I live literally 2 blocks from Whole Foods and frankly? It's just too damn expensive. I prefer to drive 15 minutes to Costco and buy all of my groceries there. I feed a family, and fruits, vegetables, even eggs and milk, are all super expensive at Whole Foods. I'll only buy there if I am stuck in the middle of the week without a few items.
I programmed FPGA years ago. They are still limited, even in 2018. But I imagine in the future as the use case becomes stronger, the technology may improve massively and become cheaper and more common.
Just look at external GPUs for laptops. If you told people 10 years ago it would be a thing, they'd call you mad. Same with Crypto Assets, most people didn't see Bitcoin coming, and even when it was in its first years people still bought a Pizza for 10,000 BTC because even though they knew how the technology worked, even they couldn't fathom how valuable the tech and the currency would become.
Personally, I keep an open mind so nothing is shocking to me. I wasn't even shocked when Trump got elected, even though it was presented as a joke in various media such as The Simpsons and other comedies (or perhaps as a hidden warning;-)).
I totally expect we'll eventually be able to copy the human brain into a virtual environment, extend the life of our organs (or replace them entirely), and reach planets in other systems, it's just a question of time.
I'm not talking about the kind of tech we have now. Obviously FPGA is not suitable for the stuff I'm talking about, and I wouldn't integrate FPGA into today's CPUs. But just imagine if you could add more "FPGA Style" chips on a bus. Some would be purposed as GPU, some as Crypto chips, some would be purposed for audio processing, some for manipulating large scale 3D scenes (complex interactions, collision detection, physics), some for AI / Neural Net style compute, powerful image recognition, some even for network stack handling...
I think this style of general purpose compute platform could be pretty useful to have! You could even make very powerful routers, or very powerful database servers.
Down the road, this kind of thing might totally happen. I think it makes sense. Even from a fab point of view; it's cheaper to make a fab that produces one standardized silicone which can be repurposed, than to make 20 fabs for 20 types of chips.
then in my opinion, the next generation of CPUs should have re-programmable gate logic. Kinda like how FPGA works, but significantly faster and on a massive scale. Just imagine the kind of power you'd get if the OS switches large areas on the silicon to fit certain tasks. When you play games or do some massive 3D work, the CPU would be reprogrammed for that task. When you want to mine crypto or do some massive encryption/decryption/compression/decompression, the CPU would be reprogrammed accordingly.
I honestly fail to see what's in it for Jews? Seriously. Why would a "people" (and we'll talk about that in a sec) would do something that cause the entire planet to hate them even more than they already do?
And about "people", what on earth makes you think "Jews" are as organized as the Jew haters are trying to make it seem? It so happens that Jews are probably the least organized people on earth. There's hundreds of streams & communities, they all disagree with each other, are spread over the globe, and even in Israel you can see huge disparity in opinions, internal conflict, etc.
I think if you educate yourself on the issue, you'll realize why linking Jews to 9/11 in any way, is simply absurd and stupid (and simply driven by an evil Jew hating agenda).
It's not even just that - High Sierra is a mess. I have software crashing on me that never crashed before. For example Preview crashes when I try to open certain PDF files. Or it will crash if I try to rotate an image. I have a brand new Macbook Pro with the touch bar, and it honestly feels like a lemon! That's how bad it is. The display will glitch a lot (display driver bugs?), copying files from an external drive to the internal SSD will cause the machine to freeze and prevent you from doing any work (APFS bugs?), and this is just off the top of my head. It makes me feel like something is terrible wrong with Apple lately.
I just bought two Macbook Air laptops the last two weeks. They still come with MagSafe adapters, and no USB-C. iPhones are still using Lightning adapters instead of USB-C. I mean c'mon Apple! What the hell is going on? How can a multi-billion dollar company screw up this bad?
When you watch those videos of people trampling each other the moment the doors open, to buy a 40" television for $99, that does not exactly inspire someone to go to that store next Black Friday. That's why I didn't go out to Best Buy this Friday, and opted instead to just order my robot vacuum from Amazon, where it was priced exactly the same...
Spammers figured out they can take all the @gmail.com email addresses they harvested and simply share a Google Doc with the recipients, to ensure 100% delivery.
And now to the ridiculous part: To report the document as abuse, you have to first open that document (which forces you to see it), then go to the menu option "Help --> Report Abuse/Copyright" (and then comically get to a screen that says "Internal Error, please try again later").
It's basically a computer you wear on your back. It was designed for use with a VR headset as the screen, and as a result it's pretty powerful. So if you need x86, powerful GPU and battery, that's one way to go about it.
As with everything we humans do, we will only respond to that change when it's already done some damage... Especially true if the running government of the time is of the type that denies obvious scientific facts.
What might happen, sometime soon: Zuckerberg buys ZeniMax, then proceeds to fire them all and liquidate their assets. It's kinda like taking your cash from your left pocket, to the right pocket, except you eliminated your enemy in the process.
Exactly - The previous generation was already thin enough. I do not need it to get any thinner. I need it to get better, faster, and last longer. I made a similar decision not to upgrade my MBP until it either dies or Apple releases a laptop worthy of my time and money.
As a long time Mac user, this is exactly what I'm doing. It's not only over-priced, but I truly see no advantage to upgrading from my current Macbook Pro to the new one. If anything, I'd have to buy tons of adapters which I'm not keen on doing, and until GPU performance is fixed on laptops, there's no way I'm going to upgrade.
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This is not a pulsar, it's Voltron on its way to save another planet.
Jokes aside: At this distance how do we know this isn't some massive spaceship traveling at nearly the speed of light?
I live literally 2 blocks from Whole Foods and frankly? It's just too damn expensive. I prefer to drive 15 minutes to Costco and buy all of my groceries there. I feed a family, and fruits, vegetables, even eggs and milk, are all super expensive at Whole Foods. I'll only buy there if I am stuck in the middle of the week without a few items.
Amiga was my dream come true, but I simply could not afford it at the time. I imagine this was the case for many others.
That's what Erdogan deserves
Agree 100% with everything you said. It's all true.
Doesn't mean it won't change in the future though. I think it will improve massively, it's a question of demand.
I programmed FPGA years ago. They are still limited, even in 2018. But I imagine in the future as the use case becomes stronger, the technology may improve massively and become cheaper and more common.
Just look at external GPUs for laptops. If you told people 10 years ago it would be a thing, they'd call you mad. Same with Crypto Assets, most people didn't see Bitcoin coming, and even when it was in its first years people still bought a Pizza for 10,000 BTC because even though they knew how the technology worked, even they couldn't fathom how valuable the tech and the currency would become.
Personally, I keep an open mind so nothing is shocking to me. I wasn't even shocked when Trump got elected, even though it was presented as a joke in various media such as The Simpsons and other comedies (or perhaps as a hidden warning ;-)).
I totally expect we'll eventually be able to copy the human brain into a virtual environment, extend the life of our organs (or replace them entirely), and reach planets in other systems, it's just a question of time.
I'm not talking about the kind of tech we have now. Obviously FPGA is not suitable for the stuff I'm talking about, and I wouldn't integrate FPGA into today's CPUs. But just imagine if you could add more "FPGA Style" chips on a bus. Some would be purposed as GPU, some as Crypto chips, some would be purposed for audio processing, some for manipulating large scale 3D scenes (complex interactions, collision detection, physics), some for AI / Neural Net style compute, powerful image recognition, some even for network stack handling...
I think this style of general purpose compute platform could be pretty useful to have! You could even make very powerful routers, or very powerful database servers.
Down the road, this kind of thing might totally happen. I think it makes sense. Even from a fab point of view; it's cheaper to make a fab that produces one standardized silicone which can be repurposed, than to make 20 fabs for 20 types of chips.
then in my opinion, the next generation of CPUs should have re-programmable gate logic. Kinda like how FPGA works, but significantly faster and on a massive scale. Just imagine the kind of power you'd get if the OS switches large areas on the silicon to fit certain tasks. When you play games or do some massive 3D work, the CPU would be reprogrammed for that task. When you want to mine crypto or do some massive encryption/decryption/compression/decompression, the CPU would be reprogrammed accordingly.
I honestly fail to see what's in it for Jews? Seriously. Why would a "people" (and we'll talk about that in a sec) would do something that cause the entire planet to hate them even more than they already do?
And about "people", what on earth makes you think "Jews" are as organized as the Jew haters are trying to make it seem? It so happens that Jews are probably the least organized people on earth. There's hundreds of streams & communities, they all disagree with each other, are spread over the globe, and even in Israel you can see huge disparity in opinions, internal conflict, etc.
I think if you educate yourself on the issue, you'll realize why linking Jews to 9/11 in any way, is simply absurd and stupid (and simply driven by an evil Jew hating agenda).
I mean eventually that money gets spent, if not this year then next year. Right?
I'm not stating a strong opinion or preference here, I'm just saying this is what I think is happening and I may be wrong.
I'd love for someone to explain this to me in simple terms (seriously).
It's not even just that - High Sierra is a mess. I have software crashing on me that never crashed before. For example Preview crashes when I try to open certain PDF files. Or it will crash if I try to rotate an image. I have a brand new Macbook Pro with the touch bar, and it honestly feels like a lemon! That's how bad it is. The display will glitch a lot (display driver bugs?), copying files from an external drive to the internal SSD will cause the machine to freeze and prevent you from doing any work (APFS bugs?), and this is just off the top of my head. It makes me feel like something is terrible wrong with Apple lately.
I just bought two Macbook Air laptops the last two weeks. They still come with MagSafe adapters, and no USB-C. iPhones are still using Lightning adapters instead of USB-C. I mean c'mon Apple! What the hell is going on? How can a multi-billion dollar company screw up this bad?
When you watch those videos of people trampling each other the moment the doors open, to buy a 40" television for $99, that does not exactly inspire someone to go to that store next Black Friday. That's why I didn't go out to Best Buy this Friday, and opted instead to just order my robot vacuum from Amazon, where it was priced exactly the same...
Spammers figured out they can take all the @gmail.com email addresses they harvested and simply share a Google Doc with the recipients, to ensure 100% delivery.
And now to the ridiculous part: To report the document as abuse, you have to first open that document (which forces you to see it), then go to the menu option "Help --> Report Abuse/Copyright" (and then comically get to a screen that says "Internal Error, please try again later").
off directly into a computer!
Aren't the relaxing effects of the tree house completely nullified by using a stressful OS such as Windows?!
Having visited Russia and exposed to Russian culture and so on, I actually totally believe him for once!
But what is more amusing to me is how this statement is basically telling us that even Putin is scared with how horrible Trump is for the planet... ;-)
It's basically a computer you wear on your back. It was designed for use with a VR headset as the screen, and as a result it's pretty powerful. So if you need x86, powerful GPU and battery, that's one way to go about it.
Except where it does not serve their purpose, such as warning about it BEFORE it affects the democratic presidential candidate...
Assuming this actually gets off the ground (pun intended), won't this affect airline pricing? Or are commercial airlines not doing freight?
I mean what could possibly go wrong, right?...
As with everything we humans do, we will only respond to that change when it's already done some damage...
Especially true if the running government of the time is of the type that denies obvious scientific facts.
What might happen, sometime soon: Zuckerberg buys ZeniMax, then proceeds to fire them all and liquidate their assets. It's kinda like taking your cash from your left pocket, to the right pocket, except you eliminated your enemy in the process.
Exactly - The previous generation was already thin enough. I do not need it to get any thinner. I need it to get better, faster, and last longer. I made a similar decision not to upgrade my MBP until it either dies or Apple releases a laptop worthy of my time and money.
You got that right! This is exactly what I came here to say.
I was going to ask this: How many years would pass before Apple actually fixed that bug if Consumer Reports didn't exist?
To me, this alone justifies their existence.
As a long time Mac user, this is exactly what I'm doing. It's not only over-priced, but I truly see no advantage to upgrading from my current Macbook Pro to the new one. If anything, I'd have to buy tons of adapters which I'm not keen on doing, and until GPU performance is fixed on laptops, there's no way I'm going to upgrade.