That's only true for benchmarks that use a limited number of registers. In most real world cases x86-64 is faster because of the larger number of registers that are available in that mode, allowing a reduction in the number of instructions that get executed. (One now mostly irrelevant exception: Intel's first generation 64-bit x86 chip, the Pentium D, where performance was limited by instruction fetch rather than by the execution units. 64 bit code was usually slower on that processor because the larger pointers increased code size.)
The lack of English subtitles is a rights issue. Often those subtitles are created by the international distributor, not the movie company. If the movie company doesn't license them for distribution in Japan they're not entitled to use them, and they don't want to spend the money to create their own English subtitles that only a few viewers in Japan will use. Perhaps Netflix could independently negotiate rights to the English subtitles; it's worth asking them whether they can do that.
The problem with the cheap Hisense TVs isn't just the smart features. Lots of us don't use those anyway, we just hook the TV up to a Roku or Fire TV or Chromecast or a set-top box from the cable guys. Everybody who bought a smart TV will probably stop using its smart features within five years because they will be hopelessly out of date.
The real problem is that they don't deliver good picture quality. You'll see various problems like color banding, bad implementation of variable backlighting that cause the image to "breathe", and so on. They're OK as value for money - you can get a big image at a small price - but they don't match what a higher quality TV can deliver.
Not all TVs made in China are crap. Vizio (an American company until it was bought by LeEco, but the sets have always been made in China) has delivered some excellent TVs - not quite top tier like a $5000 Sony or LG but not priced like one either, and multiple steps up from a Hisense.
There are many high quality products being made in China. The Hisense-made TVs are not among them; Hisense is a price-leader company, not a high quality one. Don't know if Sharp has any recourse at this point; they should looked more carefully before making that deal.
Even if you don't personally connect you will be living in a connected world. When you walk into a store it's likely to be IoT-enabled. (Some experiments have been happening for years, like the supermarkets that replaced conventional shelf price labels with networked e-Ink signage.) If you drive you'll be interacting with IoT-enabled cars. (And it's only a matter of time until human drivers are banned in some places because they represent an unacceptable risk to the other cars.) You will have to move to a really remote place to avoid most of the connected stuff.
There is AI and there is AI. This program is almost certainly AI in some sense of the term.
On the one hand we have what people sometimes call general intelligence or "true AI". That means capable of independent and original thought, and possibly passing the Turing Test someday. (I'm not convinced that even a true AI will pass the Turing Test because its life experiences will be so different from those of a human, or at least won't pass until it becomes enough smarter than humans to be able to fake out the test, but that's another discussion.) After more than 50 years of working on that problem we still don't know enough about it to say whether we will ever succeed, let alone when it will happen. (Ray Kurzweil thinks it will happen shortly after we can build computers that are as complex as a human brain,
but I think he underestimates the software problem.)
But there are also many kinds of more limited results that have come out of AI research, including entire families of tools like neural networks. Facial and voice recognition, robotics, expert systems, game playing programs that beat human experts... all things that have their roots in work done by the AI community.
The suicide prediction software falls into the latter category. It has the potential to be a useful tool in lessening harm to people. But you are correct that it is not true AI; nor is ANYTHING developed so far.
The main problem with the Classic products is finding them. They've been crowded off the shelves by the huge numbers of other Lego products. For example, a Target store I was in recently had one and a half aisles of Lego products, but Target only sells 13 Classic Lego kits and that store didn't have all of them. All in all the Classic line represented less than 5% of their total Lego shelf space. Their larger stores do carry most of the 13 products (a couple of things like the 48x48 base plate appear to be order-only) but stock may be thin and so running out can be an issue. Rght now each Boston area store appears to have only one of the Large Creative Brick kits, the biggest of the Classic sets.
You also neglect the possibility that he might have interviewed at those larger companies even if he never chose to take a job with any of them. Or he might have attended public launch events there, or gone to parties as the guest of a friend. Plenty of opportunities to have seen those places, as is typical of people who work in the tech industry in Silicon Valley.
I worked in tech in Boston for nearly 30 years without ever being employed by a Fortune 500 company. But I've been inside plenty of them. Haven't seen any Legos hanging from the ceiling though; that's not a thing here.
Perl is also capable of being used as far more than a scripting tool. Some of us do use it for real programming. It just never caught on for that in the same way that Python has, perhaps because of its reputation for being unreadable. (Just about any computer language can be used to write code that is hard for humans to read, but Perl offers a particularly rich wealth of ways to do that. It's also possible to use Perl to write beautiful and expressive code.)
They aren't required to identify their network, however. They generally do for branding reasons, but the legal requirement only covers call sign, channel, and location. (In the modern world of digital TV that means the PSIP channel, not the one they actually broadcast on which is different for most stations.) It can be done either audibly or visually, though most stations do both. Exception: if the station is doing a long broadcast like a live concert or a soccer game that has no natural breaks at the right times they will skip the audible ID and just put something on screen.
This is all about US ID requirements. The rules in other countries may vary.
But if you watch them on TV there is a network logo on the screen ALL THE TIME, an indignity that Netflix does not inflict on you. It's also true if you watch shows on the networks' web sites, which the millennials are presumably not doing because they would have to know which network the show comes from to do that. If you actually watch the commercials on network TV (rather than leaving the room or fast-forwarding through them on your DVR) they usually also include a bunch of network promos.
Amazon does a fair amount of children's programming, but their adult shows mostly seem to be aimed at people older than the millennials. Their best known show, Transparent, is about a 70 year old trans woman and her children, all of whom are significantly past millennial age. So it's not surprising that recognition of Amazon originals is low among millennials; they're not the audience.
One reason that 32 bit Windows may still exist is that it offers support of old 16 bit Windows programs. 64 bit Windows does not.
32 bit Windows also uses a bit less memory. That was a big deal for those 1GB systems that were offered through the first release of Windows 10 (the Anniversary Update changed the minimum RAM requirement to 2GB, a long overdue move) and still helps a bit on 2GB systems. Once you go to 4GB you definitely want to go to 64 bits because 32 bit Windows doesn't support all of your memory.
I find my Echo really useful in the kitchen. My hands are busy so voice commands are handy. Mostly I play music or other audio content and set timers, but asking for the time of the day or the weather forecast is also nice. I also have a Dot at my electronics workbench, mostly for music. Same issue again, hands are occupied.
Alexa is always listening but it is not always transmitting. They do the first layer of detecting "Alexa" (or "Amazon" or "Computer" if you change the wake up word) on the device, and then transmit it to the cloud for verification if the device thinks it has a hit. That behavior is easily verified with a network sniffer. Sometimes the cloud software will decide the device had a false positive and not trigger Alexa after all.
Tesla doesn't have the resources to both make the car you want and also build a car to bring electric cars to the masses. Elon Musk has decided that the latter mission is the more important one. Faraday Future may build the car you're looking for if they ever manage to get something to market.
A lot of the appearance of electric cars is dictated by function. Reducing the coefficient of drag directly translates into increased range, and so most electric cars (especially ones designed to be driven on the highway because it becomes more important at high speed; it's not as big a factor for the little Chinese electrics or the Smart Electric Drive) pay a lot of attention to that. Getting range in other ways isn't as easy as it is with a gasoline car; increasing the size of the gas tank doesn't cost much, but adding more battery capacity does. Buyers of hybrids also care about efficiency, leading to some of them being ugly in the same ways that you find electric cars ugly. (Prius and the former Honda Insight, I'm looking at you. Especially the original Insight.)
Blu-Ray and HDCP 2.2 have both been cracked. I haven't yet heard about a crack of Ultra Blu-Ray, other than via HDCP 2.2 after it's been decompressed by the player.
It's all about how you use it. If all or part of what you do with a computer is digital art, the Surface Pro is an awesome device. Its primary competition is Wacom's MobileStudio Pro, which has a better pen (though Microsoft's new pen has narrowed the gap) but falls short in just about every other way (heavier, more expensive, worse battery life, no keyboard docking option).
The various Surface Pro clones from other manufacturers don't have pens that are even as good as the previous generation Microsoft pen, let alone the new one, if they offer a pen at all. Though if you're really looking to be a digital artist on the cheap I'd take a look at the Chuwi SurBook that is currently on Indiiegogo.
i9 will have no effect on i7. i9 is just new branding for the Extreme Edition CPUs that Intel has been selling for a while. But Intel will lower the prices of the i3, i5, and i7 CPUs in response to the new threat from AMD.
The x5-Z8350 is an Atom processor, not a Core processor. Very different architecture, so the clock speeds are not directly comparable; at any given speed and core count the Atom is a lot slower and not just because of the modest amount of cache. A quad core Atom can't reach the level of performance of a dual core CPU based on the Core architecture, even a lowly Celeron with a tiny cache. Atom was Intel's play for the ultra-low-power and low cost CPU market: tablets, phones, and embedded systems. It also shows up in Chromebooks and very low end laptops.
One reason that consumer motherboards currently top out at 64GB is that there is an engineering tradeoff between the speed of RAM and the amount supported. Unless the CPU and chip set implement additional RAM channels, once you go beyond four DIMMs you have to use registered RAM rather than unbuffered RAM. (In this context, registered has nothing to do with signing up the RAM with some sort of authority; it means that the memory sticks have buffer registers on them.) Registered RAM is slower because of the additional delay caused by the buffers - at this level of speed every nanosecond counts. RAM module density increases over time, so eventually somebody will release 32GB unbuffered DIMMs and the RAM ceiling will increase to 128GB. (There is also the question of whether existing chip sets will support them when they arrive, so it may or may not lead to more RAM capacity for older systems. I'd expect Ryzen to be ready, and probably Skylake and Kaby Lake as well.)
At the present time, registered RAM is also quite a bit more expensive new. (Used it's sometimes cheaper because of low demand.) But that's because of limited volume, because it's sold to a less price sensitive market, and because most registered RAM is also ECC RAM which means that more memory chips are needed. But ECC aside, it's not inherently much more expensive to make; the register chips are cheap. If registered RAM were widely used in consumer PCs the price delta would be negligible.
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That's only true for benchmarks that use a limited number of registers. In most real world cases x86-64 is faster because of the larger number of registers that are available in that mode, allowing a reduction in the number of instructions that get executed. (One now mostly irrelevant exception: Intel's first generation 64-bit x86 chip, the Pentium D, where performance was limited by instruction fetch rather than by the execution units. 64 bit code was usually slower on that processor because the larger pointers increased code size.)
The lack of English subtitles is a rights issue. Often those subtitles are created by the international distributor, not the movie company. If the movie company doesn't license them for distribution in Japan they're not entitled to use them, and they don't want to spend the money to create their own English subtitles that only a few viewers in Japan will use. Perhaps Netflix could independently negotiate rights to the English subtitles; it's worth asking them whether they can do that.
The problem with the cheap Hisense TVs isn't just the smart features. Lots of us don't use those anyway, we just hook the TV up to a Roku or Fire TV or Chromecast or a set-top box from the cable guys. Everybody who bought a smart TV will probably stop using its smart features within five years because they will be hopelessly out of date.
The real problem is that they don't deliver good picture quality. You'll see various problems like color banding, bad implementation of variable backlighting that cause the image to "breathe", and so on. They're OK as value for money - you can get a big image at a small price - but they don't match what a higher quality TV can deliver.
Not all TVs made in China are crap. Vizio (an American company until it was bought by LeEco, but the sets have always been made in China) has delivered some excellent TVs - not quite top tier like a $5000 Sony or LG but not priced like one either, and multiple steps up from a Hisense.
There are many high quality products being made in China. The Hisense-made TVs are not among them; Hisense is a price-leader company, not a high quality one. Don't know if Sharp has any recourse at this point; they should looked more carefully before making that deal.
Even if you don't personally connect you will be living in a connected world. When you walk into a store it's likely to be IoT-enabled. (Some experiments have been happening for years, like the supermarkets that replaced conventional shelf price labels with networked e-Ink signage.) If you drive you'll be interacting with IoT-enabled cars. (And it's only a matter of time until human drivers are banned in some places because they represent an unacceptable risk to the other cars.) You will have to move to a really remote place to avoid most of the connected stuff.
There is AI and there is AI. This program is almost certainly AI in some sense of the term.
On the one hand we have what people sometimes call general intelligence or "true AI". That means capable of independent and original thought, and possibly passing the Turing Test someday. (I'm not convinced that even a true AI will pass the Turing Test because its life experiences will be so different from those of a human, or at least won't pass until it becomes enough smarter than humans to be able to fake out the test, but that's another discussion.) After more than 50 years of working on that problem we still don't know enough about it to say whether we will ever succeed, let alone when it will happen. (Ray Kurzweil thinks it will happen shortly after we can build computers that are as complex as a human brain, but I think he underestimates the software problem.)
But there are also many kinds of more limited results that have come out of AI research, including entire families of tools like neural networks. Facial and voice recognition, robotics, expert systems, game playing programs that beat human experts... all things that have their roots in work done by the AI community.
The suicide prediction software falls into the latter category. It has the potential to be a useful tool in lessening harm to people. But you are correct that it is not true AI; nor is ANYTHING developed so far.
The main problem with the Classic products is finding them. They've been crowded off the shelves by the huge numbers of other Lego products. For example, a Target store I was in recently had one and a half aisles of Lego products, but Target only sells 13 Classic Lego kits and that store didn't have all of them. All in all the Classic line represented less than 5% of their total Lego shelf space. Their larger stores do carry most of the 13 products (a couple of things like the 48x48 base plate appear to be order-only) but stock may be thin and so running out can be an issue. Rght now each Boston area store appears to have only one of the Large Creative Brick kits, the biggest of the Classic sets.
You also neglect the possibility that he might have interviewed at those larger companies even if he never chose to take a job with any of them. Or he might have attended public launch events there, or gone to parties as the guest of a friend. Plenty of opportunities to have seen those places, as is typical of people who work in the tech industry in Silicon Valley.
I worked in tech in Boston for nearly 30 years without ever being employed by a Fortune 500 company. But I've been inside plenty of them. Haven't seen any Legos hanging from the ceiling though; that's not a thing here.
They still make the big boxes of generic pieces. Might be hard to find them among the aisles and aisles of other Lego sfuff.
Perl is also capable of being used as far more than a scripting tool. Some of us do use it for real programming. It just never caught on for that in the same way that Python has, perhaps because of its reputation for being unreadable. (Just about any computer language can be used to write code that is hard for humans to read, but Perl offers a particularly rich wealth of ways to do that. It's also possible to use Perl to write beautiful and expressive code.)
They aren't required to identify their network, however. They generally do for branding reasons, but the legal requirement only covers call sign, channel, and location. (In the modern world of digital TV that means the PSIP channel, not the one they actually broadcast on which is different for most stations.) It can be done either audibly or visually, though most stations do both. Exception: if the station is doing a long broadcast like a live concert or a soccer game that has no natural breaks at the right times they will skip the audible ID and just put something on screen.
This is all about US ID requirements. The rules in other countries may vary.
But if you watch them on TV there is a network logo on the screen ALL THE TIME, an indignity that Netflix does not inflict on you. It's also true if you watch shows on the networks' web sites, which the millennials are presumably not doing because they would have to know which network the show comes from to do that. If you actually watch the commercials on network TV (rather than leaving the room or fast-forwarding through them on your DVR) they usually also include a bunch of network promos.
Amazon does a fair amount of children's programming, but their adult shows mostly seem to be aimed at people older than the millennials. Their best known show, Transparent, is about a 70 year old trans woman and her children, all of whom are significantly past millennial age. So it's not surprising that recognition of Amazon originals is low among millennials; they're not the audience.
One reason that 32 bit Windows may still exist is that it offers support of old 16 bit Windows programs. 64 bit Windows does not.
32 bit Windows also uses a bit less memory. That was a big deal for those 1GB systems that were offered through the first release of Windows 10 (the Anniversary Update changed the minimum RAM requirement to 2GB, a long overdue move) and still helps a bit on 2GB systems. Once you go to 4GB you definitely want to go to 64 bits because 32 bit Windows doesn't support all of your memory.
I find my Echo really useful in the kitchen. My hands are busy so voice commands are handy. Mostly I play music or other audio content and set timers, but asking for the time of the day or the weather forecast is also nice. I also have a Dot at my electronics workbench, mostly for music. Same issue again, hands are occupied.
Alexa is always listening but it is not always transmitting. They do the first layer of detecting "Alexa" (or "Amazon" or "Computer" if you change the wake up word) on the device, and then transmit it to the cloud for verification if the device thinks it has a hit. That behavior is easily verified with a network sniffer. Sometimes the cloud software will decide the device had a false positive and not trigger Alexa after all.
Tesla doesn't have the resources to both make the car you want and also build a car to bring electric cars to the masses. Elon Musk has decided that the latter mission is the more important one. Faraday Future may build the car you're looking for if they ever manage to get something to market.
A lot of the appearance of electric cars is dictated by function. Reducing the coefficient of drag directly translates into increased range, and so most electric cars (especially ones designed to be driven on the highway because it becomes more important at high speed; it's not as big a factor for the little Chinese electrics or the Smart Electric Drive) pay a lot of attention to that. Getting range in other ways isn't as easy as it is with a gasoline car; increasing the size of the gas tank doesn't cost much, but adding more battery capacity does. Buyers of hybrids also care about efficiency, leading to some of them being ugly in the same ways that you find electric cars ugly. (Prius and the former Honda Insight, I'm looking at you. Especially the original Insight.)
The OP didn't say that it's the only reason to see those movies, but rather that it's a reason to see them NOW rather than later.
Blu-Ray and HDCP 2.2 have both been cracked. I haven't yet heard about a crack of Ultra Blu-Ray, other than via HDCP 2.2 after it's been decompressed by the player.
It's all about how you use it. If all or part of what you do with a computer is digital art, the Surface Pro is an awesome device. Its primary competition is Wacom's MobileStudio Pro, which has a better pen (though Microsoft's new pen has narrowed the gap) but falls short in just about every other way (heavier, more expensive, worse battery life, no keyboard docking option).
The various Surface Pro clones from other manufacturers don't have pens that are even as good as the previous generation Microsoft pen, let alone the new one, if they offer a pen at all. Though if you're really looking to be a digital artist on the cheap I'd take a look at the Chuwi SurBook that is currently on Indiiegogo.
i9 will have no effect on i7. i9 is just new branding for the Extreme Edition CPUs that Intel has been selling for a while. But Intel will lower the prices of the i3, i5, and i7 CPUs in response to the new threat from AMD.
The x5-Z8350 is an Atom processor, not a Core processor. Very different architecture, so the clock speeds are not directly comparable; at any given speed and core count the Atom is a lot slower and not just because of the modest amount of cache. A quad core Atom can't reach the level of performance of a dual core CPU based on the Core architecture, even a lowly Celeron with a tiny cache. Atom was Intel's play for the ultra-low-power and low cost CPU market: tablets, phones, and embedded systems. It also shows up in Chromebooks and very low end laptops.
One reason that consumer motherboards currently top out at 64GB is that there is an engineering tradeoff between the speed of RAM and the amount supported. Unless the CPU and chip set implement additional RAM channels, once you go beyond four DIMMs you have to use registered RAM rather than unbuffered RAM. (In this context, registered has nothing to do with signing up the RAM with some sort of authority; it means that the memory sticks have buffer registers on them.) Registered RAM is slower because of the additional delay caused by the buffers - at this level of speed every nanosecond counts. RAM module density increases over time, so eventually somebody will release 32GB unbuffered DIMMs and the RAM ceiling will increase to 128GB. (There is also the question of whether existing chip sets will support them when they arrive, so it may or may not lead to more RAM capacity for older systems. I'd expect Ryzen to be ready, and probably Skylake and Kaby Lake as well.)
At the present time, registered RAM is also quite a bit more expensive new. (Used it's sometimes cheaper because of low demand.) But that's because of limited volume, because it's sold to a less price sensitive market, and because most registered RAM is also ECC RAM which means that more memory chips are needed. But ECC aside, it's not inherently much more expensive to make; the register chips are cheap. If registered RAM were widely used in consumer PCs the price delta would be negligible.
Businesses mostly buy their computers assembled rather than buying components. So there isn't much of a retail market for Quadro boards.