It's not just that, in a domain you've actually got CTP, Clusterfuck Time Protocol. Let's see, we'll all sync to that backup domain controller over there, which is sync'd to another BDC, one of which syncs to the PDC, which in turn syncs to a different BDC. Having that lot settling on a time is like watching a bunch of rednecks debate how gravity waves work, they eventually converge on some sort of solution but it sure ain't the solution that anyone else is on.
Nice, but pretty pricey. Not quite in the league of a Symmetricom privewise, but getting close. I'm running more or less the same thing but without the OLED display at 1/10th the price. Unfortunately the guy who made them on Tindie seems to have gone away, so I can't provide a link.
If you had bought $100 worth of Bitcoin in May of 2010 it would be worth somewhere around US$79 Million today. The problem is, neither Coinbase, nor anyone else, is just going to hand you $79 Million for your Bitcoin. For anything more than a few thousand dollars, Bitcoin is essentially useless.
I know a guy who claims he can cash out $79 million in tulip bulb futures, if anyone's interested.
I don't see how it matters because both seem like solutions in search of problems
That's the key point. No-one's really interested if Company A's gimmick is 5mm slimmer than Company B's gimmick if there's no obvious use for them. The original article is notably missing any real applications, just two suggestions, smart signage which can be done with some generic Android box from China (God knows Intel can't make anything cheap, who knows what their solution will end up costing), and modular notebooks, which no-one needs since we've already got an infinite variety of non-modular ones that work just fine. So it's just Intel's engineers showing off.
In this case there isn't really any way to improve them. Read and write disturbs are a well-known phenomenon that can't be solved at the physical level. That's why bits stored in flash are distributed in space and time, with both the hardware and the flash controllers acting to minimise the problems due to disturbs. My guess is that these guys reverse-engineered the mechanisms used for one particular flash technology and figured out the access patterns needed to induce disturbs.
The workaround would be to use a different random seed for access-pattern randomisation on each device, so you can't leverage information obtained for one device to attack all other devices in that class.
They're really, really running out of ideas for what to do with cellphones now, aren't they.
Which in a way is reassuring, it means the market is mature, like the PC market ten years ago, and there's no longer any need to upgrade every year or two because for the average user nothing new is being added any more.
Exactly. At the moment I have several machines on which Windows Update causes them to go into a bluescreen-reboot loop. If I turn off updates, the machines keep working. There's a chance they may get pwned at some point, but probably they won't. So turning off updates is vastly less damaging than what Microsoft will do to them if updates are enabled.
Ergo, Updates are disabled, and will have to stay disabled in order for the machines to continue functioning. Thanks, Microsoft, you've created a "solution" that's a worse option than the malware.
Not only that, but the original article seems to imply that unless you've turned teaching into a stage musical with backup dancers, a laser light show, and a half-time break for popcorn it's not worth doing. Guess what: A lot of education is boring. You can't gamify it. Learning Maxwell's equations will never be much fun, but you're going to need them if you want to work in EE or a similar profession. So yeah, gamify it all you want, have your students suck their lectures out of the navels of strippers if you think it'll get a higher attendance, but then you're not in the business of education any more, you're providing infotainment.
run legacy apps developed for computers with x86 processors
To understand this sort of stuff you need to translate it from Redmond Newspeak. In this case they're referring to "mainstream apps that everyone uses every day". Contrast with "Windows 10 ARM apps that will be as popular and wildly successful as Windows RT ARM apps were".
USB C is much, much more than that just a better connector, although even then the micro USB one that it supplants is probably the mechanically worst of the USB ones. As the OP has said, USB C is finally a universal system, not just a faster 16650 with 5V power.
There's a US nuclear physicist, can't remember his name at the moment, who has an standing offer open that he'll eat as much plutonium as someone else will eat caffeine. No-one has taken him up on it.
The deadliness of plutonium is somewhat overrated.
The DOE needs to reclassify plutonium. The FDA can come up with an RDA.
But seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP.
Actually it was launched to temporarily replace two of the mind control satellites, which had been put out of action by collisions with space debris. The new replacements were launched from the government's secret facility in Dwaynesville, PA. Unfortunately there was a brief interruption of service in late 2016, around November 8, but there don't seem to have been any major consequences.
Ah, yeah, sorry, shouldn't post at 3am:-). Two more comments and then I'd better get some sleep, unless they can magic the masks and other components out of nothing, the cost of creating RISC-V stuff is going to be considerable, and the 1.2% figure is the starting point for negotiations with ARM, not a hard limit. No-one knows, or at least no-one will ever say, what prices are being charged in practice but it's well under 1.2% in many cases. Also, the reason why Tensilica didn't go ARM is because it was founded by... what's-his-name, ex-MIPS, so they'd be unlikely to become an ARM shop. Cost may have been some factor, but the main reason would have been to do a MIPS-ng.
They're not paying $1 per IP core, that's why the whole module can sell for under $2. They'll be paying some insignificant percentage that's lost in the noise. It's an irrelevant amount. What they're getting in return is a complete support ecosystem that lets them build a module that sells for under $2. This can never happen with RISC-V because the licensing cost is an infinitesimal fraction of the total cost. Sure, if you state the licensing as being $200K then that sounds a lot, until you spread it across 2 billion units shipped (that's not the ESP8266, that's the Tensilica Xtensa CPU which is the bit with the ARM license). That's noise, you don't even see it in the BOM.
Now compare that with the cost of fabbing your own RISC-V (or at least paying to have it fabbed), or paying some other boutique place who's getting it fabbed. This can never, ever compete with existing devices because it's not competing with the hundredth-of-a-cent licensing costs per ARM core shipped, it's competing with tens of billions invested in making ARM devices as cheaply as possible.
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It's not just that, in a domain you've actually got CTP, Clusterfuck Time Protocol. Let's see, we'll all sync to that backup domain controller over there, which is sync'd to another BDC, one of which syncs to the PDC, which in turn syncs to a different BDC. Having that lot settling on a time is like watching a bunch of rednecks debate how gravity waves work, they eventually converge on some sort of solution but it sure ain't the solution that anyone else is on.
OTP (Office Time Protocol) predates even that one by decades, and is probably more accurate than Microsoft's NTP:
Hey Jim, what time is it?
About five-ish
Beer o'clock?
Yeah, about that.
Never failed so far.
Nice, but pretty pricey. Not quite in the league of a Symmetricom privewise, but getting close. I'm running more or less the same thing but without the OLED display at 1/10th the price. Unfortunately the guy who made them on Tindie seems to have gone away, so I can't provide a link.
Toyota Demos A Flying Car. It Crashes.
which is actually:
Small Startup's Experimental Passenger Drone Not Ready for Prime Time.
That's hardly a clickbaitable article title though.
If you had bought $100 worth of Bitcoin in May of 2010 it would be worth somewhere around US$79 Million today. The problem is, neither Coinbase, nor anyone else, is just going to hand you $79 Million for your Bitcoin. For anything more than a few thousand dollars, Bitcoin is essentially useless.
I know a guy who claims he can cash out $79 million in tulip bulb futures, if anyone's interested.
What does Barbara Eden have to do with Android?
I don't see how it matters because both seem like solutions in search of problems
That's the key point. No-one's really interested if Company A's gimmick is 5mm slimmer than Company B's gimmick if there's no obvious use for them. The original article is notably missing any real applications, just two suggestions, smart signage which can be done with some generic Android box from China (God knows Intel can't make anything cheap, who knows what their solution will end up costing), and modular notebooks, which no-one needs since we've already got an infinite variety of non-modular ones that work just fine. So it's just Intel's engineers showing off.
In this case there isn't really any way to improve them. Read and write disturbs are a well-known phenomenon that can't be solved at the physical level. That's why bits stored in flash are distributed in space and time, with both the hardware and the flash controllers acting to minimise the problems due to disturbs. My guess is that these guys reverse-engineered the mechanisms used for one particular flash technology and figured out the access patterns needed to induce disturbs.
The workaround would be to use a different random seed for access-pattern randomisation on each device, so you can't leverage information obtained for one device to attack all other devices in that class.
They're really, really running out of ideas for what to do with cellphones now, aren't they.
Which in a way is reassuring, it means the market is mature, like the PC market ten years ago, and there's no longer any need to upgrade every year or two because for the average user nothing new is being added any more.
Who cares what it runs, the NSA has already ordered a dozen of them.
In unrelated news, you may want to switch to a minimum password length of 32 characters for any account you care about. Just saying...
It is at least reassuring that most people here have no problems identifying The Return of Dotcom for what it is...
"I'm gonna call me a coupla hard, pipe-hittin McAfees.."... naah, it just doesn't sound the same.
And lose it all again on paid maternity leave.
Yeah, OK, I'll probably get modded flamebait for that, but it was worth it :-).
Exactly. At the moment I have several machines on which Windows Update causes them to go into a bluescreen-reboot loop. If I turn off updates, the machines keep working. There's a chance they may get pwned at some point, but probably they won't. So turning off updates is vastly less damaging than what Microsoft will do to them if updates are enabled.
Ergo, Updates are disabled, and will have to stay disabled in order for the machines to continue functioning. Thanks, Microsoft, you've created a "solution" that's a worse option than the malware.
But is it web scale?
Only if it's run by Mongo-scale cockroaches.
Not only that, but the original article seems to imply that unless you've turned teaching into a stage musical with backup dancers, a laser light show, and a half-time break for popcorn it's not worth doing. Guess what: A lot of education is boring. You can't gamify it. Learning Maxwell's equations will never be much fun, but you're going to need them if you want to work in EE or a similar profession. So yeah, gamify it all you want, have your students suck their lectures out of the navels of strippers if you think it'll get a higher attendance, but then you're not in the business of education any more, you're providing infotainment.
It wasn't that Harvard doesn't want to talk about it, but that nobody wants to listen. Nobody is curious about this and nobody cares.
Obviously Slashdot does, look at the number of replies here.
run legacy apps developed for computers with x86 processors
To understand this sort of stuff you need to translate it from Redmond Newspeak. In this case they're referring to "mainstream apps that everyone uses every day". Contrast with "Windows 10 ARM apps that will be as popular and wildly successful as Windows RT ARM apps were".
USB C is much, much more than that just a better connector, although even then the micro USB one that it supplants is probably the mechanically worst of the USB ones. As the OP has said, USB C is finally a universal system, not just a faster 16650 with 5V power.
There's a US nuclear physicist, can't remember his name at the moment, who has an standing offer open that he'll eat as much plutonium as someone else will eat caffeine. No-one has taken him up on it.
The deadliness of plutonium is somewhat overrated.
The DOE needs to reclassify plutonium. The FDA can come up with an RDA.
But seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP.
Meh, that's for wooses. Russian solution is more economical.
Actually it was launched to temporarily replace two of the mind control satellites, which had been put out of action by collisions with space debris. The new replacements were launched from the government's secret facility in Dwaynesville, PA. Unfortunately there was a brief interruption of service in late 2016, around November 8, but there don't seem to have been any major consequences.
Ah, yeah, sorry, shouldn't post at 3am :-). Two more comments and then I'd better get some sleep, unless they can magic the masks and other components out of nothing, the cost of creating RISC-V stuff is going to be considerable, and the 1.2% figure is the starting point for negotiations with ARM, not a hard limit. No-one knows, or at least no-one will ever say, what prices are being charged in practice but it's well under 1.2% in many cases. Also, the reason why Tensilica didn't go ARM is because it was founded by ... what's-his-name, ex-MIPS, so they'd be unlikely to become an ARM shop. Cost may have been some factor, but the main reason would have been to do a MIPS-ng.
They're not paying $1 per IP core, that's why the whole module can sell for under $2. They'll be paying some insignificant percentage that's lost in the noise. It's an irrelevant amount. What they're getting in return is a complete support ecosystem that lets them build a module that sells for under $2. This can never happen with RISC-V because the licensing cost is an infinitesimal fraction of the total cost. Sure, if you state the licensing as being $200K then that sounds a lot, until you spread it across 2 billion units shipped (that's not the ESP8266, that's the Tensilica Xtensa CPU which is the bit with the ARM license). That's noise, you don't even see it in the BOM.
Now compare that with the cost of fabbing your own RISC-V (or at least paying to have it fabbed), or paying some other boutique place who's getting it fabbed. This can never, ever compete with existing devices because it's not competing with the hundredth-of-a-cent licensing costs per ARM core shipped, it's competing with tens of billions invested in making ARM devices as cheaply as possible.