The lack of performance from Intel might just be incompetence. Their cable modem chips have issues with latency too. They just don't seem to be very good at this.
Microcode in itself isn't a problem. The reason is simple: if you don't trust the designer/manufacturer of your processor then not having microcode doesn't make any difference. If you do then signed microcode updates isn't a problem.
It is a problem, because unfixed microcode can change the behaviour of the CPU. Even if you do trust it, you can't be sure that it can't be backdoored by someone else. Signed updates help but are not bulletproof.
RISC V?
Maybe one day. For now the price/performance isn't there.
They did something similar in Tokyo. They had a line from the airport to the city, but built two more. The other ones serve some different stations along the way and shave 5-10 minutes off a 60 minute journey, and cost a little more.
They are popular. People will pay more to go closer to where they want to be, to have a nicer train with in-seat power and a desk instead of a commuter style bench etc. It reduced the crowding on the slower trains that are used by commuters in the mornings and evenings.
I read their FAQ. It's a bit hand-wavey in places but basically sound. I'm interested to see how reliable and efficient their skates prove to be though. They say they are better than trains, but without rails the friction is higher and they need steering. There is also the issue of tyre ware and failure, which is going to happen much faster than with train wheels. A blow out at 150 MPH doesn't sound like fun.
Has anyone simulated this? I'm just a little skeptical about their claim that skates will be better than single rail carriages. They talk about off-ramps and the like, but don't explain why they will be faster or more reliable than points (turnouts) on a rail system.
It won't be that neat and tidy. ICBMs and hypersonic missiles area already impossible to reliably shoot down. The robots will target humans more than other robots, simply because the other robots will be too stealthy or too fast to do much about. It won't be like Terminator, it will be you sitting in your office writing code for a military asset management system and suddenly it explodes.
You can't even disable it. There is a disable flag you can set, but the ME is still used to bring the CPU up from cold and then you have to trust that the flag does what it claims to do. You can try to sabotage the ME by deleting all the firmware modules except the early boot stuff, but then you are still vulnerable to any flaws in that boot code.
This is a general problem with CPUs. Most modern ones run microcode which is updated by the BIOS and comes as a binary blob. They all have hidden code, hidden features for testing and debugging, hidden op-codes.
A truly free CPU would be great, but matching modern performance levels could be difficult and fabrication on any kind of modern process is extremely expensive. To that end it might be interesting to try to reverse engineer the microcode on something like Ryzen, but even that would probably take years and get hammered by DMCA notices (so better do it outside the US).
This is a lot like the debate over if people calling themselves Christians or Muslims are real Christians or Muslims. Prone to falling into the No True Scotsman trap. But in all these cases we can make an objective determination. There is a well established body of mainstream feminist work, just like there are well established mainstream Christian and Islamic movements, and we can compare their beliefs and behaviour to those standards.
The people you describe are usually described as either radical feminists (or some more specific variation like TERF) or as anti-feminists.
It's not about ownership of the name, it's about what the word actually means and the large, well established and identifiable movement it refers to.
In any case, it's extremely problematic to hear someone describe themselves as a feminist and immediately mod them down as a troll. That's flat out censorship. I really think this point is indefensible.
Go on, tell me what it explains. Tell me what I think. I'll tell you that you are wrong, and you will ignore it and carry on with your faulty assumption.
The ICE that could fit in the space of 2/3rds the space of a Tesla battery would not generate much power. The smaller battery would limit the amount of electric power available too. Look at cars like the Volt and BMW i3 REX, the ICE is just a waste of space and weight that ends up giving less range than a Tesla battery.
Hybrids were a stop-gap measure until battery tech got cheap enough. It's not reached that point, and batteries have other advantages like the form factor and simpler drive train that all make the car better.
It's interesting that you pretty much ignored my actual post. It answered your question as to why feminism is necessary to achieve egalitarianism, but I guess because you have no counter-argument you just ignored it.
I really want to have a discussion about these things, but most of the responses are like yours. Ignore the arguments being made, and fall back to taking points.
Even the argument that you do make, that some people have a bad impression of feminism, is extremely weak. You are saying that they can't move past that word and mod as -1 troll without even considering the message, which only the most extremely unkind, prejudiced reading could consider malicious.
Please try again. Address my reasoning, not the label. Really, please do, let's debate this.
Actually it wouldn't be the first time a terrorist had altered authorities to their bomb. Maybe they charged their mind at the last moment but didn't want to alert their partner, so passed a note to staff or wrote on the wall in the toilet.
Other terrorists planned to phone in warnings, not wanting to actually kill anyone. The IRA did that.
Thanks moderator, for proving my point. The mere existence of a male feminist is a troll to you, and you felt it necessary to purge such ideas from your echo chamber.
Your question is based on the assumption that feminism and egalitarianism are somehow incompatible or at odds. I see them as complementary.
Feminism started out as the study of why women were not equal. It grew into the study of how systems negatively affect both men and women.
That's why I'm interested in it. The way to get to an egalitarian state is by understanding the problem and finding solutions. That's what feminism is. I look at how women were liberated in the 60s, freed from the 1950s housewife mould and want the same thing for men today. It would be crazy to ignore decades of study and thought, and crazy not to accept the help that is on offer.
Many of the problems are basically the same anyway: things have to be pink/tactical matte black, magazine models are photoshopped to unrealistic ideals, some social norms are actually harmful.
So to me, to be an effective egalitarian who works towards an egalitarian society, you should also be a feminist.
How do people manage the early/late stage pairing up? Like say you drive into a charging station with 20 stalls, do people drive around looking for ones with nearly full cars attached?
The other great thing about Tesla chargers is that they are universal. Driving from continental Europe in and out of the UK, assume they don't flood the tunnel after Brexit, is much easier when you only have one charging network and one connector to deal with.
Yeah, that's what I normally do. 80% charge is about 1 to 1.5 hours of driving in a Leaf, depending on speed and conditions. I mostly use destination charging for that reason.
Once you get to about 300 miles range and 120kW charging it's basically no worse than a fossil car.
Or it could be you've managed to piss people off to the point that they simply don't care what you're saying, or your opinion is just complete shit.
That seems to be the case. People have some strange ideas about me, and mod based on those incorrect assumptions. When they do read my posts, they seem to read all sorts of bizarre things between the lines.
Putting people in boxes is a popular tactic these days. It's an effective and fast way of dismissing them and poisoning the well. Often it doesn't even make any sense, e.g. when I say I'm a male feminist and people accuse me of hating men.
I've decided to stop trying to respond to people doing it directly and instead just state my case. Hopefully it will be apparent to any reader with an open mind that all the weird assumptions and accusations are incorrect, without me having to be explicit about it. Playing defence is not a winning strategy, because even if you win it feels like the guy with the feminazi soundbite won in people's minds.
The amount awarded is based on restorative justice, i.e. the amount needed to put the wronged party back in the position they would have been in if it had not happened.
In cases like this, the award will be for emotional distress and the cost of getting Google to stop doing it. Of course, most of these people would not have been distressed if they had not been told about it, but still.
For data protection / privacy cases like this a few hundred pounds is actually on the low side. For example, a parking enforcement company mis-transcribed a numberplate and tried to fine the wrong person. Since getting the car owners details from the government using incorrect data resulted in misuse of that data to make a false accusation and demand for money, the victim was awarded £750.
Based on that, the general advice is that if it happens to you then you should offer to settle for £500, citing the £750 + court costs if they refuse. They usually just pay up.
So what happens to the passengers who are affected in the US?
In the EU the airline has to either get you on another flight reasonably close to the cancelled one (in terms of time and location), book you a flight with a different airline or refund you and pay compensation on top.
I wish my company would let me do that. Ideally on quad pay but I'll take normal remuneration. Otherwise I have to waste some of my precious paid leave on a day I hate and despise anyway.
Rather, where people don't care about the context or even the facts of what's being said, rather they want self-reinforcement of an opinion even if it's wrong.
Even worse than that is when those people get mod points, and use them to create the echo chamber.
Yet the cerebral cortex may be exempt from gender differences, as demonstrated by the fact that normal males and females perform comparably on intelligence tests.
Oh!
Currently the most popular theory is that males need larger brains because they have larger bodies and muscles, and thus need more neurons to control them.
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The lack of performance from Intel might just be incompetence. Their cable modem chips have issues with latency too. They just don't seem to be very good at this.
Microcode in itself isn't a problem. The reason is simple: if you don't trust the designer/manufacturer of your processor then not having microcode doesn't make any difference. If you do then signed microcode updates isn't a problem.
It is a problem, because unfixed microcode can change the behaviour of the CPU. Even if you do trust it, you can't be sure that it can't be backdoored by someone else. Signed updates help but are not bulletproof.
RISC V?
Maybe one day. For now the price/performance isn't there.
They did something similar in Tokyo. They had a line from the airport to the city, but built two more. The other ones serve some different stations along the way and shave 5-10 minutes off a 60 minute journey, and cost a little more.
They are popular. People will pay more to go closer to where they want to be, to have a nicer train with in-seat power and a desk instead of a commuter style bench etc. It reduced the crowding on the slower trains that are used by commuters in the mornings and evenings.
It's not just about speed.
I read their FAQ. It's a bit hand-wavey in places but basically sound. I'm interested to see how reliable and efficient their skates prove to be though. They say they are better than trains, but without rails the friction is higher and they need steering. There is also the issue of tyre ware and failure, which is going to happen much faster than with train wheels. A blow out at 150 MPH doesn't sound like fun.
Has anyone simulated this? I'm just a little skeptical about their claim that skates will be better than single rail carriages. They talk about off-ramps and the like, but don't explain why they will be faster or more reliable than points (turnouts) on a rail system.
It won't be that neat and tidy. ICBMs and hypersonic missiles area already impossible to reliably shoot down. The robots will target humans more than other robots, simply because the other robots will be too stealthy or too fast to do much about. It won't be like Terminator, it will be you sitting in your office writing code for a military asset management system and suddenly it explodes.
You can't even disable it. There is a disable flag you can set, but the ME is still used to bring the CPU up from cold and then you have to trust that the flag does what it claims to do. You can try to sabotage the ME by deleting all the firmware modules except the early boot stuff, but then you are still vulnerable to any flaws in that boot code.
This is a general problem with CPUs. Most modern ones run microcode which is updated by the BIOS and comes as a binary blob. They all have hidden code, hidden features for testing and debugging, hidden op-codes.
A truly free CPU would be great, but matching modern performance levels could be difficult and fabrication on any kind of modern process is extremely expensive. To that end it might be interesting to try to reverse engineer the microcode on something like Ryzen, but even that would probably take years and get hammered by DMCA notices (so better do it outside the US).
This is a lot like the debate over if people calling themselves Christians or Muslims are real Christians or Muslims. Prone to falling into the No True Scotsman trap. But in all these cases we can make an objective determination. There is a well established body of mainstream feminist work, just like there are well established mainstream Christian and Islamic movements, and we can compare their beliefs and behaviour to those standards.
The people you describe are usually described as either radical feminists (or some more specific variation like TERF) or as anti-feminists.
It's not about ownership of the name, it's about what the word actually means and the large, well established and identifiable movement it refers to.
In any case, it's extremely problematic to hear someone describe themselves as a feminist and immediately mod them down as a troll. That's flat out censorship. I really think this point is indefensible.
It does't, it just confuses you.
Go on, tell me what it explains. Tell me what I think. I'll tell you that you are wrong, and you will ignore it and carry on with your faulty assumption.
The ICE that could fit in the space of 2/3rds the space of a Tesla battery would not generate much power. The smaller battery would limit the amount of electric power available too. Look at cars like the Volt and BMW i3 REX, the ICE is just a waste of space and weight that ends up giving less range than a Tesla battery.
Hybrids were a stop-gap measure until battery tech got cheap enough. It's not reached that point, and batteries have other advantages like the form factor and simpler drive train that all make the car better.
Feminism is not about female dominance or misandry. It's about equality, starting with addressing gender inequality.
My point was that it's not just about women, it's about everyone. My own interest is very much about how it can help men, in fact.
Your second sentence suggests you didn't notice that before you replied.
And straight in with the down-mod. This is the cancer that is killing Slashdot.
It's interesting that you pretty much ignored my actual post. It answered your question as to why feminism is necessary to achieve egalitarianism, but I guess because you have no counter-argument you just ignored it.
I really want to have a discussion about these things, but most of the responses are like yours. Ignore the arguments being made, and fall back to taking points.
Even the argument that you do make, that some people have a bad impression of feminism, is extremely weak. You are saying that they can't move past that word and mod as -1 troll without even considering the message, which only the most extremely unkind, prejudiced reading could consider malicious.
Please try again. Address my reasoning, not the label. Really, please do, let's debate this.
Actually it wouldn't be the first time a terrorist had altered authorities to their bomb. Maybe they charged their mind at the last moment but didn't want to alert their partner, so passed a note to staff or wrote on the wall in the toilet.
Other terrorists planned to phone in warnings, not wanting to actually kill anyone. The IRA did that.
Thanks moderator, for proving my point. The mere existence of a male feminist is a troll to you, and you felt it necessary to purge such ideas from your echo chamber.
Your question is based on the assumption that feminism and egalitarianism are somehow incompatible or at odds. I see them as complementary.
Feminism started out as the study of why women were not equal. It grew into the study of how systems negatively affect both men and women.
That's why I'm interested in it. The way to get to an egalitarian state is by understanding the problem and finding solutions. That's what feminism is. I look at how women were liberated in the 60s, freed from the 1950s housewife mould and want the same thing for men today. It would be crazy to ignore decades of study and thought, and crazy not to accept the help that is on offer.
Many of the problems are basically the same anyway: things have to be pink/tactical matte black, magazine models are photoshopped to unrealistic ideals, some social norms are actually harmful.
So to me, to be an effective egalitarian who works towards an egalitarian society, you should also be a feminist.
How do people manage the early/late stage pairing up? Like say you drive into a charging station with 20 stalls, do people drive around looking for ones with nearly full cars attached?
The other great thing about Tesla chargers is that they are universal. Driving from continental Europe in and out of the UK, assume they don't flood the tunnel after Brexit, is much easier when you only have one charging network and one connector to deal with.
Yeah, that's what I normally do. 80% charge is about 1 to 1.5 hours of driving in a Leaf, depending on speed and conditions. I mostly use destination charging for that reason.
Once you get to about 300 miles range and 120kW charging it's basically no worse than a fossil car.
Or it could be you've managed to piss people off to the point that they simply don't care what you're saying, or your opinion is just complete shit.
That seems to be the case. People have some strange ideas about me, and mod based on those incorrect assumptions. When they do read my posts, they seem to read all sorts of bizarre things between the lines.
Putting people in boxes is a popular tactic these days. It's an effective and fast way of dismissing them and poisoning the well. Often it doesn't even make any sense, e.g. when I say I'm a male feminist and people accuse me of hating men.
I've decided to stop trying to respond to people doing it directly and instead just state my case. Hopefully it will be apparent to any reader with an open mind that all the weird assumptions and accusations are incorrect, without me having to be explicit about it. Playing defence is not a winning strategy, because even if you win it feels like the guy with the feminazi soundbite won in people's minds.
The amount awarded is based on restorative justice, i.e. the amount needed to put the wronged party back in the position they would have been in if it had not happened.
In cases like this, the award will be for emotional distress and the cost of getting Google to stop doing it. Of course, most of these people would not have been distressed if they had not been told about it, but still.
For data protection / privacy cases like this a few hundred pounds is actually on the low side. For example, a parking enforcement company mis-transcribed a numberplate and tried to fine the wrong person. Since getting the car owners details from the government using incorrect data resulted in misuse of that data to make a false accusation and demand for money, the victim was awarded £750.
Based on that, the general advice is that if it happens to you then you should offer to settle for £500, citing the £750 + court costs if they refuse. They usually just pay up.
So what happens to the passengers who are affected in the US?
In the EU the airline has to either get you on another flight reasonably close to the cancelled one (in terms of time and location), book you a flight with a different airline or refund you and pay compensation on top.
I wish my company would let me do that. Ideally on quad pay but I'll take normal remuneration. Otherwise I have to waste some of my precious paid leave on a day I hate and despise anyway.
Rather, where people don't care about the context or even the facts of what's being said, rather they want self-reinforcement of an opinion even if it's wrong.
Even worse than that is when those people get mod points, and use them to create the echo chamber.
I'm fairly sure at least 50% of /. moderators don't read the posts they are moderating either.
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Yet the cerebral cortex may be exempt from gender differences, as demonstrated by the fact that normal males and females perform comparably on intelligence tests.
Oh!
Currently the most popular theory is that males need larger brains because they have larger bodies and muscles, and thus need more neurons to control them.