Exactly, this is 95% grandstanding to make the government look like it is doing something and pick up a few votes. The news cycle never follows up on a story like this so the people just know that the government is kicking the tech companies about "Terrorists". It doesn't matter a hoot if nothing comes of it because if it doesn't it won't get reported. And the Tech companies can always get some positive brand promotion by announcing in response that they are increasing the spending on their "taking down bad videos" department by 10%.
The UK does not suddenly have a million extra Muslim immigrants, it took ten years for this increase and they represent 5% of the population in total. There is certainly an issue with assimilation. Though we are too cheap assed as a nation to pay for them to learn English so it is probably not surprising that the men leave their women at home and don't bother to pay for them to learn for example. We have done a crap job of assimilating them so you cannot put all the blame on them. No doubt the current climate of hatred for Islam is doing a great job of helping assimilation.
What is it with people these days and stupid easy answers to everything? If you stop migrants to Britain your workforce collapses because of the post war baby boom ending. If you don't build houses for the population they get priced out of the reach of youngsters trying to join the market. If you do not spend enough on education the influx of migrants fucks up the schools. If you do not have a high minimum wage everybody ends up living on the breadline. All of Britain's problems are the fault of successive government policy not the blasted immigrants or the EU. Kicking them out would cause the economy to collapse but that is exactly what the tabloid newspapers are selling as the solution. Britain tamed the IRA and is perfectly capable of managing militant Islam within its boarders. What is the matter with you losers? Why do all of our problems have to be solved with concentration camps and deportation all of a sudden? - Unless that is the hateful propaganda in Non Dom owned tabloids that has been yelled at you for the last couple of decades has succeeded?
For goodness sake do not walk outside, particularly if there is traffic around. Nitrogen Dioxide is great at cell mutation. Lets face it pal your body is awash with mutagens and most of the time it does a pretty good job of fixing its genetic damage. I think we lack data on whether small amounts of alcohol are significantly worse than all the other crap we subject ourselves to, and alcohol at least makes life more fun for most people. I do totally agree though that it is correlated with cancer in large quantities and most people ignore that bit.
Yup, which is why there are no IOT products in my home. No smart meters, no nest thermostats, just ethernet cable and firewalls. So the rest of you can frig off in a handcart to hell and if I am not run over by a self driving bus you morons can debug the stuff for me. Bye!
Take a look at YouTube. The Syrians and Iraqis take vehicles like Toyota Landcruisers and just weld a ton of metal sheet on them that will stop a bullet and hey presto a mobile minigun/machine gun. You must be stupid or too old to use the internet.
It has been very clear for years that mobile phone operating systems are completely compromised. Either the company that sold them to you is in charge of monetizing your every breath or state security services are watching your every move (and not necessarily your own state either). A well set up PC connected to the internet is slightly better but basically anything connected to the internet is owned by a corporation or several nation states. It does not matter for most of us in our day to day lives but forget using any of this stuff if you are a journalist with information that someone powerful does not like. Whether this is a problem is something we will only find out in a few decades. Personally I would keep a very docile and obedient profile if you want to stay healthy in the coming 50 years. This is what makes hating migrants as security threats such a joke, you can be sure that the state can destroy any of them that look a bit dodgy just as soon as they feel like it.
A machine is likely to be safer at driving humans in very little time. I have been driving for more than 30 years and can attest that for at least the first 5 years I took too many risks and for the last five I probably have not been quick thinking enough for dynamic traffic situations. Society does not give a toss how safe you think you can drive, all society cares about is the total cost of road traffic accidents. Automatic driving is so close you can smell it.
This just illustrates the fact that the criminal justice system has become a threat to ordinary non criminal non violent citizens. You think that immigrants, criminals or terrorists are the greatest threat to your security, but actually the greatest threat to you personally is your own countries bureaucracy. We used to think that Russia or the Chinese system were bad but basically the illusion of freedom is just that - an illusion. It is bizarre but the only people likely to have any sympathy for you are the 'hated leftists'. Be careful what propaganda you believe in, corrupt systems and corrupt politicians are not your friend.
Presumably this explains why you posted this comment on an iPhone made in China? Get real, the tech playing-field is tilting away from the West if anything. This is cultural will power, whilst you are busy building a wall against the Mexicans the Chinese will be on the moon advertising for business and guess where everybody will be going shopping?
The argument is that you have no idea how complex and expensive the semiconductor industry is. Investments are educated guesses, the industry has a road-map where the known unknowns are researched years ahead of deployment. Carbon, Fairy Magic, whatever is investigated by research in Universities paid for very often by the road-mapping process. And that is why morons like you have actually heard of Carbon or Fairy Magic. The CEO's are taking big but mitigated risks by investing in the road-map. They are not like the clueless scumbags in the finance industry who sold sub prime mortgages to each other and bankrupted the planet.
Complete nonsense, competition in electronics hardware is blood curdling. There are no monopolies that are not five minutes from extinction. Companies that last more than a few years are as rare as rocking-horse droppings. Apple is admittedly a bit of an exception but even Apple is probably about to fall off the edge, after all they are just Nokia with better marketing.
Totally agree, huge breakthroughs do not happen in mature technologies. Semiconductor technology has been systematically mined for improvements for decades now. Alternative technologies are constantly being assessed. The only breakthrough likely will come from outside and will still take twenty years to overtake semiconductors. For example a DNA compute system or a quantum computer made of magnetised wood. Novel but irrelevant outside the laboratory and likely to be investigated by the semiconductor industry road-map just the same.
Actually you and others saying that the technology is being held back 'because marketing' are talking complete nonsense. You have absolutely no idea at all about the physics and engineering challenges that have been solved to give you the chips for your mobile to watch Snapchat advertising on. The semiconductor industry makes the moon landing look like urinating in a paddling pool. Not to mention that it is one of the most aggressively competitive industries on earth. The real marketing con is getting you to create content for Snapchat whilst they vomit advertising in your face, suckers!
Semiconductor road-maps are known years ahead because they require investments of billions of dollars in research, manufacturing tools and factories to achieve. See the US Semiconductor Industry Association road-map here. http://www.semiconductors.org/...
The power problem is not the cost of the power. The problem is that any machine that does work also generates waste heat according to the laws of thermodynamics. So a chip that uses more power generates more heat which has to be got from the chip to outside the package and dissipated into the environment. If the heat is not removed then the chip temperature increases to the point where so many thermal electrons are generated the chip no longer works.
The issue is also affected by the linewidth shrinks used to reduce die sizes and increase the number of die per wafer. The reduced die area cannot handle the same power as the previous generation without getting hotter. So each new generation of chips has to use less power than the previous one. A great deal of the complexity of the manufacturing process and the materials used are involved in achieving this power reduction.
The optical problem of printing smaller features is only a portion of the difficulty and cost of going from one chip generation to the next. The brick wall that silicon is facing ending Moore's law is as much due to the power dissipation problem as it is the quantum tunneling leakage problem at ever smaller linewidths. Otherwise we could just go 3d and stack up more transistors on top of each other.
Gallium Arsenide chips have a higher electron velocity and mobility so they switch faster than silicon but going from silicon to GaAs is a single linear increase in performance. Moore's law is an exponential increase doubling compute power every eighteen months achieved largely from reducing linewidths. There is also the problem that GaAs cannot make CMOS circuit designs at the highest speeds so logic consumes more power than silicon. GaAs is used in applications where the 250GHz maximum speed is needed, silicon has a maximum speed of around 5GHz.
PCR makes it self replicating. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a technique used in molecular biology to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence.
I agree that 'progress' continues to increase the standard of living of the masses. However it is said that it is the public's distress at the status quo which has led to the election of a disruptive president. This suggests that their security is declining, their share of wealth has definitely declined dramatically since the 1970's. It is unlikely that eliminating all H1B and migrants alone will change this given that AI automation will likely devalue the workforce at a faster rate. So the question is what will fix it? The costs of education, land, housing and healthcare have not noticeably declined because of Moore's law, only 'really cool' toys and manufactured goods have become more affordable. Eventually I believe that a decline in population will fix it by increasing individual wealth, but that is at least a century away. So what happens next? Police states and the occasional riot? War to keep people distracted?
Actually that did hit me as being jaw-dropping amazing. Yes the technique is slow write and slow read but the information density is about as good as it is possible to get at a molecular level. Even better the stuff is self replicating so backups of your backup are trivial. I am scratching my head as to how this might be used in a practical way at the moment, a bit like a laser in 1970 but the concept itself is staggering. I had no idea that the genetic science had moved so quickly, it seems like only yesterday we sequenced the human genome for the first time. I know one thing, if I was 50 years younger it would be this field rather than semiconductor physics that would be the most interesting physics to get into. Also I have absolutely no doubt that in 50 years time some pretty amazing medicine will be available. Much like 50 years ago a computer was a room full of racks and today it is an Apple iPhone. Today we just cured one child of sickle cell anemia using gene therapy, where is that going to go in the next 50 years? Wow, just wow. (Always assuming we can get pass the current trend towards 0.001% of the population having all the wealth and the rest of us living in a ghetto of course).
I regret to say that America has been no different to the old Soviet Union or East Germany for some decades. It is laughable to think back to the days when we pointed nuclear weapons at them believing them to be the totalitarian enemy and now we are them.
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Exactly, this is 95% grandstanding to make the government look like it is doing something and pick up a few votes. The news cycle never follows up on a story like this so the people just know that the government is kicking the tech companies about "Terrorists". It doesn't matter a hoot if nothing comes of it because if it doesn't it won't get reported. And the Tech companies can always get some positive brand promotion by announcing in response that they are increasing the spending on their "taking down bad videos" department by 10%.
The UK does not suddenly have a million extra Muslim immigrants, it took ten years for this increase and they represent 5% of the population in total. There is certainly an issue with assimilation. Though we are too cheap assed as a nation to pay for them to learn English so it is probably not surprising that the men leave their women at home and don't bother to pay for them to learn for example. We have done a crap job of assimilating them so you cannot put all the blame on them. No doubt the current climate of hatred for Islam is doing a great job of helping assimilation.
What is it with people these days and stupid easy answers to everything? If you stop migrants to Britain your workforce collapses because of the post war baby boom ending. If you don't build houses for the population they get priced out of the reach of youngsters trying to join the market. If you do not spend enough on education the influx of migrants fucks up the schools. If you do not have a high minimum wage everybody ends up living on the breadline. All of Britain's problems are the fault of successive government policy not the blasted immigrants or the EU. Kicking them out would cause the economy to collapse but that is exactly what the tabloid newspapers are selling as the solution. Britain tamed the IRA and is perfectly capable of managing militant Islam within its boarders. What is the matter with you losers? Why do all of our problems have to be solved with concentration camps and deportation all of a sudden? - Unless that is the hateful propaganda in Non Dom owned tabloids that has been yelled at you for the last couple of decades has succeeded?
I had email in 1986 punk :-)
Failing that it would make the most tremendous display on July 4th. I am telling you it will be tremendous.
For goodness sake do not walk outside, particularly if there is traffic around. Nitrogen Dioxide is great at cell mutation. Lets face it pal your body is awash with mutagens and most of the time it does a pretty good job of fixing its genetic damage. I think we lack data on whether small amounts of alcohol are significantly worse than all the other crap we subject ourselves to, and alcohol at least makes life more fun for most people. I do totally agree though that it is correlated with cancer in large quantities and most people ignore that bit.
I am all for charging for Twitter, it will wall the morons up in their own private space to twit at each other and leave the rest of us in peace.
Yup, which is why there are no IOT products in my home. No smart meters, no nest thermostats, just ethernet cable and firewalls. So the rest of you can frig off in a handcart to hell and if I am not run over by a self driving bus you morons can debug the stuff for me. Bye!
Take a look at YouTube. The Syrians and Iraqis take vehicles like Toyota Landcruisers and just weld a ton of metal sheet on them that will stop a bullet and hey presto a mobile minigun/machine gun. You must be stupid or too old to use the internet.
It has been very clear for years that mobile phone operating systems are completely compromised. Either the company that sold them to you is in charge of monetizing your every breath or state security services are watching your every move (and not necessarily your own state either). A well set up PC connected to the internet is slightly better but basically anything connected to the internet is owned by a corporation or several nation states. It does not matter for most of us in our day to day lives but forget using any of this stuff if you are a journalist with information that someone powerful does not like. Whether this is a problem is something we will only find out in a few decades. Personally I would keep a very docile and obedient profile if you want to stay healthy in the coming 50 years. This is what makes hating migrants as security threats such a joke, you can be sure that the state can destroy any of them that look a bit dodgy just as soon as they feel like it.
A machine is likely to be safer at driving humans in very little time. I have been driving for more than 30 years and can attest that for at least the first 5 years I took too many risks and for the last five I probably have not been quick thinking enough for dynamic traffic situations. Society does not give a toss how safe you think you can drive, all society cares about is the total cost of road traffic accidents. Automatic driving is so close you can smell it.
This just illustrates the fact that the criminal justice system has become a threat to ordinary non criminal non violent citizens. You think that immigrants, criminals or terrorists are the greatest threat to your security, but actually the greatest threat to you personally is your own countries bureaucracy. We used to think that Russia or the Chinese system were bad but basically the illusion of freedom is just that - an illusion. It is bizarre but the only people likely to have any sympathy for you are the 'hated leftists'. Be careful what propaganda you believe in, corrupt systems and corrupt politicians are not your friend.
Surely it is a flying saucer? I think we should be told...
Presumably this explains why you posted this comment on an iPhone made in China? Get real, the tech playing-field is tilting away from the West if anything. This is cultural will power, whilst you are busy building a wall against the Mexicans the Chinese will be on the moon advertising for business and guess where everybody will be going shopping?
In the words of most movie heroes "Kill them all"!!! and little further thought is required. Just "kill them all" !!!
Then you might have missed the fact that the next generation do not use Facebook because their parents are on it.
The argument is that you have no idea how complex and expensive the semiconductor industry is. Investments are educated guesses, the industry has a road-map where the known unknowns are researched years ahead of deployment. Carbon, Fairy Magic, whatever is investigated by research in Universities paid for very often by the road-mapping process. And that is why morons like you have actually heard of Carbon or Fairy Magic. The CEO's are taking big but mitigated risks by investing in the road-map. They are not like the clueless scumbags in the finance industry who sold sub prime mortgages to each other and bankrupted the planet.
http://www.semiconductors.org/...
Complete nonsense, competition in electronics hardware is blood curdling. There are no monopolies that are not five minutes from extinction. Companies that last more than a few years are as rare as rocking-horse droppings. Apple is admittedly a bit of an exception but even Apple is probably about to fall off the edge, after all they are just Nokia with better marketing.
I think you will find that Intel is paddling as fast as it can, Qualcomm among others is snapping at their heels.
Totally agree, huge breakthroughs do not happen in mature technologies. Semiconductor technology has been systematically mined for improvements for decades now. Alternative technologies are constantly being assessed. The only breakthrough likely will come from outside and will still take twenty years to overtake semiconductors. For example a DNA compute system or a quantum computer made of magnetised wood. Novel but irrelevant outside the laboratory and likely to be investigated by the semiconductor industry road-map just the same.
Actually you and others saying that the technology is being held back 'because marketing' are talking complete nonsense. You have absolutely no idea at all about the physics and engineering challenges that have been solved to give you the chips for your mobile to watch Snapchat advertising on. The semiconductor industry makes the moon landing look like urinating in a paddling pool. Not to mention that it is one of the most aggressively competitive industries on earth. The real marketing con is getting you to create content for Snapchat whilst they vomit advertising in your face, suckers!
Semiconductor road-maps are known years ahead because they require investments of billions of dollars in research, manufacturing tools and factories to achieve. See the US Semiconductor Industry Association road-map here.
http://www.semiconductors.org/...
The power problem is not the cost of the power. The problem is that any machine that does work also generates waste heat according to the laws of thermodynamics. So a chip that uses more power generates more heat which has to be got from the chip to outside the package and dissipated into the environment. If the heat is not removed then the chip temperature increases to the point where so many thermal electrons are generated the chip no longer works.
The issue is also affected by the linewidth shrinks used to reduce die sizes and increase the number of die per wafer. The reduced die area cannot handle the same power as the previous generation without getting hotter. So each new generation of chips has to use less power than the previous one. A great deal of the complexity of the manufacturing process and the materials used are involved in achieving this power reduction.
The optical problem of printing smaller features is only a portion of the difficulty and cost of going from one chip generation to the next. The brick wall that silicon is facing ending Moore's law is as much due to the power dissipation problem as it is the quantum tunneling leakage problem at ever smaller linewidths. Otherwise we could just go 3d and stack up more transistors on top of each other.
Gallium Arsenide chips have a higher electron velocity and mobility so they switch faster than silicon but going from silicon to GaAs is a single linear increase in performance. Moore's law is an exponential increase doubling compute power every eighteen months achieved largely from reducing linewidths. There is also the problem that GaAs cannot make CMOS circuit designs at the highest speeds so logic consumes more power than silicon. GaAs is used in applications where the 250GHz maximum speed is needed, silicon has a maximum speed of around 5GHz.
PCR makes it self replicating. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a technique used in molecular biology to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence.
I agree that 'progress' continues to increase the standard of living of the masses. However it is said that it is the public's distress at the status quo which has led to the election of a disruptive president. This suggests that their security is declining, their share of wealth has definitely declined dramatically since the 1970's. It is unlikely that eliminating all H1B and migrants alone will change this given that AI automation will likely devalue the workforce at a faster rate. So the question is what will fix it? The costs of education, land, housing and healthcare have not noticeably declined because of Moore's law, only 'really cool' toys and manufactured goods have become more affordable. Eventually I believe that a decline in population will fix it by increasing individual wealth, but that is at least a century away. So what happens next? Police states and the occasional riot? War to keep people distracted?
Actually that did hit me as being jaw-dropping amazing. Yes the technique is slow write and slow read but the information density is about as good as it is possible to get at a molecular level. Even better the stuff is self replicating so backups of your backup are trivial. I am scratching my head as to how this might be used in a practical way at the moment, a bit like a laser in 1970 but the concept itself is staggering. I had no idea that the genetic science had moved so quickly, it seems like only yesterday we sequenced the human genome for the first time. I know one thing, if I was 50 years younger it would be this field rather than semiconductor physics that would be the most interesting physics to get into. Also I have absolutely no doubt that in 50 years time some pretty amazing medicine will be available. Much like 50 years ago a computer was a room full of racks and today it is an Apple iPhone. Today we just cured one child of sickle cell anemia using gene therapy, where is that going to go in the next 50 years? Wow, just wow. (Always assuming we can get pass the current trend towards 0.001% of the population having all the wealth and the rest of us living in a ghetto of course).
I regret to say that America has been no different to the old Soviet Union or East Germany for some decades. It is laughable to think back to the days when we pointed nuclear weapons at them believing them to be the totalitarian enemy and now we are them.