Yup, totally agree. The real story here is that Intel's notebook and desktop CPU dominance are soon to be challenged. They've stumbled around with x86 desktop performance for close to a decade now. If Apple is able to drive 90% improvements from last year's iPad to this year's version and nearly equal Intel's ultrabook chips in the process, what do you think they pull off with a move to ARM on Macbooks with 1-2 years of further development and the luxury of a heatsink and fan to boot? I would be shaking in my boots if I owned shares of INTC.
I dunno. How willing would you be to die for the cause of freedom? That's what it takes and people there feel free enough in their daily lives that it doesn't seem worth the effort.
Well, what would you do? Continue to distribute modified copies of copyright software you don't have legal rights to? If EA wants to kill off its old online games, let em. Just pisses off 900,000 potential customers who'll now have one more reason to think twice about supporting them in the future.
I suppose if there are enough people who are lonely and clueless enough to invite a stranger into their homes to suggest ways to randomly spend money on tech gadgets, then by all means. This will not be happening in my household any time in the foreseeable future, but maybe this seemingly desperate move in some way helps BestBuy find a way to stop the beating that Amazon is putting on them.
So I have no idea if this would work, but I imagine that if I was told to build a drone capable of thwarting this laser attack, I'd deploy a simple lightweight mirror on a retractable arm that would track the location of the ship and position the mirror such that from the ship's perspective, all that is visible is the mirror.
Speaking as as big Amazon spender who does practically no shopping at Wal-Mart brick and mortar or online, the very best thing that can happen is that Wal-Mart will hold their own in this war. One thing we know is that when faced with a virtual monopoly in any field or domain, large corporations will screw over the consumer again and again.
Just like you or I could (except in much higher volume). Unless a special arrangement is made, they don't get anything other than minority voting rights, a share in stock price appreciation and (at least eventually?) dividends.
The most hilarious part of that wiki entry is the Virginia proposal requiring drivers to rapidly disassemble their car and hide the parts behind bushes at the first sign of livestock. Would have become law if not vetoed by the Governor.
It fascinates me that we haven't really progressed at all as a species in 120 years. People will be up in arms at the first sign of autonomous vehicles crashing, even if and when they're literally proven to be say 100x safer than humans. You will have websites popping up with virtually every autonomous car crash listed accompanied by grizzly photos and conspiracy forums with like-minded loons swearing that they're spawned by the devil. Politicians will write crazy laws that effectively ban them. Then a few years will pass and society will move on. Rinse and repeat for the next technology to intrude into our lives.
Don't necessarily disagree, but the problem is that often externalities (like pollution, cost of healthcare, etc.) are not paid for by incumbent technology/solution. Due to historical reasons, grandfathering, lax regulations and whatnot, the cost of the incumbent solution is artificially low which means any possible solution *looks* more expensive in comparison, even if it's cheaper overall.
Sorry, but the math doesn't support your view that Intel was better off spending $15B on this acquisition at this late stage versus actually having an innovation program internally or purchasing a whole slew of early bets (most of which don't pay off.)
MobileEye today only has about 500 employees, of which maybe half are Engineers. It's likely that only a small team of ~30-50 was involved in building out the majority of the technology that makes up the core of its IP. With $15B, Intel could have funded 200 fifty person teams, each for a full decade. Given that the investment would have been done over time and various investing and culling strategies would have been employed, even with a very small success rate, I contend that Intel could have researched their way to early leadership in the autonomous vehicle market and maybe a dozen others with the same level of investment they poured into MobilEye.
Let's say the average full-time Engineer costs $150k/year (all in, including health care and benefits). For $15B, Intel could have employed 10,000 such Engineers for a whole decade for the amount of money they spent on this questionable acquisition. Now you know what the cost of not spending on R&D is.
Do you also stand at the door at parties to offer couples the odds of them remaining together long-term?
Relax dude, most human beings understand that if the company they get insurance from stops existing, they no longer have insurance from that company. If you don't trust that company, then um don't buy insurance from them?
The list of Tesla's enemies is long. It's very difficult to find a dispassionate analysis of their situation because you have several state governments, possibly the federal government (with it's anti-EPA EPA chief), dozens of state automobile dealership associations, the Big 3 automakers, practically the entire oil and gas industry, hydrogen fuel cell purveyors, wall street short sellers and generally a chunk of uninformed alt-right types -- all with vested interests in seeing it fail.
Then you have those who believe that the stock is already worth buying at practically any multiple, Musk can make no mistakes and builds golden space chariots.
The reality is they have a big set of tasks ahead of them, and they've made their share of mistakes along the way, but on the big items, they've proven themselves several times over. Long-term, I think they're in pretty good shape, assuming they can achieve volume manufacturing of the Model 3 (~5k cars per week) within the next 12 months.
At this point in its history, anyone offering unqualified strongly positive or negative sentiment regarding Tesla's position have vested interests in play or else are simply trolls not to be taken seriously.
Having lived in a conservative part of America before moving to Silicon Valley, I can not tell you how many times I would overhear at parties "well, I hate those liberal techy scum, but they don't have much sex, so I guess they can stay."
Well, I use Firefox. It's relatively stable these days, plus I don't have to keep checking my eye sockets to determine whether my eyeballs have been sold to the highest bidder -- which is more than I can say for most alternatives these days. Plus, with a small user base, it's become less of a target for malware authors too. Win-win if you ask me.
Really? So in your version of email utopia, people should just be able to send executable code to other people and have the code just run because any other option would be user-unfriendly? Blocking executable code is the right thing to do 99.9% of the time. Developers can bloody well use password protected zips and whatnot to share code. Boo hoo, the geek 1% is *so* inconvenienced by the dumb 99.
Hmmm... Texas & calculators... I guess this one will just go down as one of those eternally unsolvable mysteries. Right along with that Minnesota mining company that makes adhesives.
Leave it to the Slashdot misanthropes to find the negative in everything. Facebook's Oculus Rift, which you evidently haven't even tried, is actually a pretty impressive piece of gear for a 1.0 product release. I suspect they will have a mass market version in a couple years. The people who built it are shuffling themselves a bit to get themselves beyond the startup roles they've been in since 2012. Makes sense to me.
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Yup, totally agree. The real story here is that Intel's notebook and desktop CPU dominance are soon to be challenged. They've stumbled around with x86 desktop performance for close to a decade now. If Apple is able to drive 90% improvements from last year's iPad to this year's version and nearly equal Intel's ultrabook chips in the process, what do you think they pull off with a move to ARM on Macbooks with 1-2 years of further development and the luxury of a heatsink and fan to boot? I would be shaking in my boots if I owned shares of INTC.
I dunno. How willing would you be to die for the cause of freedom? That's what it takes and people there feel free enough in their daily lives that it doesn't seem worth the effort.
Well, what would you do? Continue to distribute modified copies of copyright software you don't have legal rights to? If EA wants to kill off its old online games, let em. Just pisses off 900,000 potential customers who'll now have one more reason to think twice about supporting them in the future.
I suppose if there are enough people who are lonely and clueless enough to invite a stranger into their homes to suggest ways to randomly spend money on tech gadgets, then by all means. This will not be happening in my household any time in the foreseeable future, but maybe this seemingly desperate move in some way helps BestBuy find a way to stop the beating that Amazon is putting on them.
So I have no idea if this would work, but I imagine that if I was told to build a drone capable of thwarting this laser attack, I'd deploy a simple lightweight mirror on a retractable arm that would track the location of the ship and position the mirror such that from the ship's perspective, all that is visible is the mirror.
Speaking as as big Amazon spender who does practically no shopping at Wal-Mart brick and mortar or online, the very best thing that can happen is that Wal-Mart will hold their own in this war. One thing we know is that when faced with a virtual monopoly in any field or domain, large corporations will screw over the consumer again and again.
Just like you or I could (except in much higher volume). Unless a special arrangement is made, they don't get anything other than minority voting rights, a share in stock price appreciation and (at least eventually?) dividends.
You mean my 5 shares of IBM *don't* give me access to their entire patent portfolio? Crap, back to the drawing board...
The most hilarious part of that wiki entry is the Virginia proposal requiring drivers to rapidly disassemble their car and hide the parts behind bushes at the first sign of livestock. Would have become law if not vetoed by the Governor.
It fascinates me that we haven't really progressed at all as a species in 120 years. People will be up in arms at the first sign of autonomous vehicles crashing, even if and when they're literally proven to be say 100x safer than humans. You will have websites popping up with virtually every autonomous car crash listed accompanied by grizzly photos and conspiracy forums with like-minded loons swearing that they're spawned by the devil. Politicians will write crazy laws that effectively ban them. Then a few years will pass and society will move on. Rinse and repeat for the next technology to intrude into our lives.
It's just the President's Russian friends making sure he's safe from Obama's wiretaps.
Don't necessarily disagree, but the problem is that often externalities (like pollution, cost of healthcare, etc.) are not paid for by incumbent technology/solution. Due to historical reasons, grandfathering, lax regulations and whatnot, the cost of the incumbent solution is artificially low which means any possible solution *looks* more expensive in comparison, even if it's cheaper overall.
Sorry, but the math doesn't support your view that Intel was better off spending $15B on this acquisition at this late stage versus actually having an innovation program internally or purchasing a whole slew of early bets (most of which don't pay off.)
MobileEye today only has about 500 employees, of which maybe half are Engineers. It's likely that only a small team of ~30-50 was involved in building out the majority of the technology that makes up the core of its IP. With $15B, Intel could have funded 200 fifty person teams, each for a full decade. Given that the investment would have been done over time and various investing and culling strategies would have been employed, even with a very small success rate, I contend that Intel could have researched their way to early leadership in the autonomous vehicle market and maybe a dozen others with the same level of investment they poured into MobilEye.
Let's say the average full-time Engineer costs $150k/year (all in, including health care and benefits). For $15B, Intel could have employed 10,000 such Engineers for a whole decade for the amount of money they spent on this questionable acquisition. Now you know what the cost of not spending on R&D is.
Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
Do you also stand at the door at parties to offer couples the odds of them remaining together long-term?
Relax dude, most human beings understand that if the company they get insurance from stops existing, they no longer have insurance from that company. If you don't trust that company, then um don't buy insurance from them?
The list of Tesla's enemies is long. It's very difficult to find a dispassionate analysis of their situation because you have several state governments, possibly the federal government (with it's anti-EPA EPA chief), dozens of state automobile dealership associations, the Big 3 automakers, practically the entire oil and gas industry, hydrogen fuel cell purveyors, wall street short sellers and generally a chunk of uninformed alt-right types -- all with vested interests in seeing it fail.
Then you have those who believe that the stock is already worth buying at practically any multiple, Musk can make no mistakes and builds golden space chariots.
The reality is they have a big set of tasks ahead of them, and they've made their share of mistakes along the way, but on the big items, they've proven themselves several times over. Long-term, I think they're in pretty good shape, assuming they can achieve volume manufacturing of the Model 3 (~5k cars per week) within the next 12 months.
At this point in its history, anyone offering unqualified strongly positive or negative sentiment regarding Tesla's position have vested interests in play or else are simply trolls not to be taken seriously.
Having lived in a conservative part of America before moving to Silicon Valley, I can not tell you how many times I would overhear at parties "well, I hate those liberal techy scum, but they don't have much sex, so I guess they can stay."
Well, I use Firefox. It's relatively stable these days, plus I don't have to keep checking my eye sockets to determine whether my eyeballs have been sold to the highest bidder -- which is more than I can say for most alternatives these days. Plus, with a small user base, it's become less of a target for malware authors too. Win-win if you ask me.
> Malware unfriendliness is user unfriendliness
Really? So in your version of email utopia, people should just be able to send executable code to other people and have the code just run because any other option would be user-unfriendly? Blocking executable code is the right thing to do 99.9% of the time. Developers can bloody well use password protected zips and whatnot to share code. Boo hoo, the geek 1% is *so* inconvenienced by the dumb 99.
> Flash a BMW keyfob, there is your next wife is right there.
Let me guess, you're single?
Hmmm... Texas & calculators... I guess this one will just go down as one of those eternally unsolvable mysteries. Right along with that Minnesota mining company that makes adhesives.
It's a dictatorship. No one sticks their neck out because it won't matter.
Leave it to the Slashdot misanthropes to find the negative in everything. Facebook's Oculus Rift, which you evidently haven't even tried, is actually a pretty impressive piece of gear for a 1.0 product release. I suspect they will have a mass market version in a couple years. The people who built it are shuffling themselves a bit to get themselves beyond the startup roles they've been in since 2012. Makes sense to me.
> That length of distance I drive in my Tesla on the way to work might mean that I get more juice in Need for Speed.
Seriously? Can I unsubscribe from this future?
So, you're saying I shouldn't trust "EditorDavid" then?