The current Plug-in Prius already can do 50 km (30 miles) on an electric charge. If battery technology improves or Toyota is willing to accept a bit more weight for a larger battery, they can match the new requirements. And they have another 22 years to get there.
It may take a while for AMD to get to the point where customers trust them more overall than they trust Intel.
From all I read on forums like this (not being in the "decider" circles myself), it takes time to build up a good reputation in the server market. Now AMD was almost out of the server business until a year ago, because their Opterons were quite a bit behind in performance. They were also not completely untouched by Spectre, albeit looking better than Intel in that regard.
Now AMD have an strong new line of server processors with Epyc, and they have left a better impression than Intel in the whole Meltdon/Spectre affair. So expect them to get quite a bit of interest by customers for Epyc's performance, and also a boost in getting to the point of "less distrusted than Intel". But I still think it will be a relatively slow shift in the market, compared to the whims of the consumer market;-)
As you are posting as an Anonymous Coward yourself, this is a rather useless complaint. The readers won't be able to tell who is supposedly impersonated anyway.
Which means that in a few years, the only decent Windows version will be some sort of Windows 10 LTSB with the telemetry disabled.
Sadly, LTSB is currently only available for companies and organizations. There MAY be some pirate versions around, but I think I'll take another route: Dual boot with Linux as OS for real work and Windows for games. In the optimistic assumption that Microsoft won't bother to implement an EXT4 driver just to snoop around the other drives. *grabs tinfoil hat*
Aaand......the lawyer's fees to make sure you get that part right may easily exceed what organizing the event yourself. If it is feasible at all and you don't have too many event goers refusing your terms.
Overall, it looks like a spectacularly bad idea to work with Eventbrite under this circumstances
So far, all I have read about is a forced separation of brands. And in practice, this seems to mean that Nvidia gets the already established brands. That might be illegal and Nvidia probably bets on the new brands not getting as much attention. At least, it will take the graphics cards makers extra money to market the new brands.
Taking ASUS as example, ROG is now Nvidia only and AMD has been moved to AREZ. I wonder what Nvidia would have said if it was the other way around?
But GP has a point: The two brands could become technological lines too, with each supporting the tech pushed by their partners. For instance, ROG (Nvidia) models could come primarily with G-Sync support, AREZ (AMD) models could come primarily with FreeSync. The other sync tech would only be added if it has no significant extra cost.
Right now it looks like AMD are real competition, not just pretend competition. To change that within less than several years, Intel would have to come up with a surprise like the Core architecture back in the day. They had a team in Israel doing further work based on the old Pentium 3 architecture, and it paid off big time.
Considering deals with vendors to lock AMD out, AMD already won a lawsuit against Intel over that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_and_Intel_Antitrust_Lawsuit. Back then, the penalty seemed insufficient as compensation for the damage, but I wonder how the courts would deal with a repeat offender?
If back doors in general are a concern to you, and you cannot fully ensure their absence, it would make sense to have them "with" the entity least likely to create problems for you.
For instance, if you live in the western world, a back door for Chinese intelligence services might be less of a problem than one for the NSA. Because even if the Chinese know your darkest secrets, how likely do you think it is they will share with your local law enforcement?
It seems that the rest of the world increasingly has to choose if they want to do business with the US or with others. In loosely related news, Huawei has been excluded from US government business and is considering leaving the US market entirely.
In some cases, I guess US customs laws will just drive a wedge into US/Asian business relations. Without a winner.
I think the Chinese market is large enough to support a few major telecom equipment makers through domestic sales. Enough western companies are making huge concessions to be allowed to sell there.
So I guess if there is not already a flourishing market for non-Android phones, there will be one eventually. There goes one source of revenue from exports to China. In short, the Chinese can make do without us.
I always found upgrading for something like 20% more performance in a CPU a waste of money. Make it twice the performance of the old one, then you have a significant and worthwhile improvement.
In that sense, I think the Ryzen 2000 series is not really for people who already have a CPU from the Ryzen 1000 series. It is for people who are still sitting on a Bulldozer or Sandy Bridge system and looking for something new.
What's turned me off from an AMD build is that -- from the sounds of it -- I would need to buy (or borrow) an older AM4 CPU just to flash the latest BIOS to the motherboard.
If you buy an used motherboard, then yes. Maybe even if you buy new specimen of an older model (but then I would demand that the dealer flashes the latest bios for me).
When in doubt, get one of the new motherboards from the 4xx series. Those should be up to date with the processor support for 2nd generation Ryzen.
It is a bit more complex like that, the performance leadership changed a few times. At first, the Pentium 4 was badly outclassed, unless you bought the really expensive RDRAM memory from Rambus.
Then Intel released the Northwood series with support for DDR RAM and eventually two memory channels, which helped the bandwidth-hungry Pentium 4 architecture a lot. I guiess that is what you meant with "blasting in front" and for a while, the reworked Pentium 4 was in fact faster than AMD's Athlon XP.
Enter the Athlon 64. For a while, AMD was leading the race again, the Pentium 4 had run into a clock speed limit Intel had not foreseen (that was the age of the extremely hot running Prescott).
In 2006, Intel countered with the Core 2, which brought them in front again for several years. AMDs efforts in that time varied between "inferior" and "competitive but not ahead" (Phenom II). AMD kept itself afloat with aggressive pricing, at the expense of meager financial results.
Now there is the Ryzen, which started out competitive a year ago and appears to win over Intel with the new models. We seem to be back in a new "Athlon age" which pleases me no end as someone who dislikes Intel's business methods. I hasten to add that this is not meant to disparage Intel's engineering team: Their processors are pretty good, at worst there has been a bit of stagnation lately. It just seems that AMD can do even better these days:)
Perhaps we would get more of the old gift culture of the internet back, as in legally free works where the author does not bother with DRM in the first place. The absolute number of those may not increase, but they could gain more visibility when people are angry about excessive DRM and start looking for alternatives.
As an example, I like science fiction novels, and there is quite a bit of free stuff out there.
- The Baen Free Library, older novels that the publisher Baen Books has released for free, with permission of the authors: http://www.baen.com/catalog/category/view/s/free-library/id/2012
- The writings of some hobby authors, made available for free on various forums and websites dedicated to such stuff. The quality is varying wildly, of course, but there are some pretty good ones. A favorite of mine is "The Last Angel" by "Proximal Flame", found here: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-last-angel.244209/
And of course, the warez scene might not be deterred so easily. As today, there might be a lot of cracked stuff circulating that has its DRM removed.
Prior art is supposed to come in play if it was published before the filing date.
Of course, a sufficiently thorough search by the patent office is far from guaranteed. And probably only possible if the prior art is published on the net and find-able with a search engine.
If you follow the video from 1:35 to 1:55, the range displayed on the screen drops from 4.4 nautical miles to 3.4. That's 0.1 mile per second or 185 m/s. The speed of the F18 itself and the shifting angle makes calculating the speed of the UFO more difficult, but it looks looks like the object is approaching the plane rather than flying away. So part of the 185 m/s are from the F18's own speed. As a rough guess, the thing was doing perhaps Mach 0.5. There are a lot of man-made objects that can do that. A drone maybe?
A third company who wants it's product secured? For them a researcher that goes public without giving them time to produce a fix would be a liability rather than an asset. A strong "Do Not Hire" in my opinion. In that scenario, it would still be better for the researcher to go with responsible disclosure.
A competitor of above company who wants to make them look bad? Sure, at the risk of that going public. I could imagine it anyway...
A hacker group that likes to see companies with their metaphorical pants down might do it just for fun, but the website of CTS Labs suggests they are more interested in appearing as a reputable company. Which they probably have blown by now. If they attempted to be a reputable company in the first place.
I'd call Tavis Ormandy's attitude pretty extreme, but at least he gives some reasons for doing so. What CTS Labs are doing is quite a bit more extreme, and for whom are they really working here? I think most customers would be interested in working with AMD for at least a few weeks and try to get a solution for the problem before going public. Unless they want to hurt AMD. Intel, is that you?
Yes, the combination of publication within a day and registering an AMD-denigrating domain for the purpose stinks. As others have written already, it looks like a PR hit job.
With a quick Google search (5 minutes) I could also find nothing substantial about CTS Labs. They have a professional looking website with quite a bit of Bullshit Bingo appeal, and a contact e-mail address on it. Otherwise not much:
-no postal address
-no references from past projects One might wonder if this is more than a shell company;-)
If we're talking about the distinction between pedophiles and "normal" people, the appearance of sexual maturity would be the relevant factor. I had to look up Tanner stages, but given the large variety between people's looks, I'd say Tanner IV or higher is where sexual attraction to the person is normal. And some people reach that stage way before 18.
The age limit of 18 still makes sense as a clear boundary. But even trying to suppress a discussion of what is appropriate makes no sense and is exactly what the First Amendment is supposed to prevent. That it is not binding for private venues such as Facebook is a problem.
The trailer gives me some suspicions that it might fail to match the atmosphere and story of the manga. Or that the hint of a love story it shows might be a harbinger of teenie drama (boo!).
Guess I'll have to wait for the reviews to get an idea if this movie really is what I've been looking forward to. And if it is worth the ticket price.
Well, Heinlein had libertarian opinions on most aspects of life, from freedom of how to run your business to freedom in your private life, including an unusual sex life.
The former is frequently found in conservative circles, with an unwillingness to curb even obvious abuse by large companies. The latter is very much not found among conservatives. With the "left", it tends to be the other way around.
So Heinlein does not really please the adherents of either large political faction.
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The current Plug-in Prius already can do 50 km (30 miles) on an electric charge. If battery technology improves or Toyota is willing to accept a bit more weight for a larger battery, they can match the new requirements. And they have another 22 years to get there.
It may take a while for AMD to get to the point where customers trust them more overall than they trust Intel.
From all I read on forums like this (not being in the "decider" circles myself), it takes time to build up a good reputation in the server market. Now AMD was almost out of the server business until a year ago, because their Opterons were quite a bit behind in performance. They were also not completely untouched by Spectre, albeit looking better than Intel in that regard.
Now AMD have an strong new line of server processors with Epyc, and they have left a better impression than Intel in the whole Meltdon/Spectre affair. So expect them to get quite a bit of interest by customers for Epyc's performance, and also a boost in getting to the point of "less distrusted than Intel". ;-)
But I still think it will be a relatively slow shift in the market, compared to the whims of the consumer market
Impersonating you?
As you are posting as an Anonymous Coward yourself, this is a rather useless complaint. The readers won't be able to tell who is supposedly impersonated anyway.
Which means that in a few years, the only decent Windows version will be some sort of Windows 10 LTSB with the telemetry disabled.
Sadly, LTSB is currently only available for companies and organizations. There MAY be some pirate versions around, but I think I'll take another route:
Dual boot with Linux as OS for real work and Windows for games. In the optimistic assumption that Microsoft won't bother to implement an EXT4 driver just to snoop around the other drives.
*grabs tinfoil hat*
Aaand... ...the lawyer's fees to make sure you get that part right may easily exceed what organizing the event yourself. If it is feasible at all and you don't have too many event goers refusing your terms.
Overall, it looks like a spectacularly bad idea to work with Eventbrite under this circumstances
So far, all I have read about is a forced separation of brands. And in practice, this seems to mean that Nvidia gets the already established brands. That might be illegal and Nvidia probably bets on the new brands not getting as much attention. At least, it will take the graphics cards makers extra money to market the new brands.
Taking ASUS as example, ROG is now Nvidia only and AMD has been moved to AREZ. I wonder what Nvidia would have said if it was the other way around?
But GP has a point:
The two brands could become technological lines too, with each supporting the tech pushed by their partners. For instance, ROG (Nvidia) models could come primarily with G-Sync support, AREZ (AMD) models could come primarily with FreeSync. The other sync tech would only be added if it has no significant extra cost.
Right now it looks like AMD are real competition, not just pretend competition. To change that within less than several years, Intel would have to come up with a surprise like the Core architecture back in the day. They had a team in Israel doing further work based on the old Pentium 3 architecture, and it paid off big time.
Considering deals with vendors to lock AMD out, AMD already won a lawsuit against Intel over that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_and_Intel_Antitrust_Lawsuit.
Back then, the penalty seemed insufficient as compensation for the damage, but I wonder how the courts would deal with a repeat offender?
If back doors in general are a concern to you, and you cannot fully ensure their absence, it would make sense to have them "with" the entity least likely to create problems for you.
For instance, if you live in the western world, a back door for Chinese intelligence services might be less of a problem than one for the NSA. Because even if the Chinese know your darkest secrets, how likely do you think it is they will share with your local law enforcement?
It seems that the rest of the world increasingly has to choose if they want to do business with the US or with others. In loosely related news, Huawei has been excluded from US government business and is considering leaving the US market entirely.
In some cases, I guess US customs laws will just drive a wedge into US/Asian business relations. Without a winner.
I think the Chinese market is large enough to support a few major telecom equipment makers through domestic sales. Enough western companies are making huge concessions to be allowed to sell there.
So I guess if there is not already a flourishing market for non-Android phones, there will be one eventually. There goes one source of revenue from exports to China. In short, the Chinese can make do without us.
I always found upgrading for something like 20% more performance in a CPU a waste of money. Make it twice the performance of the old one, then you have a significant and worthwhile improvement.
In that sense, I think the Ryzen 2000 series is not really for people who already have a CPU from the Ryzen 1000 series. It is for people who are still sitting on a Bulldozer or Sandy Bridge system and looking for something new.
What's turned me off from an AMD build is that -- from the sounds of it -- I would need to buy (or borrow) an older AM4 CPU just to flash the latest BIOS to the motherboard.
If you buy an used motherboard, then yes. Maybe even if you buy new specimen of an older model (but then I would demand that the dealer flashes the latest bios for me).
When in doubt, get one of the new motherboards from the 4xx series. Those should be up to date with the processor support for 2nd generation Ryzen.
It is a bit more complex like that, the performance leadership changed a few times.
At first, the Pentium 4 was badly outclassed, unless you bought the really expensive RDRAM memory from Rambus.
Then Intel released the Northwood series with support for DDR RAM and eventually two memory channels, which helped the bandwidth-hungry Pentium 4 architecture a lot. I guiess that is what you meant with "blasting in front" and for a while, the reworked Pentium 4 was in fact faster than AMD's Athlon XP.
Enter the Athlon 64. For a while, AMD was leading the race again, the Pentium 4 had run into a clock speed limit Intel had not foreseen (that was the age of the extremely hot running Prescott).
In 2006, Intel countered with the Core 2, which brought them in front again for several years. AMDs efforts in that time varied between "inferior" and "competitive but not ahead" (Phenom II). AMD kept itself afloat with aggressive pricing, at the expense of meager financial results.
Now there is the Ryzen, which started out competitive a year ago and appears to win over Intel with the new models. We seem to be back in a new "Athlon age" which pleases me no end as someone who dislikes Intel's business methods. I hasten to add that this is not meant to disparage Intel's engineering team: :)
Their processors are pretty good, at worst there has been a bit of stagnation lately. It just seems that AMD can do even better these days
Perhaps we would get more of the old gift culture of the internet back, as in legally free works where the author does not bother with DRM in the first place. The absolute number of those may not increase, but they could gain more visibility when people are angry about excessive DRM and start looking for alternatives.
As an example, I like science fiction novels, and there is quite a bit of free stuff out there.
- The Baen Free Library, older novels that the publisher Baen Books has released for free, with permission of the authors: http://www.baen.com/catalog/category/view/s/free-library/id/2012
- The writings of some hobby authors, made available for free on various forums and websites dedicated to such stuff. The quality is varying wildly, of course, but there are some pretty good ones. A favorite of mine is "The Last Angel" by "Proximal Flame", found here: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-last-angel.244209/
And of course, the warez scene might not be deterred so easily. As today, there might be a lot of cracked stuff circulating that has its DRM removed.
Prior art is supposed to come in play if it was published before the filing date.
Of course, a sufficiently thorough search by the patent office is far from guaranteed. And probably only possible if the prior art is published on the net and find-able with a search engine.
Seconded for all of those. May I add some manga?
Battle Angel Alita, aka Gunm, is pretty awesome IMHO. Especially the first series released in the 1990s. If you want more after reading that, Wikipedia has an overview:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Battle_Angel_Alita_chapters
If you follow the video from 1:35 to 1:55, the range displayed on the screen drops from 4.4 nautical miles to 3.4.
That's 0.1 mile per second or 185 m/s. The speed of the F18 itself and the shifting angle makes calculating the speed of the UFO more difficult, but it looks looks like the object is approaching the plane rather than flying away. So part of the 185 m/s are from the F18's own speed. As a rough guess, the thing was doing perhaps Mach 0.5. There are a lot of man-made objects that can do that. A drone maybe?
And who would be the customers?
A third company who wants it's product secured? For them a researcher that goes public without giving them time to produce a fix would be a liability rather than an asset. A strong "Do Not Hire" in my opinion.
In that scenario, it would still be better for the researcher to go with responsible disclosure.
A competitor of above company who wants to make them look bad? Sure, at the risk of that going public. I could imagine it anyway...
A hacker group that likes to see companies with their metaphorical pants down might do it just for fun, but the website of CTS Labs suggests they are more interested in appearing as a reputable company. Which they probably have blown by now. If they attempted to be a reputable company in the first place.
OK, but what excuse does CTS Labs give?
I'd call Tavis Ormandy's attitude pretty extreme, but at least he gives some reasons for doing so. What CTS Labs are doing is quite a bit more extreme, and for whom are they really working here?
I think most customers would be interested in working with AMD for at least a few weeks and try to get a solution for the problem before going public. Unless they want to hurt AMD. Intel, is that you?
Yes, the combination of publication within a day and registering an AMD-denigrating domain for the purpose stinks. As others have written already, it looks like a PR hit job.
With a quick Google search (5 minutes) I could also find nothing substantial about CTS Labs. They have a professional looking website with quite a bit of Bullshit Bingo appeal, and a contact e-mail address on it. ;-)
Otherwise not much:
-no postal address
-no references from past projects
One might wonder if this is more than a shell company
If we're talking about the distinction between pedophiles and "normal" people, the appearance of sexual maturity would be the relevant factor.
I had to look up Tanner stages, but given the large variety between people's looks, I'd say Tanner IV or higher is where sexual attraction to the person is normal. And some people reach that stage way before 18.
The age limit of 18 still makes sense as a clear boundary. But even trying to suppress a discussion of what is appropriate makes no sense and is exactly what the First Amendment is supposed to prevent. That it is not binding for private venues such as Facebook is a problem.
The trailer gives me some suspicions that it might fail to match the atmosphere and story of the manga. Or that the hint of a love story it shows might be a harbinger of teenie drama (boo!).
Guess I'll have to wait for the reviews to get an idea if this movie really is what I've been looking forward to. And if it is worth the ticket price.
Well, Heinlein had libertarian opinions on most aspects of life, from freedom of how to run your business to freedom in your private life, including an unusual sex life.
The former is frequently found in conservative circles, with an unwillingness to curb even obvious abuse by large companies. The latter is very much not found among conservatives.
With the "left", it tends to be the other way around.
So Heinlein does not really please the adherents of either large political faction.
Oops, error:
I meant a UPS (uninterruptible power supply). USV is the acronym for the German term.