Protectionist legislation introduced thanks to the large corporations. And no, the mythical "market" won't solve the issue.
As for the fees, that's exactly how the municipal networks in Sweden work, companies frequently bid to manage the physical networks, and then various ISP's rent capacity and offer their services. But that's still a lack of political will on the US part, both among the politicians, and the people, who vote those people in.
The issue is not that 5G and satellite is being introduced, it's the drivel you posted about it being less maintenance and more reliable than fibre:
First of all, 5G depends on fibre. But in addition to possible fibre breaks, you also have to deal with the following: Atmospheric conditions including, but not limited to, dust, rain, snow, hail. Wildlife nesting/hoarding in antennas( see https://www.youtube.com/watch?...) Traffic degradation not just in bandwidth but also latency-wise, as with all wireless.
And for satellite, it's even more susceptible to atmospheric conditions, and will have worse bandwidth and latency issues in practice.
In this case, the government in the US, both on state level and federally, has in the majority of cases worked for the companies benefit. Having LESS government would make that situation worse, because it'd allow the large, established corporations to trample everyone else even harder.
Gigabit available in rural areas allow for running a greater amount of business from home, it allows for multiple household members to run bandwidth intensive tasks without affecting latency.
In Sweden, rural broadband has helped slow down or even reverse rural depopulation. And before you start yapping in a simpleton way about "oh, so small" etc, keep in mind that Sweden is larger than California, and we have municipalities larger than Connecticut, and larger than New Jersey if you only look at land area.
As others have mentioned, being able to rapidly patch games is nice too, especially when every household member plays different games.
So all in all, I find your view both shortsighted and very narrow.
Ah, this bullshit again. The only US state that has a valid reason to complain about area or population density, for the purposes of building out a fibre network, is Alaska. Every other state is easily manageable, there's only a lack of political will, and corporate bribes to ensure it doesn't happen.
The bandwidth in Amazon's HPC nodes is sort of ok compared to some cluster configurations, but the latency still leaves a fair bit to be desired. Last I tested, 6 months ago, the AWS HPC networking still had a 6 times higher latency on real world tasks I tested it with, compared to Infiniband equipped nodes(depending on the node hardware in question, GPU's might even talk over Infiniband to another GPU inside the node, if it's on another PCIe root complex, because it's faster, and I didn't receive an answer to that question from Amazon when I asked)
Actually, it has been explained properly: The co-pilots were both utter fucktards who had gone out to a nightclub, drinking alcohol and smoking weed, so their mental state was not the one required for proper high function in a crisis, as shown by the fact that they didn't even try to circumvent the storm. The captain had sleep issues and had gone to take a nap, and came to the cockpit mid-situation, with the two fucktards at the controls.
Yes, it's meaningful, because it means it'll be hooked up to the remote heating system for the small community, so serving a double utility role, and saves them from building a separate gas, coal or oil fired plant for that role.
Not the same thing, even with your stretched logic.
The monthly fee is a subscription for access to the server. The loot drop is tied to a player activity based event, influenced by player skill in the group. So you'd have to be really deluded or stupid to think that they are the same thing at all.
The delta times were added to remove a lot of hazy judgement errors on the part of drivers, to improve safety both for drivers and the marshals who might be out on track clearing debris, removing cars etc. Drivers, especially the junior ones, tend to overestimate their abilities, as well as those of their car, especially in bad weather, and that can lead to some nasty accidents.
One accident in particular was Jules Bianchi, who was speeding rather heavily under a double yellow condition(slow down and be prepared to stop at any time), in heavy rain. His telemetry shows that he was pushing his shitbox Marussia heavier than Hamilton and Rosberg pushed their far superior Mercs, and Vettel and Ricciardo pushed their far superior Red Bulls. As a result, he ended up crashing into a crane vehicle on the runoff, and almost crashing into the marshals working there too, to clear away another car that had crashed.
In some cases, it can be as much as 0.5 to 0.7 seconds difference, which is huge at elite level. But even between the teams, the driver skill makes a big difference: Vettel had this to say about Hamilton's qualifying lap: http://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story...
And, point in case, Vettel vs Hamilton. Last year proved, beyond a doubt, that Hamilton has better emotional control, and FAR better situational awareness for wheel to wheel racing. Vettel has shown multiple times in his racing career that he's unable to consider a third car involved in any corner etc. Last year, that cost him the race, as well as the championship lead, in Singapore.
And yes, I agree about the general fitness level nowadays. When you watch pictures of Senna and Prost from the 80's, and they were peak fitness on the grid, pretty much, and compared to todays drivers, they seem like average joes, physically. And then you had Mansell rocking up with a slight belly etc:p
No, motorsport was always about the racing. The nonsense about "it's about the spectacle" is bullshit that's been driven by the entertainment media. If you can't enjoy racing because there's less noise, you weren't there to enjoy the motorsport to begin with, you were only there for a circus... And for that, there's the motorized one-ring circuses, I mean, NASCAR and Indy Car. Or they can just watch a Hollywood movie.
"Frankly no one would miss it - racing enthusiasts have moved on."
The RACING enthusiasts still watch F1 and WEC. It's the rednecks/yokels/bogans etc that stopped watching, because they can't get their needless noise, needless crashes and other showbiz "spectacle"
Funny anecdote time: I was at the 6 Hours of Spa in 2016, and it was quite amusing that the loudest car, the Corvette, was dead last in its class, while the fastest cars of the race, the LMP1 hybrids, were also the least noisy(and frankly scary to see them burst out of the corners and accelerate like no sportscar prototypes have ever done before them)
Fun fact: Despite the addition of loads of corners and chicanes, the fastest overall lap time of Le Mans, ever, is by a hybrid. The type of car you claim offers no spectacle.
From Le Mans 2017, onboard a GTE Pro, and you see a LMP2 pulling away, when suddenly a wild LMP1-H zooms past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The car has always been the critical factor, ever since F1 started in the 50's. Hell, even in the predecessor, the Grand Prix racing of the 20's and 30's, the car was the critical factor.
That still does not diminish the fact that a superb driver will utterly wipe the floor with a merely good driver, in the same car(unless you're NASCAR or Indy Car, where you have rules to fuck over drivers who are too good, or allow teams to use one driver to ram a competitor out of the race, so another driver for the team can win... But then, that's sports over in the Corporatist States of America in a nutshell, so....)
Even if ray-tracing isn't used for graphics, you can use it for the sound engine, with the benefit of making it hardware accelerated. Would make a whole lot of games more interesting, for example Stealthers like Thief, horror games etc etc.
Just because something is "obvious" in math(that is, on the theoretical side) does not mean how to implement it in hardware is obvious. You are making a false equivalence here.
Oh, and making an "obvious" claim in hindsight is both intellectually and morally disingenious. A patent DB search yields me no results on previous attempts to implement this in hardware, thus it is justifiable. There's no prior art for an actual hardware implementation. The theory side doesn't come into it.
Actually, implementing the logic gates for it can very well be worth a patent. Since there doesn't seem to be any prior art for actually implementing it with logic gates in a quick patent DB search, that definitely makes it a justifiable patent.
Amiga's weren't really good for real-time 3D graphics, such as shaded structures etc, due to using planar graphics, as opposed to chunky graphics. However 3D creation software on Amigas was often quite a bit faster than on Mac's with better hardware, or roughly equivalent PC's, due to more responsive UI etc. However, Commodore senior management fucked up a lot, so the Amiga stagnated, and PC just steamrolled ahead.
Yes, the tiny DRM bit, that controls mode setting, memory management via DMA-BUF(which conveniently also allows for CPU access...) and a whole lot of other neat kernelspace stuff.
DMA-BUFs kmap in particular, used together with Spectre, will definitely need to be tested.
Also, with CUDA, some OpenCL implementations, and some Vulkan implementations, you can build Compute Kernels that run both on GPU and CPU.
Couple all those above, with the move towards UMA, and you have some serious testing that needs to be done, and just handwaving it away by immediately assuming that everything is safe because "drm is just a tiny little bit" is inane.
The problem is, due to the Unix architecture, a lot of the GPU system lives in the kernelspace while still executing userspace code, and a process can thus straddle both.
On Windows, due to the GPU drivers being usermode, that's mitigated somewhat, but still not entirely safe.
One thing that's not been tested is the leakiness where you have mixed levels in a process, like hardware acceleration in browsers, or games using GPU, on the Linux side. DSP's etc also need testing.
Browsing and games have taken a hit in my use case: Lots of small file accesses, network I/O and many processes active with GPU and other kernel level functions.
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Protectionist legislation introduced thanks to the large corporations. And no, the mythical "market" won't solve the issue.
As for the fees, that's exactly how the municipal networks in Sweden work, companies frequently bid to manage the physical networks, and then various ISP's rent capacity and offer their services. But that's still a lack of political will on the US part, both among the politicians, and the people, who vote those people in.
The issue is not that 5G and satellite is being introduced, it's the drivel you posted about it being less maintenance and more reliable than fibre:
First of all, 5G depends on fibre. But in addition to possible fibre breaks, you also have to deal with the following:
Atmospheric conditions including, but not limited to, dust, rain, snow, hail.
Wildlife nesting/hoarding in antennas( see https://www.youtube.com/watch?...)
Traffic degradation not just in bandwidth but also latency-wise, as with all wireless.
And for satellite, it's even more susceptible to atmospheric conditions, and will have worse bandwidth and latency issues in practice.
In this case, the government in the US, both on state level and federally, has in the majority of cases worked for the companies benefit. Having LESS government would make that situation worse, because it'd allow the large, established corporations to trample everyone else even harder.
What wireless telecom is paying you to post that drivel, Ranbot?
Gigabit available in rural areas allow for running a greater amount of business from home, it allows for multiple household members to run bandwidth intensive tasks without affecting latency.
In Sweden, rural broadband has helped slow down or even reverse rural depopulation. And before you start yapping in a simpleton way about "oh, so small" etc, keep in mind that Sweden is larger than California, and we have municipalities larger than Connecticut, and larger than New Jersey if you only look at land area.
As others have mentioned, being able to rapidly patch games is nice too, especially when every household member plays different games.
So all in all, I find your view both shortsighted and very narrow.
Ah, this bullshit again. The only US state that has a valid reason to complain about area or population density, for the purposes of building out a fibre network, is Alaska. Every other state is easily manageable, there's only a lack of political will, and corporate bribes to ensure it doesn't happen.
Quoting Psychology Today for psychology news is like quoting PETA for animal welfare research.
The bandwidth in Amazon's HPC nodes is sort of ok compared to some cluster configurations, but the latency still leaves a fair bit to be desired. Last I tested, 6 months ago, the AWS HPC networking still had a 6 times higher latency on real world tasks I tested it with, compared to Infiniband equipped nodes(depending on the node hardware in question, GPU's might even talk over Infiniband to another GPU inside the node, if it's on another PCIe root complex, because it's faster, and I didn't receive an answer to that question from Amazon when I asked)
Actually, it has been explained properly: The co-pilots were both utter fucktards who had gone out to a nightclub, drinking alcohol and smoking weed, so their mental state was not the one required for proper high function in a crisis, as shown by the fact that they didn't even try to circumvent the storm. The captain had sleep issues and had gone to take a nap, and came to the cockpit mid-situation, with the two fucktards at the controls.
Yes, it's meaningful, because it means it'll be hooked up to the remote heating system for the small community, so serving a double utility role, and saves them from building a separate gas, coal or oil fired plant for that role.
Not the same thing, even with your stretched logic.
The monthly fee is a subscription for access to the server. The loot drop is tied to a player activity based event, influenced by player skill in the group. So you'd have to be really deluded or stupid to think that they are the same thing at all.
The delta times were added to remove a lot of hazy judgement errors on the part of drivers, to improve safety both for drivers and the marshals who might be out on track clearing debris, removing cars etc. Drivers, especially the junior ones, tend to overestimate their abilities, as well as those of their car, especially in bad weather, and that can lead to some nasty accidents.
One accident in particular was Jules Bianchi, who was speeding rather heavily under a double yellow condition(slow down and be prepared to stop at any time), in heavy rain. His telemetry shows that he was pushing his shitbox Marussia heavier than Hamilton and Rosberg pushed their far superior Mercs, and Vettel and Ricciardo pushed their far superior Red Bulls. As a result, he ended up crashing into a crane vehicle on the runoff, and almost crashing into the marshals working there too, to clear away another car that had crashed.
In some cases, it can be as much as 0.5 to 0.7 seconds difference, which is huge at elite level. But even between the teams, the driver skill makes a big difference: Vettel had this to say about Hamilton's qualifying lap: http://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story...
And, point in case, Vettel vs Hamilton. Last year proved, beyond a doubt, that Hamilton has better emotional control, and FAR better situational awareness for wheel to wheel racing. Vettel has shown multiple times in his racing career that he's unable to consider a third car involved in any corner etc. Last year, that cost him the race, as well as the championship lead, in Singapore.
And yes, I agree about the general fitness level nowadays. When you watch pictures of Senna and Prost from the 80's, and they were peak fitness on the grid, pretty much, and compared to todays drivers, they seem like average joes, physically. And then you had Mansell rocking up with a slight belly etc :p
F1 doesn't have refuelling, which is one of the reasons I find them far more impressive than Indy Car on road courses, for example.
No, motorsport was always about the racing. The nonsense about "it's about the spectacle" is bullshit that's been driven by the entertainment media. If you can't enjoy racing because there's less noise, you weren't there to enjoy the motorsport to begin with, you were only there for a circus... And for that, there's the motorized one-ring circuses, I mean, NASCAR and Indy Car. Or they can just watch a Hollywood movie.
"Frankly no one would miss it - racing enthusiasts have moved on."
The RACING enthusiasts still watch F1 and WEC. It's the rednecks/yokels/bogans etc that stopped watching, because they can't get their needless noise, needless crashes and other showbiz "spectacle"
Funny anecdote time: I was at the 6 Hours of Spa in 2016, and it was quite amusing that the loudest car, the Corvette, was dead last in its class, while the fastest cars of the race, the LMP1 hybrids, were also the least noisy(and frankly scary to see them burst out of the corners and accelerate like no sportscar prototypes have ever done before them)
Fun fact: Despite the addition of loads of corners and chicanes, the fastest overall lap time of Le Mans, ever, is by a hybrid. The type of car you claim offers no spectacle.
From Le Mans 2017, onboard a GTE Pro, and you see a LMP2 pulling away, when suddenly a wild LMP1-H zooms past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The car has always been the critical factor, ever since F1 started in the 50's. Hell, even in the predecessor, the Grand Prix racing of the 20's and 30's, the car was the critical factor.
That still does not diminish the fact that a superb driver will utterly wipe the floor with a merely good driver, in the same car(unless you're NASCAR or Indy Car, where you have rules to fuck over drivers who are too good, or allow teams to use one driver to ram a competitor out of the race, so another driver for the team can win... But then, that's sports over in the Corporatist States of America in a nutshell, so....)
So apparently there's a mod out there that doesn't know that you can actually do ray-traced audio propagation.
Here's a bit of light viewing on how it's been used in one field since the 80's: https://youtu.be/ZY1Kiih8sTU
Even if ray-tracing isn't used for graphics, you can use it for the sound engine, with the benefit of making it hardware accelerated. Would make a whole lot of games more interesting, for example Stealthers like Thief, horror games etc etc.
Just because something is "obvious" in math(that is, on the theoretical side) does not mean how to implement it in hardware is obvious. You are making a false equivalence here.
Oh, and making an "obvious" claim in hindsight is both intellectually and morally disingenious. A patent DB search yields me no results on previous attempts to implement this in hardware, thus it is justifiable. There's no prior art for an actual hardware implementation. The theory side doesn't come into it.
Actually, implementing the logic gates for it can very well be worth a patent. Since there doesn't seem to be any prior art for actually implementing it with logic gates in a quick patent DB search, that definitely makes it a justifiable patent.
Amiga's weren't really good for real-time 3D graphics, such as shaded structures etc, due to using planar graphics, as opposed to chunky graphics. However 3D creation software on Amigas was often quite a bit faster than on Mac's with better hardware, or roughly equivalent PC's, due to more responsive UI etc. However, Commodore senior management fucked up a lot, so the Amiga stagnated, and PC just steamrolled ahead.
Yes, the tiny DRM bit, that controls mode setting, memory management via DMA-BUF(which conveniently also allows for CPU access...) and a whole lot of other neat kernelspace stuff.
DMA-BUFs kmap in particular, used together with Spectre, will definitely need to be tested.
Also, with CUDA, some OpenCL implementations, and some Vulkan implementations, you can build Compute Kernels that run both on GPU and CPU.
Couple all those above, with the move towards UMA, and you have some serious testing that needs to be done, and just handwaving it away by immediately assuming that everything is safe because "drm is just a tiny little bit" is inane.
The problem is, due to the Unix architecture, a lot of the GPU system lives in the kernelspace while still executing userspace code, and a process can thus straddle both.
On Windows, due to the GPU drivers being usermode, that's mitigated somewhat, but still not entirely safe.
There's still a lot to be tested.
One thing that's not been tested is the leakiness where you have mixed levels in a process, like hardware acceleration in browsers, or games using GPU, on the Linux side. DSP's etc also need testing.
Browsing and games have taken a hit in my use case: Lots of small file accesses, network I/O and many processes active with GPU and other kernel level functions.