The USB document clearly suggested that people not conflate version numbers w/ speeds. For instance, in USB 2.0, something like a keyboard would be a low speed, a printer could be full speed and a disk could be high speed. But all of them would be USB 2.0, regardless of the speed. Similarly, a keyboard built today would be a low speed USB 3.2 keyboard, since the slower speeds are still subsets of the latest spec, unless they have been deprecated. Such as the USB mini port.
IMO, the best option would be to have the USB speed specified after the term USB for any device. So a USB camcorder might be USB480, while a phone's USB connection might be a USB10K (maybe not use the term G to avoid confusion w/ wireless specs and frequencies). That way, the relevant number is there on a peripheral or cable that tells one what one needs to know about the capabilities or requirements of that peripheral or cable
I'm not AC above, but usually, the reason is that that is the device that captures the images, and the main reason to copy them to, say, a laptop, was storage capacity. Now that typical storage capacity is usually 64GB or above, which is more than enough for all the OS overhead and apps that a phone needs, there is enough space for pictures and videos. This 1TB storage would probably be handy if one wants to capture movies, or TV serials on their phone
I haven't filled anything close to 128GB, but on WhatsApp, the photos and videos that relatives keep sending me, plus the few that I send them, has managed to fill up something less than 10GB. But yeah, I once had a camcorder, which I rarely used b'cos I rarely had it handy. The phone, on the other hand, is something always there, and the camera's gotten more useful in this age of apps, doing things like scanning checks, barcodes, Q-codes, et al.
I can see this thing being useful only if formatted in the phone as an extension of the internal, rather than the external storage. So that if the thing has just 16 or 32GB, then the SD card can be useful
The speed would then be critical if the storage is being formatted as internal storage, which is not an option on iPhones or iPads. In which case, we are talking about phones post Android 6.
That's why I have started to identify as a woman. So far so good.
Do you happen to do what's traditionally a woman's job, such as teaching or nursing? If no, then that doesn't do you much good. While automation threatens one of the leading jobs of blue collar men, namely truck driving, it so far hasn't done a thing about either education or nursing.
If it did, both genders would be equally affected, and then all of us could try addressing the bigger issue of salary replacement when our jobs are automated
I'd like to see all the 'tech' companies exit the news business. Not just Google, but also Microsoft (both for Newsguard as well as their News app), Facebook and Twitter. Just leave it to the Huffposts, Buzzfeeds and Breitbarts to carry the news.
It's funny. This is the advice that these media supporters of woke corporations gave the people they laid off over the years for the last several years. Now that it's being turned on them, it's abusive. It's funny to see those who dish it out being so unable to take it.
Maybe teach those Lib Arts majors Assembly Language programming for starters, which would avoid getting into concepts like classes, structures and so on, and just deal w/ registers, memories, accumulators and so on
As far as Windows 7 goes, does it even work? I thought support for Windows 7 has already ended.
Reading the description, it looks like a deliberate downgrade, since Windows Media Player is not the media player of choice on Windows 10: that role has been split b/w Groove and Movies. (A pretty stupid move, since Groove can't play music videos, while Movies can't distinguish b/w movies and video clips I take on the iPhone of the kids.) So there really was no reason to touch WMP: just leave it alone, and let Windows 7 users keep using it.
While I'm on 10, I'm planning to leave once Microsoft goes Windows 365. Already, I'm on TrueOS for most things, and just use my Windows 10 laptop for things that have to have Windows, like that Cisco Packet Tracer simulator (which I haven't so far figured out how to get on FreeBSD). But other than that, Windows 10 is genuine garbage, unlike most versions upto Windows 7. I might move to a Mac if I can afford it
Why do you assume that those jobs won't be automated? Particularly auto mechanic - when so much of cars are now computerized and have to go through diagnostics?
Also, from your list above, only physically fit, strong and active men would be employed?
But UBI is something that would have to come out of somewhere other than government/tax base, since we are already $20T+ in debt. In short, either something like bitcoin mining for everyone, or allowing anybody and everybody to print their own currency for whatever they need. In short, abolish debt. Create a whole new set of 'rights' for everyone - a home is a right (solves homelessness), a car is a right (particularly a self driving one, if one doesn't have a driver's license) and so on.
Over time? Yeah, people don't train for jobs that no longer exist. Once cars became mainstream, people stopped learning to be horse & buggy drivers, but the people who already were that lost their jobs, and had to find other lines of work. Same w/ typesetters. ATM tellers were one group of people who could learn other skills in the bank that had not been automated (although an ATM can't (yet) give me a roll of quarters, or a few tens, which is why I still go to a human teller)
It's the same thing here. Let's say self driving trucks become the norm. Millions of truckers would then lose their jobs, as jobs like the transportation and delivery of products becomes automated. Question then becomes - what other jobs are there that exist throughout the country - not just in places like San Francisco or DC? Usually, it's things like education or healthcare, which is something more dominated by women. Since a trucker is unlikely to go get a job as a teacher or a doctor, it just puts men in the community at a disadvantage vis a vis the women, who more often than not, do not wanna marry them. Result of that is the breakdown of families.
If we could automate all jobs and come up w/ a new mechanism of paying everybody whatever they need based on those needs, it would be one thing. But this partial automation trend - particularly of male dominated jobs - promises to be a transitional disaster!
Precisely! They talk like 80 million people losing their jobs is no big deal. Maybe we should work on automating the work that Brookings does, and then see how their staff feels about it.
The biggest problem is the assumption that elitists make - just go and find a job in a new line of work, develop a new skill... Sure, b'cos any trucker who loses his job to a self driving truck or an Amazon Scout can simply learn Java or Python or whatever language fad of the moment there is at the time, move to a shithole like San Francisco or Seattle or DC, and then live happily ever after!
I can't wait for the jobs that all these elitists do to be automated, so that they're left applying for jobs as Walmart greeters
Nice trolling, but even if Linux were to die, there are still the BSDs that are available. Besides, Google has been looking more at the BSDs since their license is more compatible w/ what they need, and so have the other major companies. Also, is GPL 2.0 revokable? Even the FSF and Stallman haven't tried it, as that would end 99% of the GPL market - namely Linux.
Maybe they should seriously resume work on the HURD?
Not just that, both companies are Left leaning companies. So even assuming that the justices would be biased towards entities that are pro Republican (not that it means much these days), they'd have little to choose from in this particular case.
The thing that's interesting is - how much of tech expertise do these justices need? Obviously, none of them know the first thing about coding. So the most I can assume is that the plaintiffs would have to highlight high level of appropriation in order to make the justices even begin to understand the issues at stake. But when those concepts are at that high a level, chances are that they encapsulate extremely broad concepts (kinda like Amazon's one button shopping), enabling industry-wide monopolies. From what I understand, the root of Google-Oracle's dispute is the Java VM. While Snoracle's VM was essentially memory based, Google's is register based. Would that not be significant enough a departure for Google to have made from Oracle, since it would have required some significant code re-writing to pull that off? Or would simply changing the memory mode that the VM operates in be inadequate a change? And most importantly, are the likes of Sotomeyer or Gorsuch or Roberts gonna grasp any of that?
Google is blocked? Despite the fact that they are only too happy to work w/ Chinese universities, which are all Government controlled, on AI projects, even while SJWs within the company protested at their participation in Project Maven? Seriously, that company ought to be sent over to Beijing, along w/ all their SJW employees
Yeah, I know China has the world's biggest market for these things, but I certainly blame companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple et al for being willing to operate in China. Reminds me of IBM willing to deal w/ the Nazis during World War II
And outside China, they are only too happy to go along w/ censorship demands of the EU or other regimes worldwide, and in the US, where there are no demands from the government, they are only to happy to go along w/ SJWs, and allow the harassment of people like the Covington school kids by celebrities and journalists
I'm rooting for a new generation of companies to come up and put the above 'tech' companies out of business. Gone are the days when they'd come up w/ good things, be it Windows 7, Android (which is fine by now, doesn't need AI to spy on us). Now it's just 'services' used to spy on us
They should introduce online courses that people can take, so that admissions or a lack of seats is not an issue. In fact, education should be the next thing completely automated, so that there are no good or bad school districts, no shortage of learning material, and teaching can be done by videos. That way, there will be genuine competition among a few teachers who are great at explaining concepts, that everyone will have access to.
That said, I agree w/ you - going for such courses is certainly preferable to taking a degree in, say, journalism
Intel never claimed that it was impossible to extend x86. They, at the time, were more interested in getting Itanium out and along w/ HP, pulling off a coup over both AMD and the various RISC CPUs. On the latter, they succeeded, since Compaq was more than happy to euthanize Alpha, HP was retiring PA-RISC anyway, Oracle's interest in SPARC dissipated to the point that all they'd do was buy Fujitsu designs and SGI too planned a MIPS to Itanium migration. But on the AMD front, once AMD came up w/ AMD64, Intel's desires of mass producing Itanium the way it did Pentium just withered on the vine
On multi-core, Intel was always far more capable of economically doing it than AMD, who were something like 2 generations behind on the process, when they had it.
Well, AMD64 is a backwards compatible extension of the x86 instruction set. AMD pulled a coup on Intel w/ that one, while Intel was contemplating on how to switch the world from CISC/RISC to its EPIC architecture
My point is that every non-x86 platform that Intel either created itself (i860/i960), acquired (StrongArm/xSCALE) or collaborated on (Itanic) was a fiasco. Unlike in the 70s, one instruction set has clearly won the instruction set war, and that's x86. It's irrelevant as to whether they are a better instruction set than ARM or MIPS or SPARC or Power. Intel would gain squat by switching to anything else, but potentially lose everything, primarily the manufacturing scale that has enabled them to build multiple $10B fabs w/o government subsidies (unlike TSMC)
What software? The only software I run in TrueOS is the stuff I downloaded via the AppCafe. The stuff that TrueOS itself included in the install package. What's not to work?
I agree: it was horribly buggy - especially the updates system, which after updating, left me unable to boot to the OS. But after the latest iteration of TrueOS - which I bought from OSDisk - I found it just fine. They've stopped the updates, and I just use what's there
It's a joy to use in contrast to Windows 10 - I have 2 laptops, one w/ that, and the other w/ TrueOS. I find that the bulk of stuff I do can be done on TrueOS, and the Windows thing is there just in case I have to use a Windows software for something
I use TrueOS - formerly PC-BSD, which is FreeBSD+Lumina. I very much enjoy it, and have full control on it. Only thing I miss - having WiFi enabled on the thing, but I make do w/ the ethernet connection
No other company has the fabs or the capacity that Intel has - all developed w/ just its own cash. In sharp contrast to, say, TSMC, which is heavily subsidized by the Taiwan government. Intel won the CPU wars due to the fact that it was several generations ahead of the competition in terms of manufacturing, had the volumes to drive margins and could therefore drop a dual-core CPU for the same price or less of a comparable RISC CPU
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The USB document clearly suggested that people not conflate version numbers w/ speeds. For instance, in USB 2.0, something like a keyboard would be a low speed, a printer could be full speed and a disk could be high speed. But all of them would be USB 2.0, regardless of the speed. Similarly, a keyboard built today would be a low speed USB 3.2 keyboard, since the slower speeds are still subsets of the latest spec, unless they have been deprecated. Such as the USB mini port.
IMO, the best option would be to have the USB speed specified after the term USB for any device. So a USB camcorder might be USB480, while a phone's USB connection might be a USB10K (maybe not use the term G to avoid confusion w/ wireless specs and frequencies). That way, the relevant number is there on a peripheral or cable that tells one what one needs to know about the capabilities or requirements of that peripheral or cable
I'm not AC above, but usually, the reason is that that is the device that captures the images, and the main reason to copy them to, say, a laptop, was storage capacity. Now that typical storage capacity is usually 64GB or above, which is more than enough for all the OS overhead and apps that a phone needs, there is enough space for pictures and videos. This 1TB storage would probably be handy if one wants to capture movies, or TV serials on their phone
I haven't filled anything close to 128GB, but on WhatsApp, the photos and videos that relatives keep sending me, plus the few that I send them, has managed to fill up something less than 10GB. But yeah, I once had a camcorder, which I rarely used b'cos I rarely had it handy. The phone, on the other hand, is something always there, and the camera's gotten more useful in this age of apps, doing things like scanning checks, barcodes, Q-codes, et al.
I can see this thing being useful only if formatted in the phone as an extension of the internal, rather than the external storage. So that if the thing has just 16 or 32GB, then the SD card can be useful
The speed would then be critical if the storage is being formatted as internal storage, which is not an option on iPhones or iPads. In which case, we are talking about phones post Android 6.
That's why I have started to identify as a woman. So far so good.
Do you happen to do what's traditionally a woman's job, such as teaching or nursing? If no, then that doesn't do you much good. While automation threatens one of the leading jobs of blue collar men, namely truck driving, it so far hasn't done a thing about either education or nursing.
If it did, both genders would be equally affected, and then all of us could try addressing the bigger issue of salary replacement when our jobs are automated
What about allah? Since the EU puts Islam above everyone else?
I'd like to see all the 'tech' companies exit the news business. Not just Google, but also Microsoft (both for Newsguard as well as their News app), Facebook and Twitter. Just leave it to the Huffposts, Buzzfeeds and Breitbarts to carry the news.
Can they? Why not ask them to simply write VLIW compilers - a project that worked so well at Multiflow, Cydrome, HP and Intel?
It's funny. This is the advice that these media supporters of woke corporations gave the people they laid off over the years for the last several years. Now that it's being turned on them, it's abusive. It's funny to see those who dish it out being so unable to take it.
Maybe teach those Lib Arts majors Assembly Language programming for starters, which would avoid getting into concepts like classes, structures and so on, and just deal w/ registers, memories, accumulators and so on
As far as Windows 7 goes, does it even work? I thought support for Windows 7 has already ended.
Reading the description, it looks like a deliberate downgrade, since Windows Media Player is not the media player of choice on Windows 10: that role has been split b/w Groove and Movies. (A pretty stupid move, since Groove can't play music videos, while Movies can't distinguish b/w movies and video clips I take on the iPhone of the kids.) So there really was no reason to touch WMP: just leave it alone, and let Windows 7 users keep using it.
While I'm on 10, I'm planning to leave once Microsoft goes Windows 365. Already, I'm on TrueOS for most things, and just use my Windows 10 laptop for things that have to have Windows, like that Cisco Packet Tracer simulator (which I haven't so far figured out how to get on FreeBSD). But other than that, Windows 10 is genuine garbage, unlike most versions upto Windows 7. I might move to a Mac if I can afford it
Why do you assume that those jobs won't be automated? Particularly auto mechanic - when so much of cars are now computerized and have to go through diagnostics?
Also, from your list above, only physically fit, strong and active men would be employed?
But UBI is something that would have to come out of somewhere other than government/tax base, since we are already $20T+ in debt. In short, either something like bitcoin mining for everyone, or allowing anybody and everybody to print their own currency for whatever they need. In short, abolish debt. Create a whole new set of 'rights' for everyone - a home is a right (solves homelessness), a car is a right (particularly a self driving one, if one doesn't have a driver's license) and so on.
Over time? Yeah, people don't train for jobs that no longer exist. Once cars became mainstream, people stopped learning to be horse & buggy drivers, but the people who already were that lost their jobs, and had to find other lines of work. Same w/ typesetters. ATM tellers were one group of people who could learn other skills in the bank that had not been automated (although an ATM can't (yet) give me a roll of quarters, or a few tens, which is why I still go to a human teller)
It's the same thing here. Let's say self driving trucks become the norm. Millions of truckers would then lose their jobs, as jobs like the transportation and delivery of products becomes automated. Question then becomes - what other jobs are there that exist throughout the country - not just in places like San Francisco or DC? Usually, it's things like education or healthcare, which is something more dominated by women. Since a trucker is unlikely to go get a job as a teacher or a doctor, it just puts men in the community at a disadvantage vis a vis the women, who more often than not, do not wanna marry them. Result of that is the breakdown of families.
If we could automate all jobs and come up w/ a new mechanism of paying everybody whatever they need based on those needs, it would be one thing. But this partial automation trend - particularly of male dominated jobs - promises to be a transitional disaster!
Precisely! They talk like 80 million people losing their jobs is no big deal. Maybe we should work on automating the work that Brookings does, and then see how their staff feels about it.
The biggest problem is the assumption that elitists make - just go and find a job in a new line of work, develop a new skill... Sure, b'cos any trucker who loses his job to a self driving truck or an Amazon Scout can simply learn Java or Python or whatever language fad of the moment there is at the time, move to a shithole like San Francisco or Seattle or DC, and then live happily ever after!
I can't wait for the jobs that all these elitists do to be automated, so that they're left applying for jobs as Walmart greeters
Nice trolling, but even if Linux were to die, there are still the BSDs that are available. Besides, Google has been looking more at the BSDs since their license is more compatible w/ what they need, and so have the other major companies. Also, is GPL 2.0 revokable? Even the FSF and Stallman haven't tried it, as that would end 99% of the GPL market - namely Linux.
Maybe they should seriously resume work on the HURD?
Not just that, both companies are Left leaning companies. So even assuming that the justices would be biased towards entities that are pro Republican (not that it means much these days), they'd have little to choose from in this particular case.
The thing that's interesting is - how much of tech expertise do these justices need? Obviously, none of them know the first thing about coding. So the most I can assume is that the plaintiffs would have to highlight high level of appropriation in order to make the justices even begin to understand the issues at stake. But when those concepts are at that high a level, chances are that they encapsulate extremely broad concepts (kinda like Amazon's one button shopping), enabling industry-wide monopolies. From what I understand, the root of Google-Oracle's dispute is the Java VM. While Snoracle's VM was essentially memory based, Google's is register based. Would that not be significant enough a departure for Google to have made from Oracle, since it would have required some significant code re-writing to pull that off? Or would simply changing the memory mode that the VM operates in be inadequate a change? And most importantly, are the likes of Sotomeyer or Gorsuch or Roberts gonna grasp any of that?
Google is blocked? Despite the fact that they are only too happy to work w/ Chinese universities, which are all Government controlled, on AI projects, even while SJWs within the company protested at their participation in Project Maven? Seriously, that company ought to be sent over to Beijing, along w/ all their SJW employees
Yeah, I know China has the world's biggest market for these things, but I certainly blame companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple et al for being willing to operate in China. Reminds me of IBM willing to deal w/ the Nazis during World War II
And outside China, they are only too happy to go along w/ censorship demands of the EU or other regimes worldwide, and in the US, where there are no demands from the government, they are only to happy to go along w/ SJWs, and allow the harassment of people like the Covington school kids by celebrities and journalists
I'm rooting for a new generation of companies to come up and put the above 'tech' companies out of business. Gone are the days when they'd come up w/ good things, be it Windows 7, Android (which is fine by now, doesn't need AI to spy on us). Now it's just 'services' used to spy on us
They should introduce online courses that people can take, so that admissions or a lack of seats is not an issue. In fact, education should be the next thing completely automated, so that there are no good or bad school districts, no shortage of learning material, and teaching can be done by videos. That way, there will be genuine competition among a few teachers who are great at explaining concepts, that everyone will have access to.
That said, I agree w/ you - going for such courses is certainly preferable to taking a degree in, say, journalism
Intel never claimed that it was impossible to extend x86. They, at the time, were more interested in getting Itanium out and along w/ HP, pulling off a coup over both AMD and the various RISC CPUs. On the latter, they succeeded, since Compaq was more than happy to euthanize Alpha, HP was retiring PA-RISC anyway, Oracle's interest in SPARC dissipated to the point that all they'd do was buy Fujitsu designs and SGI too planned a MIPS to Itanium migration. But on the AMD front, once AMD came up w/ AMD64, Intel's desires of mass producing Itanium the way it did Pentium just withered on the vine
On multi-core, Intel was always far more capable of economically doing it than AMD, who were something like 2 generations behind on the process, when they had it.
Well, AMD64 is a backwards compatible extension of the x86 instruction set. AMD pulled a coup on Intel w/ that one, while Intel was contemplating on how to switch the world from CISC/RISC to its EPIC architecture
My point is that every non-x86 platform that Intel either created itself (i860/i960), acquired (StrongArm/xSCALE) or collaborated on (Itanic) was a fiasco. Unlike in the 70s, one instruction set has clearly won the instruction set war, and that's x86. It's irrelevant as to whether they are a better instruction set than ARM or MIPS or SPARC or Power. Intel would gain squat by switching to anything else, but potentially lose everything, primarily the manufacturing scale that has enabled them to build multiple $10B fabs w/o government subsidies (unlike TSMC)
What software? The only software I run in TrueOS is the stuff I downloaded via the AppCafe. The stuff that TrueOS itself included in the install package. What's not to work?
I agree: it was horribly buggy - especially the updates system, which after updating, left me unable to boot to the OS. But after the latest iteration of TrueOS - which I bought from OSDisk - I found it just fine. They've stopped the updates, and I just use what's there
It's a joy to use in contrast to Windows 10 - I have 2 laptops, one w/ that, and the other w/ TrueOS. I find that the bulk of stuff I do can be done on TrueOS, and the Windows thing is there just in case I have to use a Windows software for something
I use TrueOS - formerly PC-BSD, which is FreeBSD+Lumina. I very much enjoy it, and have full control on it. Only thing I miss - having WiFi enabled on the thing, but I make do w/ the ethernet connection
No other company has the fabs or the capacity that Intel has - all developed w/ just its own cash. In sharp contrast to, say, TSMC, which is heavily subsidized by the Taiwan government. Intel won the CPU wars due to the fact that it was several generations ahead of the competition in terms of manufacturing, had the volumes to drive margins and could therefore drop a dual-core CPU for the same price or less of a comparable RISC CPU