But we don't have to build our side of the system like that, we only need enough neuron simulators on the surface, run them through an A/D circuit, do it our way then D/A it back into the brain. I'm pretty sure neurons like everything else has a resolution limit.
Unfortunately (for them in some ways, for us in others), selling a piece of plastic that you bought is a lot clearer ownership transfer than copying a few files and saying "you own these now."
Emphasis mine. Handing over a CD doesn't involve making any copies, so there's no copyright involved. Even if you call it a sale, then in practice it's "copy & delete". The law sort of assumes the work is fixed in a medium, if you say put your "used music" on a memory stick and sold the stick you'd be clear of copyright. Now you could say this is silly, you could for example have a "rebuy" program where you buy back the empty memory sticks afterwards so in practice only the music files were transferred. But the law doesn't always make sense like this, like ripping your own CD (legal) vs ripping someone else's CD (not legal) vs downloading a rip from the Internet (not legal), even if in all cases you own the original CD.
Before I sell a book, do I have to prove I didn't xerox it and kept a copy? No. Unless we've completely flip-flopped on this whole "presumption of innocence" thing, it's the copyright holder's job to prove, if not beyond a reasonable doubt then at least with a preponderance of evidence that you did keep a copy. If that's all but impossible, too bad.
If citizens are going to be held accountable for violating TOS as a criminal offense- we're either going to have a bunch more criminals OR in order for TOS to hold water they have to pass a dumb user test- be short, to the point and easily understandable by Joe the plumber.
Now it's all "RUN!" and zapping things with his magic wand, err, sonic screwdriver. And sublimated smootchy-face that would embarrass booger and Mrs diPesto.
Well they've run into one of the issues many shows do, they've overpowered him with the "time can be rewritten" arc, saving himself from the prison box when the whole universe has turned against him and so on. That you can't cross your own time stream was like the most important limit to his powers, the answer to "Why can't we just go back with the TARDIS and undo this?" So they've had to offset that with an action pace, because if there was actually time to stop and think about it, there's a million ways he could have gotten out of that easily.
I don't know, with the Doctor's style of gatecrashing it can't be that hard to arrange a situation where you get "Time lord? What's a time lord?" "I thought they were extinct" "They say he's the last of his kind" and then fill in the necessary back story in a relatively short time. A movie would probably have to spend a regeneration though, they can explain the concept early though some flashbacks or whatever but they almost certainly have to use it. And not just cheat-use it as we've seen in the series, but an actual change of character.
Well, I think it has something to do with Android/Apple dominating the smartphone/tablet market, better for MS and Adobe to push for a HTML5 standard than letting the Android/iOS SDK become the new standard and they left out in the cold. Don't they've had a change of heart or anything.
Well, at this rate the last die shrink will be in the 2020s as we're down to single atoms, no more magic computers that get faster every year. The rest is a bit like that flying car, even 40 years ago that 4004 would have been a helluva human coprocessor for math but progress on any real cyborg functionality has never materialized. And if it does, it'll have almost nothing to do with CPU development as such.
Sounds more like he setup a personal account and was just giving his own articles some free PR.
Except they're not "his" articles, they're his employer's as they are most definitively work for hire. So can he use that work-for-hire to gather followers at his personal account? Well, as long as it's publicly published material I think you should be able to point to what you're written, otherwise it'd be pretty hard to be an author or journalist or whatever.
But: 1. I'd be very doubtful if the original username can be considered a personal account, seeing as he used his employer's trademark. If you brand it as your employer, it almost definitively is your employer's. Basically if it appeared like an authorized marketing channel, it doesn't really matter that it was unauthorized, just like a company can be bound by apparent authority by employees that didn't have the authority. 2. If he did anything but point to published articles, like for example he gave hints at upcoming articles, additional information or anything else that was internal to the company, that is using company knowledge and so goes your independence. Then they could say you used that unpublished knowledge to get an edge on everyone else, attracting people that want to know more about the company to his account. 3. Like others said, if he ever did anything on corporate time or using corporate resources, that's an implicit work for hire. I'd be very surprised if he managed to keep a perfect straight line here as more and more mix personal and work life, but in this case it'd be essential. I would think he got an article published, then went right to twitter about it long before the working day was over and the courts don't let you context-switch like a CPU, these five seconds I'm not an employee but now I am again.
True, but non-commercial copyright isn't just reduced it is gone if the Pirate Party gets their policy through. So you can't make a Harry Potter movie from the Harry Potter books without paying royalties, but sharing both the book and the movie would be fully legal. That would of course make the movie rights much less worth, so I'd say it's pretty close.
They have never reduced the pin count, because each successive platform has introduced wider memory controllers and/or QPI/DMI/PCIe lanes.
Nitpick: Strictly speaking they went from LGA1156 to LGA1155, lol. And from leaked slides it's rumored that Haswell (2013) will get that down to LGA1150, because they're moving some of the voltage regulators on-die. But yes, the "big things" like memory channels means the number's been generally going up.
Even the fastest Sandy Bridge-E draws less power than a Bulldozer even at much higher performance. It also costs 3-4 times as much, so performance/$ is quite shitty (hey, it's an extreme $999 proc) but you the winner in performance is clear. But thanks for trolling, come again.
Not sure if they count as systems, but Intel has about 75% of the TOP500 list with AMD about 13%. And that's coming from a period where AMD has had really strong Opterons. But then I don't think each node has a dozen or more sockets...
Intel actually don't release things on new sockets as much as people think. Every tick/tock pairing has one desktop socket, (..) Nehalem introduced LGA1156 and LGA1366, westmere reused them; Conroe introduced (properly) LGA775 and LGA771, Arandale reused them.
Which means the motherboard is good for exactly one generation on upgrades, on the same die size. Who'd seriously upgrade their almost-new Nehalem system to Westmere, Conroe to Arandale or Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge? Then you'd do better putting all that money into one processor. Socket compatibility is only good if it lasts long enough there good reason to upgrade. With Intel, I assume that any new processor I buy will require a new motherboard, simple as that.
16 EUs. Woah. For comparison: nVidia and AMD's current cards have over 1500 of them.
An EU ~= 2 shaders so 32 to 1500, but yes...
Why would anyone with such a extreme setup ever care for such shitty integrated graphics?
Ivy Bridge isn't what Intel considers "extreme", it's their mainstream processor. As such it'll go into plenty corporate desktops and other places that want CPU power but not to play games or for casual games. Less and less people get a discrete graphics card, because the Intels don't suck quite as bad as they used to, their market share is now about 60%. But yes, for this discussion it wasn't very good selling points. OTOH, if you game the Sandy Bridge-E doesn't actually deliver any more than a 2600K, put that money in graphics cards instead...
Honestly, with a $500+ entry tag plus cooler which is not included plus expensive, low volume motherboard you might want to compare to a dual processor Xeon machine rather than other desktops for some alleged server/workstation stability too. Performance was as expected, 6 cores to 4 so it's faster in well-threaded workstation applications, not that different otherwise.
What's disappointing is the platform, no USB 3.0, two SATA 6 Gbps ports, no SAS support, it seems like PCI express 3.0 made it in but no cards support it yet so there's nothing besides the processor that really screams high end. Well that and 8 memory slots if you feel 4x4GB isn't enough but there's alternatives like the old high end it replaces with 6 slots or 8 GB sticks that have been showing up lately - pricey but you can get 4x8GB for less than one of these CPUs. Don't get me wrong, it's the undisputed performance king but it's like the same car with a souped up engine and fuel system yet none of the features that say this is a $100k Ferrari.
I don't feel those are completely equivalent. Incentivize basically means stick and/or carrot, while you can motivate people in many ways. It excludes all internal motivation like taking pride in your work and feeling it is meaningful, it excludes social motivation like team spirit and recognition for excelling, it excludes motivation from improved working conditions like ergonomics, noise or other employee services. Incentivize is just trying to box you into doing what they want through rewards and punishments. Of course that's a big part of it, my pay check is definitively motivating. But my incentives are far from my only motivation.
So, then the composer sent a letter to the SACEM, explaining to them that they had solicited money in his name, and that he wanted to have it. A couple of weeks later, a bank transfer showed up at the band's account (not the composer's personal account) where the fee was reimbursed in full, but no explanation, nor excuse...
They were probably quite happy with that resolution, because in the end they collected it and the composer had to go to them to claim it. No precedent for anything else was set. So sure, they could probably get their 200 euro back but it does nothing to change the system.
Most of us as kids would screw up our faces when our parents would say "You've got your health" when we moaned about not having anything - sadly, as with so many things, you don't realise how true that is until you're older.
Mostly because it's being used in the same way as "think of the starving children in Africa". Of course there are people that are much, much worse off than us but if any comparison should always be towards the lowest possible bar then you'll lose every time. Particularly if you throw in history on how growing up today is much better than most children through history, probably including your own parents and grandparents. After all, most people - certainly kids and other young people you identify with - do have their health.
Also it's sometimes used as a poor man's equalizer, it doesn't matter that you're Steve Jobs you can still die a long drawn out death of cancer. In that yes your health is important and your health can't really be bought for money, but just because there's a variable you can't control doesn't mean poor and (good|bad) health beats rich and (good|bad) health. It's a just a way to mentally put a few people in the (rich, bad health) below you (poor, good health) in the feelgood hierarchy.
remember those now-traumatically-retro Nokia units, whose entire outer casing was a slightly loosely fitting ABS+Polycarbonate replaceable shell with a bit of crumple space between it and anything important?
I remember, but at the time I was more carrying the phone than using the phone. Okay for texting I needed a working set of buttons and a screen good enough to read but I didn't need or want a huge interface. On my iPhone I want my maximum size screen so I can surf the net or play games and so that my touchscreen controls are as accurate as possible. The only reason I want to limit is so that it still fits my pocket and talk to it like a normal phone. It'd be the same for an Android.
I do have a case for my phone, the good thing about that is that I don't have to use it all the time. Or if I'm using my phone for extended periods of time, I can take it out of the casing. That flexibility is worth it to me, and if I screw it up - and I almost did, but my iPhone survived hitting the asphalt with no case from a speeding bike, so it's not that fragile either - then that's a risk I took. Same as if I didn't bother to put on the wriststrap on my Wiimote and it went flying, the solution was obvious but I chose not to use it.
Why someone would do such a thing i'll never understand. my oldest is going to premed now and if brains were a gun he'd BFG my ass while if I was lucky I'd be packing an AK. hell I'm glad he is smarter than me and has the skills to go to medical school, as I WANT him to go farther than I did. But from what I saw many black folks look upon it as a direct insult to their intelligence and will come down hard on those not going into music or athletics.
Well, I got no experience with black culture on the matter but from the parents it very much about how they self-identify with their work and class of work. Like if I was a carpenter, my dad was a carpenter but you want go to be a brain surgeon? It all depends if it rubs them the wrong way of "Being like me isn't good enough?" or "Being a working class person isn't good enough for you?". Goes the other way around too, I know a family where mom's a judge, dad's a lawyer and both their kinds ended up as *drumroll* lawyers. I think they'd be quite disappointed if their kids decided they'd be a carpenter and plumber instead.
That's entirely different from peer culture, that's more of a self-boasting thing about what I'm doing it more important than what you're doing. Everybody likes to pretend that what they suck at isn't important. But does it really matter if black people won't go into heavy science, any more than that most women don't want to be engineers or most men don't want to be nurses, as long as they have equal opportunity to do so? Not really, unless you're into this big forced equality thing where everybody must do everything in equal proportion even if they don't want to.
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Lattice constant is 5.431 angstroms actually, but that's the unit cell of the crystal structure - the hexagon, not the shortest distance between two atoms. So 8nm = 34 atoms in a row or 15 hexagons, just atoms are easier to understand. In any case I deliberately didn't predict a limit, because people have been wrong about this so many times before. When the PIV started running into massive leakage current on 90nm, people were also saying "this is it" and now 8nm is on the roadmap. Maybe we'll run into that wall sooner rather than later, I was just pointing out the ridiculously hard limit in that we're approaching single atom size. The progress has gone on so long, defeated so many naysayers that people think we'll overcome everything and just continue following Moore's law to infinity. That won't happen...
Uh, the easiest solution for non-technical people is to not deal with it. Let Hotmail/Gmail/Yahoo be your email provider, Wordpress your blog provider, YouTube your video provider, Flickr your photo album provider and so on. Nothing else has shown the slightest hint of decentralizing, why should social media be any different? In fact they're more converging to be your one-stop email/im/blog/photo/video/rss/kitchen sink provider.
A lot of people today just have a laptop, when they bring it somewhere or don't have it turned on their shared photo album would go away so grandma can't look at the pics of her grandkids. You can email them but then you're back to the push model, just because you share an album on Facebook doesn't mean all of those who could look want all of it pushed to their machines. And by far most people don't want to manage a server, so you'd want some kind of hosted solution anyway. Something that doesn't go down or get you excess overcharge fees if you get a slashdotting or your video goes viral like on YouTube, that you don't have to deal with versions and upgrades and outages and whatnot. You know, not unlike what they get today....
There's a huge barrier to social media, because it has almost zero value without people to socialize with. Most other products and services I can use if I'm happy with them, doesn't really matter how many that are not. People try Google+, go "that's neat and all, but all my friends are on Facebook" and return there. Of course if you first lose your position as "the place to be" the same network effects will kill you quickly too, but it doesn't happen easily.
Control is even easier to understand in this context. Napster and Kazaa relied on a central server to provide the service. These services had the ability to control what was being listed, or transmitted using their software. By virtue of their licensing, they had the ability to control who even used it. P2P eliminated almost all central control by way of servers,
Actually, the completely anarchist P2P networks weren't doing all that great and were extremely spammed and filled with leechers. It was centralized services around servers like DC++ hubs and BitTorrent trackers that really drove P2P adoption, it's just that the developers had nothing to do with the servers anymore. Hell I just checked and TPB is now ranked #76 on Alexia and 15 of those above are google.* so in reality more like 60th most popular website in the world. Just like TPB split from the tracker service, the model works it's just routing around the legal system.
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But we don't have to build our side of the system like that, we only need enough neuron simulators on the surface, run them through an A/D circuit, do it our way then D/A it back into the brain. I'm pretty sure neurons like everything else has a resolution limit.
Unfortunately (for them in some ways, for us in others), selling a piece of plastic that you bought is a lot clearer ownership transfer than copying a few files and saying "you own these now."
Emphasis mine. Handing over a CD doesn't involve making any copies, so there's no copyright involved. Even if you call it a sale, then in practice it's "copy & delete". The law sort of assumes the work is fixed in a medium, if you say put your "used music" on a memory stick and sold the stick you'd be clear of copyright. Now you could say this is silly, you could for example have a "rebuy" program where you buy back the empty memory sticks afterwards so in practice only the music files were transferred. But the law doesn't always make sense like this, like ripping your own CD (legal) vs ripping someone else's CD (not legal) vs downloading a rip from the Internet (not legal), even if in all cases you own the original CD.
Before I sell a book, do I have to prove I didn't xerox it and kept a copy? No. Unless we've completely flip-flopped on this whole "presumption of innocence" thing, it's the copyright holder's job to prove, if not beyond a reasonable doubt then at least with a preponderance of evidence that you did keep a copy. If that's all but impossible, too bad.
If citizens are going to be held accountable for violating TOS as a criminal offense- we're either going to have a bunch more criminals OR in order for TOS to hold water they have to pass a dumb user test- be short, to the point and easily understandable by Joe the plumber.
The first one.
Now it's all "RUN!" and zapping things with his magic wand, err, sonic screwdriver. And sublimated smootchy-face that would embarrass booger and Mrs diPesto.
Well they've run into one of the issues many shows do, they've overpowered him with the "time can be rewritten" arc, saving himself from the prison box when the whole universe has turned against him and so on. That you can't cross your own time stream was like the most important limit to his powers, the answer to "Why can't we just go back with the TARDIS and undo this?" So they've had to offset that with an action pace, because if there was actually time to stop and think about it, there's a million ways he could have gotten out of that easily.
I don't know, with the Doctor's style of gatecrashing it can't be that hard to arrange a situation where you get "Time lord? What's a time lord?" "I thought they were extinct" "They say he's the last of his kind" and then fill in the necessary back story in a relatively short time. A movie would probably have to spend a regeneration though, they can explain the concept early though some flashbacks or whatever but they almost certainly have to use it. And not just cheat-use it as we've seen in the series, but an actual change of character.
Well, I think it has something to do with Android/Apple dominating the smartphone/tablet market, better for MS and Adobe to push for a HTML5 standard than letting the Android/iOS SDK become the new standard and they left out in the cold. Don't they've had a change of heart or anything.
Well, at this rate the last die shrink will be in the 2020s as we're down to single atoms, no more magic computers that get faster every year. The rest is a bit like that flying car, even 40 years ago that 4004 would have been a helluva human coprocessor for math but progress on any real cyborg functionality has never materialized. And if it does, it'll have almost nothing to do with CPU development as such.
Sounds more like he setup a personal account and was just giving his own articles some free PR.
Except they're not "his" articles, they're his employer's as they are most definitively work for hire. So can he use that work-for-hire to gather followers at his personal account? Well, as long as it's publicly published material I think you should be able to point to what you're written, otherwise it'd be pretty hard to be an author or journalist or whatever.
But:
1. I'd be very doubtful if the original username can be considered a personal account, seeing as he used his employer's trademark. If you brand it as your employer, it almost definitively is your employer's. Basically if it appeared like an authorized marketing channel, it doesn't really matter that it was unauthorized, just like a company can be bound by apparent authority by employees that didn't have the authority.
2. If he did anything but point to published articles, like for example he gave hints at upcoming articles, additional information or anything else that was internal to the company, that is using company knowledge and so goes your independence. Then they could say you used that unpublished knowledge to get an edge on everyone else, attracting people that want to know more about the company to his account.
3. Like others said, if he ever did anything on corporate time or using corporate resources, that's an implicit work for hire. I'd be very surprised if he managed to keep a perfect straight line here as more and more mix personal and work life, but in this case it'd be essential. I would think he got an article published, then went right to twitter about it long before the working day was over and the courts don't let you context-switch like a CPU, these five seconds I'm not an employee but now I am again.
True, but non-commercial copyright isn't just reduced it is gone if the Pirate Party gets their policy through. So you can't make a Harry Potter movie from the Harry Potter books without paying royalties, but sharing both the book and the movie would be fully legal. That would of course make the movie rights much less worth, so I'd say it's pretty close.
They have never reduced the pin count, because each successive platform has introduced wider memory controllers and/or QPI/DMI/PCIe lanes.
Nitpick: Strictly speaking they went from LGA1156 to LGA1155, lol. And from leaked slides it's rumored that Haswell (2013) will get that down to LGA1150, because they're moving some of the voltage regulators on-die. But yes, the "big things" like memory channels means the number's been generally going up.
Even the fastest Sandy Bridge-E draws less power than a Bulldozer even at much higher performance. It also costs 3-4 times as much, so performance/$ is quite shitty (hey, it's an extreme $999 proc) but you the winner in performance is clear. But thanks for trolling, come again.
Not sure if they count as systems, but Intel has about 75% of the TOP500 list with AMD about 13%. And that's coming from a period where AMD has had really strong Opterons. But then I don't think each node has a dozen or more sockets...
Intel actually don't release things on new sockets as much as people think. Every tick/tock pairing has one desktop socket, (..) Nehalem introduced LGA1156 and LGA1366, westmere reused them; Conroe introduced (properly) LGA775 and LGA771, Arandale reused them.
Which means the motherboard is good for exactly one generation on upgrades, on the same die size. Who'd seriously upgrade their almost-new Nehalem system to Westmere, Conroe to Arandale or Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge? Then you'd do better putting all that money into one processor. Socket compatibility is only good if it lasts long enough there good reason to upgrade. With Intel, I assume that any new processor I buy will require a new motherboard, simple as that.
16 EUs. Woah. For comparison: nVidia and AMD's current cards have over 1500 of them.
An EU ~= 2 shaders so 32 to 1500, but yes...
Why would anyone with such a extreme setup ever care for such shitty integrated graphics?
Ivy Bridge isn't what Intel considers "extreme", it's their mainstream processor. As such it'll go into plenty corporate desktops and other places that want CPU power but not to play games or for casual games. Less and less people get a discrete graphics card, because the Intels don't suck quite as bad as they used to, their market share is now about 60%. But yes, for this discussion it wasn't very good selling points. OTOH, if you game the Sandy Bridge-E doesn't actually deliver any more than a 2600K, put that money in graphics cards instead...
Honestly, with a $500+ entry tag plus cooler which is not included plus expensive, low volume motherboard you might want to compare to a dual processor Xeon machine rather than other desktops for some alleged server/workstation stability too. Performance was as expected, 6 cores to 4 so it's faster in well-threaded workstation applications, not that different otherwise.
What's disappointing is the platform, no USB 3.0, two SATA 6 Gbps ports, no SAS support, it seems like PCI express 3.0 made it in but no cards support it yet so there's nothing besides the processor that really screams high end. Well that and 8 memory slots if you feel 4x4GB isn't enough but there's alternatives like the old high end it replaces with 6 slots or 8 GB sticks that have been showing up lately - pricey but you can get 4x8GB for less than one of these CPUs. Don't get me wrong, it's the undisputed performance king but it's like the same car with a souped up engine and fuel system yet none of the features that say this is a $100k Ferrari.
I don't feel those are completely equivalent. Incentivize basically means stick and/or carrot, while you can motivate people in many ways. It excludes all internal motivation like taking pride in your work and feeling it is meaningful, it excludes social motivation like team spirit and recognition for excelling, it excludes motivation from improved working conditions like ergonomics, noise or other employee services. Incentivize is just trying to box you into doing what they want through rewards and punishments. Of course that's a big part of it, my pay check is definitively motivating. But my incentives are far from my only motivation.
So, then the composer sent a letter to the SACEM, explaining to them that they had solicited money in his name, and that he wanted to have it. A couple of weeks later, a bank transfer showed up at the band's account (not the composer's personal account) where the fee was reimbursed in full, but no explanation, nor excuse...
They were probably quite happy with that resolution, because in the end they collected it and the composer had to go to them to claim it. No precedent for anything else was set. So sure, they could probably get their 200 euro back but it does nothing to change the system.
Most of us as kids would screw up our faces when our parents would say "You've got your health" when we moaned about not having anything - sadly, as with so many things, you don't realise how true that is until you're older.
Mostly because it's being used in the same way as "think of the starving children in Africa". Of course there are people that are much, much worse off than us but if any comparison should always be towards the lowest possible bar then you'll lose every time. Particularly if you throw in history on how growing up today is much better than most children through history, probably including your own parents and grandparents. After all, most people - certainly kids and other young people you identify with - do have their health.
Also it's sometimes used as a poor man's equalizer, it doesn't matter that you're Steve Jobs you can still die a long drawn out death of cancer. In that yes your health is important and your health can't really be bought for money, but just because there's a variable you can't control doesn't mean poor and (good|bad) health beats rich and (good|bad) health. It's a just a way to mentally put a few people in the (rich, bad health) below you (poor, good health) in the feelgood hierarchy.
remember those now-traumatically-retro Nokia units, whose entire outer casing was a slightly loosely fitting ABS+Polycarbonate replaceable shell with a bit of crumple space between it and anything important?
I remember, but at the time I was more carrying the phone than using the phone. Okay for texting I needed a working set of buttons and a screen good enough to read but I didn't need or want a huge interface. On my iPhone I want my maximum size screen so I can surf the net or play games and so that my touchscreen controls are as accurate as possible. The only reason I want to limit is so that it still fits my pocket and talk to it like a normal phone. It'd be the same for an Android.
I do have a case for my phone, the good thing about that is that I don't have to use it all the time. Or if I'm using my phone for extended periods of time, I can take it out of the casing. That flexibility is worth it to me, and if I screw it up - and I almost did, but my iPhone survived hitting the asphalt with no case from a speeding bike, so it's not that fragile either - then that's a risk I took. Same as if I didn't bother to put on the wriststrap on my Wiimote and it went flying, the solution was obvious but I chose not to use it.
Why someone would do such a thing i'll never understand. my oldest is going to premed now and if brains were a gun he'd BFG my ass while if I was lucky I'd be packing an AK. hell I'm glad he is smarter than me and has the skills to go to medical school, as I WANT him to go farther than I did. But from what I saw many black folks look upon it as a direct insult to their intelligence and will come down hard on those not going into music or athletics.
Well, I got no experience with black culture on the matter but from the parents it very much about how they self-identify with their work and class of work. Like if I was a carpenter, my dad was a carpenter but you want go to be a brain surgeon? It all depends if it rubs them the wrong way of "Being like me isn't good enough?" or "Being a working class person isn't good enough for you?". Goes the other way around too, I know a family where mom's a judge, dad's a lawyer and both their kinds ended up as *drumroll* lawyers. I think they'd be quite disappointed if their kids decided they'd be a carpenter and plumber instead.
That's entirely different from peer culture, that's more of a self-boasting thing about what I'm doing it more important than what you're doing. Everybody likes to pretend that what they suck at isn't important. But does it really matter if black people won't go into heavy science, any more than that most women don't want to be engineers or most men don't want to be nurses, as long as they have equal opportunity to do so? Not really, unless you're into this big forced equality thing where everybody must do everything in equal proportion even if they don't want to.
Lattice constant is 5.431 angstroms actually, but that's the unit cell of the crystal structure - the hexagon, not the shortest distance between two atoms. So 8nm = 34 atoms in a row or 15 hexagons, just atoms are easier to understand. In any case I deliberately didn't predict a limit, because people have been wrong about this so many times before. When the PIV started running into massive leakage current on 90nm, people were also saying "this is it" and now 8nm is on the roadmap. Maybe we'll run into that wall sooner rather than later, I was just pointing out the ridiculously hard limit in that we're approaching single atom size. The progress has gone on so long, defeated so many naysayers that people think we'll overcome everything and just continue following Moore's law to infinity. That won't happen...
Uh, the easiest solution for non-technical people is to not deal with it. Let Hotmail/Gmail/Yahoo be your email provider, Wordpress your blog provider, YouTube your video provider, Flickr your photo album provider and so on. Nothing else has shown the slightest hint of decentralizing, why should social media be any different? In fact they're more converging to be your one-stop email/im/blog/photo/video/rss/kitchen sink provider.
A lot of people today just have a laptop, when they bring it somewhere or don't have it turned on their shared photo album would go away so grandma can't look at the pics of her grandkids. You can email them but then you're back to the push model, just because you share an album on Facebook doesn't mean all of those who could look want all of it pushed to their machines. And by far most people don't want to manage a server, so you'd want some kind of hosted solution anyway. Something that doesn't go down or get you excess overcharge fees if you get a slashdotting or your video goes viral like on YouTube, that you don't have to deal with versions and upgrades and outages and whatnot. You know, not unlike what they get today....
There's a huge barrier to social media, because it has almost zero value without people to socialize with. Most other products and services I can use if I'm happy with them, doesn't really matter how many that are not. People try Google+, go "that's neat and all, but all my friends are on Facebook" and return there. Of course if you first lose your position as "the place to be" the same network effects will kill you quickly too, but it doesn't happen easily.
Control is even easier to understand in this context. Napster and Kazaa relied on a central server to provide the service. These services had the ability to control what was being listed, or transmitted using their software. By virtue of their licensing, they had the ability to control who even used it. P2P eliminated almost all central control by way of servers,
Actually, the completely anarchist P2P networks weren't doing all that great and were extremely spammed and filled with leechers. It was centralized services around servers like DC++ hubs and BitTorrent trackers that really drove P2P adoption, it's just that the developers had nothing to do with the servers anymore. Hell I just checked and TPB is now ranked #76 on Alexia and 15 of those above are google.* so in reality more like 60th most popular website in the world. Just like TPB split from the tracker service, the model works it's just routing around the legal system.