And before someone starts complaining about "But we didn't used to have cellphones!" no we didn't, now we do: It's called progress. One thing that has helped emergency response times quite a bit in high income nations is the proliferation of mobile phones. When something happens emergency services can be notified in seconds, and get the response rolling that much faster.
Happened when I was in a car accident. I was dazed for maybe 20-30 seconds, then got my phone out and called for help. They had fire responders on scene in under 2 minutes, police 30 seconds later and EMS in about 4. In that case, it didn't matter, everyone was fine other than bruises, but had there been something serious, it is much more likely it could have been dealt with. The only reason the response was so fast was that it was in a populated area, and that I was able to call for help almost immediately.
To me it seems like the concert issue is one of acceptable behaviour, not the phones themselves. It is using them in inappropriate ways. Well the answer there isn't "take them away" or "lock them up" it is to let people know what is and isn't allowed, and to enforce that by removing people if necessary. People can learn, it turns out, and most can understand what rules apply to what social situation and obey them. There are those that can't and you have to deal with them, but you do it on an individual basis not by something like this.
The TDP/performance of the latest nVidia cards is nothing short of amazing. It is the best we've ever seen out of any company. They've been doing some serious optimization on the performance/watt front and it has payed off bigtime. Combine that with a smaller process and these are great.
If you mean total power draw... Well ya. Here's thing the with all GPUs: They introduce the big parts first, and make the smaller parts based on them. The small GPUs are just big GPUs with a lot of the units cut off. So it makes sense to first introduce the big, high end, units where you can charge a lot per unit and make up some of your fixed costs in making the new architecture (which is billions). Then you spend your time doing the engineering to make the lower power parts.
It has been this way forever pretty much. So ya, the 1080 and 1070 are high power. That's their segment. Wait for the 1060 or 1050 or 1040 which will probably be along some time later. Those will be the lower power units that do less, but use less.
It would not make sense for nVidia to develop a whole new architecture and then make their first product using it a sub $100 card for small computers, it makes sense to make the first product a $600+ behemoth that they can get big margins on.
I mean sure the skills get rusty, you forget specifics, but if you've learned fundamentally how to code, how to think like a computer, that doesn't go away. It is the kind of fundamental knowledge that more or less always sticks around.
I don't code, I dislike it and I'm not great at it. I do systems and network administration. However, I learned how to code as a kid. Did some BASIC of a number of varieties, some C++, some scripting etc. Guess what? When it comes down to it and something comes up, which it does occasionally, and I have to look at some code and see what is going on or work on a simple program, I can make it happen. It all comes back pretty fast. No, I don't generate elegant code quickly like someone who does it for a living does, but I don't sit around going "I have no idea what is going on! This is all so confusing!"
Goes double for if it is something you are actually good at (I was never good at coding, even when I did it somewhat often).
I don't mean with a google search, I mean for users. What I want is the ability to have an easy comparison system for how out of date something is. If the current version is 10 and you are on version 5, or if the current version is 2015 and you are on version 2002, I have an easy way to demonstrate how behind it is and thus help them understand why an upgrade is a good idea.
For someone who's doing it as a job, as I am, it doesn't really matter. I can remember the progression, and the rough time of release, without a lot of issue. The problem is lay users and understanding how things have progressed and trying to sell them on that fact.
I always wanted to choke MS's marketing group with their version names. There are, in my opinion, two acceptable methods of naming a product that continues to get new version:
1) Version numbers. You can have just one number or number.number whatever you like. You decide how to increment them. What matters is that you are consistent, and that the number is easy to find.
2) Version year. When you release a product it is named via whatever year it is released. Doesn't matter how much changed, it gets the release year in its name.
Either one works well for quickly mentally comparing how out of date something is, as well as being able to impress that on users. But it needs to stay consistent or it gets all confusing. You can't go numbers to years and back or things get all fucked up.
The XP and Vista crap is just totally stupid. Fuck off with that. How do I compare "Vista" to "XP"? They are both meaningless terms. It's as bad as Eclipse. No guys, I do NOT know the order of the Jovian moons, please just publish the version number and/or year clearly.
Apple is moving desktop Macs in the "consumer electronics toy" direction. They have been for some time now. Their focus has been on gewgaws, not fundamentals for a good bit. This is not the company you want to stick with for desktop computing if that's what you care about. They are the company for people who have the attitude of a computer being a disposable device they don't care much about: You get the one you like the looks of, don't worry a whole lot about the technical stuff, and use it until it breaks or you decide you like the looks of a new one better.
If low level stuff and long-term support is what interests you, then you want to look at Linux or Windows. Yes really, Windows, Microsoft makes fundamental improvements to their OS quite often, and they are usually good. Either way while all OSes have fluff you don't care about and will keep getting it, Windows and the vast majority of Linux distros also spend plenty of time on the under-the-hood part.
The definition is unclear. Sci-fi often uses robot to mean an advanced, general purpose mechanical device with an AI controlling it. However in industrial uses it usually means a mechanical device for doing a given task, governed by a computer program. Commonly some of the machines used to build cars get called robots or robotic.
It is a word that doesn't seem to have a good solid definition.
Also, that aside, the three laws of robotics are something a sci-fi author wrote in stories, not real laws. They are not laws of nature, not codified laws, etc. They are just a plot device. This idea that they can will and must exist in the real world that so many geeks have is silly.
It also doesn't take a ton of ethical and/or logical analysis to figure out that they are the kind of thing that doesn't really work as any kind of absolute principle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The reason not to act too hasty with a definitive declaration is that more evidence could come to light. What if it wasn't the perp, but someone else spreading disinformation? What if the perp himself was spreading disinformation to try and maximize the impact of his crime? That kind of thing. No, it isn't likely but it is too early to say definitively. Hence the "We think it is this, but can't say for sure." I think that is proper over all. Say what you think, but make sure to keep what you think and what you know clearly delineated.
The PC is the idiots who are either prohibiting discussion of this or worse, blaming American culture and it's supposedly ever-prevelant homophobia.
It is no different for a few. About 8% of Americans don't have a bank account. That's not nobody, but it is accurate to say the vast majority of people have a bank account. Thus the distinction matters to most people. If you have a bank account and also use prepaid cards, then this is a distinction that could be very important. Only for the people who do not have bank accounts is there no difference.
Also it matters in terms of the law and who they are fighting with. Try to take money from a bank account without a warrant and it runs afoul of a number of banking laws, not to mention you are picking a fight with the banks.
Because of both things, you'd get a TON more pushback since it would affect a lot more people and since there are some heavy hitters (banks) involved. As it stands, it is the sort of thing that only preys on some people who are not as likely to push back, most most it will have little to no effect on.
There's a reason it is being done as it is, it IS a distinction that matters legally and practically.
Facebook likes to hire young, techie, inexperienced, and fairly self-assured people. I mean remember this is the company run by a guy who said that anyone over 30 is "out of ideas", a stance which, shocker here, changed when he got near 30. They hire the kind of people who buy in to their cult bullshit, who want to work at Facebook because "It is the best, most important place EVAR," and will deal with this kind of shit because they don't see it as a problem, or even that strange.
It isn't a case of some evil company saying "You will do what we want, when we want, or you will starve!" Rather it is as the article talked about: A cult like atmosphere where people will do as they are told, even when it is stupid, because they want to, because they believe in the BS.
Automated cars are a real ting. They exist right now, and work well. They are still in development, they are not ready for commercial deployment, but the major technological hurdles are overcome at this point. The long haul trucking industry will be one of the first to be very interested in this. Drivers that never get tired, obey all rules they are told to, etc would be of great interest and worth paying for even if they technology is reasonably expensive.
First, that's not how locks work. A normal lock has only one keying. Master keyed locks are done do by larger organizations. To get that master key you have to either get it from them in an authorized manner, or steal it somehow. It isn't like the manufacturers maintain an "all locks" master key and hand it out to people.
However more to the point an anon FTP is an implicit invitation to anyone to come in, just like a public HTTP server. In terms of the real world, it is like an open store. If you enter an unlocked store, you are not trespassing. If they tell you to leave you have to, but simply entering is allowed because the fact that they are presenting themselves for the public to use and have not locked their door is saying "We want you to come in." That's different than a place that is locked. The lock is an explicit "keep out" message.
Part of it was wealth, but a bigger part was fame. A problem most people have in court is that the first interaction any of the jury has with you is seeing you sit at the defendant's table and people tend to have a bias that if you are there, you did something to deserve being there (which to be fair is an accurate bias, just not one they should have ideally). So you already have one strike against you starting out. Famous people don't have that. The jury knows them from another context and so views them more favorably initially.
Another major issue in that case was police misconduct. It is all but certain that they did indeed fabricate evidence and of course the defense was able to use that. The state did a real shit job with their case and the defense could exploit that.
As an example of something like that happening to a poor person on a small scale: My friend used to be a public defender. He had a client who had been arrested for tagging (graffiti). Kid sure as shit did it, but the cops were full of it with the arrest. They didn't see the kid do shit. They saw the graffiti, saw a kid who they figured probably did it, searched him, and found Sharpie markers and arrested him. Well, my friend got the case tossed, because the police had no reason to search him, and carrying markers isn't illegal. The state fucked up its case, so out it went.
Of course said kid was pretty stupid, did it again, but this time the cops just waited to make sure to catch him in the act. He didn't get off a second time.
The reason is they are making powerful people mad, in particular airlines and port authorities. The port authority over the NY and NJ airports has told the TSA they either fix their shit, or they are getting replaced with private security. These are the guys that oversee JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark Liberty. Those three together are basically the biggest transit hub in the US. So the port authority has some force behind them. They'd have to pay for their own security by airport fees, of course, on top of the TSA fee, but they could do it because they are airports that are so important.
Well, if they do it and it works, that paves the way for other airports to do it as well. Enough do it and they'll push back against the TSA fee saying it is unfair and shouldn't be charged.
Now yes, Congress could change the law and say "You can only have TSA security, otherwise we shut down the airport," but as a practical matter such a thing would face very difficult push back not just from the port authorities, but the states themselves and of course the airlines who are large, important, and well connected.
Individuals getting mad won't do much unless people make it an issue for the ballot box, which isn't likely, but the institutions involved are getting sick of the shit.
Look man when you are talking weapons or monitoring technology or something like that then yes, there are some real arguments to be made for denying access. However things like entertainment? No, the opposite should apply actually. Something that helps tear barriers down is sharing culture.
Intel has been producing 14nm in volume for quite some time now. Starting with Broadwell their chips have been 14nm. So any system you see with a 5000 or 6000 CPU is 14nm. That started in 2014.
In terms of 10nm, well let's see what happens. TSMC has a history of over promising. 40nm, 28nm and 16nm have all been cases where they've talked a big game about availability and then it has been large delays before it finally started happening, and small quantities/yield problems in the beginning even still. That doesn't mean they won't have 10nm out soon, but I'm not holding my breath based on past performance. As eve, I'll believe it when I see it.
People who think that the really poor need Internet need to go see what "really poor" is actually like in the world. That is what happened with the Gates Foundation. Originally they were thinking along the lines of tech for 3rd world countries since both the Gates' are techies. So a perhaps apocryphal story but likely true is that Gates visited an African village and got shown their prized possession: A single light connected to their single power line. He realized then that what these people needed was things like refrigeration, not computers.
If you look at what the foundation does it matches that. While in the US they worry about things like emergency response, global libraries and so on in African they worry about things like agricultural development and vaccination. People don't have time to worry about higher level needs like access to global information if they are dying of disease and starvation. You have to deal with the more fundamental problems first.
A good basic map of this concept is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. The idea is basically that humans have multiple levels of needs, but not all are equal. We spend our effort meeting the lower level ones and only once they are satisfactorily met do we spend much time on the higher ones.
While there is some of it everywhere, a big bastion of antivaxing is in techy areas of California. The people in to it are generally above average in an academic sense. So what is going on? It is something you see all too often with geeks: Smartest Motherfucker in the Universe Syndrome. They get the idea that they are much smarter than everyone else, since they often are, and thus are good at everything. They are convinced they've found out a truth those stupid doctors don't know or are covering up. Their intelligence leads to a hubris which leads to them doing dumb shit.
They need to admin that the low-grade twisted pair they've been using for over 100 years has run its course. It just can't handle the kind of bandwidth (in the analogue sense) we need these days. They need to start replacing it with something better, fibre being the obvious choice since it looks to have the longest lifetime. Ya, it is expensive to have to do a big infrastructure upgrade but them's the breaks.
Cable providers have a few more decades at least they can wait, as coax can handle much higher amounts of data. Eventually they'll have to change though, and the smart providers are already working on it in new developments.
If you can't see the difference you are being deliberately dense. If Amazon offered NO service to an area, that's one thing, however same day delivery service is a pure luxury. Not only is it not necessary to get something same day, you can always get it next day or later, it is something you cannot get in all areas period, or on all items. Not every city or state has same day delivery, and even if your area does, only some items have it as they have to be stocked at the local warehouse.
So trying to argue that not bringing it to some area is somehow the same as not having electricity is asinine.
Further, you discover that in fact some services are NOT available in all areas. Move to a really rural area and try to get cable service. You'll find out the cable company will just flat out say no. The cost is too far in excess of the returns, they won't run the wire. You have to settle for satellite.
Also things like electricity and phone are different in that they are public utilities, specially regulated and subsidized. You generally have no choice in who your electric transport provider is, there's only one grid, and so the government regulates it. Part of that regulation can be provisions for access to difficult areas, paid for by taxes and fees. Part of your phone bill is fees to pay for phone service to remote locations where there is tens of thousands of dollars in radio links and long-haul lines so that the person who gets the service can pay the same as you.
So if you are arguing Amazon should be a regulated utility ok, but that is a different argument, also a pretty nonsensical one given that they are a retail goods store, just one of many.
At least not in any commercial quantity. So a company can't release a card with it for retail sales since they just couldn't make it. All they could do is a paper announcement, as nVidia did with their compute Pascal. If AMD wishes to launch a card soon, it will likely have to either use GDDR5(X) or HBM1 since there just aren't the HBM2 modules out there for it.
Remember there's a non-trivial lag time between a company developing a technology and managing to produce it on a commercial scale.
States like the idea that you have to pay sales tax on things purchased from other states, but it is likely they can't actually do that. Section 8 of the US Constitution states:
"[The Congress shall have Power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States"
Likewise Section 10 states:
"No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States"
Like almost everything in the Constitution, it is designed to be open to some interpretation but the general idea was that they didn't want states levying taxes on each other to try and pay for their stuff. They could tax things that went on in their state, but not things from other states. So far, court rulings have backed this up. Congress gets to tax things interstate, states only tax intrastate. A sales tax on something sold in another state is a fairly clear violation.
Now what some states try and do is charge a "use tax" on items bought form other states. They say they aren't charging it on the sale, but on the use of the item in the state. Trying to wrangle the definition to get away with it. It is somewhat unclear if this is allowed or not. While most states have a use tax, they don't tend to enforce it, probably precisely because they are worried about losing a court case about it.
However it should be noted this is different from things like taxes on Amazon, Dell, or other large distributors since they often have a presence in a state. If a company has a branch in a state, then the state can charge sales tax no problem.
Really though the situation is fairly silly. Looking at my state budget, it doesn't seem as though the state is "losing" much money. People still buy a lot of things in-state, and many of the online shops are subject to sales tax since they have offices in all 50 states. Really it is generally a silly cash grab by legislatures that want to spend more than they take in, but shot their mouths off about not raising taxes. It is one of those "technically correct" kind of arguments of "Well we didn't REALLY raise taxes, even though you have to pay more taxes!"
That's a name he and his PR people have made up because it sounds cool. He's a corporate raider: He buys successful companies on a heavily leveraged position, transfers all the debt to them, sells off their assets, and then leaves them to die. He tried to do it with Dell, but failed thankfully.
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And before someone starts complaining about "But we didn't used to have cellphones!" no we didn't, now we do: It's called progress. One thing that has helped emergency response times quite a bit in high income nations is the proliferation of mobile phones. When something happens emergency services can be notified in seconds, and get the response rolling that much faster.
Happened when I was in a car accident. I was dazed for maybe 20-30 seconds, then got my phone out and called for help. They had fire responders on scene in under 2 minutes, police 30 seconds later and EMS in about 4. In that case, it didn't matter, everyone was fine other than bruises, but had there been something serious, it is much more likely it could have been dealt with. The only reason the response was so fast was that it was in a populated area, and that I was able to call for help almost immediately.
To me it seems like the concert issue is one of acceptable behaviour, not the phones themselves. It is using them in inappropriate ways. Well the answer there isn't "take them away" or "lock them up" it is to let people know what is and isn't allowed, and to enforce that by removing people if necessary. People can learn, it turns out, and most can understand what rules apply to what social situation and obey them. There are those that can't and you have to deal with them, but you do it on an individual basis not by something like this.
The TDP/performance of the latest nVidia cards is nothing short of amazing. It is the best we've ever seen out of any company. They've been doing some serious optimization on the performance/watt front and it has payed off bigtime. Combine that with a smaller process and these are great.
If you mean total power draw... Well ya. Here's thing the with all GPUs: They introduce the big parts first, and make the smaller parts based on them. The small GPUs are just big GPUs with a lot of the units cut off. So it makes sense to first introduce the big, high end, units where you can charge a lot per unit and make up some of your fixed costs in making the new architecture (which is billions). Then you spend your time doing the engineering to make the lower power parts.
It has been this way forever pretty much. So ya, the 1080 and 1070 are high power. That's their segment. Wait for the 1060 or 1050 or 1040 which will probably be along some time later. Those will be the lower power units that do less, but use less.
It would not make sense for nVidia to develop a whole new architecture and then make their first product using it a sub $100 card for small computers, it makes sense to make the first product a $600+ behemoth that they can get big margins on.
I mean sure the skills get rusty, you forget specifics, but if you've learned fundamentally how to code, how to think like a computer, that doesn't go away. It is the kind of fundamental knowledge that more or less always sticks around.
I don't code, I dislike it and I'm not great at it. I do systems and network administration. However, I learned how to code as a kid. Did some BASIC of a number of varieties, some C++, some scripting etc. Guess what? When it comes down to it and something comes up, which it does occasionally, and I have to look at some code and see what is going on or work on a simple program, I can make it happen. It all comes back pretty fast. No, I don't generate elegant code quickly like someone who does it for a living does, but I don't sit around going "I have no idea what is going on! This is all so confusing!"
Goes double for if it is something you are actually good at (I was never good at coding, even when I did it somewhat often).
This all sounds like a load of crap.
I don't mean with a google search, I mean for users. What I want is the ability to have an easy comparison system for how out of date something is. If the current version is 10 and you are on version 5, or if the current version is 2015 and you are on version 2002, I have an easy way to demonstrate how behind it is and thus help them understand why an upgrade is a good idea.
For someone who's doing it as a job, as I am, it doesn't really matter. I can remember the progression, and the rough time of release, without a lot of issue. The problem is lay users and understanding how things have progressed and trying to sell them on that fact.
I always wanted to choke MS's marketing group with their version names. There are, in my opinion, two acceptable methods of naming a product that continues to get new version:
1) Version numbers. You can have just one number or number.number whatever you like. You decide how to increment them. What matters is that you are consistent, and that the number is easy to find.
2) Version year. When you release a product it is named via whatever year it is released. Doesn't matter how much changed, it gets the release year in its name.
Either one works well for quickly mentally comparing how out of date something is, as well as being able to impress that on users. But it needs to stay consistent or it gets all confusing. You can't go numbers to years and back or things get all fucked up.
The XP and Vista crap is just totally stupid. Fuck off with that. How do I compare "Vista" to "XP"? They are both meaningless terms. It's as bad as Eclipse. No guys, I do NOT know the order of the Jovian moons, please just publish the version number and/or year clearly.
Apple is moving desktop Macs in the "consumer electronics toy" direction. They have been for some time now. Their focus has been on gewgaws, not fundamentals for a good bit. This is not the company you want to stick with for desktop computing if that's what you care about. They are the company for people who have the attitude of a computer being a disposable device they don't care much about: You get the one you like the looks of, don't worry a whole lot about the technical stuff, and use it until it breaks or you decide you like the looks of a new one better.
If low level stuff and long-term support is what interests you, then you want to look at Linux or Windows. Yes really, Windows, Microsoft makes fundamental improvements to their OS quite often, and they are usually good. Either way while all OSes have fluff you don't care about and will keep getting it, Windows and the vast majority of Linux distros also spend plenty of time on the under-the-hood part.
The definition is unclear. Sci-fi often uses robot to mean an advanced, general purpose mechanical device with an AI controlling it. However in industrial uses it usually means a mechanical device for doing a given task, governed by a computer program. Commonly some of the machines used to build cars get called robots or robotic.
It is a word that doesn't seem to have a good solid definition.
Also, that aside, the three laws of robotics are something a sci-fi author wrote in stories, not real laws. They are not laws of nature, not codified laws, etc. They are just a plot device. This idea that they can will and must exist in the real world that so many geeks have is silly.
It also doesn't take a ton of ethical and/or logical analysis to figure out that they are the kind of thing that doesn't really work as any kind of absolute principle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The reason not to act too hasty with a definitive declaration is that more evidence could come to light. What if it wasn't the perp, but someone else spreading disinformation? What if the perp himself was spreading disinformation to try and maximize the impact of his crime? That kind of thing. No, it isn't likely but it is too early to say definitively. Hence the "We think it is this, but can't say for sure." I think that is proper over all. Say what you think, but make sure to keep what you think and what you know clearly delineated.
The PC is the idiots who are either prohibiting discussion of this or worse, blaming American culture and it's supposedly ever-prevelant homophobia.
It is no different for a few. About 8% of Americans don't have a bank account. That's not nobody, but it is accurate to say the vast majority of people have a bank account. Thus the distinction matters to most people. If you have a bank account and also use prepaid cards, then this is a distinction that could be very important. Only for the people who do not have bank accounts is there no difference.
Also it matters in terms of the law and who they are fighting with. Try to take money from a bank account without a warrant and it runs afoul of a number of banking laws, not to mention you are picking a fight with the banks.
Because of both things, you'd get a TON more pushback since it would affect a lot more people and since there are some heavy hitters (banks) involved. As it stands, it is the sort of thing that only preys on some people who are not as likely to push back, most most it will have little to no effect on.
There's a reason it is being done as it is, it IS a distinction that matters legally and practically.
Facebook likes to hire young, techie, inexperienced, and fairly self-assured people. I mean remember this is the company run by a guy who said that anyone over 30 is "out of ideas", a stance which, shocker here, changed when he got near 30. They hire the kind of people who buy in to their cult bullshit, who want to work at Facebook because "It is the best, most important place EVAR," and will deal with this kind of shit because they don't see it as a problem, or even that strange.
It isn't a case of some evil company saying "You will do what we want, when we want, or you will starve!" Rather it is as the article talked about: A cult like atmosphere where people will do as they are told, even when it is stupid, because they want to, because they believe in the BS.
Automated cars are a real ting. They exist right now, and work well. They are still in development, they are not ready for commercial deployment, but the major technological hurdles are overcome at this point. The long haul trucking industry will be one of the first to be very interested in this. Drivers that never get tired, obey all rules they are told to, etc would be of great interest and worth paying for even if they technology is reasonably expensive.
First, that's not how locks work. A normal lock has only one keying. Master keyed locks are done do by larger organizations. To get that master key you have to either get it from them in an authorized manner, or steal it somehow. It isn't like the manufacturers maintain an "all locks" master key and hand it out to people.
However more to the point an anon FTP is an implicit invitation to anyone to come in, just like a public HTTP server. In terms of the real world, it is like an open store. If you enter an unlocked store, you are not trespassing. If they tell you to leave you have to, but simply entering is allowed because the fact that they are presenting themselves for the public to use and have not locked their door is saying "We want you to come in." That's different than a place that is locked. The lock is an explicit "keep out" message.
Part of it was wealth, but a bigger part was fame. A problem most people have in court is that the first interaction any of the jury has with you is seeing you sit at the defendant's table and people tend to have a bias that if you are there, you did something to deserve being there (which to be fair is an accurate bias, just not one they should have ideally). So you already have one strike against you starting out. Famous people don't have that. The jury knows them from another context and so views them more favorably initially.
Another major issue in that case was police misconduct. It is all but certain that they did indeed fabricate evidence and of course the defense was able to use that. The state did a real shit job with their case and the defense could exploit that.
As an example of something like that happening to a poor person on a small scale: My friend used to be a public defender. He had a client who had been arrested for tagging (graffiti). Kid sure as shit did it, but the cops were full of it with the arrest. They didn't see the kid do shit. They saw the graffiti, saw a kid who they figured probably did it, searched him, and found Sharpie markers and arrested him. Well, my friend got the case tossed, because the police had no reason to search him, and carrying markers isn't illegal. The state fucked up its case, so out it went.
Of course said kid was pretty stupid, did it again, but this time the cops just waited to make sure to catch him in the act. He didn't get off a second time.
The reason is they are making powerful people mad, in particular airlines and port authorities. The port authority over the NY and NJ airports has told the TSA they either fix their shit, or they are getting replaced with private security. These are the guys that oversee JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark Liberty. Those three together are basically the biggest transit hub in the US. So the port authority has some force behind them. They'd have to pay for their own security by airport fees, of course, on top of the TSA fee, but they could do it because they are airports that are so important.
Well, if they do it and it works, that paves the way for other airports to do it as well. Enough do it and they'll push back against the TSA fee saying it is unfair and shouldn't be charged.
Now yes, Congress could change the law and say "You can only have TSA security, otherwise we shut down the airport," but as a practical matter such a thing would face very difficult push back not just from the port authorities, but the states themselves and of course the airlines who are large, important, and well connected.
Individuals getting mad won't do much unless people make it an issue for the ballot box, which isn't likely, but the institutions involved are getting sick of the shit.
Look man when you are talking weapons or monitoring technology or something like that then yes, there are some real arguments to be made for denying access. However things like entertainment? No, the opposite should apply actually. Something that helps tear barriers down is sharing culture.
Intel has been producing 14nm in volume for quite some time now. Starting with Broadwell their chips have been 14nm. So any system you see with a 5000 or 6000 CPU is 14nm. That started in 2014.
In terms of 10nm, well let's see what happens. TSMC has a history of over promising. 40nm, 28nm and 16nm have all been cases where they've talked a big game about availability and then it has been large delays before it finally started happening, and small quantities/yield problems in the beginning even still. That doesn't mean they won't have 10nm out soon, but I'm not holding my breath based on past performance. As eve, I'll believe it when I see it.
In Japan it was the Famicom, short for Family Computer.
People who think that the really poor need Internet need to go see what "really poor" is actually like in the world. That is what happened with the Gates Foundation. Originally they were thinking along the lines of tech for 3rd world countries since both the Gates' are techies. So a perhaps apocryphal story but likely true is that Gates visited an African village and got shown their prized possession: A single light connected to their single power line. He realized then that what these people needed was things like refrigeration, not computers.
If you look at what the foundation does it matches that. While in the US they worry about things like emergency response, global libraries and so on in African they worry about things like agricultural development and vaccination. People don't have time to worry about higher level needs like access to global information if they are dying of disease and starvation. You have to deal with the more fundamental problems first.
A good basic map of this concept is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. The idea is basically that humans have multiple levels of needs, but not all are equal. We spend our effort meeting the lower level ones and only once they are satisfactorily met do we spend much time on the higher ones.
While there is some of it everywhere, a big bastion of antivaxing is in techy areas of California. The people in to it are generally above average in an academic sense. So what is going on? It is something you see all too often with geeks: Smartest Motherfucker in the Universe Syndrome. They get the idea that they are much smarter than everyone else, since they often are, and thus are good at everything. They are convinced they've found out a truth those stupid doctors don't know or are covering up. Their intelligence leads to a hubris which leads to them doing dumb shit.
Being intelligent doesn't make one informed.
DVDFab is made by a Chinese company and you know just how much of a fuck China gives about this.
They need to admin that the low-grade twisted pair they've been using for over 100 years has run its course. It just can't handle the kind of bandwidth (in the analogue sense) we need these days. They need to start replacing it with something better, fibre being the obvious choice since it looks to have the longest lifetime. Ya, it is expensive to have to do a big infrastructure upgrade but them's the breaks.
Cable providers have a few more decades at least they can wait, as coax can handle much higher amounts of data. Eventually they'll have to change though, and the smart providers are already working on it in new developments.
If you can't see the difference you are being deliberately dense. If Amazon offered NO service to an area, that's one thing, however same day delivery service is a pure luxury. Not only is it not necessary to get something same day, you can always get it next day or later, it is something you cannot get in all areas period, or on all items. Not every city or state has same day delivery, and even if your area does, only some items have it as they have to be stocked at the local warehouse.
So trying to argue that not bringing it to some area is somehow the same as not having electricity is asinine.
Further, you discover that in fact some services are NOT available in all areas. Move to a really rural area and try to get cable service. You'll find out the cable company will just flat out say no. The cost is too far in excess of the returns, they won't run the wire. You have to settle for satellite.
Also things like electricity and phone are different in that they are public utilities, specially regulated and subsidized. You generally have no choice in who your electric transport provider is, there's only one grid, and so the government regulates it. Part of that regulation can be provisions for access to difficult areas, paid for by taxes and fees. Part of your phone bill is fees to pay for phone service to remote locations where there is tens of thousands of dollars in radio links and long-haul lines so that the person who gets the service can pay the same as you.
So if you are arguing Amazon should be a regulated utility ok, but that is a different argument, also a pretty nonsensical one given that they are a retail goods store, just one of many.
At least not in any commercial quantity. So a company can't release a card with it for retail sales since they just couldn't make it. All they could do is a paper announcement, as nVidia did with their compute Pascal. If AMD wishes to launch a card soon, it will likely have to either use GDDR5(X) or HBM1 since there just aren't the HBM2 modules out there for it.
Remember there's a non-trivial lag time between a company developing a technology and managing to produce it on a commercial scale.
States like the idea that you have to pay sales tax on things purchased from other states, but it is likely they can't actually do that. Section 8 of the US Constitution states:
"[The Congress shall have Power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States"
Likewise Section 10 states:
"No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States"
Like almost everything in the Constitution, it is designed to be open to some interpretation but the general idea was that they didn't want states levying taxes on each other to try and pay for their stuff. They could tax things that went on in their state, but not things from other states. So far, court rulings have backed this up. Congress gets to tax things interstate, states only tax intrastate. A sales tax on something sold in another state is a fairly clear violation.
Now what some states try and do is charge a "use tax" on items bought form other states. They say they aren't charging it on the sale, but on the use of the item in the state. Trying to wrangle the definition to get away with it. It is somewhat unclear if this is allowed or not. While most states have a use tax, they don't tend to enforce it, probably precisely because they are worried about losing a court case about it.
However it should be noted this is different from things like taxes on Amazon, Dell, or other large distributors since they often have a presence in a state. If a company has a branch in a state, then the state can charge sales tax no problem.
Really though the situation is fairly silly. Looking at my state budget, it doesn't seem as though the state is "losing" much money. People still buy a lot of things in-state, and many of the online shops are subject to sales tax since they have offices in all 50 states. Really it is generally a silly cash grab by legislatures that want to spend more than they take in, but shot their mouths off about not raising taxes. It is one of those "technically correct" kind of arguments of "Well we didn't REALLY raise taxes, even though you have to pay more taxes!"
That's a name he and his PR people have made up because it sounds cool. He's a corporate raider: He buys successful companies on a heavily leveraged position, transfers all the debt to them, sells off their assets, and then leaves them to die. He tried to do it with Dell, but failed thankfully.