And, nobody in their right mind uses Alibaba. May as well just give all your money and IP to the Chinese.
Except the Chinese. There are a lot of them. In fact, the Chinese government could make Alibaba the preferred (or mandated) cloud provider to Chinese companies.
Item one is something he literally apologized for over 20 years ago. Item two is something that's never been adjudicated. Two people claim to be Apple employee #12. Can't find anything that disputes that Mark Stevens (aka Cringley) actually worked there other than another anonymous coward post (from last week).
He has ruffled a lot of feathers and made a lot of bold predictions, many of them wrong.
There's someone who seems to commonly use my email when purchasing products. She has the same first initial and last name. This has happened a bunch over the years. Often it's "We're happy you stopped in, please call us if you have any questions" type emails.
Last week I received an email with the VIN number of the new Ford she bought, along with instructions on how to install Ford Connect to locate the car and remotely lock and unlock it.
So I emailed the salesman (whose name was in the email). That email bounced (figured out later he'd left the dealer after the sale.) I just dropped it.
A week later Ford sent me a survey asking how satisfied I was. So I answered the survey (I did not receive an introduction to the service department!) I get to the end, and it asks me to confirm my contact information: name, address, and phone number. So I called her and left an message. No response. I emailed the dealer again, copying the General Manager's email this time. No response. I found the salesman's professional Facebook page and messaged him. No response.
So I put the story on the dealer's Facebook page. DING DING DING. I got an email within hours saying that they would remove the faulty contact information.
While I was out having dinner, Verizon called me three times to verify if I'd lost my phone. Each time I said no, the second time I was asked if I wanted to add a passcode and lock the account. I did. (It was Verizon, I checked later and they had the logs of all three calls to me, but I'm not sure if callers can spoof the Verizon internal caller ID)
Later that evening, I found myself locked out of my email accounts. I could see it happening in real time, but couldn't stop it. I called Verizon by landline and was told that they'd activated my spare iPhone after I dropped my phone in a pool. NO! I might have said a number of harsh words to them.
In the meantime, American Express had called my cell and emailed me to confirm a dodgy transaction, and the folks who had my phone number and email confirmed the transaction. By the time I called Amex, it was too late (although I ended up with no liability)
I tried to file a complaint with the local PD and was told "I don't have time for this" by the receptionist.
The gates are now so small that the electron wave function has a pretty high probability of being "on the other side" of the gate. As gates shrink, leakage power goes up very rapidly. Even when they're "off", the gates are consuming too much power (leaking it to ground.)
Also, think about 5 Ghz, IBM's fastest chips. At 5 Ghz, the clock speed is 200 picoseconds, and a 10 deep pipeline can allocate about 20 ps to each gate transition. That's a lot to ask, given that resistance and capacitance don't scale down linearly with dimensions. You also have to populate your chip with a lot of decoupling capacitors in order to hold the charge locally for each transition (because you can't get the power from off chip in 20 ps.) To fight the increased RC load (proportionally) you're putting in more buffers (big amplifiers).
As if that weren't enough, you have the fact that a 14 nm gate is about 20 silicon atoms across. When you start doping the substrate, your actual behavior is all over the place because one or two more dopant atoms represent a 10-20% shift, up or down (total shifts of 40-50%.)
So, your gates are too small, they all behave differently, they have to drive a relatively larger load, and the suckers are too hot.
IBM's principle strategy for the past decade has been moving work to lower cost countries (layoffs), stock buybacks, and acquiring other companies; these lower costs, increase earnings per share, and starve R&D of funding.
I hate ebay, in part because of the constant begging for positive feedback.
Now I'm getting it from Amazon's sellers. Every purchase that's not from Amazon itself results in emails asking me to leave positive feedback, reminders that if I haven't left feedback I still can. I got tired of that pretty quickly on ebay. "A+++++++++" seller... gack. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but doing exactly what I paid you to do is actually "C" level work.
There's also the "used book scam" which has hit me twice. Find a relatively inexpensive copy of a rare book. Order said copy. Copy ships. Copy never arrives. "So sorry, it must have gotten lost in the mail." Next day the same seller has a copy available at 3X or even 10X the price you paid.
It appears that they get "seller's remorse" and pretend to ship you a book (with no tracking, of course) and then miraculously find another copy they can sell closer to the prevailing rate. Several sellers seem to have a lot of feedback that implies this is what's happening.
The third scam I've seen is the "I don't really have the book, but I'll have someone else ship you a copy"... Order from seller "A", book arrives from seller "B". They offer a book at a slightly higher price and better quality than the other seller.
This was seen as a huge difference when Star Wars came out. I'm old enough to remember the reviewers talking about how the universe looked lived in and worn, unlike the "just from the factory" cleanliness of Star Trek.
There were many comparisons between the Millennium Falcon and the Enterprise.
Still one of my favorite languages. Readable, simple, strongly typed. I think Modula-2 is the better language (Pascal plus the extensions that make it usable for real development). IBM's VS Pascal was sort of Modula-2 in a Big Blue wrapper.
Is there an actual increase in the frequency of autism, more awareness (diagnosis), changing definitions, or something else that explains the [presumed] increase in number of children with autism?
During a panel discussion with very senior technical leads, the question came up: "How many of you have made a $1,000,000 mistake?"
Every single one raised their hand. This was a very large semi-conductor company, and everyone had been involved in at least one instance where bad masks were made because a check was skipped or step was botched in the design flow.
I worked on a chip design where it took six design revs to get clean masks. All five of the prior revs had avoidable (human) errors during the design and build process.
Pay me now (in time running checks) or pay me later (in nre: non-recoverable expense) for bad hardware.
I think you're confusing two very different things.
Asking to be judged based upon your actual skills, and asking to have your experience valued, is not the same thing as being entitled.
I had an ex-coworker who was interviewing, and when the interviewer looked over his publication and patents, all they could say was "Gee, some of these were a long time ago."
IMHO (seeing a number of laid off friends job hunt), two things work against you as an older developer. One, if you haven't kept your skills up - that's on you. We call it "Resume-Driven Design." You need to learn and use new languages and libraries (i.e. javascript libraries). Most of us (I'm mid-50's) started in an age when companies hired talent and developed skills. Now it's about hiring skills (a more ADHD hiring process given the accelerating pace of change). Two, companies want to be fast and agile. Experience and perspective ("I've got a life" or "I've got a family") work against you in that environment. They perceive (rightly or wrongly) that older employees won't have the "run through walls" mentality that they're looking for.... and don't discount the cultural differences. The Wall Street Journal had an article yesterday about a company that segregates its Millennials in a "Kids Table" area, because of tensions over work styles and maturity/immaturity.
Slashdot Mirror
And, nobody in their right mind uses Alibaba. May as well just give all your money and IP to the Chinese.
Except the Chinese. There are a lot of them. In fact, the Chinese government could make Alibaba the preferred (or mandated) cloud provider to Chinese companies.
Item one is something he literally apologized for over 20 years ago. Item two is something that's never been adjudicated. Two people claim to be Apple employee #12. Can't find anything that disputes that Mark Stevens (aka Cringley) actually worked there other than another anonymous coward post (from last week).
He has ruffled a lot of feathers and made a lot of bold predictions, many of them wrong.
The URL in the top post leads to a story about trade talks. Different source, but the material about subsidies.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
https://www.eetimes.com/docume...
As someone who worked in semi-conductor CAD, 1Y-nm confused me.
I found an article in EE Times that explains is using 19 nm to 10 nm as three nodes at 1X, 1Y, 1Z, with X, Y, and Z to be defined later.
The closer I get to retirement, the more link requests I get from "wealth management" or "financial analyst" folks.
I should run an experiment and change my status to retired, just to see if they pounce.
There's someone who seems to commonly use my email when purchasing products. She has the same first initial and last name. This has happened a bunch over the years. Often it's "We're happy you stopped in, please call us if you have any questions" type emails.
Last week I received an email with the VIN number of the new Ford she bought, along with instructions on how to install Ford Connect to locate the car and remotely lock and unlock it.
So I emailed the salesman (whose name was in the email). That email bounced (figured out later he'd left the dealer after the sale.) I just dropped it.
A week later Ford sent me a survey asking how satisfied I was. So I answered the survey (I did not receive an introduction to the service department!) I get to the end, and it asks me to confirm my contact information: name, address, and phone number. So I called her and left an message. No response. I emailed the dealer again, copying the General Manager's email this time. No response. I found the salesman's professional Facebook page and messaged him. No response.
So I put the story on the dealer's Facebook page. DING DING DING. I got an email within hours saying that they would remove the faulty contact information.
Video of a prototype folding and unfolding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's actually not that large a section of the wing.
Not saying it's recommended, or particularly safe.
https://theaviationist.com/201...
While I was out having dinner, Verizon called me three times to verify if I'd lost my phone. Each time I said no, the second time I was asked if I wanted to add a passcode and lock the account. I did. (It was Verizon, I checked later and they had the logs of all three calls to me, but I'm not sure if callers can spoof the Verizon internal caller ID)
Later that evening, I found myself locked out of my email accounts. I could see it happening in real time, but couldn't stop it. I called Verizon by landline and was told that they'd activated my spare iPhone after I dropped my phone in a pool. NO! I might have said a number of harsh words to them.
In the meantime, American Express had called my cell and emailed me to confirm a dodgy transaction, and the folks who had my phone number and email confirmed the transaction. By the time I called Amex, it was too late (although I ended up with no liability)
I tried to file a complaint with the local PD and was told "I don't have time for this" by the receptionist.
The gates are now so small that the electron wave function has a pretty high probability of being "on the other side" of the gate. As gates shrink, leakage power goes up very rapidly. Even when they're "off", the gates are consuming too much power (leaking it to ground.)
Also, think about 5 Ghz, IBM's fastest chips. At 5 Ghz, the clock speed is 200 picoseconds, and a 10 deep pipeline can allocate about 20 ps to each gate transition. That's a lot to ask, given that resistance and capacitance don't scale down linearly with dimensions. You also have to populate your chip with a lot of decoupling capacitors in order to hold the charge locally for each transition (because you can't get the power from off chip in 20 ps.) To fight the increased RC load (proportionally) you're putting in more buffers (big amplifiers).
As if that weren't enough, you have the fact that a 14 nm gate is about 20 silicon atoms across. When you start doping the substrate, your actual behavior is all over the place because one or two more dopant atoms represent a 10-20% shift, up or down (total shifts of 40-50%.)
So, your gates are too small, they all behave differently, they have to drive a relatively larger load, and the suckers are too hot.
You're right, there were two typos in that post. Probably should type more carefully.
As this was a posting on Slashdot, not the Magna Carta, I don't see it as a big deal.
The leopard doesn't change it's spots.
IBM's principle strategy for the past decade has been moving work to lower cost countries (layoffs), stock buybacks, and acquiring other companies; these lower costs, increase earnings per share, and starve R&D of funding.
I hate ebay, in part because of the constant begging for positive feedback.
Now I'm getting it from Amazon's sellers. Every purchase that's not from Amazon itself results in emails asking me to leave positive feedback, reminders that if I haven't left feedback I still can. I got tired of that pretty quickly on ebay. "A+++++++++" seller ... gack. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but doing exactly what I paid you to do is actually "C" level work.
There's also the "used book scam" which has hit me twice. Find a relatively inexpensive copy of a rare book. Order said copy. Copy ships. Copy never arrives. "So sorry, it must have gotten lost in the mail." Next day the same seller has a copy available at 3X or even 10X the price you paid.
It appears that they get "seller's remorse" and pretend to ship you a book (with no tracking, of course) and then miraculously find another copy they can sell closer to the prevailing rate. Several sellers seem to have a lot of feedback that implies this is what's happening.
The third scam I've seen is the "I don't really have the book, but I'll have someone else ship you a copy" ... Order from seller "A", book arrives from seller "B". They offer a book at a slightly higher price and better quality than the other seller.
This was seen as a huge difference when Star Wars came out. I'm old enough to remember the reviewers talking about how the universe looked lived in and worn, unlike the "just from the factory" cleanliness of Star Trek.
There were many comparisons between the Millennium Falcon and the Enterprise.
Still one of my favorite languages. Readable, simple, strongly typed. I think Modula-2 is the better language (Pascal plus the extensions that make it usable for real development). IBM's VS Pascal was sort of Modula-2 in a Big Blue wrapper.
There would be almost no chip designs without Skill code. It's a proprietary lisp derivative used as the extension language for Cadence's tools.
TCL ... much less obscure ... without which we would not be able to use Mentor's tools to check and verify chip designs.
Is there an actual increase in the frequency of autism, more awareness (diagnosis), changing definitions, or something else that explains the [presumed] increase in number of children with autism?
During a panel discussion with very senior technical leads, the question came up: "How many of you have made a $1,000,000 mistake?"
Every single one raised their hand. This was a very large semi-conductor company, and everyone had been involved in at least one instance where bad masks were made because a check was skipped or step was botched in the design flow.
I worked on a chip design where it took six design revs to get clean masks. All five of the prior revs had avoidable (human) errors during the design and build process.
Pay me now (in time running checks) or pay me later (in nre: non-recoverable expense) for bad hardware.
Rick Astley was first, this was second.
This was the last (?) of the "fastest way to start the grill" contests held by the Purdue Electrical Engineering honorary, Eta Kappa Nu.
Fire department made them promise not to do it again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Got a letter today cancelling our long distance (wireline) service.
I like to pay for content, and I was curious. Nowhere on their site does it list a cost without signing up first.
Hmmm ... If you have to ask, you can't afford it. Turns out it's $399/year.
I think you're confusing two very different things.
Asking to be judged based upon your actual skills, and asking to have your experience valued, is not the same thing as being entitled.
I had an ex-coworker who was interviewing, and when the interviewer looked over his publication and patents, all they could say was "Gee, some of these were a long time ago."
IMHO (seeing a number of laid off friends job hunt), two things work against you as an older developer. One, if you haven't kept your skills up - that's on you. We call it "Resume-Driven Design." You need to learn and use new languages and libraries (i.e. javascript libraries). Most of us (I'm mid-50's) started in an age when companies hired talent and developed skills. Now it's about hiring skills (a more ADHD hiring process given the accelerating pace of change). Two, companies want to be fast and agile. Experience and perspective ("I've got a life" or "I've got a family") work against you in that environment. They perceive (rightly or wrongly) that older employees won't have the "run through walls" mentality that they're looking for. ... and don't discount the cultural differences. The Wall Street Journal had an article yesterday about a company that segregates its Millennials in a "Kids Table" area, because of tensions over work styles and maturity/immaturity.