Robots still suck horribly bad at providing personal service and that's what care for the elderly and healthcare tends to be. They already have problems when they're just dealing with squishy inputs through a standardized process to produce a fixed output which is why we still have people making burgers and fries much less trying to help an elderly dress, shower or go the bathroom with any degree of success, humanity and dignity. With a rapidly increasing elderly:workforce ratio the level of personal service will have to go down and robotics isn't even close to ready to pick up the kinds of work nurses do today. Everybody's been dreaming of service robots since R2-D2 and C3PO but the Roomba is the closest thing we have to a common household product.
True, in certain ways we've gone beyond our wildest dreams with computers. In other ways technology like flying cars has actually come far shorter than expected and I think this is one of them. I don't see any "I, Robot" style assistants in my lifetime, nor cyborg style enhancement, nor the singularity, nor substantial advances in nanotechnology or gene therapy to stop aging. I could be wrong, but even though we've in many ways come so far I also see in how many ways we've come so short. At this point it seems plausible I'll grow old and die like those that are old now, and you can already start counting the heads that'll be in the workforce still as today's children will be at the end of their careers when I'm old. They'll be few, we'll be many so each patient will have to take up much less of their time. That does not sound good for me.
Africa is a pretty damn big place, it's a whole continent full of different nations. In this case we're talking about Kenya, the last conflict of note was in 2007-2008 and ended in 800-1500 killed, before that 60 were killed in 2005 and before that there's nothing of note since the 1980s and this is in a country of 44 million people and seem to have a reasonably functioning but rather corrupt democracy. The literacy rate is 85%, they don't seem to be short on food or shelter but they seem to have a way to go on sanitation and healthcare. Sounds to me like they're at the right level and what's wrong with making them call center workers? English is an official language and it could bring potentially very good money into their economy, even if only the "elite" speak English well enough to do it. Not adjusted for purchasing power they have a GDP per person of $1017/year.
I can show them pretty consistent scientific studies that show people like being VALUED by their employer. And while it's true, there is a threshold for wealth that once you've gone over it, further raises have little impact on their dedication to work, there's is also a lower threshold where if they are consistently under paid, they'll also feel as if they're not valued.
I think you've missed the point here, it's not about what my expenses are. The basic idea is that I do a good job for the company, the company recognizes that and pays me a good salary - it's a win-win situation. Severely underpaying me means you're trying to exploit me, to pad your profit margins at my expense. Why should you stay with a company that's trying to screw you?
I noticed it in 2008 when the economy crashed. Companies fired like crazy, and when the economy recovered they only did modest hiring but maintained the same level of productivity.
Well, first of all I think all managers have a short list of people that aren't quite bad enough to outright fire for incompetence but who'll float right to the top if there's a downsizing. Secondly, never underestimate the power of busywork as often people puff up their job to be 100% but when it turns out 10 have to do the job of 15 and there's plenty to do for everyone you don't need to look busy because you are busy. Or if not outright busywork, then at least work that they've had no incentive to make more effective because they'd only risk their job while a fresh set of eyes that gets it piled on top of their current work will look to find a new and better solution. Who really wants to be replaced by a small shell script? I think it's just a cycle, in good times the thumbscrews are stowed away and mediocrity allowed to flourish until the next crunch when it begins again.
More like from nothing to nothing. Sure you can build a bridge, then what? There's nothing on either side. There's no roads, there's no rail, heck there's no rail connection from Alaska to the lower 48 - there's rail barges. Goods and passengers would have to come from thousands of miles away and then like you say, by sea for goods and by air for people. If we did it'd just be for show so you can drive from Asia to Northern America it wouldn't make any sense other than as a gimmick and tourist attraction. And really, north-eastern Siberia doesn't sound like my kind of attraction.
If you don't want to get obese, don't go on calorie control diets; they just don't work
Actually that is the problem for many, they're eating reasonably healthy but they're simply eating too much. And then the obvious answer is: eat less. What happens in practice though is that you get hungry, eat only your allotted calories but get more and more hungry as the backlog builds until the dam bursts and you're so hungry you binge eat something. It's not nutrition management that is the killer, it's hunger management. The most obvious point is that eating food late at night is pointless because you'll be sleeping through the effect. Go to bed on a light stomach, wake with a big hunger and eat a big breakfast instead. Another big trick is filler food, food that has extremely low calorie density like broccoli or cauliflower which gives your stomach something to work on while barely containing any energy. And don't eat calories you don't need to, even if they're tasty. It's so easy to go nuts there...
Huh? My impression was that the fat people mostly died from cardiovascular problems aka old body can't take the strain while the thinner mostly died from cancer. Sure, you have somewhat more cells that could go cancerous but I've never heard obesity being a big risk factor for cancer.
Bah, 99.9% of the people who complain that their BMI is high because of muscles don't have that much muscles. This is Olaf Tufte, former olympic champion in rowing and overall tough guy, he's 193 cm and 95 kg for a BMI of 25.5. In other words, despite being almost pure muscle he's barely overweight by BMI standards. To be "obese" he'd have to add 17 kg worth of fat to that body. It's not a body for power lifting but he'll easily carry a 50kg backpack up a mountain side if you ask him, he's outrageously well trained. Even sustaining 10 kg worth of extra muscle is a lot of work and doesn't affect the BMI that much. Fat is a different story, you can easily be 20 or 40 kg overweight. I've been your weight (adjusting for height), it's by no means skinny and only normal if you compare yourself to other overweight people.
So one hipster CS graduate who probably thought his degree made him world champion ends up making an over-complicated cluster fuck, don't get me wrong it must be very frustrating for you but it's still very anecdotal. Particularly when it involves XML, re-indenting, renaming, copy-paste programming and all sorts of bad things that obviously is no fault of the language it was written in.
I love OOP when there's lots and lots of state and it's not going anywhere, you're constantly waiting for some event that'll trigger change like user input or network traffic or you have some kind of database or file system watcher. Using global state or dragging the whole old state over into a new state because you make a tiny little change seems horribly awkward to me, it's like passing every object's state as function parameters just to make it functional. And trying to fake OOP in non-OOP languages like C the result is simply horrible, it's like agreeing that a hammer would be the best tool to pound in this nail but insisting on using a flat rock instead for religious reasons.
What I miss in imperative programming is a good way of saying that these odd, different things can be done in parallel. Like if I want to set the table I want to add a plate, fork and knife but the order is really irrelevant. Now maybe I want to add a napkin on top of that plate, but it depends only on the plate. It's more like a gantt diagram with dependencies than a straight start-to-finish order. Still, on the micro level most things are imperative - I have to open the drawer before I can grab a fork, not the other way around so I don't want to program through dependencies, also because of resource contentions and race conditions that you don't realize. I'd rather try to specify some degree of parallelism than specify all forms of non-parallelism.
One of the great weaknesses of imperative programming is that you often want to leave it in a known state. For example imagine I have to grab the fork and knife from the same kitchen drawer. Very often the "grabFork()" will open the drawer, grab the fork and close the drawer. So will the "grabKnife()" function. Obviously there's optimization potential here, really you'd only need to open the drawer once. But if you want it to close again, you'd need some kind of refcounting to know when we've grabbed all we need and can close it again. Obviously in this simple case we can implement a "grabForkKnife()", but what if others are preparing a coffee table with spoons from the same drawer in an entirely different process? I find expressing heterogeneous parallelism hard in all the current tools I've seen, it's not that hard in real life.
Linux is a kernel. Why do people continue to call GNU/Linux (i.e. the whole system) To me it's like if you were to call the Tesla Model S "Goodyear" or something because it had Goodyear tires.
Well if you're going for a car analogy then Linux is obviously the engine, not the tires so you're painfully trying to avoid the flaws in your own argument. And GNU is not the rest, not for the user. What they see is the chassis and the interior. which might be called KDE or GNOME or XFCE. GNU is more like the gearbox, suspension and steering column - you wouldn't want to try to drive without them but to most people they're just hidden middleware. And it's what everybody has and uses, would you say "I've bought myself a new car with windshield wipers"? What's the point? Every normal car has them so it's totally redundant.
For the user the game will be free as in beer, not "freemium" with in-game micro transactions. The code will neither be free as in beer nor free as in speech, but if you are already a UE4 subscriber ($19/month) you can use and extend the code for no extra charge, presumably under the same license and terms as mods to the engine itself so basically it's a reference implementation FPS. If you sell anything you owe them 5% of the gross revenue, if you give it away you owe them nothing. Which makes their pricing make sense, any subscriber can basically compile UT4 as-is and release it as freeware so instead they do it "officially". If you implement your own skin/artwork store they'll still take 5%, if you want to sell through the UT store they might charge more. Either way if you make money off it, they'll make money off it.
Install Windows or OS X or some other OS that isn't still working on the basic plumbing. I read articles like this and think, nope still not time for me to return to Linux. Please get it sorted out before Windows 7 is EOL'd though, I might need you again....
No doubt you're born with some talent for that just like for everything else, but just like you can choose to be a gym rat or couch potato with your body it's also whether you train to use your mind. They try to separate skill from innate intelligence but from what I've understand education changes the IQ score significantly and training for the tests even more so. The IQ tests were used as proof that some races were inferior until they started comparing people with the same access to education, then the differences pretty much vanished. So to someone that is struggling obviously they say you can make it, if they give up and say I'm dumb and I'll never learn and there's no point in trying they're surely achieve less than their potential.
Any person so obsessed with controlling everything you say or do and everyone you see won't let you live a normal life, because it's perfectly normal to have friends or family or colleagues or people with the same hobby you spend time with without your significant other glued to your side. It's like joining a sect where they want you to cut all contact with the outside world, surveillance is only the first step, then interrogation whenever you've been out of their control and finally they make up all sort of crazy logic and accusations to make you stop seeing other people. Already you're so far off in your fucked up world that you think it must be because they are keeping secrets from you, I just didn't think so many would jump to your support. For all who approved, if you're in any kind of relationship I hope they get the hell out before it's too late.
TLS is supposed to provide point-to-point security, if you want the information to also go somewhere else then send it there. If you don't trust the starting point then have the ending point do it. So your industrial control system sends commands X to machinery Y, machinery Y forwards it to logger Z before executing the command. Or have the logger be an intentional MITM. While the problems are genuine I feel your solutions create complications in all the wrong places.
Probably, but even if you take aware natural fears like claustrophobia or fear of snakes, spiders or the dark you'll still have intellectual fears. Nobody naturally fears going to prison - okay maybe the claustrophobia or the prison rapes but not the deprivation of liberty as such, that's an intellectual thing because you've learned about the law where your rational mind tells you that if you do crime you might get caught and might go to prison. If there's a correlation I think it's because you become more of a thrill seeker where higher propensity of criminal activity is a secondary effect. Which sounds just right when I look back at those I grew up with, the thrill seekers were also trouble makers many of which later ended up in trouble with the law.
Besides, if you're having a crippling fear it might still make sense. I have someone I know who was suffering from horrible epilepsy attacks, in his 30s but still living with his parents who couldn't leave him alone, no job, no education, no drivers license because the seizures disrupted everything and if they weren't treated he could die. What he got is from what I can tell pretty much a modern lobotomy, they found the part of his brain that was causing it and cut most or all the links into that section. Let's just say it wasn't for everyone but he at least got semi-functioning, got a driver's license, finished a trade and overall got a life afterwards. If they're so horrible afraid they just can't cope with normal everyday life then really drastic measures might be called for.
"make money" as in become rock star rich? yes, and That is a good thing. Sorry to burst people's bubbles but programming and game development is not the lottery, you dont get a big payout.
The guy who invented Wordfeud - real one-man shop stopped looking at his bank account when it increased with more than 100k NOK = almost $20k USD/day, last year he turned a 25 MNOK = $4-5 million USD profit. Of course he's one in a million but the exceptions are there.
Ignorance or preference? I assume those who order it well done have tried medium and didn't like it. Maybe they don't really like it at all, if you go to s sushi restaurant they usually have something for kids, people with allergies and others who got dragged into a sushi place. If they're happy, the restaurant is happy then I don't really care if a chef's heart breaks by turning a juicy steak into leather.
Netflix may not look as good, but it is cheap, and it works on, well, everything I own practically.
When I had a month's free trial here in Norway almost all the HD versions were missing on my PC, that was only for "devices". I decided to go back to being a first class citizen (read:torrents)
I don't know how much of a profit they're making on their APUs
Last quarter, they lost $3 million on CPU/APUs so in practice they're breaking even, but revenue is going down which means less and less goes to R&D. Their profits last quarter are a bit from dedicated graphics cards but mostly from console chips. Which is of course better than a loss, but consoles have a very special life cycle with high launch and Christmas sales with little in between so it's unclear how long that'll last.
Somehow these days, I think it's yes. And I think Intel's lobbing customers AMD's way to ensure that AMD survives. E.g., the current generation of consoles now sport AMD processors. I'm sure Intel would be more than happy to have the business, but not only do they not need it, they see it as a way to give AMD much needed cash for the next few years.
Consoles are primarily about graphics, not CPU power. While Intel's integrated graphics suck somewhat less than they used to, the PS4 has 1152 shaders backed by 8GB DDR5 and Intel has never had anything remotely close to that, maybe a third or quarter of that tops. An Intel CPU with AMD dedicated graphics would be very unlikely since AMD would almost certainly price it so their CPU/GPU combo came out better. So realistically it was AMD vs Intel+nVidia, neither of which like to sell themselves cheap. I don't think you need any market collusion to see AMD winning this one, while it's floating the boat they're not exactly making big money so they probably sold themselves rather cheap.
I'm still waiting for an upgrade to my AMD FX-6300. I bought it on the promise that there would be an upgrade. I've liked AMD for a long time, but getting burned on the first processor I buy from them is no way to keep customers.
So you've been here longer than I have (UID), liked AMD for a long time yet never bought one in the golden years from 1999 (launch of Athlon) - 2006 (Intel launching Core) or relative competitiveness up to 2010 (with Phenom II x6 still giving Intel a fair fight) but waited until October 2012 when they were clearly well into a decline? Pardon me but your story smells worse than shrimps left out in the sun for a week.
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Robots still suck horribly bad at providing personal service and that's what care for the elderly and healthcare tends to be. They already have problems when they're just dealing with squishy inputs through a standardized process to produce a fixed output which is why we still have people making burgers and fries much less trying to help an elderly dress, shower or go the bathroom with any degree of success, humanity and dignity. With a rapidly increasing elderly:workforce ratio the level of personal service will have to go down and robotics isn't even close to ready to pick up the kinds of work nurses do today. Everybody's been dreaming of service robots since R2-D2 and C3PO but the Roomba is the closest thing we have to a common household product.
True, in certain ways we've gone beyond our wildest dreams with computers. In other ways technology like flying cars has actually come far shorter than expected and I think this is one of them. I don't see any "I, Robot" style assistants in my lifetime, nor cyborg style enhancement, nor the singularity, nor substantial advances in nanotechnology or gene therapy to stop aging. I could be wrong, but even though we've in many ways come so far I also see in how many ways we've come so short. At this point it seems plausible I'll grow old and die like those that are old now, and you can already start counting the heads that'll be in the workforce still as today's children will be at the end of their careers when I'm old. They'll be few, we'll be many so each patient will have to take up much less of their time. That does not sound good for me.
Africa is a pretty damn big place, it's a whole continent full of different nations. In this case we're talking about Kenya, the last conflict of note was in 2007-2008 and ended in 800-1500 killed, before that 60 were killed in 2005 and before that there's nothing of note since the 1980s and this is in a country of 44 million people and seem to have a reasonably functioning but rather corrupt democracy. The literacy rate is 85%, they don't seem to be short on food or shelter but they seem to have a way to go on sanitation and healthcare. Sounds to me like they're at the right level and what's wrong with making them call center workers? English is an official language and it could bring potentially very good money into their economy, even if only the "elite" speak English well enough to do it. Not adjusted for purchasing power they have a GDP per person of $1017/year.
I can show them pretty consistent scientific studies that show people like being VALUED by their employer. And while it's true, there is a threshold for wealth that once you've gone over it, further raises have little impact on their dedication to work, there's is also a lower threshold where if they are consistently under paid, they'll also feel as if they're not valued.
I think you've missed the point here, it's not about what my expenses are. The basic idea is that I do a good job for the company, the company recognizes that and pays me a good salary - it's a win-win situation. Severely underpaying me means you're trying to exploit me, to pad your profit margins at my expense. Why should you stay with a company that's trying to screw you?
I noticed it in 2008 when the economy crashed. Companies fired like crazy, and when the economy recovered they only did modest hiring but maintained the same level of productivity.
Well, first of all I think all managers have a short list of people that aren't quite bad enough to outright fire for incompetence but who'll float right to the top if there's a downsizing. Secondly, never underestimate the power of busywork as often people puff up their job to be 100% but when it turns out 10 have to do the job of 15 and there's plenty to do for everyone you don't need to look busy because you are busy. Or if not outright busywork, then at least work that they've had no incentive to make more effective because they'd only risk their job while a fresh set of eyes that gets it piled on top of their current work will look to find a new and better solution. Who really wants to be replaced by a small shell script? I think it's just a cycle, in good times the thumbscrews are stowed away and mediocrity allowed to flourish until the next crunch when it begins again.
More like from nothing to nothing. Sure you can build a bridge, then what? There's nothing on either side. There's no roads, there's no rail, heck there's no rail connection from Alaska to the lower 48 - there's rail barges. Goods and passengers would have to come from thousands of miles away and then like you say, by sea for goods and by air for people. If we did it'd just be for show so you can drive from Asia to Northern America it wouldn't make any sense other than as a gimmick and tourist attraction. And really, north-eastern Siberia doesn't sound like my kind of attraction.
If you don't want to get obese, don't go on calorie control diets; they just don't work
Actually that is the problem for many, they're eating reasonably healthy but they're simply eating too much. And then the obvious answer is: eat less. What happens in practice though is that you get hungry, eat only your allotted calories but get more and more hungry as the backlog builds until the dam bursts and you're so hungry you binge eat something. It's not nutrition management that is the killer, it's hunger management. The most obvious point is that eating food late at night is pointless because you'll be sleeping through the effect. Go to bed on a light stomach, wake with a big hunger and eat a big breakfast instead. Another big trick is filler food, food that has extremely low calorie density like broccoli or cauliflower which gives your stomach something to work on while barely containing any energy. And don't eat calories you don't need to, even if they're tasty. It's so easy to go nuts there...
Except for IT of course. If you can master a computer then your impeccable logic and reasoning skills will make any other subject a piece of cake.
Huh? My impression was that the fat people mostly died from cardiovascular problems aka old body can't take the strain while the thinner mostly died from cancer. Sure, you have somewhat more cells that could go cancerous but I've never heard obesity being a big risk factor for cancer.
Bah, 99.9% of the people who complain that their BMI is high because of muscles don't have that much muscles. This is Olaf Tufte, former olympic champion in rowing and overall tough guy, he's 193 cm and 95 kg for a BMI of 25.5. In other words, despite being almost pure muscle he's barely overweight by BMI standards. To be "obese" he'd have to add 17 kg worth of fat to that body. It's not a body for power lifting but he'll easily carry a 50kg backpack up a mountain side if you ask him, he's outrageously well trained. Even sustaining 10 kg worth of extra muscle is a lot of work and doesn't affect the BMI that much. Fat is a different story, you can easily be 20 or 40 kg overweight. I've been your weight (adjusting for height), it's by no means skinny and only normal if you compare yourself to other overweight people.
So one hipster CS graduate who probably thought his degree made him world champion ends up making an over-complicated cluster fuck, don't get me wrong it must be very frustrating for you but it's still very anecdotal. Particularly when it involves XML, re-indenting, renaming, copy-paste programming and all sorts of bad things that obviously is no fault of the language it was written in.
I love OOP when there's lots and lots of state and it's not going anywhere, you're constantly waiting for some event that'll trigger change like user input or network traffic or you have some kind of database or file system watcher. Using global state or dragging the whole old state over into a new state because you make a tiny little change seems horribly awkward to me, it's like passing every object's state as function parameters just to make it functional. And trying to fake OOP in non-OOP languages like C the result is simply horrible, it's like agreeing that a hammer would be the best tool to pound in this nail but insisting on using a flat rock instead for religious reasons.
What I miss in imperative programming is a good way of saying that these odd, different things can be done in parallel. Like if I want to set the table I want to add a plate, fork and knife but the order is really irrelevant. Now maybe I want to add a napkin on top of that plate, but it depends only on the plate. It's more like a gantt diagram with dependencies than a straight start-to-finish order. Still, on the micro level most things are imperative - I have to open the drawer before I can grab a fork, not the other way around so I don't want to program through dependencies, also because of resource contentions and race conditions that you don't realize. I'd rather try to specify some degree of parallelism than specify all forms of non-parallelism.
One of the great weaknesses of imperative programming is that you often want to leave it in a known state. For example imagine I have to grab the fork and knife from the same kitchen drawer. Very often the "grabFork()" will open the drawer, grab the fork and close the drawer. So will the "grabKnife()" function. Obviously there's optimization potential here, really you'd only need to open the drawer once. But if you want it to close again, you'd need some kind of refcounting to know when we've grabbed all we need and can close it again. Obviously in this simple case we can implement a "grabForkKnife()", but what if others are preparing a coffee table with spoons from the same drawer in an entirely different process? I find expressing heterogeneous parallelism hard in all the current tools I've seen, it's not that hard in real life.
Linux is a kernel. Why do people continue to call GNU/Linux (i.e. the whole system) To me it's like if you were to call the Tesla Model S "Goodyear" or something because it had Goodyear tires.
Well if you're going for a car analogy then Linux is obviously the engine, not the tires so you're painfully trying to avoid the flaws in your own argument. And GNU is not the rest, not for the user. What they see is the chassis and the interior. which might be called KDE or GNOME or XFCE. GNU is more like the gearbox, suspension and steering column - you wouldn't want to try to drive without them but to most people they're just hidden middleware. And it's what everybody has and uses, would you say "I've bought myself a new car with windshield wipers"? What's the point? Every normal car has them so it's totally redundant.
For the user the game will be free as in beer, not "freemium" with in-game micro transactions. The code will neither be free as in beer nor free as in speech, but if you are already a UE4 subscriber ($19/month) you can use and extend the code for no extra charge, presumably under the same license and terms as mods to the engine itself so basically it's a reference implementation FPS. If you sell anything you owe them 5% of the gross revenue, if you give it away you owe them nothing. Which makes their pricing make sense, any subscriber can basically compile UT4 as-is and release it as freeware so instead they do it "officially". If you implement your own skin/artwork store they'll still take 5%, if you want to sell through the UT store they might charge more. Either way if you make money off it, they'll make money off it.
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Install Windows or OS X or some other OS that isn't still working on the basic plumbing. I read articles like this and think, nope still not time for me to return to Linux. Please get it sorted out before Windows 7 is EOL'd though, I might need you again....
No doubt you're born with some talent for that just like for everything else, but just like you can choose to be a gym rat or couch potato with your body it's also whether you train to use your mind. They try to separate skill from innate intelligence but from what I've understand education changes the IQ score significantly and training for the tests even more so. The IQ tests were used as proof that some races were inferior until they started comparing people with the same access to education, then the differences pretty much vanished. So to someone that is struggling obviously they say you can make it, if they give up and say I'm dumb and I'll never learn and there's no point in trying they're surely achieve less than their potential.
Any person so obsessed with controlling everything you say or do and everyone you see won't let you live a normal life, because it's perfectly normal to have friends or family or colleagues or people with the same hobby you spend time with without your significant other glued to your side. It's like joining a sect where they want you to cut all contact with the outside world, surveillance is only the first step, then interrogation whenever you've been out of their control and finally they make up all sort of crazy logic and accusations to make you stop seeing other people. Already you're so far off in your fucked up world that you think it must be because they are keeping secrets from you, I just didn't think so many would jump to your support. For all who approved, if you're in any kind of relationship I hope they get the hell out before it's too late.
That and the fact that RSA the primitive was first published by RSA the company. But I'll grant that I had misunderstood things.
No, the cipher predates the company by 5 years. But same people, obviously to provide services around the cipher they build.
TLS is supposed to provide point-to-point security, if you want the information to also go somewhere else then send it there. If you don't trust the starting point then have the ending point do it. So your industrial control system sends commands X to machinery Y, machinery Y forwards it to logger Z before executing the command. Or have the logger be an intentional MITM. While the problems are genuine I feel your solutions create complications in all the wrong places.
In fact, as far as I can tell, there's no relationship between RSA (the company) and RSA (the crypto suite). My bad.
Well, none except the RSA in the company and the cipher is the same. Or did you miss this line?
Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, who developed the RSA encryption algorithm in 1977, founded RSA Data Security in 1982
Probably, but even if you take aware natural fears like claustrophobia or fear of snakes, spiders or the dark you'll still have intellectual fears. Nobody naturally fears going to prison - okay maybe the claustrophobia or the prison rapes but not the deprivation of liberty as such, that's an intellectual thing because you've learned about the law where your rational mind tells you that if you do crime you might get caught and might go to prison. If there's a correlation I think it's because you become more of a thrill seeker where higher propensity of criminal activity is a secondary effect. Which sounds just right when I look back at those I grew up with, the thrill seekers were also trouble makers many of which later ended up in trouble with the law.
Besides, if you're having a crippling fear it might still make sense. I have someone I know who was suffering from horrible epilepsy attacks, in his 30s but still living with his parents who couldn't leave him alone, no job, no education, no drivers license because the seizures disrupted everything and if they weren't treated he could die. What he got is from what I can tell pretty much a modern lobotomy, they found the part of his brain that was causing it and cut most or all the links into that section. Let's just say it wasn't for everyone but he at least got semi-functioning, got a driver's license, finished a trade and overall got a life afterwards. If they're so horrible afraid they just can't cope with normal everyday life then really drastic measures might be called for.
"make money" as in become rock star rich? yes, and That is a good thing. Sorry to burst people's bubbles but programming and game development is not the lottery, you dont get a big payout.
The guy who invented Wordfeud - real one-man shop stopped looking at his bank account when it increased with more than 100k NOK = almost $20k USD/day, last year he turned a 25 MNOK = $4-5 million USD profit. Of course he's one in a million but the exceptions are there.
Ignorance or preference? I assume those who order it well done have tried medium and didn't like it. Maybe they don't really like it at all, if you go to s sushi restaurant they usually have something for kids, people with allergies and others who got dragged into a sushi place. If they're happy, the restaurant is happy then I don't really care if a chef's heart breaks by turning a juicy steak into leather.
Netflix may not look as good, but it is cheap, and it works on, well, everything I own practically.
When I had a month's free trial here in Norway almost all the HD versions were missing on my PC, that was only for "devices". I decided to go back to being a first class citizen (read:torrents)
I don't know how much of a profit they're making on their APUs
Last quarter, they lost $3 million on CPU/APUs so in practice they're breaking even, but revenue is going down which means less and less goes to R&D. Their profits last quarter are a bit from dedicated graphics cards but mostly from console chips. Which is of course better than a loss, but consoles have a very special life cycle with high launch and Christmas sales with little in between so it's unclear how long that'll last.
Somehow these days, I think it's yes. And I think Intel's lobbing customers AMD's way to ensure that AMD survives. E.g., the current generation of consoles now sport AMD processors. I'm sure Intel would be more than happy to have the business, but not only do they not need it, they see it as a way to give AMD much needed cash for the next few years.
Consoles are primarily about graphics, not CPU power. While Intel's integrated graphics suck somewhat less than they used to, the PS4 has 1152 shaders backed by 8GB DDR5 and Intel has never had anything remotely close to that, maybe a third or quarter of that tops. An Intel CPU with AMD dedicated graphics would be very unlikely since AMD would almost certainly price it so their CPU/GPU combo came out better. So realistically it was AMD vs Intel+nVidia, neither of which like to sell themselves cheap. I don't think you need any market collusion to see AMD winning this one, while it's floating the boat they're not exactly making big money so they probably sold themselves rather cheap.
I'm still waiting for an upgrade to my AMD FX-6300. I bought it on the promise that there would be an upgrade. I've liked AMD for a long time, but getting burned on the first processor I buy from them is no way to keep customers.
So you've been here longer than I have (UID), liked AMD for a long time yet never bought one in the golden years from 1999 (launch of Athlon) - 2006 (Intel launching Core) or relative competitiveness up to 2010 (with Phenom II x6 still giving Intel a fair fight) but waited until October 2012 when they were clearly well into a decline? Pardon me but your story smells worse than shrimps left out in the sun for a week.