Instead of sleeping on the factory floor to show solidarity, perhaps he should have spent his time better analyzing production lines for improvement. A good manager doesn't work harder, a good manager works smarter.
It's not about working smarter, it's about recognizing the hardships your employees go through, even if you as a manager can't do much short term because of the mythical man-month problem. Sometimes it's just crunch time and it's not very motivational when your boss goes home early while you're pulling an all-nighter.
People don't want cars that take hours to refill. Stopping for gas is a pain in the ass, and it's quick. It's why hybrid gas sell better. How about swappable batteries standardized for all cars? These folks are sweating for something that won't fly.
Most cars don't actually go very far very often, I'd say almost every destination I go to by car is within ~100 miles. If it's further then it's often much further and I'd rather fly and use a taxi/rental. If you're drive long distances regularly then it's simply not the car for you. The problem with EVs is that when you're out of range and out of fast charging options you're really stuck. So what you mainly need are more charging stations so the worst that'll happen is a top-up at a 50+ kWh charging station, 90 miles in 30 minutes is tolerable if it's only occasionally. It's being unwillingly stuck for 3 hours on a slow charger because the quick one was out of order that is the killer.
Hybrids can be a decent alternative, but they have a problem creating good incentives. At least here in Norway cars with a small range extender get harshly penalized as not pure EVs, while certain hybrids that'll barely pull out of the driveway without running on gas get huge tax breaks for being part electric. The Chevy Volt (2017) actually looks pretty nice, 53 miles electric and 420 mile range. When you know it can be topped up with 350+ miles of gas any time you need it range isn't an issue, while 53 miles is more than the average daily commute. Haven't seen that one launched in Norway yet, only the Bolt as Opel Ampera-e.
Most of the tools we also require a lot of 3D performance. Maya, AfterEffects, and a number of programs you've likely never heard of.
Maya runs on Linux, BlackMagic has released Linux versions of DaVinci Resolve and Fusion but as long as you're tied to Adobe? When hell freezes over. I know quite a few people who would drop Windows in an instant if Adobe decided to release Creative Cloud for Linux. I think the problem is Adobe knows people buy the OS that their products run on, not the other way around. While there's many that would switch OS, there's very little new business in porting everything to Linux so it's not worth it. It's available for both Mac and Windows so they must have done most the heavy lifting to make it cross-platform, it's a lack of incentive.
It's more an assumption than an adjustment. Despite the ~20k diagnostic codes in ICD-10 they don't accurately reflect the individual severity, like all dehydrations go under E86.0 from light to severe. The doctors work shifts and take the people that come but if there's more than one doctor at the same time serving a queue there might be a subtle prioritization that the best one handles the worst cases or the junior doctor takes extra many easy cases skewing the statistic.
Our study has several limitations. First, our findings would be confounded if older physicians, on average, treat patients at higher risk of 30 day mortality because of factors unmeasured by our analysis. We specifically chose our within hospital study design to deal with this concern, hypothesizing that patients are essentially randomized to hospitalist physicians of various ages within the same hospital, an assumption supported by the largely similar demographic and clinical characteristics across patients that older and younger physicians treat.
Why aren't there any distributed indexes? Seems silly to have an entire distributed distribution system without a matching index.
Torrents were made so that you could put a 10kb torrent file instead of a 700 MB Linux ISO on your website, it was a way for a master source to "crowdfund" hosting. It didn't try to be a P2P solution like Napster or Kazaa. That's also why they never got sued, nothing about the tool itself made it dubious in the the eyes of the law. The biggest problem with an index is spam and DDoS. For it to work well I think you'd have to do something more like RSS with digital signatures and PGP's web of trust. Like say if you find a torrent made by a release group, you can subscribe to their "channel" where only they can post new torrents + info about other "channels" they trust/no longer trust.
Even then there's issues of propagation and when a client should start/stop searching for new posts. Then again magnet links are pretty small, might just say that every update is a full replacement with a timestamp and max limit like 1000 torrents * 20 (SHA-1) = ~20kb. So distributed host checks signature and timestamp, if newer replace RSS "feed". Client asks by signature hash and gets the latest version, can verify signature and start downloading the magnet links for more info on each entry. Web of trust can be done similarly, hash of trusted signature + trust value. It all sounds pretty doable...
Probably not. This feels similar to the copyright situation surrounding recipes.
Pretty sure it's not. Copyright doesn't protect functional elements, like you can copyright the design of a car wheel but if you tried to claim the location and size of the bolts was infringing the court would reject it because they're functional requirements to attach the wheel to the car - that's why proprietary connectors are usually patented. Same with recipes, adding the same ingredients in the same order are functional elements to creating the same dish. To create an emotional response is not a "function", a joke is no more protected than a song, poem, painting or any other non-functional work.
Indeed, most software is governed by business rules and being able to explain exactly what the system will do and why is essential. If say budgets over $100k need board approval, the someone has to program exactly that and nothing else. AI is great when the outcome is more important than the reasons behind it, like does this patient have cancer? If it can consult a huge database of cases and make millions of statistical weights we don't really care how it arrives at 83% as long as roughly 83 out of 100 patients end up actually having cancer. Then it's usually back to business rules for further examination/treatment though. More AI = more software work, not less.
Once Threadripper is out, AMD will have a consumer chip with more cores than Intel's top enthusiast chip. Intel's enthusiast chip with the most cores was the ($1600) 6950X with 10 cores, and a 12-core Skylake-X upgrade is expected to release in a few weeks. The big question is pricing on these chips. Once the hype dies down, the question is who really needs these? Professionals who REALLY need to quickly reencode lots of video at maximum quality, or run lots of Photoshop filters, can afford a $1600 chip. That $300 Ryzen with 8 cores will be 'good enough' for nearly everyone who can't afford to spend top dollar, otherwise you should use the EPYC, or the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. I hear that most servers only user 4-core CPUs and don't need more than that, so I guess EPYC will be a niche use-case.
I'm quite sure the "enthusiast" line of CPUs only exists because all the work is pretty much done for servers. Even paired with extreme high-end graphics cards it's completely unnecessary and people who do the kind of photo / video / rendering / simulation work that can saturate 8+ cores are more prosumers than consumers. But it's a lot better for AMD to offer good value for some than to offer poor value for everyone and it's easier to justify buying something good you might not strictly need. I bought an 1800X even though a quad core would probably be enough, but it's four more cores on the rare occasions I need them, future proofing and a fuck you to Intel's 5% IPC improvements and $1000+ CPU prices.
I hear that most servers only user 4-core CPUs and don't need more than that, so I guess EPYC will be a niche use-case.
Well a lot of servers will naturally trend towards what's the most cost efficient, if we do 100 2x4 core servers or 50 2x8 core servers it's still 800 cores type of thing. I think your information is a little out of date though, if you look at say AWS dedicated pricing they offer servers from 2x10 cores to 4x18 cores. If you need less than that you'd just get a virtualized instance with four cores. They still have high frequency 4/6/8 core CPUs for applications with crazy per-core licensing requirements but they're now the niche, 10 is normal. But there's lots and lots of servers that can't just scale horizontally like that, mostly because "eventual consistency" isn't good enough because either you sold the airplane ticket or you didn't. It won't be for every use, but it has plenty uses.
Well you're jumping a bit from microeconomics to macroeconomics there. In microeconomics you assume that it's an open system, you can pick whatever products, services, markets and employees etc. you want and the rest will go somewhere else and do something different. In macroeconomics you have - except for a marginal immigration and emigration - a closed system. If you create a system only for the best and the brightest, the rest won't just "disappear" they'll be unemployed, welfare recipients, criminals or vagrants. It's not unusual in these circumstances that what you're doing is actually damage control. It's better to spend $100k on a $100k loss that would otherwise become a $500k nightmare.
Reason 4: File size. Everyone talks about how space is cheap these days. Well that wasn't always the case. For many people their music collection was expanding rapidly at a time where space to store it was much harder/more expensive to come by. Perhaps the compression has improved since the early days, but when Ogg Vorbis first started making waves i checked it out, and the ogg files at the time were almost ten times the size of the equivalent mp3 files. Meaning my 75-80 GB of mp3s would have forced me to upgrade to a 1 TB drive, which would have been prohibitively expensive in 2005. And the other issue i ran into while testing the new format was...
You must be thinking of FLAC. Though I would say that Ogg Vorbis users generally wanted high quality so the bitrate was rarely any less than MP3s...
The trailer showed Neo stopping bullets with his mind. In the trailer. That was supposed to be the shock and awe moment that tied it all together.
I think that's your re-imagination of the script, it's already pre-spoiled in the movie itself too.
Neo: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets? Morpheus: No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.
There was never really any question that he'd transcend and defeat Agent Smith in the Matrix somehow, the thriller was the counter-offensive in the real world to find the Nebuchadnezzar and destroy it because with their minds trapped in the Matrix they couldn't just run or use their EMP. Don't get me wrong I thought it was cool, it just wasn't a major spoiler that he'd eventually stop bullets. And I never saw the trailer before the movie.
It's because OGG didn't always exist dummy! By the time OGG showed up, MP3 was already everywhere. I may be showing my age but perhaps you are too young to remember the days of MP3.
And totally unsupported by the #1 portable music player of the time. Hint: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." And #2 that was probably Creative's Nomad, at least the early versions. The whole Napster/P2P wave was pretty much all MP3. Basically Ogg Vorbis didn't really arrive on the scene on time to even start a format war, much less win one.
No, every piece of music is lossy because analog cannot be encoded into digital without an infinite amount of loss.
This is a piece of audiophile bullshit that makes no more sense than the tortoise and the hare "paradox". For those who don't know it, the tortoise starts with a head start but whenever the hare gets to where the tortoise was it's moved a little further so the hare must run an infinite number of distances like 100m, 10m, 1m, 0.1m, 0.01m, 0.001m and so on to "infinity". Same with analog, the infinite loss is also infinitely insignificant.
Well, patents expire exactly the same so soon you'll be able to use MPEG2. Realistically if you want patent-free, use VP9. If you want to license, go H.264/HEVC. If you want to develop, well probably nobody cares until you make money. The world is full of obscure formats, for example many have tried to replace JPG and failed. Not much reason to try a shakedown until there's more than pocket lint.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket currently carries a list price of about $54 million. However, the cost of fuel for each flight is only around $200,000 - about 0.4% of the total.
cockpits should have their own loo. airlines would be against this, too. surprise surprise. that's even more expensive than reinforcing the doors even more than they have been already. that extra 10 square feet of cabin space could hold at least 6 paying passengers!
I'm sure they could have made some kind of double-entry toilet, the question is how much of a difference it'd make. Even if we assume he was too cowardly to directly assault the other pilot, he could have drugged his food, blocked the toilet door, created some kind of pretext to get the captain to go to the passenger/cargo area or whatever. Even getting him to the doorway would be enough if you can just push/throw/kick him out and slam the door shut behind you. It's a trusted co-worker, not someone you'd suspect being a potential hijacker/terrorist so he wouldn't see it coming.
The people providing support should be the ones making MRI scanners, ATMs and other expensive equipment that only works with XP. Even when XP was brand new, did they really expect those machines to only have a lifetime of around 10 years? Microsoft was clear about how long support was going to be provided for.
Well, what are the alternatives? Microsoft has (at least until now) had 5+5 years support, RHEL has 10 years for Production 1/2/3, after that you're on special long term support contracts. There's no commonly available platform that offers 20-30-40 years of support, or however long that hardware can last. And they will drop support for new hardware ~5 years into that life cycle, in case you wanted to upgrade the hardware it's running on. I don't think any company wants to make upgrade pricing for a system they don't know what will be like with unknown demand that far in advance. And quite more on the practical side, the people stuck with the problem next decade probably isn't the staff or executives that bought this machine. They've long since moved on to greener pastures.
Nothing is going to make IS adhere to the real-world Geneva convention either. The point of such treaties aren't direct enforcement, they're to establish a standard for civilized warfare so that you can apply pressure to other nations to join, be able to chastise those who break it and give reasons to impose sanctions, intervene or join the opposing forces. Take for example the treaty on anti-personnel landmines, if you've promised to disarm it would be a pretty big scandal if you were secretly stockpiling and/or deploying them anyway. Assad kills people every day but start a chemical attack and he got a rather swift response.
If there was a treaty to disclose vulnerabilities in mass market consumer software (because face it they won't give up everything) then leaks like these would show that the US are lying sacks of shit whose words are worth nothing. Being a man of your words and having credibility are very real currencies in international politics. Breaking one treaty would put into question every other treaty the US has signed too. There's no real other force behind it than your own country's promise, there wouldn't be any other direct consequences than a loss of reputation. But that is usually sufficient to do some good, at least it puts a cost on violating it. Today the NSA can just shrug and say they're doing their job.
Now this is the feature that screams of interference by a spy agency. If this feature was for Management, then YOU COULD MANAGE IT! It would be turned off by default. You could turn it off. You could permanently disable it. I have been asking for these capabilities for years. I know I am not the only one. When I talk to other security folks and IT admins, the majority of them want to be able to manage and control the possibility of remote management.
This is the best info on what it is I found:
"Built into many Intel-based platforms is a small, low power computer subsystem called the Intel Management Engine (Intel ME). This can perform various tasks while the system is booting, running or sleeping. It operates independently from the main CPU, BIOS & OS but can interact with them if needed. The ME is responsible for many parts of an Intel-based system. Such functionality extends, but it's not limited, to Platform Clocks Control (ICC), Thermal Monitoring, Fan Control, Power Management, Overclocking, Silicon Workaround (resolves silicon bugs which would have otherwise required a new cpu stepping), Identity Protection Technology, Rapid Start Technology, Smart Connect Technology, Sensor Hub Controller (ISHC), Active Management Technology (AMT), Small Business Advantage (SBA), Wireless Display, Protected Video/Audio Path etc. For certain advanced/corporate features (AMT, SBA etc) the ME uses an out-of-band (OOB) network interface to perform functions even when the system is powered down, the OS and/or hard drivers are non-functional etc. Thus it's essential for it to be operational in order for the platform to be working properly, no matter if the advanced/corporate features are available or not."
Sure, the remote management bits can be disabled (and in many cases aren't even supported), but part of that sounds pretty impossible to disable. From what I gather AMD is using ARM's TrustZone to achieve pretty much the same things.
Or more likely person with an agenda that stands to profit from distributing alternate facts. 86 months is just 7 years and _not_ a long-term trend that can be used to predict what is going to happen in 5, 10, 20 or 50 years. Also, much of what is already used in automation these days is in an experimental phase or in its first, limited deployment. Anybody that believes "new" jobs will replace the ones lost to automation long-term is completely disconnected from reality and deeply stupid. Of course, there are many people around that are adequately described by these two characteristics.
Of course not, but whoever thinks they have useful predictions for 50 years out is the fool. What people thought in 1967 is nothing like 2017 is actually like and while we're sometimes tech-pessimists we're also sometimes tech-optimists like fusion power and flying cars. The Google car project started in 2009, it's now 2017 and there's no set launch date for when you'll actually see a non-experimental self-driving car without a backup driver even on a sunny day on a dry highway. And it's not like a billion self-driving cars would roll off the assembly line on day one. What I'm trying to say is that just because something can be automated it could take a lot of time and money to actually automate and that it might not be worth doing until you're doing some pretty big investments. Basically, there's a lot of inertia in the system that might mean your children or grandchildren should worry but the world won't change overnight.
I also don't think you should underestimate how much the human element actually acts as a translator between the customer and the work to be done, sure you could probably with a lot of effort make a robot electrician or a robot plumber. But I think you'd still need someone to mediate between what you want and the robot, even if they're not pulling actual wires or laying down pipes anymore. Same way some extremely optimistic people thought that with 4GL and visual development tools business users would make their own systems and software developers would be a dying breed. Heck robots still haven't even begun to replace burger flippers and fry cooks, maybe we should at least see some more signs of the robot apocalypse before we claim the sky is falling?
I wouldn't mind getting filezilla and qbittorrent and notepad++ and firefox and telegram and... through a storefront too because it seems every day at least one of them needs an update.
Just for that, you shouldn't need a store. If third party software could simply register the security certificate that most have anyway and an update check URL you should be able to get one "update all" button, "shut down and install updates" etc. like for Windows updates or on Linux but Microsoft doesn't want to provide those third party facilities. Not unless they get a cut.
You are actually applying a lot of ill intent here where they are just using a standard business practice among both GPU and CPU companies. The majority of the chips come from the same production line. Chips that fail QA on a certain % of their CUDA cores are "binned down" to consumer level chips. This allow them to recoup costs and provide an adequate supply of pro chips while keeping prices relatively low.
Well there's certainly that from the supply side, but they're hardly that innocent. Every company tries to create products that make sure the people who can afford it pick that product and not a cheaper one. The classic quote on this is Dupuit (1849):
It is not because of the few thousand francs which would have to be spent to put a roof over the third-class carriage or to upholster the third-class seats that some company or other has open carriages with wooden benches... What the company is trying to do is prevent the passengers who can pay the second-class fee from travelling third class; it hits the poor, not because it wants to hurt them, but to frighten the rich... And it is again for the same reason that the companies, having proved almost cruel to the third-class passengers and mean to the second-class ones, become lavish in dealing with first-class customers. Having refused the poor what is necessary, they give the rich what is superfluous.
This is how you choose to not include some feature like Intel's missing consumer ECC support - which apparently AMD can afford to include, so clearly it's not that expensive - simply so the right pick people pick the "right" product. You can certainly claim some of this is for cost saving on the bill of materials or validation cost, but that's often just part of the reason or simply an excuse.
A smart company also doesn't want to create their own Osborne effect even if their performance comes more in leaps and bounds. Money comes from having a constant supply of product that's always better than the last one, if your performance would be like 100% -> 130% -> 130% -> 130% you can probably gouge out more money doing 100% -> 120% -> 125% -> 130% even if you're artificially putting the handbrake on. Like for example how they release hardcover books first, or show movies exclusively in the cinema for the first months... it's a way to forcibly upsell the fans, even though you'd gladly read a paperback or watch it on your own TV.
Or simply scale down the size of chips and deliver a 5% performance increase for a much cheaper cost, like Intel's been doing when AMD has been out of the high end market. It's not always you want to give the market more, just because technology improves. I know our Telco was really holding out on rolling out DSL because they made more money keeping people on pay-per-minute PSTN/ISDN lines. If you have a captive/loyal customer group they can make more money doing less. There's lots of tricks you can pull off in the border area between product design and economics to maximize profit. Capitalism isn't about serving the customer, that's an occasional side effect of making profit. Never forget that.
I'd pay $50 for a final "never try upgrading this PC to Anniversary Edition" fix. The forced upgrades when they fail again and again and again and again and again is a huge pain.
I got that for free last July when the free "upgrade" program ended. Sounds like Win10 got a -$50 value right there. Sadly despite the occasional good news on Linux games, it looks like Linux gaming is going nowhere with 0.76% market share on latest Steam survey. Some games are now starting to come out as DX12 exclusives while the list of Vulkan games remain very, very short and usually in beta as an alternative rendering path.
The initial voting was interesting with Amazon getting exactly ZERO votes. I'm an Amazon customer but life would go on if they went away and I guess everybody else feels that way.
I wasn't very surprised, except for Kindle, Echo and a few other unremarkable products they're 99% just an e-tailer and some other company would fill the void. I also like my local grocery store, but it's quite obvious I'd find another even if I wouldn't be that happy with location, selection and prices.
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Instead of sleeping on the factory floor to show solidarity, perhaps he should have spent his time better analyzing production lines for improvement. A good manager doesn't work harder, a good manager works smarter.
It's not about working smarter, it's about recognizing the hardships your employees go through, even if you as a manager can't do much short term because of the mythical man-month problem. Sometimes it's just crunch time and it's not very motivational when your boss goes home early while you're pulling an all-nighter.
People don't want cars that take hours to refill. Stopping for gas is a pain in the ass, and it's quick. It's why hybrid gas sell better. How about swappable batteries standardized for all cars? These folks are sweating for something that won't fly.
Most cars don't actually go very far very often, I'd say almost every destination I go to by car is within ~100 miles. If it's further then it's often much further and I'd rather fly and use a taxi/rental. If you're drive long distances regularly then it's simply not the car for you. The problem with EVs is that when you're out of range and out of fast charging options you're really stuck. So what you mainly need are more charging stations so the worst that'll happen is a top-up at a 50+ kWh charging station, 90 miles in 30 minutes is tolerable if it's only occasionally. It's being unwillingly stuck for 3 hours on a slow charger because the quick one was out of order that is the killer.
Hybrids can be a decent alternative, but they have a problem creating good incentives. At least here in Norway cars with a small range extender get harshly penalized as not pure EVs, while certain hybrids that'll barely pull out of the driveway without running on gas get huge tax breaks for being part electric. The Chevy Volt (2017) actually looks pretty nice, 53 miles electric and 420 mile range. When you know it can be topped up with 350+ miles of gas any time you need it range isn't an issue, while 53 miles is more than the average daily commute. Haven't seen that one launched in Norway yet, only the Bolt as Opel Ampera-e.
Most of the tools we also require a lot of 3D performance. Maya, AfterEffects, and a number of programs you've likely never heard of.
Maya runs on Linux, BlackMagic has released Linux versions of DaVinci Resolve and Fusion but as long as you're tied to Adobe? When hell freezes over. I know quite a few people who would drop Windows in an instant if Adobe decided to release Creative Cloud for Linux. I think the problem is Adobe knows people buy the OS that their products run on, not the other way around. While there's many that would switch OS, there's very little new business in porting everything to Linux so it's not worth it. It's available for both Mac and Windows so they must have done most the heavy lifting to make it cross-platform, it's a lack of incentive.
Before I would read a book while getting a tan... now I can surf the net, play Angry Birds or read an e-book if I still want that.
It's more an assumption than an adjustment. Despite the ~20k diagnostic codes in ICD-10 they don't accurately reflect the individual severity, like all dehydrations go under E86.0 from light to severe. The doctors work shifts and take the people that come but if there's more than one doctor at the same time serving a queue there might be a subtle prioritization that the best one handles the worst cases or the junior doctor takes extra many easy cases skewing the statistic.
Our study has several limitations. First, our findings would be confounded if older physicians, on average, treat patients at higher risk of 30 day mortality because of factors unmeasured by our analysis. We specifically chose our within hospital study design to deal with this concern, hypothesizing that patients are essentially randomized to hospitalist physicians of various ages within the same hospital, an assumption supported by the largely similar demographic and clinical characteristics across patients that older and younger physicians treat.
Why aren't there any distributed indexes? Seems silly to have an entire distributed distribution system without a matching index.
Torrents were made so that you could put a 10kb torrent file instead of a 700 MB Linux ISO on your website, it was a way for a master source to "crowdfund" hosting. It didn't try to be a P2P solution like Napster or Kazaa. That's also why they never got sued, nothing about the tool itself made it dubious in the the eyes of the law. The biggest problem with an index is spam and DDoS. For it to work well I think you'd have to do something more like RSS with digital signatures and PGP's web of trust. Like say if you find a torrent made by a release group, you can subscribe to their "channel" where only they can post new torrents + info about other "channels" they trust/no longer trust.
Even then there's issues of propagation and when a client should start/stop searching for new posts. Then again magnet links are pretty small, might just say that every update is a full replacement with a timestamp and max limit like 1000 torrents * 20 (SHA-1) = ~20kb. So distributed host checks signature and timestamp, if newer replace RSS "feed". Client asks by signature hash and gets the latest version, can verify signature and start downloading the magnet links for more info on each entry. Web of trust can be done similarly, hash of trusted signature + trust value. It all sounds pretty doable...
Probably not. This feels similar to the copyright situation surrounding recipes.
Pretty sure it's not. Copyright doesn't protect functional elements, like you can copyright the design of a car wheel but if you tried to claim the location and size of the bolts was infringing the court would reject it because they're functional requirements to attach the wheel to the car - that's why proprietary connectors are usually patented. Same with recipes, adding the same ingredients in the same order are functional elements to creating the same dish. To create an emotional response is not a "function", a joke is no more protected than a song, poem, painting or any other non-functional work.
Indeed, most software is governed by business rules and being able to explain exactly what the system will do and why is essential. If say budgets over $100k need board approval, the someone has to program exactly that and nothing else. AI is great when the outcome is more important than the reasons behind it, like does this patient have cancer? If it can consult a huge database of cases and make millions of statistical weights we don't really care how it arrives at 83% as long as roughly 83 out of 100 patients end up actually having cancer. Then it's usually back to business rules for further examination/treatment though. More AI = more software work, not less.
Once Threadripper is out, AMD will have a consumer chip with more cores than Intel's top enthusiast chip. Intel's enthusiast chip with the most cores was the ($1600) 6950X with 10 cores, and a 12-core Skylake-X upgrade is expected to release in a few weeks. The big question is pricing on these chips. Once the hype dies down, the question is who really needs these? Professionals who REALLY need to quickly reencode lots of video at maximum quality, or run lots of Photoshop filters, can afford a $1600 chip. That $300 Ryzen with 8 cores will be 'good enough' for nearly everyone who can't afford to spend top dollar, otherwise you should use the EPYC, or the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. I hear that most servers only user 4-core CPUs and don't need more than that, so I guess EPYC will be a niche use-case.
I'm quite sure the "enthusiast" line of CPUs only exists because all the work is pretty much done for servers. Even paired with extreme high-end graphics cards it's completely unnecessary and people who do the kind of photo / video / rendering / simulation work that can saturate 8+ cores are more prosumers than consumers. But it's a lot better for AMD to offer good value for some than to offer poor value for everyone and it's easier to justify buying something good you might not strictly need. I bought an 1800X even though a quad core would probably be enough, but it's four more cores on the rare occasions I need them, future proofing and a fuck you to Intel's 5% IPC improvements and $1000+ CPU prices.
I hear that most servers only user 4-core CPUs and don't need more than that, so I guess EPYC will be a niche use-case.
Well a lot of servers will naturally trend towards what's the most cost efficient, if we do 100 2x4 core servers or 50 2x8 core servers it's still 800 cores type of thing. I think your information is a little out of date though, if you look at say AWS dedicated pricing they offer servers from 2x10 cores to 4x18 cores. If you need less than that you'd just get a virtualized instance with four cores. They still have high frequency 4/6/8 core CPUs for applications with crazy per-core licensing requirements but they're now the niche, 10 is normal. But there's lots and lots of servers that can't just scale horizontally like that, mostly because "eventual consistency" isn't good enough because either you sold the airplane ticket or you didn't. It won't be for every use, but it has plenty uses.
Well you're jumping a bit from microeconomics to macroeconomics there. In microeconomics you assume that it's an open system, you can pick whatever products, services, markets and employees etc. you want and the rest will go somewhere else and do something different. In macroeconomics you have - except for a marginal immigration and emigration - a closed system. If you create a system only for the best and the brightest, the rest won't just "disappear" they'll be unemployed, welfare recipients, criminals or vagrants. It's not unusual in these circumstances that what you're doing is actually damage control. It's better to spend $100k on a $100k loss that would otherwise become a $500k nightmare.
Reason 4: File size. Everyone talks about how space is cheap these days. Well that wasn't always the case. For many people their music collection was expanding rapidly at a time where space to store it was much harder/more expensive to come by. Perhaps the compression has improved since the early days, but when Ogg Vorbis first started making waves i checked it out, and the ogg files at the time were almost ten times the size of the equivalent mp3 files. Meaning my 75-80 GB of mp3s would have forced me to upgrade to a 1 TB drive, which would have been prohibitively expensive in 2005. And the other issue i ran into while testing the new format was...
You must be thinking of FLAC. Though I would say that Ogg Vorbis users generally wanted high quality so the bitrate was rarely any less than MP3s...
The trailer showed Neo stopping bullets with his mind. In the trailer. That was supposed to be the shock and awe moment that tied it all together.
I think that's your re-imagination of the script, it's already pre-spoiled in the movie itself too.
Neo: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets? Morpheus: No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.
There was never really any question that he'd transcend and defeat Agent Smith in the Matrix somehow, the thriller was the counter-offensive in the real world to find the Nebuchadnezzar and destroy it because with their minds trapped in the Matrix they couldn't just run or use their EMP. Don't get me wrong I thought it was cool, it just wasn't a major spoiler that he'd eventually stop bullets. And I never saw the trailer before the movie.
It's because OGG didn't always exist dummy! By the time OGG showed up, MP3 was already everywhere. I may be showing my age but perhaps you are too young to remember the days of MP3.
And totally unsupported by the #1 portable music player of the time. Hint: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." And #2 that was probably Creative's Nomad, at least the early versions. The whole Napster/P2P wave was pretty much all MP3. Basically Ogg Vorbis didn't really arrive on the scene on time to even start a format war, much less win one.
No, every piece of music is lossy because analog cannot be encoded into digital without an infinite amount of loss.
This is a piece of audiophile bullshit that makes no more sense than the tortoise and the hare "paradox". For those who don't know it, the tortoise starts with a head start but whenever the hare gets to where the tortoise was it's moved a little further so the hare must run an infinite number of distances like 100m, 10m, 1m, 0.1m, 0.01m, 0.001m and so on to "infinity". Same with analog, the infinite loss is also infinitely insignificant.
Well, patents expire exactly the same so soon you'll be able to use MPEG2. Realistically if you want patent-free, use VP9. If you want to license, go H.264/HEVC. If you want to develop, well probably nobody cares until you make money. The world is full of obscure formats, for example many have tried to replace JPG and failed. Not much reason to try a shakedown until there's more than pocket lint.
Not really. Although the bulk of the cost of launching is the cost of the Stages the cost of the fuel is not insignificant
Bzzzt, wrong answer
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket currently carries a list price of about $54 million. However, the cost of fuel for each flight is only around $200,000 - about 0.4% of the total.
cockpits should have their own loo. airlines would be against this, too. surprise surprise. that's even more expensive than reinforcing the doors even more than they have been already. that extra 10 square feet of cabin space could hold at least 6 paying passengers!
I'm sure they could have made some kind of double-entry toilet, the question is how much of a difference it'd make. Even if we assume he was too cowardly to directly assault the other pilot, he could have drugged his food, blocked the toilet door, created some kind of pretext to get the captain to go to the passenger/cargo area or whatever. Even getting him to the doorway would be enough if you can just push/throw/kick him out and slam the door shut behind you. It's a trusted co-worker, not someone you'd suspect being a potential hijacker/terrorist so he wouldn't see it coming.
The people providing support should be the ones making MRI scanners, ATMs and other expensive equipment that only works with XP. Even when XP was brand new, did they really expect those machines to only have a lifetime of around 10 years? Microsoft was clear about how long support was going to be provided for.
Well, what are the alternatives? Microsoft has (at least until now) had 5+5 years support, RHEL has 10 years for Production 1/2/3, after that you're on special long term support contracts. There's no commonly available platform that offers 20-30-40 years of support, or however long that hardware can last. And they will drop support for new hardware ~5 years into that life cycle, in case you wanted to upgrade the hardware it's running on. I don't think any company wants to make upgrade pricing for a system they don't know what will be like with unknown demand that far in advance. And quite more on the practical side, the people stuck with the problem next decade probably isn't the staff or executives that bought this machine. They've long since moved on to greener pastures.
Nothing is going to make IS adhere to the real-world Geneva convention either. The point of such treaties aren't direct enforcement, they're to establish a standard for civilized warfare so that you can apply pressure to other nations to join, be able to chastise those who break it and give reasons to impose sanctions, intervene or join the opposing forces. Take for example the treaty on anti-personnel landmines, if you've promised to disarm it would be a pretty big scandal if you were secretly stockpiling and/or deploying them anyway. Assad kills people every day but start a chemical attack and he got a rather swift response.
If there was a treaty to disclose vulnerabilities in mass market consumer software (because face it they won't give up everything) then leaks like these would show that the US are lying sacks of shit whose words are worth nothing. Being a man of your words and having credibility are very real currencies in international politics. Breaking one treaty would put into question every other treaty the US has signed too. There's no real other force behind it than your own country's promise, there wouldn't be any other direct consequences than a loss of reputation. But that is usually sufficient to do some good, at least it puts a cost on violating it. Today the NSA can just shrug and say they're doing their job.
Now this is the feature that screams of interference by a spy agency. If this feature was for Management, then YOU COULD MANAGE IT! It would be turned off by default. You could turn it off. You could permanently disable it. I have been asking for these capabilities for years. I know I am not the only one. When I talk to other security folks and IT admins, the majority of them want to be able to manage and control the possibility of remote management.
This is the best info on what it is I found:
"Built into many Intel-based platforms is a small, low power computer subsystem called the Intel Management Engine (Intel ME). This can perform various tasks while the system is booting, running or sleeping. It operates independently from the main CPU, BIOS & OS but can interact with them if needed. The ME is responsible for many parts of an Intel-based system. Such functionality extends, but it's not limited, to Platform Clocks Control (ICC), Thermal Monitoring, Fan Control, Power Management, Overclocking, Silicon Workaround (resolves silicon bugs which would have otherwise required a new cpu stepping), Identity Protection Technology, Rapid Start Technology, Smart Connect Technology, Sensor Hub Controller (ISHC), Active Management Technology (AMT), Small Business Advantage (SBA), Wireless Display, Protected Video/Audio Path etc. For certain advanced/corporate features (AMT, SBA etc) the ME uses an out-of-band (OOB) network interface to perform functions even when the system is powered down, the OS and/or hard drivers are non-functional etc. Thus it's essential for it to be operational in order for the platform to be working properly, no matter if the advanced/corporate features are available or not."
Sure, the remote management bits can be disabled (and in many cases aren't even supported), but part of that sounds pretty impossible to disable. From what I gather AMD is using ARM's TrustZone to achieve pretty much the same things.
Or more likely person with an agenda that stands to profit from distributing alternate facts. 86 months is just 7 years and _not_ a long-term trend that can be used to predict what is going to happen in 5, 10, 20 or 50 years. Also, much of what is already used in automation these days is in an experimental phase or in its first, limited deployment. Anybody that believes "new" jobs will replace the ones lost to automation long-term is completely disconnected from reality and deeply stupid. Of course, there are many people around that are adequately described by these two characteristics.
Of course not, but whoever thinks they have useful predictions for 50 years out is the fool. What people thought in 1967 is nothing like 2017 is actually like and while we're sometimes tech-pessimists we're also sometimes tech-optimists like fusion power and flying cars. The Google car project started in 2009, it's now 2017 and there's no set launch date for when you'll actually see a non-experimental self-driving car without a backup driver even on a sunny day on a dry highway. And it's not like a billion self-driving cars would roll off the assembly line on day one. What I'm trying to say is that just because something can be automated it could take a lot of time and money to actually automate and that it might not be worth doing until you're doing some pretty big investments. Basically, there's a lot of inertia in the system that might mean your children or grandchildren should worry but the world won't change overnight.
I also don't think you should underestimate how much the human element actually acts as a translator between the customer and the work to be done, sure you could probably with a lot of effort make a robot electrician or a robot plumber. But I think you'd still need someone to mediate between what you want and the robot, even if they're not pulling actual wires or laying down pipes anymore. Same way some extremely optimistic people thought that with 4GL and visual development tools business users would make their own systems and software developers would be a dying breed. Heck robots still haven't even begun to replace burger flippers and fry cooks, maybe we should at least see some more signs of the robot apocalypse before we claim the sky is falling?
I wouldn't mind getting filezilla and qbittorrent and notepad++ and firefox and telegram and ... through a storefront too because it seems every day at least one of them needs an update.
Just for that, you shouldn't need a store. If third party software could simply register the security certificate that most have anyway and an update check URL you should be able to get one "update all" button, "shut down and install updates" etc. like for Windows updates or on Linux but Microsoft doesn't want to provide those third party facilities. Not unless they get a cut.
You are actually applying a lot of ill intent here where they are just using a standard business practice among both GPU and CPU companies. The majority of the chips come from the same production line. Chips that fail QA on a certain % of their CUDA cores are "binned down" to consumer level chips. This allow them to recoup costs and provide an adequate supply of pro chips while keeping prices relatively low.
Well there's certainly that from the supply side, but they're hardly that innocent. Every company tries to create products that make sure the people who can afford it pick that product and not a cheaper one. The classic quote on this is Dupuit (1849):
It is not because of the few thousand francs which would have to be spent to put a roof over the third-class carriage or to upholster the third-class seats that some company or other has open carriages with wooden benches... What the company is trying to do is prevent the passengers who can pay the second-class fee from travelling third class; it hits the poor, not because it wants to hurt them, but to frighten the rich... And it is again for the same reason that the companies, having proved almost cruel to the third-class passengers and mean to the second-class ones, become lavish in dealing with first-class customers. Having refused the poor what is necessary, they give the rich what is superfluous.
This is how you choose to not include some feature like Intel's missing consumer ECC support - which apparently AMD can afford to include, so clearly it's not that expensive - simply so the right pick people pick the "right" product. You can certainly claim some of this is for cost saving on the bill of materials or validation cost, but that's often just part of the reason or simply an excuse.
A smart company also doesn't want to create their own Osborne effect even if their performance comes more in leaps and bounds. Money comes from having a constant supply of product that's always better than the last one, if your performance would be like 100% -> 130% -> 130% -> 130% you can probably gouge out more money doing 100% -> 120% -> 125% -> 130% even if you're artificially putting the handbrake on. Like for example how they release hardcover books first, or show movies exclusively in the cinema for the first months... it's a way to forcibly upsell the fans, even though you'd gladly read a paperback or watch it on your own TV.
Or simply scale down the size of chips and deliver a 5% performance increase for a much cheaper cost, like Intel's been doing when AMD has been out of the high end market. It's not always you want to give the market more, just because technology improves. I know our Telco was really holding out on rolling out DSL because they made more money keeping people on pay-per-minute PSTN/ISDN lines. If you have a captive/loyal customer group they can make more money doing less. There's lots of tricks you can pull off in the border area between product design and economics to maximize profit. Capitalism isn't about serving the customer, that's an occasional side effect of making profit. Never forget that.
I'd pay $50 for a final "never try upgrading this PC to Anniversary Edition" fix. The forced upgrades when they fail again and again and again and again and again is a huge pain.
I got that for free last July when the free "upgrade" program ended. Sounds like Win10 got a -$50 value right there. Sadly despite the occasional good news on Linux games, it looks like Linux gaming is going nowhere with 0.76% market share on latest Steam survey. Some games are now starting to come out as DX12 exclusives while the list of Vulkan games remain very, very short and usually in beta as an alternative rendering path.
The initial voting was interesting with Amazon getting exactly ZERO votes. I'm an Amazon customer but life would go on if they went away and I guess everybody else feels that way.
I wasn't very surprised, except for Kindle, Echo and a few other unremarkable products they're 99% just an e-tailer and some other company would fill the void. I also like my local grocery store, but it's quite obvious I'd find another even if I wouldn't be that happy with location, selection and prices.