeding, if the limit is 80 km/h they'll show up to 99km/h or else just >=100 km/h. No fun for speed devils who want to see if they can go 250 km/h.
Say the legal limit to drive is 0.05, then you show values up to 0.09 or else just >=1. Of course you need special software for that, but I imagine manufacturers would easily jump at the chance to supply every pub for a one line fixer (if maxDisplayValue is set and value > maxDisplayValue then "Too much!") If you don't rinse your mouth you'll get silly results anyway, my meter goes up to 0.40 but if you take a single vodka shot and measure with the fumes still in your mouth it'll max out easily.
Intel's mobile SoCs are worse than even Cortex-A15 in terms of power efficiency, which is why you see a number of Intel-based tablets and settop boxes, but next to no Intel-based phones
I thought the main reason was that many apps use native code and that code is all ARM, pushing Android-x86 tablets out there has been to get developers to make native binaries for Intel while running an ugly binary translation. The only phones they've been able to sell is feature phones that don't expect apps from the play store to work, where I understand they've been decent. Not particularly great, not particularly bad either. If Google Glass ends up running x86, developers will need to make native binaries.
Certainly Intel is looking to get on Google's good side, I'm sure they'll give it their best effort at least. Core M Y-series has been taking a bit of flak, but last I checked it had 1/3rd the TDP of the Haswell U-series for much more than 1/3rd the performance, so the problem is that it is oversold as a replacement for something it's not. Once the series fills out with more high-TDP parts it'll hopefully get better.
My fellow Americans, ask not how you can shatter your Google Glass, ask how your Google Glass can be shattered for you.
- John F. Kennedy (assassinated by Google Time Agents for sales interference)
Actually capitalism has a huge section on utility theory, it's the basis of all bartering and trade. You're a fisherman but you've only got a limited utility of fish for your own use, which is why you're willing to sell fish to buy bread and the baker is willing to sell bread to buy fish. If you got your typical price-quantity curve the utility is the whole area under the curve, which companies try to extract as much as possible of as profit. The difference is that capitalism's utility theory optimizes on the individual level, you spend your money in order to gain as much benefit as possible and society's utility is the sum of the individuals' utility.
Social theories optimize for the whole society and take into account externalities society has to bear the burden of like pollution, littering, congestion, crime and so on, even when it's to the disadvantage of some of the individuals. They fit in the same PQ chart though like this where the social optimum is offset relative to the micro-economic optimum. The issue is that often you end up with quite a lot of wealth redistribution because essential services to the poor have greater utility for society than luxuries for the rich, so while the total goes up it's clearly favorable for some and unfavorable for others.
Then you run into the classic arguments that people change behavior to game the system and in order to not create needy individuals living on welfare you need to reward those who produce value instead, which is countered by arguing that those on welfare need education and opportunities to become net contributors to society and so on. It's not really easy to understand society's dynamics, but as a static snapshot they're not really all that different. It just depends on what "costs" you take into consideration and what you optimize for.
I actually saw a test once with a race driver getting hammered between doing rounds on a track with cones and various obstacles, his best lap came after 7 double vodka-orange juice when he was all but wasted. It's not muscle control that's the biggest drawback with drunk driving, it's that your reaction time and reasoning ability goes to hell. Put a bunch of people in a car simulator, half with placebo and half with pot and I'm sure they'll drive fine in ordinary situations. The interesting bit is what happens in potential accident scenarios.
Of course the universe is impossible given our current understand of physics. Big bang created energy. Big bang created an imbalance between normal matter and anti-matter. Big bang created a singularity with zero entropy and it's been growing ever since. None of those things are possible with physics as we know it, yet it all apparently happened. The only thing we can be quite sure of is that we don't know everything.
Yeah, I'm not really seeing what the principal issue here is. If a woman has had a violent boyfriend and he leaves Eninem's "Smack my bitch up" on her answering machine, that's a pretty blatant threat. Almost like using newspaper clippings to make threat letters, whatever they were you're using them as a threat now. That said, you seem to get away with an awful lot of threats by proxy by saying "The [holy book] says that [type of sinners] should be [punishment]." instead of making the threats yourself. I guess maybe the issue is how "transitive" the song is, like if you were just raging and posted a song that was raging but contained a line which might be interpreted like a death threat, are you now on the hook for death threats? Like, how literally can an objective person take every word of a rap text? There's a lot more gangsta rap fans than actual gangstas, quoting one doesn't exactly have the same credibility as making the same threat in your own words.