A very large amount is probably in the cellular modems too. Those things have an embedded CPU and DSP, with an OS and Java VM. Even the SIM will have a CPU and Java VM.
Even so, the engine control unit (ECU) does probably have a lot more code than people realize. Those things have to be designed very carefully and use extensive defensive mechanisms like duplicating all important data in RAM and continually comparing it to detect corruption. It could be massively simplified with some better hardware (dual identical CPUs that must agree, a CPU with memory duplication and checking built-in etc.) but the automotive industry moves slowly.
They can get paid, they just can't waste my time baiting me into visiting their web site only to be hit with a demand for payment.
Aside from anything it's false advertising and SEO scamming. Google doesn't appreciate it when you present different content to their indexing bot and to browsers.
I don't think encryption would help stop GPS spoofing. Consider that the system was set up in the 1980s. What are the chances that a security scheme created in the 1980s and designed for 1980s hardware would stand up today? What are the chances that the private keys would not have been found or stolen by now?
The cameras are still better on more expensive phones. It's up to you if they are $600 better. Personally I waited until the Pixel XL was massively discounted before getting one, and for not much more than the OnePlus 5 I was also considering I got a much, much better camera.
And by "better" I mean I can mostly just point and shoot it and am far more likely to get something usable out of it. The OnePlus 5 has a good camera, no doubt, but when lighting isn't ideal, when it's at night, that's when you really notice the difference.
Having said that the $1000 iPhone X can't match the Pixel XL's camera for low light performance, it's not even in the same league, so cost is no indicator of quality.
Yeah, this is just for non-technical benchmark lovers who want a nice easy "click to win" button. Still damn impressive though.
A single NVMe SSD is about as fast as DDR2 RAM in terms of raw transfer speed. This RAID array is about as fast as DDR4-3200 RAM, which is the fastest RAM that the CPU will take. Think about that for a moment - terabytes of solid state permanent storage that is as fast as the fastest RAM.
One of the major reasons they went bankrupt was the high cost of fuel. Fuel was the majority of their expenditure. So switching to fuel-free renewables sounds like a good idea.
This is why a lot of manufacturers have just replaced the ICE with an electric motor, rather than do a proper EV drivetrain. Most of those cars suck immensely.
Nissan offers car-to-home battery backup for your house in the event of a power cut. Instead of all your food rotting and you being unable to power up the CB or turn on a light, your car keeps the power on for a few days. That's a few days with the old 24kWh Leaf battery.
I expect Facebook's ad reach models are pretty good. Advertising is their primary business, after all. If it wasn't good the advertisers would quickly call bullshit.
It's not hard to calculate. They put in a bid, you look at other bids for the same demographics and determine how often their ads would win the eyeball auction.
It's part of a campaign to destabilize and weaken the west. Brexit is another outcome of their social media attacks. They tried to influence the recent French election with hacking and leaks, but the eventual winners saw it coming and fed them fake documents. They have been involved in posting a lot of fake news about Germany as well, supporting the far-right there.
A lot of this could easily have been stopped if social media companies had been paying attention, or even our own security services had been looking instead of drowning in bulk data collection. For example, many Russian fake accounts were found on Twitter when people did a simple analysis of posting times and noticed that they matched Moscow office hours when the person was supposed to be in the UK. AntiFa Boston was known to be fake from the start, but it wasn't until they accidentally posted location tags (Moscow again) that the account was removed. I bet Twitter can see those tags even when they are not made public.
I post interesting technical stories from time to time, but either the staff don't accept them or sometimes if the trolls are particularly attentive they mod them down because it's me.
The political stuff is mostly click-bait for outraged hard-line conservatives. It's a shame because there could actually be some really good debate on those stories, but any on-topic comments get modded to hell.
Also people who are paid to hype this stuff up. Journalists looking for clickbait, "consultants" and "business intelligence" agencies desperate to prove their value by scraping together news stories...
The problem is that factual reporting is boring. Detailed investigations are expensive, and even if they do turn out to be interesting the moment you publish them every other newspaper reports the same thing the day after. So all you have left is clickbait, which can take several forms (outrage, bullshit, porn) but is always cheap and somewhat effective.
Some newspapers are turning to patronage and it does seem to be working for them, at least for now. A few are niche enough to get away with charging, like the FT. But really, I won't miss the shitty tabloids. The sooner they die the better.
Petrol stations only make sense when the fuel isn't widely available pretty much everywhere. As such you will only find dedicated rapid charging stations on fast roads where people do long distances, and maybe a handful in cities. Most charging will be done opportunistically when the car isn't in use.
That's what makes EVs so much more convenient. I spend much less time "refuelling" than I ever did with an ICE now, because it's extremely rare for me to stop just to charge.
Google's way is actually the same as Apple's way, it's just not immediately obvious.
Apple wanted multiprocess in WebKit because they WebKit as part of their OS and in other apps. Google wanted multiprocess in Chrome because Chrome/is/ their OS.
On Google's OS the apps are just web pages. They even have apps for Chrome that are just.zip files with all the web site resources pre-downloaded for faster opening, plus a few extra local storage features.
On that subject I'll throw the UK in for consideration. Post-Brexit it either dies slowly or realizes how fucked it is and becomes a mere subsidiary of the EU.
Uber drivers maybe. Uber themselves are scrambling to get self-driving tech working to get costs down. Well, that lawsuit might have screwed them now...
The in-circuit emulator we had was the size of a desktop PC case. The parts were OTP or UV erasable so emulation was pretty much the only sane way to develop.
It was nice being in total control at the assembler level.
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A very large amount is probably in the cellular modems too. Those things have an embedded CPU and DSP, with an OS and Java VM. Even the SIM will have a CPU and Java VM.
Even so, the engine control unit (ECU) does probably have a lot more code than people realize. Those things have to be designed very carefully and use extensive defensive mechanisms like duplicating all important data in RAM and continually comparing it to detect corruption. It could be massively simplified with some better hardware (dual identical CPUs that must agree, a CPU with memory duplication and checking built-in etc.) but the automotive industry moves slowly.
They can get paid, they just can't waste my time baiting me into visiting their web site only to be hit with a demand for payment.
Aside from anything it's false advertising and SEO scamming. Google doesn't appreciate it when you present different content to their indexing bot and to browsers.
I don't think encryption would help stop GPS spoofing. Consider that the system was set up in the 1980s. What are the chances that a security scheme created in the 1980s and designed for 1980s hardware would stand up today? What are the chances that the private keys would not have been found or stolen by now?
The cameras are still better on more expensive phones. It's up to you if they are $600 better. Personally I waited until the Pixel XL was massively discounted before getting one, and for not much more than the OnePlus 5 I was also considering I got a much, much better camera.
And by "better" I mean I can mostly just point and shoot it and am far more likely to get something usable out of it. The OnePlus 5 has a good camera, no doubt, but when lighting isn't ideal, when it's at night, that's when you really notice the difference.
Having said that the $1000 iPhone X can't match the Pixel XL's camera for low light performance, it's not even in the same league, so cost is no indicator of quality.
Not really a fair comparison, the Note 8 gives you so much more for your money, like a headphone jack.
This could be the new "keyboard error, press any key to continue."
Yeah, this is just for non-technical benchmark lovers who want a nice easy "click to win" button. Still damn impressive though.
A single NVMe SSD is about as fast as DDR2 RAM in terms of raw transfer speed. This RAID array is about as fast as DDR4-3200 RAM, which is the fastest RAM that the CPU will take. Think about that for a moment - terabytes of solid state permanent storage that is as fast as the fastest RAM.
One of the major reasons they went bankrupt was the high cost of fuel. Fuel was the majority of their expenditure. So switching to fuel-free renewables sounds like a good idea.
This is why a lot of manufacturers have just replaced the ICE with an electric motor, rather than do a proper EV drivetrain. Most of those cars suck immensely.
Nissan offers car-to-home battery backup for your house in the event of a power cut. Instead of all your food rotting and you being unable to power up the CB or turn on a light, your car keeps the power on for a few days. That's a few days with the old 24kWh Leaf battery.
Democracy needs an abort mechanism. If it somehow comes down to two unpopular candidates, disqualify both and start over.
It would also help if the system wasn't first-past-the-post to start with.
I expect Facebook's ad reach models are pretty good. Advertising is their primary business, after all. If it wasn't good the advertisers would quickly call bullshit.
It's not hard to calculate. They put in a bid, you look at other bids for the same demographics and determine how often their ads would win the eyeball auction.
It's part of a campaign to destabilize and weaken the west. Brexit is another outcome of their social media attacks. They tried to influence the recent French election with hacking and leaks, but the eventual winners saw it coming and fed them fake documents. They have been involved in posting a lot of fake news about Germany as well, supporting the far-right there.
A lot of this could easily have been stopped if social media companies had been paying attention, or even our own security services had been looking instead of drowning in bulk data collection. For example, many Russian fake accounts were found on Twitter when people did a simple analysis of posting times and noticed that they matched Moscow office hours when the person was supposed to be in the UK. AntiFa Boston was known to be fake from the start, but it wasn't until they accidentally posted location tags (Moscow again) that the account was removed. I bet Twitter can see those tags even when they are not made public.
I post interesting technical stories from time to time, but either the staff don't accept them or sometimes if the trolls are particularly attentive they mod them down because it's me.
The political stuff is mostly click-bait for outraged hard-line conservatives. It's a shame because there could actually be some really good debate on those stories, but any on-topic comments get modded to hell.
Tesla is treated like a startup because they behave like one, with the CEO announcing major stuff via random tweets and Jobs-inspired stage events.
Also people who are paid to hype this stuff up. Journalists looking for clickbait, "consultants" and "business intelligence" agencies desperate to prove their value by scraping together news stories...
It's the same with stories about AI.
The problem is that factual reporting is boring. Detailed investigations are expensive, and even if they do turn out to be interesting the moment you publish them every other newspaper reports the same thing the day after. So all you have left is clickbait, which can take several forms (outrage, bullshit, porn) but is always cheap and somewhat effective.
Some newspapers are turning to patronage and it does seem to be working for them, at least for now. A few are niche enough to get away with charging, like the FT. But really, I won't miss the shitty tabloids. The sooner they die the better.
I forward my other accounts to gmail, and there is a Chrome app for offline gmail if I ever feel the urge to do email on the plane.
Petrol stations only make sense when the fuel isn't widely available pretty much everywhere. As such you will only find dedicated rapid charging stations on fast roads where people do long distances, and maybe a handful in cities. Most charging will be done opportunistically when the car isn't in use.
That's what makes EVs so much more convenient. I spend much less time "refuelling" than I ever did with an ICE now, because it's extremely rare for me to stop just to charge.
Google's way is actually the same as Apple's way, it's just not immediately obvious.
Apple wanted multiprocess in WebKit because they WebKit as part of their OS and in other apps. Google wanted multiprocess in Chrome because Chrome /is/ their OS.
On Google's OS the apps are just web pages. They even have apps for Chrome that are just .zip files with all the web site resources pre-downloaded for faster opening, plus a few extra local storage features.
On that subject I'll throw the UK in for consideration. Post-Brexit it either dies slowly or realizes how fucked it is and becomes a mere subsidiary of the EU.
Uber drivers maybe. Uber themselves are scrambling to get self-driving tech working to get costs down. Well, that lawsuit might have screwed them now...
It depends on your karma. If you have excellent karma I don't think there is any limit on maximum posts per day at all.
The in-circuit emulator we had was the size of a desktop PC case. The parts were OTP or UV erasable so emulation was pretty much the only sane way to develop.
It was nice being in total control at the assembler level.
Thanks. I forgot you can debunk 90% of this stuff just but googling "thing + snopes".