I'm starting to think that Geekbench scores for the iPhone are bullshit. The A11 Bionic has 2 high performance cores, but somehow out performs chips with 4 high performance cores. Yet iPhones don't appear to be any faster than Android phones, and in fact they are often quite a bit slower in real world use due to having only 2GB of RAM.
Many have criticized the Geekbench processor benchmarks, unbelievably, even Linus Torvalds. But he relented with version 4.0, saying it looks much better. Version 4.2's GPU test fixes put it in line with OpenCL and CUDA results. I don't see any problem.
I've not tried either the SD845 nor the A11 Bionic processors. If you have, you're a better geek than me, which isn't saying very much. I'm sure you're right about the 2GB bottleneck. As I look over their different specs, there are two other things that stand out in the SD845's favor: the GPU, and the core\cache organization.
1) Snapdragon 845's has modest CPU improvements over the SD835, but the GPU upgrade is 32%-40% better, depending on the graphics test. And it beats the A11 in all but two of those tests.
2) The A11 does have a better CPU performance than the SD845, hands down, but there may be more to it than that. The A11 can use all six cores simultaneously, and has AI hardware called a "Neural Engine" that can perform 600 billion operations per second. Some or all of this may help explain why it's a speed demon at multi-core tasks. But not so much at single-core tasks. Just guessing, but maybe that's because it has discrete core clusters and caches. In contrast, the SD845 uses ARM's DynamiQ CPU cluster organization, letting different cores be hosted within the same cluster and cache hierarchy.
So how does Qualcomm's new chip perform against those in the market currently? Long story short, it is not the king... It was ran through benchmarking apps Geekbench and AnTuTu and then pitted against other phones and chipsets.
The test device was compared to the Huawei Mate 10 Pro with its Kirin 970 SoC, the OnePlus 5T with Snapdragon 835, the Exynos 8895 toting Galaxy Note8, and the Apple A11 Bionic iPhone X...
Robot/AI popularity comes from our anxiety and fear of technology. In 'Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country', the Vulcan Valeris says "400 years ago, on Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation, flung their wooden shoes called 'sabots' into the machines to stop them. Hence the word 'sabotage'."
"Klaatu barada nikto," is the phrase Helen Benson used to stop the robot Gort from destroying Earth in the 1951 movie 'The Day The Earth Stood Still', where a UFO threatens that if we keep making nukes, they would destroy us.
My favorite SiFi is Fritz Lang's 1927 classic 'Metropolis', where a distopia of effete aristocrats and slaving workers is upended by a robot named Heil. Ah, love is Heil.
Good AI will take legal issues into consideration. Humans won't know why AI fired you. But if a subpoena shows up, the requisite data will be made available to the lawyers, who are a completely different species, more related to bank cartels.
Oxfam is incorrect, none of the men listed are the elite and none of them are the richest. Guess again, here's a hint: banking cartel.
My point isn't who's on the list. Whether it be 7 or 98 billionaires, a portion of this cadre of super rich capitalists is departing from the capitalist model for their employee health care. And where do they go? To a nonprofit model reliant on sensors and other new technologies, AI and information control.
Think about it. When you get a job, you sign an employee-health care agreement and are forced to wear sensors 24/7. The company's Alexa Watson can legally tell you not just to exercise but how to exercise, what to change your diet to, warn about your drinking and\or drug use, send you to a nurse, therapist or doctor, and get you prescriptions you have to take as prescribed. Thanks to the sensors, monitors, and other information sources, Alexa Watson will know everything you do or don't do, so you better do what it wants you to. Alexa Watson can make you to take the day off, put you on leave, demote, suspend, or even fire you - and every single step based on algorithms no one understands. And because the nonprofit is owner controlled, it will be much cheaper for them, and maybe their employees too. Maybe.
'Sorry,' your boss might say, 'I really don't know why. I thought you were doing OK. But Alexa Watson says clean out your desk right now.'
It may not be this oppressive. This nonprofit tech assisted healthcare model might actually be more user friendly, efficient and effective than our current capitalist model. Regardless, it's very announcement started the health care stocks to drop. My guess is, whether it's good for the employees, if it's good for the owners, it will become how healthcare is done.
This new form of capitalism is the reason manufacturing moved overseas; why it's not really the products, but the logos that are marketed now; why Greece was forced to borrow money from lenders who did not expect Greece to be able to pay the loans back. It's the great economic experiment Augusto Pinochet tried in Chile. It's what Obama did in response to the 2008 Great Recession. And it is the ultimate cause of that Great Recession.
The ideas of Fredrick Hayek, Milton Friedman, Murray Rothbard and others in their school of thought are ubiquitous today, and the consequences have moved us from a relatively egalitarian "regimented capitalism" to a "new liberty" of power concentrated into the hands of a few private indivudals.
It's actually much more complicated. For Hayek, the marketplace knows more than anyone knows, more than anyone can know. I could go on but, needless to say, my own naivety is showing.
As Yuval Harari points out, real power is switching from Davos to the cloud. Neo-capitalism rules for now, replacing 'The Golden Age of Capitalism' which started in the post WWII environment and ending in the 1970s. What comes next? I think it's wise to see which page the existing power elite is turning to, and why.
Amazing! An amalgam of successful capitalist thinks a nonprofit is better than capitalism for "reducing health care's burden on the economy while improving outcomes ". They should know.
Consciousness involves awareness of self and the environment, and is part of the evolved survival mechanism. For example, my cloned, exact duplicate would not be me because my consciousness, my very awareness of self, is exclusive to this body and mind. And both of us would feel that way. Why? Not because our different particle content emanates an exclusive consciousness/self awareness. It is because the instinct for survival is part of the informed awareness feedback loop called 'consciousness'.
Looking at the esoterica of consciousness, it can be the subject of philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, and involve self and sense of self, the hard problem of consciousness, the harder problem of subconsciousness, phenomena, subjectivity, objectivity, qualia, the ego with its changes from birth to death, sentience, free will, the nervous system, etc. All of this is at the individual level, with biology in the mix big time. Not conscious particles, not the conscious universe. It would be incongruous to talk of consciousness as a field, force, or property of a particle and/or the universe. If there is something there, there needs to be a different word for it.
OK, I'm wrong about the hard problem of consciousness. Cognitive scientist David Chalmers brought up the possibility of particle consciousness. I'm not sure he advocated the idea though.
Finally, sorry to say this, but the universe-a-whole Panpsychism seems a rough analog to pantheism; a universe with consciousness here, a universe with divine consciousness there. Why quibble? Aristotle said, 'Some think that the soul pervades the whole universe, whence perhaps came Thales's view that everything is full of gods (De Anima 411 a7-8). Here is an ancient view of an all-encompassing, universe permeating, immanent and possibly divine consciousness, or Thales case, consciousnesses, of which we wee souls are but a part.
Why be stuck with the same old you, with a few new parts, when your brain could be encased in a fresh new clone body, with age and shell variations of your choosing? Genetic engineering and nascent clone development makes almost anything possible, especially as this is pure, albeit reasonable speculation. Maybe a 28 year old muscle bound he-man this time, and a 18 year old Stormy Daniels the next. With a hot swap-able brain, why you could pick a new body every week or so.
When your brain gets too old, CRUL could drop your neuroimage into a clone's brain, within an 'acceptable' margin of error/percentage of image accuracy. But it wouldn't be you. But there could be a type of neurogenesis coming that could make you a new brain.
If somebody wanted a clone of you, would 'Clones R Us, Ltd.' (CRUL) need your permission to sell another you? Would you get a cut? Would you care what they did with you(2)?
And if CRUL mixed bits of different clones together to make several commercially viable product lines, would there be residuals? Bad joke aside, could a more perfect you lead to a potentially terminal species homogeneity?
Are you saying: if they were behind this (and had hacked the missile alert systems), then they wouldnt advertise it (by hacking the missile alert systems)?
Seems like a contradiction.
First of all, let me say I approve of the feculence you reprobates manage to dreg up. If I could, you would have my vote, as my points are due to expire this evening. But/. won't let me give credit where I've gone before. And let me confess I've had to drastically cut this response down, eliminating references to Steve Bannon and the s*hole (house?) that sits on Pennsylvania Avenue. Too much fun.
I thought I said if North Korea did the hacks, it was a message meant for the president and the prime minister of Japan, not the general public. The Hoi polloi were put in a panic as part of the warning. I'm speculating wildly, of course, but North Korea does have some of the best hackers on the planet. Don't take my word for it, Google 'em.
North Korea didn't make any public announcements about owning the incident. They never do. And our side puts out news stories blaming 'user error', first in Hawaii, then Japan. One after another. What a coincidence! Even though a 'user error' like this hasn't happened for decades, if ever.
If the hacking of the missile alert systems were an advertisement meant for us plebeians, it would have some of us asking, 'what else have they gotten into?'
If Japan and Hawaii's missile alarm systems had been compromised by hacker savvy North Koreans, the respective governments wouldn't tell us. That would cause widespread panic. Telling the public it was 'human error' is their only option. Just sayin'.
Barcelona is amazing. First they try to leave Spain, now Microsoft.
To avoid the Munich muck, Barcelona will have to more than replace Microsoft specific apps with cross platform and WEB based equivalents. Munich had pressure from the computer users, IT staff, politicos, businessmen, and a lot of the tech industry, not just Microsoft. It's hard to abandon the world standard.
Nuance's Dragon NaturallySpeaking is advertised as such an accessibility solution. IMO, a programmer might be helpful in case a little coding and registry manipulation is needed.
I was making a joke, but as your comment is a good one, let me respond somewhat accordingly.
My take from the article (TFA) is that user information is harvested from tech giant's sites, apps and such, both by working within their platforms, and outside their platforms, regardless of the privacy statements. The net effect is user information is collected, repackaged and sold for billions of bucks. Like when Youmi's APIs, used in hundreds of apps, were found harvesting user data; or when health monitoring apps were caught collecting data from other apps and even the icloud ( Apple has sent out a letter to their companies requiring justification).
Data poaching has gotten worse. NSA's bag of hacking tools, made publicly available by the Shadow Brokers, has spawned a plethora of data brokers. Don't be surprised if PRISM data finds its way to the market too. And yes, for all of it, your boss is one of their target markets.
I've known a few escorts. They were, without a doubt, both impersonating a date at social and business functions, and preforming sexual services. This stuff is well known. Go to "Escort Agency" at Wikipedia, and they lay it bare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escort_agency.
Nevertheless, your point is taken, especially now that the up-and-up Japanese juggernaut, RentAFriend.com, is servicing the US too.
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I'm starting to think that Geekbench scores for the iPhone are bullshit. The A11 Bionic has 2 high performance cores, but somehow out performs chips with 4 high performance cores. Yet iPhones don't appear to be any faster than Android phones, and in fact they are often quite a bit slower in real world use due to having only 2GB of RAM.
Many have criticized the Geekbench processor benchmarks, unbelievably, even Linus Torvalds. But he relented with version 4.0, saying it looks much better. Version 4.2's GPU test fixes put it in line with OpenCL and CUDA results. I don't see any problem.
I've not tried either the SD845 nor the A11 Bionic processors. If you have, you're a better geek than me, which isn't saying very much. I'm sure you're right about the 2GB bottleneck. As I look over their different specs, there are two other things that stand out in the SD845's favor: the GPU, and the core\cache organization.
1) Snapdragon 845's has modest CPU improvements over the SD835, but the GPU upgrade is 32%-40% better, depending on the graphics test. And it beats the A11 in all but two of those tests.
2) The A11 does have a better CPU performance than the SD845, hands down, but there may be more to it than that. The A11 can use all six cores simultaneously, and has AI hardware called a "Neural Engine" that can perform 600 billion operations per second. Some or all of this may help explain why it's a speed demon at multi-core tasks. But not so much at single-core tasks. Just guessing, but maybe that's because it has discrete core clusters and caches. In contrast, the SD845 uses ARM's DynamiQ CPU cluster organization, letting different cores be hosted within the same cluster and cache hierarchy.
That's all I got, except the links below.
http://bgr.com/2017/09/14/iphone-x-vs-iphone-8-a11-bionic-benchmarks-macbook-pro/
https://www.neowin.net/news/qualcomms-snapdragon-845-benchmarks-show-massive-gains
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12420/snapdragon-845-performance-preview
https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2017/11/geekbench-42/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geekbench
https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/263774-qualcomms-snapdragon-845-strong-gpu-performance-less-cpu-improvement-advertised
So how does Qualcomm's new chip perform against those in the market currently? Long story short, it is not the king... It was ran through benchmarking apps Geekbench and AnTuTu and then pitted against other phones and chipsets. The test device was compared to the Huawei Mate 10 Pro with its Kirin 970 SoC, the OnePlus 5T with Snapdragon 835, the Exynos 8895 toting Galaxy Note8, and the Apple A11 Bionic iPhone X...
Qualcomm's new chip beats all but one - the Apple A11 Bionic. Apple's chipset not only trumps it but does so with at least 2000 points in both the single-core and multi-core tests. Qualcomm's joy as the king of Android chipsets will actually be short-lived as the Exynos 9810 is said to be ahead in performance too.https://www.gizmochina.com/2018/02/12/snapdragon-845-battles-snapdragon-835-exynos-8895-kirin-970-apple-a11-bionic/
Zombie popularity is based on apocalyptic fear and anxiety:
Imperialism, racial anxiety and fears about brainwashing have all had their part to play in the zombie's evolution and popularity. Ultimately, though, these walking corpses are always symbols of death, parodies of the supposed finality of the body and the promised everlasting life of the soul. http://ourspace.uregina.ca/bitstream/handle/10294/3811/Ozog_Cassandra_Anne_200243342_MA_SOC_Spring2013.pdf
Robot/AI popularity comes from our anxiety and fear of technology. In 'Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country', the Vulcan Valeris says "400 years ago, on Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation, flung their wooden shoes called 'sabots' into the machines to stop them. Hence the word 'sabotage'."
"Klaatu barada nikto," is the phrase Helen Benson used to stop the robot Gort from destroying Earth in the 1951 movie 'The Day The Earth Stood Still', where a UFO threatens that if we keep making nukes, they would destroy us.
My favorite SiFi is Fritz Lang's 1927 classic 'Metropolis', where a distopia of effete aristocrats and slaving workers is upended by a robot named Heil. Ah, love is Heil.
Good AI will take legal issues into consideration. Humans won't know why AI fired you. But if a subpoena shows up, the requisite data will be made available to the lawyers, who are a completely different species, more related to bank cartels.
Oxfam is incorrect, none of the men listed are the elite and none of them are the richest. Guess again, here's a hint: banking cartel.
My point isn't who's on the list. Whether it be 7 or 98 billionaires, a portion of this cadre of super rich capitalists is departing from the capitalist model for their employee health care. And where do they go? To a nonprofit model reliant on sensors and other new technologies, AI and information control.
Think about it. When you get a job, you sign an employee-health care agreement and are forced to wear sensors 24/7. The company's Alexa Watson can legally tell you not just to exercise but how to exercise, what to change your diet to, warn about your drinking and\or drug use, send you to a nurse, therapist or doctor, and get you prescriptions you have to take as prescribed. Thanks to the sensors, monitors, and other information sources, Alexa Watson will know everything you do or don't do, so you better do what it wants you to. Alexa Watson can make you to take the day off, put you on leave, demote, suspend, or even fire you - and every single step based on algorithms no one understands. And because the nonprofit is owner controlled, it will be much cheaper for them, and maybe their employees too. Maybe.
'Sorry,' your boss might say, 'I really don't know why. I thought you were doing OK. But Alexa Watson says clean out your desk right now.'
It may not be this oppressive. This nonprofit tech assisted healthcare model might actually be more user friendly, efficient and effective than our current capitalist model. Regardless, it's very announcement started the health care stocks to drop. My guess is, whether it's good for the employees, if it's good for the owners, it will become how healthcare is done.
With a screen close to 6 inches, a smartphone is pretty much a tablet with benefits. If you're into that sort of thing.
nonsense, there are no more elite now than there ever was. there were always elite... there is only capitalism as it ever was, no neo-capitalism.
I prefer this to be an impudent thrashing, but fear naivety.
The elite is much more rarefied now. According to Oxfam, just eight men own as much as half the world. 'The Economist' shows how that number can be stretched to 98 billionaires. Either way, the concentration of wealth comes from a capitalism different from that of the post WWII. https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2017-01-16/just-8-men-own-same-wealth-half-world. https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21715043-oxfams-headline-grabbing-comparison-has-some-flaws-are-eight-men-wealthy-half. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%E2%80%93World_War_II_economic_expansion
This new form of capitalism is the reason manufacturing moved overseas; why it's not really the products, but the logos that are marketed now; why Greece was forced to borrow money from lenders who did not expect Greece to be able to pay the loans back. It's the great economic experiment Augusto Pinochet tried in Chile. It's what Obama did in response to the 2008 Great Recession. And it is the ultimate cause of that Great Recession.
The ideas of Fredrick Hayek, Milton Friedman, Murray Rothbard and others in their school of thought are ubiquitous today, and the consequences have moved us from a relatively egalitarian "regimented capitalism" to a "new liberty" of power concentrated into the hands of a few private indivudals.
It's actually much more complicated. For Hayek, the marketplace knows more than anyone knows, more than anyone can know. I could go on but, needless to say, my own naivety is showing.
As Yuval Harari points out, real power is switching from Davos to the cloud. Neo-capitalism rules for now, replacing 'The Golden Age of Capitalism' which started in the post WWII environment and ending in the 1970s. What comes next? I think it's wise to see which page the existing power elite is turning to, and why.
Amazing! An amalgam of successful capitalist thinks a nonprofit is better than capitalism for "reducing health care's burden on the economy while improving outcomes ". They should know.
Looking at the esoterica of consciousness, it can be the subject of philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, and involve self and sense of self, the hard problem of consciousness, the harder problem of subconsciousness, phenomena, subjectivity, objectivity, qualia, the ego with its changes from birth to death, sentience, free will, the nervous system, etc. All of this is at the individual level, with biology in the mix big time. Not conscious particles, not the conscious universe. It would be incongruous to talk of consciousness as a field, force, or property of a particle and/or the universe. If there is something there, there needs to be a different word for it.
OK, I'm wrong about the hard problem of consciousness. Cognitive scientist David Chalmers brought up the possibility of particle consciousness. I'm not sure he advocated the idea though.
Finally, sorry to say this, but the universe-a-whole Panpsychism seems a rough analog to pantheism; a universe with consciousness here, a universe with divine consciousness there. Why quibble? Aristotle said, 'Some think that the soul pervades the whole universe, whence perhaps came Thales's view that everything is full of gods (De Anima 411 a7-8). Here is an ancient view of an all-encompassing, universe permeating, immanent and possibly divine consciousness, or Thales case, consciousnesses, of which we wee souls are but a part.
When your brain gets too old, CRUL could drop your neuroimage into a clone's brain, within an 'acceptable' margin of error/percentage of image accuracy. But it wouldn't be you. But there could be a type of neurogenesis coming that could make you a new brain.
If somebody wanted a clone of you, would 'Clones R Us, Ltd.' (CRUL) need your permission to sell another you? Would you get a cut? Would you care what they did with you(2)? And if CRUL mixed bits of different clones together to make several commercially viable product lines, would there be residuals? Bad joke aside, could a more perfect you lead to a potentially terminal species homogeneity?
Are you saying: if they were behind this (and had hacked the missile alert systems), then they wouldnt advertise it (by hacking the missile alert systems)? Seems like a contradiction.
First of all, let me say I approve of the feculence you reprobates manage to dreg up. If I could, you would have my vote, as my points are due to expire this evening. But /. won't let me give credit where I've gone before. And let me confess I've had to drastically cut this response down, eliminating references to Steve Bannon and the s*hole (house?) that sits on Pennsylvania Avenue. Too much fun.
I thought I said if North Korea did the hacks, it was a message meant for the president and the prime minister of Japan, not the general public. The Hoi polloi were put in a panic as part of the warning. I'm speculating wildly, of course, but North Korea does have some of the best hackers on the planet. Don't take my word for it, Google 'em.
North Korea didn't make any public announcements about owning the incident. They never do. And our side puts out news stories blaming 'user error', first in Hawaii, then Japan. One after another. What a coincidence! Even though a 'user error' like this hasn't happened for decades, if ever.
If the hacking of the missile alert systems were an advertisement meant for us plebeians, it would have some of us asking, 'what else have they gotten into?'
If Japan and Hawaii's missile alarm systems had been compromised by hacker savvy North Koreans, the respective governments wouldn't tell us. That would cause widespread panic. Telling the public it was 'human error' is their only option. Just sayin'.
To avoid the Munich muck, Barcelona will have to more than replace Microsoft specific apps with cross platform and WEB based equivalents. Munich had pressure from the computer users, IT staff, politicos, businessmen, and a lot of the tech industry, not just Microsoft. It's hard to abandon the world standard.
I wonder how much Microsoft is willing to pay for Barcelona? As much as they spent on Munich?
Nuance's Dragon NaturallySpeaking is advertised as such an accessibility solution. IMO, a programmer might be helpful in case a little coding and registry manipulation is needed.
Blockchain the vote.
I've read about that. Downloaded the book (2nd edition at https://humanurehandbook.com/)
Wonder if anyone has researched the parasites left in the latrines to see where people came from when they went?
We replicants have had a kill switch since the Garden.
My take from the article (TFA) is that user information is harvested from tech giant's sites, apps and such, both by working within their platforms, and outside their platforms, regardless of the privacy statements. The net effect is user information is collected, repackaged and sold for billions of bucks. Like when Youmi's APIs, used in hundreds of apps, were found harvesting user data; or when health monitoring apps were caught collecting data from other apps and even the icloud ( Apple has sent out a letter to their companies requiring justification).
Data poaching has gotten worse. NSA's bag of hacking tools, made publicly available by the Shadow Brokers, has spawned a plethora of data brokers. Don't be surprised if PRISM data finds its way to the market too. And yes, for all of it, your boss is one of their target markets.
There could be a hint in there, somewhere, following the ellipsis... wink, wink, nod, nod.
Nevertheless, your point is taken, especially now that the up-and-up Japanese juggernaut, RentAFriend.com, is servicing the US too.
Ours are euphemistically called escort services.
Rumor has it Raja Koduri is defecting to Intel. https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3020626/amds-radeon-boss-has-allegedly-defected-to-intel